FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: Seth MacFarlane CAVALCADE OF CARTOON COMEDY & Trey Parker and Matt Stone THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

SETH MACFARLANE's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy is an American cartoon web series consisting of comic cartoon shorts (similar to the cutaways from Family Guy) unrelated to each other; released on MacFarlane's YouTube channel, SethComedy.

The series, which aired several episodes a month, was originally sponsored by Burger King, with videos appearing on their official channel.  The series was then sponsored by Priceline.com, and finally, Nike.  There are 50 shorts altogether.  It was the most watched YouTube channel of the week obtaining over 3 million video views only 2 days after the first episode was released.

CAVALCADE OF CARTOON COMEDY

The Spirit of Christmas is the name of two different animated short films made by TREY PARKER and MATT STONE. They are notable for being precursors to the animated series South Park. To differentiate the two, they are often referred to as Jesus vs. Frosty (1992) and Jesus vs. Santa (1995).

In 1992, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made The Spirit of Christmas (aka Jesus vs. Frosty) while they were students at the University of Colorado under the "Avenging Conscience Films" moniker. They animated the film using only construction paper, glue and a very old 8 mm film camera, and premiered it at the December 1992 student film screening. The film features four children very similar in appearance to three of the four main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman but called "Kenny", a hooded boy resembling Kenny (who remains unnamed) and two other boys similar in appearance and voice to Stan and Kyle.  

In 1995, after seeing the Jesus vs. Frosty film, Fox executive Brian Graden paid Stone and Parker $2,000 to make another animated short as a video Christmas card that he could send to friends. In turn, the duo created Jesus vs. Santa.  The film reportedly had a budget of $750, with Parker and Stone keeping the remainder of their commission.  Graden initially distributed the video to eighty friends in December 1995. After months' being passed around on bootleg video and the Internet, the film caught the attention of cable network Comedy Central, which hired the pair to develop the South Park series, which premiered in August 1997.

JESUS VS FROSTY

 

JESUS VS SANTA

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