History WesternAnimation / TheGreatSantaClausCaper

It concerns the adventures of Literature/RaggedyAnn (voiced by Creator/JuneForay), her friend Raggedy Andy (voiced by Creator/DawsButler), and their dog Raggedy Arthur as they try and [[SavingChristmas save Christmas]] from [[TheBigBadWolf Alexander Graham Wolf]] (voiced by Les Tremayne), a WellIntentionedExtremist and InsufferableGenius who intends to encase all of the world's Christmas toys in a fast-hardening clear substance he calls "[[AcmeProducts gloopstik]]" because he believes children are irresponsible and will break their toys otherwise (at least, this is his ''original'' motive; see MotiveDecay below).

* VillainProtagonist: You may have noticed there's a lot here about Alexander G. Wolf and not much about the ostensible stars of the show. This is because Alexander seems to get the lion's (wolf's?) share of the special's screentime, and in many ways ''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is his story, chronicling his journey from a greedy villain to managing to redeem himself after being given a second chance.

It concerns the adventures of Literature/RaggedyAnn (voice Creator/JuneForay), her friend Raggedy Andy (voice of Creator/DawsButler), and their dog Raggedy Arthur as they try and [[SavingChristmas save Christmas]] from [[TheBigBadWolf Alexander Graham Wolf]] (voice of Les Tremayne), a WellIntentionedExtremist and InsufferableGenius who intends to encase all of the world's Christmas toys in a fast-hardening clear substance he calls "[[AcmeProducts gloopstik]]" because he believes children are irresponsible and will break their toys otherwise (at least, this is his ''original'' motive; see MotiveDecay below).

''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is a ChristmasSpecial that first aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1978, animated by Creator/ChuckJones.

* SantaClaus: Appears briefly.

* VillainProtagonist: You may have noticed there's a lot about Alexander G. Wolf and not much about the ostensible stars of the show. This is because Alexander seems to get the lion's (wolf's?) share of the special's screentime, and in many ways ''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is his story, chronicling his journey from a greedy villain to managing to redeem himself after being given a second chance.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: After figuring out that ThePowerOfLove can shatter gloopstik by using theirs to save Arthur, Raggedy Ann and Andy call upon all the children in the audience to use their love to do the same thing for all the toys the machine had covered in gloopstik. This works wonderfully, and then they again call upon the children's participation to SaveTheVillain.

* Creator/ChuckJones: Did the animation (explaining why Alexander is basically an {{Expy}} of Wile E. Coyote).

It concerns the adventures of Literature/RaggedyAnn (voice Creator/JuneForay) and her friends Raggedy Andy (voice of Creator/DawsButler) and Raggedy Arthur as they must [[SavingChristmas save Christmas]] from a WellIntentionedExtremist and InsufferableGenius, TheBigBadWolf himself Alexander Graham Wolf (voice of Les Tremayne), who intends to encase all of the world's Christmas toys in a fast-hardening clear substance he calls "[[AcmeProducts gloopstik]]" because he believes children are irresponsible and will break their toys otherwise (at least, this is his ''original'' motive; see MotiveDecay below).

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Alexander G. Wolf [[InsistentTerminology describes]] himself as an "''in''efficiency expert," but counter-intuitively this doesn't mean he is an expert at making things inefficient - just the opposite. He actually finds (what he considers to be) inefficient enterprises and makes them run more smoothly. It seems he is using "inefficiency" when he means "efficiency."

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Alexander G. Wolf [[InsistentTerminology describes]] himself as an "''in''efficiency expert," but counter-intuitively this doesn't mean he is an expert at making things inefficient - just the opposite. He actually finds (what he considers to be) inefficient enterprises and makes them run more smoothly. It seems he is using "inefficiency" when he means "efficiency."

''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is a TV ChristmasSpecial that first aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1978, animated by Creator/ChuckJones.

''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is a ChristmasSpecial that first aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1978, animated by Creator/ChuckJones.

''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is a 1978 ChristmasSpecial animated by Creator/ChuckJones. It concerns the adventures of Literature/RaggedyAnn (voice Creator/JuneForay) and her friends Raggedy Andy (voice of Creator/DawsButler) and Raggedy Arthur as they must [[SavingChristmas save Christmas]] from a WellIntentionedExtremist and InsufferableGenius, TheBigBadWolf himself Alexander Graham Wolf (voice of Les Tremayne), who intends to encase all of the world's Christmas toys in a fast-hardening clear substance he calls "[[AcmeProducts gloopstik]]" because he believes children are irresponsible and will break their toys otherwise (at least, this is his ''original'' motive; see MotiveDecay below).

''The Great Santa Claus Caper'' is a 1978 ChristmasSpecial animated by Creator/ChuckJones. It concerns the adventures of Literature/RaggedyAnn (voice Creator/JuneForay) and her friends Raggedy Andy (voice of Creator/DawsButler) and Raggedy Arthur as they must save Christmas from a WellIntentionedExtremist and InsufferableGenius, TheBigBadWolf himself Alexander Graham Wolf (voice of Les Tremayne), who intends to encase all of the world's Christmas toys in a fast-hardening clear substance he calls "[[AcmeProducts gloopstik]]" because he believes children are irresponsible and will break their toys otherwise (at least, this is his ''original'' motive; see MotiveDecay below).

* GenderFlip: Comet. Maybe. ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'' doesn't assign genders to any of Santa's reindeer, but Comet is consistently portrayed as male (such as in ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer''. Here, however, she's female (voiced by Creator/JuneForay who also voices Raggedy Ann).

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Alexander G. Wolf [[InsistentTerminology describes]] himself as an "''in''efficiency expert," but counter-intuitively this doesn't mean he is an expert at making things inefficiently - he actually finds (what he considers to be) inefficient enterprises and makes them run more smoothly. It seems he is using "inefficiency" when he means (in this context) "efficiency."