I’m not suggesting we turn off old Rudolph here, but which holiday TV show or movie would you turn off at your next holiday get-together? The Charlie Brown special? That very special Christmas episode of Scrubs? Fox News?
Drop us a line in comments and we’ll give away one sexy TV-B-Gone to a lucky winner. I, personally, would turn off all the damn holiday Simpsons episodes they run in syndication this and next week. We’ll close voting on Wednesday at noon Eastern.
i’ll be turning off the Sesame Street Holiday special or whatever its called…my 21 y.o. sister in law insists on watching that every year…
Saw the screenshot of the video above and thought it was another ‘Child p0rn’ case…dirty me :(
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Present: A Very Radioactive Christmas- On Ice!!!!!
Waa wa wa wa wa. I’ll be turning off any Charlie Brown special. The cartoons are just so dry and unappealing. A miserable kid is not what I want to see over the holidays.
my wife likes the old Lawrence Welk shows…if i had a b-gone in my pocket I could make mine and my kids day!
Snow and Snow 2, Brain Freeze … Tom Cavanagh (from Scrubs) is Santa. First trying to catch a deer that won’t fly yet. Then in Snow 2 he gets hit on the head and can’t remember he is santa. My wife was watching these and I had to leave. I lost respect for Tom.
Wife also wants to watch the new Muppets Christmas special…Jim Henson would roll over in his grave.
A Christmas Story.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it, but not 24hr a day like it. Thanks TBS for driving that show into the ground head first.
If the star wars Christmas special comes on, I’m running the other way…
Linked.
A Very Brady Christmas!!
You beat me by a few seconds. Damn.
Without a doubt, “A Very Brady Christmas”.
Ugh.
undoubtedly, frosty returns.
The Santa Clause 3 and Fred Clause. Both are retarded Christmas comedies. Instead I would turn on Die Hard. Best Christmas movie ever!
New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
Five hours of “HEY EVERYBODY BACK HOME IN MILWAUKEE!!!!!!!!!!” and music acts I care nothing about all builds up to watching a big ball get lowered by a crane. Woohoo.
Seriously? I can’t believe no one has said “Little Drummer Boy” yet – cringe-inducing at its best – and they made a sequel! :-(
Any Disney Channel sitcom Christmas episode…No, any Disney Channel sitcom. Disney has set the talent bar very low and rejects anyone with talent above that bar.
What is that guy doing to that poor reindeer!?
How about the unbelievable He-Man / She-Ra Christmas Special from the 80’s. That is likely the only thing that makes me ashamed to have lived through the 80’s. … oh wait… the Smurfs came out in the 80’s… anyway, He-Man’s celebration of Baby Jesus’ birthday is something I can live without.
Turn offs:
– Little Drummer Boy
– Rudolph (original)
– Rudolph (sequel – you want to see a fat man move fast? Put this on the TV and put the remote across the room.)
– Charlie Brown *after* the play dance sequence
– Frosty (basically, if it is Rankin-Bass, it is crap and will be turned off)
– A Christmas Story, multiple times (it will catch me, I will watch it willingly and enjoy it, then it will dawn on me that I have already seen it 2/3/4 times this year, and I will turn it off… Repeat in 2 hours)
Turn ons:
– The Grinch – I watched it for the first time in a few years this past weekend, and realized once again the genius of Dr. Suess and Chuck Jones.
– A Christmas Story (see “Turn offs”)
– Charlie Brown (the Charlie Brown theme song is one of the great pop tunes of the 20th century, and Linus’ monologue on Xmas is a classic)
– The South Park Xmas story that Cartman wrote….
“Rudolph’s Shiny New Year”. Rudolph and Frosty together should be a great show right? Wrong. This is without a doubt the worst Christmas special I’ve ever seen in my life.
A Christmas Carol. I’ve seen a million different verisons of it.
Miracle on 34th street.
…damn holiday Simpsons episodes…
JB is teh sux. Simpsons rulez!
I really don’t need/want this but I’m changing anything with: Tim Allen, Will Ferrell, or Vince Vaughn…[shudders]
Anything with Tim Allen
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians) featuring Jamie Farr and Pia Zadora. Since it is now in public domain, there is grave danger of “Holiday Television” being infested with broadcasts of this… thing.
Anything on the news!
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and the island of misfit toys. I actually already turned that one off on Saturday. It’s dreadful.
Definitely Rudolph.
Me? I have videos of Rudolph and Frosty and It’s a Wonderful Life, so who needs cable TV and its boatload of agenda to push?
All of it. I’ll watch the three above with my kids, and as usual, leave the regular TV off.
I would easily block the Rankin\Bass production of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Some how I end up watching it every year and assume it was made for kids who are high. The story makes no sense at all and explains everything about Christmas(Jesus, Trees, Toys, Snow, Flying Reindeer, eating ham, being creeped out by crazy aunt Shirley getting drunk off chardonnay and trying to pull your shirt up to check out your ‘grown up abs’) in one short hour. It gives me nightmares for the rest of the year.
Frosty Returns is a pox upon Christmas television and an insult to the Rankin/Bass mythos in which I was raised.
Frosty Returns is an Abomination that immediately negates 20 IQ points of anybody able to do more than glance at it. It’s been known to change the outcome of Presidential elections, cause Global Warming and make people insert Random Capitalized Words.
It is drek, schmutz, and festering pustulent toe jam. IT IS BAD. VERY, VERY BAD. And I don’t like it.
There’s something about “It’s A Wonderful Life” just just rubs me the wrong way.
Reindeer Games, the horrible horrible Ben Affleck/Gary Sinise vehicle. I’ve been duped into watching it one and a half times!
Any and every TV presence made by Shoe-Ducker Bush.
I’m turning off all cable specials. Just canceled my cable in favor of hooking my PC to my TV for hulu and network video sites.
My wife is having some issues adjusting to the change though.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th St.
I will be turning off that Yule Log channel on digital cable. Every Christmas, family members have to turn it on and stare at the burning log with music like they have never seen a fire in their lives. Last year I walked up and put my hand on TV and pretended to burn myself, they were amazed.
1st. It’s a wonderful life.
2nd. A Christmas story
3rd. Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer
all three will get the tv turned off or blown up…..
Has to be Earnest saves Christmas…turn that sucker off!!
That stupid movie with tim allen in it…
Definitely the 24 hour run of “A Christmas Story”
It’s a Wonderful Life… ’cause honestly, it’s a bit lack luster at the moment. :(
Charlie Brown Christmas. My wife has it queued up to record it and I am *dreading* having to watch it. I feel my eyes burning every time I think of the little, annoying voices those kids have.
CES Las Vegas is coming up so expect Gizmodo to enter multiple times.
“It’s A Wonderful Life”. Simple as that. Every time they show that movie, an angel throws up.
“It’s A Wonderful Life”. Simple as that. Every time they show that movie, an angel throws up.
Give it to me!! :P
I’m turning off “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” should any network anywhere think it’s a good idea to run it.
The Donnie & Marie Christmas Special….ugh
A Christmas Story. I hate that movie.
The Star Wars Holiday Special. Harvey Korman? Itchy and Lumpy Wookiee?
And I would turn on Die Hard. Certainly nothing says “Happy Holidays!” like a group of German terrorists taking an entire building hostage and blowing most of it to bits on Christmas Eve.