# What movie is Christmas incomplete without? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862 "2002-12-02T00:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/21 "2002-12-02T11:35:42Z")
My new favorite classic is _Olive, the Other Reindeer_. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/22 "2002-12-02T11:47:34Z")
Way of the Gun ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/23 "2002-12-02T12:10:20Z")
1947 version of _Miracle On 34th Street A Christmas Story A Chistmas Carol_ Alistair Sim or George C. Scott version, 1938 version in a pinch. The “Night Of The Meek” episode of _the Twilight Zone_. I used to make a point of watching a Marx Brothers movie after coming home from Midnight Mass for years. I still try to watch one every X-Mas Eve before going to sleep, even though I gave up religion years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/24 "2002-12-02T12:38:44Z")
_The Great Escape_, every Boxing Day, a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/25 "2002-12-02T12:41:16Z")
A christmas story Christmas vacation Trouble in paradise ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/26 "2002-12-02T13:14:03Z")
The Alastair Silm version of **A Christmas Carol** **How the Grinch Stole Christmas** (The Chuck Jones cartoon, of course) **Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol** – the first and best Christmas cartoon TV special, pre-dating even Charlie Brown. (Disney’s From all of us…" doesn’t count – it’s an episode of their regular show.) ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/27 "2002-12-02T14:09:55Z")
it’s a wonderful life singing in the rain the wizard of oz casablanca i know the last 3 aren’t christmas movies, but they always make me feel warm and fuzzy. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/28 "2002-12-02T15:01:50Z")
An American Christmas carol with Henry “Fonzie” Winkler… No wait I meant A christmas Carol with Alsitaire Sim and every Rankin and Bass Christmas special ever made! ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/29 "2002-12-02T15:11:17Z")
Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas - cutest muppet thing ive ever seen ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/30 "2002-12-02T15:30:59Z")
A Charlie Brown Christmas (or is it Merry Christmas Charlie Brown?) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer The Christmas Story So many… ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/31 "2002-12-02T16:18:51Z")
The Sound of Music is on BBC EVERY Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Jorel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jorel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorel)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/32 "2002-12-02T16:40:14Z")
Another vote for A Christmas Story I used to love watching the Fat Albert Christmas special, but it hasn’t been on for ten or fifteen years…so Christmas has been a tad incomplete. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/33 "2002-12-02T17:03:08Z")
For me, it’s Laurel and Hardy’s “March of the Wooden Soldiers.” When I was a kid in New York, channel 11 (WPIX) always showed this on Thanksgiving, and somehow, in my mind, the holiday season officially began when I Saw “March of the Wooden Soldiers” on Thanksgiving Day. In SPITE of the fact that the Bogeymen were obviously just guys wearing long-johns and plastic masks, they were STILL scary! ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/34 "2002-12-02T17:09:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > **Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol** – the first and best Christmas cartoon TV special, pre-dating even Charlie Brown. (Disney’s From all of us…" doesn’t count – it’s an episode of their regular show.) \*\* Amen…with razzleberry dressing. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/35 "2002-12-02T17:14:12Z")
Along with my other favorites that have been mentioned (Rudolph, Christmas Story, the Karloff Grinch), I have to mention A Muppet Christmas Carol. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/36 "2002-12-02T17:51:13Z")
I don’t know about the rest of you but I have had absolutely _enough_ of A Christmas Story. I liked it fine for a while then some idiot had to go and program a 24-hour Ralphie marathon. 24 hours of piggy eating, father cursing, “you’ll shoot your eye out” sweetness! Gag! ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/37 "2002-12-02T18:21:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*I don’t know about the rest of you but I have had absolutely _enough_ of A Christmas Story. I liked it fine for a while then some idiot had to go and program a 24-hour Ralphie marathon. 24 hours of piggy eating, father cursing, “you’ll shoot your eye out” sweetness! Gag! \*\* BLASPHEMY! Best Xmas movie ever made…still cracks me up every time! Waiters singing at Chinese resteraunt “fa ra ra ra ra a ra ra ra” … CLASSIC! ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/38 "2002-12-02T18:35:02Z")
The Nightmare Before Christmas ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/39 "2002-12-02T19:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*I don’t know about the rest of you but I have had absolutely _enough_ of A Christmas Story. I liked it fine for a while then some idiot had to go and program a 24-hour Ralphie marathon. 24 hours of piggy eating, father cursing, “you’ll shoot your eye out” sweetness! Gag! \*\* I couldn’t agree more; I’m sick to death of that kid. I’m going to be blasphemous and say I love the 1994 version of **Miracle on 34th St.** the best. Everything about that movie is gorgeous. I also love the Rankin/Bass shows, my favorite being the one with Heat Miser and Snow Miser. \*\* a35362 \*\*, did you know Target is selling _Rudolph_ stuff this year and I believe you can get a Hermy the Elf bobblehead? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862/40 "2002-12-02T19:13:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by «Ðëëp¤F®ïêd»™ \* > \*\*BLASPHEMY! > Best Xmas movie ever made…still cracks me up every time! > > Waiters singing at Chinese resteraunt “fa ra ra ra ra a ra ra ra” … > CLASSIC! \*\* Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great movie but I’ve just had too freaking much of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-christmas-incomplete-without/139862.md?page=3)