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3	''Casper's First Christmas'' is a 1979 animated holiday special, produced by Creator/HannaBarbera and originally broadcast on Creator/{{NBC}}, that might be a Christmas tradition for a lot of fans. However, it's also one of the stranger examples of a [[Crossover/WesternAnimation cartoon crossover]] out there.
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5	In the special, WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost and Hairy Scary are not in the future like WesternAnimation/CasperAndTheAngels but a modern time. Living in a rundown house (set for demolition) on Christmas Eve, who would happen to show up but WesternAnimation/YogiBear and friends?
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7	Followed a year later by ''WesternAnimation/YogisFirstChristmas'', despite Yogi and friends already knowing about and celebrating Christmas in the Casper special. Yogi and the rest of the gang would also return for more seasonal hijinks in 1982's ''Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper''. Two decades after Hanna-Barbera and Casper parted ways, Casper would star in the 2000 straight-to-video film ''WesternAnimation/CaspersHauntedChristmas'', loosely based on the [[Film/{{Casper}} 1995 feature film's]] continuity.
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10	!!This cartoon provides examples of:
11	* AnimationBump: While an overall marked improvement from HB's usual output due to being a one-off, the musical numbers are far more fluid than the rest of the special.
12	* ChristmasCarolers: The characters make merry by singing.
13	* ChristmasEpisode: Counts as one for most of the shows involved.
14	* CrossOver: Casper and Hairy Scary of WesternAnimation/CasperAndTheAngels meet up with Yogi Bear and Boo Boo from WesternAnimation/YogiBear, Huckleberry Hound from WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow, WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw, WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy and WesternAnimation/{{Snagglepuss}}
15	* TheGrinch: Hairy Scary is not a friend of Christmas.
16	* HauntedHouse: Well, the setting house totally has two ghosts living in it.
17	** In the end, Santa turns it into Hairy's Haunting Lodge.
18	* HeelFaceTurn: While Hairy isn't that bad, he still turns from Scrooge to friendly by the end of the special.
19	* {{Prequel}}: More than likely, it's one to WesternAnimation/CasperAndTheAngels.
20	* SantaClaus: Ho Ho Ho, he shows up too.
21	* TheScrooge: Hairy Scary doesn't want to celebtrate Christmas.
22	* ShoutOut:
23	** Inside the house there are cameos of two mice that resemble Pixie and Dixie from WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks. Perhaps their parents.
24	** In addition to TheScrooge above Huckleberry asked Hairy if he's "the ghost out of Dickens"
25	* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: Yogi took the wrong directions to the ski lodge that he and his friends were supposed to be going, and they wind up at the abandoned shack where Casper and Hairy happen to live.

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