# Well, my grandmother dropped acid, and freaked out and hijacked a schoolbus full of.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104 "2005-12-24T19:59:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/21 "2005-12-25T18:55:45Z")
I like various versions of A Christmas Carol. This holiday weekend, since I’m home alone, I’m having a marathon. I watched the Reginald Owen and Muppet versions last night, and the Hicks, Sim, and Finney versions so far today. I’m taking a break from it right now, but will go on to Scott and Stewart tonight or tomorrow. My question for this holiday season is ‘Which is the creepiest Tiny Tim?’ I also like the MST3K episode of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” to put me in holiday mood. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/22 "2005-12-25T19:13:37Z")
_Meet John Doe_ (1941), with Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper and Edward Arnold. _Christmas in Connecticut_ (1945), with BS, singing CPO Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, and Cuddles Szakall. New favorite this year. I’d forgotten _The Shop Around the Corner_ (1940) had a Christmas theme. Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are Hungarians (??!!?!) who fall in love working in a luggage shop during the holiday rush. A real sweetheart of a picture, folks. The Wizard of Oz owns the store, and the smartass messenger boy is the baritone sax player from _Strike Up the Band_. TCM followed _Shop Around…_ with a b&w 1932 Merrie Melodie cartoon called [The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives](http://www.ppcvidz.com/streams/Page.asp?pro_id=1915) – so clever, heartfelt and unaffected even my cartoon-hating parents were tittering in glee. Best stocking stuffer I’ve gotten this year. Press the link and you can have it too. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/23 "2005-12-25T19:16:01Z")
Whoops - pay site. Try [here](http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=679&format=tv&theme=guide). Colorized, but hey, it’s free. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/24 "2005-12-25T19:33:43Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > My question for this holiday season is ‘Which is the creepiest Tiny Tim?’ [This guy](http://www.aracnet.com/~allied/images/tiny-tim.jpg), by a factor too high to compute. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/25 "2005-12-26T03:22:39Z")
Last night, we all gathered around the electronic audio/visual input device and watched a genteel, wholesome movie for the first time ( for the kids, anyway ) that is destined to become a new tradition. We watched “Animal House”. I tell you, the Holidays will never be the same. I’m a zit- get it? 😃 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/26 "2005-12-26T06:04:07Z")
Christmas in Connecticut It’s a Wonderful Life When Harry Met Sally The Princess Bride ---
**Author:** ![MackoUr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MackoUr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MackoUr)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/27 "2005-12-26T07:05:12Z")
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service I will also add The Shop Around the Corner, my wife has a version she taped off of Hungarian TV that i like a lot. ---
**Author:** ![rwhbyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@rwhbyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rwhbyu)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/28 "2005-12-26T14:09:14Z")
My family watches The Hunt For Red October every Christmas (and Thanksgiving for that matter). My grandfather wore out his VHS copy so we bought him the DVD a couple of years ago. He loves that movie. My own personal favorites include A Chistmas Story and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I love the Abominable Snowman. He kills me. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/29 "2005-12-26T14:24:30Z")
Love Actually. More traditional ones are Holiday Inn and White Christmas and Bells Are Ringing–I loves me some Bing Crosby this time of year. And the Peanuts–I missed it this year, and couldn’t find it in the store. Wah! ---
**Author:** ![Novalyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@Novalyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novalyne)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/30 "2005-12-26T20:03:11Z")
_The Godfather_ - hey, it’s a movie about family, right? _A Christmas Story_ ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/31 "2005-12-26T23:08:45Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > I also like the MST3K episode of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” to put me in holiday mood. Sister! This is one of my holiday traditions. “Big John Call **IS** Santa Claus in 'O Little Town of _Death_lehem!” Hooray for Santy Claus! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/32 "2005-12-27T09:15:02Z")
_Life and Adventures of Santa Claus_—aka “Hobbit Claus,” in our house. A Rankin-Bass adaption of an L. Frank Baum story. It has Samurai, good guys actually _killing_ villains onscreen, and it’s a musical. Yeah. That, and I try to catch _Nutcracker: The Motion Picture_ whenever I can—which works out to about every other year. If I’m lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/33 "2005-12-27T13:23:26Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > Sister! This is one of my holiday traditions. > > “Big John Call **IS** Santa Claus in 'O Little Town of _Death_lehem!” > > Hooray for Santy Claus! With the Christmas-Carolathon, I didn’t get to this until yesterday afternoon–but, as per long-standing tradition, sang cheerfully along to “Let’s All Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas”: “I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till. I think that that right jolly old Elf bet-ter make out his will!” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/34 "2005-12-29T15:24:56Z")
I don’t watch Christmas movies if I can help it. For years, my only exception was the George C. Scott version of [A Christmas Carol](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087056/combined) . Lately, I’ve added another version of [A Christmas Carol](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406649/combined) , because [Jane Krakowski](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005105/) is incredibly beautiful, incredibly talented and just absolutely steals the show with her performance as The Ghost of Christmas Past. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/35 "2005-12-29T15:29:39Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Die Hard, Gremlins and Scrooged. Throw in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and that’s the perfect evening. Whenever I come across Scrooged while changing channels, I am unable to stop watching it. One of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/36 "2005-12-29T15:30:18Z")
_Dawn of the Dead Shawn of the Dead_ I really don’t like christmas, can you tell? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/37 "2005-12-29T16:26:16Z")
> [@Scoundrel Swanswater](#): > > _Dawn of the Dead > Shawn of the Dead_ > > I really don’t like christmas, can you tell? Did you work for programming at the Independent Film Channel a couple of years ago- because the Christmas Day theme was “Christmas with Cronenberg”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/38 "2005-12-29T16:36:41Z")
_Yentl_. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![homeskillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@homeskillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/homeskillet)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/39 "2005-12-29T17:01:06Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Better Off Dead (it’s got…rasins in it, you _like_ rasins… wait a minute, this is pure _snow_, it’s _EVERYWHERE_, do you have _any_ idea what the street value of this mountain is?..go that way, _really fast_, if something gets in your way, _turn_) That is a really good flick, but come on! The best line from it \*has to be \*: **"Gee Ricky, I’m really sorry your mom’s face blew up!"** Christmas Vacation and Scrooged are my favorite xmas flicks! ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/40 "2005-12-29T17:02:26Z")
I am a big fan of Claymation Christmas. The Carol of the Bells sequence cracks me up every time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104.md?page=3)