It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like The 3rd Annual Holiday Movie Challenge(11/19-12/25)

[Bluelitespecial]

Beautiful banner, has anyone decided on a number yet? Would Grumpy Old men count for a holiday movie, I watched a couple of weeks ago, and I think a good portion of the movie takes place during the christmas season.

[The Monkees]

Yes Grumpy Old Men will count. Also I think we'll go until December 31st and the goal will be 65.

[whitetigeress]

Excellent! Count me in. Now, I just have to figure out what movies I have that would count and tv episodes.

[hanshotfirst113]

Black Christmas, anyone?

[whitetigeress]

Damn, I can't seem to find the thread with the lists from the past 2 challenges. I would like to see how many movies I have. grrr

[zaphod2467]

Another movie set during the Christmas season that people might forget about: "Night of the Comet". I try to watch this and "Gremlins" every year around the holidays.

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by The Monkees

Yes Grumpy Old Men will count. Also I think we'll go until December 31st and the goal will be 65.

Can we make it January 1st or 2nd? I really don't want to watch New Year's Day movies until New Year's Day.

[RobCA]

Originally Posted by whitetigeress

Damn, I can't seem to find the thread with the lists from the past 2 challenges. I would like to see how many movies I have. grrr

Here you go:

50 Movies. 25 Days. It's the December Holiday Movie Challenge

The 2ND Annual Holiday Movie Challenge ***LISTS GO HERE***

I still have to finish going through the rest of the TV DVDs I've bought this year, to find any qualifying episodes to add to my list. Right now, I have about a dozen movies, and about 110 TV show episodes.

Rob

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by RobCA

Here you go:

50 Movies. 25 Days. It's the December Holiday Movie Challenge

The 2ND Annual Holiday Movie Challenge ***LISTS GO HERE***

I still have to finish going through the rest of the TV DVDs I've bought this year, to find any qualifying episodes to add to my list. Right now, I have about a dozen movies, and about 110 TV show episodes.

Rob

Thanks for the links Rob.

Also, sorry if this sounds lazy of me, but can you list those 110 episodes? I have 100s of TV seasons and would hate to have to do all the work you just did. Anyone who has already gone thru their seasons could save the rest of us a lot of time.

[whitetigeress]

Originally Posted by RobCA

Here you go:



The 2ND Annual Holiday Movie Challenge ***LISTS GO HERE***

I still have to finish going through the rest of the TV DVDs I've bought this year, to find any qualifying episodes to add to my list. Right now, I have about a dozen movies, and about 110 TV show episodes.

Rob

Excellent! That was the link I needed.


So far I have 72 that I will be able to use in this challenge.

[RobCA]

Originally Posted by Trevor

sorry if this sounds lazy of me, but can you list those 110 episodes? I have 100s of TV seasons and would hate to have to do all the work you just did. Anyone who has already gone thru their seasons could save the rest of us a lot of time.

No problem, here's what I have so far:

Thanksgiving TV shows:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Pangs"
Cheers: "Thanksgiving Orphans"
Cybill: "They Shoot Turkeys, Don't They?"
Dharma and Greg: "The First Thanksgiving"
Ellen: "Kiss My Bum"
Family Ties: "No Nukes Is Good Nukes"
Felicity: "Thanksgiving"
Felicity: "Family Affairs"
Frasier: "A Lilith Thanksgiving"
Frasier: "The Apparent Trap"
Friends: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away"
Friends: "The One with the List"
Friends: "The One with the Football"
Friends: "The One with Chandler in a Box"
Friends: "The One with all the Thanksgivings"
Friends: "The One Where Ross Got High"
Friends: "The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs"
Friends: "The One with the Rumor"
Friends: "The One with Rachel's Other Sister"
Friends: "The One with the Late Thanksgiving"
How I Met Your Mother: "Belly Full of Turkey"
Living Single: "Love Takes a Holiday"
Mad About You: "Riding Backwards"
Mad About You: "Giblets for Murray"
Mad About You: "Met Someone"
Ned and Stacey: "Thanksgiving Day Massacre"
Picket Fences: "Thanksgiving"
The Simpsons: "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
Sports Night: "Thespis"
What's Happening: "Mama, the School Girl"
Ugly Betty: "Four Thanksgivings and a Funeral"
Will & Grace: "Homo for the Holidays"
Will & Grace: "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"
Will & Grace: "Moveable Feast"

Christmas TV shows:
Are You Being Served: "Christmas Crackers"
Are You Being Served: "The Father Christmas Affair"
Arrested Development: "In God We Trust"
Arrested Development: "Afternoon Delight"
Boston Legal: "Loose Lips"
Boston Legal: "A Greater Good"
Boston Legal: "Hired Guns"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Amends"
Cheers: "The Spy Who Came In For A Cold One"
Cheers: "Where There's A Will"
Cheers: "Christmas Cheers"
Desperate Housewives: "The Miracle Song"
Dharma and Greg: "Haus Arrest"
Ellen: "The Christmas Show"
Ellen: "Do You Fear What I Fear?"
Ellen: "Fleas Navidad"
The Ellen Show: "Ellen's First Christmas"
Family Ties: "A Christmas Story"
Family Ties: "A Keaton Christmas Carol"
Felicity: "Finally"
Felicity: "Portraits"
Frasier: "Miracle on Third or Fourth Street"
Frasier: "Frasier Grinch"
Frasier: "Perspectives on Christmas"
Frasier: "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz"
Frasier: "The Fight Before Christmas"
Frasier: "Mary Christmas"
Frasier: "High Holidays"
Friends: "The One with the Monkey"
Friends: "The One with Phoebe's Dad"
Friends: "The One Where Rachel Quits"
Friends: "The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie"
Friends: "The One with the Inappropriate Sister"
Friends: "The One with all the Resolutions"
Friends: "The One with the Routine"
Friends: "The One with the Holiday Armadillo"
Friends: "The One with the Creepy Holiday Card"
Friends: "The One with Christmas in Tulsa"
Futurama: "Xmas Story"
Futurama: "A Tale of Two Santas"
The Golden Girls: "Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas"
The Golden Girls: "Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas"
How I Met Your Mother: "How Lily Stole Christmas"
I Love Lucy: "Christmas Show"
The Jeffersons: "Christmas Wedding"
The Jeffersons: "984 W. 124th Street, Apt. 5C"
The Jeffersons: "George Finds a Father"
Joey: "Joey and the Plot Twist"
Just Shoot Me: "Jesus, It's Christmas"
Living Single: "Living Kringle"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: "Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid"
Moonlighting: "Twas the Episode Before Christmas"
Moonlighting: "It's A Wonderful Job"
Murphy Brown: "Murphy's Pony"
The Nanny: "The Christmas Show"
Picket Fences: "Pageantry"
Picket Fences: "High Tidings"
The Simpsons: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
The Simpsons: "Marge Be Not Proud"
The Simpsons: "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
Six Feet Under: "Pilot"
Six Feet Under: "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
Spin City: "Miracle Near 34th Street"
Sports Night: "The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee Tech"
Sports Night: "The Reunion"
Taxi: "A Full House for Christmas"
Tru Calling: "Twas the Night Before Christmas... Again"
The Twilight Zone: "The Changing of the Guard"
The Twilight Zone: "Night of the Meek"
Ugly Betty: "Lose the Boss?"
Ugly Betty: "Fake Plastic Snow"
What's Happening: "Christmas"
What's Happening: "Positive Identification"
Will & Grace: "Jingle Balls"
Will & Grace: "All About Christmas Eve"
Will & Grace: "Fanilow"
Wings: "A Terminal Christmas"
The X-Files: "Christmas Carol"
The X-Files: "Emily"
The X-Files: "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"

New Year's TV shows:
Ellen: "Alone Again... Naturally"
How I Met Your Mother: "The Limo"
Ned and Stacey: "New Year's Eve"

[Trevor]

Thanks Rob! I have 20 or so of those. I'll add any I find to the thread as well.

[WallyOPD]

Here's what I have so far that's different from Rob's, although I haven't done a lot of research yet so I'm sure I've missed several:

Thanksgiving:
3rd Rock from the Sun: Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick
Sports Night: The Quality of Mercy at 29K (not sure about this one, but I seem to remember it had a Thanksgiving theme to it in addition to Thespis that year)
Titus: The Perfect Thanksgiving
West Wing: Shibboleth

Christmas:
3rd Rock from the Sun: Jolly Old St. Dick
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future
Monk: Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Newsradio: Xmas Story
Newsradio: Christmas
Nowhere Man: It's Not Such A Wonderful Life
The Office (UK): Christmas Special - Part 1
The Office (UK): Christmas Special - Part 2
Roswell: A Roswell Christmas Carol
Roswell: Samuel Rising
Sliders: Season's Greedings
Titus: Houseboat
Veronica Mars: An Echolls Family Christmas
Veronica Mars: One Angry Veronica
West Wing: In Excelsis Deo
West Wing: Noël

[HyperWeather]

One of my favorite Gilmore Girls episodes is the season 3 Thanksgiving one

Thanksgiving
Season 3: A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving
Season 6: He's Slippin’ ‘Em Bread... Dig? (not quite sure this counts, I know Thanksgiving is in it, just not sure enough of it is)

Christmas
Season 7: Santa's Secret Stuff (again not sure if there is enough in it to count.)

[The Monkees]

I might list my TV show episodes too. I did this last year just never posted them on here.

Also, Rob thank you for those links too, I'm gonna post them on the first post.

[Bluelitespecial]

One other question, there are a lot of holiday concerts that often run on PBS during the chirstmas season. Could any type of concert shows count toward our lists?

[Fist of Doom]

This challenge is a pretty cool idea. Here are some TV eps I have that aren't yet listed:

Thanksgiving
Northern Exposure (S4) - "Thanksgiving"
WKRP (S1) - "Turkeys Away"
Bob Newhart Show (S3) - "An American Family"
Once & Again (S1) - "Thanksgiving"
Once & Again (S2) - "Feast or Famine"
Once & Again (S3) - "Chaos Theory"

Christmas
Boondocks (S1) - "A Huey Freeman Christmas"
Curb Your Enthusiasm (S3) - "Mary, Joseph & Larry"
Northern Exposure (S3) - "Seoul Mates"
The Honeymooners - "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
Millennium (S2) - "Midnight of the Century"
Doctor Who - "The Christmas Invasion"
Pretender (S1) - "Not Even a Mouse"
Twilight Zone 1985 (S1) - "Night of the Meek", "The Star"
Mary Tyler Moore Show (S1) - "Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid"
Bob Newhart Show (S1) - "His Busiest Season"
Bob Newhart Show (S2) - "I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas"
WKRP (S2) - "Jennifer's Home for Christmas"
WKRP (S3) - "Bah, Humbug"

New Years
Adventures of Pete & Pete - "New Year's Pete"

Festivus
Seinfeld (S9) - "The Strike"

[Trevor]

Here are a couple of lists I found in a quick google search.

top ten thanksgiving

17 TV Thanksgiving shows

some guys Christmas and NY list

[Darth Maher]

Originally Posted by Originally Posted by The Monkees

Yes Grumpy Old Men will count. Also I think we'll go until December 31st and the goal will be 65.

Originally Posted by Trevor

Can we make it January 1st or 2nd? I really don't want to watch New Year's Day movies until New Year's Day.

I second that (going until 11:59PM on January 1st). That is a whole day when most people are off of work and a great time to check out a lot of "New Year's" programming and catch up on stuff you may ave missed during the hustle and bustle of the holiday rush. It's like the Halloween challenge... it ends at 11:59PM on Halloween.

[Darth Maher]

Originally Posted by FantasticVSDoom

Exactly... This Challenge is a lot more liberal than the Halloween one.

I wish the Halloween one was more liberal. I'd like to list all the Halloween related TV shows that I watch during that season. Maybe I'll bring that up at the next meeting.

Sorry about the slight off-topic.

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by Darth Maher

I wish the Halloween one was more liberal. I'd like to list all the Halloween related TV shows that I watch during that season. Maybe I'll bring that up at the next meeting.

Sorry about the slight off-topic.

We still list them, just can't number them.

Back on topic, can we get a third/fourth/etc that this challenge has to last until at least 23:59 on the 1st (till daybreak on the 2nd would be better).

If we are going to include New Year's movies in the challenge, we have to allow them to be watched on New Year's Day.

[Sabrett]

I'm going to have to go through the previous years to see how many I have to watch, but I'm in for this year. I love holiday movies

[Bluelitespecial]

Well I have my list ready to go, counting 48 movies/and tv shows I have on dvd. The rest of the spots on my list will be for holiday specials on tv or any other dvds I buy before the challenge starts.

[Darth Maher]

Originally Posted by Trevor

We still list them, just can't number them.

True, but it would be nice to "get credit" for watching TV shows related to Halloween.

Anyway, I'm definitely using this thread as a guide to my holiday viewing this year. I noticed a lot of stuff that I've never even known about AND a bunch that I completely forgot about. TVGuide.com and IMDB will definitely be my ally this holiday season... as weil as this thread.

[The Monkees]

Originally Posted by Bluelitespecial

One other question, there are a lot of holiday concerts that often run on PBS during the chirstmas season. Could any type of concert shows count toward our lists?

Absolutely, go ahead and count those.