if i had had to guess beforehand what i thought christmas caper would have been about
there's a very good chance that i never would have been able to draw up this narrative this
is of course part of the your the adventures of medicaid and actually series which i have started
watching for the first time recently i think this is the fifth one that i've seen so i'm about
halfway through maybe just further than that having previously watched all of the
you're invited to series and this one was enjoyable but probably one of the
most peculiar to be perfectly honest and i enjoyed it but any oh shucks isn't that
cute kind of a way not in a well i can see why they were doing that kind of way
this one is obviously set around christmas it was released in 1995 so they would have been about
eight nine depending on when it was filmed i think they might have filmed them in batches and then
staggered their release but feel free to correct me if that's not right
this one's written and directed by michael cruzan who has done uh most of the episodes and obviously
this one's set around christmas time and the first maybe half of it maybe just shy of the first half
mary kate and ashley are just preparing for christmas singing about christmas it's quite
festive elizabeth olsen's tangled up in christmas lights it's it's a lot of fun and very festive and
then the olsen and olsen mystery agency gets a phone call from individuals who call themselves
the three wise men and they're in search of the spirit of christmas now the spirit of christmas is
actually an airplane these three wise men own this airplane and they have installed some new software
on their computers and something's gone wrong with the software and they cannot locate this airplane
obviously kate and ashley are the first choice for helping to solve this mystery they get on
their bikes they go along to meet three wise men and they try and solve the mystery by dinner time
i have to say i love three wise men nick rick and slick um played by arturo gill uh joseph s griffo
and michael lee gogan and it's a bit weird at one point because when the the twins first meet them
they acknowledge the fact that the three wise men are i think what they're referred to as
is little people um and there's this whole little dialogue about how just because the
nick rick and slick are shorter than your average man they still have hopes and aspirations and
dreams like everybody else i thought it was a bit in your face but i guess for the young viewer
maybe not maybe it needed to be said but then they launched into song i absolutely adored it
i thought it was pretty good fun i do think that it's unusual that mary kade and actually
were computer whizzes with this software that they'd never used before not necessarily the
most believable but i liked it and there is i don't really want to spoil what happens
but i think that it does have some pretty decent messages in it um look out for the character of
ebenezer scrooge i won't say any more than that but i think that that was
not what i was expecting to be perfectly honest and i kind of liked the direction it took and i
had some pretty good morals and messages in it with regards to being festive the first half
was definitely festive with regards to christmas decorations and christmas songs the second half
was more about the language so ebonies were screwed three wise men spirit of christmas
i enjoyed it enough it's not quite what i would have expected for this kind of christmas episode
but comparing it to the rest of the adventures of episodes i i liked the songs a lot more than
some of the others the narrative flowed very well even though it wasn't what i was expecting
if you grew up watching mary kaden actually or even if you're discovering them now for the
first time give it a watch it's cheesy it's unrealistic but it's still pretty good fun