25. Top 10 Christmas movies
Merry Christmas! Time to watch all our favorite Christmas movies. And, of course, debate which are the best. Also, we know the argument about Die Hard not being a Christmas movie. But is it possible that It's a Wonderful Life is also not really a Christmas movie?
Chantelle Potter joins as a guest for this special episode.
Here's the list we went off: https://collinstreet.com/blogs/holidays/top-10-christmas-movies-of-all-time?srsltid=AfmBOorxyvCgThfTE3twPxblB4aG1vdqV4A6q5MahBaefMccjBLycqhI
Transcript
[00:00:18] Chantelle Potter: I'm a fan
[:[00:00:24] Chantelle Potter: I have opinion about, just about everything,
[:[00:00:32] Chappy: So
[:[00:00:35] Chappy: but will we about this one. So this week we want to do top 10 Christmas movies of all times This one of all times of all time. It's by Collin Street Bakery. It says baked. In Corsicana, Texas since 1896. It's on collin street.com and there is no author listed because they don't have any courage, so they're gonna throw out their opinion and they're gonna hide behind some anonymity.
[:[00:01:26] Chappy: Mm-hmm. By saying it was totally subjective for one way or the other.
[:[00:01:33] Chappy: Ab Absolutely. As, as. Unbiased as our biases allow.
[:[00:01:41] Chappy: As objective as our subjectivity allows. So the, the summary up top says, here's the thing you need to know about lists like this.
[:[00:02:19] Chappy: Totally told you what it was.
[:[00:02:23] Chappy: totally honest, upfront. And here's one thing that I already like about this is number 10. It's a wonderful life. Why? Because it's the smart thing to do, to put it always at number one, maybe number two. I've seen it as low as like number three, but it's one of those things that you can't feel like your highbrow, uh, and intellectual if you don't put it up.
[:[00:02:50] Chappy: It's obligatory. And so they just threw it at number 10,
[:[00:02:59] Chappy: You know how many times I've seen it in my life? How many? Twice? I've seen it twice and I liked it. It was long. But you just watched it.
[:[00:03:08] Chantelle Potter: Tell me
[:[00:03:11] Chantelle Potter: Okay.
[:[00:03:12] Chantelle Potter: think
[:[00:03:15] Chantelle Potter: I think it's good. It's, it's interesting. I kept watching it thinking like this is like. It's like the Scrooge ghost of Christmas past Yes. Christmas thing. Yes. A Christmas Carol where he's like going, being taken around.
[:[00:03:53] Chantelle Potter: So where's the
[:[00:04:02] Chantelle Potter: right? Like all the people come and throw all the money on the table.
[:[00:04:06] Chantelle Potter: And it's Christmas.
[:[00:04:15] Chantelle Potter: He kind of is quite scary towards the children, if you remember. I'm like, yes I do. Oh, get those kids some therapy with that money, but
[:[00:04:33] Chappy: Yes. Now, 'cause Christmas was a time where, you know, there's some snow and stuff like that. Right. Uh, I grew up in Western Washington, so it was a lot more rain than snow, but mm-hmm. I think I remember one. One Christmas where we had snow. Obviously there's more than that here in Pullman. And you spent some time in Utah and there's some snow there, right?
[:[00:04:54] Chantelle Potter: Yes.
[:[00:04:55] Chantelle Potter: No snow. For me, snow Christmas doesn't automatically equal snow. Um, so I'm not watching is a wonderful life and thinking, oh, because there's snow here, it means Christmas. Mm-hmm. Um.
[:[00:05:20] Chappy: I'm sorry, not equate it to Christmas. Whereas somebody who never sees snow, sees snow and then it's like, oh, this is Christmas time. Yeah. I don't know. But I just, I see the snow and I could see where somebody feel like, oh, well that's winter time and it's close to Christmas, but there really is no Christmas in it.
[:[00:05:34] Chappy: Until the very end. Like I, I understand the messaging of redemption and all that kinda stuff. You know, if you really got into what's Christmas? It's a season of giving and season of you know, this and that, then sure. But
[:[00:05:53] Chappy: Gross.
[:[00:06:03] Chappy: time. I didn't know that. Yeah. Where did you find that out? Did you watch like a director's cut or something? Well,
[:[00:06:18] Chantelle Potter: Yeah.
[:[00:06:38] Chappy: They're really funny. And there's some recurring things like. This might be very difficult. Oh no, it'll be really easy. Barely an inconvenience. Anyway, so I was just wondering like what a bad pitch would be of like, it's a wonderful life and then you've got this guy and then he ends up, there's an angel who comes and then he's like ready to, you know, kill himself and the angel.
[:[00:07:04] Sarah Chapman: Yeah.
[:[00:07:13] Chantelle Potter: right?
[:[00:07:17] Chantelle Potter: I mean, I just feel like I don't put
[:[00:07:20] Chantelle Potter: It's very suicide forward for like a family. I mean, I don't know. I'm not ready to talk to my young children about suicide at Christmas. Like full on or in the
[:[00:07:35] Chantelle Potter: yeah, I mean, I think when my. I don't know. I, I obviously you gotta talk about it at some point. It is relevant, but
[:[00:07:44] Chappy: But you ever go
[:[00:07:46] Chappy: you ever go watch old movies and you're like, whoa, I don't remember that from when I was a kid.
[:[00:07:52] Chappy: Maybe it does. I mean, first time I watched The Goonies, like when I wasn't a kid and we had young kids and I was like, oh my gosh.
[:[00:08:15] Sarah Chapman: yeah.
[:[00:08:23] Chappy: It says this 1947 film tells the tale of a recently divorced New York mother who hires an old man to play Santa Claus, but it doesn't say, um. Which version? Yeah, which version? 'cause it was, there was a remake. Mm-hmm. I've seen a lot of lists where they're both listed all in one, and I've seen some lists where it's interesting.
[:[00:08:42] Chantelle Potter: It's saying 1947, but I believe that picture is the, it is re that's,
[:[00:09:02] Chappy: Mm-hmm. And, and again, like this from the, in terms of the story, the story is basically the same. So I don't know, when people do parse these and they mention that one is a better story than the other, like the old one is better. Yeah. I wonder if that's true or if they feel like it's also the intellectual thing to say.
[:[00:09:28] Sarah Chapman: Yeah.
[:[00:09:35] Chantelle Potter: We like the new one for the fact that it's in color.
[:[00:09:40] Chantelle Potter: that's, I mean, maybe I am just not intellectually advanced, but watching it in color is just a little bit easier for me to enjoy
[:[00:09:53] Chappy: And anyway,
[:[00:09:58] Chappy: So I, I would say if I were to rank my Christmas movies, which I haven't actually done right now, I would probably put Miracle on 34th Street, somewhere down nine or 10.
[:[00:10:07] Chappy: Just, uh, ballpark eight. This is what I've been waiting to talk about. Oh, no. Number eight, die Hard.
[:[00:10:41] Chappy: Am I being true about this? Or is it a fad that I wanted to jump on this little trend and be trendy? And ooh, diehard is a real Christmas movie. Uh. So there's no snow, obviously in this one. It doesn't look like Christmas to me. It would look like Yeah. A Christmas to you from being to SoCal. Yeah. Downtown
[:[00:11:01] Chappy: Um, there is an actual Christmas party going on.
[:[00:11:08] Chappy: When this, uh, terrorist attack takes place and, uh, as our. No named anonymous writer says Bruce Willis in his prime also, which is great.
[:[00:11:22] Chappy: Yes, in his prime. That let us not, makes not the late, the late the great out. Yes. Sorry. Obviously
[:[00:11:32] Chappy: Um.
[:[00:11:46] Chantelle Potter: you watch it yearly as part of your Christmas movies?
[:[00:11:54] Chappy: You know, it's like touting the Christmas party and anyway. Yeah. Do you wear that
[:[00:11:59] Chappy: usually either. Is this, I got this novelty shirt. You had to bring this up. Okay, listen, I don't think it fits me anymore. The problem. Thanks for bringing that up. Uh, so, I don't know.
[:[00:12:27] Chantelle Potter: gonna die hard on that hill? No, no. I'm not gonna die hard on that
[:[00:12:33] Chappy: Uh. The mom just made a dad joke, so it was very funny. So what do you think about Die Hard as a Christmas movie? I, I really don't think it is, but I,
[:[00:12:53] Chappy: like Isn't Bad Santa more of a Christmas movie than Die Hard in reality?
[:[00:12:59] Chantelle Potter: yeah. I think that, or Fat
[:[00:13:04] Chantelle Potter: or the claws? That's
[:[00:13:08] Chantelle Potter: Yeah, I don't think it's a, I don't think it's a Christmas movie. I think people want it to be a Christmas movie. 'cause they want an excuse to watch a movie that's not really a Christmas movie.
[:[00:13:21] Chantelle Potter: Yeah.
[:[00:13:24] Chantelle Potter: like, I wanna be edgy. I want my, I wanna convince my mom that we can do a family activity that's not Rudolph and troll her into letting us watch this. For family movie night on Christmas Eve.
[:[00:13:45] Chappy: Uh, number seven on the list, uh, one of my two favorite Christmas movies of all time, A Christmas story. This was, it was set in the 1940s in the movie, but of course it was made in the early eighties.
[:[00:14:22] Chappy: She, uh, hates this movie, hates it. I'm like, do you really hate it though? Or is it one of those things like, now that is your thing? Like it's a caricature of your own. Her thing is hating it. Right. Her thing is, is hating it. It's become, it's taken on the life of its own. And she's like, it's just so stupid.
[:[00:14:47] Chantelle Potter: it's cute how much the mom loves her kids. It's a little sad watching the dad have a full on mental breakdown. It's, it's endearing being in Ralphie's head. Um, 'cause I remember having a lot of those thoughts, like, how can I trick my parents into getting me this gift?
[:[00:15:25] Chappy: Who probably aren't as big as they're made out to be. Yeah. But in your life they are. Mm-hmm. And then you're at school and the peer pressure of stick your tongue to the pole. Yeah. That's like. Stuff, right? Yeah.
[:[00:15:38] Chappy: I, I can either confirm more tonight. So, and you know you want something, but your parents are like, nah, which is real.
[:[00:15:52] Chantelle Potter: of this movie. You don't get it and then you still, you hope that maybe there's that secret gift. Maybe they held so something back. This I
[:[00:16:09] Chappy: Who gets you something sweater
[:[00:16:13] Chappy: You're like, oh. And they're like, no, you gotta keep it, because when they come to visit, you know? Yep. Right. Holy crap. The thank
[:[00:16:27] Chantelle Potter: Adorable.
[:[00:16:49] Chappy: Will Ferrell. Uh, and it says friends like the
[:[00:16:54] Chappy: In the friends font with the Yeah, it's perfect because
[:[00:16:58] Chappy: It's perfect. So, so this one I would put a lot higher. Um, now I don't know. Yeah. I'm
[:[00:17:07] Chappy: this is one that's usually a little higher up.
[:[00:17:30] Chappy: Mm-hmm. Which I, I mean, I think the real actor had passed away. Mm-hmm. So. Um, and they can't come home for the holidays and, you know, it's, it's dealing with the emotional toil of just, just losing a parent and, and you know, trying to have those good memories and reconciling those with the other things.
[:[00:18:01] Chantelle Potter: still a, is it set around Christmas time? Yes, yes.
[:[00:18:13] Chappy: But, but then again, my, again, my mother-in-law doesn't wanna watch a Christmas story, but she did watch that one. So
[:[00:18:33] Chappy: The peanut gallery has. You, you, you have already a comment.
[:[00:19:03] Chappy: I
[:[00:19:07] Chappy: Polar Express. First of all, the, the graphics were supposed to be something when they first came out of like, Ooh, it's so. Lifelike. It's not, it's weird. 2004,
[:[00:19:19] Chappy: I mean, we'd already done Lord, like, Lord of the Rings, right?
[:[00:19:24] Chantelle Potter: like,
[:[00:19:28] Chantelle Potter: story had happened,
[:[00:19:38] Chantelle Potter: Snooze fest too. I like
[:[00:19:43] Sarah Chapman: Yeah. It
[:[00:19:55] Chantelle Potter: Yeah. Like Tim Allen, he's a voice. He can do a voice actor, I feel like. Well, I mean like so afar kind of
[:[00:20:05] Chappy: So.
[:[00:20:07] Chappy: And the pacing on it was so weird. Like I, I took on, you know, when I started this, I was like, Hey, we're gonna watch it. This is kind of a cute little thing. He wakes up and, you know, or goes to bed and here's this train and whatever. But it just, some parts just dragged. Mm-hmm. And I didn't feel like the adventures, each new adventure, like the lost ticket and then the girl that, anyway, I just, I finally turned it off and I said, you know, I'm not gonna finish it.
[:[00:20:38] Chantelle Potter: like it could have been one of those 30 minute after school specials.
[:[00:20:43] Chantelle Potter: Yeah.
[:[00:20:51] Chantelle Potter: Oh, yeah. Here we are. Oh yeah.
[:[00:20:55] Chantelle Potter: we are. Best two Christmas movies are Home Alone And Home Alone. Two.
[:[00:21:07] Chantelle Potter: Oh, home alone. Two is so good. The bird lady. What? She terrifying.
[:[00:21:11] Chappy: That's true. Bird Lady was terrifying. And, and Saves The Day. Home Alone is, is just a movie from our youth. Yeah. I mean, it's How many times did you imagine in your head of like, setting up your own, you know, traps or you did Traps for your siblings? Yes. Or something because of Home Alone, not with an iron or something that's gonna hurt, but,
[:[00:21:36] Chantelle Potter: Siblings and just like your family driving you crazy and like, maybe it would be cool to be home alone and then mm-hmm. Maybe it wouldn't be after it actually happened.
[:[00:22:00] Chappy: Yes, I would do that a lot and then like put how I would like defend myself. So, okay. What's
[:[00:22:17] Chappy: So what's
[:[00:22:21] Chappy: Like it's nice to see that it worked, but that's the thing is it's not like I set traps growing up that actually hurt somebody or really worked, but I would set up traps a lot.
[:[00:22:44] Chantelle Potter: Oh, yeah. And putting
[:[00:22:52] Chantelle Potter: I love, I love to see him setting up the traps. 'cause that's when I could get the ideas of my own traps I could set up.
[:[00:23:05] Chantelle Potter: Yes, yes, yes. That's a good one.
[:[00:23:28] Chappy: She said, I watch it every single year. I laugh every single year. It's so funny and I watch it, but it is not good film. And, and she went on this little tirade, the rest of which I don't remember. But I, what would she
[:[00:23:42] Chappy: Oh, it'd have to be like, uh, citizen Kane or, you know. Mm. Or it's a Wonderful Life.
[:[00:24:06] Chantelle Potter: You enjoy it and re-watch it year after year? That is it. Success,
[:[00:24:14] Chappy: So five on the list, it sounds like for you it's a little bit low. Just like for me, a Christmas story's a little bit low. Yeah. Um, but that's, so Christmas story is one of my two favorite. This is one of your two favorites. Yeah. It's so good. Number four, Dr. Seuss's. How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It says perhaps one of the best holiday films to debut in 2000.
[:[00:24:54] Chappy: Yeah, the cartoon Love the
[:[00:25:01] Chappy: Right. So we were actually, Sarah and I were in Pullman. I think when we would watch. This, and it became part of the Christmas tradition. Um, when I, when I was a student here, and this came up the other night, maybe even last night as a family, whether, uh, um, the Grinch, Jim Carrey was like, the better of the Grinch the better, or it was acceptable, or they'd watch it, you know, if we had to prime away from, you know, whatever game they were playing.
[:[00:25:50] Chantelle Potter: some of Jim Carey's best
[:[00:25:52] Chappy: Yes. And it, and it definitely is, you know, this is number four on the list. It's definitely, for me it's, it's in this good spot. Four, five or six
[:[00:26:19] Chantelle Potter: Would I rather watch home alone twice than this Once? Yes. Sorry.
[:[00:26:34] Chantelle Potter: such a classic.
[:[00:26:43] Chantelle Potter: lines.
[:[00:26:45] Chappy: Can't, can't see the lions. Can you, Russ? When, when I started to, you know, when the kids were growing up, I wanted to watch it and I was like, oh yeah, that, like, things like that or, or the scene where he's looking out the window. The
[:[00:26:58] Chappy: diving board. I ver, I did this editing myself. I did it in Adobe Premiere, and I very, very seamlessly took care of all of that.
[:[00:27:18] Chantelle Potter: I did not grow up watching this movie. My parents did not have access to an edited version. My husband, oh, I watched this, this movie growing up. He grew up watching it in all its glory.
[:[00:27:29] Sarah Chapman: Too,
[:[00:27:37] Chappy: the, I didn't. Again, when you're a kid, sometimes No. Mine.
[:[00:27:42] Chappy: Oh, he doesn't have to stand in line while he is waiting for anyway.
[:[00:27:52] Chantelle Potter: least as parents, we feel like we have a, have to do a little more these days or we'll get judged. I don't know.
[:[00:28:04] Chappy: Here's the thing I'm going, man, I did see this stuff and I didn't, didn't get it, and they're not seeing it yet. They understand this. Anyway,
[:[00:28:22] Chappy: Yeah.
[:[00:28:25] Chappy: Cousin Eddie. Cousin Eddie.
[:[00:28:32] Chappy: puts the, puts the light bulbs and then the smashes, the light bulbs with the thing and yeah. Oh my goodness. A lot of quotable things from, from that movie, uh, that we still. We still use, uh, you know, like, like that there's a, an rv.
[:[00:28:52] Chantelle Potter: grouchy neighbors who just won't get in the spirit and they're so uptight.
[:[00:29:01] Chantelle Potter: Margo, I mean, I named my daughter Margot. Maybe because of that. We d we can't know for sure. Maybe we were outta ideas. I don't know.
[:[00:29:14] Chantelle Potter: Yeah.
[:[00:29:33] Chappy: Yeah.
[:[00:29:34] Chappy: But all the rest of it I, I absolutely love,
[:[00:29:45] Chappy: oh, can I just tell you there is, okay. There's this thing in my, in my family, my kids, my kids make fun of me unmercifully for this. So I'm one of those guys who, when I get a little bit of trivia, oh my, my ear headphones just broke.
[:[00:30:08] Chantelle Potter: you tell it to everyone. I
[:[00:30:20] Chappy: They, they don't just say it to me, they pretend they are me and they're mocking me about it. Did you know that this did, you know right, that the boss in this was Bill Murray's brother.
[:[00:30:34] Chappy: I I just told it to somebody who was gonna make fun of me. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it's Bill Murray's brother.
[:[00:30:46] Sarah Chapman: did you know that's Bill Murray's brother?
[:[00:31:11] Chappy: 'cause I had posted something on Twitter, now x about watching this. And it turns out that it was their tradition as well. And so to this day, they, you know, they've left Pullman, um, but I still got a text from her the other day. You know, with a picture of their tv and they were watching it. Watching it. And I actually, a couple years back, I received some something in the mail and it was literally these figurines, uhhuh for like a tree.
[:[00:31:38] Sarah Chapman: Yeah.
[:[00:31:42] Sarah Chapman: that's so cute. I was just elated
[:[00:31:58] Chappy: Um, the thing, you know, I feel like fairly, I feel like it's fairly timeless. Um, obviously the decor of the house reminds me of, oh yeah. You know, that, that time period and. The yuppie neighbors next door. Mm-hmm. The little, is that like a little sob or something that they're driving? Yeah. Anyway, I, it's very, very, like that time period.
[:[00:32:19] Chantelle Potter: I love the, I love the sets in that movie and in home alone. Both of those set designs are nostalgic. The Christmas decorations are very nostalgic for me, more so than a Christmas vacation, like that's before my time that. Not stuff that I relate to, but, um, Christmas vacation and home alone, it's like a look back in my childhood Christmases.
[:[00:33:09] Chantelle Potter: Oh yeah. 'cause I want nothing more than my family to be together and they're gonna like it Dang it. You know, like.
[:[00:33:34] Chappy: And he is like, is it changing color? He is like, well, you keep scratching it. You know? I'm like, it just. Small things like that that I just thought were great and, and when the old dudes fall asleep after dinner
[:[00:33:44] Chappy: the mouths are hanging open. Uhhuh. And the, uh, now I'm at an age where that's me, so that stinks.
[:[00:34:05] Chantelle Potter: Does it get better?
[:[00:34:12] Chantelle Potter: Ooh, I'm not a fan. That's fine. But I guess if I need to watch it more, I can watch it again. I've watched it a few times.
[:[00:34:22] Chantelle Potter: just really low hanging fruit for me. Like putting syrup on your spaghetti, like, come on.
[:[00:34:55] Chantelle Potter: No.
[:[00:35:00] Chantelle Potter: No way for
[:[00:35:12] Chantelle Potter: like, I like, uh, bye buddy. Hope you find your dad.
[:[00:35:16] Chappy: narwhal. Uh, one of the greatest cameos ever. So, um, yeah. And, uh, I just, there are, yeah, there are funny things in there where, um, and gross, they're funny, gross, like when he eat, eats the gum.
[:[00:35:36] Chappy: Yes.
[:[00:35:39] Chappy: Yeah, you're right.
[:[00:35:45] Chappy: by the way. So I don't know how well it's aged in terms of, you know,
[:[00:36:00] Chappy: Well, it's Christmas time, so you get to rewatch elf and know I'll rewatch elf.
[:[00:36:06] Chappy: jungle to jungle. You've
[:[00:36:09] Chappy: One of the things that I like, I, I do like an elf where some of the magic of it where like overnight he just like makes this magical, you know, thing.
[:[00:36:34] Chantelle Potter: Okay, everybody, we got eight days till Christmas or whatever he says.
[:[00:36:45] Chantelle Potter: They go home to nothing, and this is everything they do. This means everything to them.
[:[00:37:03] Chappy: Mm-hmm. And it's white Christmas. It's the 1954 musical with Bean Crosby and Danny Kay Rosemary Clooney. Um, I had only seen this movie one time. Uh, I did go see the play with Sarah when the RO locally. Mm-hmm. The regional theater, uh, community Theater did it. Uh, so we saw a white Christmas at that point, but, uh, you know, it's not one of those that is, um, for me, a yearly thing.
[:[00:37:33] Chappy: I saw it once.
[:[00:37:35] Chappy: And
[:[00:37:37] Chappy: I do like musicals. You do? Yeah, I do.
[:[00:37:44] Chappy: Right? They have this variety show. They're gonna like save the, you know, this little, it's like the
[:[00:37:50] Chantelle Potter: And I mean it starts on Christmas in the war time, right? Um, and then like a lot of years pass, right? And then they're gonna save this inn. They meet these sisters, they. Have some miscommunication falling in love with them, and then it culminates in the Christmas and then it starts snowing.
[:[00:38:10] Chantelle Potter: So I guess it, it starts
[:[00:38:11] Chappy: Like, like, like it's a wonderful life at the very end. Yeah.
[:[00:38:23] Chappy: Can I just tell you that? Here's another example where it, um, it's a wonderful life. There is only one little Christmas scene is in Christmas vacation.
[:[00:38:47] Sarah Chapman: totally.
[:[00:38:49] Chappy: I don't know. But for me, this is just kind of a boring number one. It's, it's something that, it
[:[00:39:09] Chantelle Potter: Yeah. I didn't know. I, I
[:[00:39:20] Chantelle Potter: Santa Claus. They don't have
[:[00:39:25] Chantelle Potter: what else are they missing?
[:[00:39:27] Chappy: your shirt. Trying to, they
[:[00:39:30] Chappy: but not the Santa Claus.
[:[00:39:44] Chantelle Potter: Um, Scott, Calvin. Um,
[:[00:40:07] Sarah Chapman: Yeah.
[:[00:40:20] Chantelle Potter: Okay.
[:[00:40:33] Chappy: Spirited is better. Oh, spirited is missing. Oh, I don't
[:[00:40:37] Chappy: Chantel. No. Okay. I'll go, I'll watch it. Uh, Chantel said that they had never been, she'd never been in here before.
[:[00:40:47] Chappy: come over and, oh,
[:[00:40:50] Sarah Chapman: Spirited has Will Ferrell and what's his name? Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds.
[:[00:40:59] Sarah Chapman: Yes.
[:[00:41:02] Sarah Chapman: it.
[:[00:41:03] Sarah Chapman: Good afternoon. Yes.
[:[00:41:10] Chappy: Um, yes. I think in terms of like, it's like a Christmas carol.
[:[00:41:26] Chantelle Potter: Spirited is,
[:[00:41:39] Chantelle Potter: Yes. Well, now we know.
[:[00:41:48] Chantelle Potter: I with Billy Bob. Is this, is this list in order? Because I don't know. Oh, are you on the
[:[00:41:55] Chantelle Potter: Yeah. That at number eight. That can't be like, here's
[:[00:42:01] Chappy: Yeah.
[:[00:42:03] Chappy: Okay. Here's one that I have seen on a lot of lists, and I'm sure Sarah believes that it was missing. Uh, number nine, the Muppet Christmas Carol. Uh,
[:[00:42:15] Chappy: I've seen that one time.
[:[00:42:18] Chappy: heard parts of it. When the family's watching it, I'm doing something.
[:[00:42:21] Chantelle Potter: feel like, I feel like if my list, that's her yearly tradition, if my list went to 15, it's, it would be on it.
[:[00:42:29] Chantelle Potter: I'm not really a huge Muppets person. I'm not an Alvin and the Chipmunks person. I liked the old cartoon for that. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The old cartoon, we watched
[:[00:42:40] Chappy: Yeah. We used to watch all of those.
[:[00:42:52] Chappy: Yep. That's true
[:[00:42:56] Chappy: True. Uh, here's one A Charlie Brown Christmas. That's, they didn't include that.
[:[00:43:02] Chappy: Uh, here's another cartoon on Rudolph the Red Nose.
[:[00:43:08] Chantelle Potter: gonna be a obligatory about your list Uhhuh, then why isn't that on it,
[:[00:43:22] Chappy: Is that a Christmas movie? No. She says no.
[:[00:43:26] Chappy: Right, but there
[:[00:43:30] Chappy: for this one. Right? I've seen that on some lists,
[:[00:43:37] Chappy: scene. Okay, number number 19 on this list.
[:[00:43:41] Chantelle Potter: What?
[:[00:43:46] Chantelle Potter: is why, how, why? I don't know.
[:[00:43:54] Chantelle Potter: What?
[:[00:44:01] Chantelle Potter: this list, oh,
[:[00:44:04] Chappy: Edward
[:[00:44:07] Chappy: Gremlins. Now Gremlins is, is in the, in the same realm as diehard then with some people would say that that is,
[:[00:44:18] Chappy: Okay. There are other ones that are just kind of at that time, right. Maybe that time of year. Like while you were sleeping?
[:[00:44:24] Chappy: Okay. We talked about that when you joined me for the rom-com one, correct?
[:[00:44:28] Chappy: a great rom-com. Yeah. It's not a Christmas movie. No. Let's see here. Uh. Here's how the Grinch stole Christmas. Uh,
[:[00:44:40] Chappy: the holdovers, that's a newer one. That's one with Paul Jamati. And so if we're saying
[:[00:44:55] Chantelle Potter: Does not a Christmas movie make?
[:[00:45:15] Sarah Chapman: That, I watched that for the classic.
[:[00:45:23] Chantelle Potter: for kids? 'cause I wanna make my kids watch that.
[:[00:45:33] Chappy: No one called where he's pregnant trying to get turbo. Man, I
[:[00:45:38] Chappy: Where Santa gets pregnant. No.
[:[00:45:42] Chappy: Arnold gets pregnant. Yes.
[:[00:45:48] Chappy: Oh my gosh, yes. What. I don't know about that one. So they also have Batman Returns as a Christmas movie on here.
[:[00:46:02] Chantelle Potter: Junior. Junior. See there it is.
[:[00:46:05] Chantelle Potter: junior, 1994. I remember when that came out. I don't, I
[:[00:46:09] Chantelle Potter: Yeah, my kids would be traumatized. That'd be hilarious.
[:[00:46:14] Chantelle Potter: a 4.8 on IM db.
[:[00:46:20] Chappy: Hmm.
[:[00:46:24] Chappy: to watch one of 'em.
[:[00:46:27] Chappy: Seen one. Seen 'em all. So, but anyway, so, okay. So there are a few noticeable, uh, absences. Yeah, I think omissions on this. The Santa Claus is the biggest one for me. It's the biggest one for me too.
[:[00:46:44] Chantelle Potter: anything. That's that Christmas carol's Scrooge themed movie. That's a pretty, uh, notable classic storyline. Yeah, and I mean, it's been, yeah, the dickens, it's been done several ways in several, and I think some variation of that should be on the list.
[:[00:47:17] Sarah Chapman: Collin Street.
[:[00:47:24] Chappy: Yeah. So I think for me, yeah, I would get rid of Polar Express. Yeah. The thing is, I don't even know people who are like, I don't know many people who are like, I like it. Yes, there are. Because I saw something, somebody wrote something on Facebook and like some of the comments were like, oh, I love it. It's my favorite.
[:[00:47:45] Chantelle Potter: yeah, but kick that one off and put the Santa Claus on,
[:[00:47:58] Chappy: Mm. So I, it's hard for me to say, but, um, I think that should be one of those. Those dickens, but if somebody were to put Scrooge on there Yeah. And I mean, I, it's not in my top 10, but I would understand Yeah. Because of the, the kind of classic, you know, Dickens
[:[00:48:21] Chappy: Thing that it is. So, so overall, I would say for, for me, because of the caveat it gave, it, I'm okay with the list.
[:[00:48:31] Chantelle Potter: Yeah. I don't know. It's got.
[:[00:48:36] Chantelle Potter: I mean, do it.
[:[00:48:37] Chantelle Potter: it die hard. No. Santa Claus, polar Express and white. White.
[:[00:48:46] Chantelle Potter: I think it might have the wrong Grinch on there for me. Uh, I think it's a bad take.
[:[00:48:55] Chantelle Potter: There you have it.
[:[00:49:04] Sarah Chapman: Ooh. Which
[:[00:49:10] Chappy: And I'm already, I'm already stewing over some of the ones on that. Which by the way, here's another example of the inconsistency. I'm sorry, but last Christmas by Wham is not a Christmas song just because it was Love Gone Wrong on Christmas does not make it a Christmas song. But there you go. So that'll come up next week.
[:[00:49:35] Chappy: What? I don't even know that I've start to finish. I don't even know that I've heard that one.
[:[00:49:42] Chappy: I've never even, yes. I don't even think I've ever heard that
[:[00:49:44] Chantelle Potter: Oh no. I don't know if you're fully qualified to do this podcast. You've got a lot of research to do this week. Alright. Next
[:[00:49:50] Chantelle Potter: some research to do.
[:[00:49:59] Chappy: This was awesome. I appreciate, like I said. You're a person who has definitely has opinions,
[:[00:50:05] Chappy: and I mean that in the best possible way, I think. For
[:[00:50:09] Chappy: That's right. All right, thanks. Merry Christmas. Oh, by the way, yeah, Mery Christmas.
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