movies/tv Your favorite Christmas specials

[Armchair Adventurer 211]

With Christmas slowly creeping up on us again, I have a question in mind for the fine folks here on the forum. What are some of your favorite Christmas specials and Christmas themed movies? Share with those of us who have problems getting into the holiday spirit or just want to watch something they haven't seen before !

 

In my mind you can never go wrong with Die Hard, Blackadder's Christmas Carol and the South Park Woodland Critters Christmas special . Not exactly cheery ones but they are the ones which I must watch every time December rolls around!

[Acoustic Cloud 2,202]

I definitely know my favorite holiday special

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ejtUlstFzs

Edited December 7, 2013 by Rainbow Dashey

[Nerdy Luigi 2,065]

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Period.

[Acoustic Cloud 2,202]

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Period.

Well, that is a Christmas Special, as the title would suggest....

[Armchair Adventurer 211]

I definitely know my favorite holiday special

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ejtUlstFzs

 

 

I've known about the existence of this one for a few years now but never dared to watch it . But planning to with a friend of mine this year!

Edited December 7, 2013 by Armchair Adventurer

[Scratched Disk 48]

I would have to go with how the Grinch Stole Christmas!

[Shanks 10,816]

1. Family Guy the Road To The North Pole: The episode is hilarious, I relate to Santa to a very disturbing extent which made it even more hilarious and it has one of the best Chistmas songs ever.

 

 

2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

 

3. The Nightmare Before Christmas: both one of the best Christmas specials and one of the best Halloween specials.

 

4. The American Dad Christmas episode where Santa tries to kill the Smith Family.

 

5. The Futurama Christmas episode with homicidal Santa robot.

[Megas 27,821]

National Lampoons

The King of the Hill Truck episode

Regular Show Christmas Special

Merry Christmas Drake and Josh

Olive the Other Reindeer

Die Hard

Edited December 7, 2013 by Junpei Iori

[DerpyWithFlowers 24]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

 

I mean, it's a classic that nobody could possibly hate!

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Well there are so many Christmas specials I grew up with so I'll list a few

A Charlie Brown Christmas (I'm pretty sure most people grew up with this one)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

One of my favorites as a kid was Grandma got run over by a reindeer

Olive the other Reindeer I guess 

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer

Billy and Mandy Save Christmas

Christmas Every Day from Fairly Oddparents

Christmas Who from SpongeBob

Arnold's Christmas from Hey Arnold (Seriously the story for that one is great)

[SparklingSquirrels 21,357]

I think A Charlie Brown Christmas is a pretty good one, but How the Grinch Stole Christmas is more of a classic. I can't say I watch that many Christmas specials, though.

Edited December 7, 2013 by PowerStar89

[Onylex 2,837]

A Christmas Story & How the Grinch Stole Christmas _{(Jim Carry Version)}

Edited December 7, 2013 by Onylex

[Armchair Adventurer 211]

A Christmas Story & How the Grinch Stole Christmas _{(Jim Carry Version)}

 

Oh, yeah I love those two as well ! Never had the chance to see "A Christmas Story" all the way through though. I was interrupted by something every year when it was on TV. That's why I bought it on DVD last week .

[Onylex 2,837]

Oh, yeah I love those two as well ! Never had the chance to see "A Christmas Story" all the way through though. I was interrupted by something every year when it was on TV. That's why I bought it on DVD last week .

Its a great movie. 

 

The best line in the movie was "You'll shoot your eye out!". XD That never gets old. 

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-Rudolf: The Red Nosed Reindeer 

-Frosty: The Snowman

-Santa Clause is Coming to Town

-How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Boris Karloff version) 

I definitely know my favorite holiday special

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ejtUlstFzs

We do no speak of this monstrosity!    

[Scootalove 10,689]

• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• A Miracle on 34th Street

The list goes on, from here. Those are my favorite Christmas specials and Christmas movies.

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Forgot to mention personally I prefer the cartoon version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas over the Jim Carry version. I don't hate the other version in fact my dad always likes to quote I just always preferred the cartoon version as a kid.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqW3yTpj9sM

I saw this sometime this year, and it's just... amazing. Got to show this to my family on christmas, and make it tradition, it's hilarious!

[CT-1138 3,183]

Blast! I live in Chicago! How could I forget this?! 

[Wade Barrett 111]

Father Ted: A Christmassy Special - Probably one of my favourite Christmas specials of all time, ESPECIALLY the scene with Father Jack and the "music that makes him stand up".

 

Bottom - "Holy" - This is a quite obscure Britcom, very vulgar that I wouldn't recommend younger viewers watch, but it is an absolutely hilarious show, and if you're a fan of British comedy, then I cannot recommend enough that you do watch Bottom at least once, because it's the kind of dark, anarchic, blunt, crass and dry humour that we Brits specialise in (On that note, you should also watch "The Young Ones"). The Christmas special, to me, is my go-to Christmas special that I always have to watch. (Only linked to first part, but the final 2 parts should be linked to it.)

 

Ho Ho Ho Selecta - Again, this is quite vulgar, but if you're a fan of that kind of thing, it's hilarious. Very odd, bizarre humour and impersonations, but (IMO) utterly goddamn funny.

Edited December 7, 2013 by The Big Fellah

[Drawmare 24]

The Nightmare Before Christmas!

[Hansel 1,512]

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. 

 

[hawkflame 3,310]

I don't know why A Charlie Brown Christmas isn't a universal selection here. It is extremely well written, and the theme of the meaning of Christmas being lost in the commercial noise still resonates today.

 

Oh, and A Christmas Story, even if TBS plays it to death every year.

[Golurk 468]

Easily, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The cartoon version, not the movie. No offense to Jim Carrey, but it's hard to compete with Karloff's performance in the cartoon. 

 

I'm not entirely sure why I like it so much. Perhaps it's hearing Dr. Seuss' writing style narrated out, perhaps I find the style of the animation to be cute. I honestly have no idea, but it's still a tradition of mine to watch it some time during the season.

 

Except last year. I missed it last year. I nearly cried. 

[SrFrog 927]

Santa Claus (1959)

http://youtu.be/ma3cfQ2oOQc

 

They keep repeating this film every Christmas on the Hispanic channels, and I'll be honest. The English dubs just make this movie all the more strange, and y'know weird and stuff.