With the Christmas season approaching, we’re bringing back a column that certainly fits in with the holiday season: What We Need!  The premise is simple. We need Pops from something. No reason to waste time. Let’s get it going!

What We Need:
Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas Pops

If you don’t know about Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas here’s a write-up:

In this one-hour musical Christmas special, Kermit the Frog narrates the story of Alice Otter and her son, Emmet, who live along the river in the village of Frogtown Hollow. Ma and Emmet struggle to make ends meet through odd jobs and projects for neighbors and villagers, but this Christmas they dream of having enough money to buy each other a special gift. Known for their musical abilities, the Otters are encouraged by their friends to enter a local talent contest. The mother and son reminisce about Pa Otter, who serves as the inspiration for them to enter the show.

Without each other’s knowledge, Ma and Emmet prepare for the contest in the hope of winning the fifty-dollar prize to buy Christmas gifts for each other. Emmet performs as a member of the Frogtown Jubilee Jug Band and Ma Otter sings a solo number, but both face tough competition from a hard rock group formed by a gang of woodland creatures who call themselves the Riverbottom Nightmare Band.

So which characters?

We definitely need Emmet Otter and Ma.  Those could be the commons right there.

How about a Movie Moment? Emmet and Ma in their boat!

It also wouldn’t hurt to have Wendel Porcupine as a common.

Now exclusives of the entire Frogtown Jubiliee Band as a 4 pack would be killer. Come on, You know Hot Topic would do it!

Now we can’t have just good guys so how about the Riverbottom Nightmare Band? We definitely need Chuck. And maybe an exclusive with the snake wrapped around him?

What do you think? Would you buy Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas Pops and add to your collection?

And for a trip down memory lane, here is what the original broadcast looked like!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6am4y2