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From x-entertainment, I've got a bit of a red wine slosh going as I write this, which I would normally welcome, but as I need to head into Adventland immediately following this entry…that extra glass probably wasn't the best idea. Perhaps writing about Charlie Brown dolls and Atomic Fireballs will help sober me up? It's worth a shot.

No holiday spread is complete without at least one weird decoration that dances while blasting music, and this year, we've got a new Peanuts sleigh to fill that quota. Though this isn't the most productive use of a twenty dollar bill, there was just no resisting it after getting an in-store demonstration of how pressing one of Snoopy's paws sends him, Charlie Brown and Linus on a merrily spastic dance adventure to the tune of various Christmas songs. In a neat touch, the Christmas songs ("Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas") are mixed with traditional Peanuts themes to create mutant holiday music that you just can't hear anywhere else.

The plush dolls look pretty cheap (Chuck in particular looks like something you'd win at a Guatemalan arcade), but their inner electrogizmos are top notch. They dance and move with as much vigor as can possibly be expected from plush dolls. In fact, that vigor was legendary enough to inspire me to create this video of the madness. Granted, they aren't armed with a vast variety of dance moves, but I guess, when you've got two guys, a dog and a bird trapped together on a single sleigh, there are only so many body parts you can afford to move before things start to look obscene.