Van Horn story title

[Wilmer Rivers]

The title "Deck Us All" does indeed have special significance for
American audiences.  Of course, it's a pun on the Christmas carol
"Deck the Halls" (with boughs of holly / fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-di-da /
'Tis the season to be jolly / fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-di-da).  [That
"la-la-la" business is a 15th century song style known as a "madrigal".]
But more to the point, "Deck us all" is the first line of the parody of
that carol as it was sung every Christmas by the characters in Walt
Kelly's comic strip "Pogo".  Van Horn is thus making reference to the
famous work of an earlier Disney artist.  (The "Pogo" version of the
carol goes: Deck us all with Boston Charlie / Walla Walla, Wash.,
and Kalamazoo. / Nora's freezing on the trolley / Swaller dollar
cauliflower, alligaroo.)

Wilmer Rivers