John Francis Donaghy said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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BenFiasco14 said:

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jkag89 said:

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DallasTeleAg said:

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Would be interesting to see a bracket for best holiday episode from a TV show.

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Definitely considering such a bracket, want suggestions.

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Woodland Critters Christmas Special - South Park

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The Office--Benihana Christmas or Secret Santa

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30 Rock seasons 2 (Ludachristmas) and 3 (Christmas Special) Christmas Episodes are strong contenders.

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Community had two:

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Random suggestion... "Christmas movies" that aren't really *about* Christmas and/or aren't known for being Christmas movies?

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Check out When Trumpets Fade.

Edit :I watched a short clip and realized Timothy Olyphant was in this one. He was really good in Fargo 4.

I thought The Night Before was an underrated flick

Christmas Ape

Christmas Ape II: Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp

Good call!

Made a list from the link in the OP of Christmas episodes from some of my favorite comedy series (all of which happen to be NBC shows, I just noticed). Gonna knock all these out over the next few weeks, whittle them down to my favorites, and make them annual Christmas viewings alongside my favorite Christmas movies...

30 Rock
S2 E09 - Ludachristmas
S3 E06 - Christmas Special
S4 E08 - Secret Santa
S5 E10 - Christmas Attack Zone
S7 E08 - My Whole Life Is Thunder

Community
S1 E12 - Comparative Religion
S2 E11 - Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas
S3 E10 - Regional Holiday Music
S4 E10 - Intro to Knots

Ed
S1 E09 - Your Life is Now
S2 E09 - Charity Cases
S4 E11 - Home for Christmas

The Office
S2 E10 - Christmas Party
S3 E10&11 - A Benihana Christmas
55 E11 - Moroccan Christmas
S6 E13 - Secret Santa
S7 E11&12 - Classy Christmas

Parks and Recreation
S2 E12 - Christmas Scandal
S4 E10 - Citizen Knope
S5 E09 - Ron and Diane

You just brought back so many memories with this one picture!

Ernest Saves Christmas

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I would say yes just because I want to see Just Friends win that bracket handily.

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Love Actually might have something to say about that though.

Love that you included Ed. Most underrated show in recent memory.

I love that I am the Hallmark channel movie person

But I can certainly do a list of 16 today

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Borderline xmas movies

Love Actually
Die Hard
Serendipity
Trading Places

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One of Love Actually's main themes is Christmas. Don't agree its a borderline Xmas movie.

Orlando Ayala Cant Read said:

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Borderline xmas movies

Love Actually
Die Hard
Serendipity
Trading Places

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One of Love Actually's main themes is Christmas. Don't agree its a borderline Xmas movie.

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I suppose it is more than some of those but It's not exclusively xmas.... it takes place over a longer period that culminates at Christmas. Although even the epilogue is not xmas. The early Keira wedding scene and Colin Firths entire romance in France with the Portugese housekeeper are not xmas related in any way. The office work situation with Alan Rickman is initially just day to day office stuff and the dad Liam Neeson and kid mourning their wife/mom have nothing to do with christmas until the end. Even the newly elected PM meeting the President is not xmas related. Have not timed it but I bet xmas is less than half of the movie.

I don't know. Maybe tangential is a better word than borderline. To me Christmas movies are exclusively about Christmas.

Serendipity is the one that really bugs me when people call it a xmas movie - it takes place over months and months the only xmas part is that they meet initially when xmas shopping. 75% of the movie is not about xmas at all. And not the culmination.

Love Actually is definitely a Christmas movie.

Tanya 93 said:

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I love that I am the Hallmark channel movie person

But I can certainly do a list of 16 today

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Thanks Tanya, You're the Best!

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Love Actually is definitely a Christmas movie.

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Tangential or borderline does not imply it is not a Christmas movie.

I put that one and the others on my list in a thread about Christmas movies.....right. Just under that categorization.

My only point was it isn't a Christmas movie about Christmas the way say Miracle on 34th St. or White Christmas or the many Christmas animated movies are solely about a Christmas centric story. Even comedies like A Christmas Story or Elf or Scrooged are purely about or around Christmas.

It's more of just a category to me of movies that are not exclusively about Christmas but have a significant Christmas element.

I would argue that Christmas is fairly integral to the story because the characters are constantly talking about how "at Christmas, you tell the truth", or things like that, and the whole movie is a countdown to Christmas.

Could you remove the Christmas and have pretty much the same movie? Probably, but you could say that about Home Alone as well.

I think if a movie is embracing Christmas to the point where the soundtrack is all Christmas music, you can safely call it a Christmas movie, rather than a "borderline" Christmas movie.

But honestly it's just a silly argument about semantics at this point.

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Love that you included Ed. Most underrated show in recent memory.

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Ed was the best. One of my all-time favorite shows. I actually rewatched "Home for Christmas" last night via a crappy YouTube link, and it brought back so many great memories. I can't believe they still haven't been able to work out all the music rights issues. I feel like it would do really good in the steaming age, on Peacock or wherever.

Is that the one with Jonathan Taylor Thomas trying to drive home from college in a Santa suit?

Love actually is Die Hard level christmas movie.

The Sopranos: Season 3 Episode 10
"...To Save Us All From Satan's Power"

The one where they make Bobby be Santa.

Eastbound & Down : Chapter 28

I'm regretting throwing out the idea of having a bracket for Christmas episodes of regular TV series. I have a feeling this bracket will be the most difficult to put together and the one I'm going to catch the most flak over.

In Bruges

BenFiasco14 said:

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jkag89 said:

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I'm regretting throwing out the idea of having a bracket for Christmas episodes of regular TV series. I have a feeling this bracket will be the most difficult to put together and the one I'm going to catch the most flak over.

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Then don't do it. It's your bracket

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But it is the one that I'm getting the most suggestions for and it will probably the most wide open bracket as far as voting which will be fun watching how the vote will go.

Friends: The one with the Holiday Armadillo

A claymation Christmas celebration

The Ref is a Christmas movie.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Borderline xmas movies

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Two of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

King Of The Hill Episodes:

The Unbearable Blindness of Laying (Season 2, Episode 11)
Pretty, Pretty Dresses (Season 3, Episode 9)
Hillennium (Season 4, Episode 10)
Twas the Nut Before Christmas (Season 5, Episode 8)
The Father, the Son, and J.C. (Season 6, Episode 4)
Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane (Season 8, Episode 7)
Ms. Wakefield (Season 9, Episode 2)


If not mentioned yet:

The Polar Express