Other than "A Lost Claus"...
 

...what happens to be your favorite Christmas episode of a TV series or special?

I always liked "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" not to mention "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" and "Frosty The Snowman". In addition, I have taken a liking to the annual telecast of WPIX's "Yule Log" on Christmas morning. It's vintage holiday music set to a loop of a log in a fireplace ablaze. Not exactly exciting TV, but great to open presents to.

Now, how about telling us what your faves?

(Oh, Sparky, please deleted the old thread. Thanks.)

I've always loved the original Simpson's Christmas special, Muppets Family Christmas, Olive The Other Reindeer, and several others that fail to come to mind.
The He-Man and She-Ra Christmas special has become a new favorite of mine for all the wrong reasons. Bless YTV for airing it a few days ago.8D

I love the Charlie Brown specials, Invader ZIM's "The most horrible X-Mas ever!", Danny Phantom's "The Fright Before Christmas" (Ghost Writer ftw!), "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", the Bump in the Night one, and the OLD Muppets one (the one where the Swedish chief tries to cook Big Bird! And the Fraggle Rock guys are there too!) which I haven't seen in a few years, YTV use to alway show it =\

Also even though it's not a TV special, the family and I always watch "Home Alone" every Christmas day. We just got the DVD of it last year but we still have a copy of it on VHS in a horribly worn box XD

The various Married With Children Christmas episodes come to mind, in particular "It's A Bundyful Life" with Sam Kinison, and the first one, "A Bundy Christmas", where Santa crash-landed in the Bundy's backyard. 8D

Top of my list are the Christmas specials for Father Ted and the Fast Show (not sure how well-known those shows are internationally, but they were both pretty big in the UK), both of which aired in 1996, and neither of which have lost any of their charm or hilarity since. They're refreshing, funny and approach the occasion with just the right amount of cynicism to be snappy but never overly-bitter, and both shows do a wonderful job of transferring their own individual character and quirkiness to the seasonal context. With Father Ted, you have the joy of seeing the various priests getting lost in Ireland's biggest lingerie section, with unforgettable results, while the Fast Show has Channel 9's delightfully irreverent rendition of the Nativity story, some lovely interaction between Ted and Ralph, and a closing scene involving Chris the Crafty Cockney and this little girl from whom he's about to steal Xmas presents which I actually find rather touching, even if I know I probably shouldn't, but then I can be a total softie at times. :oops:

Father Ted is funny stuf, but i've never heard of Fast Show

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Invader ZIM's "The Worst X-Mas Ever!" ("Tuna? Tuna is worth nothing!"), Danny Phantom's "The Fright Before Christmas", The Year Without a Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, both versions of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and A Charlie Brown Christmas... Other then that, I'm having trouble of remembering any favorites.

I can't really disagree with anyone's choices thus far, every special that has been listed is quality stuff. But I've got one that hasn't been listed as of this posting.


Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Blackadder has always been one of my favorite comedy series' from the UK and viewing their fractured take on the classic Charles Dickens novel is always the highpoint of my holiday TV watching.

Hmm, tough question, but here's some:

Home Improvement
The Simpsons
Family Guy (Can't recall the episode name, but where Louis hates Christmas)
Friends

To name the ones I can think of....

Hmm, wow. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" because it's a great classic. I grew up with it. "Garfield's Christmas", so funny and I'm a huge Garfield fan. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", both also classics that I grew up with. And "Twas the Night Before Christmas", I haven't seen it in years! Why!? As for movies, definitely "It's a Wonderful Life", "White Christmas", "Home Alone", "The Grinch", and "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation". It's just not Christmas unless I've been able to see each of these at least once sometime during the season.

I'm a fan of the classics, like "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town," "A Year Without a Santa Claus," the Charlie Brown Christmas special, and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." I also really like Invader Zim's "The Most Horrible X-mas Ever" 8D Oh, and Home Alone and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Oh, and who can forget A Christmas Story? Haha, I love Christmas :P

rudolph, charlie brown, frosty, year without a santa claus, christmas story, grinch, santa claus is coming to town. those are my favorite seven, but i love pretty much all of them. others include grandma got ran over by a reindeer and the boondocks christmas special.

One thing I've always loved about "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is when Rudolph is born, Santa sees his red nose, and thrn turns to the father and says, "you should be ashamed of yourself!"

Santa's a nazi who wants to breed the master race.

They played some of the music from the Charlie Brown christmas special on the radio today and it was really beautiful. I've not seen it for years but of course 'A Lost Claus' was very reminiscent of it.

Oooh I just found it on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JBR9jGMYA

It's odd although I had loads of Peanuts books and stuff, the only things I really remembered liking was Marcie (? She always called Patty 'Sir') and the teacher's voice.

Well, My favorite Christmas shows and movies would probably be:

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Duhh!!)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The animated Chuck Jones version.)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Story
Olive, the Other Reindeer (So cute!)
Frosty the Snowman
The 'Star Wars' Holiday Special (Oops, just kidding!:P)
Rocko's Modern Christmas
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Home Alone

...and thats about it!

The South Park Christmas Special "Mr Hankey, the Christmas poo!". It's hilarious! 8D!

Favorite Christmas Specials
 

Since I am a mod at http://christmas-specials.wikia.com I was wondering what your favorite Christmas Specials were.

My faves are Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Lost Claus (natch) and I'm looking forward to Disney's new special Prep and Landing tonight (12/8).

Sorry but you made the same topic a couple years ago. Merged. :terrsmile:

A Muppets Christmas Carol is one of my favorites:D

Classic. ;D

The last Christmas specials I recall seeing were The Denis Leary Christmas Special, which was a riot, and the live-action remake of The Year Without A Santa Claus, which proved that some specials should not be remade. Dancing girls and the Miser Brothers are not a good mix. :P

I don't recall watching any Christmas specials when I was young. But since 2005, the Australian comedy music quiz show Spicks and Specks do an annual 1 hour Christmas special called A Very Specky Christmas, which has become a staple for me every Christmas. They play games related to Christmas and the year in music! It's been doing it every year, and they're doing it again this year! :frankiesmile:

Tis the season...
 

To watch Holiday TV until one's brain turns into egg-nog.

Here are some more of my favorite Christmas specials..

Futurama, An X-Mas story and A Tale of Two Santas

Nothing warms the cockles on thy heart then seeing the Planet Express crew on the run from a demonic Robot Santa while learning the true meaning of Chris... I mean X-Mas (That's what it's called in the year 3000)

The Muppet Family Christmas.

My all time favorite out the multiple Christmas specials featuring Jim Henson's creations. This one has characters from his big three shows of the 1980's (IE Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock) getting together for an "Old Fashioned" yet chaotic Christmas that never fails to bring a smile to my face.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians and Santa Claus

Two of the funniest episodes out of the show's ten season run. The first has the Satellite of Love crew poking fun at the 1950's sci-fi holiday camp classic that has green men from Mars who decide to capture Santa in order to make their kids happy. And the other has them riffing on a dubbed Mexican holiday movie in which Santa lives above the clouds in a crystal place and does battle against the Devil's minion on Christmas eve. (Man I wish I was making that up.)

Merry Christmas, Mr Bean

IMHO the best episode out of the show's brief run, Rowan Atkinson bring his physical comedy a-game to this absurdest holiday master piece. I mean if you can't laugh at the sight of a grown man's head stuck in an uncooked turkey, what can you laugh at?

I can add two new ones to my list of faves.

Disney Prep and Landing was very outstanding, and Merry Madagascar was fun.