Favorite Christmas on TV &/or Movies

[Guitar_Raph]

What this is, I'd like to know everyone's favorite Christmas in the movies &/or TV.

For TV, it can be a holiday episode of a series, a special (animated or non-animated) or tv-movies.

Now that everyone understands, let's get started.

This Friday, looking forward to seeing Merry Christmas Drake & Josh. Gonna be funny & cool. Here's Drake & the gang doing The 12 Days of Christmas.

For animated (besides Rankin-Bass), I love Garfield's Christmas where Grandma plays the piano & sings O Christmas Tree (boop-boop-dee-boop!), The 12 Days of Christmas (which aired on NBC back in 1993). Charlie Brown classic has all that goofy dancing in it!

Movies, it's a toss-up between Home Alone, Elf & Christmas Story.

[Raph's Girl]

There's only a couple Christmas movies I watch every year. Namely:

Santa Clause: The Movie. Cuz nothing beats Dudley Moore as an elf, John Lithgow as an evil rich guy, and Burgess Merideth as the Ancient One. :D

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. One of the few books I read every year as well. My fave L. Frank Baum story too (Santa also appears in several of the Oz books). The Rankin-Bass version will always have a special place in my heart. The upcoming CGI film should be interesting.

This year amongst the new stuff Im mostly just looking forward to the New Muppet christmas movie on Dec 17th and the christmas ep of Batman Brave and the Bold.

[Mandi-chan]

Mine would be:

Santa Clause is Coming to Town

The Year Without a Santa Clause

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

I love all of the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated tv specials...but those particular ones that I just listed are my favorites!

Prancer

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

The Muppet Family Christmas (sadly haven't seen it in years...)

The Muppet Christmas Carol

I'm also very very excited about the new Muppets x-mas special, "Letters to Santa" being shown this year!

The Santa Clause (again, I haven't seen this one in a long time, but it's always been a favorite)

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nutcracker Prince (Disney used to show it when I was a kid...I was so disappointed when they stopped airing it)

It's A Wonderful Life

[Mecha Cow]

Die Hard. It's about the true spirit of Christmas.

[Guitar_Raph]

Back in 2004, Hermie the Elf (Rudolph) who wanted to be a dentist, had a twin who won $2,500,000 on Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings.

Don't they look alike?

[Mutated Turtle]

my fav cristmas movies: polar express, rudolph the red nose reindeer, deck the halls, the grinch, :D

[GK Punk]

He-Man and She-Ra christmas special. Easily the best.

[cowabunga14]

The MST3K version of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, A Christmas Story, and the Boris Karloff narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

[ThirdMarioBro]

There is no Christmas without 24 hours of this on constant loop. Period.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/333434851_7949785a95.jpg?v=0


Otherwise, anything and everything that ever came out of Rankin-Bass.

[MrPliggins]

I've always liked Mickey's Christmas Carol, but I don't think they play it anymore...a shame.

[Zog the Equalizer]

It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Christmas With the Joker (BTAS)
The Tick vs. Santa
Die Hard
Home Alone
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Jingle All the Way

[Raph's Girl]

I've always liked Mickey's Christmas Carol, but I don't think they play it anymore...a shame.

Probably cuz they have the new specials: Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas and Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas....Im waiting for Mickey's Thrice Upon A Christmas. :lol:

[cqb101]

Nightmare Before Christmas
Die Hard
Christmas Vacation
Jingle All the Way
A Christmas Story
Home Alone
Santa's Slay
Silent Night, Deadly Night

[shuriken]

Nightmare Before Christmas
Die Hard
Christmas Vacation
Jingle All the Way
A Christmas Story
Home Alone
Santa's Slay
Silent Night, Deadly Night

:lol: Santa's slay was awesome. And I agree with the rest.

[Jester]

It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
The Santa Clause
Santa Clause: The Movie
Muppet Christmas Carol
Mickey's Christmas Carol (which is at the end of Snowed in at the House of Mouse)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated original)
Scrooge (w/ Alistair Sims)
Heck, any decent version of the Dickens classic...
A Christmas Story
Most Rankin/Bass stuff

[Wildcat]

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer...obviously

Frosty the Snowman and the one where Frosty gets married.

The Legend of Frosty the Snowman...I guess alot of peole dont like it but I did,loads better than the one voiced by John Goodman.

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas...I love this, I have the DVD.

National Lampoons Christmas Vaction (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'angelo, Randy Quaid)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas....the original cartoon.

[A little *too* Raph]

Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story and Home Alone are regulars with me.

[Drtooth]

It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Christmas With the Joker (BTAS)
The Tick vs. Santa
Die Hard
Home Alone
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Jingle All the Way


FINALLY... someone else who loves The Tick VS Santa. One of my all time favorites. And note they did the "Elves are Secret Service Members" stuff before (and much funnier than) that Fred Claus movie.

As for the non-stop barrage of Christmas Carol remakes, my top 2 are Mickey's Christmas Carol and Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (Even though they got the Ghosts out of order for some reason). You WOULD expect me to say Muppet Christmas Carol... I do enjoy it, but it's my second least favorite (that I've seen) Muppet Movie. It's all about Michael Cain, and Kermit and Co are delegated to bit parts. I do like the Ghosts though...


I also really love KND Operation N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.... that has to have been one of the BEST send ups of Marvel Comics and their purple prose ever.

[Canadian Turtle]

Home alone #1!!!

^^^ I have always wanted to see those old X-mas specials like He-man.

But how can we forget the Star wars Christmas Special!!! What a classic! (if you haven't watch it yet you might want to have a garbage can close by so you don't vomit all over your computer)

[tone-master21]

Home Alone
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
Flintstone’s Christmas Carol
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Jingle All The Way
A Goof Troop Christmas
Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

[Zog the Equalizer]

FINALLY... someone else who loves The Tick VS Santa. One of my all time favorites. And note they did the "Elves are Secret Service Members" stuff before (and much funnier than) that Fred Claus movie.

Yeah man you gotta love The Tick VS Santa.

"IT'S A YULE TIDE!"

[Wildcat]

I forgot to mention this the first time...

A Very Brady Christmas.

Ya,ya I know what your thinking, the Brady Bunch how lame, but me and my sister like the Brady Bunch. Even though they are kinda cheesy we still enjoy the the christmas movie as well as the old sitcom.

Speaking of which, I really liked the short-lived spinoff where the Brady girls get married...man I havent seen those in so long.

[Tinuvielsdreams]

Garfield Christmas
Charlie Brown Xmas
A Muppet Family Christmas
The Grinch animated and movie
The X-mas Special with the penguins from Madagascar
Rudolph and frosty if I catch them on TV, I really need to invest in those
Mickey's The Prince and the Pauper (not exactly Xmas but a tradition)
Yogi Bear's first Xmas

My family has to watch National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation and The Santa Claus together so that is always nice

[Evenstar227]

Some of my faves:

A Christmas Story (filmed in my hometown)
Elf
Ernest Saves Christmas
Nightmare Before Christmas
One Magic Christmas (with Elias Koteas!)


The Tick vs. Santa

My goal this holiday season has just become to watch this. Oh yeah.

Probably cuz they have the new specials: Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas and Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas....Im waiting for Mickey's Thrice Upon A Christmas. :lol:

What comes after thrice? :D

[Drtooth]

My goal this holiday season has just become to watch this. Oh yeah.

You have to buy/ rent The Tick Vs. Season Two.. luckily it's on there. I only saw it once before. They tried to air it in prime time, but it was pre-empted for a Football game.

[Mandi-chan]

I forgot to mention:

Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas and Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas

Garfield's Christmas

[ToTheNines]

Jingle All The Way
A Christmas Story
Elf
Fred Claus
The Santa Clause

Robbie The Reindeer
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Santa Experience (Rugrats)
Comfort and Joy (Justice League)
Christmas w/ the Joker, Bullet for Bullock and Holiday Knights (Batman TAS)
Simpons Roasting on an Open Fire and Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
The Christmas Aliens (TMNT 2k3)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Olive The Other Reindeer
Shrek The Halls
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Arnold's Christmas (Hey Arnold!)
Christmas Who? (Sponge Bob)
My Own Personal Jesus (Scrubs)
Holiday Hi-Jynx (POKEMON!)


... I forgot a few

[KROW]

I watch A Christmas Story every year, as well as various versions of A Christmas Carol (whether it be the one with George C. Scott or Scrooge McDuck).

And yes, Santa's Slay was great.

[Jester]

I need to rent Santa's Slay this Christmas.

Anyone see the films?:
Santa With Muscles
Santa Claus (an obscure film with Santa against the Demon Pitch)
Don't Open 'Til Christmas
Christmas Evil

[cqb101]

Gah! I can't believe I forgot Gremlins. :ohwell:

I'm also a fan of And All Through the House, the Christmas episode from the first season of Tales from the Crypt.

[ToTheNines]

20Of_mna-Rs

Peanuts meets Scrubs!

[Slap-Happy]

what are your favorite holiday movie(s)?

mine is A Christmas Story

[KROW]

Rejoice! Your redemption is at hand!

Huzzah! (http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=25741)

[ThirdMarioBro]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/ChristmasStoryPoster.JPG

Greatest movie ever made. And I mean that.

[Ashangelo]

Home Alone
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Olive, The Other Reindeer
The Christmas Toy
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Christmas Story
Nestor: The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Mickey's Once (and Twice) Upon a Christmas

[Hannah]

20Of_mna-Rs

Peanuts meets Scrubs!
I love this, I just found out about it a week or two ago.

[NightwatchersOnlygirl]

Mines Muppet Christmas Carol

[Ninjinister]

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[Hero]

Any Christmas Special on TV that I find good really. Plus Nativity Story and any version of Scrooge/Christmas Carol going.

===HERO

[Raph's Girl]

I forgot one:

The Year Without A Santa Claus, which Im watching right now *sings along with Heat and Cold miser*

But what's really..eh I dunno...odd...they made a SEQUEL!! Apperantly WB got the rights to all the old Rankin Bass stuff and decided that Heat and Cold Miser needed their own film. :lol: It's called The Miser Brothers Christmas. Mickey Rooney even reprises his role as Santa from the 1974 film. That premiers tonight on ABC family (and no doubt repeated a gazillion times). It'll definatly be interesting (the trailers look like they repeat the Heat/Cold Miser song from Year Without A Santa Claus).

Edit:
After watching Miser Brother's christmas....well...it's interesting. Instead of being sick with a cold he's out with a bad back after being in a sledding accident trying out his new sled (which was built by Tinsel, the mechanically inclind daughter of Jingle) and getting in the way of a battle between the Miser brothers (who now live next door to each other!). Mother Nature then suggests that Snow and Heat help Santa out while he's in bed with the bad back. Unfortunatly their somewhat evil brother, The North Wind, wants Santa's job. He's jelous of him and tries everything he can to sabatoge Snow and Heat...especially after North Wind failed to kill Santa (he had his clones sabatog the sled.). After a touching song sung by Mrs. Claus about siblings needing to love each other, Snow and Heat get along. Much to the annoyance of North Wind. On Christmas Eve Tinsel discovers the sabatog and everyone realises what the North Wind is up to. Well except for Santa cuz um he's on his way to deliver gifts, bad back and all. Tinsel rebuilds her sleigh and has the Miser brothers go find Santa. The sleigh is led by all the baby raindeer (of which we only learn the name of one, Nobbler). Yada yada save the day..yada. North Wind is sentenced to spend several thousand years doing chores while the miser brothers make the nice list.

It's not the best animated film but it'll definatly become a fan favorite. The baby raindeer are absolutly adorable and seeing Snow and Heat as children was interesting as well..

[Spike Spiegel]

Christmas with the Joker and Holiday Knights (Batman TAS)
It's a Wonderful Life
Home Alone

[Jelly Bean]

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, animated Christmas special. For the last two or three years it came on Cartoon Network, and i found out that Cam Clarke (aka 80's Leo) does the voice of the buisness man in the cartoon.

I love this animated Christmas special and it became some of a thing in my house to watch it. So far I haven't seen it preimeire yet this year and I'm wondering if they will.

[Jon]

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, animated Christmas special. For the last two or three years it came on Cartoon Network, and i found out that Cam Clarke (aka 80's Leo) does the voice of the buisness man in the cartoon.

I love this animated Christmas special and it became some of a thing in my house to watch it. So far I haven't seen it preimeire yet this year and I'm wondering if they will.


Though I haven't watched it, have noticed this special being on recently (at least a couple times, I think).

[raphael_is_cool]

Elf
Bad Santa

[Guitar_Raph]

Some honorable mentions

Gift Wrapped (1952 Sylvester & Tweety short); Every scene makes me laugh!

Richie Rich's Christmas Wish: Celebrating 10 years, first saw this on FoxKids back in 2000. David Gallagher did Richie better that MacCuley. But it was Jake Richardson who stole the movie when he proclaims to be in a REALLY BAD MOOD!

[Peanut]

Bad Santa

My sister and I quote this movie all year long. Way too good.

Also, I love the pure cheese of Jingle All the Way with Ahnold.

[RAM BAM]

It's a toss-up between A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life.
I also like the movie Bing and Danny did - "White Christmas".

[ToTheNines]

Just watched "Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas" last week. It's now easily my favorite Christmas cartoon.

[Guitar_Raph]

Casper's 1st Christmas; First aired on NBC in 1979.
Yogi's 1st Christmas; First aired in syndication in 1980.

What do those two specials have in common?

1). Both produced by Hanna-Barbera.

2). That silly opening tune; Coming Up Christmas Time

[odupianist]

Christmas Vacation
Elf
A Christmas Story
Gremlins
Lethal Weapon
Home Alone
Charlie Brown Christmas Special
Scrooged
Muppet Christmas Carol

There's also an SNL skit with John Belushi as Santa and Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newman. Dan is showing Laraine that she doesn't have put toilet paper on her Santa's lap. She can use the Christmas decorated sanitary tissue to keep her clean from her Santa's lap.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76j.phtml

[Ginny]

Christmas Story hands down. I'm going to the Christmas Story house this weekend!

[Hordak]

Christmas Vacation
A Nightmare Before Christmas
Christmas Story
Jingle All The Way
Scrooged
Ernest Saves Christmas
Charlie Browns Christmas
Garfields Christmas Special
Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas
most Rankin & Bass stuff (especially the one where Santa fights the monsters)
Muppet Christmas Special
Muppet Christmas Carol
& if Home Alone 1 & 2 count as well as Gremlins

[Oculus Orbus]

I really don't like Christmas, but "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is truly amazing. Also, Muppets Specials.

[Warhorse]

A Christmas Story. (Yeah, I have the thing on a good part of the day during it's 24 hours run on TNT) But that movie pretty much sums up the life of the average family on X-Mas back in the early 80's.

Home Alone is my other top favorite X-Mas movie.

Others that I try to catch:
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
Elf
Charlie Brown's Christmas Special
Gremlins
Die Hard

[Raph's Girl]

I liked that new one called Yes Virginia (based on the Yes Virginia there is a santa story) that aired on Friday. The newspaper chief looked, acted, and sounded like J. Jonah Jamison. There was even a black guy that reminded me of Robbie Robertson and a Peter Parker look-a-like made friends with Virginia. :lol:

[Ra]

I can't go without a Christmas without watching one of the "Robbie the Reindeer" specials. Usually "Hooves of Fire".

And I also like to try and watch the annual "Spicks and Specks" Christmas special. Just people crapping around, singing songs, and having games. And being entertaining while they do it.

Well, for me at least.

OMpaIVL35HU

[prescribeddrone]

Honestly I never usually like Christmas themes in my media, they end up being my least favorite episodes 9 out of 10 times.

[Ginny]

I liked that new one called Yes Virginia (based on the Yes Virginia there is a santa story) that aired on Friday. The newspaper chief looked, acted, and sounded like J. Jonah Jamison. There was even a black guy that reminded me of Robbie Robertson and a Peter Parker look-a-like made friends with Virginia. :lol:

LOL! LOVE IT! As a "Virginia" I always get something along the lines of "Hey, Virginia, is there a Santa Claus?!" when I flash my ID this time of year. And this year it paid off, I got a $10 Macy's gift card for being a "Virginia!"

[Hordak]

Okay I can now add The Cleavland Show & Flapjack to my Christmas theme list. I also forgot the Batman:TAS Christmas ep with Joker. Christmas with The Kranks was ok too.
He-Man & She-Ra Christmas
Christmas Vacation
A Nightmare Before Christmas
Christmas Story
Jingle All The Way
Scrooged
Ernest Saves Christmas
Charlie Browns Christmas
Garfields Christmas Special
Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas
most Rankin & Bass stuff (especially the one where Santa fights the monsters)
Muppet Christmas Special
Muppet Christmas Carol
& if Home Alone 1 & 2 count as well as Gremlins

[ToTheNines]

Anyone got new favorites this year?

I just watched "Four Christmases", whole family cracked up.

Also, bought Rocko's Modern Christmas at the flea market over the summer, that was a good one I missed as a kid.

"Invasion of the Secret Santas" from Batman B/B was amazing, and I also liked the Phineas and Ferb special.

[Raph's Girl]

"Invasion of the Secret Santas" from Batman B/B was amazing, and I also liked the Phineas and Ferb special.

Yeah...the Secret Santas ep is one of my fave eps of Batman Brave and the Bold. Making Bruce somewhat responsable for the deaths of his parents on Christmas by being a spoiled brat is an interesting take on his origin.

[Sword Slicin' Leo]

Bad Santa and Four Christmases are some new favorites..

[ToTheNines]

I forgot to mention...

Even though I'm not Jewish I really love the Rugrats Hanukkah special, it's a great cartoon.

[Cowabunga Kiefer]

Well, A Christmas Story just has to wait till Christmas Eve for the 24 hour loop. I can't see it any other time of year...it doesn't feel right. They've been doing that for how long? about 15 years?

Home Alone 1 and 2 are always faves. The Santa Clause was great, problem is I didn't have enough time to see the entire thing yet this year. I love Elf, Eight Crazy Nights (cause it's funny every now and then).

The other day I saw Black Christmas from the original 1974 version. I never knew it was the first ever horror/slasher flick. I thought it did a really great job, but didn't leave me with my skin crawling. I'm not sure if I'd make it a traditional movie. Now, I remember seeing this documentary on Santa Clause and they referenced some scary movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night. Can anyone tell me which movie has a killer Santa Clause. I remember seeing a scene where some guy was sledding down a hill, then Santa pops out of nowhere with an axe, the dude screams, Santa takes a swing, etc...it seems like a hilarious movie!

[Silent FOx]

I watch Home Alone all year round, by far one of my fav. childhood flicks. I love Mickey's Christmas Carol, today, although slightly late I am scouring my internet sources for all of my favorite Christmas specials. Thanks to this thread I have a couple more on my list I have forgotten over the years. Thanks guys :)

[odupianist]

I can't believe I forgot it, but Trading Places is phenomenal.