Best Christmas show ever.

[Serenitude]

The Greatest Christmas show of all time. I have included all relevant choices above. Please vote :p

[davidlpf]

you could always drink while watching christmas vacation. My favourite scene is the sled with the super lubricant.

[Lianachan]

Best christmas comedy film by a long shot.

For a TV show, the old Morecambe and Wise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_and_Wise) christmas specials were awesome.

[davidlpf]

ther is always the black adder christmas special.

[Dragon Star]

What..."A Christmas Story" gets no love? :(

[Frantic Freddie]

"The Grinch that stole Christmas",the original 1966 animated version,directed by Chuck Jones & narrated by Boris Karloff.

[sarongsong]

"Show"---you talking films here?

[Spacewriter]

How about "a clear, dark night with stars overhead"?

[Serenitude]

"Show"---you talking films here?

Hmmm. I think I should have just said "Christmas Thingies" :D

[Serenitude]

How about "a clear, dark night with stars overhead"?

If I can have quiet and peace, that would be another awesome option. Stargazing with some Wassal ;)

[farmerjumperdon]

Definitely one of my favorites. Best character is Quaid as the trailer trash brother-in-law.

After tossing 4 fifty pound sacks of dogfood on top of the Christmas presents, "And git a little somthin fer yerself while yer at it."

[Fazor]

There's lots of great x-mas movies. Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Grinch, all mentioned and all great. I like the old Frosty the Snowman cartoon, just 'caus I'm into that classic animation stuff. And A Charlie Brown Christmas, for same reason. I was surprised last year when I finally saw "It's a Wonderful Life". Didn't think I'd like it, but it has that old charm to it that made it such a famous and clasic film, even if it is overparodied.

[farmerjumperdon]

There's lots of great x-mas movies. Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Grinch, all mentioned and all great. I like the old Frosty the Snowman cartoon, just 'caus I'm into that classic animation stuff. And A Charlie Brown Christmas, for same reason. I was surprised last year when I finally saw "It's a Wonderful Life". Didn't think I'd like it, but it has that old charm to it that made it such a famous and clasic film, even if it is overparodied.

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What is it about those movies that makes them appealing to many people? I too like It's a Wonderful Life. But it is so mediocre on so many fronts. Same with a couple of my old favorites, Casablanca is a great example. The acting is a lot of things - overly dramatic at times, downright corny at times, flat at others, etc. And the sets, cinematography, sound, costumes, everything; nothing like what today's studios produce. Sure, the stories are classics, but most get retold over and over in just slight variations. (What's that I've heard about there being only 7 basic plots?)

Just watched most of The Maltese Falcon again a couple weeks ago. A so-so flick at best by all technical and quantifiable measurements. Is it because of what it represents as a lost, or seldom emlployed art form?

[Fazor]

WARNING: Thread drift ahead.

What is it about those movies that makes them appealing to many people? I too like It's a Wonderful Life. But it is so mediocre on so many fronts. Same with a couple of my old favorites, Casablanca is a great example. The acting is a lot of things - overly dramatic at times, downright corny at times, flat at others, etc. And the sets, cinematography, sound, costumes, everything; nothing like what today's studios produce. Sure, the stories are classics, but most get retold over and over in just slight variations. (What's that I've heard about there being only 7 basic plots?)

Just watched most of The Maltese Falcon again a couple weeks ago. A so-so flick at best by all technical and quantifiable measurements. Is it because of what it represents as a lost, or seldom emlployed art form?


Well, I think it's that while the acting can be, as you say, corny and or overly dramatic, the actors and actresses are soo likable that you can just immediately identify with them. perhaps it's that they are more "real" than the average charactor in today's movies. some of it is nostalgia value, but these movies won awards and acclaim long before they were 'classics', so there's obviously more to it.

[danscope]

ther is always the black adder christmas special.

Hi, Love Black Adder. And all the "Cunning plans.....".
But for one of the best Christmas stories, there is a Twilight Zone story with
the Great Art Carney ;in which he is a drunken Santa Clause who gets fired from his job at a dept. store, depressed in a world where he can offer nothing to his friends and without hope for himself, wakes up to find......a magical old
burlap bag to which,when he reaches in,pulls out what ever the fond wish of the person he will give a present to on Christmas eve. When , at last, he has emptied the bag, and everyone else has enjoyed it's fruition, he has nothing but
the contentment of having made merry for all his friends, and a few others.
As he walks away,snow comming down and another cold night alone,but glad in his night's work, wishing that he could do this always on Christmas eve,
he hears a peculiar jingling of sleigh Bells, and a glockenspiel playing
"The First Noel", and then he looks up to see.....a smallish figure of .....
an elf, which greets him saying............"High Santa Clause". He rubs his eyes, and can't believe he sees a beautiful sleigh, with eight reindeer,....
and another large old bag filled to the point of bursting with presents.
The elf says to him...."I've been waiting for you, Santa Clause!"
And he is filled with joy as he gets aboard and whistles and lo...
the sleigh takes to the sky.........
And the meek shall inherit the Earth.
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May each one of you find something in Christmas to bring you joy in the new year.
Merry Chistmas, Daniel

[Serenitude]

I wasn't aware of a Black Adder Christmas show. I must find a way to procure that :eek:

[Donnie B.]

Though there have been some great shows mentioned, I'll nominate "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol", with Jim Backus as Magoo as Scrooge.

...and razzleberry dressing...

[HenrikOlsen]

I wasn't aware of a Black Adder Christmas show. I must find a way to procure that :eek:

It's their take on A Christmas Carol, with Blackadder starting as a reverse Scrooge.

[Fazor]

:) Also love all those flintstones/looney toons/jetsons/whatever takes on A Christmas Carol. But, as mentioned, I just love animation so I'm biased :)

[Gillianren]

For movies, The Bishop's Wife--the original with Cary Grant, mind. The Ref, one of my all-time favorites. And in glorious black and white, Miracle on 34th Street, my mother's favorite. The Muppet Christmas Carol.

For TV shows, the Due South episode "Gift of the Wheelman." (First appearance of the ghost of Fraser's father.) The Claymation Christmas special--neglected but wonderful. Good ol' Charlie Brown, of course, which I bought yesterday. Garfield, even.

Oh, I know I'm missing some, especially when it comes to TV show episodes. My cousin Dyllan was in a pretty good Murphy Brown Christmas special, back when he was playing Avery.

Oh, is anyone planning to see Unaccompanied Minors? It looks really, really bad, and I'm going to have to see it eventually.

[Maksutov]

My favorite xmas show is Cosmos, since that's when I usually watch the entire series each year.

NOTE: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THOSE FEW WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THESE TWO EPISODES!

But then towering above the rest of the seasonally-related shows are

Xmas Story

Farnsworth: Hear, hear! Now let's all of us shut up and sing!
[They gather around a piano.]
Amy: (singing) He knows when you are sleeping.
Farnsworth: (singing) He knows when you're on the can.
Leela: (singing) He'll hunt you down and blast your from here to Pakistan.
[B]Zoidberg: (singing) Oh.
Hermes: (singing) You'd better not breathe, You'd better not move.
Bender: (singing) You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
Fry: (singing) Santa Claus is gunning you down!
[Everyone cheers. Farnsworth takes off his lab coat, exposing himself again.]
Farnsworth: Merry Xmas, everyone!
[He joins the others at the piano and it snows again outside.]
[Closing Credits. A version of We Wish You A Merry Christmas plays. Santa and his reindeer fly by.]
Santa: [over credits] I'll be back. Back when you least expect it: Next Xmas! Ho, ho, ho!
and

A Tale Of Two Santas

[Scene: In the sky, Bender whips the reindeer.]
Bender: On, Trasher! On, Smasher! [The Kwanzaabot flies alongside.] Hey, Kwanzaabot, where you off to?
Kwanzaabot: Ah, you didn't hear about it? Chanukah Zombie's having a luau at the B'nai B'rith! You comin'?
Bender: Word!
[The Kwanzaabot flies off. Santa pulls out a present.]
Santa: By the way, Bender, here's a small token of my appreciation for being Santa while I was trapped in the ice.
[Bender takes the gift and cheers. He opens it.]
Bender: Hey, chief, you screwed up. There's nothing in here.
Santa: Oh, it might appear empty but the message is clear: Play Santa again and I'll kill you next year! [He kicks Bender out of the sleigh into the fiery city below and flies away.] Ho, ho, ho! Futurama Episodes 3ACV03 and 2ACV04 respectively.