MetaFilter posts tagged with christmas

I just enjoy slapping you!

washburn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:30:38 -0800

Coming soon to a theater near you: An American Carol (not to be confused with the Dickens Christmas time classic). This new film by David Zucker features a slave-owning Michael Moore look-alike who is punched, slapped and otherwise cajoled by ghostly generals and country music stars into learning the true meaning of America, and a thing or two along the way about how to be a man.

I hurt myself today, pa rum pum pum pum

Pope Guilty — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:37:33 -0800

Nine Inch Noels. From MeFi's own.

No, No, Nostalgia!

not_on_display — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:33:56 -0800

NetClassixFilter: The next time you're standing clueless in the greeting cards section of your local drugstore franchise, you'll be wishing you'd visited the Gallery of Unfortunate Greeting Cards instead. For all your holiday needs: Val en tin e's Day, St. Pat ric k's Day, E a s t e r, We dd in gs, 4th of July, Hal lo we'en, Bi rt h d a y s, Th anks giv ing, Ch ri st ma s, and of course, Washington's Birthday. [via Cap'n Wacky] Cap'n Wacky has previously sailed the seas of MetaFilter.

The Monarch & Dr. Girlfriends "Fairytale Of New York"

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:27:38 -0800

The Monarch & Dr. Girlfriends "Fairytale Of New York." The annual Venture Bros. Christmas song. (Previously)

Do You Smell What I Smell?

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:24:24 -0800

77 year-old Robert Schoff spent Christmas Eve wedged upside down in the opening of his septic tank. And how was your Christmas?

A reading of "In the Late December," by Greg van Eekhout

JHarris — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:24:57 -0800

"In the Late December" (MP3 link), by Greg van Eekhout, is a Nebula award-nominated story about Santa Claus and the end of the universe, and is Escape Pod #138. (By the way, this is a very dark story -- there's no sex or violence but this probably isn't suitable for kids, where "kids" is defined as a stereotypical aggregate of child-like characteristics. Yours may be different.)

A reading of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:24:48 -0800

Audio of Dylan Thomas reading his poem "A Child's Christmas in Wales". (real media and mp3)

Oy vey, no Kwanza specials... sorry.

miss lynnster — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:56:22 -0800

Time to kill while waiting for Santa to arrive/dinner to digest/family to leave? Well, here's a Very Special Holiday Episode fpp just for you. God bless us, every one. &VideoID(Listed in no particular order. Yes, I've been working on this a while. Please feel free to add your own now!) Hannukah Harry saves Christmas and Easter! A Rugrats Chanukah Sesame Street Christmas Special 1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street 1978 A Muppet Family Christmas The Simpsons Christmas Stories Christmas with Mr. Bill Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 1968 Holiday Special MST3K: Santa Claus Frank Sinatra/Bing Crosby Holiday Special The Nanny Christmas Special The Nanny CARTOON Christmas Special The Nick & Jessica Christmas Special An Amos and Andy Christmas A Very Special ALF Christmas Six South Park Christmas episodes SCTV Dusty Towne Sexy Holiday Special Blackadder's Christmas Carol A Beverly Hillbillies Christmas Justice League Christmas Special Life with Louie Christmas Special Merry Christmas Mr. Bean A very Frasier Christmas Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire Star Wars Holiday Special A Perfect Strangers Christmas Boy Meets World: A Very Topanga Christmas Pinky & The Brain Christmas Special Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas A He Man and She Ra Christmas A Very Elimidate Christmas Davy & Goliath Christmas Lost & Found Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special Welcome Back Kotter: A Sweathog Christmas Mary Tyler Moore Show: Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid A Robot Chicken Christmas Bugs Bunny Christmas Carol Rankin Bass Pinnochio's Christmas A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Christmas Family Guy Christmas Special Rankin Bas Santa Claus is Coming to Town Rankin Bass Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey A Gumby Christmas Carol and Santa Witch A Growing Pains Christmas A Garfield Christmas Rankin Bass Night Before Christmas Animaniacs Christmas Special Dennis Leary Merry F$#@in' Christmas The Doris Day Show: A Two Family Christmas The Doris Day Show: Christmas Time in the City Rankin Bass Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back For Christmas A Growing Up Gotti Christmas Rocko's Modern Christmas A Very Smurfy Christmas Tis the Season to be Smurfy Eight is Enough: Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus A Lou Grant Christmas A Scarecrow & Mrs. King Christmas Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in The FBI: Dark Christmas A Wonder Years Christmas I Love Lucy Christmas The Ray Bolger Show Christmas (1953) A Will & Grace Christmas A Barney Miller Christmas Rankin Bass Year Without A Santa Claus Santa guest stars on Gilligan's Island Alice: A Semi-Merry Christmas Alice: Mel's Christmas Carol Bless This House Christmas starring Andrew Dice Clay Just Shoot Me: Jesus, It's Christmas A Hangin' With Mr. Cooper Christmas The Extras Christmas Special Kirk: The Christmas Show (Cameron, not James T.) A Charlie Brown Christmas Mickey's Christmas Carol Batman: Christmas with the Joker (animated) Yogi Bear's First Christmas Yogi's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper News Radio: X-Mas Story American Dad: Most Adequate Christmas Ever Casper's First Christmas A Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas A Flintstone Christmas Christmas Comes to Pac(man) Land A How I Met Your Mother Holiday A Scooby Doo Christmas Casper's First Christmas Wanda Sykes in A Wanda at Large Christmas Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Krueger's Christmas A Cosmic Christmas Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales Boondocks Christmas Bonus fun: Night Before Christmas (1903) Max Fleischer's Rudolph cartoon (1948) Scrooge (1934) A Christmas Story Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

a parable of rodents and men

madamjujujive — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:37:56 -0800

Peace on Earth - 1939 Disney animation directed by Hugh Harman. And Goodwill to Men, a 1955 remake by Hanna-Barbera.

Clement Clark, No More?

Miko — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:59:56 -0800

What to my wondering eyes should appear but the suggestion that "A Visit From St. Nicholas," the classic poem which has defined the American Santa Claus, from red suit and big belly to reindeer and chimney-delivery method, was written not by classics professor Clement Clarke Moore but by poet and military man Henry Livingston. Though some think the authorship controversy is sugarplum vision of Livingston's descendents, other scholars the claim: literary 'detective' Donald Foster agrees (though his sleuthing record is not unblemished). Leading historian of Christmas Stephen Nissenbaum, says that either way, St. Nick is the product of the same social world, that of the wealthy white elite in the New York of the early Republic. If the claim is true, then in the convoluted history of the manuscript we've gotten some reindeer names wrong.