RedEyedGhost Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Blackadder's Christmas Carol is pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 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.Why thank you!Yep, one of my favorite parts is when The Muppets who up and Doc asks Sprocket if these are the Fraggles he's always going on about and Sprocket wiggles his paw as if to say "kind of". Another favorite part is when Jim Henson shows up at the end smiling as he watches all the muppets celebrating Christmas. My eyes always moisten at this part.I've got the special from a recording of an actual airing in 1987 so it's got all its parts, nothing cut out. Esquire has been showing Trading Places tonight. It takes place at Christmas and New Year's, has Dan Aykroyd dressed up as a bum Santa, it counts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alia of the knife Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Rudolph of course."A Christmas Carol" musical, with Albert Finney,But lastly is actually the Peanuts Thanksgiving where Snoopy takes out the Lawn Chair.http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=snoopy+vs.+lawn+chair&view=detail&&&mid=93F6B294E7CF724D068593F6B294E7CF724D0685&rvsmid=93F6B294E7CF724D068593F6B294E7CF724D0685#view=detail&mid=93F6B294E7CF724D068593F6B294E7CF724D0685 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 South Park: "Woodland Critter Christmas"Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Pesci Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Pesci Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Christmas Vacation is a staple for me (actually watching it on ABC Family right now). As far as movies, I'd go with A Christmas Story, Home Alone, Elf, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Gremlins, and Die Hard. I'll watch all the classic Christmas specials if I'm home when they are on, or DVR them for a seasonal viewing, my niece loves them. I'm going to try and watch all of the old time movies like Miracle on 34th St, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, etc. I've seen them in bits and pieces, but never the whole way through.Oh and South Park Christmas episodes are fantastic, can't believe I forgot Mr. Hankey and my all time favorite, Woodland Critter Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivisionByZero Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 A lot of good choices! My personal favorite (not yet listed) is Invader Zim - The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever!, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiDisaster Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 We watch A Christmas Story every year on Christmas day. Definitely my favorite Christmas movie. Love Actually is up there as well, and that's just one of my favorite movies in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 There are exactly two Christmas-themed films I like (they are coincidentally two of my favourite ones):Love Actually and Letters to Santa. I very much recommend the second one if you liked Love Actually.I cannot stand Home Alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolorous Gabe Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Blackadder's Christmas Carol is pretty amazing.Yes it is.Also batting for shows this side of the Atlantic, the Father Ted Christmas Special ("it's Ireland's largest lingerie section, I understand"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Antony Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Home Alone and Home Alone 2, Bad Santa, And I always watch Sorcerer Stone around this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 I think the most Christmasy I ever feel is watching A Christmas Story or Miracle on 34th Street at 2-4am on Christmas morning.While those aren't the number 1's on my list, they're on there, and at that timeslot those are what I want to watch most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewJ Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 2-4am? You know Santa won't ever come if you don't go to bed, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 As a child I remember loving an old BBC TV adaptation of "The Box of Delights". Actually, a lot of the stuff that gives me "Christmas" feelings comes from children's literature. A book from which I learnt what grief was, The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo, is one of them. It has its lighter side too, but is a markedly wintry novel. Also Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising. Wonderful not so much for the plot as for the atmospheric quality of the writing. The former has been adapted for TV. The latter hasn't. And there certainly wasn't an appalling film made of it!On the funny side of things, I love the Father Ted Christmas special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I hate to be that person, but why is Die Hard a Christmas film? (Full disclosure - have never seen it and don't know what it's about, it just doesn't sound particularly Christmassy....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I hate to be that person, but why is Die Hard a Christmas film? (Full disclosure - have never seen it and don't know what it's about, it just doesn't sound particularly Christmassy....)It's because it takes place when Alan Rickman and his henchmen take hostages at the Christmas Party that Bruce Willis is attending. There are also some Christmassy references in it, such as Bruce Willis paraphrasing Santa Claus in this scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 I hate to be that person, but why is Die Hard a Christmas film? (Full disclosure - have never seen it and don't know what it's about, it just doesn't sound particularly Christmassy....)It's because it takes place when Alan Rickman and his henchmen take hostages at the Christmas Party that Bruce Willis is attending. There are also some Christmassy references in it, such as Bruce Willis paraphrasing Santa Claus in this scene. And when it's over it gives you all the warm Christmas tingles when you've finished opening your presents on Christmas morning and are completely content while Christmas/seasonal music plays on the radio "Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow"**even though it's in southern California and it's "snowing" bonds and ashes and other debris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokisnow Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 This week's fresh off the boat Christmas episode was pretty awesome on all levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Die Hard, Home Alone and Gremlins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Littlefinger Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 South Park's Woodland Critter Christmas episode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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