Will Vinton would be proud.

The raisins commercials were created by claymation master Will Vinton, if I'm not mistaken. If you want to see AMAZING claymation, with texture and life and CG often fails to achieve, check out his feature "The Adventures of Mark Twain"

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Bobby Vinton is from Canonsburg, PA (south of Pittsburgh). I know this because my Dad really liked him, and my Dad's medical office was located there, and sure enough there is a Bobby Vinton Street named after him that we would pass on the way.

When I was growing up I must have heard this song a thousand times because my mom LOVED Bobby Vinton, and this was her favorite song of his. You'd think I'd be sick of it, but I guess it grew on me because I still like it to this day.

The special was actually called "Will Vintons: A Claymation Christmas"

This is the "Satan" sequence from The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985), directed by Will Vinton. (Remember the California Rasins? Same dude.)

From IMDB's plot summary:

Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the Human Race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet and crashing into it, achieving his "destiny." It's up to Tom, Becky, and Huck to convince him hat his judgement is wrong, and that he still has much to offer humanity that might make a difference. Their efforts aren't just charitable; if they fail, they will share Twain's fate. Along the way, they use a magical time portal to get a detailed overview of the Twain philosophy, observing the "historical" events that inspired his works.