Christmas TV Specials

I loathe how they start airing these things a month before Christmas and then by the time I`m on holidays, they are nowhere to be found.

The Globe and Mail has provided you with a schedule of all your favourite specials here.

Here’s some of my faves:

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer – We’re talking about the original claymation one, not those cheap animated knockoffs! Here we see the star of the show…Hermey the Elf who saves the day because of his dentist skills.

Frosty the Snowman – Hey, where’s Frosty Returns? That’s right…it’s not there for a reason (it was horrible). HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

How The Grinch Stole Christmas – If the Grinch came out nowadays, would anyone watch this insane story? A Grinch? Whoville? Wha??? Either way, you can’t get around that this is a classic holiday tale.

A Charlie Brown Christmas – While I prefer the Great Pumpkin over this one, I must admit that it has left some pop culture references in our household…especially how every year SOMEONE comments to Dad that he picked a Charlie Brown tree from the forest.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – “Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say, on a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day…”how I love this film. I can’t get enough. It pains me to wait until the Christmas season to watch it again. Let us not forget how at last year’s Christmas party I invited everyone to the basement to watch the film and ended up passed out in the chair while everyone told me that I never invited them in the first place.

A Christmas Story – “RALPHIE! You’re going to shoot your eye out with that BB Gun!“. How I love how TBS has 24 hours of A Christmas Story. That’s what Christmas specials are supposed to be like – airing on Christmas Day while Dad and I munch on peanuts and fight off slumber. My favourite memory of this film was last year when I was watching it on Christmas Day, fell asleep and when I awoke, I was at the same exact part I left at 2 hours earlier!

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