Phloppy here making a rare "one off" appearance here on my chippy fiancee's journal just in time for Easter.


Well, though I'm not really much of a religious minded kind of guy deep down... for what It's worth to everyone, I do sincerely hope your Easter is a good one.

In other words, Happy Easter, every fuzzie.


I don't have any colored eggs or chocolate bunnies to give anyone. But, in lieu of those things, here's something else Easter related for you...




I had rediscovered this classic holiday special again yesterday. Seen it a number of times through the 1970s, and into the 1980s.

But, I hadn't seen it in some decades prior to this. So, it was REALLY great to rediscover this old school holiday TV classic.


With their stop motion animation process which they called "Animagic", Rankin Bass was among the top studios for holiday TV specials each and every year for so many years.

Probably their best known one remains Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. That one was, and still is, always the beloved holiday TV classic for so many decades by now.


This one, however, (Here comes Peter cottontail) I think may have started to fall into a bit of obscurity after all these years (It was originally released in 1971). But, it still is great.

And, for the voice of Peter Cottontail, that's Casey Kasem (Who played the voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo for literally decades).


*Sighs* I tell ya' youngster kiddo furs out there... modern day TV shows just do NOT have the same kind of charm they once had in the 1970s, 80s, and roughly about the first half of the 90s.

And, I guess It's sort of fitting how one of the songs sung in this holiday special is "If I could only get back to yesterday".


My original plan was to try to find some way or other of streaming this. But, let's just say that my plan was thwarted due to lack of audio support under Linux for the method in which I was trying to stream it.

Ugh! *facepalms* Sometimes, I kind of think that we Linux users get a bit of a raw deal at times compared to the mindless sheep masses who, for whatever reason, can never seem to get enough of running Windows.


Meh. *Shrugs* Well, I did give it my absolute best to try to work around the audio issue shortcoming and find a fix. But, suffice to say, the outcome was not what I had hoped on that.

But, using the link above, you can still watch it on your own schedule through the Tubes of You (YouTube).


Well, until next time, take care all... and, don't forget that the best sales deals on Easter candy and decorations won't be until the days immediately following Easter.


(In case your the type that like me, loves a good deep sale price discount on things).