What is your favorite "must see every year" Christmas show?

[hollywood926]

I guess mine is Rudolph - because I relate to the little gay elf/dentist. I'm a misfit.

[hippiechick]

1. Christmas Carol w/ Alastair Sim as Scrooge.

He simply IS Ebenezer Scrooge. Marvelous !!


:hippie:

[man4allcats]

17. I agree!

This is my personal favorite as well. :-)

[mac56]

2. Mine is "A Christmas Story".

My lovely wife's is "The Homecoming", which was the pilot for "The Waltons".

[name not needed]

9. You'll shoot your eye out!

:)

[mac56]

10. I always cheer when Ralphie wails on Scott Farkus.

I have a few Scott Farkuses I'd like to wail on myself these days.

[name not needed]

11. Actually, it's Scut Farkus

Not Scott.

[mac56]

13. Believe it or not, I'm gratified to know that.

My first name is Scott.

[Zomby Woof]

21. Scut Farkas

To be real picky about the true spelling. ;-)

[Ernesto]

20. Yup

Saw some of it last nite!

[blondeatlast]

46. Indeed. nt

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

3. A Miracle on 34th Street (B&W version)

"Sometimes I wish I'd married a butcher or a plumber."
"Well my dear, if I lose this case, it's very possible that you'll get your wish."

[Osamasux]

40. Agreed. Nine year old Natalie Wood is amazing.

This was already her fourth film. Some people are just born with it and she was one.

[supernova]

4. Rudoloph

It's cheesy and fun plus it has a good message about accepting outcasts.


I usually like to see A Christmas Carol, too. I'm rather fond of the new one with George C Scott. Any version will do. I rather like what people have done with the story over the years, the different interpretations.

I used to be attached to How the Grihch Stole Christmas, but it hasn't been on network TV for many years and I don't have cable. I just saw it again this time on the WB. That was a special treat.

Charlie Brown Christmas. I missed it this year. But I do love it.

I think what all these stories do for me is build the anticipation. I love seeing them as signposts of the happiness to come. :-)

[Kazak]

5. A Muppet Family Christmas

Nothing quite like the joining of the Muppets, Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock...all in one show!

[yellowdogintexas]

6. "A Christmas Story", and the Laurel and Hardy version of

"Babes in Toyland"

that is a deep seated family tradition for me and my sisters, going back to when we were kids and our local tv station would run this old film several times during the season.

In fact, I think I will go put it on my VCR anc watch it while I tidy up a few things before going to the airport to pick up hubby

[Osamasux]

41. "Babes in Toyland" aka "March of the Wooden Soldiers"

is a fave, but at our house it's a Thanksgiving film. My sister-in-law was nice enough to buy it for me a few years back when I went a whole season without catching it.

[mondo joe]

7. Alaister Sim Christmas Carol, the Ref and, now, Elf

Those are mine.

[mac56]

8. Forgot about "The Ref"!

That's great too.

[rock]

12. Christmas Vacation

Best of the Vacation series.

[mac56]

15. My favorite quote:

"I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane, with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here with a big ribbon on his head. And, I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"

[flamingyouth]

28. My fave is something like

"Can I get you anything, Eddie, a sandwich, some egg nog? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?" :D

[Midlodemocrat]

34. My favorite quote.

...everything I learned about exterior illumination I owe to you, Dad.

Or something to that effect.

[Bullwinkle925]

37. Right On - Right On!! Oops - that 'dates' me.

[blondeatlast]

47. Must get the DVD, I never saw it on the tube this year.

Nor "Scrooged."

I swear, this Bush admininstration is screwing up EVERYTHING.

[Z_I_Peevey]

52. Watched it last night

And I have another quotable quote: Merry Christmas! The shitter was full!

[NamVetsWeeLass]

14. Rudolph!!! I am a misfit myself.

Although Burton's a nightmare before christmas is good too.

[Lindsay]

16. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Cool music.

[mac56]

18. Where is a voice to answer mine back?

Where are two shoes that click to my clack?
I'm....all alooooooone...in the world...

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

29. Question: what the hell is razzleberry dressing? n/t

[mac56]

31. Made with these, of course

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

44. Erk - worse than I had even imagined!

But thanks for clearing that up. ;)

[jbane]

38. Yes, great music.

I have turned on a whole new generation to this. My Goth girl niece is a Magoo fan. She has her own copy on DVD.

[koneko]

19. Awww, that's a hard one

I chose "A Christmas Carol", as Albert Finney in "Scrooge" is my fave, but I am also a huge Rudolph nut. . . "let's be independent to-GETH-er"

[Doctor_J]

22. Two "others" - Muppet christmas Carol and One Magic Christmas

[loudestchick]

23. Holiday Inn--Crosby sings White Christmas for the first time.

[leftofthedial]

24. The California Raisins Christmas Special from the 80's.

here we go a waffling

the three kings' camels

the raisins as the Tempts doing rudolph

the best.

That and The Bishop's Wife.

[tjdee]

26. Do they still show that?

Remember watching it, it was the first time I'd ever heard the Wassailing/waffling song...and the first I'd ever heard We Three Kings (a jazzy version of it anyway!).

Would like to catch it again...I'm sure I could buy it on ebay or something...

[leftofthedial]

30. we have a disintegrating old VHS version of it

that is barely watchable now

there is a DVD somewhere.

[justgamma]

25. A Christmas Carol

Any version, anytime. From Mr Magoo to George C. Scott to Cicely Tyson to Henry Winkler.

PS. I live with a bah humbug scrooge.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

27. The Al Bundy version of It's a Wonderful Life w/Sam Kinison as the angel

It's a classic.

Also very fond of the Married With Children episode where the competing mall's parachuting Santa makes a terminal landing in the Bundys' back yard. The final visual - Buck the dog chewing on a red sneaker - is so heartwarming. :)

[guitar man]

32. Dumbass freeper brother in law

...gets drunk amd makes a flaming arse out of himself. Every year like clockwork, best show in town!

<"dumbass freeper", damn, I'm getting redundant in my old age!>

[u4ic]

33. A Christmas Carol

is a must see every year for me, as is A Christmas Story, Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials, and the Black Adder Christmas Carol.

[IcyPeas]

35. "The Snowman" ...

the British made one. It never caught on in this country but it's huge in Britain. It's a charming story, beautifully drawn, with hardly any words. It used to be available in Blockbuster (don't know if it still is due to its lack of popularity) but if you have never seen it, try it (it's only a half-hour thing-good for kids and adults actually)

Merry Christmas!

[RadicalMom]

48. One of the best things ever, it was produced for Channel four in Britain.

Maybe ebay might have the video in VHS or Amazon. Makes me cry.

[transeo]

36. Dina Martina Christmas Special

It's a Seattle institution. There really is nothing quite like it anywhere else in the world. It's the most bizarre evening of comedy and music you'll ever see, and you pee your pants laughing every year. Love it.

[ElectroPrincess]

39. One old - One new

Must see "The Ref" and added "Bad(der) Santa" DVD from last year's new release.

Both are *classics* in the area of Abnormal Psychology a la Holiday Season. Great preparation for an entertaining attitude-laden reunion with one's right wing relatives at this joyous time of the year :P.

[Osamasux]

42. Bad Santa is a riot.

The phrase 'No he didn't!' was invented for watching that movie.

[RadicalMom]

49. And "Badder Santa" also on DVD, uncut. n/t

[Laelth]

43. Got to see "Year without a Santa Claus."

That show is "too much." :D



-Laelth

[TaleWgnDg]

45. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, The Boston Ballet . . .

(BOSTON, MA) — Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announced Boston Ballet’s 41st season

The Nutcracker
November 26-December 30, 2004
Choreography : Mikko Nissinen
Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker appears at the historic Colonial Theatre for one season only, from November 26- December 30, 2004. The 2004 edition will feature new sets, designed expressly for the Colonial stage by New York-based scenic artist Walt Spangler, whose work was seen recently on Broadway in Carol Burnett’s Hollywood Arms, directed by Harold Prince. The holiday classic features new Act I choreography by Nissinen, who won praise for his revisions to last year’s Nutcracker, a production that Boston Globe dance critic Christine Temin called “lustrous” and that “lets the dancing shine.”

The Nutcracker will be danced to the full Tchaikovsky score with a live orchestra, children from Boston Ballet School, and everyone’s favorite moments, including the Snow Scene and the lively divertissement of Act II.

http://www.bostonballet.org/about/news/news.aspx?cid=149

[elperromagico]

50. LA Confidential.

Bloody Christmas - who could resist? :P

[SidDithers]

51. 3 for me: Scrooged, The Ref and Christmas Story...

Merry Christmas everyone :)

Sid

[peacefreak]

53. It's a Wonderful Life & my new favorite

Love Actually
and...Scrooged!


edit for brain cramp!

[Orsino]

54. A Charlie Brown Christmas

Well, I don't actually watch it every year, but I would.

The soundtrack is amazing. I'm rediscovering track two, "What Child Is This?" "Christmas Time Is Here" is my current favorite, besides the obvious "Linus And Lucy."