Hard to believe that every British child used to watch 'Christmas in Wankertown' on Boxing Day. Viewers in the USA might remember it under its American title, 'Holidays in Jerkville'.
"... and Mr Wanker lived on to be a 120 years old. He even pranked the nurse on his deathbed. He died a bitter old man rotten to the core. And the moral of the story is: there is none. Happy Wookie Life Day!"
Thank God some of the people the Left have tried to cancel are too rich for them to do so and therefore have the power to fight on behalf of the rest of us. Gina Carano was too hasty to reveal she had a backbone and a moral compass.
I didn't realize that "Holidays in Jerkville" wasn't American - they dubbed all the voices! Dick Van Dyke played all the parts. We used to watch it every Orphan [sic] Kicking Day. It's nice to see the original.
IMO the best Christmas program ever made could've been Claymation Christmas Celebration, but they cut the part about bleeding and dying in the stone cold tomb from We Three Kings, even though it's the biggest part of the Jesus thing (If you believe in that kind of stuff. But I don't believe in that kind of censorship, and the story isn't complete without it.)
I laughed way too hard at "Urchin Kicking Day". Guess I'm gonna have to move to Wankertown now. Also, ABK, what CAN'T you do? Leave some talent for the rest of us!
I don't know if you're aware of this, but in the 1990's a well known cable television station found a loophole in the international copyright holdings. 'Holidays in Jerkville' was, as a result, heavily recut with footage from several failed Rankin Bass programs that never saw the light of day; 'Tipton the Jolly Arbor Day Tree' and 'Rudolf's Epic Bosses' Day Special' to name two; and re-released as a theatrical film titled 'Howard The Duck'. It did not do well, and additionally ensured that 'Holidays in Jerkville' would disappear from our television screens forever. Sad indeed.
I know just enough of what you're talking about to thoroughly despise this hodgepodge of a movie history explanation. This'll live rent-free in my head for _years._ Faaaaaaaaalalalala...
Well, the animation style is basically the 1975 Paddington TV show. And it's obviously a parody of A Christmas Carol. I'm not sure how much else there is to explain.
As a bonus, he looks a little like Burl Ives' "Snowman Sam" from the Rankin Bass Rudolph canon crossed with a really lanky Christmas sugar cookie to give the impression that he is cut from the same cloth as Mr Ebeneezer Scrooge of Dickensian fame. Much of the "plot" present follows in that spectral Christmas Carol, right down to the "grave revelation" he receives at the end. That no moral was learned by the end is an _especially_ British punchline, for reasons that I will leave to an actual Brit to explain.
the origanal Urchin Kicking Day was around feb/april but they changed it to get the people who celebrated poor people kicking day to start celebrating it
It's not always aliens. I can remember one time back in the 1940s where it was just nanites forcing everyone to wear gas masks and ask for their mummies.
I think you may be confusing that for when the Martians invaded. Nasty event, but if I recall it didn't happen in winter. I've heard they're still trying to clean up patches of the red weed to this day.
I love A Christmas Carol. Especially, Mickey's A Christmas Carol. Scrooged is great. The one time that I didn't enjoy it was in middle or high school, I don't remember now. We went to see it at the "fancy theater downtown" as a field trip one year. Group seats for school kids are not fantastic, it was dark and the language was actually Dickens, so I didn't follow much of it. Had a free audiobook version read by Tim Curry that was amazing. The movie most Americans can't stand at Christmas is "I'm a Wanker who's f'd up so bad that I wish I'd never been born: This bridge looks good"
Savor it now, lads. Once ABK is rich and highly successful, you'll all turn on him and find any reason to hate and criticize him. "Old ABK was great, remember when ABK was good?" Ahh the fickle fleeting love of the masses.
The ghosts of Michaelmas turned up to berate him for not following the true meaning of Michaelmas, but they couldn't agree on what that meaning was so just shuffled off awkwardly.
"... and Mr Wanker lived on to be a 120 years old. He even pranked the nurse on his deathbed. He died a bitter old man rotten to the core. And the moral of the story is: there is none. Happy Wookie Life Day!"
“We celebrate a day of peace. A day of harmony-“
@@7ylerD “A day of joy we can all share. Together joyously-“
the moral is try to be born rich and be greedy all your life because it will give you much happyness
You mean he survived that moment when his heart rapidly grew three sizes?
@@thatstarwarsnerd6641 This is the best "username checks out" that I've ever encountered!
It just isn’t fair. You can’t be a brilliant comedian, talented CGI artist, AND a great illustrator! It’s just not fair!
and a great voice actor!
@@brkh96 And he makes videogames.
Plus stunningly good looking for a sea siren luring sailors to their death on the rocks
and be a cute redhead.
@@brkh96 literally everything I aspire to be lol
The bags of money falling from the sky when he says he’s been canceled are my favorite part.
Or complaining about being cancelled for being “mildly criticized” lol
Thank God some of the people the Left have tried to cancel are too rich for them to do so and therefore have the power to fight on behalf of the rest of us. Gina Carano was too hasty to reveal she had a backbone and a moral compass.
@@tombarter3287 lost
@@ooooneeee They really are aren’t they. Beyond hope.
@@tombarter3287 Yeah, M&Ms and beer are triggers for people as well.
My favorite bit was how his name is Richard *”Rich”* Wanker instead of… y’know
Yes, there's a secret optional joke.
Maybe that's his tragic backstory.
@@Keznen His villain origin story
…Rick? 😉
@@bostonrailfan2427 "Richard" is another word for something.
... You can fit it phonetically together from there, right?
“It’s a Wankerful Life”
The skate-by "No I won't!" while setting fire to spectators made me choke on my mint. 🤣
It’s what Mr. Wanker would have wanted.
@@MrEMeat-kk9tc
He’s probably looking up from Hell and smiling, as he’s being butt-fucked by Hitler.
Mr urchin kicking (so funny) Wankers head almost l o o k s like a mint
In less than a minute this guy created a way better Christmas comedy than whatever was Santa Inc. aiming for.
Santa Inc was so good tho
Honestly, the bar was set waaaaaaaay too low.
@@googleuser3163 Santa inc was garbage.
Hi Mr. Rogen! Tell me more about how I shouldn't bitch about my car getting broken in to
@@hamie7624 Found the Joe Rogan fan
oh, street urchins, I get it now. Was thinking sea urchins for a moment there and you don't want to kick those, they are very spiky
a yes it would be horible to kick sea urchins anyway
I didn't realize that "Holidays in Jerkville" wasn't American - they dubbed all the voices! Dick Van Dyke played all the parts.
We used to watch it every Orphan [sic] Kicking Day. It's nice to see the original.
Now I want a 2hr version of this
Yes and the show to be on every year with the classics!
a musical, obviously. then, about a decade later a forgetable live-action remake.
@@garydouglass3597 bingo
@@garydouglass3597 Of course, with an opening chorus along the lines of “Boys and girls of every age, wouldn’t you like too see something strange…”
Just loop it ~125 times
and then Tiny Tom died and the rich guy laughed and for some reason not even one person pushed him down a flight of stairs to his death, even once
wow the animation for this is astoundingly good i cannot praise you more good sir
This brought a tear to my eye. Finally A Charlie Brown Christmas has been surpassed.
Hans Christian Andersens "What the Zombie Did" (1838) still remains in place. Because of the "Freedom for Art" detail... and the zombies.
This video had less bullying in it than Charlie Brown.
IMO the best Christmas program ever made could've been Claymation Christmas Celebration, but they cut the part about bleeding and dying in the stone cold tomb from We Three Kings, even though it's the biggest part of the Jesus thing (If you believe in that kind of stuff. But I don't believe in that kind of censorship, and the story isn't complete without it.)
I love the touch of him continuing to make money even though he's been cancelled.
The Ghost of Christmas Future really commits to the bit, forcing Wanker to dramatically reveal whose's name is in the grave.
Even if there isn't going to be a full-length version of this, I want your next game to be in this style, please
Wait, Alexander makes games?!?
I need to know what game(s) he's made!!
@@coolmike8520 Me too.
He made the Nelly Cootalot games, a series of pirate-themed point-and-click adventure games.
@@nateman10 😂😂😂
I laugh hard to "I've been cancelled"... gold Jerry, gold
I just genuinely can’t believe how many talents you have this is amazing
"NO I WON'T!" 🤣🤣
Now I want to have my own Urchin-Kicking Day.
4:3 aspect ratio was
a profound Christmas tradition
Why this is everything I could have wanted for Christmas and not a penny more. God bless us, every fucker.
A beautiful animation for such a depressing truth
A merry Urchin Kicking Day to one and all. ☺
By golly, it's late here. Hope I can still find one. Better hurry over to the foster home right now!
and a merry Urchin Kicking Day to you too
Love your work. Can't wait to see you on Taskmaster some day.
Oh hell yes!!!!!!
I feel my holiday season is now complete.
I laughed way too hard at "Urchin Kicking Day". Guess I'm gonna have to move to Wankertown now.
Also, ABK, what CAN'T you do? Leave some talent for the rest of us!
And so, they returned the sword of St. Olaf to its rightful owner, and discovered the true meaning of Decemberween.
B-b-b-bye kids.
That's exactly what happens every Christmas here! Even the slightly distorted sound and 4:3 aspect ratio is bang on.
This animation is just so beautiful and unique I'm now depressed that there's nothing else like it.
The Paddington TV show from 1975.
@@manjackson2772 Thank you, I'll definitely check it out.
@@manjackson2772 Yep, that's the exact style
So it's the Blackadder Christmas Special.
Best comment so far.
This truth is the REAL Nightmare Before Christmas
*sniff* Truly a timeless Christmas tale for the ages.
But this version has the happiest of endings when, rather than giving Bob Cratchit a raise, he liberates all of the Chinese laborers.
It's Indian labourers. Apple is moving production to India.
The spirit of Christmas never melted Mr. Wanker's cold dead heart.
His heart never grew three sizes that day, poor Wanker 🎄💗
@@jzsbff4801 yeah! Where's THAT holiday? Petition to bring back original crazy pagan X-mas! Yeah!! 🔊📢🎇
@@jzsbff4801 lol yes let's do it! #RowdyXmasNow!
"I'M BEING CANCELLED!" 😭😭😭 I am crying, this is so good
The fact that his name is Dick Wanker just makes it even more accurate.
His name is Rich Wanker...
Ah yes, Holidays in Jerkville! I believe that used to play on the CBC during the early 90's here in Canada!
(Fantastic as always!)
And that is the true meaning of Christmas: privilege!
I need a full length version of this.😂😂😂😂😂
It's the urchin kicking I so enjoy! Encore! 😂😂😂
Merry Christmas, ABK!
Oh, sorry. I meant happy urchin kicking day! Go get a poor one!
At least he learned his lesson. He finally learned what day Christmas was on
Not the criticism! How will he survive?!
Why are you so talented???
I don't know if you're aware of this, but in the 1990's a well known cable television station found a loophole in the international copyright holdings. 'Holidays in Jerkville' was, as a result, heavily recut with footage from several failed Rankin Bass programs that never saw the light of day; 'Tipton the Jolly Arbor Day Tree' and 'Rudolf's Epic Bosses' Day Special' to name two; and re-released as a theatrical film titled 'Howard The Duck'. It did not do well, and additionally ensured that 'Holidays in Jerkville' would disappear from our television screens forever. Sad indeed.
I know just enough of what you're talking about to thoroughly despise this hodgepodge of a movie history explanation. This'll live rent-free in my head for _years._ Faaaaaaaaalalalala...
There was an episode of COPS where they dragged a skinny guy out from under a couch.
this animation is fucking fantastic
I used to live in Wankertown and boy did we ever love our urchin kicking!
I’ve been to Britain around Christmas time, can confirm this is what it’s like.
Mehopes one of this days a kind British person will explain all the British jokes and references in this video
Well, the animation style is basically the 1975 Paddington TV show. And it's obviously a parody of A Christmas Carol. I'm not sure how much else there is to explain.
As a bonus, he looks a little like Burl Ives' "Snowman Sam" from the Rankin Bass Rudolph canon crossed with a really lanky Christmas sugar cookie to give the impression that he is cut from the same cloth as Mr Ebeneezer Scrooge of Dickensian fame.
Much of the "plot" present follows in that spectral Christmas Carol, right down to the "grave revelation" he receives at the end.
That no moral was learned by the end is an _especially_ British punchline, for reasons that I will leave to an actual Brit to explain.
We need more urchin-kickin' days!
the origanal Urchin Kicking Day was around feb/april but they changed it to get the people who celebrated poor people kicking day to start celebrating it
Now this is Christmas
This will blow up on Twitter no doubt. Or not..
Posting this video has been defined as doxxing
sad but true, you've captured the spirit of christmas
My god, the animation is amazing!!! ABK, how can you be so talented AND good looking - it’s not fair
I can't believe you got Paul McCartney to do that guest voice at 0:21!
*War on Christmaaaas!*
Glad to see this channel is continuing to step up the political satire.
I'm back listening to all the lormen podcasts and I love hearing the ideas for these videos come up. Great as always
Huh, I always thought that England constantly gets attacked by aliens on Christmas.
It's not always aliens. I can remember one time back in the 1940s where it was just nanites forcing everyone to wear gas masks and ask for their mummies.
I think you may be confusing that for when the Martians invaded. Nasty event, but if I recall it didn't happen in winter. I've heard they're still trying to clean up patches of the red weed to this day.
I love how I saw the title and thought "OH MY GOD IT'S ABK" before I'd even confirmed that it was your channel that posted it
Was that a statue of Margaret Thatcher in the town square?
That's what I thought.
With her name written to it? Far thatched conclusion...
@@heliofaros1344 haha! I hadn't noticed that.
Wow the art here is just absolutely incredible
Happy Christmas ABK! I really look forward to tour content in the coming year!
Once again your imagination with the styling of these animations is superb.
This is so beautifully made, I love your channel!!
I'm so full of Christmas Spirit I think I just shat meself.
ABK is gifting us with his brilliance this year
I love A Christmas Carol. Especially, Mickey's A Christmas Carol. Scrooged is great. The one time that I didn't enjoy it was in middle or high school, I don't remember now. We went to see it at the "fancy theater downtown" as a field trip one year. Group seats for school kids are not fantastic, it was dark and the language was actually Dickens, so I didn't follow much of it. Had a free audiobook version read by Tim Curry that was amazing.
The movie most Americans can't stand at Christmas is "I'm a Wanker who's f'd up so bad that I wish I'd never been born: This bridge looks good"
This is my favourite adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Nice pilot episode... When is the series being released? 🦆
Why are you so brilliant?
Wait, you actually found an uncensored copy of this?! I only ever got to see the syndicated version, where they bleeped out the swears
Nice animation
A classic to be remembered throughout the ages. Amazing.
Thank you for subtitles
I see that the statue of Winston Churchill is back at its former glory after brittish Bart Simpson decapitated it.
Just bloody brilliant ❤
Savor it now, lads. Once ABK is rich and highly successful, you'll all turn on him and find any reason to hate and criticize him.
"Old ABK was great, remember when ABK was good?"
Ahh the fickle fleeting love of the masses.
Merry Christmas you crazy redhead
Damn, this makes me nostalgic for Urchin Kicking Day back in Wankertown. I should never have emigrated. Merry christmas Fuckers.
'Holidays in Jerkville' was one of my favorite Christmas programs right alongside 'The Seasonal Scumbag Show'. Merry Compramás, everyone!
Merry Christmas to you, mate.
Ahhhhh! Puts me right on the holiday spirit!
Truly Multitalented ABK
Merry Christmas ABK
This is beautiful
merry Christmas Alasdair ❄️☺️
John Hurt has risen
Effin brilliant!
I like this animation really much
ABK: Legend
Why does this fit so well with my current holiday spirit?
Actually a horror movie. The hint is the statue of Thatcher.
Excellent
Ah. "A Christmas Karen". A Classic.
Marry Christmas to you Mister Wanker.
Oh, personal greatings to us from King Alasdair Beckett-! How nice!
I can't believe Robot Chicken hasn't hired you yet
Waiting for the comments so I can laugh even harder. 😂😂😂😂
I will rebel and wish you all a Merry Michaelmas.
Merry Michaelmas it is then! 🎅 🎄
The ghosts of Michaelmas turned up to berate him for not following the true meaning of Michaelmas, but they couldn't agree on what that meaning was so just shuffled off awkwardly.
@@gdclemo
Why, isn't it a birthday of Saint Mickel? 🤔
Ah, finally a video about the true spirit of Christmas.