I'll never forget the day in 1995 when my friend, Ron, came home from the big-time talent agency where he worked with a label-less VHS cassette. Every now and again he scored movies and TV shows before they came out, but he promised me this was different. I asked him to describe what we were about to watch and he couldn't, except to say that it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
That's how I was introduced to "The Spirit of Christmas," a crudely animated short (in every sense) by two guys named Matt and Trey, that featured four foulmouthed Colorado kids, a Mortal-Kombat-style throwdown between Jesus and Santa, and a guest appearance by a super-effeminate Brian Boitano. The video was an eleventh-generation dub of a dub, but we wore that sucker out as lines like "don't you oppress me, fat-boy" and " don't say pig-f**ker in front of Jesus" worked their way into our permanent lexicon.
With St. Nick and the Messiah locked in a death roll, the entire story's plot turns on the question, "What would Brian Boitano do?"
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