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Dec. 5th, 2012 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightHello, kind flisties. I'd be very grateful if any of you could suggest a TV program shown in the US, without which Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas. I expect there are several (there are this side of the Pond) so all suggestions welcome. Thanks.
Yes, it is for fic writing purposes, but I'm sure you guessed that.
Yes, it is for fic writing purposes, but I'm sure you guessed that.
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Date: 2012-12-05 03:52 pm (UTC)To name a few :)
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Date: 2012-12-05 05:09 pm (UTC)Music:
"Holly Jolly Christmas" (Song From "Rudolph...")
http://youtu.be/oke4ZUhPDtw
"The Island of Misfit Toys" (Song From "Rudolph...")
http://youtu.be/OdXsPQc8M-4
"You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" (Song From "The Grinch who stole Christmas"
http://youtu.be/ZgP0aUKlmNw
"Christmas Time" (Song from "Charlie Brown...")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPG3zSgm_Qo
Classic Moments:
Clark's Bonus from "Christmas Vacation"
http://youtu.be/6QNVe9Hbhwc
The Triple Dog Dare from "A Chistmas Story"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPG3zSgm_Qo
You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid "A Christmas Story"
http://youtu.be/ppOXpyhM2wA
I Can't Put My Arms Down from "A Christmas Story"
http://youtu.be/jgeyexOAOIg
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Date: 2012-12-05 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-05 08:17 pm (UTC)Oh, I forgot the Charlie Brown Christmas. How could I?
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Date: 2012-12-05 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:05 pm (UTC)The cartoons:
The Grinch
Frosty the Snowman
Charlie Brown
The animated puppet/claymation thingies from the 1960s:
Rudolf the Rednose Reindeer (preferably the one with the island of misfit toys and the elf that wants to be a dentist)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
The marathoned to hell and back:
"A Chistmas Story" ("Daddy is going to kill, Ralphie!")
"It's a Wonderful Life"
and sometimes "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:20 pm (UTC)I'm trying to think what we have now, and coming up with the Doctor Who Christmas special (though I've happily missed the last two), the Snowman and The Great Escape with Steve McQueen, which is, for some reason, shown every Christmas.
I can't think of anything else.
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Date: 2012-12-06 09:19 pm (UTC)of nothingno subject
Date: 2012-12-05 05:48 pm (UTC)The Sound of Music
Wizard of Oz
A Christmas Carol (the one with Patrick Stewart has been on every Christmas for the last 5 years)
Also of course Carols from Kings and the Queen.
Plus I believe there is always an Eastenders special on the day, and possibly a Coronation Street one as well.
And you could say Channel 4 doing something determinedly non-religious and if at all possible shocking is a Christmas TV tradition.
And then on New Year's Day there is the concert from the Vienna Philharmonic on Radio 3.
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Date: 2012-12-05 06:26 pm (UTC)Which, given past attempts, is asking to fail, but we'll see.
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Date: 2012-12-05 06:34 pm (UTC)It should at least be easier to reference a story you know. (One day I must find out what the Grinch is actually about. Also the Cat in the Hat - I feel like Anya at the moment.)
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Date: 2012-12-05 07:58 pm (UTC)http://ninjamonkeyspy.livejournal.com/585154.html
"Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot
But the Grinch who lived just North of Whoville did not!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
But, whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve hating the Whos...
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:21 pm (UTC)ETA: Wikipedia tells me that the Grinch cartoon was shown on a kids' satellite channel over here in 2010.
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:15 pm (UTC)There are a whole bunch of movies which get shown at this time of year, too. We have our TV-less neighbors up for Xmas TV parties once or twice a week for all of December. They are Jewish, but adore Xmas movies. Mr. Magoo is an especial favorite, being a Tin Pan Alley type musical, with no religion in it. The neighbors call it "the Jewish Christmas Movie".
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:22 pm (UTC)You have? Oh dear, my memory is so crap!
That's a nice story about your neighbours. Is there any reason why they're TV-less themselves?
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:41 pm (UTC)The neighbors are TV-less by choice, but also because it's more fun to make it a community event. They're usually up here watching movies on Fridays after shul and on Sunday nights. We also car-share with them, and own the building together, so there are elements of co-op living. It's a thing.
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:54 pm (UTC)I requested this info for something I'm writing for this year's
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:37 pm (UTC)All the childhood classics have been named. I suppose there are more modern ones that get played too much. I'm fairly sure some channel will have a Scrooged marathon at some point.
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:39 pm (UTC)I just wanted to reference something in a fic I'm writing. I think the Grinch thing works pretty well.
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:39 pm (UTC)Other ideas:
Little Drummer Boy
Muppet christmas Carol
Christmas Do-over - Kind of a mix between Groundhog Day and A Christmas Carol. Guy has to keep redoing the day over until he sees the error of his ways.....
Family Man - Guy goes back in time to when the choice that he made then (business over love) made him into the ass he is today.
Miracle on 34th Street - Personally I like the newer version that has Dylan Mcdermott and richard Attenborough in it.
Those are just ones that I've seen, enjoyed and haven't been already listed. Good luck
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Date: 2012-12-05 11:04 pm (UTC)Supernatural: A Very Supernatural Christmas (http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=3.08_A_Very_Supernatural_Christmas)
The X-Files: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas (http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/How_the_Ghosts_Stole_Christmas)
And the newest to my list (may be spoilery for you) Castle: Secret Santa (http://www.buddytv.com/slideshows/castle/episode-59-photos-castle-kills-kris-kringle-in-the-secret-santa-christmas-episode-14433.aspx)
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Date: 2012-12-06 08:36 pm (UTC)Ringing you tonight.
Date: 2012-12-17 03:28 pm (UTC)Are we still good for me to ring you tonight?
Re: Ringing you tonight.
Date: 2012-12-17 04:05 pm (UTC)