On my part, it’s religious people being silly. I imagine in general, it is people being silly religious or not.
Hillarious, Rowan Atkinson is a comic genius 
When he pushes the soldiers by, he’s humming the theme from “Black Adder Goes Forth”, the final season that takes place during WWI, Rowan Atkinson plays the lead character, Edmund Blackadder, in the BA series
And, of course, Daleks make EVERYTHING better…
Hmm, time to make some “enhancements” to the Nativity scene at home this season, perhaps have one of my Playmates Star Trek collectible starship toys guarding the scene, perhaps a Klingon Bird of Prey (pray? 
) keeping watch over the manger, keeping Locutus of Borg from assimilating Baby Jesus
I added a water buffalo and a T-Rex to the Nativity scene at work once.
rachelellogram, I am a silly religious person.
Oh thanks. I just wondered if this was more of a parody by people who wouldn’t be caught dead with a real nativity in their home, or people who would have put up the nativity anyway and added action figures for a gas.
Either way I’d never put up a nativity because I’m lazy 
Neither for me–I’m not religious, but am just having fun with my action figures. In the off-season, the DS9/B5 figures have also performed tableaux of scenes from Shakespeare.
The first year I did this (before I had the hobbits), I took photos, emailed them to a more religiously minded friend and asked if she thought it was offensive to her sensibilities. She didn’t. She loved them and forwarded them on to her pastor, who also enjoyed them.
Loved that!
Bit of useless information: the Nativity set is a Fontanini nativity set, much like my own
I was listening to the radio a few weeks ago and someone rang to proudly proclaim that, when she and her husband got married, he didn’t want some wussy bride and groom on the cake, so he used his Luke and Leia figurines.
I immediately sent a message pointing out how grotesque that was. I’m amazed that no one had ever pointed it out to them before.
I’ve always wanted to see a Nativity scene where the Three Wise Men were Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man.
I just want you both to know that I printed out both of these posts and read them to my family last night on the way home from work. Our children loved them: our daughter, who is a MAJOR Star Wars freak, now wants to have a Star Wars nativity scene. And “Han Solo frozen in carbonite” has now become our catchphrase for anything that seems out of place.
Thanks for the smiles. Now to go find action figures for a nativity scene…
Oh, and I used to have a Crysta figure (Fern Gully) that I used as the angel for the tree. Now it’s a small Barbie fairy type doll with pink hair.
R2D2 stood in for Jesus several times in ours, when my brother and I were kids. I think Yoda may have once or twice, too.
My Granny has a very old Nativity scene that we all played with as children. Joseph is missing his head, and various other characters are missing bits and pieces of them. The manger broke at some point, and one of my cousins made a manger out of clay. Somehow over the years someone added a plastic cartoony cow, and somehow a blue dinosaur got put in the bag. There are also some extra figures (I think there are three Jesuses and I know there is an extra set of wise men).
After we grew up it became kind of a small little joke, and one of my aunts bought all of the great-grandchildren a small plastic dinosaur to put in their own nativity at home. So while I have the beautiful Willow Tree Nativity set, that I love and treasure, there is a green plastic dino amongst the sheep and cows. 
three Jesuses? Does the fat one balance out the two skinny ones?
My wife teaches at a Lutheran grade school, affiliated with a Lutheran parish. About a decade ago, we were attending Sunday service at that church during Advent. The church always has a set of Nativity figures set up near the altar, and that year was no exception. As I was sitting in the pew, I noticed that there was an additional, much smaller, figure, standing with the Three Wise Men. I recognized the long pointy ears and the green skin at once…the fourth Wise Man was a Yoda action figure. 
After the service, I spoke with the church’s interim pastor at the time (a sweet lady, and a bit of a nut). “Pastor…I noticed there’s a fourth Wise Man.” She grinned. “Sure, I figured, Yoda was a wise man!”
I’m an atheist, but I celebrate Christmas in a secular way, and that includes putting up a Christmas tree and decorating it. It is traditional in my family for there to be a running battle between me setting up the tree and decorating it and the cats upsetting it and knocking all the ornaments around.
At any rate, I now have an overwhelming desire to go to Walmart (it’s a quarter to 3, nothing else is open), finding the tackiest nativity scene they offer, and then hit the toy aisle for action figures.
You people are awesome!
This picture cracks me up…http://www.gamervision.com/users/nikkita/articles/the_sundae_review_13
Never did the action figures. I never got into them. Mostly because the only ones that were around when I was in that demographic was G. I. Joe - the one about 6-7 inches tall.
But my sister used to have some decorative candles that spelled “NOEL”. It took her half of Christmas day to realize that I had rearranged them to spell “LEON”.
For me the latter.
He should quite well protected, as long as he survived the freezing process.
I obviated that problem by using Leia and Qui-Gon on my wedding cake.
It was a compromise with my bride, I wanted to use Leia and Darth Maul.
I just put “Han Solo in carbonite” in my Amazon shopping cart!