Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Holiday Time Review

Calling Buzz Lightyear, the galaxy's greatest

hero. Skilled, courageous, and ever -vigilant,

leaping into action, Buzz Lightyear hurdles to

the rescue. His ongoing mission, to protect the

universe from the dark forces of evil. These

are the adventures of Buzz Lightyear of Star

Command. You sure have the spirit of the season,

XR. I don't get this holiday stuff. I spend ten

Unibucks on you. You spend ten on me. Why don't

we all just keep our money? It's about the giving.

Then give it all to me. You really don't get

it, do you? Look around. The holiday season is

the one time of year everybody is nice to everybody

else. Look at the children's faces, XR. See those

smiles? I don't know, there's just... There's

something magical about the holiday. Hello! Merry

Christmas everybody and welcome to the 25 days

of Tooncast Beyond Christmas. This is day 16.

I am of course TFJ and Mike. Joining me once

again, hasn't been on here for a few days, but

once again Doug Abel from Talking About My Generation.

Hello sir. Hello sir. And we are going to be

talking about today Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Holiday Time. So a couple of things in doing

research on this specific episode of Buzz Lightyear.

I found two different Wikipedia's that are not

the north Okay, everybody can sit here and hate

the actual Wikipedia org for you know The way

I look at it is grain of salt people. It's Wikipedia.

It may be right. It may not be right Sometimes

they have sources sometimes they don't Okay,

everybody under the sun can do that, but if there's

a Wikipedia like the Phineas and Ferb Wikipedia

that you have dedicated users putting information

into it that they know is actually factually

correct, then I tend to give those Wikis a little

bit more credit and more, like I don't... Really,

I don't really hate we I actually love using

Wikipedia to get information. It's a hell of

a lot easier than IMDB I mean IMDB we can get

cast lists and quotes and that kind of stuff

But as far you know whatever anyway, so I found

two different Wikipedia is the first one is Christmas

specials Christmas specials Wikipedia or that

wikia .com And it's basically, it has a whole

bunch of Christmas specials listed on it. And

I'll have to send Doug the link later here. But

it's in this Wikipedia for some odd reason. And

maybe it's because they're trying to be PC. I

don't know. But it says in the beginning here,

holiday time is the Christmas episode. And Christmas

is just spelled out Christmas. Of the Disney

Pixar animated series Buzz Lightyear Star Command

though for some reason Christmas is almost always

referred to as just the holiday in the story

Now the stupid thing here is is as we go down

to the synopsis in this linked article they Because

they're saying that in the show that they just

call it the holiday what they've done in the

write -up I don't know who the hell wrote this

But what they have done here is they have crossed

off the word Christmas. After Zerg steals a very

high -tech device from Santa Claus, Christmas

is crossed out. The holiday seems to be ruined.

Now Buzz and the gang must get into the Christmas

holiday spirit to help Santa deliver the presents

to the children all around the world. And again,

Christmas is crossed out there. I'm like, why

would you... Really seriously come on people

like I get it there are many versions of Christmas

and even in the Even in the Disney wiki. It's

done that way Both of them. Wow. Yeah, I get

it folks there. There's Hanukkah. There's Kwanzaa.

There's what what are some other ones? I you

know, I should know more Christmas Hanukkah and

clubs are about the only ones that I know of

that happened with this holiday time. Yeah, that's

about it. You know, so it's like Jeff Dunham

and Walter said, you know what? I've been wanting

to say this for a while. Screw you. It's Merry

Christmas. Hey, you know what? I have no problem

saying Merry Christmas. You know, happy Hanukkah.

Merry Christmas. I apologize if I forget your

if I forget your holiday. It's not that I don't

want to wish you a happy whatever. Just don't

know about it. I'm sorry You know, don't take

offense that I don't know. I'm sorry. It's not

that I don't want to be Negative towards it.

It's just that way shit happens Yeah, it really

really does but anyway buzz lightyear holiday

time this episode folks is basically a combination

of various things it's a whole 122 minute plot

it's it's it's one whole plot but it takes its

plots from various other christmas things like

you know you've got santa claus well first we've

got buzz as santa mira as an elf and you got

booster uh... who's the red alien -looking thing

was by steven first with a look at some of your

folks uh... you get him the kids business and

you're not said that you're not said that we

want the real said uh... and and booster is a

character that just he is afraid of of his own

shadow hill hill hill jump if it if his shadow

pulls a peter pan uh... sir mr ready of like

you just a giant overgrown kid that's the best

way to describe it yeah pretty much Yeah, pretty

much. So Buzz and Booster are trying to be Santa's

at various locations in the mall, and Mira's

there with them, and they have the robot XR.

And XR is that non -believer, that traditional

non -believer, doesn't believe in Santa Claus,

doesn't want anything to do with Santa Claus

and everything else. Crazy thing about XR, now

I have seen most of the episodes of Buzz Lightyear

Star Command when it was originally airing, but

I have not seen any of it in a long time. The

strange thing about XR, he's voiced by Larry

Miller. Okay, now folks, Larry Miller, the only

thing that I know, I know him from other stuff,

but the main thing I know him from is one of

my absolute all -time favorite movies. Ten things

I hate about you, he was the dad, you know, uh,

you know, I want you to wear the belly. Daddy,

no. Not all night, just around the liver. Like,

I know Larry Miller's voice, and I remember him

from a few episodes of Mad About You. He was

in that with Paul. He became Paul's new editor

or something. So, the fact that Larry Miller

is the voice of the robot that doesn't believe

is just hilarious to me. Oh man, I just have

wrong things seeing him again in Princess Diaries

as the hairdresser If you've never seen it he

is like a very flamboyant he's he never comes

out and says he's gay but it's like You know

it and it's no problem, but he's just very happy

and all your hair look wonderful type thing It's

the whole Martin Short put into a hairdresser

You know Martin Short from uh... father the bride

thrown in there just really bad it's all gone

from uh... yes uh... As the episode goes along,

Santa needs Buzz's help, and apparently Zerg

is the number one guy on the naughty list, and

Buzz is, you know, and Buzz is like, I don't

believe in you, why should I help you? Oh, well,

you know, but Buzz is like, I wanted this laser,

and Santa's like... i'm going to give a laser

to a nine -year -old what happened to fluffy

buzz nobody knew what the fluffy incident that's

what i'm saying buzz irons okay i'll help you

so they go and they help said that and what i

love about this is that they have said that has

because it's it's star commanded space it's supposed

to be future type stuff it's not right it's not

on earth so We find out that Zerg, Emperor Zerg

has stolen the time stopper that Santa has. And

that's how Santa delivers all the gifts to the

entire universe at this point, is he stops time.

And before that, because that got stolen, before

that, what did you do Santa? Oh, I had this,

you know, really super fast, you know, sled -a

-bum. bob the thingamajigger and buzz is like

strap it to my back that was the best part of

the episode for me i was like that sounds so

much like a tim allen type of thing of more power

yeah yeah exactly so after that and this is where

i really really kind of because they were like

that that both the time disruptor and the speed

thing get destroyed and they ask Santa, okay,

how did you do it before all that? Oh, well,

here. Here's my first, and he brings up a very

first sleigh, which is, at first I thought he

was gonna have reindeer there. I really, really,

like, he was gonna have some sort of space reindeer

or something, or some sort of robotic reindeer.

No, it's just powered on belief in Santa Claus.

Which again, a lot of these Christmas cartoons,

are about that when you believe you don't believe

why you should believe you know you just look

at all three santa claus movies with him alan

it's all about believing you know believe you're

seeing so i thought the only i thought the like

to pick up was health you know they're not always

got up everybody's got to believe so status like

why that was you know that was what i thought

I know I know I am sorry Jen has tried to is

getting me to watch elf like twice and I can

it's not because of the content of the movie

it's because of who they have in the star I just

can't I'll fix that for you I'll fix that for

you go watch elf the musical that they that they

had it was a stop -motion animation thing they

did last year And they had Jim Parsons doing

the voice of... Oh God, no! He did Buddy DL.

So much better. So much better, I promise. Oh

my God, that's hilarious. So, you know what would

be really cool? What I would really love, because

I don't really enjoy either one of these movie

franchises. You take Billy Bob Thornton. You

take Will... What's his name? Ferrell. Yeah.

You take Bad Santa and Elf. Bad elf. There you

go. Bad centa 3, it's a bad elf. I could just

see that. I could really just see that. Good

on Hollywood. So we find out that Santa's true

way of traveling in the very beginning was, you

know, his sleigh was powered on belief. So everybody

decides to believe and even XR comes around and

they get all the presents delivered and everything

else and everything's honky -dory and even Zerg

kind of, you know, gets his little comeuppance

there. A little bit. You know, I like this at

the... I think it's funny. I think it's interesting.

What were your overall thoughts as you were watching

this? It's not something I would necessarily

watch again, but it was humorous. I enjoyed it.

It was kind of funny because when I mentioned

to my wife what I was going to be recording on

tonight, she goes, they had a Buzz Lightyear

Star Command TV show? Yeah, they had that holiday

episode. She goes, they did holidays for Star

Command? Yeah! You gotta sit down and watch it!

So apparently after this I have to get her to

sit down and watch this thing because she missed

it when I watched it. Well the coolest thing

about the series is the voice cast and you know

like you said I like this cartoon but this is

not one of those ones that's going to get added

to my yearly Christmas cartoon watching ability.

They are classics folks but again as I've said

the last 15 days of this 25 days of Tooncast

Beyond Christmas, I wanted to find every Christmas

cartoon I could possibly find that aired here

in the U .S. That was, you know, a U .S. based

series. So there are going to be some cartoons

that are from, there are going to be some Christmas

cartoons here that are from series that we'll

probably never watch again. There may be some

we don't like. I'm sure there have already been

some we don't like in the last 15 days here,

but... Okay, what was that a scooter for Yaxmas?

I let's not even talk about that. Yeah But it's

one of those things where you know a lot of stuff,

you know, we may watch again We may not watch

again And this is just one of those ones that

kind of for me falls in the middle. I Might watch

it like Five years from now But it's not gonna

be one. I didn't dislike it. I like the animation.

I like the voice acting. I like the plot of the

thing you know, so Good It's not a grandma got

run over by a reindeer for me. Yeah, just it's

there. I saw it. It was cute Yeah, exactly going

over the voice cast I remember this happening,

but I you know It's Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story,

folks. I just assumed when the series came out,

it was going to be Tim Allen. Well, apparently,

Tim Allen, they didn't cut him a big enough check.

So they go to the next funniest person down the

line that could sound like Buzz a little bit,

and they get Patrick Warburton. Hey, you know,

when I first heard that he was going to be Buzz

Lightyear, I was like, oh, no, it's not Tim Allen.

And then I started listening to him. I'm like,

or should attack it works it really works now

it's not the tickets are arthur what what what

what what what what what what what what what

what what what what what what what what what

what what Wayne Knight as Zerg, so you got two

Seinfeld alums. Geez. Adam Carolla was Commander

Nebula. Really? Yeah, I know. I couldn't hear

it at first either and then I started listening

to it. I'm like. That actually does sound like

him and I guess if you listen to you know His

love line or yeah or anything else that he's

ever done. You can hear his voice So yeah overall

I love the cast Nicole Sullivan is someone that

has done Disney stuff for a while, at least back

in this time era, because she did Miranova here.

She also did Shigo in Kim Possible. The only

other place I have seen her is in another Disney

thing. I'm sure she's done other stuff, I know

she has. But she was an agent for one of the

characters in a Disney original movie called

Let It Shine. So which is basically a it's basically

a serno ripoff And for anybody who didn't anybody

who watched mad TV the original mad TV. She was

on the original You can see her there and hear

it absolutely All right Out of five I'll probably

give holiday time from Buzz Lightyear three and

a half. I Really did enjoy it, but it didn't

like Knock my socks off and put them on the fireplace,

you know, so yeah Cuz cuz let's face it folks

when Santa brings you candy on Christmas more,

you know Christmas Eve going into you're basically

eating candy out of your socks Yeah Yeah, I mean

I'd probably give this I hesitate to give it

a three and a half but Yeah, I guess three and

a half would be the best way to play. It might

say three and a quarter, okay? We don't do quarters

here. I know, so three and a half. You can take

that nickel back. No, but a three and a half

is kind of like it's average bordering on good.

It's enjoyable, you know? Whereas like a straight

three for me is like, eh. It's just middle -of

-the -road kind of thing. So yeah, all right

coming up the next few days folks day 17 to 19

We've got some really really awesome stuff coming

up here on 25 days of Christmas Steve Megatron

is gonna be back with us He's gonna be talking

on day 17 BTS Christmas with the Joker and holiday

nights So we got two Christmas cartoons tomorrow

and in day 18. He's gonna be back with JL use

comfort and joy After that we've got Kim possible

a very possible Christmas, which I may bring

you in on that I may bring some other people

and I don't know yet and then day 20 to 25 folks

We get all the classics Charlie Brown Christmas

Grinch grandma Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas

in July. Oh God shoot me now And then the original

frosty the snowman the Jimmy Durante one and

then obviously the classic Rankin bass Rudolph

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the title Coco to toast the best helpers of Santa

could ask for happy holidays Santa He had something

special he wanted to do Trust me you've got to

believe