Holiday movies and specials - What you watch every year, and why!

[PT 940]

This seems to be super common with everyone I talk to. What movies and specials do you watch for on/around holidays? Are there any you used to enjoy but won't watch anymore?

 

[PT 940]

My birthday: On my birthday I like to watch the Survivorman episode of The Office because it has a theme of birthdays. I also watch Rubin & Ed, a movie I like that very few people seem to know about. And I watch my favorite episode of King of the Hill, which happens to take place on my birthday (as in, that's the date in the episode.)

Halloween: The Nightmare Before Christmas, which the kids in my family now like to I watch it with them. Se7en. The Evil Dead (the original.) The Ring. The "Home" episode of The X-Files. Sleepy Hollow. The Wicker Man (the original.) Sinister. The Witch. I used to enjoy the Charlie Brown Halloween special but it makes me sad now.

Thanksgiving: I really don't like Thanksgiving at all, so it makes sense that one of my best memories is something I now do every year. Thanksgiving was at my aunt's house one year (which was extremely unusual) and she had cable, which was rad because I didn't grow up with it. The Godfather was on the entire day (there might be a cable station that still does this, idk) and so I sat by myself in the living room and watched it until it was time to go back home. So I still watch it every year, usually by myself. I have the blu-ray now though.

Christmas: White Christmas, a few TV show Christmas episodes I have on DVD, I used to watch Rudolf and Frosty but some of the themes in them make me sad now (they don't offend me like they do the SJW's, they just make me want to cry and I'd rather not.) The Claymation Christmas special, which I have on a tape from 1989 which has the old commercials and everything. A Christmas Carol (the one with Alastair Sim as Scrooge.) And for some reason, I really like to watch Amadeus. Maybe it's all the snow in the movie *shrug

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

 

[Stab You in the Back]

The only thing I rewatch every year is the Thanksgiving episode of Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23. Its a brilliant farce, similar to the ski lodge episode of Frasier.

Also, June's followup to this scene always cracks me up:

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[BScCollateral]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. And now, that Whizzo the Clown Special that Rifftrax sells.

I swear that if Whizzo were to explain how he gets sad every Christmas because he lost a friend in the Battle of the Bulge, it would hardly be more depressing.

 

[FrickinFrackinFruckin]

Because I always discover a family member or friend who has never seen it, and I like to make them suffer.

 

[Mender Bug]

I usually watch diehard around Christmas time.

 

[sasazuka]

Valentine's Day: I watch Wayne's World since it opened on Valentine's Day in 1992.


Christmas: Here's the opening monologue to my top Christmas movie, though I also usually watch at least Batman Returns.

"December 16th.
It was a morning so cold, it felt like if you were to hit the earth with an ice pick, it would break into nice clean chunks.
It had seemed really hot up until the Cultural Festival about a month ago. but then December came, and it cooled down so fast it was like Mother Nature just realized she'd forgotten something.
I'm feeling the fact that Japan had no fall this year down to my very bones.
This had better not be the result of a particular someone confusing a wish for good business with some spell.
That Siberian cold front should just move somewhere else.
It really doesn't need to come visit us every year like this.
I don't know if the earth's rotation has gone out of whack, but I'm worried about Mother Nature.
That said, I only contemplate and don't give any thought to doing anything about it.
I had already foreseen that a certain someone was scheming something for next week.
After all, the one person who would easily spot this event sits right behind me.
The universal culprit and source of all things which threaten my everyday life, and the likely cause of all my problems since April."

Spoiler: 'That's right, her'.

Spoiler

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

Not gonna bore you with the full list of anime episodes I watch for Christmas but I like to start the final week or so with the Kamichu! episode "We Do As We Like" and end overnight on Christmas Eve with the Urusei Yatsura episode "Pitter-Patter Christmas Eve".

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Halloween: Casper's Scare School, Nightmare Before Christmas (also Christmas)

Christmas; Annabell's Wish, It's a Wonderful Life, Elf, those Rankin-Bass films

 

[Tasty Tatty]

With the Holy Week approaching, it's almost a tradition to watch Ben Hur, the Ten Commandments (both with Heston), and similar religious movies that air around those days. In my case, I especially wait for Ben-Hur.

 

[sasazuka]

Oh yeah, the other thing I watch on a specific day is Garfield's Halloween Adventure (originally Garfield in Disguise). I mean to watch a lot more for Halloween and some years I do but Garfield's Halloween Adventure is the only one I watch every Halloween without fail. (Not that I don't also usually see plenty of classic Simpsons and South Park Halloween episodes since Much airs several of them a day for all of October.)

Spoiler: Garfield's Halloween Adventure.

I'm surprised that this has been on Youtube since 2016 without Paws, Inc. DMCA-striking it.