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Holiday Throwdown: Crowning the Ultimate Christmas Movie

TMC Season 1 Episode 7

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The Throwdown is a Christmas clash of epic proportions! We’re diving into National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, and more. Packed with laughs, trivia, and fiery debates, we explore the best scenes, characters, and unforgettable moments of these holiday classics.

In this episode, we look at National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Christmas with the Cranks, breaking down iconic moments, holiday nostalgia, and the enduring appeal of these festive favorites. Expect snowy chaos, timeless humor, and heartfelt redemption.

By the Numbers:

  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
    Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik | $71.3M box office | 68% Rotten Tomatoes
  • Home Alone (1990)
    Directed by Chris Columbus | $476.7M box office | 96% Rotten Tomatoes
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
    Directed by Frank Capra | $3.3M initial box office | 94% Rotten Tomatoes
  • Christmas with the Cranks (2004)
    Directed by Joe Roth | $96.6M box office | 5% Rotten Tomatoes
  • Noelle (2019)
    Directed by Marc Lawrence | Disney+ exclusive | Audience Score: 53% Rotten Tomatoes
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
    Directed by Larry Roemer | Made-for-TV special | 95% Rotten Tomatoes
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
    Directed by Bill Melendez | Made-for-TV special | 83% Rotten Tomatoes
  • Elf (2003)
    Directed by Jon Favreau | $225.1M box office | 85% Rotten Tomatoes

Main Cast:

  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
    • Chevy Chase (Clark Griswold)
    • Beverly D’Angelo (Ellen Griswold)
    • Randy Quaid (Cousin Eddie)
  • Home Alone (1990)
    • Macaulay Culkin (Kevin McCallister)
    • Joe Pesci (Harry)
    • Daniel Stern (Marv)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
    • James Stewart (George Bailey)
    • Donna Reed (Mary Bailey)
    • Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter)
  • Christmas with the Cranks (2004)
    • Tim Allen (Luther Krank)
    • Jamie Lee Curtis (Nora Krank)
    • Dan Aykroyd (Vic Frohmeyer)
  • Noelle (2019)
    • Anna Kendrick (Noelle Kringle)
    • Bill Hader (Nick Kringle)
    • Shirley MacLaine (Elf Polly)
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
    • Billie Mae Richards (Rudolph, voice)
    • Burl Ives (Sam the Snowman, voice)
    • Paul Soles (Hermey, voice)
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
    • Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown, voice)
    • Christopher Shea (Linus, voice)
    • Tracy Stratford (Lucy, voice)
  • Elf (2003)
    • Will Ferrell (Buddy the Elf)
    • James Caan (Walter Hobbs)
    • Zooey Deschanel (Jovie)

Fun Facts & Movie Mistakes:

  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: Chevy Chase improvised the sap-covered attic scene, and the Griswold house reused sets from Bewitched. Rusty Griswold’s age changes and Clark’s lights are unrealistically plugged into one outlet.
  • Home Alone: Joe Pesci avoided Macaulay Culkin to seem scarier, and Daniel Stern filmed the tarantula scene with a live spider. The fake gangster movie Angels with Filthy Souls was created for the film. Buzz’s tarantula is oddly calm, and Kevin’s ticket mysteriously vanishes.
  • It’s a Wonderful Life: Jimmy Stewart’s WWII PTSD influenced his performance. Snow was made from cornflakes and soap. George Bailey’s hair changes between scenes, and snow footprints appear before the characters enter.
  • Elf: Will Ferrell ate real cotton balls,

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Looks like Erica likes this one.

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Oh, we got the club going on here.

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This is good.

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Who's this?

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Is this Lil Jon?

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Ten minute intro.

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I like it.

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Are we ready to kick this off?

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Yes.

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It's the Holiday Throwdown.

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Is that right?

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The Holiday Throwdown.

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You changed the name.

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I mean, really, why are we saying holiday?

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Because it's all Christmas.

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It's all Christmas.

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Christmas Throwdown.

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It's just the least politically correct throwdown ever.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But I like it better.

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I like it better.

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I do like it better.

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Throwdown is better than Showdown, for sure.

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All right.

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I'm digging the song, though.

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I kind of want to let it play the whole night.

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There you go.

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Just leave it on the whole night.

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All right.

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Katie, you going to kick us off tonight?

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All right.

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So we're doing a special kind of episode tonight.

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We're going to go through like our favorite holiday movies.

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I think we all picked Christmas movies.

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We did.

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Are there any others?

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No.

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We're just not an inclusive bunch.

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What can we say?

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We just got canceled.

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Good job.

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um but we're gonna like we're gonna do some fun stuff we're gonna talk about our

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favorite movies our favorite scenes our favorite characters and then trivia and

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then we're each gonna bring trivia questions at the end no we're not but we're

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gonna have a trivia throw down all right there we go all right so guys first

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question let's talk about like what makes the ultimate christmas movie

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Who's going first?

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Erica.

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Well, I have three.

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My top three.

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Must take place during Christmas.

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Oh, wow.

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I've got to tell you.

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Never considered that.

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That gives me something to think about.

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My favorite Christmas movie took place at Valentine's Day.

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Wait, stop.

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That makes me rethink all my other favorite Christmas movies.

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Santa makes an appearance.

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Although, that could be subbed out for something else.

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Like what?

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The fucking Easter Bunny?

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What are you subbing it out for?

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Snow.

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Jesus.

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So it's either Santa or snow.

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If either of those things are in the movie, it's Christmas.

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They're like on the same level.

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Okay, what's your third thing?

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Come on.

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What's your third thing?

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I can't wait for this.

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It's going to be like an ornament.

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If there's an ornament, it's Christmas.

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Christmas tree.

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An angel?

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No.

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Dollar store decorations?

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Eggnog.

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No, I said it brings on the feels.

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Oh, I have that on my list too.

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It sparks memories.

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It makes you feel emotional.

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I have nostalgia as one of my.

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Yes.

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Brings on the feels.

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Yes.

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I would agree with that.

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I think unless it's bad Christmas, then.

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But anyway, most do bring on the feels.

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Oh, God.

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Especially those Hallmark ones.

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I don't watch those garbage ones.

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D-list Christmas movies?

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Yeah, I refuse.

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So we had, what was it?

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Santa?

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Or snow.

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Or snow.

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Santa or snow.

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The feels.

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I was trying so hard to think of what would be equivalent to Santa.

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Takes place during Christmas time.

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Obviously.

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I mean, I have nothing else to add to this.

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I don't know.

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I think sometimes there's a redemption quality in some of these.

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Hmm.

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usually about convincing someone of Santa.

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It's not universal, but that happens in a lot of these movies.

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Or just their overall personality, like Scrooge and the Grinch.

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Having a belief in something.

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Yeah, I agree with that.

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Yeah,

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I think the...

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I mean,

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the movie that I picked that reigns supreme,

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because I just think it does,

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I think...

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Not for Anna Kendrick.

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But now you're about to name a movie that nobody's seen.

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The greatest Christmas movie ever.

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No, people have seen that movie.

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It's pretty new.

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It's from like 2019 or something like that.

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That's pretty new, Ryan.

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And it's pretty good.

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Was that ever in the theaters?

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I don't know.

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What Christmas movie goes to theaters?

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Mine did.

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All the ones I have.

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No, you're right.

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Those did.

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It may have been.

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I don't know.

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This isn't a theater movie for sure.

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But it captures everything you're talking about.

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It has Santa Claus.

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It has snow.

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It has the feels.

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It happens at Christmas.

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And it happens at Christmas.

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Hey, so does mine.

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Mine too.

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It's amazing.

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I'm just saying.

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Tell us about your favorite.

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You want to know my favorite one?

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Yeah.

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Noel.

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I like Noelle.

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Starring?

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Anna Kendrick.

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Bill Hadler.

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Bill Hadler.

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Isn't it Bill Hader?

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Hader.

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Yeah, that's it.

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That's it.

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He was in Tropic Thunder.

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He was?

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Yeah.

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He was the assistant.

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He was the assistant.

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Yes, he was.

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Okay.

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Bill Hadler was totally in Tropic Thunder.

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I saw that movie.

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Parts of that movie.

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Parts of that movie.

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I like Noelle.

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Have you seen it?

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No.

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That's a shame.

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I will.

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I'll watch it.

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You should watch it.

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Who else has not seen it?

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I know you've seen it.

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Yeah, it's good.

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I've seen it.

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So what do you guys think?

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You like that movie?

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It's good.

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I love that Santa's a girl.

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Me too.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I know that.

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That's the reason I like that movie.

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Yeah, Bill Hader is her brother, right?

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And he's supposed to become Santa.

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He's next in line.

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But he doesn't want to, and he runs away and kind of hides, and she's trying to go find him.

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But then in the end, she's the one that really has all the Christmas spirits.

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It's really a movie of the girl is not good enough to be something, right?

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She's told what to do, told how to do it, told what her place is in the family.

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Right.

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And she just goes with it.

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She goes with it because that's what she's told to do.

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And at some point...

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She breaks out of that because she's just got the magic of Santa.

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Is she like a big, jolly Santa?

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No.

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But she's certainly jolly.

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She is jolly.

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She is very jolly in that movie.

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I'll have to check it out.

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You should check it out.

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There's definitely music in there and scenes you should be playing.

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I like a jolly Anna Kendrick.

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Hello.

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We like your pants.

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They're jolly.

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They're yoga pants.

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Like yours.

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These are my yogurt pants.

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No, no.

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Yoga pants.

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I love yogurt pants.

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So John's like, what the?

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So she's in the freezer at this point at the grocery store.

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Because she likes the cold.

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Because she likes the cold.

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Woman opens the door because she's smashed against the freezer and she sees her

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yoga pants and says they're jolly.

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Oh, yeah.

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I might check this out.

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You should.

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It's cute.

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It's cute.

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It's cute.

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It's cute.

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It's more than cute.

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There's funny moments.

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I feel like two of us picked cute movies.

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Okay.

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I sense exactly who we're talking about here.

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It could be anybody.

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It could be anybody.

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This by far... I mean, what I'm looking at...

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This is a good movie.

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You'll like it.

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You'll like it.

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Can't wait.

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And if you don't, there's something wrong with you.

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It just means you don't have compassion or empathy.

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That was a little judgy.

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There was no judgment coming from you.

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Some of us lack empathy around here.

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What?

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My movie.

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I sense the Neils here are going for the sentimental Christmas movies and the Dills are.

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You guys are wrong.

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You guys are really wrong because my movie is like highly sentimental.

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Okay.

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But let's get into yours first.

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Okay.

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a hard time picking my like number one and I still like I don't know I just like so

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many Christmas movies but I was narrowing it down and I ended up picking the one

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for something else because I wanted to talk about it anyway but so a movie that I

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watch every year is Christmas with the Cranks it start and I'm done I didn't make

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that face at you

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I never saw it.

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I had it on like every single night this week.

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You saw it.

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I couldn't make it.

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Wait, it took you every single night to get through it?

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Try like three times.

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I tried.

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Or more.

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Tell us about the movie.

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Let her talk.

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Okay, it's okay.

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It's just...

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Give us your synopsis.

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That'll make us want to see it.

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Maybe you should go next.

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Tell us about the cranks.

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It was not a bad... The parts I've seen were not bad.

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I gotta say, it wasn't bad.

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I mean, it got like a five and a half or a six on Rotten Tomatoes.

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I mean, it's not passing, but it's not bad.

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It's got a superstar cast.

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It really does.

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I got to say, if they could have had a superstar script, this movie would have been great.

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Anyway,

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so Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis,

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their daughters in the Peace Corps,

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and they drop her off.

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um, like right after Thanksgiving and she's not going to be home for like a year.

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So she's missing Christmas.

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And Tim Allen decides, why don't we just skip Christmas?

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Because then we can save all this money and they're going to go on a cruise.

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Um, and it's actually based off of a book called skipping Christmas.

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Um,

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But the whole time,

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like,

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they decide,

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like,

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when they skip Christmas,

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they're just,

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like,

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not going to spend any money on,

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like,

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anything.

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They're not going to donate.

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They're not going to do anything.

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But they have this neighborhood that's,

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like,

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really into Christmas,

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and it's,

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like,

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extremely judgmental and overwhelming about,

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like,

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how they need to,

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like,

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do everything that they're supposed to do and decorate.

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Laura Crank, we're here for Frosty's.

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Hello.

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Luther.

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Hey, babe.

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They're here.

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Who?

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Vic Fromeyer, Westrach, and Ned Becker, and a gang of their kids.

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We're here for Frosty.

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They want Frosty.

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Well, they can't have him.

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Nora, please give us Frosty.

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Um, honey, where is Frosty?

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He's down behind the furnace.

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Why?

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They won't go away.

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Well, don't give them Frosty.

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You and Luther do not have to do anything.

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Just leave Frosty on the front porch.

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We'll put him up for you.

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They said they'll put him up for us.

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Absolutely not.

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No.

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We'll come back later.

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Maybe I missed this part.

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What's happening in this?

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So the whole neighborhood,

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they have these like frosties,

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snowmen decorations that they put up on their roof and the cranks have not put

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theirs out.

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So they're like outside their house.

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The whole neighborhood's on the front lawn.

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Tim Allen's at work, but Jamie Lee Curtis is in the house, and she's hiding behind the curtain.

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She's calling.

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I didn't realize, because I saw when Tim Allen went out to put his Frosty up, I didn't realize.

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It's a whole neighborhood thing.

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I didn't realize that.

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The whole holiday season,

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they're just peer-pressuring them,

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and they're basically just hiding in their house.

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until their daughter calls and tells them that,

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oh,

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she has this fiance and they're going to come home and she wants him to experience

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the amazing Christmas that they always have and the party and all the stuff.

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So then all of a sudden they need to like come together and they go out to the

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grocery store and there's nothing there that they want to buy.

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My favorite thing about this movie was the neighborhood coming together and saving the family.

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Yes, and I actually have a clip for that too where Dan Aykroyd...

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yeah what about that what's going on there luther blair's coming home for christmas

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oh wait he keeps announcing everything luther is telling him to the entire

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neighborhood and she's bringing her boyfriend and she expects to see a christmas

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tree yeah and a frosty of course and what about the annual cranks christmas eve

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party

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I'll keep playing this,

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but one of my favorite moments of this movie was when those two guys go to pick up her...

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I was literally just going to say that.

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The clip is long.

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You don't need to play the whole thing.

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But the best part is that they're still decorating the house.

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They send these two cops to go pick up the daughter and her fiancé.

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And...

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They completely misspell his name.

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Well, her name says Blair.

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Blair, and then it's Enrique, but it's like... An N, dash, and then Enrique or something.

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It was so funny.

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But then they get them in the car,

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and then they're trying to stall,

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but then they actually see a guy that's actually robbing a house,

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and they are chasing him and tackle him on the car as this couple is in there.

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But one of my favorite Christmas songs is also in this movie,

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which also is what makes me love it as she's coming up and it's like snowing and

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it's perfect and it's a homecoming and the whole neighborhood is outside.

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I think I want to see the movie.

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I did find it very sweet how the neighborhood came together.

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I like that part.

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The whole neighborhood is outside and they're like driving down the road.

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The eagle has landed.

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Roger.

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Roger.

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There were parts that I really enjoyed.

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Yeah.

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And then at one point, it's like, oh, Blair, she babysat all our kids.

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Yeah.

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This is my all-time favorite Christmas song, too.

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Because of the movie or...

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No, I just always loved this song.

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So that just made the movie better for me.

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And there was like, what's his name?

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The dad, Neil or something?

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What's the- Luther.

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Luther.

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Like, there was a point where they're like, why would we do this for him?

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And they're like, don't do it for him.

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Do it for Blair.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And then I do like at the end,

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he comes around and the cruise they were supposed to go on,

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they end up giving to their neighbors who he doesn't really like because his wife

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has cancer.

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And he gives them the cruise so that they can enjoy a nice vacation together.

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that was really nice so i just i don't know that was my main things that i had in

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there i like i like i love the nostalgia of christmas but i like when people like

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just like go out of their way and help people i really like that so i liked the

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ending of that movie so i said that was one of my one of my favorites no as you're

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talking about it

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I remember seeing parts of this movie, different parts.

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Not recently, but I remember seeing... Throughout the years.

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Yeah, throughout the years, I remember seeing parts of this movie, yeah.

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I just... I don't know.

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I liked the whole neighborhood feel.

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I liked that they all were really in on holidays together.

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It's like the HOA of Christmas on its front lawn.

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Kind of, yeah.

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I mean, living there might be kind of stressful, but on the outside, it looked kind of fun.

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Yeah.

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Oh, the peer pressure when they decided not to decorate and stuff?

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I mean, in reality, it's a lot.

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But, like, I don't know.

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I just loved how they came together.

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And it was just cute at the end when they were all,

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like,

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cooking together,

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making cookies and decorating the house.

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And they had to get,

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like,

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a party together because it was,

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like,

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the next day that they had to have a problem.

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I don't feel like they would have a problem.

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It was that night.

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And all she could get was smoked trout.

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Right.

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She missed out on that canned ham.

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Never mention the hickory honey ham again.

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I do know some moms who remind me of Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Every time the daughter's on the phone, she's like, and she goes running for the phone.

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There was a lot of... Who are we talking about?

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Jamie Lee Curtis.

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No, I know, but who are you talking about, though, that reminds you of that?

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No one in particular.

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I just...

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You said it reminds you of...

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She just seemed like...

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Everything seemed a little extra.

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Like, oh my God, she's coming home.

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Well, I think part of it is only child.

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Oh, that's a true thing.

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Yeah.

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And I'm going to say... I mean, she was in the Peace Corps, so I think...

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Although it was only probably like three weeks that she had been there.

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That was it?

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Because they dropped her off right after Thanksgiving.

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I didn't realize that.

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I might have judged.

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She didn't make it.

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And then, I mean, then she was talking about how she was engaged.

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So that was pretty big.

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But that happened in three weeks?

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Yeah.

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It sounded like they knew each other before, but that's still quick.

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One of the things I liked, though, is that she brings him home and the dad is kind of annoyed.

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He's not happy about the situation.

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Of course he's not.

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It's been three weeks and he's missing his cruise.

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But you expect it to be a little bit more like,

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we don't like this guy,

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but they end up loving this guy.

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He ends up being a really nice guy.

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He's so nice, and he's singing with all the neighbors.

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The one guy,

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I think he comes up,

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the Santa guy,

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starts speaking Spanish to him,

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and he's like,

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I'm going to go talk to him.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I just, I don't know.

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I really like it.

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I like how it like spans out over the whole like holiday season.

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It's like all the decorations and just how all the neighbors like get together and

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help each other.

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I like that too.

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That was my favorite.

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So my number one all-time favorite, best holiday movie that reigned supreme.

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is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

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1989, Chevy Chase.

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It's a good one.

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It is a good one.

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I kind of never liked that one.

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What?

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You're just saying that.

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No, no.

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You're just trying to be a contrarian here.

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No, let me explain.

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I like it.

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Which is the opposite of what you just said.

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But it's one of those movies where it's kind of, for me...

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I don't want to keep watching it every year.

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Oh, no, I watch it every year.

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It's a freaking movie, though.

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I've seen it, I like it, but I don't want to continue to watch it.

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Oh, no, I have to make sure I watch it every year.

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I like parts of the movie because I have one.

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I love the movie.

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I love all of it.

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I want to wrap my arms around it.

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I want to be up in that attic with Chevy Chase.

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Oh, God.

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old movies yes there's been a lot of memes circulating around like recently i feel

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like about you know how that scene just you know it means something different now

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you know that you're older and have kids and wait which one when he's in the attic

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watching when he's in the attic watching the old that's true yeah yeah getting

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dressed up

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With his little... Well, it was cold.

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Gloves.

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So the question is, does this movie have all three of your elements?

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Yes.

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It definitely does, right?

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It has snow.

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It has Santa.

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He goes flying across the moon at the end.

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It has Christmas.

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That's true.

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And Uncle Eddie has that.

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Uncle Eddie is my favorite character in that movie.

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You know what my favorite thing about Uncle Eddie is?

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Is that

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If you had to make an argument of who was crazier,

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Uncle Eddie or the guy who plays Uncle Eddie,

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Randy Quaid.

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No, Randy Quaid's much crazier.

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Oh, really?

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I don't know much about the actor.

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No, he went absolutely crazy and he had to move to Canada.

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He has warrants out for his arrest here.

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I didn't know anything about him per se.

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Randy Quaid is off.

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I just assumed everyone knew, so I didn't pull it up.

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Randy Quaid's crazy.

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What did he do?

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I don't have a warrant.

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Well, you've got a phone.

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Google it.

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Jesus.

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Tell us.

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You can't just leave us on this cliffhanger now.

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Everyone seems to know this already.

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Yeah.

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It doesn't matter.

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Randy.

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Wait.

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Hang on a second, guys.

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First of all.

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He looks like Santa.

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Let's see.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Randy Quaid, he looks like someone who looked like Obama place.

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Is that an arrest picture?

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I'm trying to see if he's allowed back in the country.

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What did he do?

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Dennis Quaid said he misses his brother.

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Wait, that's his brother?

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Well, I'm assuming.

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Otherwise, Dennis Quaid, I just assume it's my brother.

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No, seriously, that's his brother?

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I guess.

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I'm looking at the entertainment things.

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I didn't know that.

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I didn't know it until I just read it, too.

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Did you guys know that?

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Nope.

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Okay.

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I didn't even know the actor's name until just now.

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I don't know much about stuff.

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Whoa, mind blown right now.

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Hmm.

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Oh, here you go.

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In 2009,

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Quaid and his wife were arrested for allegedly defrauding an innkeeper in Santa

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Barbara by using an invalid credit card to pay a $10,000 bill.

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That's it.

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There is more.

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However, they repeatedly have filed a pair in court and warrants were issued for their arrest.

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They eventually appeared in court the following year where the case was dismissed

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for a lack of evidence.

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They pled no contest, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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240 hours of community service.

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And then in 2010, Quaid and his wife were charged with

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Burglary?

(00:23:47):
Wait, what?

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In 2004?

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2010.

(00:23:51):
Oh, so this must be after he was married to Meg Ryan.

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Wait, before... What?

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No, no, no.

(00:23:57):
Dennis Quaid was married to Meg Ryan.

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There's no way Randy Quaid... No, because they have a baby.

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Jack Quaid is their baby.

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That's Dennis Quaid.

(00:24:04):
This says, was Meg Ryan married to Randy Quaid?

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So she married both of them?

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No, never mind.

(00:24:13):
It's Dennis, right?

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No, it's Dennis Quaid.

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They have Jack Quaid from The Boys.

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That's their son.

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All right, never mind.

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That would be really great if she married both of them.

(00:24:24):
They got into a bunch of shit in 2010.

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And then in 2010,

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they moved to Vancouver,

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Canada,

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where they sought asylum protections under the Canadian Immigration and Refugee

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Protection Act.

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stating that they feared for their lives in the United States.

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There's been an ongoing thing,

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so he hasn't been back in the States since,

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like,

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2010,

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because I think he's afraid of the legal repercussions.

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Wow.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Had I known that this wasn't,

(00:24:52):
like,

(00:24:53):
universally known knowledge,

(00:24:54):
I might have looked it up a little more for you guys,

(00:24:56):
but I just assumed everyone knew that Randy Quaid was off his rocker.

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I know.

(00:25:01):
Well, that's interesting.

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I can't believe that's Dennis Quaid's brother.

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Also, shitter's fool.

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You gotta tell you, Dennis Quaid, I had no idea.

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I did not know that myself.

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I did not know that.

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My mind's blown right now.

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John, you're up.

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So my favorite movie, holiday movie, is It's a Wonderful Life.

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This has been around for a long time.

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It was released in 1946.

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It's 94% fresh.

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Not sure.

(00:25:34):
What's that mean?

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That means on the tomato meter.

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Oh.

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94%.

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Oh, that's high compared to the other movies we've done.

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You don't say.

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I don't know.

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You said It's a Wonderful Life, and I thought you're an old soul.

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Damn.

(00:25:49):
Damn.

(00:25:50):
Have any of you seen it?

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I have never seen this movie.

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Oh, good.

(00:25:53):
That's one.

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Oh, three of us have seen it.

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Good.

(00:25:56):
All right.

(00:25:58):
So Ebert gave it four stars.

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Just off the title, it never made me want to see this movie.

(00:26:03):
You know what's interesting about this movie?

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You would think it's just this cheeky, stupid holiday movie, which it kind of is in a way.

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But part of the reason it became famous for being a great holiday movie is

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it fell out of copyright and once it fell out of like once it was no longer

(00:26:26):
copyright protected the networks were like like trying to play it but PBS was the

(00:26:32):
first to start playing this regularly around Christmas and they did it as a like a

(00:26:37):
kind of like a counterculture thing to say this is the movie you should watch not

(00:26:41):
these huge holiday movies that they're releasing

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That's when it became popular.

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So Ebert said, of this movie, he said, some movies, even good ones, should only be seen once.

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When we know how they turn out, they surrender their mystery and appeal.

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Other movies can be viewed an indefinite number of times.

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Like great music, they improve with familiarity.

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It's a Wonderful Life falls in the second category.

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I agree with that.

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The one thing I really love about this movie is it's not cookie cutter.

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Like this guy, George Bailey, he can be an ornery son of a bitch in this movie.

(00:27:19):
Like he can, I mean, he's deep down to his core.

(00:27:23):
He's like a really, really good human being and the world's a better place for him being in it.

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But he goes through some misfortunes,

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which makes him kind of go a little batshit for a little bit.

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And there's an angel who comes down and helps him.

(00:27:40):
There you get that Christmas part, right?

(00:27:44):
But there was snow.

(00:27:46):
He's getting hammered.

(00:27:47):
He's just like, ah, he runs into a tree.

(00:27:51):
He's about ready to jump off a bridge.

(00:27:54):
It's kind of a depressing movie in parts.

(00:27:55):
But at the end, it's just fantastic.

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Um,

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a couple of things I want to bring up is that Jimmy Stewart,

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who stars as George Bailey,

(00:28:06):
it was the first movie that he did post world war two.

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He served in world war two and he flew 20 combat missions and he actually did develop PTSD.

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Um, he got the shakes, he got a short temper and, and nightmares.

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So a lot of the things that he experienced in world war two,

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he brought into his character of George Bailey.

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Um,

(00:28:30):
special effects this was really cool so there's a scene where he runs through the

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town and the town's covered in snow and it's snowing and it's a blizzard and stuff

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the way they were able to do that was with uh cornflakes that were dyed white and

(00:28:45):
soap oh not asbestos like the wizard of oz oh my

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Wizard of Oz uses asbestos?

(00:28:52):
That's so disgusting.

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Anyway, God.

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Did it snow in the Wizard of Oz?

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Yes.

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Yeah, with the poppies.

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In the poppy field.

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Oh.

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That was all asbestos?

(00:29:01):
They just sprayed asbestos all over.

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Wonderful.

(00:29:04):
Wow.

(00:29:04):
All right, anyway, so white painted cornflakes.

(00:29:08):
Yes, white painted cornflakes.

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I like it.

(00:29:12):
So let me play you a little scene from this movie.

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Boop, beep, beep, beep.

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This movie does have some corny moments,

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but when he's trying to get the girl to really like him,

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he asks her.

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But I think normally,

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I don't know,

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I don't love the corniness of movies,

(00:29:31):
but when it comes to Christmas,

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I just love it.

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You know what I like about this?

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Christmas is about corny.

(00:29:37):
It does have that.

(00:29:39):
It does have, at the end, it can be a little corny, a little hokey.

(00:29:44):
But there's moments of it where it's like,

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damn,

(00:29:46):
George got hammered and drove his car into a tree.

(00:29:49):
And he yelled at his kids.

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He just went off on his kids because his brother lost like $8,000.

(00:29:55):
Potter fucking grabbed that money and acted like he never had it.

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And he went home and was like, do you have to keep playing that goddamn music?

(00:30:02):
He's all mad.

(00:30:03):
But one of the nicest part of the movies is when he's trying to woo Mary, his eventual wife.

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And he asks, he's like, Mary, do you want the moon?

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You want the moon?

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I said, that's my kids.

(00:30:12):
So here, I'm going to play this for you.

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What do you want?

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You want the moon?

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Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.

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Hey, that's a pretty good idea.

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I'll give you the moon, Mary.

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I'll take it.

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Then what?

(00:30:29):
Well, then you could swallow it and it'll all dissolve, see?

(00:30:33):
And the moonbeams that shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair.

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Am I talking too much?

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Yes.

(00:30:41):
Yes.

(00:30:43):
Why don't you kiss instead of talking to death?

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How's that?

(00:30:46):
How's that?

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Why don't you?

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Well, Mary, it's kind of awkward all of a sudden.

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You're Norman again.

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All your movies sound like Norman.

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Do you want the moon?

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Apple?

(00:31:01):
Do you want the moon?

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Throw a lasso around it.

(00:31:04):
Do you hear those loons?

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Isn't that every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings?

(00:31:13):
I know.

(00:31:13):
You know what's interesting about this movie is that the angel that has to come

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save him is like an angel that couldn't save anybody.

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He's been up there for like 200 years and he's like, hey, you think I might get my wings?

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They're like, go deal with George.

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So it's kind of funny.

(00:31:29):
His name was Clarence.

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Clarence has to save George Bailey.

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So I feel like I've got two marching orders here.

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Watch the cranks and watch It's a Wonderful Life.

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I agree with that.

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I would say yes.

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I'm not sure I'm excited about that, but I'm going to try it.

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Which movie do we think reigns supreme, though?

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Noel?

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Well, clearly not that one.

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I think we each have to vote for a movie that's not our own.

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I agree.

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Okay.

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I'm going Christmas Vacation.

(00:32:03):
I'm going Cranks.

(00:32:04):
I'm going Christmas Vacation.

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Because I don't think there's a better movie ever.

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I appreciate the vote, Ryan.

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I would have picked it myself.

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I couldn't say Christmas Vacation after what I said about it.

(00:32:18):
Although my scene's coming from there.

(00:32:24):
What is this from?

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Christmas Vacation!

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Our winner.

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You win!

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You gotta sing now.

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Christmas time is here.

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This is just such a great movie.

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I was going to sneak in.

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I know we didn't say we talked about this,

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but how about off the top of your head,

(00:32:49):
favorite animated Christmas movie?

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Charlie Brown.

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You hate Charlie Brown.

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Charlie Brown could...

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No.

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Oh, I'm 100% with you, Ryan.

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I am not a Charlie Brown fan.

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He is weird.

(00:33:03):
He's creepy.

(00:33:04):
He's bald.

(00:33:05):
He's sad.

(00:33:06):
He's probably like that.

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It's sad.

(00:33:08):
He's just, I don't know.

(00:33:10):
Did you see that?

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You look mad.

(00:33:16):
It's like looking in a mirror.

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No, Charlie, he's got one or two hairs.

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He's got more than me.

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No, there's just something about him.

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It's just animated.

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Yeah, because I couldn't help but think of all the animated.

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I mean, Rudolph's like the classic.

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The first one that comes to my mind is Rudolph.

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But you know what?

(00:33:34):
As an adult, I look back, and Rudolph was basically a disabled kid who got...

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He was.

(00:33:42):
He was a disabled child who got picked on and got told he was not good enough by

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Santa himself,

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who was like...

(00:33:50):
John,

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you were like shaking with anger.

(00:33:53):
That movie pisses me off because he's like,

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oh,

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get that dumb bright nose out of here,

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would you?

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But you know what?

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He shows everyone in the end.

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He does.

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But you know what I wish Rudolph did?

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When Santa was like, hey, Rudolph, with your nose so bright, I'd be like, Santa...

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Fuck you.

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No, he did it for the kids.

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Screw you.

(00:34:13):
He did it for the kids, Josh.

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I wanted to play reindeer games.

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He's like, oh, Rudolph.

(00:34:25):
Good job.

(00:34:26):
You know the Rudolph song?

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Did you guys do that where you had the little phrases that you added in there?

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My husband and I have had arguments about the right things because we said

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different things growing up.

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Well, the cool kids said one thing.

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I don't know what you guys are talking about.

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Like the Rudolph song.

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Like you added.

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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

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Reindeer had a very shiny nose.

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Like a light bulb.

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Yeah, so we had like different versions.

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Yes.

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What was his version and what's yours?

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Um,

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I think there was one where it was like something about the reindeer games and we

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said like Monopoly and there was something else too.

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And, or, Oh no, the end was like, um, or just like, like, um, like Columbus.

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And one of the, I think we said like George Washington or something.

(00:35:16):
One of us was like,

(00:35:17):
yeah,

(00:35:18):
arguing about which,

(00:35:19):
which one it was,

(00:35:20):
but yeah,

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there's different versions of that.

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Have you heard the DMX version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

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Because that's what I was just about to start singing it.

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You got to play it now.

(00:35:30):
You got to play it.

(00:35:33):
The best Christmas carol ever.

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Why didn't we open with it?

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Yeah.

(00:35:50):
Number one of all time.

(00:35:52):
Like Pinocchio.

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George Washington.

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Like Monopoly.

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That is my favorite Christmas song.

(00:36:11):
I never knew that song existed until the second.

(00:36:14):
Oh my God.

(00:36:15):
Never heard that before.

(00:36:16):
So I'm adding that to my playlist.

(00:36:17):
That is amazing.

(00:36:19):
But DMX kind of jumps a shark doing a Rudolph song, right?

(00:36:23):
Huh?

(00:36:24):
You know, it's kind of like weird DMX.

(00:36:26):
No.

(00:36:28):
DMX makes me think of like Bruce Springsteen doing that.

(00:36:31):
Oh, Santa's coming to town, people.

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You know Santa's coming to town.

(00:36:35):
I like that song.

(00:36:37):
Tell you something about Santa coming to town.

(00:36:40):
Nothing like that.

(00:36:41):
You're a hater.

(00:36:42):
Oh, man.

(00:36:43):
Turn on the saxophone.

(00:36:46):
We've got to get to the next segment here.

(00:36:49):
Oh, now you have to play it.

(00:36:50):
I like that one.

(00:36:52):
You're going to hate a one.

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I do like that.

(00:36:54):
I did not love the Elton John.

(00:36:54):
Oh, I like that one.

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I just love Christmas.

(00:37:09):
Hey, hey.

(00:37:12):
No, you don't sing.

(00:37:13):
Let Bruce sing it.

(00:37:14):
I want to tell you what time it is.

(00:37:16):
It's time for Santa.

(00:37:20):
Santa's going to be coming any minute here, people.

(00:37:23):
Hey, Clarence.

(00:37:25):
Clarence, you know what time it is?

(00:37:31):
You better watch out.

(00:37:35):
You guys all been good and practicing real hard.

(00:37:39):
I'm practicing.

(00:37:41):
You've been rehearsing real hard now.

(00:37:43):
You're so good at ruining something so nice.

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This is probably my top ten Christmas songs.

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Hold on, it's coming.

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Stop singing.

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You better watch out.

(00:37:58):
You better not cry.

(00:38:03):
rocking out though he wants karaoke i know all right i kind of like it it's a good

(00:38:12):
song it's a good song

(00:38:21):
All right, I think we can.

(00:38:24):
Yeah, we were good there.

(00:38:25):
We got Bruce in this.

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Are you ready to talk?

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The battle of the best holiday movie scenes.

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Who's going first?

(00:38:38):
I'll go first.

(00:38:39):
Oh, please go first.

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What's that?

(00:38:51):
Nothing.

(00:38:52):
Nothing.

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Oh, you want to go first?

(00:38:56):
That was worse.

(00:39:00):
I think you should go first.

(00:39:05):
So my favorite scene is from Home Alone.

(00:39:11):
So I love the scene where basically Marv and Harry are getting beaten up throughout the house.

(00:39:19):
The funny thing was I'm thinking about the scene and I'm like, it's such a visual scene though.

(00:39:24):
So like to talk about it on a podcast.

(00:39:27):
But then I found this amazing clip.

(00:39:54):
Sound like me coming home the other night.

(00:40:09):
all right pretty much sums it up you know when you've seen the movie a hundred

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times you can picture the entire scene what the scream is associated with yeah i i

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always thought that was funny i mean i don't think there's anybody that hasn't seen

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at least i mean i feel like everyone has seen home alone but you've at least seen

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like these scenes yeah

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And they're just so funny.

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They're funny for like kids too.

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I think I mentioned this before, but the guy who's opposite Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, I think.

(00:40:37):
Daniel Stern, yeah.

(00:40:37):
He's the voice of the adult in The Wonder Years.

(00:40:43):
He's the adult Kevin.

(00:40:44):
He's the narrator.

(00:40:45):
No way.

(00:40:46):
Oh, wow.

(00:40:48):
I didn't know that.

(00:40:48):
Did you know that he actually originally passed on the role?

(00:40:53):
Really?

(00:40:54):
Yeah.

(00:40:54):
And then the guy that they brought in, him and Joe Pesci did not have very good chemistry.

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So they went back to him and he decided to do it.

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And I mean,

(00:41:04):
I think he was very happy about that because Home Alone was like number one in the

(00:41:09):
box office for 12 weeks in a row.

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And it ran from Thanksgiving.

(00:41:15):
So that means that people were going to see a Christmas movie like well into like...

(00:41:20):
Like March.

(00:41:21):
Wow.

(00:41:22):
Yeah.

(00:41:23):
That's crazy.

(00:41:23):
The one funny little fact I wanted to mention about this.

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So if you notice in the movie, Joe Pesci does this like weird little thing.

(00:41:32):
Like every time he's mad, he's like...

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This is because Joe Pesci was unable to not curse every couple of words.

(00:41:41):
You think about all the movies he's in.

(00:41:43):
He's in all these mobster movies.

(00:41:45):
He dropped the F-bomb every couple of words, whether it was in the script or not.

(00:41:50):
So this is a children's movie, and he had to control himself.

(00:41:54):
So that was his own little language that he made up when he would get frustrated

(00:41:59):
instead of cursing.

(00:42:01):
That's pretty funny.

(00:42:03):
Yeah.

(00:42:03):
I'll tell you,

(00:42:04):
this scene,

(00:42:04):
you don't have listed,

(00:42:05):
I don't think,

(00:42:06):
but one of my favorite scenes in that movie is when Kevin gets something delivered

(00:42:12):
and he's playing that clip from a movie.

(00:42:14):
Yes, when he gets the pizza.

(00:42:17):
Keep the change, filthy animal.

(00:42:19):
Did you know that that's not a real movie?

(00:42:21):
They made that up, yeah.

(00:42:23):
They filmed that as a fake movie just for this.

(00:42:26):
Yeah.

(00:42:27):
So when we were going to New York, he said, oh, where are we going to stay?

(00:42:33):
Are we going to stay at the plaza?

(00:42:34):
Waldorf?

(00:42:35):
I love, love, love Kevin getting ready in the morning.

(00:42:44):
Oh, like the shaving scene?

(00:42:47):
Yes, it's so iconic.

(00:42:48):
Isn't that great?

(00:42:49):
That's great.

(00:42:51):
love this coincidentally so growing up we had a neighbor who looked exactly like

(00:43:02):
macaulay yes when you were when you were little yes and home alone was very popular

(00:43:08):
at the time and we made him do this all the time like wait do you know a fun fact

(00:43:15):
about this

(00:43:17):
That wasn't him like holding his cheeks like that.

(00:43:21):
That wasn't originally scripted.

(00:43:22):
He was just supposed to like hit himself and then stop.

(00:43:26):
And he like he just Macaulay Culkin did that.

(00:43:29):
And then it became like.

(00:43:32):
I really want to take a picture of my oldest because he's like about the age.

(00:43:36):
I think Macaulay Culkin is.

(00:43:38):
That's like one of his like favorite Christmas movies because,

(00:43:41):
you know,

(00:43:41):
he just wants to like stay at the plaza and have room service.

(00:43:45):
yeah yeah don't we all right we do i love that but my favorite that i wanted to

(00:43:54):
mention for this podcast favorite favorite scene ever all right i only picked it as

(00:44:00):
my favorite because it relates to us now it's um in national lampoons

(00:44:05):
Christmas vacation, which was my answer for every segment of this podcast.

(00:44:10):
She likes Christmas vacation.

(00:44:11):
It is when they bring the Christmas tree into the house and Clark goes to open it up.

(00:44:17):
And then it goes boomy.

(00:44:20):
It busts through all the windows and everything.

(00:44:23):
Do you think there's enough room for the angel?

(00:44:26):
Oh, sure, honey.

(00:44:27):
I have a little more trimming to do, but that won't be a problem.

(00:44:30):
Ready?

(00:44:31):
I give you the Griswold family Christmas tree.

(00:44:35):
He went out into the woods to cut this thing down.

(00:44:49):
So I picked this because this is us now.

(00:44:52):
We go to the woods,

(00:44:53):
and we cut down a Christmas tree every year,

(00:44:55):
and we bring it in the house all wrapped up and cut the cord and hope that it fits

(00:45:01):
in the living room.

(00:45:01):
Do you get a big-ass Christmas tree every year?

(00:45:04):
We do.

(00:45:04):
Do you remember the saw, though?

(00:45:09):
Yeah.

(00:45:09):
And we cut it, and then it just goes...

(00:45:13):
and it opens up.

(00:45:14):
We've gotten better.

(00:45:15):
The first couple years, I mean, we have some sat marks on the ceiling.

(00:45:18):
Yeah, on the ceiling, it hits the windows and all this other crap.

(00:45:22):
Now we're pretty good.

(00:45:23):
We get it just right.

(00:45:25):
Can you guys take a video this year and send it to me?

(00:45:27):
I kind of want to see this thing explode in your living room.

(00:45:31):
This is so cool.

(00:45:32):
We never did that.

(00:45:34):
Yeah, a nice 35, 40-foot tree.

(00:45:35):
See, I'm a fake tree person.

(00:45:37):
you know what i never ever ever thought i would be a fake tree person like i was

(00:45:42):
like christmas isn't real unless you can smell your tree and then i had my own

(00:45:49):
house and i was like the dog is drinking the water and pine needles in the carpet

(00:45:55):
and now i have we never had a real tree growing up it was always artificial

(00:45:59):
Really?

(00:46:00):
Oh, no.

(00:46:00):
We always had real.

(00:46:02):
Actually,

(00:46:03):
we always got the tree with the root ball and everything and planted them in our backyard.

(00:46:07):
Oh, my God.

(00:46:09):
That's amazing.

(00:46:10):
There's like seven, eight trees back there in your parents' backyard.

(00:46:14):
That's amazing.

(00:46:14):
Privilege.

(00:46:15):
Privilege.

(00:46:16):
Right?

(00:46:17):
Seriously.

(00:46:18):
How many kids graduated in your senior class?

(00:46:21):
97.

(00:46:21):
I graduated with 1,200.

(00:46:25):
That's what I graduated with.

(00:46:27):
No, my family even did this when we were living in a row home in the city.

(00:46:31):
They got a tree.

(00:46:32):
Where did they plant it?

(00:46:34):
We had a little patch.

(00:46:36):
Fairmount Park?

(00:46:37):
No, there was a small patch in our house.

(00:46:41):
They drove it to the burbs and planted it.

(00:46:44):
They drove it to Fairmount Park.

(00:46:46):
They were like,

(00:46:46):
guys,

(00:46:47):
we're going to come back in eight months,

(00:46:48):
and this thing's going to be awesome.

(00:46:50):
The first real tree I had was with this one.

(00:46:53):
Really?

(00:46:54):
Yeah, really.

(00:46:55):
And it was pretty cool.

(00:46:56):
I don't know that I've ever had a real tree.

(00:46:58):
Oh, ask him where he got our first tree at this house.

(00:47:02):
Susie's.

(00:47:02):
We did.

(00:47:02):
The strip club.

(00:47:06):
We did.

(00:47:10):
In the parking lot.

(00:47:11):
The parking lot of the strip club.

(00:47:13):
They were selling Christmas trees?

(00:47:15):
They do over a year.

(00:47:17):
Well, we weren't actually moved in just yet.

(00:47:21):
But we needed a tree.

(00:47:23):
I have a lot of questions.

(00:47:25):
That's a trunk you wouldn't lick.

(00:47:27):
Yeah, it was a little bushy.

(00:47:30):
Jesus, man.

(00:47:33):
This is a Christmas episode.

(00:47:35):
Yeah.

(00:47:36):
Yeah.

(00:47:38):
We're not supposed to talk about nefarious things.

(00:47:42):
Christmas tree-style story, though.

(00:47:44):
What kind of ornaments do you like to put on your trees?

(00:47:46):
What kind of ornaments does she not like to put on your tree?

(00:47:51):
We have so many different Christmas trees that I put up in our house.

(00:47:54):
We do, too.

(00:47:54):
We have like so we have our like our regular one where we put the gifts and everything.

(00:48:00):
And then we just started this like a couple of years ago.

(00:48:03):
We have a Christmas tree that we put ornaments.

(00:48:05):
We get like an ornament every time we go like we travel somewhere.

(00:48:08):
So it's like our travel tree.

(00:48:10):
Yeah, we do.

(00:48:11):
I love that.

(00:48:12):
And then now the tree.

(00:48:14):
You have a Disney tree.

(00:48:16):
Wow.

(00:48:16):
Yes.

(00:48:17):
Wow.

(00:48:18):
Privilege.

(00:48:19):
We have three trees in my house.

(00:48:21):
How many do you have?

(00:48:22):
They're all outside.

(00:48:22):
So we have like four and then the boys each have like a tiny one in their room.

(00:48:27):
Oh, no.

(00:48:27):
It wasn't including the tiny trees in their room.

(00:48:30):
Did you know you can get a Christmas tree at the dollar store?

(00:48:34):
No, I didn't.

(00:48:35):
Yeah, there's one right upstairs there.

(00:48:37):
For $1.50?

(00:48:37):
It's $1.25 now.

(00:48:40):
It's part of a $60.

(00:48:41):
But I don't know.

(00:48:42):
She might have been in the $5 aisle that they have now.

(00:48:45):
Because it was like a four-foot tree.

(00:48:47):
Oh, that's a pretty decent size.

(00:48:50):
Yeah, well.

(00:48:51):
We just started,

(00:48:52):
though,

(00:48:52):
there's a company that does these ornaments where you can put pictures and stuff.

(00:48:57):
So now, every time we take our Christmas card pictures, I do, and I put a couple of them.

(00:49:03):
I'll have to show you guys.

(00:49:05):
Yeah, our Christmas tree tells a story.

(00:49:07):
Yeah.

(00:49:08):
What's it tell?

(00:49:09):
I don't know, like different, all the years?

(00:49:11):
Yeah, like different things that happened that year and stuff.

(00:49:14):
Melissa's, you know, really good with that.

(00:49:17):
And the three trees that we have are like the main tree.

(00:49:21):
The boys get their own tree in the family room,

(00:49:24):
which is like decorated with like,

(00:49:25):
I don't know,

(00:49:26):
their colored lights and like their own ornaments.

(00:49:30):
And then upstairs, there's like a special tree.

(00:49:33):
Yeah.

(00:49:38):
in the hallway upstairs it's her tree oh and it's only with certain ornaments from

(00:49:45):
a certain place that she goes every year

(00:49:49):
Nothing, it's just a place that she goes to.

(00:49:51):
You're making it weird.

(00:49:52):
I know, because I feel like the only people that see this special tree are you guys.

(00:49:58):
Yeah, no, we're it.

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So it's this fair that we go to every year,

(00:50:02):
and she gets an ornament from that fair every year,

(00:50:05):
and it's called the fair tree.

(00:50:06):
That's cute.

(00:50:06):
You made it sound like it was going to be really weird.

(00:50:09):
And dirty.

(00:50:10):
No, just the fair tree.

(00:50:11):
He's a creep.

(00:50:12):
Sounds creepy.

(00:50:13):
That's cute.

(00:50:15):
I like this.

(00:50:15):
So it's like a travel tree, kind of, like.

(00:50:18):
How was it like a travel tree?

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But it's only from one place.

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No, the tree doesn't travel.

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It's ornaments from places you've traveled.

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But only one place.

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But only one place.

(00:50:30):
Did you think the tree traveled with them?

(00:50:32):
Yeah.

(00:50:35):
Like the Liberty Bell before it was around one place.

(00:50:37):
Yep, I'd pack it in my suitcase and everything.

(00:50:40):
All right, kids.

(00:50:41):
All right, white lights or colored lights?

(00:50:44):
White.

(00:50:45):
So speaking of lights, that is my favorite scene of Christmas Vacation.

(00:50:51):
Oh, well, that's supposed to wink at you.

(00:50:53):
Oh, when he puts the lights up?

(00:50:55):
When he puts the lights up, yeah.

(00:50:57):
Oh, that's okay.

(00:50:57):
I think this is one everybody can relate to.

(00:51:01):
This one's so good.

(00:51:03):
You wish you were.

(00:51:04):
Wait, can I hear a little more about this?

(00:51:08):
Nothing.

(00:51:12):
Wait, a guy who puts up lights for three days and can't get them to turn on?

(00:51:16):
That's what your wish is?

(00:51:20):
I want to be able to get up on the roof to put them on there, but I can't get on the roof.

(00:51:24):
Wait, you can't even get on the roof?

(00:51:26):
No.

(00:51:26):
Why?

(00:51:27):
It's high.

(00:51:28):
I can't get on the roof.

(00:51:32):
I do the trees and the bush.

(00:51:34):
I get on the roof.

(00:51:35):
Well, then you can come over here.

(00:51:37):
I hope you have a spotter.

(00:51:40):
250 strands of lights.

(00:51:42):
100 individual bulbs per strand for a grand total of 25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights.

(00:51:49):
Woohoo!

(00:51:51):
I hope nobody I know drives by and sees me standing in the yard staring at the

(00:51:55):
house in my pajamas.

(00:51:57):
If they know your dad, they won't think anything of it.

(00:52:00):
Fire it up, Dad!

(00:52:03):
I dedicate this house...

(00:52:05):
the Griswold family Christmas.

(00:52:09):
At least he can get the kids outside.

(00:52:11):
I can't even do that.

(00:52:14):
They don't care.

(00:52:15):
What is he?

(00:52:27):
What song is this?

(00:52:28):
Joy to the world.

(00:52:36):
And then nothing.

(00:52:40):
And nothing.

(00:52:41):
Sorry, Clark.

(00:52:41):
That's it.

(00:52:42):
Yeah, that was it.

(00:52:45):
I think this is the best scene of any Christmas movie, the two or three that I've ever seen.

(00:52:52):
This is the best scene.

(00:52:53):
Where he doesn't get the lights to come off.

(00:52:55):
So relatable.

(00:52:56):
Yeah, this is like on Golden Pond for me for Christmas.

(00:53:02):
It's relatable because...

(00:53:04):
This shit outside never works for me.

(00:53:06):
We can't even get our plugs to work this year.

(00:53:07):
Do you know what I had to do?

(00:53:09):
Because I noticed I was just like one year.

(00:53:11):
Did you steal your neighbor's electricity?

(00:53:14):
No, I did something different.

(00:53:15):
See, I have outlets all over, right?

(00:53:19):
And I used to always bring everything into the one outlet.

(00:53:24):
And then half my lights would go out.

(00:53:26):
And I'd be like, that's it.

(00:53:27):
Fuck this.

(00:53:29):
No more lights.

(00:53:29):
No.

(00:53:32):
Last year, I decided to take some.

(00:53:35):
I took extension cords,

(00:53:37):
some at the back of the house,

(00:53:38):
some at the front of the house,

(00:53:39):
some at the side of the house.

(00:53:40):
I was like, we're going to.

(00:53:41):
Well, that's what you're supposed to do.

(00:53:42):
We're going to diversify.

(00:53:43):
It worked out.

(00:53:47):
I didn't lose lights.

(00:53:48):
That's what you're supposed to do.

(00:53:50):
Are you, though?

(00:53:50):
Yes.

(00:53:51):
Yeah.

(00:53:51):
But it kind of sucks.

(00:53:52):
You just spread the load.

(00:53:53):
Why would you put it all in one?

(00:53:56):
Because your name's Griswold.

(00:53:57):
That's what he did.

(00:53:58):
It's a bunch of extension cords.

(00:54:02):
You'll be fine.

(00:54:05):
That's what I do now.

(00:54:06):
One of my favorite scenes... He'll be on cue with the music for this one.

(00:54:12):
I have two scenes.

(00:54:14):
It'll play perfectly.

(00:54:16):
Can I finish my statement?

(00:54:17):
Go to the bathroom.

(00:54:20):
What movie?

(00:54:22):
Christmas Vacation.

(00:54:23):
Okay,

(00:54:24):
so...

(00:54:26):
Trust me,

(00:54:27):
I think we figured out that Christmas Vacation is...

(00:54:29):
Is the best movie ever.

(00:54:30):
Don't be a crank.

(00:54:31):
It's definitely better than fucking Christmas with the Cranks.

(00:54:35):
Wow.

(00:54:36):
I mean... Will you play the scene?

(00:54:38):
Give us some love here.

(00:54:39):
Come on.

(00:54:39):
All right.

(00:54:40):
So,

(00:54:41):
one of my favorite scenes,

(00:54:42):
I have two from the same movie,

(00:54:44):
Christmas Vacation,

(00:54:46):
and one of them is about Clark dreaming about his pull.

(00:54:50):
And if you remember, hang on a second.

(00:54:58):
Can I just say, you said pole, not pool.

(00:55:03):
You 100% said pole.

(00:55:06):
Did I say pole?

(00:55:09):
I was like, it's pole.

(00:55:10):
And then you played the music and I'm like, oh, pole?

(00:55:14):
Maybe he was dreaming about his pole.

(00:55:16):
I don't know.

(00:55:17):
Alright, let me roll this back.

(00:55:21):
This is Clark dreaming about his future pole.

(00:55:26):
It sounds like pool.

(00:55:27):
Wait.

(00:55:28):
That's how I said pool.

(00:55:30):
No, you said pool again.

(00:55:33):
It sounded like pool.

(00:55:34):
Maybe it's my... Wait, wait, wait.

(00:55:36):
Ready, ready?

(00:55:37):
Wait, your accent?

(00:55:37):
Pool.

(00:55:39):
All right, let me try it.

(00:55:44):
Let me try it with an L You know my favorite part about this is looking out the window

(00:56:05):
He's seeing the pool and he's seeing all these great things.

(00:56:09):
I said pool that time.

(00:56:10):
Is he dancing in the pool?

(00:56:13):
No, but then Uncle Eddie shows up and he gets all flustered.

(00:56:17):
He's like, oh, shit, Eddie just showed up in my little fantasy.

(00:56:21):
And Eddie's wearing a bathrobe.

(00:56:23):
And then a speedo.

(00:56:29):
Oh, I love that part because he's fantasizing this whole pool.

(00:56:35):
I just said pool.

(00:56:38):
You said pool again.

(00:56:40):
First of all, I got to tell you, she's just making fun of the way you talk.

(00:56:45):
If you had a speech issue, I wouldn't like constantly bring it up to you.

(00:56:50):
You're saying a different word.

(00:56:52):
You know what?

(00:56:54):
I take offense to the fact that you're calling this.

(00:56:57):
Cool is not coal.

(00:56:59):
It's cool.

(00:57:01):
Just like that.

(00:57:02):
Oh, dang.

(00:57:03):
Jesus Christ.

(00:57:05):
What's your second scene?

(00:57:07):
My second scene, and I got to tell you, oh, God, I love this.

(00:57:12):
You have a second scene?

(00:57:14):
Yeah, I have a second scene.

(00:57:15):
Yeah.

(00:57:19):
This is when Clark gets his bonus.

(00:57:20):
It's the one-year membership in the Jelly of the Month Club.

(00:57:24):
Oh, God.

(00:57:26):
Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.

(00:57:29):
That it is at work.

(00:57:31):
That it is, Edward.

(00:57:34):
That it is indeed.

(00:57:36):
I'm sorry, Clark.

(00:57:39):
This isn't the biggest bag over the head, punch in the face I ever got.

(00:57:43):
God damn it!

(00:57:55):
Let the kidnapping convince.

(00:57:57):
Dude, this is very slams.

(00:57:58):
Two eggnogs.

(00:57:59):
It's good.

(00:58:02):
It's good.

(00:58:02):
There's a second one.

(00:58:08):
Hey.

(00:58:10):
If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one.

(00:58:15):
I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight.

(00:58:20):
I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with

(00:58:23):
all the other rich people.

(00:58:24):
And I want him brought right here with a big ribbon on his head.

(00:58:29):
And I want to look him straight in the eye,

(00:58:30):
and I want to tell him what a cheap,

(00:58:32):
lying,

(00:58:32):
no-good,

(00:58:33):
rotten,

(00:58:33):
four-flushing,

(00:58:34):
low-life,

(00:58:35):
snake-licking,

(00:58:36):
dirt-eating,

(00:58:36):
inbred,

(00:58:37):
overstuffed,

(00:58:38):
ignorant,

(00:58:38):
blood-sucking,

(00:58:40):
dog-kissing,

(00:58:41):
brainless,

(00:58:41):
dickless,

(00:58:42):
hopeless,

(00:58:43):
heartless,

(00:58:43):
fat-ass,

(00:58:44):
bug-eyed,

(00:58:45):
stiff-legged,

(00:58:46):
spotty-lipped,

(00:58:47):
worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is.

(00:58:50):
Hallelujah!

(00:58:52):
Holy shit!

(00:58:53):
Where's the Tylenol?

(00:58:54):
Yeah.

(00:58:56):
Come on.

(00:58:57):
That's the greatest scene in all of Christmas movies ever.

(00:59:02):
Hallelujah.

(00:59:04):
Holy shit.

(00:59:05):
I love that scene.

(00:59:06):
Hallelujah.

(00:59:07):
Hallelujah.

(00:59:08):
Holy shit.

(00:59:09):
Watching it as a child, I remember.

(00:59:11):
Wait, you watch this as a child?

(00:59:13):
Yeah.

(00:59:13):
Where were your parents?

(00:59:18):
Anyway, watching this as a child.

(00:59:20):
How old?

(00:59:21):
I don't know my exact age.

(00:59:23):
Can I just finish my thoughts?

(00:59:24):
No, please finish it.

(00:59:26):
I feel like when I was little,

(00:59:28):
I didn't like this movie as much because I thought it was depressing.

(00:59:32):
And as I got older, I loved it more and more because I can relate to it.

(00:59:36):
Because you're like, wow, it is depressing.

(00:59:38):
I really relate to this.

(00:59:39):
You try so hard to make the holidays perfect.

(00:59:42):
It's so relatable.

(00:59:43):
It's so relatable.

(00:59:44):
How about the part, and this is earlier in the movie, where he's freaking out.

(00:59:49):
I don't know, the tree gets burnt down or whatever.

(00:59:54):
And his uncle is lighting a cigar and fucking lights the whole tree up.

(00:59:59):
And then everyone starts to try and sneak out.

(01:00:02):
And he's like, no one's leaving.

(01:00:04):
You're not leaving.

(01:00:04):
No one's leaving.

(01:00:06):
We're going to have a freaking Merry Christmas all together.

(01:00:11):
And then the kids are like, Dad's going to freak out, isn't he, Mom?

(01:00:14):
No, no, no, your dad's fine.

(01:00:16):
He's like, Dad's going to lose it.

(01:00:18):
Yeah, it's so relatable.

(01:00:20):
What's the matter with you?

(01:00:22):
I think in maybe like 10 years, I might be Clark Griswold.

(01:00:27):
It may happen.

(01:00:29):
Really?

(01:00:29):
I love Christmas so much.

(01:00:32):
I can totally see it.

(01:00:33):
Oh, wow.

(01:00:34):
Thanks, guys.

(01:00:35):
And I just feel like sometimes it's like you put the pressure on yourself for the

(01:00:40):
holidays to be perfect and everything.

(01:00:42):
I could see you saying it.

(01:00:44):
Holy shit.

(01:00:46):
Hallelujah.

(01:00:49):
Do it.

(01:00:50):
Repeat it now.

(01:00:52):
Do you know all the words?

(01:00:53):
What?

(01:00:54):
The whole scene.

(01:00:54):
I can't understand the whole scene.

(01:00:56):
We have to pull it up.

(01:00:57):
Pull it up on a phone.

(01:00:59):
That'll be a karaoke session.

(01:01:00):
Okay.

(01:01:03):
No,

(01:01:03):
but I think it is like you get to a point where you're like this adult and you are

(01:01:08):
trying to make it perfect for your family.

(01:01:10):
And it's just... It's hard.

(01:01:14):
I mean, that's the whole movie, too.

(01:01:16):
Yeah.

(01:01:17):
And then they try and cook the turkey and then it ends up being...

(01:01:21):
And then she does the blessing and it's the Pledge of Allegiance.

(01:01:25):
Yes.

(01:01:25):
The blessing.

(01:01:26):
The blessing.

(01:01:31):
I pledge allegiance to the flag.

(01:01:34):
I showed this movie to our oldest for the first time last year.

(01:01:38):
And it was interesting because I think the way he watched it was how I saw it the

(01:01:44):
first time I saw it.

(01:01:46):
He's like, this is depressing.

(01:01:47):
He said he was like, this is sad.

(01:01:50):
They're not having a good Christmas.

(01:01:53):
And I think that's how I saw it as a kid.

(01:01:56):
But as an adult, I'm dying laughing and I'm like, this is my life.

(01:02:02):
You'll get there.

(01:02:03):
You'll get there.

(01:02:03):
You'll see.

(01:02:04):
A few moments later.

(01:02:06):
All right, so let's vote.

(01:02:08):
All right, so I had the burglar scene.

(01:02:12):
John had the bonus scene.

(01:02:15):
Is that the one you're going with?

(01:02:16):
The bonus?

(01:02:18):
The other one.

(01:02:19):
I'm going to go with the bonus scene.

(01:02:20):
What's the bonus scene?

(01:02:22):
No, like getting his jelly of the month thing.

(01:02:24):
Oh, that bonus.

(01:02:26):
Jelly of the month.

(01:02:27):
Yeah, sorry.

(01:02:27):
I had the Christmas lights, and you had...

(01:02:30):
I had the tree opening, but I also snuck in Kevin's shaving.

(01:02:35):
Let's vote.

(01:02:36):
We have to vote for somebody else.

(01:02:37):
We've got four scenes.

(01:02:38):
Yours was?

(01:02:39):
The Home Alone when the burglars are getting up.

(01:02:43):
You had?

(01:02:45):
Tree opening.

(01:02:46):
I had the lights and you had?

(01:02:48):
The freak out over to bonus.

(01:02:49):
Yeah.

(01:02:49):
All right.

(01:02:51):
Who's voting first?

(01:02:52):
Katie, go for it.

(01:02:53):
I'm going to go with the freak out.

(01:02:54):
Freak out.

(01:02:55):
Hallelujah.

(01:02:56):
Holy shit.

(01:02:58):
Where's the Tylenol?

(01:02:59):
That definitely wins.

(01:03:02):
Holy shit!

(01:03:04):
Where's the Tylenol?

(01:03:05):
That's, I think, my favorite scene.

(01:03:08):
Alright, so, so far, Christmas Vacation is the best movie and the best scene.

(01:03:14):
I kind of see where this is going.

(01:03:18):
It is so great.

(01:03:21):
Hollywood Movie Actor Hall of Fame.

(01:03:24):
Alright, who's going first?

(01:03:28):
I'll go.

(01:03:30):
Mine is Kevin McAllister in Home Alone.

(01:03:33):
That's a good one.

(01:03:35):
What about you, John?

(01:03:38):
I guess I'm gonna go Clark Griswold.

(01:03:41):
Chevy Chase.

(01:03:43):
Chevy Chase, Clark Griswold.

(01:03:44):
Is that what you said too, Erica?

(01:03:46):
Yeah, but I have a backup.

(01:03:48):
Oh.

(01:03:49):
Who's your backup?

(01:03:50):
All right, I'm going.

(01:03:51):
Just lately, Kurt Russell, Christmas Chronicles.

(01:03:54):
Has anyone seen that?

(01:03:55):
Oh, yes.

(01:03:56):
My kids love that movie.

(01:03:58):
That's how we totally didn't talk about any of that tonight.

(01:04:00):
That's a really good one.

(01:04:02):
But I really love him as Santa.

(01:04:04):
He is good as Santa.

(01:04:07):
He's like a good modern Santa.

(01:04:09):
Yes.

(01:04:09):
That's a good one.

(01:04:10):
That's a really good one.

(01:04:12):
I said Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf.

(01:04:14):
Oh, I love.

(01:04:15):
I just feel like Will Ferrell was kind of born to play that role.

(01:04:19):
He was.

(01:04:19):
Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?

(01:04:23):
He's got the right demeanor.

(01:04:24):
My favorite line is, like, he makes breakfast for them.

(01:04:27):
And he's like, oh, they're like, did you get a good night's sleep?

(01:04:31):
Oh, yeah, I got a full 40 minutes.

(01:04:34):
And then he makes them spaghetti with, like, M&Ms.

(01:04:36):
And syrup and everything else.

(01:04:37):
And then he's like, hey, Dad.

(01:04:39):
So he's got an Etch-A-Sketch, and he's like, I've got our full day planned.

(01:04:42):
He's like,

(01:04:43):
I was thinking we could go to the park and we can ice skate,

(01:04:46):
and then we can eat cookie dough,

(01:04:47):
and then later we can snuggle.

(01:04:51):
She knows the whole seed word for word.

(01:04:54):
I think we have some elf clips.

(01:04:58):
We should totally play those right now.

(01:05:00):
You want to play the elf clips?

(01:05:02):
Yes.

(01:05:02):
Yeah, I can probably find one or two.

(01:05:05):
But on the vote, I'm going to go Kurt Russell on this one.

(01:05:07):
Oh, you are?

(01:05:08):
I am.

(01:05:09):
You didn't even think of that.

(01:05:11):
No, I didn't.

(01:05:12):
This is the theme song to elf.

(01:05:15):
Who are you voting for, Katie?

(01:05:15):
Katie?

(01:05:21):
I think I'm going to go Kevin McAllister.

(01:05:23):
Yeah, okay.

(01:05:23):
How about you, John?

(01:05:25):
Clark Griswold.

(01:05:26):
You can't vote for your own.

(01:05:27):
You can't vote for your own.

(01:05:30):
This is really difficult with four people.

(01:05:33):
So who are my choices if I can't vote for Clark Griswold?

(01:05:36):
Kevin McAllister.

(01:05:38):
Buddy.

(01:05:39):
Buddy the Elf.

(01:05:41):
Or Kurt Russell as Santa Claus.

(01:05:43):
And he put up Clark Griswold.

(01:05:49):
Nobody voted for him though.

(01:05:52):
I'm going Kurt Russell.

(01:05:53):
I think he wins anyway.

(01:05:56):
Because you said so?

(01:05:58):
Because I said so.

(01:06:00):
Hey, people, tomorrow morning, 10 a.m., Santa's coming to town.

(01:06:05):
Santa!

(01:06:06):
Oh, my God!

(01:06:08):
Santa here?

(01:06:09):
I know him.

(01:06:12):
I know him.

(01:06:12):
I plan out our whole day.

(01:06:14):
First,

(01:06:14):
we'll make snow angels for two hours,

(01:06:16):
and then we'll go ice skating,

(01:06:17):
and then we'll eat a whole roll of total house cookie dough as fast as we can,

(01:06:20):
and then,

(01:06:21):
to finish,

(01:06:21):
we'll snuggle.

(01:06:26):
You knew that whole scene.

(01:06:29):
Yeah.

(01:06:29):
She definitely knew the whole scene.

(01:06:31):
Then we'll snuggle.

(01:06:37):
Our ultimate movie is Christmas Vacation.

(01:06:44):
Surprise, surprise.

(01:06:45):
It checks all the boxes.

(01:06:48):
It had Christmas trees.

(01:06:49):
It had snow.

(01:06:50):
It had Santa.

(01:06:52):
Nostalgia.

(01:06:53):
Nostalgia.

(01:06:55):
Parent guilt.

(01:06:56):
Parent guilt.

(01:06:57):
Fighting families.

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Trivia time.

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Would you like to try any more of your buttons, buddy?

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Are we ready for trivia?

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All right.

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Yeah, Kevin.

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Holiday trivia.

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Woo-hoo!

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This is what Eric has been waiting for all night.

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And we have prizes.

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Oh.

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Oh, yes, we do.

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Wait, we got prizes.

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Just hurl a new one.

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Just hurl a new one.

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your pants later all right question number one who's recording the answers there's

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no um oh yeah Erica keep count oh that's not biased at all make sure you I know I

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want to make sure these and she's the writer at trivia sometimes once in a while

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Look at her.

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She can't even keep her pages on the book.

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Keep your pages.

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Look at what she just did.

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All right.

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You ready?

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Write the name.

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Let's go.

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I'm ready.

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I don't know how I'm going to do it.

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All right.

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So here's the deal.

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There's somebody who's going to be easy and then they'll get harder.

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Well, thank you, Ryan.

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Is that falling?

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No, I was adjusting.

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You need to hear.

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If I know it, you need to hear me.

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I need to hear it.

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Are you playing or you already know the answers?

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I don't know the answers.

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I'm playing too.

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What?

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Yes.

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The answers are right here, but I didn't see them yet.

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Kevin's like your assistant.

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That's not fair.

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Well, that's what he said.

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He didn't read the answers.

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No, I'm not playing.

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I'm just reading.

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All right.

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Question number one.

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What is the department store's name where... Macy's.

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Gimbal.

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Gimbal.

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Yeah.

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Macy's.

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Wait, what was the actual question?

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Look, the fucking answer.

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None of us listened.

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The answer is Macy's.

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Now put a strike next to my name.

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What was the question?

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We suck at this.

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None of us listened to the whole question.

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What is the department store's name where Kris Kringle works as Santa Claus in

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Miracle on...

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I would have known that I've...

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this is family feud you gotta listen okay all right okay we have to wait until he

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finishes the question why because i got that right no because it doesn't it's

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trying guessing the right answer because our listeners want to hear what the actual

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question is the question no they want to hear domination shush

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Question number two.

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What surprise is hidden in Aunt Bethany's holiday gift in National Lampoon's Christmas Eve?

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A cat.

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Jell-O.

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A cat.

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No.

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It's a Jell-O mold with a cat inside.

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Jell-O.

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It's a Jell-O mold with?

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There's like cereal and hat care.

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Hat care?

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No.

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Cat hair.

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The Jell-O mold has a cat.

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Cat food.

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That's different.

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It's your whole cat.

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This is Springfield.

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I think I disagree with this.

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I think there was a cat and there was a Jell-O mold that had like cereal and cat hair.

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And they shake the box and the box goes because there was a cat.

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And then she brought the Jell-O mold.

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You give it to John?

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Are you serious?

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It was also the Jell-O mold.

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Remember there was cereal and the cat hair in it?

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Give them 0.5.

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Give them a half a stroke.

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We didn't give a half a tally mark.

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All right,

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which popular she never put our half song put the half on let's go All right,

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next one which popular Christmas beverage is also called milk punch eggnog Which

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country did eggnog come from Germany

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Nope.

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Poland.

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London.

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Switzerland.

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England.

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France.

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Russia.

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I said London.

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You said England.

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I know, but first I said London.

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England.

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She got it.

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All right.

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What was the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time?

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Home Alone.

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Yes.

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Damn it.

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Boom.

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We talked about it enough.

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How many ghosts show up in a Christmas car?

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Four.

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Four.

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Yes.

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Yeah, turn these things down.

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Sorry, we're shouting.

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All right.

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We're shouting tonight.

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The non-Christmas movie Die Hard.

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What is the name of the high-rise building where John McClane fights off terrorists

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on Christmas?

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Shut her mic off.

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I gotta tell you.

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Nishumi Towers.

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It's not that.

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Something like that.

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Nisaki Towers?

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Something Japanese.

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You're so close.

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Nisaki.

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You're so close.

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I'll tell you what I know it isn't.

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It's definitely not that.

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Numasaki.

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Kamaskazi.

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No, you're close.

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It starts with the Nakama.

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Nakama Saki Towers?

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Nakami Towers?

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Not going to work here anymore, that's for sure.

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Nakatami Plaza.

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Yeah, nobody gets a point.

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Sorry, you didn't get that point.

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In Home Alone...

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What is the name of the gangster movie that Kevin McCallister uses to scare off

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intruders and delivery men?

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Angels of... Angels of Christmas.

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Angels of... Angels is in there.

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Angels of the night.

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Angels of... Angels of the day.

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Something with sins and... Angels with...

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angels with devils angels filthy souls sorry sorry you don't get that one we talked

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about elvis today too right maybe we got a half a point elvis isn't going to have a

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white christmas he's going to have a blue christmas that's right i think erica got

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that one first i think erica chimed in on that oh i get it you get it

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Famous quote.

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I got mail.

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Who said this famous Christmas quote?

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Christmas to me is as many people as possible.

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Grinch.

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Cindy Lou Who.

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Who?

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The Grinch.

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Cindy Lou Who.

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Cindy Lou Who.

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Say it again.

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Clark Griswold.

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Nope.

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They're not in a Christmas movie.

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Okay.

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Say it again.

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Wait.

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What?

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What?

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Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.

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He's dead right now though.

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Walt Whitman.

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No.

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He's bald.

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He's bald?

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Daddy Warbox?

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No.

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He's on the West Coast.

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Well, he's from the West Coast.

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The Google app.

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Cool Jack.

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No, but you're on the right track.

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You said he's dead.

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Tupac.

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Yes.

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Tupac Shakur.

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Put a strike down next to my name, please.

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These are the weirdest Christmas times.

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That's right.

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Tupac said that.

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Kevin's trivia is crazy.

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All right.

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In the classic Christmas movie,

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas,

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the Grinch was described with three words.

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What were they?

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Stink, stank, skunk.

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Oh.

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Stunk.

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Stank.

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Stank stunk.

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Yes.

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Good job, Erica.

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We'll give it to Erica on that one.

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All right.

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Erica's favorite movie, The Polar Express.

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In The Polar Express, what is punched into the main boy's ticket at the end of the journey?

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Believe.

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Believe.

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Yes.

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For a bonus.

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That is a Katie.

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For a bonus, what was the main boy's name?

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Michael.

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Boy.

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Sam.

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Josh.

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Henry.

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He didn't have a name.

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He did not have a name, but what did they refer to him as?

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Boy.

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Boy one.

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Hero Boy.

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That was his name.

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He was main boy, but in the credits, it was Hero Boy.

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That's kind of stupid.

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That was a bonus question.

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That was a bonus.

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Can you turn this music down a little bit?

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I will.

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That's nicer.

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All right.

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In Christmas Vacation, we'll go back there.

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What does Clark Griswold receive as his Christmas bonus leading?

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Jelly of the Month Club.

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That was me right there.

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That was one of the easy ones.

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What is the best-selling Christmas song ever?

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All I Want for Christmas is You.

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Mariah Carey, All I Want for... No.

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Well, right now, Jason Kelsey and Stevie Nicks have the number one of the boxes.

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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

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Is that the one?

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That's what you're saying?

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Of all time.

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Of all time.

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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

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White Christmas.

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White Christmas.

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Thank you.

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Put another strike down for me, would you?

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John's kicking your ass here.

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Make sure you cross him out at five.

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You just don't keep... I know, but he has... Well, he has this little half of one in here.

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It's kind of messing it up.

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That's five and a half for me.

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What popular Christmas song was actually written as a Thanksgiving song?

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Chestnuts roasting?

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Mm-mm.

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I'll be home for Christmas?

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Mm-mm.

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It was one of the first songs played when we started.

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I'll be eating you tonight.

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What?

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Christmas?

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It was written about a turkey.

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Christmas?

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Two words.

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Let snow.

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Let snow.

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Two words and it makes noise.

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Jingle bells.

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Jingle bells, yes.

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That was originally a Thanksgiving song.

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Who would have played that?

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It was the first song on the thing.

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I did not recollect.

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It's weird.

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Which Christmas song contains the lyric, everyone dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way?

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Jingle bell rock.

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Negative.

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Jingle bells.

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Jingle bells.

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You almost had it.

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It's Jingle Bells?

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Rock around the Christmas tree?

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Yes.

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Rocking around the Christmas tree.

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Wow, you're very specific.

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We'll give it to you.

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Eric is coming back in this.

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All right.

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In one of the best movies ever.

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Noelle.

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In a Charlie Brown Christmas.

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Vomit.

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I like it.

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What does Lucy suggest Charlie Brown do to cure his holiday depression?

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Dance?

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No.

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No.

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Mmm, cut a tree down?

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No, he should do more than that, but no.

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Give somebody a gift.

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Direct Christmas play.

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We all clearly don't like Charlie Brown.

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I like it.

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He is creepy creeper.

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Three of Santa's reindeer's names begin with the letter D. What are those names?

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Donner, Dasher, Dixon.

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Donner, Dasher, Dancer.

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Dixon.

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Donner, Dasher, Dancer.

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Dixon.

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Donner, Dasher, Dancer.

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Yes, Donner, Dasher, Dancer.

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Dixon?

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No, Vixen.

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That's close.

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And Dixon.

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You get a point for your effort.

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Katie got it.

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I know I did.

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Oh, okay.

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Not Dixon.

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No, it's not Dixon.

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Which one of Santa's reindeer has the same name as another holiday mascot?

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Cupid?

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Yes.

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Oh.

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That's good.

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Valentine's Day.

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Good, good.

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Even when I knew the answer, I still would not have gotten that.

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All right, back to the Polar Express.

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In the Polar Express, what is the first gift?

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Bell.

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A sleigh bell.

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Of Christmas given by Santa Claus.

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Sleigh bell.

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It's a sleigh bell.

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He gives him one of the bells off his sleigh.

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It's a silver bell.

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It's from his sleigh.

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It was a sleigh bell.

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It was a sleigh bell.

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They refer to it as a silver bell.

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But it was a sleigh bell.

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I've seen this movie.

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Silver bell.

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In the movie Elf.

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Silver bell.

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Sleigh bell.

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Sleigh bell.

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karaoke has started in the movie elf what was the first rule of the code of elves

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treat every day like christmas yes i feel like we should put the chipmunk voice on

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so she can say that again could you do that again you want to do that again what

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was the first rule of the code of elves

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All right, what are frosties first words after the

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I think that's a half a point each.

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That was good, Erica.

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They both got that.

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Yeah, I'm good with that.

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Happy birthday.

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Hey, I have a birthday.

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What is the name?

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I don't think John can answer this.

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What is the name of Gus Polinsky's polka band?

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Oh, polka polka.

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Oh, crap.

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What is it?

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That's my question.

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Polka stars, polka jam.

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This is like Wheel of Fortune for her.

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She just has to sound it out.

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The polka kings.

(01:21:11):
No, but it's a good name.

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Happy birthday.

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It has the word kickers in it.

(01:21:18):
Polka kickers?

(01:21:20):
Polka knickers.

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The king.

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Kenosha Kickers.

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What notable actors were considered to play the role of Harry?

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Oh, no, no, no.

(01:21:37):
Robert De Niro.

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Robert De Niro and John Lovitz.

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Yes.

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Wow.

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Somebody is winning.

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Sorry.

(01:21:47):
All right.

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Christmas Vacation.

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What's notable about the moose cups Clark and cousin Eddie?

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They were used from the original vacation movie.

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Oh, for Wally World.

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Yeah.

(01:22:02):
Yes, Wally World.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the original vacation movie.

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You got half the answer.

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I said it, and then she blurted Wally World.

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Well, they were Wally World drink glasses.

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Yeah, like original vacation.

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You can have the point, John.

(01:22:17):
No, it's okay.

(01:22:19):
It's fine.

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I want you to win the prize anyway.

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I mean, I'm just saying.

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I saw it.

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That means, Katie, you're done.

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I'm not there.

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Holy cow.

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I think you would both love the prize.

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But I want it.

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But John might like it more.

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What's the score?

(01:22:40):
Let's take a score.

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I'm going to tell you, my eyes are on the prize.

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What's the score here?

(01:22:45):
All right.

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Katie's in the lead with a solid eight,

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followed by Erica with a six and a half,

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and tied with John with also six and a half.

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I think you're getting that prize.

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All right,

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so we're going to do one,

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two,

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we'll do three more,

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and if we need,

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I have some tiebreakers.

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All right.

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Is there a sequel?

(01:23:08):
Yes.

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I don't think he can't answer this.

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You cannot say that.

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Because he knows the answers to these.

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All right, hang on.

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Oh, yeah.

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Why are you using his?

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He's using your questions.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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All right, here we go.

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50-50 shot.

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All right, here we go.

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It's on an island.

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Stop.

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It's Uncle Eddie.

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Which of these four recorded Jingle Bell?

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Which of these four recorded Jingle Bell Rock?

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All right, let me try it again.

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Which of these four recorded Jingle Bell Rock?

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BB King.

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Brenda Lee.

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John Lennon.

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Stop.

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I can't even hear him.

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It's John Lennon.

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Let me, let me, let me.

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You're going to get disqualified.

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DQ.

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DQ.

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DQ.

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All right.

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All right.

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Jingle Bell Rock.

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B.B.

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King, Fats Domino, Jerry Lewis, or Bobby Helms?

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Bobby Helms.

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Wait, what was the question?

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Bobby Helms.

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Wait, what?

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I didn't even hear a question in there.

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If you want to know the answer, I said Bobby Helms.

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Put a strike down, please.

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I said which of these four recorded Jingle Bell Rock?

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Oh, I just heard which of these and you named them.

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You know what?

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It's Bobby Helms.

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It's your point.

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Go for it.

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Oh, boy.

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All right.

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I'm going to mispronounce the name of the song, but you'll understand it.

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Odd long saying all long.

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That one is a new year song of what nationality?

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Germany, German, Irish, Danish, Danish, Scottish or finish finish finish Irish.

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There's only one Danish Irish Danish Scottish got that one Scottish

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We're sticking to our guns and he's like, no.

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I think you can't answer because we want them to get the gift, right?

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Well, I might want it to.

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All right, here we go.

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Ready?

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Me and John have seven and a half.

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Katie has eight.

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All right, so let me see.

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One more question.

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Give me one of my own.

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All right, here we go.

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Ready?

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I can do it.

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Nobody can answer until I'm done reading.

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Fine.

(01:25:45):
In Home Alone 2, Lost in New York.

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Donald Trump.

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Stop.

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You have to wait until I say the whole question.

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What is the name of the toy store that Kevin visits and helps protect the movie?

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Oh, my God.

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The name of the toy store.

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That's a good question.

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I don't remember.

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Thank you, Kevin.

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It's that guy's name.

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My children will be so disappointed in me.

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What guy's name?

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Don't you worry about it.

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It has a D in it.

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Duncans.

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All right, let's tally it up.

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Who do we got?

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Kalen won by a landslide.

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Yeah.

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By one or two strikes.

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So Johnson third, seven and a half.

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I have eight and a half.

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And Katie wins with a solid nine.

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That was close enough.

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You get the prize.

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I don't know what the prize is.

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Can you reach it?

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Go get the prize.

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You got to get it yourself though.

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This is self-service prize.

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She hardly needs a step stool for that.

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All right.

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I want to see what your prize is.

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Yes.

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I hope it's a shot.

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It might jump out at you.

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That's a shot.

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See?

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I love it.

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Enormous.

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That's funny.

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I love that.

(01:27:28):
Yeah.

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Two years ago, we went to visit my sister in Boston, and we went to the Cheers bar.

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That was very cool.

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There you go.

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The winner of the holiday throwdown.

(01:27:42):
There you go.

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What's hanging, Norm?

(01:27:45):
What is it saying?

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This was fun.

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I had a lot of fun tonight.

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That was a good one.

(01:27:50):
All right.

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Good job, guys.

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Good job, everybody.

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Wrap it up.

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What do you think, Clarence?

(01:27:58):
Think Santa Claus is coming to town?

(01:28:01):
You're really hating on Bruce Springsteen.

(01:28:04):
But he also loves it.

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Loves it.

(01:28:06):
He was getting into it.

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Number one Christmas song of all time.

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Ryan saw him in the airport once.

(01:28:16):
I did.

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I was starstruck.

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Yeah, he was taken.

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It's one of those things where I didn't even know he was there,

(01:28:25):
but I heard his voice Why didn't you go say hi

(01:28:44):
Plus, he was singing Christmas Carols.

(01:28:45):
I was like, yeah.

(01:28:47):
Clarence.

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Come on.

(01:29:00):
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose.

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And if you ever saw him, you would even say it closed.

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All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call them names.

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They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

(01:29:19):
Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say, Come on!

(01:29:24):
Rudolph, with your nose so bright Won't you ride my sleigh tonight?

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Then all the reindeers loved him As he shouted out weekly Rudolph the red-nosed

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reindeer You're going out of history forever You're going out of history forever

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You're going out of history What?