What is your Favorite Christmas Movie or TV Special?

[D'Snowth]

I love that one too. But just for the sake of correction, The special actually aired about 1991 or 1992. rough estimate. I also enjoy I want a Dog for Christmas and Christmas Tales... but they aren't as good as the other two. Plus, I want a dog contains comic strips that were previously animated for the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (The scene where they fatten up Spike, especially).

Oh yeah, that's right, I'm sorry, I was trying to think of Charlie Brown Christmas Tales, which DID first air in the 2000s (and Sally had green hair for some reason).

 

[wwfpooh]

Either way, the blockhead sure knows how to give good Christmas specials.

 

[ChelseyBlair]

For me it's:

1 Muppet Christmas Carol
2. Miracle on 34th Street
3. Mickey's Christmas Carol
4. A Very Brady Christmas
5. All the old movies I watched as a kid, even Barney's Christmas and Wee Sing, because they take me back

 

[BeakerSqueedom]

Santa Clause is comin' to town---Mickey Rooney is/was so charming!
All the songs in this movie are SUPER! It gets stuck in your head! I know...I've been at it for nearly two months!

The Polar Express---It had Tom Hanks! I also cried in the movie when I was watching it with my little sister. Don't ask, ok? LOL!

Jack Frost-- I don't remember the actual title, but I just love that terrible gasping laughter he does! And how he teases the little groundhog!

Muppets Christmas Carol-- This is obvious!

The Santa Clause 1,2--David Krumholtz makes the movie worth watching--such a brilliant actor...and an old crush. LOL! Oh, please don't ever see part three...it's yuck! No Bernard= wtheck?

The Grinch-- Jim is WACKEH! Steven Spileburg is such a wonderful...

The Year Without A Santa Clause-- I love the music performed by those cocky two "I'm Mr. Green Christmas...I'm Mr. Sun!". I loved Mrs. Clause! She had a cute little voice.


I'll add some more...

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[Katzi428]

For me,it's:
!) A Muppet Family Christmas
2)A Very Brady Christmas (the movie)
3)The Brady Bunch Christmas episode (on TV)
4)National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.(movie)
5)Benson episode "Mary & her Lambs" (Robert Guillaume sings "O Holy Night" in it.He has a great voice!

 

[Beakerfan]

Rich Little's Christmas Carol is another favorite. It is a 1978 Canadian TV special, shot on videotape, but it has aired here on HBO. It's a one-man show, in which Little enacts the Dickens tale through a variety of amusing impersonations.

Scrooge - W.C. Fields

Bob Cratchit - Paul Lynde

Fred - Johnny Carson

Solicitor - Stan Laurel

Solicitor - Oliver Hardy

Jacob Marley - Richard Nixon (instead of chains, he is covered in spools of audiotape)

Ghost of Christmas Past - Humphrey Bogart

Ghost of Christmas Present - Peter Falk as Columbo

Ghost of Christmas Future - Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau

Fezziwig - Groucho Marx

Dick Wilkins - James Stewart

Mrs. Cratchit - Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker

Tiny Tim - Truman Capote

Businessman - John Wayne

Businessman - George Burns

Businessman - James Mason

Boy - Jack Benny

The special is available on DVD.

Oh my gosh! That sounds hilarious! I love Rich Little.

 

[wwfpooh]

Indeed. The man is a comedy genius.

 

[Drtooth]

I'm going to go ahead and add Homestarrunner.com's Decemberween specials. I'm watching some of them now, and they are hillarious.

Here are some of my favorites:

Teen Gril Squad Decemberween episode- In this one, the girls are having a secret Decemberween gift exchange. Trouble is, instead of drawing names out of a hat, they draw names out of the mouth of a canivorous lion...

sbe-mail- What I Want- Strongbad gives a list of the things he doesn't want for Decemberween. A christmas orniment ("what better gift to give than something that becomes useless for a year after you unwrap it"), a singing dancing Christmas robot, anything homemade, and homemade orniments (which he dubs a no-gift for being 2 things on his wish not list)

Sweet Cuppin' Cakes: Cactus Coffee and the No Tell Motel- If anyone is familiar with the sbe-mail "crazy cartoon" you'll know why I like it.... from the words of Homestar himself "What's not to understand? Eh! Steve!'s mouth exploded the universe, and that blond guy did a tiny, tiny dance. "

Decemberween Short Shorts- A Peanuts Christmas Tales-esque collection of weird cartoons about Decemberween. First up, Strongbad writes a letter to tube socks. Then the gang is talking orniments on a tree. Strongsad is the "most expensive orniment on the tree by about 40 bucks." and is be-dazzled off the tree by Strongbad's 59 cents worth of styrofoam and cheap plastic sequins. Now we see a old time Homestarrunner cartoon in which an alien admires old Time Homestar's Decemberween rat pile ("it's the most sanitary day of the year."). And Finally, Homestar sings a song to cheer up Coach Z.

 

[JEANYLASER]

my favorite Christmas TV Special

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
A Year without Santa Claus
Santa Claus is coming to Town
John Denver and the Muppet Christmas Together
Mickey's Nutcracker from Disneyland

 

[Winslow Leach]

Another favorite of mine is the Laurel and Hardy version of Babes in Toyland, a.k.a. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). It's often syndicated throughout the Christmas season.