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Post by Chicago Jake on Dec 13, 2005 19:49:28 GMT -6
I love Christmas Specials on TV. I rarely watch them in real time anymore, of course, because a) they show them way too early, like in November and b) I have them all on DVD. But I try to watch them at seasonable times. Anyway, my favorites are: - The Grinch
- Charlie Brown
- Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
How about youse guys? Any faves that you have to see every year to get "in the mood"?......Jake edited to add: P.S. The Christmas mood, you perverts!! |
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Post by Cherbunny on Dec 13, 2005 20:32:22 GMT -6
My favs are your favs.
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Post by Hazelita on Dec 13, 2005 21:40:48 GMT -6
I don't have any faves. I'm scared of the Grinch.
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Post by jdmcowan on Dec 13, 2005 21:51:02 GMT -6
These days it's probably A Christmas Story.
Jeremy
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Dec 13, 2005 21:51:37 GMT -6
I love all the ones you have listed and also have a special fondness for "White Christmas".
Another one that I watch over the season is "the Year Without A Santa Claus", not because I like the story overly much, but because I love the song about "He's Mister Heat Miser, he's Mister Sun"
Zilla (who might have to watch her copy of one of the list tonight now that you have mentioned them, you evil evil man)
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Post by Merlot Joe on Dec 13, 2005 22:16:40 GMT -6
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.
Joe.
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Post by Christinko on Dec 13, 2005 22:47:42 GMT -6
I have a 45-min. tape that is the "Linus & Lucy" song played over and over in a continuous loop that I play a lot this time of year.
This time of year I also like to watch "Meet me in St. Louis" for Judy Garland's "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" song in it where her husband, the director, uses cheesecloth to soften her skin into a dreamy glow...I just sigh. (Jake, she's got bangs--you'd like it.)
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Dec 14, 2005 6:50:07 GMT -6
Hands down the TV version of the Grinch who stole Christmas (the movie sucked!). With lyrics like this, whats not to like.
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn't touch you, with a
thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile.
Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crockodile.
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Mr. Grinch.
The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
You're the king of sinful sots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.
Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Mr. Grinch.
You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Dec 14, 2005 6:55:58 GMT -6
Oh yes... in the Dickens Christmas Carol catagory, there is no doubt in my mind that the version starring George C Scott was best produced and most closely followed the Dickens story.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Dec 14, 2005 8:03:43 GMT -6
Maybe that's true, but you can't beat the Alistair Sim version for shear emotion......Jake
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Dec 14, 2005 8:13:37 GMT -6
Wow, I had forgot about that version. I have not seen that in decades. Will have to look out for it and have a revisit (ghost of Christmas Carols Past).
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Post by debandbrian on Dec 14, 2005 8:38:59 GMT -6
I love the Grinch, the animated version. It's been my favorite since I was a kid. The live action version with Jim Carrey is also on alot in our house because my littlest guy loves it.
I also love the Year Without Santa Claus, the one with the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser. Love those guys! LOL!!!! This also the big little guy's favorite.
Brian's favorite is White Christmas.
Deb
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Post by debandbrian on Dec 14, 2005 8:40:57 GMT -6
Maybe that's true, but you can't beat the Alistair Sim version for shear emotion......Jake Hey can I be your echo on that? :-) That's my favorite version of that story. Deb |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Dec 14, 2005 9:02:14 GMT -6
In the Christmas movies department there is a LOT out there to loathe, take "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964), the film which catapulted Pia Zadora to stardom.  |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Dec 14, 2005 9:06:36 GMT -6
I am truly surprised no one has mentioned the forgettable "A Christmas Story" that TBS has manufactured into a "cult classic' with Christmas Eve marathons so that there is no way we are allowed to forget it. Like a bad song, one little reminder and the loop of inanity starts up again (you can thank me for reminding you later).
I have absolutely no memory of this film in the theater, yet given is annual TV play one would think it was the top grossing Christmas movie ever. I will admit that I still laugh at the movies two scenes when the neighbors hounds invade the kitchen, but no one dares to say "You'll poke your eye out kid" in my household.
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Post by debandbrian on Dec 14, 2005 9:12:15 GMT -6
but no one dares to say "You'll poke your eye out kid" in my household. Oh no My Dear. "You'll SHOOT your eye out." LOL!!! Brian hadn't seen it until about two years ago, hadn't even heard of it until I made him sit down and watch it. It's just not Christmas without seeing Ralphie in the Pink Bunny suit footie pajamas. LOL!!!! But only one time, the 24 hour thing is a bit much. Deb |
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Post by jdmcowan on Dec 14, 2005 9:29:39 GMT -6
I am truly surprised no one has mentioned the forgettable "A Christmas Story" What am I? Chopped liver? Jeremy |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Dec 14, 2005 9:47:48 GMT -6
Sorry Jeremy.. that was a dozen posts ago, mea culpa!
Editted to add: I just checked my system logs, my personal OS did a short term memory dump right about the time I read this thread, your post must have gone out with that while I was working on my Grinch post.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Dec 14, 2005 9:52:45 GMT -6
My movie votes are "Scrooged" with Bill Murray and "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire.
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Dec 14, 2005 9:55:39 GMT -6
I am truly surprised no one has mentioned the forgettable "A Christmas Story" What am I? Chopped liver? Jeremy Of course not. I think the beauty of my post must have dazzled their eyes and scrambled their brain and they forgot your post entirely  I used to be very fond of "A Christmas Story" but then last year and the year before I was forced to have it on in the background for a 24 hour marathon. An entire day of "A Christmas Story" was enough to make ME want to shoot Ralphie's eyes out. I think it's going to take a few years of absence for my heart to grow fond of it again  I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Homecoming" (1971), it being the show that introduced the nation to The Waltons. Zilla (Hey Christinko, I have the whole disc of vince guaraldi's "a charlie brown christmas" and I love it!) |
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Dec 14, 2005 10:07:18 GMT -6
I just thought of one of my totally favorite movies that is Christmas related (kinda, very vaguely, okay, the movie starts on a Christmas morn in a distant past). "The Life Of Brian" Now THAT is a movie I think is worth pulling out several times a year!
Zilla ("Three Wise Men? Three Wise Guys is more like it.")
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Post by Lady Irie on Dec 14, 2005 10:31:50 GMT -6
LOVE the Christmas Story - it's a "must see". Add to that "It's a Wonderful Life". I've got a thing for the old black & white movies. Must be left over from the childhood daze.
Zuzu says; "Every time a bell rings, anangel get his wings."
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Post by Chicago Jake on Dec 14, 2005 16:56:30 GMT -6
"It's a Wonderful Life" is truly a classic. But not as warm and fuzzy as most people seem to remember it! It actually is quite dark, as are many of Capra's flicks.
My favorite line is when Sheldon Leonard is tossing Clarence and George out of the bar for being so goofy, and he says: "Out you two pixies go; out the door or tru da window!!"
Well, that, and the line about "those GARLIC eaters!!".......Jake
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Post by Merlot Joe on Dec 14, 2005 18:34:05 GMT -6
My movie votes are "Scrooged" with Bill Murray . # 2 on my list behind Mr. Magoo. Joe. |
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Post by Chicago Jake on Dec 14, 2005 20:15:49 GMT -6
The Patrick Stewart version of "A Christmas Carol" is on TNT right now. It appears to be pretty good, but I keep wanting to recast all the other characters with Star Trek: The Next Generation actors.......Jake
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Post by Merlot Joe on Dec 14, 2005 21:12:37 GMT -6
The Patrick Stewart version of "A Christmas Carol" is on TNT right now. It appears to be pretty good, but I keep wanting to recast all the other characters with Star Trek: The Next Generation actors.......Jake Seen that a couple of years ago and thought it was done rather well. However, I keep waiting for him to say "Engage" Joe. PS. I hear his one man stage show of A Christmas Carol is suppose to be outstanding. He performed it here about 3 years ago but we found out to late to get tickets. Joe. |
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Post by jdmcowan on Dec 14, 2005 21:55:22 GMT -6
The Patrick Stewart version of "A Christmas Carol" is on TNT right now. It appears to be pretty good, but I keep wanting to recast all the other characters with Star Trek: The Next Generation actors.......Jake If you are like me, you keep expecting Geordie's voice to call into the air, "Captain, we need you on the bridge, a romulan ship has just decloaked in front of us." And Stewart to reply with, "Computer, freeze program." Jeremy |
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Post by innit Geezer on Dec 14, 2005 22:00:44 GMT -6
"It's a Wonderful Life"
The first time I saw this movie I cried, a lot. Thankfully I was home by myself. Now I laugh at myself for crying, maybe I should spend some time with eerrichhh/irishguy/whatever.
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Post by debandbrian on Dec 15, 2005 7:53:59 GMT -6
The Patrick Stewart version of "A Christmas Carol" is on TNT right now. It appears to be pretty good, but I keep wanting to recast all the other characters with Star Trek: The Next Generation actors.......Jake Seen that a couple of years ago and thought it was done rather well. However, I keep waiting for him to say "Engage" Joe. Joe. Nice to know I'm not the only one. :-) The first time I saw this version I felt a bit disoriented and kept waiting for the Enterprise to show up sooner or later. See Jake, you didn't think I could be a geek, did you. LOL!!! Deb |
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Post by Hedo69 on Dec 15, 2005 10:29:13 GMT -6
I love all the ones you have listed and also have a special fondness for "White Christmas". Another one that I watch over the season is "the Year Without A Santa Claus", not because I like the story overly much, but because I love the song about "He's Mister Heat Miser, he's Mister Sun" Zilla (who might have to watch her copy of one of the list tonight now that you have mentioned them, you evil evil man) That is sooo funny, I was singing that song to my hubby this past weekend and he didn't have a clue. Actually I sang both...the Heat Miser and the Cold Miser song. Is sad, but I know them both ;D |
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