The head of NBC took notice of Grant's performance and called her manager to book her for her own Christmas special.

* The first Christmas special featured the pair sitting in front of the television providing crude commentary on various aspects of Christmas, and commenting on Christmas-themed music videos from various artists.

* The second Christmas special was simply titled " Beavis and Butt-Head Christmas Special ," or alternately " Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas.

" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

As a way to earn a bit of money in the 1890s, Beatrix and her brother began to print Christmas cards of their own design, as well as cards for special occasions.

The issues were numbered, and the first one was a Dennis and Friends special, the last a Christmas reprint special.

In some areas, Black Cake, a derivative of English Christmas pudding may be served, especially on special occasions ..

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

Among the special tasks carried out i private homes during Advent ( a time of waiting for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus ) is the baking of the Christmas piernik ( gingerbread ), and the making of Christmas decorations.

In 1966, he produced and directed the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas !, featuring the voice and facial models based on the readings by Boris Karloff.

Jones was the creative consultant and character designer for two Raggedy Ann animated specials and the first Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas special " A Chipmunk Christmas ".

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

He has produced numerous movies, television shows, and specials through his production company, Apostle ; these include Comedy Central's Shorties Watchin ' Shorties, the stand-up special Denis Leary's Merry F #$% in ' Christmas, and the movie Blow.

She did not have the opportunity to see her sons very often during her imprisonment, though she was released for special occasions such as Christmas.

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

In the TV Series Doctor Who, the character in the 2009 Christmas special, Jackson Lake, suffers a fugue state after witnessing the death of his wife by a Cyberman attack.

An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

The President, in a special message to Congress, tied in with his aged care plan requests for large federal grants to finance medical and dental scholarships, build 20 new medical and 20 new dental schools, and expand child health care and general medical research.

By late 1824, Monroe approved Calhoun's plans and in a special message to the Senate on January 27, 1825, requested the creation of the Arkansas Territory and Indian Territory.

* 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

On 25 May 1939, Ribbentrop sent a secret message to Moscow to tell the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, that if Germany attacked Poland " Russia's special interests would be taken into consideration ".

As it was, a special meeting of the British cabinet called to consider the " final offer ", they declined to pass on the message to Warsaw under the grounds this was not a serious proposal on the part of Berlin.

The U. S. mint prepared special silver medals with a portrait of Jefferson and had a message of friendship and peace, called Indian Peace Medals or peace medals.

This takes the form of a special global system exclusive message:

" Mary is the first to announce the resurrection and to fulfill the role of an Apostle ─ someone sent by Jesus with a special message or commission, to spread the gospel (" good news ") and to lead the early church.

Although not the first leader to speak directly to voters – both he and Disraeli had spoken directly to party loyalists before on special occasions – he was the first to canvass an entire constituency delivering his message to anyone who would listen, encouraging his supporters and trying to convert his opponents.

The Anonymous Valesianus tells an account about his choosing of a successor: Anastasius could not decide which of his three nephews should succeed him, so he put a message under a couch and had his nephews take seats in the room, which also had two other seats ; he believed that the nephew to sit on the special couch would be his proper heir.

Video footage of the tour was shown on their controversial November 30 television special Songs of America, which TV sponsors refused to endorse because of its distinct anti-Vietnam War message.

Wake-on-LAN is implemented using a special network message called a magic packet.

The Russian, American, and Italian Expedition 27 crew aboard the ISS sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a " Happy Yuri's Night ", wearing shirts with an image of Gagarin.

Jiang's message was echoed at the 2001 National People's Congress, where Premier Zhu Rongji made special mention of Falun Gong in his outline of the PRC Tenth Five-Year Plan, saying " we must continue our campaign against the Falun Gong cult ", effectively tying Falun Gong's eradication to China's economic progress.

On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing legislation granting the President new powers to add additional judges to all federal courts whenever there were sitting judges age 70 or older who refused to retire.

On February 26, 1934, the President sent a special message to Congress urging the creation of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

He felt a very special affection for the book's moral lesson and its message of love and generosity.

To activate the EAN protocol, the AP and UPI wire services would notify stations with a special message.

In recent seasons of the US version, a special message, held in a bottle or by host Jeff Probst, has been given to the winners or the losers of the challenge, with instructions to either read the note immediately after the challenge, or to hold the note unread until Tribal Council.

As a special bonus, Nuclear Blast gave several fans the opportunity to listen to the new album two weeks before its release if they could decipher a hieroglyphic message, to which " papyrus " was the answer.

" Fata Morgana is basically me wanting to express musical ideas through another medium-that had no real concept, that didn't deal with something special, or had any message within ".

Gen. Urrea resisted the orders at first and sent a special message to Santa Anna to confirm the order, which Santa Anna upheld.