Christmas in Tattertown

It amazes me that Ralph Bakshi, the man behind the X-Rated Fritz the Cat film, was ever involved in children's animation. Not that his forays into family friendly cartoons weren't without their own controversies. Christmas in Tattertown started out as a pilot for an ongoing series, a series that was abruptly cancelled after some moral watchdog groups raised a stink over Bakshi's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures. Both that series and Christmas in Tattertown were aggressively weird, but ultimately harmless. In the Christmas Special, a young girl and her dolls are transported to Tattertown, the place where discarded things come to life. While searching for one of her dolls, the young girl decides to teach the residents of Tattertown all about Christmas. The special tries to cram in way too many characters and world building details, which makes sense given its origins as a pilot. I can't imagine that a Tattertown series would have lit the world on fire, but the special does make for an interesting artifact.

Rating: Dolls%