Movies:

Bad Santa starring Billy Bob Thornton
The Addams Family, for the opening scene with the carolers and the boiling oil.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

TV Shows:

Married...with Children: "You Better Watch Out", "It's a Bundyful Life", "Christmas", "The Worst Noel", "I Can't Believe It's Butter", and "God Help Ye, Merry Bundymen"
Family Guy: "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas"
Futurama: "Xmas Story" and "A Tale of Two Santas"
Robot Chicken: "Robot Chicken Christmas Special" and "Robot Chicken's Half-(butted) Christmas Special"
Moral Orel: "The Best Christmas Ever!"

Music:

White Christmas, written by the Jewish songwriter Israel Isidore Baline, 1962 version sung by George Wallace.

What a Friend We Have in Jesus, as sung by the Choral Society of the Greater New York Jewish Merchant's Association every December 26th.



What are your favorites?

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Favorite Holiday entertainment: Going to the beach[listening to some Bossa Nova song].

(*) Married with children... Is it still aired up there?

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Which way to Ipanema?

The cable network FX shows spliced and diced (by commercials and goddam pop-ups) versions. Fortunately I have them all on DVD, and modified DVDs, since there was a dispute over the "Love and Marriage" music. Nice to be able to demux, modify the sound track and then remux.

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It´s been a long time since I last went to Rio [~ten yers]. My neck of woods is Ubatuba, in the scenic São Paulo state seaboard [and the girls are just as good].

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Yum!

"Yum" being a modern derivation of an ancient Tupi word meaning "I have respect for all women." Minimalism may be so-so in music, but it's great for women's bathing suits.

That reminds of the story about how the bikini came to be named. A number of atomic bomb tests were conducted at Bikini Lagoon during 1946. The tie-in to the French bathing suit was established when one of the admirals observing the Operation Crossroads tests commented that "After the bomb exploded there was practically nothing there atoll."

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Alright!

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The Bishop's Wife, with Cary Grant, David Niven, and Deborah Kerr.
Miracle on 34th Street--the original, mind.
The Ref, with Denis Leary.

The Claymation Christmas Special. The way I feel shortchanged by my religion is that we don't have cool music for our holidays.
The Charlie Brown one, with the sad little tree. Hokey, but I love it.

(Actually, I loathe Married with Children and always have.)

And, of course, there's the Peter, Paul & Mary Christmas album.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

movies

A Christmas Carol (1951)
Miracle On 34th St. (1947)
The Bishop's Wife (1947) ...

tv

Many of the Rankin/Bass productions
Charlie Brown
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean - no matter how many times I see this, Mr. Bean and the nativity scene has me laughing.
WKRP - The one where Jennifer ends up with a forest in her apartment.
Ghosts Of Christmas Eve ...

music
"Little Drummer Boy" - Johnny Cash
"Oh Come All Ye Faithful" - Jim Nabors
"Christmas Wrapping" - The Waitresses
"Cool Yule" - Louis Armstrong and The Commodores
"The Night Before Christmas Song" - Spike Jones
"Snoopy's Christmas" - The Royal Guardsmen
"Mele Kalikimaka", "Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rhum", "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - Jimmy Buffett
"Fairytale Of New York" - The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl
A whole bunch of songs and instrumentals from the three Christmas releases by Trans-Siberian Orchestra ...

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Computer: Lag-free MMORPGs while all the dweebs with flesh and blood relations suffer their offline families.

Music:

Walkin' round in women's underwear.
Walkin' in an Essex wonderland - 98 Rock twisted tune
Yellow snow - 98 Rock twisted tune
Grandma Got Runover By A Reindeer
Mister Grinch - Faith No More cover
I want a mistress for Christmas - AC/DC

What's not to like?

Having grown up in a dysfunctional family, it was a treat to watch a family more dysfunctional than mine.

Plus Married...with Children had the greatest TV dog ever. No, that was a chicken. He was Buck.

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Some good - and some dreadful - suggestions up there.

I would add National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Trading Places as providing a laugh at this time of year.

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Ah, Trading Places with the magnificent World Trade Center only outshone by the magnificent Jamie Lee Curtis (mirror or no mirror).

Thank you, Janet Leigh.

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Weird seeing the 1951 Scrooge listed above.
That was old when I first saw it televised
late on Boxing Day 1962. And that was 405
line B&W. Now I have my colourised DVD copy
that was a freebee in a newspaper a few years
ago. Some 25 years ago I asked Dad to video it
when it was broadcast at the time. On playing
it back, Dad asked my teenage brother who the
young Scrooge was. He looked and muttered
"minder" meaning the character Arthur Dailey
that George Cole was playing in the popular
show of the eighties.

When I look at it now I have to hold back a
peculiar choking at the scene when Alastair
Sim is being encouraged by a shy maid to
enter into his nephews party. Keep thinking it
is a young Audrey Hepburn but I am not sure.
And Hattie Jacques is the Mother Fan not
surviving childbirth. And Patrick McNee is
in there somewhere, he introduces the DVD I
have. These actors and Actresses (yes) transend
the generations. Now I will keep humming
Babara Allen!

I love this song, but so far, I have not heard it on the radio this year.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Ever wondered "What Can You Get A Wookie For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb)", or are you a Bon Jovi completist who's missing Jon Bongiovi's first appearance?

Then you need Christmas In The Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album.

Probably the worst thing I've ever heard.

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Last night, I watched the Bob Clark directed 1974 horror/thriller "Black Christmas" starring Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea, John Saxon, Andrea Martin and others, does that count as a Christmas flick?

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I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

I should be so lucky! Our local "Christmas only" station has been playing it three or four times a day (along with everything else on their limited play list). In fact, they just mentioned that it's on next (after five or six minutes of commercials, of course).

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Hee-hee, the local channel had this running y