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Let's Holiday-up the forum a bit with a list of favorite holiday themed specials.

Everything counts, movies, specials, Christmas episodes of TV series. I was going to make this a top 10 list, but it kept growing with the more I remembered, so I made it a top 20, but it still kept going, so I made it a 25...but there were still so many I fondly remembered so I made an honorable mentions section, and still I know there's a ton I'm probably forgetting.

Anyway, here goes:

My List in particular order:

  1. A Muppet Family Christmas: Everyone is here, all the Muppets from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, even Muppet Babies (if you find the unedited version...curse you copyright issues!!!) I love this special!
  2. Christmas Vacation: This is my favorite holiday movie of them all.
  3. Die Hard: It's a Christmas movie dammit!!!
  4. Santa Claus is Coming To Town: My favorite of the Rankin Bass Specials.
  5. A Christmas Story: A new classic, but TBS please stop showing it continuously on Christmas...show it maybe twice on Christmas day and twice on Christmas Eve then break it up with other holiday fare.
  6. It's a Wonderful Life: The Christmas classic of of classics
  7. Miralce on 34th Street: You know the version I mean. And no computer colorization either!
  8. A Charlie Brown Christmas: What can be said that hasn't been said all ready?
  9. Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - "Season's Greedings": The funniest and most fun episode of the series.
  10. MGM's "Peace On Earth" holiday short. If you haven't seen it, see it. It's pretty amazing!

 

11. Home Alone: Another new Christmas classic.

12. A Garfield Christmas: Garfield at his finest.

13. Disney's Mickey's Christmas Carol: Probably my favorite version of the tale.

14. Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas: Another beloved Jim Henson entry.

15. How The Grinch Stole Christmas: The cartoon, not the movie!

16. John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: The Muppets OWN Christmas.

17. A Muppet Christmas Carol: SEE?!!!

18. Scrooged: Bill Murray makes the awesomest Scrooge!

19. The Year Without a Santa Claus: "I'm Mister White Chistmas, I'm Mister Snow!" "I'm Mister Green Christmas, I'm Mister Sun" nuff said.

20. Gremlins: Sweet, cute, funny, yet also gruesome Christmas fun!

21. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer: A treat every year.

22. Disney's: "The Small One": Sentimental, sweet, perfect to warm the insides on a cold Winter's night.

23. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Fascination": It's centered around the Bajoran Gratitude Festival but it's a Christmas episode, one of the only Star Trek ones, and I always thought it was quote humorous.

24. Disney's "Pluto's Christmas Tree": More Disney Christmas goodness.

25. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (The Simpsons Christmas Special): It's not Christmas without this!

 

Honorable Mentions:

Batman TAS: "Christmas With The Joker"

Batman TAS: "Holiday Knights"

Justice League: "Comfort and Joy"

South Park: "Woodland Critter Christmas"

Quantum Leap: "A Little Miracle"

The Office (U.S.) "Christmas Party"

The Office (U.S.) "A Benihana Christmas"

The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Frosty The Snowman

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

A Chipmunk Christmas

The Smurf's Christmas Special

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

Disney's "Mickey's Good Deed"

Disney's "Corn Chips"

Dinsey's "Toy Tinkers"

Disney's "Lend a Paw"

Disney's "The Clock Watcher"

Bug's Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

The Tiny Tree

Raggedy Ann & Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper

Tom and Jerry: "The Night Before Christmas"

Ziggy's Gift

Casper's First Christmas

Yogi's First Christmas

How The Flintstones Saved Christmas

A Jetsons' Christmas Carol

Pink Panther in "A Pink Christmas"

Nestor The Long Eared Donkey

A Family Circus Christmas

Christmas Comes To Pacland

He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special (I don't care, I loved this as a kid!)

The Star Wars Holiday Special (If only because it DOES exist, yes it does, YES IT DOES!, it deserves to be mentioned)

 

Honorable Mentions (Commercials:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Make sure I watch Rudolph and Charlie Brown every year.  Love those two movies and they always bring me right back to sitting on the living room floor with popcorn and fudge with my mom and dad sitting in their chairs.  It's always a wonderful feeling watching them.

Then there is Scrooged.  I love that movie.  Bill Murray is great in it.  Watch that every year.

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Love Actually is a good choice.

The Star Wars Holiday Special      /thread

 

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Christmas Vacation

Home Alone

It's a Wonderful Life

Frosty the Snowman

Gremlins

A Christmas Carol

Which version of Christmas Carol? Alastair Sim? George C. Scott? Mickey Mouse? Muppets? Mr. Magoo?

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Love Actually is a good choice.

Which version of Christmas Carol? Alastair Sim? George C. Scott? Mickey Mouse? Muppets? Mr. Magoo?

George C. Scott or Mickey Mouse

I forgot about Elf and A Christmas Story

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It's got nothing to do with Christmas but I quite like watching The Great Escape at Christmas. It always used to be shown on Christmas Day for some reason in the UK so I always think of it that way now.

I saw Home Alone again for the first time in years a few weeks ago, that's actually a pretty dark film. That passed me by when I was a kid.

 

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Love actually, as it's been said, and The Nightmare before Christmas.

Also I remember laughing a bit with Trapped in Paradise (1994).

Trapped in Paradise is one of those that sneaked up on me. I thought it was pretty meh at first but on each subsequent rewatch I like it more.

Nightmare Before Christmas is a great 2fer holiday film!

 

 

Elf and Bad Santa both have their moments, good choices.

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I make my own Christmas special, every 25th (my Christmas, on January 7th is not a good occasion for it)

I start the day with a Disney movie. Usually, it is the classic and my niece chooses it, like "Beauty and the Beast"... Then there comes a marathon of something - extended LOTR, HP, SW or even best episodes of Voyager/DS9. Lastly, the past couple of years, I would have ended it with Downton Abbey's special.

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My Dad always watches The Apartment during the Christmas holidays, so I've seen it a few times too. It's not really that Christmassy, but hey that's his tradition. As a family, we always watch The Grinch. Yes, the film. I am not ashamed, we've watched it every year since it came out pretty much and it's a tradition even if we don't pay full attention anymore. 

Muppet Christmas Carol is another one. Goddamn brilliant stuff. Plus another version with all-human cast, can't remember which one though (quite old). 

Those are the only things that are pretty much guaranteed to be played over Christmas (not including Noddy Holder's Christmas Top 40 Countdown, which plays constantly in the background for a week, but is more music than show.) Honourable mentions to the Royle Family christmas special, Elf, Miracle of 34th Street, Die Hard and Scrooged as all being films I have at some point watched and enjoyed during the Christmas period.

Oh my, how could I forget the Grinch? :shocked: We watch it every year too, usually while we laze around on Christmas Eve, or occasionally on Christmas night when we are all stuffed and do t want to move.

Elf is another one I like watching this time of year. Royle Family, yep! Last couple of years we also watch the Mrs Browns Boys special. And of course, no Christmas Countdown can be without the fabulous Dawn French as the Vicar of Dibley in The Christmas Lunch Incident :D Never get tired of watching it. 

Don't know if you ever watched it Leap, but the Hebburn Christmas special was also nice, in a pretty standard British comedy way

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Great list, drawk!

A Muppet Family Christmas is an absolute favourite though I hadn't seen it for a long time. I still don't think it's really available to buy and I haven't seen it on TV in ages. It also features Fraggles.

Otherwise my usual must-sees are Charlie Brown, Christmas Vacation ("Shitter was full!"), Elf, Home Alone, Die Hard, the original Disney Christmas Carol with Scrooge McDuck, and, of course, the definitive Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim from 1951. The latter is perfect, and for me is usually only for Christmas Eve.

Traditionally my Gran would want to watch The Bishop's Wife and/or Holiday Inn.

I watched Scrooged just the other day. Bill Murray at his highest level of jerkishness always entertains.

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