Your Favorite Christmas movies and television shows

[CountDeMoney]

My favorite Christmas movies/TV shows:

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation:  "You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so."

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: The Island of Misfit Toys used to choke me up as a child.    And Burl Ives rocks, even though none of you snot-nosed little shits know who the fuck he is these days.  Still the best of the Rankin/Bass productions*, and yeah I went there.  Fuck the Heat Mizer.

A Christmas Story: Department store Santa putting the boot to Ralphie's face still makes me laugh my ass off.

The two HBO would always show back to back in the late '70s/early 1980's--
Rich Little's A Christmas Carol: Playing all the roles himself, although most of you Millennial mutts wouldn't know half of them anyway.  But where else are you going to see Richard Nixon as Jacob Marley, weighed down by reels of audio tape? 
YouTube has it chopped up in parts, but here's Part 1, complete with Generation CdM/Ed Anger's HBO commercials and intro: http://youtu.be/Ksw0dqLICQQ

Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas: Proof that even The Gift of the Magi could be done by Muppets, with a cool, folksy original Paul Williams soundtrack and delightful set work.  You anime tards get off your cartoon asses, and watch what real artists can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeG499fHctw

Prep & Landing:  Christmas in the militarized post-9/11, special operators/Seal Team Six world, and a reference to Elf cunnilingus that everybody missed.

My all-time fave:
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't:  Behind on his rent, Santa Claus is facing foreclosure at the North Pole by his landlord, Minsky Moment, and has to take a shitty entry-level, service industry job as a department store Santa (seasonal temp, no less) to get the money;  Minsky wants to foreclose anyway since he hates Christmas and wants it destroyed, as it turns out his letter to Santa as a child was lost in the mail, which would never have happened if postal delivery was 100% privatized.  Soundtrack by the incomparable Glenn Yarborough, it's on Netflix.


*Their Little Drummer Boy gets an honorable mention, even though they don't show it anymore on network TV to placate the godless liberal heathens.


What are yours?  Somebody speak up for Scrooged.

[Liep]

BoJack Horseman's Christmas Special was pretty good.

[Ideologue]

The Passion of the Christ.

[Caliga]

Scrooged.

[Ideologue]

I also like Scrooged.

[Josquius]

Die Hard and Home Alone

[HVC]

A Christmas Carol. Alastair Sim version. I've watched it every Christmas since I was 6 or 7

[CountDeMoney]

The Passion of the Christ.

Dont be douchy.-

[Grey Fox]

They are not christmas theme but here Tele-Quebec has something they call Cine-Cadeau where they show kids movies for the vacations. My favorites are the Asterix cartoon movies.

[Ideologue]

The Passion of the Christ.

Dont be douchy.-

I was being douchy, but it is.

[Ideologue]

They are not christmas theme but here Tele-Quebec has something they call Cine-Cadeau where they show kids movies for the vacations. My favorites are the Asterix cartoon movies.

Quebec shows movies about a pagan Gaul? Sounds about right.

[dps]

The animated version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" if only for the narration.

[mongers]

Most of the British ones are long gone along with their comedic stars. 

I know virtually ever show now seems to have a Xmas special, but with fragmented viewing habits, there doesn't seem to be any stand out, big ticket show that 'everyone' will talk about afterwards. I guess that was just a feature of the 'golden age of television'.

Maybe some channel should show 'The Great Escape' for a fair few years, for some reason that was standard British Xmas entertainment.

[11B4V]

Bad Santa

[Sheilbh]

We always end up watching a Royle Family Christmas special.