As we wrap this up over the next few days, I’ve a few themes with which to do so. Tonight, it’s parodies and other Christmas songs I find funny or silly or just so campy it goes through funny, right around tedious, and circles back to funny again. Please, add yours in the comments.

I came to this theme because this year, at long last, I’m finally getting to sing “that song.” Every singer has a “that song”– the one solo above all others that they want to sing in front of others, the one song they want to officially add to their repetoire, and check off their musical bucket list. Mine, since I first started singing, has been “O Holy Night”. But every year that solo went to someone else, while I got “In the Bleak Midwinter” or the boy in “Good King Wenceslaus”. Which are perfectly lovely. . . and not the one I’d been desiring for so long. But this year, finally, I’m getting to sing it, to officially add it to my roster of “Things Sung for Others.” Deo Gracias, I pray God use me to bless others with some small amount of beauty.

As it happens, however, my favorite version of this beautiful song is not a soaring, divine solo from Renee Fleming or Placido Domingo. It’s Cartman, getting zapped with a cattle prod.

Yes, and may God Forgive me for this sin among my many others, but this one always gets me giggling on the floor.

 

and of course, it’s not Christmas without Run DMC. Memories, eh?

 

And I love Animal here “Won’t go! Won’t Go! WON’T GO!!”

 

One of my favorite voice actors did this one. Um . . . self explanatory:

 

Again, please submit your own faves below!