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Join hosts Chris, Brian and Jon as they try and find the best Christmas Tv episodes ever made. They'll tackle everything from 90’s sitcoms to Saturday morning cartoons to high brow medical dramas and everything in between. Then they'll help you separate the Christmas classics from the lumps of coal to find the perfect episodes for your holiday viewing.
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Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Season 2 kicks off with Sitcom Week. To get things started, Brian is in the hosting chair and talking about "In God We Trust" from the first season of Arrested Development (available on Netflix). Does this 2003 episode hold up to 2020 scrutiny? Can listeners get past Brian's unfathomably long summary? And most important, is the first episode of season two a Christmas Classic or a Lump of Coal?
Non-Christmas topics include: Best in Show, Jon's YouTube sketch comedy days, Jason Bateman's appeal, Fox's bad scheduling practices in the early 2000's, and Jon briefly forgetting that this podcast focuses on Christmas.
IMDB info for this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0515221/.
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Chris, Brian and Jon provide a spoiler-lite review of new holiday film The Christmas Ride. The boys explain why this micro-budget mumblecore movie has a little something for everyone this Christmas. This movie is now available on Amazon Prime Video and Vimeo, and all three hosts recommend giving it a watch if you're looking for something fresh to shake up your typical holiday viewing.
You can watch the trailer for The Christmas Ride here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45euwomp9g
Watch on Amazon Prime here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LZJZB2P
Watch on Vimeo here: Https://Vimeo.com/ondemand/thechristmasride
Don't forget to come back for the first full episode of our second season on Nov. 23!
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
The boys are back and ready to do what they do best: find the best Christmas TV episodes ever made. But to do that, they need to figure out what episodes they'll be watching in season 2! To change things up, they say goodbye to the random selector and welcome a new draft format. Five weeks of shows, new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and themed weeks to center their picks around.
Over the course of the draft other discussion topics include: Mortal Kombat, whether or not Jennifer Garner ruins the projects she's in, obscure streaming services, and against all odds, the brief return of Newgrounds.
New episodes begin in earnest on Monday, Nov. 23! We hope you'll join us!
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
In their final bonus episode, the boys celebrate two seasons at once as they watch and review The Nightmare Before Christmas (available on Disney+). As they work to determine whether or not this is a Christmas Classic (Halloween Highlight?) they also discuss: creepypasta YouTube videos, Brian's bad bits, Jon's emo days, other stop motion feature films, Tim Burton's Batman films, the feud between Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey, Greg Proops, and trying to figure who exactly this movie is for.
Season 2 of the podcast kicks off with a full lineup reveal on Nov. 2. Don't miss it!
Wikipedia entry for this film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Stop! Before you do anything, make sure you listen to our guest spot on Totally Rad Christmas, here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/840331/5755690-ep-29-doogie-howser-m-d-w-chris-brian-and-jon.
We watched and reviewed a Christmas episode from the first season of Doogie Howser, M.D., titled "Doogie The Red Nosed Reindeer" (available on Hulu). Our first ever mini-bonus episode serves as a companion to this conversation by telling you whether we thought it was a Christmas Classic, Pair of Socks, or a Lump of Coal, but that's it! For our full thoughts and dissection of the episode with host Gerry Davila, you need to go check out Totally Rad Christmas, your podcast home for all things Christmas in the 80's.
See Gerry's full back catalog here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/840331.
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Our friends at the Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Christmas Podcast recommended we watch this first Christmas special from BBC period drama Call the Midwife available on Netflix. While the boys work to determine whether or not this is a Christmas Classic, they also discuss: people who like Fight Club vs. people who like Snatch, their feelings on period piece television, vicars, women giving birth at Christmas as a trope, Hey Arnold, Jon's British accents, pocket lamb chops and Keira Knightley clones.
IMDB for this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2238586/
Listen to the Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Christmas Podcast here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/sbmchristmas
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
For the start of the new school year your hosts take a look at the 2006 comedy, Accepted, starring Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively, and Lewis Black. Along the way we discuss karaoke bars, other Comedy Central classics, Brandy Old Fashioneds, and the comedy of Kyle Kinane.
Wikipedia entry for Accepted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accepted
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
For their Christmas in July Special, the Yuletide Boys watch the excruciating 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring Guy Pearce and Andy Serkis. They pick apart all the places this dark and gritty reimagining goes wrong and save listeners two hours by condensing a three hour slog into a one hour podcast.
Wikipedia entry:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(miniseries)
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
In the final installment of "Screw You, Watch This," Chris hops back in the saddle and has Brian and Jon watch the original Magnificent Seven from 1960. Along the way they discuss hand sanitizer, killing the coronavirus with fireworks, taking back the term UFO, the fact the hosts are three dumb white guys, Jon struggling to remember the band the Chainsmokers, Rhonda Rousey, Vin Diesel, and what their campaign slogans would be if they ever ran for office.
Wikipedia entry for The Magnificent Seven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Seven
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Brian takes over the podcast to talk about the pilot episode of the FX series Justified starring Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins. Over the course of the episode, the Yuletide boys also discuss the recent movies Jon has watched while quarantining, whether Chris is the Heat Miser or Cold Miser, Walton Goggins other great roles, Chris's efforts to avoid infecting the elves at the North Pole as the Polar Express visits twice in one episodes, and what does or does not constitute the Midwest.
IMDB for the pilot of Justified: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1522554/