Top Four

00:00:00 ◼   ► my tea was too hot so I got a cocktail

00:00:02 ◼   ► how did you not get me one I mean I have

00:00:06 ◼   ► the same tea that was made at the same

00:00:07 ◼   ► time so it's the same temperature do you

00:00:09 ◼   ► really want the monstrosity I'm drinking

00:00:11 ◼   ► right now is that that's the pumpkin

00:00:12 ◼   ► spice the pumpkin spice garbage whatever

00:00:15 ◼   ► it's like a Bailey's type of liqueur

00:00:17 ◼   ► it's like a cream but pumpkin spice

00:00:19 ◼   ► flavored I don't recommend any cocktail

00:00:21 ◼   ► of ahead garbage in it just for health

00:00:24 ◼   ► reasons I think that's a bad idea

00:00:25 ◼   ► yeah we've got a bottle of she may blue

00:00:27 ◼   ► in the fridge right now that we're not

00:00:29 ◼   ► drinking why not that is exactly what

00:00:32 ◼   ► you should be drinking I'll be right

00:00:34 ◼   ► back I'm gonna get the beer now hold on

00:00:36 ◼   ► he's gone

00:00:38 ◼   ► I'm gonna get my beer - hold on Oh

00:00:39 ◼   ► everyone's gone so hi hi this is the

00:00:43 ◼   ► first time we get to talk that's true I

00:00:46 ◼   ► realize I met Marco in person but I've

00:00:49 ◼   ► heard your voice more often ha ha and

00:00:52 ◼   ► you podcast with Marco already we did

00:00:54 ◼   ► for the beer yes exactly

00:00:56 ◼   ► and then well here we are drinking beer

00:00:58 ◼   ► doing a podcast in our garage again with

00:01:01 ◼   ► Marco on the other end of the line

00:01:03 ◼   ► Marco's in his garage right now getting

00:01:06 ◼   ► a beer oh nice there we are

00:01:10 ◼   ► so do you guys have a list or are you

00:01:12 ◼   ► just winging it I'm a prepared kind of

00:01:15 ◼   ► person I I'm prepared I have a list of

00:01:18 ◼   ► things but they're more than four and

00:01:19 ◼   ► I'm picked four of them and thought well

00:01:22 ◼   ► I may just change my mind as we go

00:01:23 ◼   ► that's the way top 4 is done I have a

00:01:26 ◼   ► list of things in there fewer than four

00:01:28 ◼   ► that's okay

00:01:29 ◼   ► Lauren was concerned about how how

00:01:31 ◼   ► strict the rules were on top 4 and I was

00:01:33 ◼   ► like yeah have you heard the show the

00:01:36 ◼   ► only rule is she's she crammed sheesh I

00:01:39 ◼   ► did I listen to Christmas music nice

00:01:42 ◼   ► which is also a couples podcast because

00:01:44 ◼   ► it was couples and it was Christmas and

00:01:45 ◼   ► I thought it was closer on theme exactly

00:01:48 ◼   ► but you came with only one so I figured

00:01:51 ◼   ► if I came with 3 then at least I was

00:01:53 ◼   ► better than that I am doing less

00:01:55 ◼   ► terribly this year than I was last year

00:01:58 ◼   ► not by a massive amount but less

00:02:00 ◼   ► terribly so I have my list all

00:02:02 ◼   ► color-coded it's written in oh my dog

00:02:04 ◼   ► green and red alternating colors from my

00:02:08 ◼   ► letters it's pretty ACK wonderful yep

00:02:10 ◼   ► yes are you using

00:02:12 ◼   ► Oh

00:02:13 ◼   ► I took a look that up I can't I can't

00:02:15 ◼   ► right now I'll put it in the show notes

00:02:17 ◼   ► yeah that's right for the three fenders

00:02:20 ◼   ► in the audience mm-hmm it literally just

00:02:22 ◼   ► write it down on a piece of paper and

00:02:24 ◼   ► take a picture and put the picture yeah

00:02:26 ◼   ► in the show now the writing in the show

00:02:28 ◼   ► notes cuz ink people like that pen

00:02:30 ◼   ► people I mean why not just mail it to

00:02:32 ◼   ► people at that point I love mail people

00:02:33 ◼   ► the show notes if they do I'll mail them

00:02:40 ◼   ► things you send a self-addressed stamp

00:02:42 ◼   ► envelope you find us you send it I'll

00:02:44 ◼   ► send you some stuff you know you know

00:02:46 ◼   ► one person gonna do that I'll totally

00:02:47 ◼   ► put stuff in an envelope and send it to

00:02:49 ◼   ► them that's maybe so creepy happy

00:02:50 ◼   ► holidays it's a Christmas giveaway are

00:02:53 ◼   ► we ready I got my chamois blue now cuz

00:02:55 ◼   ► you had it so I figured all right it's

00:02:57 ◼   ► good thank you for the recommendation it

00:02:59 ◼   ► is good it's time for the top four

00:03:02 ◼   ► Christmas special doo doo doo doo doo

00:03:05 ◼   ► doo tinkle tinkle tinkle tinkle rapping

00:03:07 ◼   ► some jingles yeah so we are going to be

00:03:10 ◼   ► talking about our top four Christmas

00:03:11 ◼   ► movies with us the Armand's and on the

00:03:15 ◼   ► other line we have the snails hey snow

00:03:17 ◼   ► hello

00:03:18 ◼   ► now Lauren how many podcast I get the

00:03:22 ◼   ► impression from the incomparable beer

00:03:24 ◼   ► episode that you do podcasts at best

00:03:27 ◼   ► reluctantly yes that would be accurate

00:03:29 ◼   ► how did we convince you to do this he's

00:03:33 ◼   ► making me do it yeah literally he says

00:03:36 ◼   ► Marco and TIFF like it when couples are

00:03:38 ◼   ► on so I'm scheduling it for tomorrow

00:03:41 ◼   ► done that's basically how it if gets me

00:03:43 ◼   ► to do things like just like this is now

00:03:45 ◼   ► on the calendar and we're going okay

00:03:47 ◼   ► yeah yes exactly

00:03:49 ◼   ► did you guys cram did you watch any

00:03:51 ◼   ► movies in preparation or any parts of

00:03:53 ◼   ► movies no I'm afraid not I I feel like

00:03:57 ◼   ► this is uh yeah I feel like I'm a

00:03:59 ◼   ► student who wants to ask for just a

00:04:00 ◼   ► little more time it's like if only I'd

00:04:02 ◼   ► had more time to watch a couple more

00:04:03 ◼   ► Christmas movies but I haven't had a

00:04:04 ◼   ► chance well but see that do the nature

00:04:07 ◼   ► of Christmas movies do you really need

00:04:09 ◼   ► to see them right now or cuz like I

00:04:11 ◼   ► think I feel like most Christmas movies

00:04:13 ◼   ► people have seen like a thousand times

00:04:15 ◼   ► by now well that was sort of my theory

00:04:17 ◼   ► for how I came up with my list is the

00:04:19 ◼   ► ones that have meant enough to me that

00:04:21 ◼   ► I've watched many many many times those

00:04:23 ◼   ► are on the list and the ones that didn't

00:04:25 ◼   ► make the cut they didn't make the

00:04:27 ◼   ► yeah and for me there are a couple

00:04:28 ◼   ► movies that I realize I should probably

00:04:30 ◼   ► have I've only seen once or I've not

00:04:32 ◼   ► seen that I thought maybe I should

00:04:34 ◼   ► revisit for this but I didn't have

00:04:35 ◼   ► enough time so those are just not gonna

00:04:37 ◼   ► be on the list and you know I am

00:04:39 ◼   ► watching home alone for my cat the

00:04:41 ◼   ► movies so I will see that which I've

00:04:43 ◼   ► never seen literally never seen what you

00:04:46 ◼   ► seen it haven't seen home alone but I

00:04:49 ◼   ► will see it soon still haven't seen it

00:04:51 ◼   ► but okay so the criteria for our pix

00:04:54 ◼   ► Christmas movies and Christmas has to be

00:04:57 ◼   ► during the main plot points of the

00:04:59 ◼   ► movies my definition is very slightly

00:05:01 ◼   ► looser it's just like Christmas has to

00:05:04 ◼   ► happen during the movie in some kind of

00:05:06 ◼   ► noticeable way like it doesn't really

00:05:08 ◼   ► need to be about Christmas it has to

00:05:10 ◼   ► happen during Christmas I agree yeah

00:05:12 ◼   ► that's what I mean the plot it happened

00:05:14 ◼   ► during Christmas like you know there

00:05:16 ◼   ► should be Christmas lights in the

00:05:17 ◼   ► background there should be Christmas

00:05:18 ◼   ► trees for more than just like a scene

00:05:21 ◼   ► right if there was a Star Trek movie

00:05:22 ◼   ► where like Star Trek 13 the the the

00:05:26 ◼   ► saddest Christmas and they like had

00:05:28 ◼   ► lights on the bridge and that was about

00:05:29 ◼   ► it and there was like a tree in the

00:05:30 ◼   ► corner of Captain Picard's office or

00:05:32 ◼   ► something that would make it a Christmas

00:05:33 ◼   ► movie even though it's totally not that

00:05:35 ◼   ► counts all right so shall we get things

00:05:37 ◼   ► rolling let's um let's go with our

00:05:39 ◼   ► number four picks I I'd like to hear mr.

00:05:42 ◼   ► Snell first Jason I'm gonna choose

00:05:44 ◼   ► something that's not a movie but it is a

00:05:47 ◼   ► movie is it a TV movie it's it's a

00:05:49 ◼   ► special right so it's not a TV show but

00:05:51 ◼   ► it was aired on television they're

00:05:53 ◼   ► already breaking the rules no the first

00:05:55 ◼   ► second of the game here a Charlie Brown

00:06:00 ◼   ► Christmas

00:06:01 ◼   ► [Music]

00:06:09 ◼   ► nice that's good one that's on my short

00:06:12 ◼   ► list it is I love it so much I love the

00:06:14 ◼   ► music that is to me if I could only have

00:06:16 ◼   ► one album that I could play during the

00:06:19 ◼   ► holiday season it would be the Vince

00:06:21 ◼   ► Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas the the

00:06:23 ◼   ► jazz piano trio and I like I like the

00:06:27 ◼   ► story it is we did a hole or like half

00:06:30 ◼   ► an incomparable episode about it a while

00:06:32 ◼   ► ago but it's you know they use kid kids

00:06:35 ◼   ► to be the voices so they seem really

00:06:36 ◼   ► kind of innocent and authentic and you

00:06:39 ◼   ► know you get a plot where it's sort of a

00:06:40 ◼   ► setup and Lucy sets Charlie Brown up to

00:06:42 ◼   ► be the director of the Christmas play

00:06:43 ◼   ► which of course it's a disaster and so

00:06:46 ◼   ► she gets to blame Charlie Brown for it

00:06:48 ◼   ► but there's also kind of like a nice

00:06:50 ◼   ► message I'm not a religious person at

00:06:52 ◼   ► all but there's like a lioness does a

00:06:55 ◼   ► like quotes the Bible about the about

00:06:57 ◼   ► about Jesus's birth in it and I thought

00:07:00 ◼   ► like you know what it's a Christmas

00:07:02 ◼   ► pageant you should do that you should

00:07:04 ◼   ► probably do that it's sweet it's a it

00:07:06 ◼   ► stood the test of time it's like fifty

00:07:08 ◼   ► years old almost now I think and I yeah

00:07:11 ◼   ► and I it just makes me happy to watch it

00:07:13 ◼   ► the whole the whole thing and you know

00:07:15 ◼   ► you get your classic all your classic

00:07:17 ◼   ► Peanuts characters get their moment in

00:07:19 ◼   ► in the Sun so I think that's the

00:07:21 ◼   ► definitive I mean that was a great

00:07:24 ◼   ► pumpkin or the definitive Charlie Brown

00:07:25 ◼   ► specials but I love the Charlie Brown

00:07:27 ◼   ► Christmas and the music puts it over the

00:07:28 ◼   ► top for me we've been showing our son

00:07:30 ◼   ► the Charlie Brown movies and the other

00:07:31 ◼   ► day he called me a blockhead because

00:07:38 ◼   ► because because their heads are so round

00:07:41 ◼   ► so I'm curious one of the attributes of

00:07:45 ◼   ► Christmas movies is that many of them

00:07:46 ◼   ► are very old and I think some of them

00:07:49 ◼   ► hold up better than others over time

00:07:51 ◼   ► like when looked at from a modern point

00:07:53 ◼   ► of view how do you think this holds up

00:07:55 ◼   ► like you know because it's a very it's

00:07:57 ◼   ► very old what it was made like what in

00:07:58 ◼   ► the 50s you said I forgot a sixth it's

00:07:59 ◼   ► in the 60s so it's almost fifty years

00:08:01 ◼   ► old I think it holds it pretty well

00:08:04 ◼   ► I we just watched so like I said we

00:08:06 ◼   ► watched this and Frosty the Snowman I

00:08:10 ◼   ► think last year for the incomparable

00:08:12 ◼   ► might have been two years ago but I

00:08:13 ◼   ► think it was last year

00:08:14 ◼   ► and I don't think Frosty the Snowman

00:08:17 ◼   ► Rudolph we watch Rudolph the red-nosed

00:08:19 ◼   ► reindeer that's right it did not hold up

00:08:21 ◼   ► but Charlie Brown I think held up some

00:08:23 ◼   ► of that is going to be nostalgia but

00:08:25 ◼   ► it's so simple and because it's only a

00:08:28 ◼   ► you know it's not even an hour long it

00:08:30 ◼   ► was an hour show so it's probably like

00:08:32 ◼   ► 45 minutes long it you know it doesn't

00:08:35 ◼   ► stress astray in your attention and and

00:08:38 ◼   ► then I think the music really pushes it

00:08:41 ◼   ► over into the timelessness too because

00:08:43 ◼   ► that that is a yeah it doesn't feel

00:08:45 ◼   ► again I don't think it feels dated

00:08:47 ◼   ► partially because it's animated I think

00:08:49 ◼   ► it gets away with it but then again

00:08:50 ◼   ► Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is

00:08:52 ◼   ► animated and it is dated so no no no

00:08:54 ◼   ► yeah yeah I really like Charlie run

00:08:57 ◼   ► Christmas I even think during the

00:08:58 ◼   ► Christmas music episode I might have

00:09:00 ◼   ► picked a Charlie Brown Christmas song

00:09:02 ◼   ► all right great I think that's a really

00:09:04 ◼   ► fantastic quick yeah Lauren what's your

00:09:06 ◼   ► number four Oh see I'm gonna break the

00:09:08 ◼   ► rules too and I don't really have a

00:09:09 ◼   ► number four I got some stuff I could

00:09:11 ◼   ► give to you I have three movies that

00:09:14 ◼   ► mean a lot to me and I've watched them

00:09:16 ◼   ► many many many times and then I had I

00:09:19 ◼   ► could pick from a dozen other ones for

00:09:22 ◼   ► my fourth but I sort of thought that if

00:09:24 ◼   ► nothing rose to that specialness then it

00:09:26 ◼   ► shouldn't make the cut can you give us a

00:09:29 ◼   ► small taste of the short list that would

00:09:31 ◼   ► have been number four I like the movie

00:09:34 ◼   ► the ref which takes place all right at

00:09:37 ◼   ► Christmastime Denis Leary Denis Leary

00:09:43 ◼   ► and it's very funny but I haven't seen

00:09:45 ◼   ► it in years and years and I couldn't

00:09:47 ◼   ► talk about it intelligently the

00:09:49 ◼   ► childhood watching that has stuck with

00:09:52 ◼   ► me even though it's not very good is

00:09:54 ◼   ► Emma daughters jug-band Christmas I

00:09:57 ◼   ► don't know if any of you saw that oh my

00:10:00 ◼   ► gosh that rings such a bell it's like

00:10:02 ◼   ► this Muppet it's like off off-brand

00:10:04 ◼   ► Muppets story we actually don't have

00:10:07 ◼   ► those songs going through my head every

00:10:10 ◼   ► once in a while and it's very cheesy and

00:10:13 ◼   ► sweet but again I haven't seen that in

00:10:16 ◼   ► 20 or 30 years but I don't you know I'm

00:10:19 ◼   ► not gonna choose like the Tim L and

00:10:21 ◼   ► Santa Claus or something like that

00:10:22 ◼   ► because that those sorts of like Santa

00:10:24 ◼   ► themed movies are not my favorite I

00:10:26 ◼   ► apologize to to all Emmet otter fans it

00:10:30 ◼   ► is not off-brand Muppets it was a Jim

00:10:31 ◼   ► Henson production it's just Muppets

00:10:33 ◼   ► you've never really seen before and

00:10:35 ◼   ► never again say no I'm glad I mentioned

00:10:41 ◼   ► it there you go there's my number for

00:10:42 ◼   ► Emma daughters jug band Christmas look

00:10:44 ◼   ► at that we worked it out

00:10:45 ◼   ► I often work out my list on the air

00:10:48 ◼   ► almost every episode

00:10:50 ◼   ► alright TIFF what's your number four my

00:10:52 ◼   ► number four is home alone that's good

00:11:00 ◼   ► yeah it was good my references to movies

00:11:01 ◼   ► I haven't seen I have a problem with the

00:11:03 ◼   ► screen we just watched it last night

00:11:04 ◼   ► yeah we like as a refresher and this is

00:11:07 ◼   ► the first time we've seen it in year at

00:11:09 ◼   ► least 10 years so yeah we haven't seen

00:11:10 ◼   ► it in years and so we watched it this

00:11:12 ◼   ► time and let me tell you I remembered

00:11:14 ◼   ► every single line I could Marco is

00:11:17 ◼   ► starting to get a little bit annoyed

00:11:18 ◼   ► that I was starting to repeat all the

00:11:19 ◼   ► lines because man I just I knew them all

00:11:22 ◼   ► it was all of a sudden like you get that

00:11:24 ◼   ► Jing like a jingle from a commercial and

00:11:26 ◼   ► someone brings up the product and all of

00:11:28 ◼   ► a sudden you can just sing the jingle

00:11:30 ◼   ► you're like where did where did that

00:11:31 ◼   ► come from in my brain it was completely

00:11:33 ◼   ► and it was so it was right there anyway

00:11:35 ◼   ► so home alone makes the list because

00:11:37 ◼   ► it's just so classic it is the epitome

00:11:40 ◼   ► of like the 90s Christmas movie right

00:11:43 ◼   ► and that's exactly when I started

00:11:45 ◼   ► watching Christmas movies sure I watched

00:11:46 ◼   ► all of the older animated ones that my

00:11:48 ◼   ► mom grew up with that she then showed to

00:11:50 ◼   ► me and I have a very special place in my

00:11:53 ◼   ► heart for all those movies and I showed

00:11:54 ◼   ► them to my son

00:11:56 ◼   ► but home alone Christmas is pretty much

00:11:58 ◼   ► the epitome of like my childhood

00:12:00 ◼   ► Christmas and let me tell you this time

00:12:02 ◼   ► when we watched it I was really

00:12:05 ◼   ► sympathizing with the parent instead of

00:12:10 ◼   ► being like yeah there's also this

00:12:12 ◼   ► awesome punk kid who's like Chyna who's

00:12:14 ◼   ► setting up all these booby traps for

00:12:16 ◼   ► these guys and it's very exhilarating

00:12:18 ◼   ► and now I'm like finding holes in his

00:12:20 ◼   ► plan and I'm stressing out that the

00:12:22 ◼   ► mothers trying to get home to her son

00:12:25 ◼   ► but yeah I we just we really we liked it

00:12:29 ◼   ► I don't know how you felt I don't know

00:12:31 ◼   ► where it's gonna be on your list Marco

00:12:32 ◼   ► but I will tell you it is on my list but

00:12:36 ◼   ► I won't tell you where am I

00:12:38 ◼   ► but yeah it's like so it came out in

00:12:40 ◼   ► 1990 so it kind of straddles the 80s and

00:12:43 ◼   ► the 90s and you see every bit of that

00:12:45 ◼   ► like it is so incredibly like early 90s

00:12:48 ◼   ► production with late 80s fashion and

00:12:53 ◼   ► it's like it's basically like a Macaulay

00:12:55 ◼   ► Culkin like Italy this was kind of his

00:12:57 ◼   ► launch of the world right this was kind

00:12:58 ◼   ► of the map right this is why we know who

00:13:01 ◼   ► he is

00:13:01 ◼   ► exactly and his like his acting and

00:13:05 ◼   ► character is awfully forced but you know

00:13:07 ◼   ► he was young so that was kind of it was

00:13:08 ◼   ► an impressive job for somebody as young

00:13:10 ◼   ► as he was but but yeah yeah you sure get

00:13:14 ◼   ► a lot of him and I find him awfully like

00:13:18 ◼   ► shove down your throat and grading after

00:13:20 ◼   ► a while also the key gag to the movie

00:13:22 ◼   ► that that where he slaps his face and

00:13:24 ◼   ► screams by putting on the aftershave

00:13:25 ◼   ► makes no sense if anyone has ever used

00:13:28 ◼   ► after shave before you know that it only

00:13:30 ◼   ► stings if you have cuts all over your

00:13:32 ◼   ► face if you've shaved yeah which he

00:13:34 ◼   ► clearly didn't and even if he shaved he

00:13:38 ◼   ► had no cuts so unless he shaved with

00:13:40 ◼   ► like a 40 year old razor I don't see how

00:13:43 ◼   ► that would have possibly caused that

00:13:45 ◼   ► reaction especially two days in a row

00:13:47 ◼   ► which is when and how it happens in the

00:13:48 ◼   ► movie well I mean there's also a lot of

00:13:50 ◼   ► potholes in the movie where he could

00:13:52 ◼   ► have multiple times told an adult like

00:13:54 ◼   ► hello I am home alone please help me

00:13:57 ◼   ► find a police officer in order to help

00:13:58 ◼   ► me and because these two men are gonna

00:14:00 ◼   ► rob my house and I know it like there

00:14:02 ◼   ► are so nice putts where that could have

00:14:05 ◼   ► just ended the movie you know it's like

00:14:07 ◼   ► Oh policeman thank you for helping me

00:14:08 ◼   ► the end like that

00:14:09 ◼   ► that would have been it yeah but I also

00:14:12 ◼   ► I kind of found how to use all the weird

00:14:13 ◼   ► stuff in their basement right like she

00:14:15 ◼   ► has how many mannequins who has that

00:14:17 ◼   ► many mannequins in their basement that's

00:14:18 ◼   ► the scene that I love the where he's

00:14:20 ◼   ► staging the party that's my favorite why

00:14:23 ◼   ► do they have so many creepy mannequins

00:14:24 ◼   ► in their basement why are they all down

00:14:26 ◼   ► there we also noticed that like he's

00:14:27 ◼   ► very good at cleaning up after all of

00:14:29 ◼   ► his various pranks like yes the house is

00:14:31 ◼   ► spot like I guess you know he's nothing

00:14:33 ◼   ► else to do is like it doesn't it doesn't

00:14:34 ◼   ► appear that he really watches much TV

00:14:35 ◼   ► he doesn't seem to have a video game

00:14:37 ◼   ► system or a computer or anything so like

00:14:39 ◼   ► I think all he has to do was clean up

00:14:41 ◼   ► after all these pranks but this house is

00:14:43 ◼   ► spotless when he's done with it yeah

00:14:44 ◼   ► except for buzzes room but anyway um but

00:14:47 ◼   ► yeah and every good Christmas movie I

00:14:48 ◼   ► feel ends with an arrest so we can song

00:14:53 ◼   ► yep an arrest and a cheesy song so we

00:14:56 ◼   ► are good to go on that so that's why

00:14:57 ◼   ► home alone is my number four the only

00:15:00 ◼   ► thing I'll add to the home alone thing

00:15:01 ◼   ► here is that I really came away from

00:15:04 ◼   ► that movie watching it now as an adult

00:15:05 ◼   ► basically hating every member of the

00:15:07 ◼   ► family including Kevin the main

00:15:09 ◼   ► character like I like the mom she cares

00:15:11 ◼   ► so much he tried she's our kind of a

00:15:13 ◼   ► terrible mom and and like the kids are

00:15:16 ◼   ► all huge jerks like they are they

00:15:19 ◼   ► clearly have like no discipline

00:15:20 ◼   ► whatsoever there's no like they're all

00:15:22 ◼   ► acting out constantly and there's

00:15:24 ◼   ► clearly no repercussions for them ever

00:15:25 ◼   ► doing that and then like they the whole

00:15:27 ◼   ► point of movie is they forget their kid

00:15:29 ◼   ► and like they try to excuse it by like

00:15:30 ◼   ► oh they're rushing out of the house yeah

00:15:32 ◼   ► and yeah you know this this mother has

00:15:33 ◼   ► five kids okay would she really not

00:15:36 ◼   ► notice the youngest one not being there

00:15:39 ◼   ► for the whole preparation and departure

00:15:41 ◼   ► they didn't notice till halfway through

00:15:43 ◼   ► an international flight how like and

00:15:45 ◼   ► none of his siblings noticed either

00:15:48 ◼   ► including like the sister that seems to

00:15:49 ◼   ► kind of look out for him like none of

00:15:51 ◼   ► those people cared like these people

00:15:53 ◼   ► every member of this family is a

00:15:55 ◼   ► complete jerk at best like but yet it's

00:15:58 ◼   ► on your list they're horrible I can't

00:16:00 ◼   ► say that we were my family was skiing

00:16:03 ◼   ► once and left the resort and left my

00:16:08 ◼   ► sister behind see it happens really Wow

00:16:11 ◼   ► so Wow

00:16:12 ◼   ► what were the conditions are like how

00:16:14 ◼   ► many how many kids are in your family

00:16:15 ◼   ► the two of us I noticed and said Erica's

00:16:20 ◼   ► not in the car and they said haha

00:16:23 ◼   ► very

00:16:23 ◼   ► and kept driving you stupid kid

00:16:28 ◼   ► I mean they drove like a mile they did

00:16:30 ◼   ► not take an international flight away

00:16:32 ◼   ► from their child what kind of vehicle

00:16:34 ◼   ► was that was there a rearview mirror in

00:16:35 ◼   ► this vehicle like what kind of car was

00:16:37 ◼   ► this in the van you know okay and she

00:16:40 ◼   ► just I don't know didn't get in the car

00:16:42 ◼   ► or whatever and I thought that's funny

00:16:44 ◼   ► oh wait they're leaving I should say

00:16:46 ◼   ► something so I said something and they

00:16:48 ◼   ► thought haha very funny and kept driving

00:16:51 ◼   ► see so is totally plausible with five

00:16:53 ◼   ► children they would frazzle the crap out

00:16:55 ◼   ► of you it's crazy

00:16:56 ◼   ► no one noticed the empty seat on the

00:16:58 ◼   ► plane next to them I'm imagining I'm

00:17:01 ◼   ► imagining Lauren asking this question

00:17:03 ◼   ► and the parents are like don't ask any

00:17:05 ◼   ► questions

00:17:06 ◼   ► we're fine

00:17:10 ◼   ► this movie also has very good music yes

00:17:12 ◼   ► it does have very good music very it's

00:17:15 ◼   ► very good it's very iconic I like the

00:17:17 ◼   ► theme changes throughout the whole thing

00:17:19 ◼   ► I think it's very I think it's good and

00:17:21 ◼   ► the mini movie within the movie right

00:17:25 ◼   ► filthy Angels of Death it's like no it's

00:17:28 ◼   ► like filthy minded angels or something

00:17:30 ◼   ► like that yeah something like that we

00:17:31 ◼   ► lift it up it so this is like the it's

00:17:33 ◼   ► the famous like black and white gangster

00:17:35 ◼   ► movie that Kevin uses in the movie as I

00:17:38 ◼   ► said I think science filthy minds yeah

00:17:40 ◼   ► and it's a and and you can actually

00:17:42 ◼   ► release this as a DVD extra and you can

00:17:44 ◼   ► get it you can find the whole thing on

00:17:45 ◼   ► YouTube it's only a minute 20 so Jason

00:17:47 ◼   ► you should watch that it was a fake

00:17:48 ◼   ► gangster movie that they made just for

00:17:50 ◼   ► use in the movie like this it's even

00:17:52 ◼   ► funnier when you watch it by itself

00:17:54 ◼   ► because it's so bad and the it sound

00:17:57 ◼   ► like they shot it in like one day and

00:17:58 ◼   ► it's this little fake me with it it is

00:18:01 ◼   ► incredible to watch that by itself I was

00:18:03 ◼   ► so happy I did that angels with filthy

00:18:05 ◼   ► souls that's it there we go good

00:18:07 ◼   ► real-time follow yeah it's it's the keep

00:18:10 ◼   ► the change you filled the animal like

00:18:11 ◼   ► that that movie oh man it's so great so

00:18:13 ◼   ► that's a minute 20 well-spent so yeah

00:18:16 ◼   ► that that was that was interesting it

00:18:17 ◼   ► but overall do you think that you know

00:18:20 ◼   ► based on the the actions that Kevin took

00:18:23 ◼   ► against the burglars the the violence

00:18:26 ◼   ► that was involved in these actions and

00:18:28 ◼   ► the joy he got out of this do you think

00:18:30 ◼   ► Kevin's kind of a psychopath and do you

00:18:32 ◼   ► think he would probably grow up to be an

00:18:34 ◼   ► adult who would be in jail I don't know

00:18:36 ◼   ► maybe after

00:18:37 ◼   ► this experience he's calmed down but I

00:18:39 ◼   ► mean they set it all up that he's like

00:18:41 ◼   ► making weird stuff out of fish hooks in

00:18:42 ◼   ► the basement and Linc

00:18:43 ◼   ► you know he's a gadget he's a tinkerer

00:18:46 ◼   ► you kinda get the feeling that he didn't

00:18:48 ◼   ► tell the police because he wanted to

00:18:50 ◼   ► fight them yeah he did like otally

00:18:52 ◼   ► wanted he seemed to take a lot of joy

00:18:53 ◼   ► out of causing these people pain yeah

00:18:56 ◼   ► like that it was if you look at it as an

00:18:58 ◼   ► adult it's pretty sick yeah he is kind

00:19:01 ◼   ► of a creepy kid you should watch out for

00:19:03 ◼   ► him like in the neighborhood pet five

00:19:05 ◼   ► more years he sent in cats on fire oh

00:19:08 ◼   ► now I have a whole new light for Kevin

00:19:09 ◼   ► McHale he's basically SID oh stop it

00:19:12 ◼   ► he's not dead but we like said said said

00:19:14 ◼   ► turns out fine he turns out to be very

00:19:16 ◼   ► good drumming garbage man that's exactly

00:19:19 ◼   ► all right so for the sake of continuity

00:19:22 ◼   ► I will say that home alone reached my

00:19:24 ◼   ► number three on my slot my number four

00:19:26 ◼   ► however is die hard

00:19:29 ◼   ► oh no it's Christmas Eve in LA because

00:19:41 ◼   ► die hard is a movie that happens at

00:19:44 ◼   ► Christmas it is nothing to do it sort of

00:19:50 ◼   ► does really kill they kill people at a

00:19:53 ◼   ► Christmas party Marco just saw a

00:19:58 ◼   ► barefoot blood party for the first time

00:20:01 ◼   ► yep skyscraper yeah it is such a good

00:20:05 ◼   ► movie for a Christmas movie you know if

00:20:08 ◼   ► I had to make my top my list of top four

00:20:10 ◼   ► action movies you know I'm I don't think

00:20:11 ◼   ► it would make the list it's not it isn't

00:20:12 ◼   ► that good but don't give it away next

00:20:15 ◼   ► episode of man but this movies is pretty

00:20:18 ◼   ► low in my opinion so because I don't get

00:20:20 ◼   ► a ton of joy out of Christmas movies and

00:20:22 ◼   ► most of them are terrible and I'm tired

00:20:24 ◼   ► of them so this one having only seen it

00:20:25 ◼   ► once so far it's really good because

00:20:29 ◼   ► you've seen it yes that is true

00:20:31 ◼   ► so Marco I will tell you I think it may

00:20:34 ◼   ► rise in your estimation if you see it

00:20:35 ◼   ► again because I liked it the first time

00:20:37 ◼   ► I saw it but now I consider it a classic

00:20:39 ◼   ► like I think it's one of the all-time

00:20:40 ◼   ► action movies too it's certainly it was

00:20:43 ◼   ► number three on my list so we've just

00:20:44 ◼   ► stepped ahead through my

00:20:46 ◼   ► but you know diehard yeah it is it is it

00:20:51 ◼   ► is legitimately a Christmas movie and an

00:20:52 ◼   ► action movie at the same time and I

00:20:54 ◼   ► think it gets better the more the more

00:20:56 ◼   ► you watch it because there's a lot going

00:20:57 ◼   ► on in diehard there's a lot of little

00:20:59 ◼   ► little touches that are that are really

00:21:01 ◼   ► nice on multiple viewings I think you

00:21:04 ◼   ► have to save it for Christmas though to

00:21:05 ◼   ► really make it a Christmas movie you

00:21:07 ◼   ► have to save watching it for Christmas

00:21:09 ◼   ► that's what I do now yeah I mean Argyle

00:21:10 ◼   ► there's a bear in the limo it's a red

00:21:13 ◼   ► bow on there's a red bow on the bear and

00:21:15 ◼   ► the and the ode to joy' is again music

00:21:18 ◼   ► key I think we've learned this now that

00:21:20 ◼   ► all of us agree music is key and all of

00:21:23 ◼   ► these things

00:21:23 ◼   ► 0:02 joy and the way it's used in die

00:21:26 ◼   ► hard is fantastic yeah of all the

00:21:28 ◼   ► Christmas movies that I'm forced to

00:21:30 ◼   ► watch every year because everyone

00:21:31 ◼   ► watches them every year because they're

00:21:33 ◼   ► on or whatever I'd be totally fine

00:21:36 ◼   ► watching die hard alright it's permanent

00:21:38 ◼   ► date then yeah so yeah my number for

00:21:41 ◼   ► diehard number three home alone so Marco

00:21:43 ◼   ► you just saw diehard for the first time

00:21:45 ◼   ► and TIFF didn't you only see diehard

00:21:48 ◼   ► after we did that low definition episode

00:21:50 ◼   ► last year I did it was pretty much right

00:21:52 ◼   ► after we watched it around Christmastime

00:21:53 ◼   ► for right after load F beside home I

00:21:56 ◼   ► went home and told my friends who live

00:21:58 ◼   ► down the street that we always watch

00:21:59 ◼   ► movies with that I never seen it and

00:22:01 ◼   ► they freaked out there like this one of

00:22:02 ◼   ► our favorite movies what's wrong with

00:22:04 ◼   ► you so I watched it we get that a lot

00:22:06 ◼   ► right after that and with the same

00:22:07 ◼   ► friends we just I showed it to Marco so

00:22:10 ◼   ► I have seen it twice now which is I

00:22:12 ◼   ► really like it and actually it's kind of

00:22:16 ◼   ► tied for my number 300 cheater so but

00:22:21 ◼   ► I'll wait for Lauren's tell her number

00:22:23 ◼   ► three because I think it's her turn

00:22:24 ◼   ► unless we want to keep talking about die

00:22:25 ◼   ► hard because we can because I love die

00:22:28 ◼   ► hard a lot just throw that in there

00:22:30 ◼   ► that's great

00:22:31 ◼   ► Argyle there's the the cop outside and

00:22:35 ◼   ► hans gruper terrorist mastermind who

00:22:39 ◼   ► just wants to make money and yeah and

00:22:42 ◼   ► they kill and they kill they kill people

00:22:45 ◼   ► at the Christmas party

00:22:46 ◼   ► so yeah thumbs up to die hard is what

00:22:48 ◼   ► I'm saying you gotta get a little blood

00:22:49 ◼   ► in there blood is red red is one of the

00:22:52 ◼   ► colors of Christmas that's true and I

00:22:53 ◼   ► would never realized that that famous

00:22:55 ◼   ► line yippee-ki-yay mother

00:22:58 ◼   ► in diehard yeah that's that's that's

00:23:01 ◼   ► where it's from and now you TIF you

00:23:03 ◼   ► understand all those fake titles we made

00:23:05 ◼   ► for it like lonely Christmas cop and

00:23:06 ◼   ► their foot blood party they're always so

00:23:08 ◼   ► much more fun and I mean so so I think

00:23:11 ◼   ► the other thing I want to say about die

00:23:12 ◼   ► hard before we move on is what's great

00:23:14 ◼   ► about die hard in is that it it was so

00:23:17 ◼   ► influential in making other movies and

00:23:19 ◼   ► TV shows who are like hey you know what

00:23:21 ◼   ► if we have like one person who's trapped

00:23:24 ◼   ► somewhere with bad people around them we

00:23:27 ◼   ► could just keep changing what the places

00:23:29 ◼   ► where they're trapped and we can keep

00:23:30 ◼   ► making movies and it's not just the die

00:23:32 ◼   ► hard movies it's like lots of other

00:23:33 ◼   ► movies and TV shows yeah and there's um

00:23:37 ◼   ► there's the one with Van Damme where

00:23:40 ◼   ► he's like on a boat it's like die hard

00:23:42 ◼   ► on a boat we could do that sure let's do

00:23:44 ◼   ► that I mean that's every actually like

00:23:46 ◼   ► the whole Bourne series the transporter

00:23:48 ◼   ► series like there's a lot of action

00:23:49 ◼   ► movies well their friend Jeremy he calls

00:23:51 ◼   ► it I'm a man pushed too far yeah

00:23:53 ◼   ► yeah and then and then you know trapped

00:23:54 ◼   ► in his he's the one one man can do this

00:23:57 ◼   ► in a so very influential to but I love

00:24:00 ◼   ► it okay I'm all set up now my number

00:24:03 ◼   ► three is elf which is my modern favorite

00:24:10 ◼   ► Christmas I don't think I've ever seen

00:24:14 ◼   ► elf well now you have something to go

00:24:18 ◼   ► see with your friends down the street

00:24:20 ◼   ► he's an angry elf it's fabulous it's why

00:24:23 ◼   ► is this like Bad Santa

00:24:24 ◼   ► Will Ferrell this is Will Ferrell you've

00:24:27 ◼   ► already lost us what we know that Will

00:24:30 ◼   ► Ferrel commit yeah sorry we don't know

00:24:34 ◼   ► here's the thing

00:24:34 ◼   ► there are lots of reasons not to like

00:24:36 ◼   ► Will Ferrell but Will Ferrell at his

00:24:38 ◼   ► best is it's taking okay this is my

00:24:41 ◼   ► number one well Will Ferrell has lots of

00:24:49 ◼   ► issues but the thing that he's best at

00:24:51 ◼   ► is committing full-bore to the give him

00:24:54 ◼   ► the most ridiculous premise and he will

00:24:57 ◼   ► just go to the wall with that premise he

00:24:58 ◼   ► doesn't he has no fear that's fast as a

00:25:00 ◼   ► performer he will just do it and it can

00:25:03 ◼   ► be annoying but in elf it is perfect

00:25:07 ◼   ► it's like Jack Black in School of Rock

00:25:08 ◼   ► it's sort of like the perfect part for

00:25:11 ◼   ► the actor

00:25:12 ◼   ► and so yeah he's an elf he's a he's a

00:25:14 ◼   ► six-foot tall human being who fails he's

00:25:17 ◼   ► a Christmas elf he was adopted by elves

00:25:19 ◼   ► he's a human adopted by elves and he was

00:25:21 ◼   ► adopted by Bob Newhart and Bob Newhart

00:25:23 ◼   ► hey this Papa elf small part that's just

00:25:26 ◼   ► wonderful and I love bombed Newhart in

00:25:28 ◼   ► anything that he does and then when he

00:25:30 ◼   ► finds out that he's not actually an elf

00:25:33 ◼   ► he goes through New York City I'm has

00:25:35 ◼   ► adventures in New York City finding his

00:25:37 ◼   ► real father who is James Caan

00:25:40 ◼   ► yeah it's also wonderful and there's a

00:25:42 ◼   ► little romance and there's little Zooey

00:25:44 ◼   ► Deschanel is a sort of a romance

00:25:46 ◼   ► Charming but he's a childlike character

00:25:48 ◼   ► so he doesn't understand how to interact

00:25:50 ◼   ► with her and that leads to some more

00:25:52 ◼   ► comedy I do like her bangs uh yeah and

00:25:54 ◼   ► she's got me good she's got a good

00:25:55 ◼   ► musical they're a couple good musical

00:25:57 ◼   ► numbers you got to have music and that

00:25:58 ◼   ► the idea also you know of taking

00:26:01 ◼   ► something fantasy and trying to make it

00:26:03 ◼   ► apply literal like real world rules to

00:26:06 ◼   ► it so the idea of Will Ferrell thinks

00:26:09 ◼   ► that the world is like a rankin/bass

00:26:12 ◼   ► animation special from the 60s and then

00:26:16 ◼   ► he is he encounters the real world of

00:26:18 ◼   ► New York City and is horribly mistaken

00:26:20 ◼   ► about how things work and it's great

00:26:23 ◼   ► continually upbeat and positive and

00:26:25 ◼   ► happy and and enthusiastic about

00:26:29 ◼   ► everything about people's names about

00:26:33 ◼   ► lousy coffee shops serving here I have

00:26:36 ◼   ► air quotes the world's best cup of

00:26:38 ◼   ► coffee yeah he walks into the world's

00:26:39 ◼   ► best coffee just grungy diner in New

00:26:44 ◼   ► York and says congratulations everybody

00:26:45 ◼   ► right I mean it's he's super

00:26:47 ◼   ► enthusiastic about everything sounds

00:26:50 ◼   ► kind of like blast from the past I

00:26:51 ◼   ► haven't seen that oh other any movies

00:26:55 ◼   ► that all of us have seen that you watch

00:27:02 ◼   ► with your family yearly yes we do every

00:27:04 ◼   ► every year and in fact when I mentioned

00:27:06 ◼   ► that I had I had to come on the podcast

00:27:08 ◼   ► tonight and talk about elf the kids

00:27:11 ◼   ► immediately wanted to then go watch elf

00:27:13 ◼   ► right then yeah it is it is it's it's

00:27:17 ◼   ► funny it is not a kids movie but kids

00:27:18 ◼   ► are great with it it's like it's a

00:27:20 ◼   ► perfect holiday kind of family level

00:27:22 ◼   ► there is a weird subplot at the end

00:27:24 ◼   ► where

00:27:25 ◼   ► these sort of evil mounted police from

00:27:30 ◼   ► New York City

00:27:31 ◼   ► are they're kind of portrayed like the

00:27:33 ◼   ► like the nazgûl and Lord of the Rings

00:27:35 ◼   ► they're like super evil diabolical but

00:27:38 ◼   ► and they're trying to get Santa's sleigh

00:27:40 ◼   ► and that and you know that they have to

00:27:42 ◼   ► you have to believe in Santa at the end

00:27:43 ◼   ► and it's like it's almost like the

00:27:45 ◼   ► obligatory Christmas movie ending but

00:27:47 ◼   ► just the the laughs are great

00:27:50 ◼   ► Will Ferrell again there's a scene where

00:27:53 ◼   ► he they have spaghetti with the family

00:27:55 ◼   ► with his adopted or his his natural

00:27:58 ◼   ► family James Caan's

00:28:00 ◼   ► son and wife who he finds and he insists

00:28:04 ◼   ► on putting maple syrup all over

00:28:06 ◼   ► everything it's just hilarious it's

00:28:08 ◼   ► great so yeah I mean even if you don't

00:28:11 ◼   ► like Will Ferrell III gotta recommend

00:28:13 ◼   ► elf

00:28:13 ◼   ► it was my number one two and it's just

00:28:16 ◼   ► it's nice and funny and he is

00:28:18 ◼   ► relentlessly positive in a world that is

00:28:20 ◼   ► trying to crush his spirit and he never

00:28:23 ◼   ► allows it to be crushed it's amazing

00:28:24 ◼   ► Peter Dinklage is in it and is fantastic

00:28:28 ◼   ► yeah Peter Dinklage is a is a I will say

00:28:31 ◼   ► their portrayal of the publishing

00:28:32 ◼   ► industry is not accurate because

00:28:35 ◼   ► literally making up children's books on

00:28:38 ◼   ► Christmas Eve in order to publish two

00:28:43 ◼   ► weeks later I mean it's it's but they do

00:28:45 ◼   ► hire Peter Dinklage as a high-priced

00:28:47 ◼   ► freelance children's book writer and of

00:28:50 ◼   ► course Will Ferrell thinks he's an elf

00:28:51 ◼   ► and bad things happen so it's yeah it's

00:28:55 ◼   ► good it's very good and a good cast

00:28:58 ◼   ► I'm only to give it a shot yeah I give

00:28:59 ◼   ► it a shot yeah basically I mean your

00:29:02 ◼   ► very own recommendation and it sounds

00:29:03 ◼   ► like it's basically blast from the last

00:29:05 ◼   ► time I passed but at Christmas yeah

00:29:07 ◼   ► every Will Ferrell movie that people

00:29:09 ◼   ► have said you have to watch this movie

00:29:10 ◼   ► because it's Will Ferrell it's just

00:29:11 ◼   ► amazing it's not like his other movies I

00:29:13 ◼   ► haven't liked it so huh

00:29:15 ◼   ► give this give this a try you might like

00:29:17 ◼   ► this a lot of Will Ferrell it is that's

00:29:19 ◼   ► right that's right but I think in the

00:29:22 ◼   ► best way possible we have open minds

00:29:24 ◼   ► look I should give tip a lot more of the

00:29:26 ◼   ► disgusting pumpkin spice Bailey's like

00:29:30 ◼   ► there you go there you go and see if we

00:29:34 ◼   ► still need your number three right yeah

00:29:35 ◼   ► I have a tie diehard and while you were

00:29:38 ◼   ► sleeping it is at Christmas I've seen

00:29:45 ◼   ► I've seen it but I didn't know that it

00:29:47 ◼   ► was at Christmas yeah the majority of

00:29:50 ◼   ► the movie happens between right before

00:29:52 ◼   ► Christmas and it's the plot is kind of

00:29:55 ◼   ► centered on it being Christmas and then

00:29:57 ◼   ► it goes through to New Year's so okay so

00:30:00 ◼   ► all the romantic comedies that you watch

00:30:02 ◼   ► while I'm working blend together in my

00:30:03 ◼   ► head but is this the one where the woman

00:30:05 ◼   ► pretends to be the girlfriend of the

00:30:07 ◼   ► dude in a coma yeah nailed it

00:30:08 ◼   ► yep okay and I like this really like I

00:30:11 ◼   ► love Sandra Bullock in this one she is

00:30:14 ◼   ► very less makeup

00:30:16 ◼   ► you know she's usually like the every

00:30:18 ◼   ► girl every woman kind of thing and you

00:30:20 ◼   ► know a lot of her romantic comedies and

00:30:22 ◼   ► I really like that about her I kind of

00:30:24 ◼   ► wanna be Sandra Bullock I kind of want

00:30:26 ◼   ► her hair and like you're here well it

00:30:29 ◼   ► looks a lot like a girl's hair so thanks

00:30:34 ◼   ► except in practical magic it is huge and

00:30:36 ◼   ► amazing just just very long still looks

00:30:38 ◼   ► like my hair but that's the crazy witch

00:30:39 ◼   ► movie where they killed the guy in the

00:30:40 ◼   ► car right there is every there's a

00:30:42 ◼   ► season for every Sandra Bullock movie

00:30:44 ◼   ► like movie for every holiday so I just I

00:30:50 ◼   ► really like it I've seen it a lot so

00:30:52 ◼   ► it's very a very comforting movie to me

00:30:54 ◼   ► and I think it's heartwarming

00:30:57 ◼   ► she you know lost her dad she's a load

00:30:59 ◼   ► on Christmas she watches she works at a

00:31:02 ◼   ► toll booth in Chicago and she takes

00:31:05 ◼   ► tokens from people back when there was

00:31:06 ◼   ► tokens this man that keeps you know

00:31:09 ◼   ► going by to go to work every day she

00:31:11 ◼   ► sees him he's beautiful she falls in

00:31:13 ◼   ► love with him kind of like from afar

00:31:15 ◼   ► admiring him he ends up getting mugged

00:31:17 ◼   ► and falling into the tracks she jumps

00:31:20 ◼   ► into the tracks and saves him and then

00:31:22 ◼   ► comedy ensues where she accidentally her

00:31:25 ◼   ► family thinks that she's then engaged

00:31:28 ◼   ► this man who's in a coma and then she

00:31:30 ◼   ► falls in love with her his brother who's

00:31:32 ◼   ► not in a coma and it's very heartwarming

00:31:34 ◼   ► it's very family at Christmas there's

00:31:37 ◼   ► some funny lines there's a there's a

00:31:38 ◼   ► weird romantic character and at Joe

00:31:41 ◼   ► junior who's like this typical

00:31:44 ◼   ► Chicago guy he's like I got tickets to

00:31:46 ◼   ► the Ice Capades and so you know there's

00:31:47 ◼   ► there's good lines anyway it's pretty

00:31:49 ◼   ► weak but I like it and it makes me feel

00:31:51 ◼   ► good that I put it on my list I was

00:31:53 ◼   ► almost gonna leave it off because it

00:31:55 ◼   ► isn't a super popular awesome movie like

00:31:58 ◼   ► a lot of the ones that we are probably

00:32:00 ◼   ► talking about or going to talk about my

00:32:02 ◼   ► line that's why I taught it's tied with

00:32:04 ◼   ► die hard because I couldn't decide to

00:32:07 ◼   ► very similar movies office die guard or

00:32:10 ◼   ► while you were sleeping

00:32:11 ◼   ► number three is a sweet movie it's a

00:32:13 ◼   ► sweet movie I have to see them both at

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00:36:36 ◼   ► Harry Met Sally it is it is Christmas

00:36:49 ◼   ► happens several times we watch it most

00:36:53 ◼   ► years between Christmas and New Year's

00:36:55 ◼   ► New Year's Eve is more purchased the

00:36:57 ◼   ► largest plot points happen probably at

00:36:59 ◼   ► New Year's but there's a lot of

00:37:00 ◼   ► Christmas as well I've seen that movie

00:37:04 ◼   ► I don't know dozens of times yeah and it

00:37:07 ◼   ► does take place over the holidays and

00:37:09 ◼   ► has a holiday feel to me see so we're

00:37:12 ◼   ► gonna throw it in there with why your

00:37:13 ◼   ► wishes sleeping in the in the holiday

00:37:15 ◼   ► set romantic comedy Auckland because

00:37:19 ◼   ► Harry yeah Harry like helps Sally buy a

00:37:21 ◼   ► tree and and yeah he declares his love

00:37:24 ◼   ► for her on New Year's Eve in New York

00:37:28 ◼   ► City and there's a lot of there's a lot

00:37:29 ◼   ► of Christmas music in the soundtrack

00:37:31 ◼   ► from Harry Connick and from Frank

00:37:34 ◼   ► Sinatra yeah there's a Tony Bennett in

00:37:36 ◼   ► there too it's Tony Bennett's when a

00:37:37 ◼   ► winter wonderland at one point I I

00:37:40 ◼   ► definitely think of that as a holiday

00:37:42 ◼   ► movie i I that I didn't put that on my

00:37:45 ◼   ► list because I knew Lauren would put it

00:37:46 ◼   ► on their list so it's it's one of my

00:37:48 ◼   ► runners-up but it is one of my favorites

00:37:50 ◼   ► and it is a for me it is yeah it's more

00:37:52 ◼   ► New Year's movie than a Christmas movie

00:37:54 ◼   ► but it's definitely Christmas in New

00:37:55 ◼   ► Year's that is the those are the key

00:37:57 ◼   ► times when When Harry Met Sally happens

00:37:59 ◼   ► and that's a that's just a classic

00:38:02 ◼   ► romantic comedy Nora Ephron wrote it Rob

00:38:04 ◼   ► Reiner directed it you have to believe

00:38:06 ◼   ► the Billy Crystal would somehow snag meg

00:38:10 ◼   ► Ryan which not keep her back yeah

00:38:14 ◼   ► and of course spoilers for when Terry

00:38:16 ◼   ► Met Sally they end up together at the

00:38:18 ◼   ► end if you've never seen a romantic

00:38:20 ◼   ► comedy before yeah so they have one

00:38:23 ◼   ► scene where they're getting the tree

00:38:24 ◼   ► together

00:38:25 ◼   ► and they nobody has a car in New York

00:38:27 ◼   ► City so they're carrying the tree to her

00:38:29 ◼   ► apartment and then the next year when

00:38:30 ◼   ► they're fighting she has to struggle

00:38:33 ◼   ► with the tree getting it herself

00:38:35 ◼   ► I think of it at the hall yeah and they

00:38:38 ◼   ► go to a Christmas party and there's the

00:38:39 ◼   ► it's definitely that week between

00:38:41 ◼   ► Christmas and New Year's is key

00:38:42 ◼   ► including yeah and getting Christmas

00:38:44 ◼   ► trees and things like that I think it

00:38:45 ◼   ► counts totally counts that sounds like a

00:38:47 ◼   ► totally house I didn't see it on any of

00:38:49 ◼   ► the lists we did some basic research of

00:38:52 ◼   ► what are equivalent Christmas movies

00:38:54 ◼   ► give us a tremendous list Internet and

00:38:56 ◼   ► yeah yeah didn't see it on there but I

00:38:58 ◼   ► think I think that's legit how you

00:39:00 ◼   ► explain so we we did an incomparable

00:39:02 ◼   ► episode a few years ago about the that

00:39:03 ◼   ► we've done a series of them that are

00:39:05 ◼   ► like the holiday movie vault the holiday

00:39:07 ◼   ► vault what do you put in there like your

00:39:08 ◼   ► go-to ones and I was surprised that one

00:39:10 ◼   ► of my panelists a couple years ago put

00:39:12 ◼   ► When Harry Met Sally in there like I

00:39:14 ◼   ► loved this movie I always watch this

00:39:16 ◼   ► during the holidays and I thought oh me

00:39:17 ◼   ► too so I guess it's not just us right so

00:39:20 ◼   ► so yeah it's not just us it's definitely

00:39:22 ◼   ► uh in that house Christmas New Year's in

00:39:25 ◼   ► their holiday category so I'm not a huge

00:39:28 ◼   ► I don't have a lot of knowledge about

00:39:30 ◼   ► romantic comedies but how many of them

00:39:33 ◼   ► don't happen during Christmas time yeah

00:39:42 ◼   ► I don't know I mean it's a good time

00:39:44 ◼   ► right because ever all I think it's a

00:39:46 ◼   ► perfect time for a romantic comedy or an

00:39:48 ◼   ► action movie like die hard because the

00:39:49 ◼   ► movies are heightened right exactly

00:39:51 ◼   ► emotions are heightened at the holidays

00:39:53 ◼   ► so it just adds that extra level of

00:39:55 ◼   ► tension or operatic you know just like

00:39:58 ◼   ► everything's bigger at the holidays

00:40:00 ◼   ► because it's like instead of like you

00:40:02 ◼   ► killed my family it's you killed my

00:40:04 ◼   ► family and it's Christmas it's like that

00:40:07 ◼   ► much more it's also isn't isn't the the

00:40:10 ◼   ► fall and winter peak movie season for

00:40:12 ◼   ► releasing them for like money and

00:40:13 ◼   ► Academy Award consideration purposes

00:40:15 ◼   ► your romantic comedies get Academy

00:40:17 ◼   ► Awards not very often

00:40:19 ◼   ► no but I mean I think they either come

00:40:21 ◼   ► out in February during Valentine's Day

00:40:23 ◼   ► or they maybe come out in the holiday

00:40:24 ◼   ► season you don't usually get the

00:40:26 ◼   ► summertime romantic comedies right all

00:40:30 ◼   ► right

00:40:31 ◼   ► number two Jason okay so I I'm gonna

00:40:35 ◼   ► make my wife unhappy because I'm

00:40:37 ◼   ► probably

00:40:38 ◼   ► number one and by going from 4 to 1 it

00:40:41 ◼   ► means everybody's everybody who's got

00:40:43 ◼   ► more enthusiasm than you gets sniped by

00:40:46 ◼   ► you but wait wait so so we should we

00:40:48 ◼   ► leave your pick then to that to the end

00:40:49 ◼   ► of the round and then we can merge the

00:40:52 ◼   ► two ones

00:40:52 ◼   ► well the two and oh that's a great idea

00:40:54 ◼   ► that's a great so I'm gonna pass because

00:40:57 ◼   ► my number two is undoubtedly my wife's

00:40:59 ◼   ► number one yeah

00:41:00 ◼   ► all right couples podcasting we know so

00:41:03 ◼   ► we don't spoil right okay I spoil anyway

00:41:05 ◼   ► Tiff's good idea all right are you gonna

00:41:07 ◼   ► pick my number - oh I'm scared maybe my

00:41:10 ◼   ► number - is your number I don't know I

00:41:12 ◼   ► don't know because that was a romantic

00:41:14 ◼   ► comedy that was really high in the list

00:41:15 ◼   ► mine's kind of like the ultimate

00:41:16 ◼   ► romantic comedy does that ring a bell no

00:41:18 ◼   ► no okay good

00:41:20 ◼   ► Love Actually is my number two

00:41:28 ◼   ► [Music]

00:41:34 ◼   ► I thought about that yeah and it is

00:41:36 ◼   ► alright I have grown to love it more

00:41:39 ◼   ► each year because I watch it with my

00:41:41 ◼   ► best friend so we have that together

00:41:44 ◼   ► that we like hang out and drink some

00:41:46 ◼   ► wine and do some Christmas crafts and

00:41:48 ◼   ► watch Love Actually and quoted a lot

00:41:50 ◼   ► that made me love it more than I think I

00:41:54 ◼   ► normally would have also I really like

00:41:57 ◼   ► Hugh Grant so that's a big thumbs up

00:42:00 ◼   ► yeah so I like the little bits of

00:42:02 ◼   ► stories here and there but I kind of

00:42:03 ◼   ► tied with Love Actually I mean there's

00:42:06 ◼   ► so much to say about love love actually

00:42:08 ◼   ► actually actually but is this the one

00:42:12 ◼   ► where they where the guy like it's a

00:42:14 ◼   ► house and like sleeper there yeah that

00:42:18 ◼   ► happens usually there's a stranger in

00:42:19 ◼   ► and then all of a sudden they're in love

00:42:20 ◼   ► like it's Canada is that that one or

00:42:23 ◼   ► there's a different one I don't know

00:42:24 ◼   ► what you're talking about

00:42:25 ◼   ► no they all they all blend together for

00:42:27 ◼   ► me this is like I'll begin at the end

00:42:29 ◼   ► when it's like about to be like the

00:42:31 ◼   ► romantic finally they get two kids and

00:42:33 ◼   ► you're like what's this movie or

00:42:37 ◼   ► something this is the payout that's what

00:42:46 ◼   ► you wait for

00:42:48 ◼   ► every time it is and I just posit my

00:42:50 ◼   ► weight now just wait on the couch all

00:42:53 ◼   ► ruined and then Adam wakes up so it's

00:42:55 ◼   ► all Oh everything ends anyway Love

00:42:58 ◼   ► Actually but I kind of wanted to throw

00:43:01 ◼   ► in there I wanted to throw in so badly

00:43:03 ◼   ► even though it's not a Christmas movie

00:43:04 ◼   ► every episode every holiday episode of

00:43:07 ◼   ► the office that's pretty good - yeah

00:43:09 ◼   ► that's tied for my number - yeah oh yeah

00:43:12 ◼   ► well I mean III decided that episodes of

00:43:15 ◼   ► TV shows was a little too far to go

00:43:16 ◼   ► because otherwise I there's probably a

00:43:18 ◼   ► Doctor Who Christmas special that I

00:43:19 ◼   ► would have put on the list yeah that's

00:43:21 ◼   ► all right that's why I had to tie

00:43:22 ◼   ► there's a good yeah there's a good

00:43:23 ◼   ► there's a good one with the cult of

00:43:25 ◼   ► Christmas Carol that is except it's in

00:43:27 ◼   ► space but it's got Peter it's great it's

00:43:31 ◼   ► go flying sharks but it's actually

00:43:32 ◼   ► really great it's like using time travel

00:43:34 ◼   ► the time-travel conceit of Doctor Who to

00:43:37 ◼   ► retell a Christmas carol so instead of

00:43:39 ◼   ► being like visited by the ghost of

00:43:42 ◼   ► Christmas past you're visited by

00:43:44 ◼   ► yourself from the past who sees you in

00:43:47 ◼   ► the present use

00:43:47 ◼   ► the time machine from Doctor Who it's a

00:43:49 ◼   ► very clever it's a really good episode

00:43:51 ◼   ► but it's a TV show so I didn't I didn't

00:43:53 ◼   ► put it on my list my eyebrows are raised

00:43:55 ◼   ► in the nerdiness yep

00:43:57 ◼   ► super nerdy white shirt there's a flying

00:43:59 ◼   ► shark but yeah the holiday episodes of

00:44:02 ◼   ► the office are kind of amazing I was

00:44:04 ◼   ► kind of reading a synopsis of them

00:44:05 ◼   ► earlier and someone wrote that they said

00:44:07 ◼   ► that friends had like the Thanksgiving

00:44:10 ◼   ► episodes like they were known for that

00:44:11 ◼   ► their Thanksgiving episodes and the

00:44:13 ◼   ► office is kind of known for their iconic

00:44:15 ◼   ► Christmas episodes they're all really

00:44:17 ◼   ► really good and extremely funny and

00:44:19 ◼   ► really essential I think to a lot of the

00:44:22 ◼   ► plot points that happen throughout the

00:44:24 ◼   ► rest of the series anyway it's my

00:44:25 ◼   ► favorite show so I needed to put it up

00:44:27 ◼   ► there but it doesn't count

00:44:28 ◼   ► so Love Actually actually awesome all

00:44:33 ◼   ► right my number two is it's a TV special

00:44:37 ◼   ► not an episode of a TV show but a TV

00:44:39 ◼   ► special and I believe we established

00:44:40 ◼   ► earlier those count and I think one of

00:44:42 ◼   ► the reasons those count is because for

00:44:44 ◼   ► me a Christmas movie is ideally short

00:44:47 ◼   ► and so when you have a TV special made

00:44:50 ◼   ► in the 80s that was only twenty four

00:44:52 ◼   ► minutes long I believe that counts so my

00:44:54 ◼   ► number two is a claymation Christmas

00:44:57 ◼   ► celebration this was released in 1987 if

00:45:00 ◼   ► you've ever seen any claymation that was

00:45:02 ◼   ► not a California Raisins commercial it

00:45:04 ◼   ► was probably this and it was so weary

00:45:08 ◼   ► walked this last night oh my god we

00:45:09 ◼   ► watched this last night did not

00:45:13 ◼   ► appreciate it as much as I did I did not

00:45:15 ◼   ► appreciate it as much as he did

00:45:18 ◼   ► you start night

00:45:31 ◼   ► have you guys seen this Jason I don't

00:45:34 ◼   ► think I've heard of it

00:45:35 ◼   ► no in fact I only know it because one of

00:45:38 ◼   ► our panelists mentioned it on the

00:45:39 ◼   ► incomparable and I I like literally had

00:45:44 ◼   ► never heard of it

00:45:46 ◼   ► or was aware of it and all I knew about

00:45:48 ◼   ► it was that it was from it's like Will

00:45:50 ◼   ► Vinton it's the guy who did the Al Forno

00:45:52 ◼   ► raisins yeah he basically created the

00:45:54 ◼   ► claymation animation technique so so the

00:45:57 ◼   ► format of the Christmas special is

00:45:59 ◼   ► basically a series of something like

00:46:01 ◼   ► five or six animated shorts and then

00:46:03 ◼   ► between them kind of like like a like an

00:46:06 ◼   ► emcee pairing of like two very very

00:46:10 ◼   ► different hosts one of whom is like this

00:46:12 ◼   ► kind of like uptight like academic

00:46:14 ◼   ► character kind of like dinosaur like

00:46:15 ◼   ► Frasier I guess and the other one is

00:46:17 ◼   ► like this like goofy not you know not

00:46:21 ◼   ► that serious

00:46:22 ◼   ► dinosaur who is all about eating all the

00:46:25 ◼   ► snacks that come by and and so it's it's

00:46:27 ◼   ► you know it's a you know a funny pairing

00:46:29 ◼   ► of like you know two very different

00:46:30 ◼   ► characters who can like barely tolerate

00:46:32 ◼   ► each other try to make jokes and you

00:46:34 ◼   ► know try to like host the and and and

00:46:37 ◼   ► introduce all the animated shorts as

00:46:38 ◼   ► they come in and animated shorts

00:46:40 ◼   ► themselves are you know of mixed quality

00:46:43 ◼   ► this was this was claymation in the 80s

00:46:45 ◼   ► so there's a mixed animation quality the

00:46:48 ◼   ► music is actually really good I know and

00:46:55 ◼   ► like like my favorite are the the we 3

00:46:59 ◼   ► Kings camels so you know it like it

00:47:01 ◼   ► there's like you know this every short

00:47:03 ◼   ► has one of the songs so for the record

00:47:04 ◼   ► Marcos sang along with it last night

00:47:06 ◼   ► just wanted to put that out there so

00:47:08 ◼   ► this is like I saw this you know when I

00:47:10 ◼   ► was growing up we had this on a VHS tape

00:47:11 ◼   ► that was it was tape off TV you know

00:47:14 ◼   ► just like it you know just like it you

00:47:15 ◼   ► know with some handwritten thing on the

00:47:16 ◼   ► side just like everyone else you know I

00:47:17 ◼   ► think that's that's a good benchmark for

00:47:19 ◼   ► like for people who were anywhere near

00:47:20 ◼   ► our age chances are your favorite

00:47:23 ◼   ► Christmas movies you probably had a VHS

00:47:25 ◼   ► tape of them and it was very likely to

00:47:27 ◼   ► be taped off of TV and it's so I got a

00:47:30 ◼   ► mom for Christmas made-for-tv movie yeah

00:47:32 ◼   ► similar in a mannequin but Christmas so

00:47:36 ◼   ► anyway claymation Christmas celebration

00:47:38 ◼   ► from 1987 my number two we're we're too

00:47:42 ◼   ► old for that and because it came out in

00:47:44 ◼   ► 1987 so as a 17 year old or Lauren would

00:47:48 ◼   ► have been a 16 year old this was when

00:47:49 ◼   ► this is when we would have said the

00:47:51 ◼   ► California Raisins were lame and this

00:47:53 ◼   ► show must be for babies so we would not

00:47:55 ◼   ► have watched it yes sorry we were for

00:47:58 ◼   ► the difference right between watching it

00:48:01 ◼   ► when you're when you're when you're a

00:48:03 ◼   ► little kid and when you're a jaded

00:48:05 ◼   ► teenager I find I have these little

00:48:07 ◼   ► bands of popular culture where I'm

00:48:08 ◼   ► completely blind to it and it usually is

00:48:12 ◼   ► yeah between I was like when I was 17

00:48:14 ◼   ► and 26 where I just like you know didn't

00:48:18 ◼   ► peep like there are a bunch of kids

00:48:20 ◼   ► shows that people I know who are just a

00:48:22 ◼   ► little younger than me like they love

00:48:24 ◼   ► them like the incomparable people keep

00:48:26 ◼   ► talking about Voltron and I'm like what

00:48:28 ◼   ► whatever right or that even the

00:48:30 ◼   ► transformer is like I was too old for

00:48:32 ◼   ► that

00:48:32 ◼   ► and once you're out of the kid target

00:48:35 ◼   ► like demographic when you're a teenager

00:48:37 ◼   ► you're like aggressively like not

00:48:39 ◼   ► interested in kids stuff right so I

00:48:42 ◼   ► missed we both totally missed that was

00:48:44 ◼   ► like Power Rangers for us yeah yeah we

00:48:46 ◼   ► miss Power Rangers by like one year same

00:48:48 ◼   ► same deal well I mean I'm I'm old enough

00:48:51 ◼   ► that the the pink Power Ranger is

00:48:53 ◼   ► exactly one the day I was born

00:48:54 ◼   ► so I'm exactly not young enough for the

00:48:57 ◼   ► Power Rangers so yeah top four Power

00:49:00 ◼   ► Rangers let's go come on well you took

00:49:06 ◼   ► pink the only one it was actually a

00:49:07 ◼   ► Power I I assumed there was probably a

00:49:09 ◼   ► blue one oh man maybe a red one I want

00:49:12 ◼   ► the gold one is there gold sparkly one

00:49:14 ◼   ► well there should be just picket don't

00:49:18 ◼   ► make one the gold one alright are we up

00:49:20 ◼   ► to everyone's no sir Jason you threw

00:49:22 ◼   ► your number no sir so Margo yours

00:49:24 ◼   ► officially was the claymation Christmas

00:49:26 ◼   ► special celebration yes celebration yeah

00:49:29 ◼   ► 24 minutes you legitimate in California

00:49:32 ◼   ► and the California Raisins are in it yes

00:49:35 ◼   ► like they can't escape the taint of the

00:49:37 ◼   ► California Raisins there and the

00:49:38 ◼   ► California Raisins are there they sing

00:49:40 ◼   ► pretty well although I will say that we

00:49:42 ◼   ► three things the we three kings camels I

00:49:44 ◼   ► think sang better than the California

00:49:45 ◼   ► Raisins did alright

00:49:47 ◼   ► I married you you did you're all right

00:49:53 ◼   ► Jason take us out of this claymation

00:49:55 ◼   ► hell okay my mind number two which I

00:50:00 ◼   ► have to give full credit here I had

00:50:02 ◼   ► never seen this movie until my wife said

00:50:05 ◼   ► what you haven't seen this movie it's my

00:50:08 ◼   ► favorite Christmas movie my I should say

00:50:12 ◼   ► my Jewish wife let's just throw that in

00:50:16 ◼   ► there and yet she has many opinions

00:50:18 ◼   ► about Christmas movies including the

00:50:20 ◼   ► fact that this is the best one it is

00:50:23 ◼   ► 1947 s Miracle on 34th Street it is

00:50:27 ◼   ► absolute it is that it is so good and

00:50:34 ◼   ► it's really good so good it is funny you

00:50:38 ◼   ► know one of the problems and I mean when

00:50:40 ◼   ► I mentioned elf like I find elf

00:50:41 ◼   ► legitimately funny and not too gooey and

00:50:44 ◼   ► sentimental it's got some of that in

00:50:46 ◼   ► there but it's like the funny and in a

00:50:49 ◼   ► little bit biting a little bit cutting

00:50:51 ◼   ► like overrides it miracle is like that

00:50:53 ◼   ► for a movie made in 1947 it is it is

00:50:56 ◼   ► kind of hilarious like Edmund Quinn is

00:50:59 ◼   ► Santa Claus and he is great and then

00:51:02 ◼   ► there were all these things like the

00:51:04 ◼   ► cynical things about like Macy's and

00:51:06 ◼   ► Gimbels and they're fighting against

00:51:08 ◼   ► each other the drunk Santa at the parade

00:51:11 ◼   ► right so he gets the job the real Santa

00:51:14 ◼   ► Claus gets the job because the other

00:51:15 ◼   ► Santa Claus is drunk on the job at the

00:51:17 ◼   ► parade and like the people who are like

00:51:19 ◼   ► I can't I don't believe that Macy's is

00:51:21 ◼   ► recommending products at other stores

00:51:24 ◼   ► which is like good customer service I

00:51:26 ◼   ► can't believe it I don't get it that

00:51:27 ◼   ► lady says I don't get it and then

00:51:30 ◼   ► there's that scene that it will tear at

00:51:31 ◼   ► your heart where the little Dutch Dutch

00:51:35 ◼   ► girl who is an orphan because of world

00:51:38 ◼   ► war two and she's been brought to

00:51:40 ◼   ► America and she's finally found a family

00:51:42 ◼   ► and he in Dutch asks her what she wants

00:51:47 ◼   ► for Christmas and she says I don't need

00:51:48 ◼   ► anything because I have a family again

00:51:50 ◼   ► oh my god and this is right after World

00:51:53 ◼   ► War two I mean this is a true thing

00:51:55 ◼   ► where there are all these children who

00:51:56 ◼   ► had been orphaned by the war and there's

00:52:00 ◼   ► all that and then there's

00:52:01 ◼   ► like zany legal subplot where they try

00:52:04 ◼   ► to prove that Santa Claus is not Santa

00:52:06 ◼   ► Claus there's kind of like a courtroom

00:52:08 ◼   ► drama it's just the best yeah and but

00:52:10 ◼   ► but the cynicism innit I find delightful

00:52:12 ◼   ► where like the judge says if I rule that

00:52:15 ◼   ► Santa Claus isn't real the only person

00:52:18 ◼   ► who's gonna vote for me is that District

00:52:19 ◼   ► Attorney out there and his adviser who

00:52:22 ◼   ► is real William Frawley who was Fred

00:52:24 ◼   ► Mertz on I Love Lucy and he's so great

00:52:26 ◼   ► he's always got a cigar with him in this

00:52:27 ◼   ► movie he says the district attorney's a

00:52:29 ◼   ► Republican could even get that guy's

00:52:32 ◼   ► vote it's it's so great it's just it's

00:52:35 ◼   ► funny bringing all those letters it's

00:52:36 ◼   ► really cool I love that yeah they prove

00:52:38 ◼   ► they prove in air quotes that he must be

00:52:41 ◼   ► real because the letters addressed to

00:52:44 ◼   ► Santa are delivered to the courtroom to

00:52:46 ◼   ► Edmund Gwenn who is Santa Claus and it's

00:52:49 ◼   ► just you know I don't know it's cut it

00:52:51 ◼   ► is magical because it is funny and it's

00:52:54 ◼   ► got a lot of like banter that's good

00:52:56 ◼   ► it's got a romantic comedy subplot with

00:52:58 ◼   ► marine o'hara and john pain and and it's

00:53:02 ◼   ► just yeah it's it's so good and and like

00:53:07 ◼   ► it toys with the whole idea of like you

00:53:10 ◼   ► know you've got a you got to believe I

00:53:13 ◼   ► don't know what Lauren do you this is

00:53:15 ◼   ► your favorite this is my favorite and

00:53:17 ◼   ► and it's funny that it's my favorite

00:53:18 ◼   ► because you know we don't do Santa and I

00:53:21 ◼   ► don't do the believe thing and yet this

00:53:24 ◼   ► so works for me everything about it is

00:53:27 ◼   ► is just fabulous little Natalie Wood is

00:53:29 ◼   ► adorable yeah wonderful and apparently I

00:53:33 ◼   ► read later really believed that was

00:53:35 ◼   ► Santa Claus and was was distraught when

00:53:38 ◼   ► she saw him here's months later at the

00:53:40 ◼   ► Oscars without his beard oh yeah he was

00:53:44 ◼   ► no Gwen who was a veteran English actor

00:53:48 ◼   ► played Santa Claus and he he was

00:53:52 ◼   ► nominated for Best Supporting Actor I

00:53:54 ◼   ► think for the for this movie and they

00:53:57 ◼   ► got when to the Oscars and he didn't

00:53:58 ◼   ► have his beard that he had worn during

00:53:59 ◼   ► shooting and she and little Natalie Wood

00:54:02 ◼   ► who's the little girl and this was quite

00:54:04 ◼   ► distraught apparently yeah it's just

00:54:07 ◼   ► wonderful this is the feel-good

00:54:10 ◼   ► wonderful Christmas movie that I think

00:54:13 ◼   ► of primary

00:54:14 ◼   ► when I think of movies everybody talks

00:54:16 ◼   ► about it's a wonderful life and I've

00:54:19 ◼   ► only seen it once and I didn't love it

00:54:21 ◼   ► but that is a dark with an attempted

00:54:27 ◼   ► suicide so I mean where can you go from

00:54:29 ◼   ► there

00:54:30 ◼   ► miracle is not a miracle start starts

00:54:32 ◼   ► with a drunk Santa Claus and it's just

00:54:34 ◼   ► it's fine that's a good holiday fun

00:54:36 ◼   ► right there huh yeah

00:54:38 ◼   ► do you watch this every year we do

00:54:40 ◼   ► absolutely we've got the HD version now

00:54:43 ◼   ► which is beautiful one of the great

00:54:44 ◼   ► things about all these old movies is

00:54:46 ◼   ► that they've gone back to the original

00:54:47 ◼   ► film and they've scanned them and clean

00:54:48 ◼   ► them up and they look fantastic there is

00:54:51 ◼   ► a colorized version of miracle I don't

00:54:53 ◼   ► recommend it there are remakes I don't

00:54:55 ◼   ► recommend them the black and white it's

00:54:57 ◼   ► beautiful it is just it is and it moves

00:55:00 ◼   ► because it's not it's 96 minutes long it

00:55:03 ◼   ► just it moves I think this does because

00:55:08 ◼   ► we still have those sort of

00:55:09 ◼   ► commercialism issues surrounding

00:55:12 ◼   ► Christmas it never let it be said that

00:55:14 ◼   ► suddenly commercial like in the 60s the

00:55:17 ◼   ► Charlie Brown Christmas special talks

00:55:18 ◼   ► about commercialism ruining Christmas

00:55:19 ◼   ► for T's Miracle on 34th Street talks

00:55:23 ◼   ► about commercialism ruining Christmas

00:55:25 ◼   ► it's a classic issue everybody thinks

00:55:27 ◼   ► it's new it's not new so yeah have you

00:55:30 ◼   ► guys ever been to the Macy's parade in

00:55:32 ◼   ► person no no you should do it one year

00:55:34 ◼   ► everyone's got to do down here

00:55:36 ◼   ► yeah you should it's pretty great why

00:55:38 ◼   ► because you should just do no do you

00:55:43 ◼   ► watch it we watch it but I like the I

00:55:45 ◼   ► watched the Broadway performance like an

00:55:50 ◼   ► ad for Broadway

00:55:51 ◼   ► right more than the balloons going by so

00:55:54 ◼   ► it's a little bit silly and not quite a

00:55:55 ◼   ► parade but I enjoy it I mean anything's

00:55:58 ◼   ► better than a parade right I kind of

00:56:01 ◼   ► agree and our and our daughter will

00:56:03 ◼   ► sometimes sit and watch like on New

00:56:05 ◼   ► Year's Day we'll watch like the Rose

00:56:07 ◼   ► Parade and I'll be like I'm out of here

00:56:10 ◼   ► see you later we went to the Macy's Day

00:56:12 ◼   ► Parade once as a family and it was the

00:56:14 ◼   ► year it was really windy and a whole

00:56:15 ◼   ► bunch of the balloons popped it was

00:56:17 ◼   ► pretty exciting

00:56:18 ◼   ► well that is dramatic that's terrifying

00:56:21 ◼   ► guarantee rogue balloons it was the year

00:56:23 ◼   ► that that cop stabbed the Barney balloon

00:56:25 ◼   ► and all the kids got upset

00:56:27 ◼   ► Wow no jury would convict him no oh no

00:56:31 ◼   ► oh no but yeah it was pretty it was

00:56:32 ◼   ► great cuz where we were standing

00:56:34 ◼   ► you'd see like groups of people come and

00:56:37 ◼   ► they just weren't holding a balloon like

00:56:38 ◼   ► they were just walking with their like

00:56:39 ◼   ► little character vest on

00:56:41 ◼   ► for like what balloon they should have

00:56:42 ◼   ► been holding because like it got popped

00:56:44 ◼   ► cuz and they were but the good part is

00:56:46 ◼   ► when they were coming down the street

00:56:48 ◼   ► when the balloons that made it pass like

00:56:49 ◼   ► this one treacherous corner that kept

00:56:51 ◼   ► popping all the balloons they were very

00:56:53 ◼   ► very low because it was so windy so it

00:56:56 ◼   ► was almost better because the balloons

00:56:58 ◼   ► were so big and they were just like

00:57:00 ◼   ► right above your head it was great I

00:57:02 ◼   ► would highly recommend it for kids it

00:57:04 ◼   ► was really really fun especially now

00:57:06 ◼   ► with global warming it's a lot warmer

00:57:07 ◼   ► now on Thanksgiving it's more

00:57:10 ◼   ► comfortable it's important yeah so

00:57:12 ◼   ► better better weather so come on over

00:57:14 ◼   ► East Coast anyway so now we did Jason's

00:57:19 ◼   ► number two and Lauren's number one

00:57:22 ◼   ► Lauren's there anything else you want to

00:57:24 ◼   ► say about your number one it's your big

00:57:26 ◼   ► moment oh gosh no miracle on 34th Street

00:57:33 ◼   ► it's great it's great it's great if you

00:57:35 ◼   ► haven't seen it Jason never saw this was

00:57:38 ◼   ► the movie that we watched most years

00:57:39 ◼   ► growing up and I didn't watch the It's a

00:57:42 ◼   ► Wonderful Life till I was an adult and I

00:57:45 ◼   ► hadn't seen one something about

00:57:47 ◼   ► Wonderland I don't remember what that is

00:57:49 ◼   ► but this was our this was our Christmas

00:57:53 ◼   ► movie growing up and it was it means a

00:57:54 ◼   ► lot to me it's nice I like it I think

00:57:57 ◼   ► it's a really good pick I love that

00:57:58 ◼   ► movie but uh my number one is not that

00:58:02 ◼   ► movie it is kind of the opposite of that

00:58:05 ◼   ► movie and it is National Lampoon's

00:58:09 ◼   ► Christmas vacation Christmas vacation

00:58:14 ◼   ► I mean how good that I did an entire mic

00:58:19 ◼   ► at the movies on this movie and it is my

00:58:22 ◼   ► absolute favorite it is a movie that we

00:58:24 ◼   ► have to watch every single Christmas my

00:58:26 ◼   ► brother and I have moose mugs we quote

00:58:30 ◼   ► the movie all the time we have shirts we

00:58:32 ◼   ► are super fans of this movie it is

00:58:35 ◼   ► hilarious and wonderful and I won't go

00:58:38 ◼   ► into tons of detail on it because I had

00:58:40 ◼   ► an entire separate podcast about my

00:58:42 ◼   ► feelings and wonderment and amazement

00:58:44 ◼   ► and love of this movie and so um yeah

00:58:49 ◼   ► just merry Christmas everyone first of

00:58:51 ◼   ► all we probably should beat that yeah

00:58:55 ◼   ► National Lampoon's Christmas vacation

00:58:57 ◼   ► number one best Christmas movie in my

00:59:01 ◼   ► book this is one of the movies where I

00:59:03 ◼   ► didn't I don't think I really ever saw

00:59:05 ◼   ► it all the way through as a kid or as a

00:59:07 ◼   ► teenager and it's only been like in in

00:59:09 ◼   ► recent adult years that I've actually

00:59:11 ◼   ► seen really the movie the problem is the

00:59:14 ◼   ► same thing happened for me with Monty

00:59:16 ◼   ► Python and Princess Bride where all of

00:59:20 ◼   ► my friends or the people around me had

00:59:22 ◼   ► basically memorized the movie before I

00:59:25 ◼   ► even seen it and so when I finally

00:59:27 ◼   ► watched it it just sounded like my

00:59:30 ◼   ► friends doing annoying imitations of

00:59:32 ◼   ► everything cuz I had heard them recite

00:59:35 ◼   ► these lines annoyingly and imitating Lee

00:59:37 ◼   ► for months or years before that so the

00:59:41 ◼   ► movie was basically ruined for me

00:59:42 ◼   ► because of that

00:59:43 ◼   ► Christmas vacation I there's there's

00:59:45 ◼   ► some degree of that here for me because

00:59:47 ◼   ► everyone in the world including my wife

00:59:52 ◼   ► is so obsessed with this movie that like

00:59:56 ◼   ► every bit about it everyone else fine

00:59:56 ◼   ► every bit about it everyone else fine

01:00:00 ◼   ► ands way funnier than I do and I don't

01:00:02 ◼   ► think it's a bad movie and I and I do

01:00:04 ◼   ► think it's funny

01:00:05 ◼   ► but not to the level that everyone else

01:00:07 ◼   ► does and so it's hard for me to enjoy it

01:00:09 ◼   ► because everyone else is like reciting

01:00:10 ◼   ► all the lines and laughing their butts

01:00:12 ◼   ► off and thinks everything's amazing and

01:00:13 ◼   ► perfect and for me it's like oh yeah

01:00:14 ◼   ► it's it's okay I guess it's a matter of

01:00:17 ◼   ► growing up with it and I remember

01:00:19 ◼   ► watching that first scene when they're

01:00:22 ◼   ► driving down this when they're driving

01:00:24 ◼   ► to go get the Christmas tree and you

01:00:26 ◼   ► know Clark has road rage and like my dad

01:00:29 ◼   ► would get like that sometimes on the

01:00:30 ◼   ► road and it was just it spoke so much to

01:00:33 ◼   ► my childhood and I just I find it's so

01:00:37 ◼   ► funny and I like that I know all the

01:00:39 ◼   ► lines and I like to repeat them and I

01:00:42 ◼   ► like to watch it with people you also

01:00:43 ◼   ► like that hey I don't invite you into

01:00:45 ◼   ► the room man you don't have to be there

01:00:47 ◼   ► you didn't even watch it this year

01:00:48 ◼   ► anyway so um you're gonna watch it again

01:00:51 ◼   ► upstate and it of course I will with my

01:00:53 ◼   ► brother who does the same thing but like

01:00:55 ◼   ► that's the thing I write you watch that

01:00:56 ◼   ► movie with people who feel the same way

01:00:58 ◼   ► I'm not gonna force you to watch it yeah

01:00:59 ◼   ► I think I'll be upstairs drinking some

01:01:00 ◼   ► more Sameach during me no problem I'm

01:01:03 ◼   ► super happy to watch Christmas vacation

01:01:05 ◼   ► all on my own

01:01:06 ◼   ► but yeah Oh mine's almost empty my ice

01:01:11 ◼   ► is melting okay alright feel so bad for

01:01:14 ◼   ► you Marco it's your number one do we get

01:01:18 ◼   ► Jason's Alfa elf already mentioned is my

01:01:21 ◼   ► number one really oh that's right yeah

01:01:23 ◼   ► all right yeah really really tough

01:01:25 ◼   ► really I got some others that we haven't

01:01:27 ◼   ► mentioned that I were on my own so Rance

01:01:29 ◼   ► Lisp yeah Will Ferrell I gotta say it I

01:01:31 ◼   ► put them in number one I'm sorry you

01:01:33 ◼   ► know you don't have to be sorry it's

01:01:34 ◼   ► it's all right no regrets for picking

01:01:38 ◼   ► will Will Ferrell yes a good movie

01:01:40 ◼   ► eventually this is it I'm gonna need a

01:01:42 ◼   ► lot more amazed it's be bold yeah I'm

01:01:45 ◼   ► gonna need a lot well on your list

01:01:46 ◼   ► that's what this shows about loving your

01:01:48 ◼   ► own list my own list sure yeah I just

01:01:51 ◼   ► want to say that our lists are about

01:01:52 ◼   ► what we like and not the best Christmas

01:01:55 ◼   ► movies sure always have to say that in

01:01:57 ◼   ► the show because we get so many people

01:01:58 ◼   ► who are like oh could you not mention

01:02:01 ◼   ► this other movie that nobody's seen

01:02:04 ◼   ► exactly and it's like nope this is about

01:02:07 ◼   ► personal pics for all the personal

01:02:09 ◼   ► reasons so go ahead Marco what's your

01:02:11 ◼   ► number one

01:02:12 ◼   ► that just needs a good disclaimer I

01:02:14 ◼   ► think is I surprised if any of you have

01:02:17 ◼   ► even seen it because it wasn't

01:02:18 ◼   ► claymation Christmas if that was number

01:02:20 ◼   ► one I might have just yeah you would

01:02:23 ◼   ► have you would have had serious doubts

01:02:24 ◼   ► but your marriage I think so anyway I

01:02:27 ◼   ► think I'm ideal Christmas movie is

01:02:29 ◼   ► relatively short I think it should be

01:02:31 ◼   ► you can you can pay any amount of

01:02:33 ◼   ► attention you want to it you know

01:02:35 ◼   ► because like a lot of times they're on

01:02:36 ◼   ► like they're on TBS while you're like

01:02:38 ◼   ► doing things while you're wrapping gifts

01:02:39 ◼   ► or preparing a meal or something like

01:02:41 ◼   ► that so like they should be relatively

01:02:43 ◼   ► short they should be relatively not

01:02:44 ◼   ► requiring much attention and they should

01:02:46 ◼   ► be appropriate and tolerable by all ages

01:02:50 ◼   ► because there's often kids around or you

01:02:53 ◼   ► got to watch things with your awkward

01:02:54 ◼   ► parents or whatever else and so yeah

01:02:56 ◼   ► this has to be like you know appropriate

01:02:57 ◼   ► for all ages and so that rules out a lot

01:02:59 ◼   ► of things from number one for me I think

01:03:00 ◼   ► the number one thing for me bye-bye not

01:03:04 ◼   ► even a small amount by a big amount for

01:03:06 ◼   ► me

01:03:07 ◼   ► is what is right after a claymation

01:03:11 ◼   ► Christmas on that VHS tape that I had no

01:03:14 ◼   ► no no no no and that is a Garfield

01:03:18 ◼   ► a Garfield Christmas

01:03:23 ◼   ► there's so much to do

01:03:26 ◼   ► also in 1987 23 minutes we watched this

01:03:31 ◼   ► again so I can curious Jason why do you

01:03:33 ◼   ► say no just cuz Garfield is kind of

01:03:36 ◼   ► hacky I love Garfield when I was ten

01:03:38 ◼   ► it's fine yeah so did I but so we watch

01:03:41 ◼   ► this I haven't seen this in a long time

01:03:42 ◼   ► we watched it again

01:03:43 ◼   ► last night it is surprisingly it holds

01:03:46 ◼   ► up surprisingly well as an adult I

01:03:49 ◼   ► didn't even like it like as a kid I was

01:03:50 ◼   ► it's fine I like Garfield I like it more

01:03:53 ◼   ► as an adult that I did as a kid

01:03:55 ◼   ► so so basically it's you know it's one

01:03:57 ◼   ► of the handful of Garfield TV specials

01:03:59 ◼   ► and I learned through Wikipedia research

01:04:01 ◼   ► last night that that Jim Davis wrote it

01:04:04 ◼   ► almost autobiographically about his

01:04:07 ◼   ► family Christmases in Indiana and I'm

01:04:10 ◼   ► from Ohio and so a lot of a lot of like

01:04:13 ◼   ► the the personality types shown through

01:04:16 ◼   ► for me like kind of you know they like

01:04:17 ◼   ► oh it's like I immediately recognize

01:04:19 ◼   ► tell ya these are Midwestern people and

01:04:20 ◼   ► yeah like a lot of it is just like oh

01:04:22 ◼   ► that's the heat they just nailed it and

01:04:24 ◼   ► for 23 minute animated kids show about

01:04:27 ◼   ► Garfield like it's surprisingly well

01:04:30 ◼   ► done like the animation is full like a

01:04:32 ◼   ► little nice little like like little

01:04:33 ◼   ► little pleasantries like the way Odie

01:04:35 ◼   ► jumps through the snow and like you know

01:04:37 ◼   ► just like just a little thing that that

01:04:39 ◼   ► like that I love the wallpaper it's in

01:04:40 ◼   ► their dining room like there it's just

01:04:41 ◼   ► like little stuff like that it it's just

01:04:44 ◼   ► a really nicely done thing it's very

01:04:46 ◼   ► short only 23 minutes so you know made

01:04:48 ◼   ► to fit and a half-hour TV slot and like

01:04:51 ◼   ► my favorite parts is is kind of a theme

01:04:55 ◼   ► throughout of like the family all does

01:04:58 ◼   ► stuff because they've always done it and

01:05:01 ◼   ► like half the family is just all grumbly

01:05:04 ◼   ► and just why do we have to do this every

01:05:06 ◼   ► year this is so stupid why do we keep

01:05:08 ◼   ► doing this this makes no sense and

01:05:09 ◼   ► they're like because we've always done

01:05:10 ◼   ► it like there's like there's like one or

01:05:12 ◼   ► two members of the family who like

01:05:13 ◼   ► they're all kind of doing it for like

01:05:14 ◼   ► the mother it's like well you know this

01:05:16 ◼   ► makes this makes her happy so we're all

01:05:18 ◼   ► gonna do it even though we're all gonna

01:05:19 ◼   ► kind of grumble through these things

01:05:21 ◼   ► it's like it is kind of like it it

01:05:23 ◼   ► really nails I think like a real a

01:05:25 ◼   ► really like true adult picture of what

01:05:28 ◼   ► family Christmases are really like I

01:05:30 ◼   ► have to say we both laughed out loud a

01:05:31 ◼   ► couple times so I'm not going to

01:05:33 ◼   ► begrudge you this pick

01:05:35 ◼   ► and christmas is just does not stand up

01:05:38 ◼   ► I'm sorry but this actually was was my

01:05:40 ◼   ► number one give me Marco in 1987 and I

01:05:44 ◼   ► will give you the man I don't even watch

01:05:48 ◼   ► these probably much if at all in 87

01:05:51 ◼   ► because I was five yeah but they began

01:05:53 ◼   ► to seep in right yeah and like it was it

01:05:55 ◼   ► was on this VHS tape that we would put

01:05:57 ◼   ► in the VCR every Christmas at some point

01:06:00 ◼   ► and my sister I would watch these things

01:06:01 ◼   ► throughout our entire TV it could have

01:06:03 ◼   ► very easily been Christmas vacation on

01:06:05 ◼   ► that tape that's how these things happen

01:06:09 ◼   ► Wow yeah so yet my number one Garfield

01:06:11 ◼   ► Christmas car filled Christmas Wow that

01:06:14 ◼   ► is a bold move to place Garfield the

01:06:16 ◼   ► orange cat who hates lasagna at number

01:06:18 ◼   ► one but you did it I gotta give you

01:06:20 ◼   ► credit I don't even like cats you get

01:06:22 ◼   ► into a Garfield phase our son went

01:06:24 ◼   ► through a Garfield phase you know

01:06:26 ◼   ► everybody does it it happens you know

01:06:27 ◼   ► you get over it I had all the books yeah

01:06:29 ◼   ► oh yeah those short little books that I

01:06:31 ◼   ► went through a Snoopy phase who is this

01:06:33 ◼   ► new P phase yes we all have it yep all

01:06:37 ◼   ► right is that it is that everyone's yeah

01:06:39 ◼   ► I've got I've got I wanted to mention

01:06:40 ◼   ► one that we didn't just to save

01:06:42 ◼   ► everybody from writing in and saying I

01:06:44 ◼   ► can't believe you didn't mention it I

01:06:45 ◼   ► want a bonus round

01:06:46 ◼   ► what's your honorable mention yeah I

01:06:48 ◼   ► want to mention a Christmas story

01:06:49 ◼   ► because I almost listed that because

01:06:53 ◼   ► that's a movie that again is considered

01:06:55 ◼   ► a classic that I never really saw until

01:06:58 ◼   ► not too long ago and it's it's actually

01:07:02 ◼   ► pretty great that is Peter Billingsley

01:07:04 ◼   ► Darren McGavin it's based on a bunch of

01:07:07 ◼   ► short stories so it's super like not

01:07:10 ◼   ► plot II and it's weird and it's got some

01:07:14 ◼   ► stuff in it that's you know it's be a

01:07:17 ◼   ► little off-color but then there's also

01:07:19 ◼   ► stuff that that's just kind of adorable

01:07:21 ◼   ► the kid wants a BB gun you'll shoot your

01:07:23 ◼   ► eye out with that it's that this is the

01:07:25 ◼   ► movie that TBS runs on an endless loop

01:07:28 ◼   ► on Christmas Day and having not seen it

01:07:33 ◼   ► before you know the last decade I've

01:07:36 ◼   ► actually come to appreciate it it's a it

01:07:37 ◼   ► is a sweet and nostalgia tinged view of

01:07:42 ◼   ► of Christmas that has got some

01:07:44 ◼   ► legitimately funny moments and Darren

01:07:47 ◼   ► McGavin is the kind of sad sack

01:07:49 ◼   ► is pretty great so there are a lot of

01:07:51 ◼   ► things I like about it and the you know

01:07:52 ◼   ► the kid does dump dump stuff and feels

01:07:55 ◼   ► terrible and thinks he's broken his

01:07:56 ◼   ► classes and all of that and you know

01:07:57 ◼   ► it's it's a good movie I almost listed

01:08:00 ◼   ► it I don't have that nostalgia pulling

01:08:01 ◼   ► me toward picking it so I didn't but it

01:08:04 ◼   ► was close I didn't pick it for the exact

01:08:05 ◼   ► same reasons Jason like I had it on my

01:08:08 ◼   ► short list but the nostalgia of it

01:08:10 ◼   ► wasn't there it is a really great

01:08:12 ◼   ► classic Christmas movie it's very funny

01:08:15 ◼   ► it's fun to watch but it just didn't

01:08:17 ◼   ► make my personal list yeah yeah I feel

01:08:21 ◼   ► the same way about a Muppets Christmas

01:08:22 ◼   ► Carol

01:08:23 ◼   ► it's a Nightmare Before Christmas and I

01:08:27 ◼   ► feel like though I don't anything Tim

01:08:29 ◼   ► like a little bit it's creepy and weird

01:08:32 ◼   ► but yep well check out 1959 Santa Claus

01:08:35 ◼   ► which was made in Mexico and involves

01:08:37 ◼   ► the devil versus Santa Claus or just

01:08:40 ◼   ► watch the mst3k episode you could do

01:08:42 ◼   ► that that's fine probably better yeah I

01:08:45 ◼   ► don't watch Santa Claus in its original

01:08:47 ◼   ► form do the RiffTrax of the mst3k but it

01:08:50 ◼   ► is amazing because it is literally the

01:08:52 ◼   ► devil versus Santa Claus it's it's

01:08:56 ◼   ► mind-bogglingly weird but yeah all right

01:08:59 ◼   ► I think we're good right yeah Merry

01:09:02 ◼   ► Christmas everybody thanks for listening

01:09:03 ◼   ► to our spectacular Christmas movie Oh

01:09:06 ◼   ► spectacular spectacular actually learn

01:09:11 ◼   ► learn learn learn well all right yeah

01:09:13 ◼   ► thanks to Jason and Lawrence now for

01:09:15 ◼   ► joining us and thank you Lauren for

01:09:17 ◼   ► tolerating being on another podcast this

01:09:19 ◼   ► year and and yeah we're good I think

01:09:23 ◼   ► we're good jingle all the way everybody

01:09:24 ◼   ► what is that that's right I don't know

01:09:26 ◼   ► that was Minnie right wasn't a terrible

01:09:27 ◼   ► movie it could have been a movie I think

01:09:30 ◼   ► it was I don't know come back to the

01:09:32 ◼   ► coast we'll get together have a few

01:09:33 ◼   ► laughs