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Old 12-14-2007, 01:44 AM   #1
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Favorite Holiday Specials/Movies?

I just got done watching Batman Returns, and it got me to thinking, what're your favorite holiday movies and specials? For me, mine would be:

movies:

It's a Wonderful Life
Scrooged
A Christmas Story
Home Alone
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Ernest Saves Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol

specials:

Rudolph
Garfield's Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas
Muppet Family Christmas
Pee Wee's Christmas Special
Justice League christmas episode
Smallville's Lexmas
Dinosaurs 'Refrigerator Day' episode
Mickey's Christmas Carol



I chose to list Christmas stuff, you can list any holiday you want.
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Old 12-14-2007, 11:25 AM   #2
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Nightmare Before Christmas
Christmas Vacation
Gremlins
Die Hard
Jingle All the Way(guilty pleasure)
Christmas Story
Home Alone
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Old 12-14-2007, 01:37 PM   #3
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I actually detest a lot of holiday movies and TV shows. Not because I hate the holidays or anything, but because a lot of them are just lame to me. All of those "classics" like Rudolph and Frosty are pretty much un-watchable. And I don't really consider movies that take place during Christmas, but have nothing at all to do with it (Gremlins, Die Hard) as Christmas movies. ANYWAYS...

Movies:
Bad Santa
Jingle All The Way
A Christmas Story

TV Shows:
'Twas the Night Before Bumpy - Bump in the Night (Greatest Christmas Special EVER!)
Mail Order Bride - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Christmas Who? - SpongeBob SquarePants
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Old 12-14-2007, 03:40 PM   #4
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Santa Claus the Movie (the one from 1984)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Annabelle's Wish
Prancer (I and II)
Olive, The Other Reindeer
The Robbie The Reindeer Trillogy
Santa and the 3 Bears
Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppet Family Christmas
A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Ernest Saves Christmas (Air Breaks! )
Flinstone Family Christmas (the one set after Hollyrock-a-by Baby)
Michelangelo's Christmas Special
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Old 12-14-2007, 04:53 PM   #5
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Movies:
A Christmas Story
Jingle All The Way
Die Hard
The Santa Clause
Home Alone

Cartoons/TV:
"Arnold's Christmas" and the snow day one (Hey Arnold!)
"The Christmas Aliens" (TMNT)
Frosty The Snowman
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
"Twas the Fight Before Christmas" (Mcgee and Me)
"Christmas With the Joker" (Batman: TAS)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Olive, The Other Reindeer
Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer
All of the Wonder Years ones
"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace", "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", "Marge Be Not Proud", "Grift of the Magi" (Simpsons)
Mickey's Chrismas Carol
"The Santa Experience" (Rugrats)
A Muppet Family Christmas
"Xmas Story" and "A Tale of Two Santas" (Futurama)
"My Own Personal Jesus" (Scrubs)

Well that was fun, and I'm sure I missed a few
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Old 12-14-2007, 05:35 PM   #6
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Movies -
A Christmas Story
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (w/ Alistar Simm)
The Bells of St.Mary's

TV Specials
Charlie Brown Christmas
I used to like the Perry Como Christmas specials as a kid.
Any College Bowl Game On!!!
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Old 12-14-2007, 07:52 PM   #7
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Movies-
Jingle All the Way
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Home Alone
The Polar Express

T.V. Specials
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Batman:The Animated Series-Christmas with the Joker
The Tick-The Tick Loves Santa!
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
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Old 12-14-2007, 08:32 PM   #8
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Specials

A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - Family guy
My best moment/My own personal Jesus (which I always cry at) - Scrubs
The one with the Holiday armadillo -Friends
Xmas Story, A tale of two Santas - Futurama


Movies

The Snowman (Also deserves a mention the Irn Bru snowman advert)
Wallace and Gromit: The wrong trousers/A close shave
Both the Grinch movies
Olive the other Reindeer
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Old 12-14-2007, 09:07 PM   #9
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A Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
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Old 12-14-2007, 09:34 PM   #10
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Wallace and Gromit: The wrong trousers/A close shave
Wait...how is that a holiday movie?
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Old 12-14-2007, 09:47 PM   #11
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...'Twas the Night Before Bumpy - Bump in the Night (Greatest Christmas Special EVER!)...
You are a man of good tastes, my friend.

Christmas Specials aren't really memorable for me. Other than the Christmas "Bump in the Night" special and the Scrubs' special...eh, nothing.

But there was a video my mum bought for me when I was a kid with different cartoons on it. My favorite one was of a boy who was waiting for his father to come home for Christmas. He started looking at the family Christmas tree and started day dreaming of the decorations coming to life to help him travel across the world to meet up with his father for Christmas. I liked that one a lot...
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Old 12-15-2007, 11:02 AM   #12
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Movies:
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Elf
Bad Santa
A Christmas Story(before I saw it for the 200th time)
Home Alone

All Christmas specials are good.
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Old 12-15-2007, 12:37 PM   #13
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Wait...how is that a holiday movie?
The wrong trousers was first shown on Dec 26 1993, A close shave was first shown Dec 24 1995. Theyre always shown at christmas time.

Maybe I'll see A grand day out this year. Heres hoping.
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