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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><p><b><a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=Rankin/Bass_Animated_Entertainment" title="wikipedia:Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment">Rankin/Bass</a></b> was an American production company known for its seasonal animated <a href="/index.php?title=Stop_Motion" title="Stop Motion">stop motion</a> holiday specials, primarily from Christmas and winter. Their most notable specials include <i>Frosty the Snowman</i>, <i>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer</i> and <i>Santa Claus is Coming to Town</i>. They also produced the animated television show <i>ThunderCats</i>.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''[[Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment|Rankin/Bass]]''' was an American production company known for its seasonal animated [[Stop Motion|stop motion]] holiday specials, primarily from Christmas and winter. Their most notable specials include ''Frosty the Snowman'', ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' and ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town''. They also produced the animated television show ''ThunderCats''.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></div></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment|Rankin/Bass]]''' was an American production company known for its seasonal animated [[Stop Motion|stop motion]] holiday specials, primarily from Christmas and winter. Their most notable specials include ''Frosty the Snowman'', ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' and ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town''. They also produced the animated television show ''ThunderCats''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment|Rankin/Bass]]''' was an American production company known for its seasonal animated [[Stop Motion|stop motion]] holiday specials, primarily from Christmas and winter. Their most notable specials include ''Frosty the Snowman'', ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' and ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town''. They also produced the animated television show ''ThunderCats''.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Halloween Fairstival]] — [[The Poopsmith]] dresses as Lion-O from the Rankin/Bass cartoon show, ''[[ThunderCats (1985 TV series)|ThunderCats]]''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Halloween Fairstival]] — [[The Poopsmith]] dresses as Lion-O from the Rankin/Bass cartoon show, ''[[ThunderCats (1985 TV series)|ThunderCats]]''.</div></td></tr>
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'''[[Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment|Rankin/Bass]]''' was an American production company known for its seasonal animated [[Stop Motion|stop motion]] holiday specials, primarily from Christmas and winter. Their most notable specials include ''Frosty the Snowman'', ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' and ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town''. They also produced the animated television show ''ThunderCats''.<br />
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* [[Halloween Fairstival]] — [[The Poopsmith]] dresses as Lion-O from the Rankin/Bass cartoon show, ''[[ThunderCats (1985 TV series)|ThunderCats]]''.<br />
* Email [[modeling]] (DVD Commentary) — [[Matt Chapman]] asks if Parson Brown is a clergyman, and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] says, &quot;I would assume so. He married Frosty.&quot; This is a reference to the Rankin/Bass Christmas special ''[[Frosty's Winter Wonderland]]'', where the children build a snowman preacher named Parson Brown to marry Frosty and his snow wife.<br />
* [[Happy Dethemberween]] — The TV special Homestar and the others watch, [[Brundo the Decemberween Yak and the Sword of St. Olaf]], contains elements of the Rankin/Bass TV specials ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'', ''[[Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (film)|Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town]]'', and ''[[Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey]]''.<br />
* [[8-Bit is Enough]] — The TrogSword references ''ThunderCats'', in particular Lion-O's transformation sequence.<br />
* [[Which Ween Costumes?]] — [[The King of Town]] and [[Strong Mad]] dress up as [[The Year Without a Santa Claus|Heat Miser]] and [[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|The Abominable Snowman]], respectively. Homestar describes Strong Mad's stop-motion-inspired animation as &quot;so Rankin/Bass&quot;.<br />
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