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 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! In this Holiday Extravaganza, Hope and Daniel talk their holiday favorites. They also answer some very important Christmas questions!

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SPEAKER_01:

Hey everybody and welcome to We Watch TV. It is the podcast about the TV that we watch. I am Daniel, she is hope. This is episode 126, and it is probably, most likely, our last regular recorded episode of the season. You're stuck with super cuts. From here on out, you're gonna have to make it until January because I'm done.

SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to the holiday special, everyone. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Like Daniel said, I'm using my host voice. What does Julianne say? No, he Alfonso goes, Thanks, Julianne. Dancy with the stars. I understand, right? If you can talk about sausage in last week's episode, I can talk about dancing with the stars.

SPEAKER_01:

She says that like we didn't record these back to back, and I was just talking about the sausage five minutes ago.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh well, well. But like Daniel said, this is our last regular episode of the year for us. Do expect some supercuts, and then we promise we will be back in 2026, God willing.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, January is packed.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Not only do we have some stuff that we're probably gonna watch like over the break, yes, but then also shows are just dropping in January like crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, really in December.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, yeah, but some in January too. So it's just gonna be nuts. This might be the like the quickest start of the new year when it comes to shows that we've had in a while.

SPEAKER_00:

And we are going to definitely be back, that first episode back for 2026. We know we'll be talking about those final four episodes of Stranger Things. So that remember they drop on Christmas. Merry Christmas, Duffer Brothers. I will chuck my new tree outside if you kill off Steve.

SPEAKER_01:

I enjoy. Or delightful Derek. I've enjoyed all of the TikToks of people like cra like crashing out at Christmas and then going, my family trying to enjoy something on Christmas when I just got done watching Steve get ripped apart by a damp organ.

SPEAKER_00:

So and then that final episode will be on New Year's Eve. So, like, but like Daniel said, we got a lot. Lots Fallout, Emily in Paris, uh Shrinking Starts in January, Tell Me Lies season three. I almost want to rewatch Tell Me Lies to make you watch it. Uh what am I? I feel like I'm missing something. Percy Jackson. Yeah. Um, so we'll be talking about Stranger Things. And we will not probably not have time to watch all of these that are dropping in December, but we'll we will hopefully be caught up sometime in January. On other show announcements, we did get a return date for the boys final season. That's right, yep. April 2026.

SPEAKER_01:

The boys while no longer our best thing going, um, definitely still high on our radar. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they're able to put a cap on this show, which I think if they pull it off, even if maybe season four wasn't quite as good as usual, I think if they can pull off a really good conclusion to the boys season five, up there in terms of like shows, like we'll see how they're able to start and finish.

SPEAKER_00:

So and we'll also be back for the new year where we will probably talk about this a little bit more in detail. We're gonna do typically what we usually do for those first couple episodes of the year, is we talk about what we're looking forward to in 2026.

SPEAKER_01:

Shout out to that one person that downloaded our um what we're looking forward to in 2025 episode on December 3rd. I saw you, I see you, and I feel you, and I'm here with you.

SPEAKER_00:

I do that sometimes. Like I'll go back and listen to a really old episode of a podcast that I just got.

SPEAKER_01:

That specific episode, what were you looking forward to in 2025, really just like made me laugh. It tickled me.

SPEAKER_00:

Alright, guys. Well, this is now where we um bring out what do they call it in Seinfeld, the for festivists. Call the festivist poll. The poll. And we air.

SPEAKER_01:

I got a lot of problems with you people, and you're gonna hear about it.

SPEAKER_00:

But actually, it's really not. We thought we would just do a festive fun holiday special for you. And I've compiled some various questions, some I made myself, some I got from our friends on the internet, not really our friends, just you know, random stuff. And we thought we would do that just just to have some fun for a last little happy holiday special for all of you guys. Are you ready, Daniel? Or do you want to talk about sausage for a second episode in the row?

SPEAKER_01:

Actually, I'm moving on to cheese. Um, cheese is also a very high priority Christmas item. Uh I already expressed last week. I feel like I talked about cheese in the last episode. But what are your favorite go-to cheeses around Christmas? Let me know. I'm interested in hearing. Don't give me that cheddar. Don't give me that none of that cheese. Cream cheese. Give me some give me some some some exotic stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

I want to Oh, you're not talking about like uh cream cheese mixed in everything.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm talking about regular cheeses because I want to put a cheese and meat board together for Christmas Eve. I've already got the mini pickles. I'm gonna put some olives out. I know you don't like olives, I don't care. They go.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I can make it look pretty because I'm gonna make it look pretty.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm gonna do some um some mustard and some jams and some other dips, but I need the meats, what I asked for last episode, and I need the cheeses.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, guess what? I like cheddar and I like Colby Jack and I like that.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm not saying we won't have those. I'm saying I know those exist. You wanna get down on some of those Gouda?

SPEAKER_00:

What a chem and bear.

SPEAKER_01:

And the common bear.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So let's shall we do the questions?

SPEAKER_01:

Sure.

SPEAKER_00:

Alright. What's your most vivid Christmas memory? Good or bad? This could get dark.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, you want me to go first?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you go first. Um it could be good or bad.

SPEAKER_01:

My uh my grandmy, Santa.

SPEAKER_00:

Ah, what a slinky. Your father's been laid off though. Go on, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, my Grammy came over to spend Christmas. I guess it was Eve into Christmas morning with us. Your dad's mom, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Um they were still married, so pre-divorced. Okay. It's already a dark Christmas. Um, and I don't know what happened. I have I was young, I was probably five, I think. The Christmas tree dropped every single needle it had on Christmas Eve. It was once. Like they just shook off.

SPEAKER_00:

My mom told me this story.

SPEAKER_01:

And so I have this memory of dad and I in a car running around Christmas lots on Christmas Eve, trying to find a Christmas replacement.

SPEAKER_00:

Hannah alive then.

SPEAKER_01:

She would have been a baby. A baby. This I think might have been like the last Christmas, you know, when we were a full family. You said you could go dark. I'm going dark!

SPEAKER_00:

Holly Jolly note. This isn't my most vivid Christmas memory, but we have a similar which you've heard also, ad nauseum, about our tree. My last the last year that we had a regular tree, we used to go. There used to be a Christmas tree farm out by my grandma's house. Like, we would literally go pick out the tree, we chop it down, we bring it home, we decorate it, you know, the gist. Well, that particular year, that tree kept falling over. And it fell over at one point and then like broke. I think it broke one of my like baby's first Christmas ornaments. That's why I always laugh in Christmas with the cranks, where he's like, anything important. He's like, Oh, baby's first Christmas, and he like throws it. Because my mom like flipped out that some of the ornaments were broken, and it like would not go, it like it fell over for the last time. It wouldn't go back in the stand. So we're like, I don't think it was Christmas Eve, but we're like days out from Christmas. So dad, like like, all right, we're gonna go pick out another Christmas tree, but we couldn't go to the farm. So we went to this lot where the Boy Scouts were selling trees, and we got a tree, and I feel like that was also one of the ones with the longer needles. And then on December 26th, you know, like Boxing Day, the sales, dad got up and bought our first artificial Christmas tree. And I remember you would have thought that someone like destroyed my childhood because I was like, What? I was like, su heck, like you can't, we have to have a real tree. And then the next year, I was like, oh, we get to put up the tree early. And then suddenly I no longer had like nosebleeds and my didn't get my pine needle allergy. Like, you know how Niles with the rash? Niles, it's your pine allergy. I didn't have the rash anymore. I didn't have a stuffy nose, and it was like, oh, because I am allergic to real Christmas trees, and I realized how that could be, but that wouldn't be my most vivid Christmas memory, good or bad.

SPEAKER_01:

That was then why'd you answer the quality? Why did you just take a minute and a half to answer this? Because I had an answer.

SPEAKER_00:

Because I'm a classic person with mental illness where you tell a story and I think that I'd be nice by relating myself to that story. But it that is a very vivid.

SPEAKER_01:

It's the holidays, honey, and we're all in misery.

SPEAKER_00:

That is a very vivid Christmas memory for me.

SPEAKER_01:

Probably Oh, a little tree water won't hurt him.

SPEAKER_00:

Probably one of my I feel like I've just had so many good Christmases of you know, childhood, and I have had there there was one time where uh dad and I got in a fight about the way I wear my watch. That was my last that was my last Christmas at home. And then we were fine after you know how my dad and I can get where he thinks he's right, I think I'm right. Anyway, um, but I don't want to bring down the mood like you. So I I feel like um and then I have some other stories like where I rode my bike and I fell over because we rode on Christmas morning, and dad's like, uh, you don't want to ride this bike anymore. But anyway, anyway, most of my memories are pretty good.

SPEAKER_01:

I think I just remembered why Grammy stayed at our house for Christmas that year, because it was the first Christmas after Gramps died.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, can I go to we're breaking down the mood here? My probably one of my favorite memories, because I always reference this because I am a person that would leave Milk and Santa, Milk and Santa, milk and cookies out for Santa, clear up until I was a grown-up. But this was when I was a kid. I'm talking like maybe five, six, and dad's like, you know, Santa would really like some eggnog. And I was like, why? Eggnog is gross. But because he would not shut up about it, I left out a glass of eggnog and milk. Because I didn't trust dad's opinion that Santa would really prefer eggnog. So then the next morning I was like, well, I guess Santa did like the eggnog because the eggnog and the milk were both gone.

SPEAKER_01:

Santa's lactose intolerant.

SPEAKER_00:

It's soy milk.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh I don't know the answer to this next question, so I'm gonna pose it to you first and let and I'm gonna sit over here and be just in terror of how what my answer is gonna be. What's the best gift you've ever given or received?

SPEAKER_00:

I don't like the or in this because I feel uh What do you mean the or?

SPEAKER_01:

You just you can pick one. The one that I've given or that I've just say both. You can just say one. Oh. Or just answer all of them and a special third, like you did the first question.

SPEAKER_00:

I really liked it when I got my little Miss Makeup doll and my dollhouse. So those are the best gifts that I was given her from in terms of like childhood that I was given or that I received, ever given no, that yes, that I received. I can't read right now.

SPEAKER_01:

She wrote the questions every time. She wrote the questions. She sent them to me in a text message.

SPEAKER_00:

I copy-pasted them from a thane. But yeah, so those would be my dollhouse, my little Miss Makeup Dog.

SPEAKER_01:

You have to say your favorite gift you gave. You don't have to do that.

SPEAKER_00:

I didn't give those. Those are what I received. I know.

SPEAKER_01:

But when you don't have you're I I can see you trying to answer that you're thinking right now about that, but you don't have to say it.

SPEAKER_00:

But I know that I have given some good gifts before. I just can't think of anything. I like I do like giving gifts better than receiving gifts.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

I just can't really.

SPEAKER_01:

I got a Nintendo 64 and a copy of GoldenEye, and it was great.

SPEAKER_00:

So you don't remember giving a really cool gift either?

SPEAKER_01:

No, I'm terrible at giving gifts. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_00:

You got me this blanket that I'm using right now that's like a- Yeah, and see here's the thing.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like you it's it's a gift that has been like 2009. It's a gift that has stood the test of time and you use it more than anything else. And it was literally walking through Walmart like three days before Christmas trying to buy, find a pack of Sour Patch Kids to put in your stocking. I see that blanket and I go, ah, screw it, that'll do too. And that's how it got picked out. I just I don't like Christmas shopping.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I just can't re I know that I've given good gifts over the years. I just can't really remember anything right now. But I do like I like get like giving gifts more than receiving them. Can you think of anything like from adulthood that you received that was cool?

SPEAKER_01:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

Thanks. I think it's zebra blanket. Alright. What's your favorite Christmas movie, Song and Food? This is a three-parter. I didn't write these questions.

SPEAKER_01:

So I mean uh the mup at Christmas, Carol.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a favorite movie. Song, none.

SPEAKER_00:

What? You don't like um uh it feels like Christmas if you're gonna pick that one. I'm sure let's go with that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, food, like I guess I guess I'm gonna like sausage. I I guess I'm gonna like or really like break this one up. What's a Christmas food?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh we literally just talked about it, and now two pie sausages do.

SPEAKER_01:

No, sausage is not Christmas. Sausage. Oh my god! Wait!

SPEAKER_00:

I can't believe in our last podcast I didn't mention sausage pots. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. My mom makes, I love sausage pots.

SPEAKER_01:

You guys are a little bit into those things.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, we're like, we all go crazy over the sausage box. No, oh you I'm gonna get out, get out.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm like I'm like in and over about little Sebastian over the Christmas.

SPEAKER_00:

Get out of the house.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, but sausage isn't a Christmas food, but you do eat sausage at Christmas.

SPEAKER_00:

Daniel, we eat Chinese food.

SPEAKER_01:

But I eat sausage in the summertime, too.

SPEAKER_00:

Ham. Um, like just some people have turkey at Christmas, some people have Christmas cookies. Okay, hot appetizer dip. That chocolate drink that my family also goes crazy about.

SPEAKER_01:

You guys are also nuts about that.

SPEAKER_00:

You don't like you just don't like sweets as much. Okay, uh those are your answers. Muppet Christmas. Did we land on a song?

SPEAKER_01:

One of the songs from the Marley and The Love is Gone. That's my favorite Christmas song. The Love is Gone and Um Hot Appetizer Dip, which is not, I don't think, something people all know about. So I don't know if there's a like more common term for it.

SPEAKER_00:

It's basically cream cheese, dried beef, some onions, some green pepper. You you could probably eat it cold if you wanted to. You and then but we sodium with some flavor. And then you're really supposed to eat it with crackers, but the person that I got this recipe from is your former stepmother, and your dad would eat them with Fritos. So my father-in-law add more salt. Let's add some more salt. It definitely goes in the family. And it's delectable, you guys. Delectable. Um, but when love is gone, that should not be the people, the fact that it you get over it. Get over it. I know, but you're on my side now. The fact that you have to go in a special setting to see that when that is such a part, huge part of Scrooge's arc really gets on my nerves. And now it's your apparently your favorite Christmas song. Okay, my favorite Christmas movie. I can never pick a favorite ever. Um, it's very hard for me, but I feel like it's gotta like as much as I love the Muppets, as much as I love Christmas Vacation, I think I gotta go with Home Alone. It's just it's the first one. I like the second one, but the vibes for me, it reminds me of childhood nostalgia, it makes me laugh, it warms my heart. I have to watch it every year with a lovely cheese pizza just for me. Um and I guess you. So my favorite Christmas song is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, the Judy Garland version that does not cut out the melancholy verse. Because while that is a beautiful song, the holidays can be hard for everybody, and I think that song perfectly captures Christmas. And my favorite food, I'm gonna go with the hot appetizer dip as well. I like how we do these as essay questions. We're English, we have English degrees, people.

SPEAKER_01:

Alright. Um, do you like to open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?

SPEAKER_00:

As a child, it's morning.

SPEAKER_01:

If I'm gonna have a present open, it's Christmas morning.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Period. Like we kind of don't do a lot of presents for each other now. We do like stockings and we take trips. But like if I'm in, like if I'm gonna like morning would obviously like what I would pick, but uh I feel like when you're grown up you care a little less. Usually if we would open a present on Christmas Eve, it would be something like pajamas or something, which I feel like everybody does. Alright, Daniel, but you want to be an elf or a reindeer? Told you I didn't make these questions.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, they're both like worker class slave labor, essentially. The elves are, you know, required to work in Santa's workshop and make toys all year round. And then the reindeer are required to pull his sleigh. Oh, I'll I'll do a reindeer though, because they only have to work one night away a year.

SPEAKER_00:

They do training like in the Santa Claus. Can I do option three and be in like that be one of the inspectors? Like if she's making a list.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, it's your list. You made the list. I'm gonna require the case. I'm gonna go with Elf then.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm gonna go with Elf, and then maybe like Bernard, my first loves from the Santa Claus, and I could be like Elf's husband and wife if you didn't exist in this universe.

SPEAKER_01:

Would you rather have one big gift or ten small ones?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh one big gift.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, because if you yeah, I agree. Because if you get ten small ones, it's just ten craps. Yeah. Just ten pieces of crap. Here's these tumblers that I'm gonna throw that I'm gonna keep in my basement for three years and then throw away or regift. Orgotten who they got it.

SPEAKER_00:

When when I was trying to find a box last year at Christmas and I found a present that I had gotten and it was still like the stuff was still in it from like the previous Christmas. This is why I like I just that's why I like to give gifts better. But like I always see people criticizing like gift cards in cash. To me, that's like the perfect gift for somebody. Send your cash. Then you get you get what you want that way. Or like experiences, like we usually do like a trip. Listen, we usually do like a trip that's our gift to each other.

SPEAKER_01:

Presents are great because they're a way that I can show somebody that I love you this many dollars. This much.

SPEAKER_00:

Alright. If you were trapped in a Christmas movie, which one would it be? Like which one would you want to be trapped?

SPEAKER_01:

By the way, I'm reading this question as which one would I be trapped in, not which one do I want to be trapped in?

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, answer it both ways then.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm I'm trapped in Christmas vacation.

SPEAKER_00:

Ellen, are you smoking? No. Okay, well, which one would you want to be trapped in?

SPEAKER_01:

The Muppet Christmas Carol.

SPEAKER_00:

You would want to go back in that time where like the plague existed.

SPEAKER_01:

The pl how far a little the 1800s, there wasn't that much plague going on.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, there was still illness and disease.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, there was, but it's the Muppets are there. I'll deal with culture. I'll deal with the Muppets are there.

SPEAKER_00:

It's culture.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

A tiny tint. All right.

SPEAKER_01:

Which movie are you trapped in, and which one would you like to be trapped in?

SPEAKER_00:

Growing up, I really felt very much a kindred spirit to Kevin. And you've been around my dad's side of the family, and they're huge and it's chaotic and it's loud. So I think that part, like when the even when the family's like all like being loud and insane, it just brings me back such nostalgia to my childhood. But like now, I would say Christmas vacation is probably what we're trapped in. Clark's rant gets more relatable to me every year, why he freaks out. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Um, but which one What I want to be trapped in? Uh ELF. Because then I could go to the North Pole when I wanted to. And it seems like the people in ELF, like one, I I would like to work for his publishing company, not the one he does, but the one he starts. And they seem like they have money and have a pretty nice place in New York City.

SPEAKER_01:

Then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.

SPEAKER_00:

And they have the world's best cup of coffee. So I that's how I would want to. I feel like that, like I'd have myself a pretty good setup there.

SPEAKER_01:

Buddy, you don't have to drink that. Um, oh gosh. Okay, hold on. Um what is one holiday tradition you'd change?

SPEAKER_00:

You're asking me first. I feel like I'm already laughing at what you could say. One holiday, like in general or our personal traditions.

SPEAKER_01:

Again, list brought to you by hope.

SPEAKER_00:

That I got from somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01:

You gave me the list.

SPEAKER_00:

One holiday tradition.

SPEAKER_01:

So if you're gonna clarify the question, and you're gonna need to clarify the question.

SPEAKER_00:

What is one holiday tradition that I would change? You know what? I like all the traditions, so I wouldn't change it. I like I like all the traditions. I'm just I would I would make it longer. I would make it No, okay. In the UK, Boxing Day, the 26th, is a much bigger deal over there. They get that off as like a paid holiday. I would make it longer by that way.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm on board if you can get if you can get corporate America to agree because we if we want to take a vacation off, we have to like take a vacation day.

SPEAKER_00:

So I would want to extend it. That's what I mean by make it longer. What is one holiday tradition you change?

SPEAKER_01:

I've got to I I have to censor myself here, I guess. Um I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

Like I came up with something you have to contact.

SPEAKER_01:

Traditions like the everybody just like all look my routine gets really thrown off around the holiday season, everybody, and and seasonal depressive disorder is a real thing.

SPEAKER_00:

And I my seasonal depressive disorder kicks in in January, though.

SPEAKER_01:

Depend on routine and consistency in order to function as a human being. And when my podcasts aren't releasing on a normal cadence, and all the other stuff's going on, I get really out of whack and depressed. Okay, Evan Easter screwed.

SPEAKER_00:

She's like, and then he's like, Why would you not be here tomorrow? It's Christmas.

SPEAKER_01:

I would make everybody do exactly their normal thing, but then also do the Christmas stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

But not be at work?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that'd be great. That yes.

SPEAKER_00:

So you gave the like the weirdest answer I've ever seen. I don't have an answer for this one. Alright. I have my answer for this next one. What is this? What's the weirdest holiday thing you've ever owned? Simple. It is in my on my porch right now. Um because I do so much decorating for Christmas and the holidays, I let Daniel have one decorate. Well, I don't let I'm not like a dictator. Um but I say, okay, fine, you can have this thing. We have a skeleton that we put out on our porch for the Halloween season. And last year and this year, because Daniel gets his one decoration with my inflatable snowman and my penguin, we have a skeleton and we take the spider off of it and we put a Santa hat on it. So I'm gonna say that's the weirdest holiday thing that I own.

SPEAKER_01:

Fifteen years ago, around about, we hosted um a white elephant gift exchange.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01:

And through all of that, I ended up with a large framed poster of a bunny rabbit that says, Somebody loves you.

SPEAKER_00:

You would count that as a holiday game.

SPEAKER_01:

And while you may not know this because you never go down there, it has hung in the basement since that day.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that's another thing. I'm like Kevin, I don't like going to the basement.

SPEAKER_01:

And it remains hanging down there, and every time I see it, I think about our fun Christmas parties that we used to have with the white elephant.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. Well, that took a different direction. All right, now for the questions that I did come up with randomly, because we are a TV slash forms of media podcast, so this is gonna deal with some movies and some shows. You have to choose Home Alone or Elf. Elf. Oh my gosh. It's like picking between my kids, but Home Alone. Alright, Christmas vacation or home alone.

SPEAKER_01:

Christmas vacation.

SPEAKER_00:

This is hard for me. I'm gonna have to go with Home Alone again. Ah Christmas vacation or elf. Christmas vacation. I'm also gonna go with Christmas vacation. But I feel like I do love me some elf. Alright. Christmas with the cranks or for Christmases. I don't mean to speak ill of your mother on Christmas, but she's nothing more than a common street whore. That's tough for me, but I think I'm ultimately gonna go with Christmas with the cranks just because it's something about it. You're a sap. I just like Tim Allen at the holidays, okay?

SPEAKER_01:

Sap. That's fine. You like sapy stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

And now for Daniel's favorite, and I did this just for you. This is I could have given you Santa Claus 3, the Santa Claus 2, or any of the Hallmark Christmas movies, just a Hallmark Christmas movie, the Santa Claus 2. You like the first Santa Claus, but he's a known hater of the. I'll give you, I can understand why people don't like the third, but the second one holds up, okay? Anyway, the Santa Claus II.

SPEAKER_01:

The Santa Claus 2 is a horrendous movie. It should never have been made. It is absolutely terrible. The plot is awful, the acting is bad. Bernard is not the same character. He's not a sarcastic, a completely train wreck of a movie.

SPEAKER_00:

But it's worth it for the best part about Christmas.

SPEAKER_01:

Terrible.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh uh oh. Put up a tree. You know what Rollish Jan is singing.

SPEAKER_01:

I picked the I picked the Santa Claus too.

SPEAKER_00:

Still over a Hallmark movie.

SPEAKER_01:

Over any Hallmark movie that's ever been made.

SPEAKER_00:

And I, of course, would go with the Santa Claus too, because it's good. It's a good movie, and Scott Calvin looks good in the Santa Claus too.

SPEAKER_01:

Listen, Hope, we get it. Everybody gets it. You have a thing for Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm talking about Scott Calvin. You want the jelly belly.

SPEAKER_01:

You're a ho ho ho.

SPEAKER_00:

All right. Um this should say episodes. Drop your five favorite Christmas themed TV show episodes in no particular order.

SPEAKER_01:

I have no idea how to possibly do this. First of all, high holidays. From Fraser. From Fraser, and that is in order. Um after that, it gets uh just thinking about them is really I think Jesus! Um that's a good one also from Fraser. I think Bangs Giving from New Girl is gonna be. That's a Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, is it Bangsgiving? It's not called Bain's Christmas.

SPEAKER_01:

I guess it would be. Did they do a Christmas one on New Girl?

SPEAKER_00:

They did have a Christmas one because they referenced love actually with God only knows what I'd be without you in the airport.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm clearly not memorable enough for me.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So there's so many good with the cranes of Maine. I've got your living brain. I feel like Frazier. The middle has some pretty good ones, too.

SPEAKER_01:

I haven't watched as much of the middle as you have. Um okay, go for it. You got five, I'm sure. I'm sure you can rattle.

SPEAKER_00:

High holidays from Frasier. I also like uh We Two Kings from Fraser. Merry Christmas Moskowitz from Fraser holds up quite nicely. I really like, I don't remember what season it is, but whatever one with the middle where Sue is allergic to the tree, but then like Frankie orders the wrong version of White Christmas, so they get it in German, and that's where we get the like Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like Son and Dance. Did they make the Son and Dance Man? No, that's that's referencing something else. But we they they talk about Sonnen Dance Man in this, right? Or we just said that.

SPEAKER_01:

The term is used, but they don't refer to Huge Hugh Jackman at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_00:

Anyway, Frankie's trying to get her family to watch the plot of the movie, but then it's in German. But then they have a nice moment where they're sitting outside the house, so Sue can look at the tree, and they watch White Christmas in German, and it's just really funny to me. Um, but it's really oh, I feel like it's just all the Fraser Christmas episodes. I thought of one. Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

The Bear season two episode.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, that's good. When Mikey throws the fork.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Not a traditional Christmas episode, but for some reason, like we've watched it every year since it came out.

SPEAKER_00:

We're toxic people. Oh, and I would have to be remiss not to say the season one episode of that 70s show where they have they get the Christmas tree from the side of the road.

SPEAKER_01:

That is that is not just a great Christmas episode. That's like an all-timer sitcom episode. Everything comes together in that episode in such a great way that it's just, yeah, it's perfect.

SPEAKER_00:

It's it's a it's a good one. It's a good one. Um, so I would put that, I'd probably put that 70s show episode, one episode in the middle, and then just the multitude of Fraser Christmas themed episodes. Oh, I guess I did read, I completely I can't read my own questions because that was favorite Christmas themed episodes from TV show can pick up to five. Drop your five favorites is drop your five favorites Christmas movies in no particular order, and that's how we'll end this podcast. You go first. You can only pick five. Just because even if they don't make your five, doesn't mean that you like dislike the Santa Claus or four Christmases or something. But your five favorites that you have to watch every year for better or for worse, go.

SPEAKER_01:

Christmas movies? I'm really confused as what's happening right now.

SPEAKER_00:

Drop your five favorite Christmas movies in no particular order.

SPEAKER_01:

Them up at Christmas, Carol.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Um Christmas Vacation. Okay. Um, four Christmases.

SPEAKER_00:

Four cr that's making your top five, huh?

SPEAKER_01:

That's a good one. I like it.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, it's pretty solid. You can't spell families without lies.

SPEAKER_01:

Go ahead and throw Home Alone in there, I guess.

SPEAKER_00:

Home Alone. You better believe it.

SPEAKER_01:

The fifth spot is tough.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I feel like you have to go with Elf because you just picked Elf over Home Alone earlier today.

SPEAKER_01:

For yeah, we'll go do Elf.

SPEAKER_00:

But what would what were you, what were some runner-ups then? Since you said the fifth spot was.

SPEAKER_01:

I was trying to decide if I wanted to start a fight and say diehard.

SPEAKER_00:

That's okay. I can agree that Die Hard is a movie set at Christmas. The only reason it's annoying is because it's now become a thing, like kind of like not like other girls. Like, like I'm so unique. You know what? I say diehard's my favorite Christmas movie.

SPEAKER_01:

Secret sixth answer, Star Trek 7 generations. Okay. It's a Christmas movie because at the end of the movie, and I can't explain to you why because you're gonna watch it, I don't want to spoil it to it, but at the end of the movie, Picard is at Christmas with his family, and there's a tree, and they're singing, and everything, and there's presents. It's Christmas, there's snow, it's Christmas in a Star Trek.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. I'm gonna go now. Home alone, I'm up at Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation. This is where it gets dicey for me.

SPEAKER_01:

She had the list and she didn't even pre-think about all this.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

She made up the questions.

SPEAKER_00:

Because it means like home alone, I'm up at Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation, and then I'm gonna say, I am gonna go ahead and put Elf up there in that fourth slot. And then Ooh, the fifth slot. That's that's the hard one, man, because I can go, there's so many that I have to watch. Like I love The Santa Claus, I love um there already said elf, right? Yeah. I love I love White Christmas, but I like I do like a Christmas story. It's not my favorite, but I'll watch it every year. I do like Four Christmases too, but I'm gonna have to go with Home Alone 2, Lost in New York. So I've got Home Alone, Christmas, uh, I'm Up at Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation, Elf, and Um Home Alone 2. If I had to pick. But it's it's very difficult for me because I like so many Christmas movies, are fun. On that note, we wish you guys all a very Merry Christmas and a happy holidays. Anything else you want to say, Danny?

SPEAKER_01:

And a happy new year and happy new year. See you later, 2025, you stupid bastard. And look forward to twenty twenty-second.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a nice way to end it. Merry Christmas, everybody. Happy holidays.

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