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Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

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This song I grew up on...so funny! Singing at the top of our lungs...heheheh
A Christmas must have! Especially if you have kids or you just a big kid!

Christmas jeer -- I mean cheer -- is all the rage!

I figured I would do my part for the retail industry and their obsession for Christmas in July and do a review on this tune appropriately -- in July. This sketch ranks up their with "A Christmas Story" and Ralphie along with his Red Rider BB gun with the Compass in the Stock/Stalk (who knows???) as being American classics.

This song is an undying testimony to America's obsessive nature with parody and an unrelenting need to kick back and say "to hell with being up-tight" and with good reason - stress is the killer (Fantasia and a white bat or something, anyway...) and life is not all that serious as it is irony based. It doesn't come as a surprise as to why the fine line between becoming productive or postal rests somewhere in letting go for a moment. Unfortunately, I know these things.

Enjoy!

"Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" is Dr. Emo's (yes, he really is a doctor) signature hit, that has gone down in history as becoming one of the most ludicrous modern X-Mas songs in recent history. The reason why I listen to this song almost everyday during Christmastime is because it's so funny and over-the-top. It's really a very tragic song (at least the lyrics are) but it's sung to sound funny and even rather screwballish. I remember there was a music-video made for it that VH1 used to show during Christmastime. My favorite part of the song is when Dr. Elmo asks deadpan: should we open up her gifts or send them back? It can't get more theatrical than that