Christmas Specials

What is everyone's favorite Christmas specials to watch around this time of year?

A Christmas Story
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Die Hard

Muppet's Christmas Carol.

The Snowman (including the David Bowie intro)

Die Hard.

I like the Tim and Eric Chrimbus Special.

I loved Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas as a kid, so I made my wife and kids watch it last year and they think I'm nuts.
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Films-
Home Alone
Scrooged
Bernard and the Genie (seriously, check it out)
Elf

TV shows-
The Royle Family
Only Fools and Horses
The Vicar of Dibley
(All very British I'm afraid)

Music-
East 17- Stay Another Day (sorry)
S Club 7 - Never had a dream come true (I'M SORRY!)

Muppets Home for the Holidays. It's an old TV special from the late 80s or early 90s that has basically all of the Muppets, Sesame St, and Fraggles descending on Fozzie's mother's farmhouse for Christmas. It's corny, but I've been watching it yearly since I was a kid. I really need to download one of the versions off Youtube so I have it whenever the copyright lawyers finally descend.

Jucofett wrote:

I loved Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas as a kid, so I made my wife and kids watch it last year and they think I'm nuts.
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The outtakes for that are awesome.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I also like "Polar Express".

A Charlie Brown Christmas is mandatory viewing in my house.

I also try to work in A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, but my wife occasionally vetoes it.

Oh, and the Doctor Who Christmas special when there's a new one.

Edit: i nearly forgot. There's that one episode of Justice League ("And Goodwill Towards Men"? "Comfort and Joy") from the end of season one that's just spectacular. That one always follows Charlie Brown

Dryden wrote:

A Charlie Brown Christmas is mandatory viewing in my house.

Ah yes, pretty much guaranteed my parents will put that on when we visit.

SallyNasty wrote:

Muppet's Christmas Carol.

Yep!

And Christmas Vacation

Chaz wrote:

Muppets Home for the Holidays. It's an old TV special from the late 80s or early 90s that has basically all of the Muppets, Sesame St, and Fraggles descending on Fozzie's mother's farmhouse for Christmas. It's corny, but I've been watching it yearly since I was a kid. I really need to download one of the versions off Youtube so I have it whenever the copyright lawyers finally descend.

Oh man, I loved that as a kid.

Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Christmas are the two movies I watch every year. I actually bought them on DVD years ago so I didn't have to sit through commercials to watch them.

I only listen to two Xmas albums, Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite and the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas and I hold off until less than a week before Christmas to not get tired of them, I get bored of Christmas music pretty quickly. I think I'd like to add a brass quintet album to the mix but we'll see if this year's the year I actually do it.

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For me it starts with Year Without a Santa Claus. In February. It all goes from there.

Die Hard because I'm unique. Like three other people in this thread.

There's also Batman Returns. That was set during Christmas...

Spoiler:

...that might also explain why I enjoyed Arkham Origins more than most folks.

Rat Boy wrote:

There's also Batman Returns.

There have to be some good Christmas Batman the Animated Series specials. I can't think of any specific ones off the top of my head.

South Park Mr Hankey Christmas Classics and Woodland Critter Christmas (hail Satan!)

Blackadder's Christmas Carol, every year.

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Christmas Vacation is a family tradition. We've watched it so much I have it memorized down to the incidental music.
Muppet Christmas Carol, of course
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas

Chaz wrote:

Muppets Home for the Holidays. It's an old TV special from the late 80s or early 90s that has basically all of the Muppets, Sesame St, and Fraggles descending on Fozzie's mother's farmhouse for Christmas. It's corny, but I've been watching it yearly since I was a kid. I really need to download one of the versions off Youtube so I have it whenever the copyright lawyers finally descend.

Yes, this special rules, and it's necessary to watch a bootleg version because all official versions have most of the songs cut out.

ELF!!!!

Unless you're talking strictly Christmas specials like the Star Wars Christmas Special then ... I don't have any.

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I started a thread for the inevitable tangent: What are your non-Christmas holiday movies? And garion is already Mogwai-hausering me.

Demyx wrote:
Chaz wrote:

Muppets Home for the Holidays. It's an old TV special from the late 80s or early 90s that has basically all of the Muppets, Sesame St, and Fraggles descending on Fozzie's mother's farmhouse for Christmas. It's corny, but I've been watching it yearly since I was a kid. I really need to download one of the versions off Youtube so I have it whenever the copyright lawyers finally descend.

Yes, this special rules, and it's necessary to watch a bootleg version because all official versions have most of the songs cut out.

Pretty sure this is the full version:

Fun for the whole family....

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

There's also Batman Returns.

There have to be some good Christmas Batman the Animated Series specials. I can't think of any specific ones off the top of my head.

I always loved A Claymation Christmas Celebration (with the California Raisins!) growing up. I should watch it with the kids this year and see how it has held up.

There's also the Bill Murray version of "A Christmas Carol", "Scrooged!". It's awesome because, well, Bill Murray. And a brilliant turn by Bobcat Goldthwaite who steals much of the show in his inimitable style.

The number one Christmas movie for me and my whole family is The Ref. Aside from that, Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged, Die Hard, The Family Man (I guess call this one a guilty pleasure (and also only kinda Christmas)?), Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, and if my sister ropes me into watching it with her kids, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. I try to sneak in A Christmas Story with my mom, but it being her favorite movie meant she kept it on TV when TNT started to rerun it for 24 hours and now the rest of my family tries to veto it.

As for television specials, I always watch the Futurama christmas episodes. In addition, if I can, I watch the Rocko's Modern Life Christmas, Rocko's Modern Christmas (more for nostalgia, as I grew out of a good chunk of its humor).