I watch it every year. I remember having a VHS recording of it, with the David Bowie bit at the beginning, and lots of 90s Christmas adverts. There was an old Debenhams (maybe BHS) ad that had a similar hand-drawn pencil-coloured style.
But if you watch Father Christmas you’ll see he came back the next year!
Snowman and the Snowdog gets me more 😢
Now watch When the Wind Blows.
Me too mate. Me too
Think it’s the first thing I saw my daughter watch on tv that she has cried at
The sequel is worse.
If we are talking Raymond Briggs’ masterpieces I love Ethel and Ernest as well as the above.
I’ve watch this every year, I’ve still got it on vhs where David Bowie introduced it (me mother loved David so recorded it) because of how sad the end of the Snowman made me I couldn’t bear to watch the Snowdog! But I decided to be brave at aged 39 and watch it and it was glorious, love, love the Snowdog! The song light the night by Andy Burrows is one of me favourites on me playlist so I listen to it throughout the year! So I’ll definitely be watching all them this year!!
Bad memory?
Yes me too every time.
Jeez… spoiler alert…
I guess it was always my internal coping mechanism to believe he just rebuilds him every year so he’s never actually really gone.
I was expecting crap with the sequel but it turned out to be just as good to me. It was especially a nice touch with the photo which implies he was never forgotten and came back every year.
When you consider that it’s essentially a thinly veiled metaphor for the inevitable loss most children face when they eventually lose a loved one (normally, a grandparent), it’s all the more depressing.
I found I’m not emotionally strong enough to watch the snowdog one
A few minutes in i was a wreck and had to stop
I remember seeing it for the first time at the Church youth club in 1998.
Fortunately me winning at Eskimo chocolate after watching the film cheered me up immensely
Loved it since I was a kid (born in ‘80). Been a staple watch since then and I still choke up even as a 43 yo man
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Same for me. I always watch it when I need a good cry
[Maybe this will cheer you up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZOab5gl-4)
I watch it every year. I remember having a VHS recording of it, with the David Bowie bit at the beginning, and lots of 90s Christmas adverts. There was an old Debenhams (maybe BHS) ad that had a similar hand-drawn pencil-coloured style.
But if you watch Father Christmas you’ll see he came back the next year!
Snowman and the Snowdog gets me more 😢
Now watch When the Wind Blows.
Me too mate. Me too
Think it’s the first thing I saw my daughter watch on tv that she has cried at
The sequel is worse.
If we are talking Raymond Briggs’ masterpieces I love Ethel and Ernest as well as the above.
I’ve watch this every year, I’ve still got it on vhs where David Bowie introduced it (me mother loved David so recorded it) because of how sad the end of the Snowman made me I couldn’t bear to watch the Snowdog! But I decided to be brave at aged 39 and watch it and it was glorious, love, love the Snowdog! The song light the night by Andy Burrows is one of me favourites on me playlist so I listen to it throughout the year! So I’ll definitely be watching all them this year!!
Bad memory?
Yes me too every time.
Jeez… spoiler alert…
I guess it was always my internal coping mechanism to believe he just rebuilds him every year so he’s never actually really gone.
I was expecting crap with the sequel but it turned out to be just as good to me. It was especially a nice touch with the photo which implies he was never forgotten and came back every year.
When you consider that it’s essentially a thinly veiled metaphor for the inevitable loss most children face when they eventually lose a loved one (normally, a grandparent), it’s all the more depressing.
I found I’m not emotionally strong enough to watch the snowdog one
A few minutes in i was a wreck and had to stop
I remember seeing it for the first time at the Church youth club in 1998.
Fortunately me winning at Eskimo chocolate after watching the film cheered me up immensely
Loved it since I was a kid (born in ‘80). Been a staple watch since then and I still choke up even as a 43 yo man