theparkerfamily

well, the season has officially begun … the season of Christmas programming.

we actually kicked it off over thanksgiving when special host jojo-pumpkin helped the lady sparkler and i toss out the ceremonial first “charlie brown christmas.”

we go into each year with a list of 60+ movies, cartoons and holiday specials to watch, and we are usually pretty happy if we make it through a third of them. this year sorta snuck up on us, so i’m thinking i’ll be happy if we get through even a quarter.

anyone up for a little, healthy christmas special-watching competition?

tv specials A Charlie Brown Christmas A Chipmunk Christmas A Special Sesame Street Christmas Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (“Christmas Special”) Frosty Returns Frosty the Snowman Frosty’s Winter Wonderland A Garfield Christmas Special Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn’t Happen How the Grinch Stole Christmas It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together Little Drummer Boy M*A*S*H (“Death Takes a Holiday”) Mickey’s Christmas Carol Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey Olive, the Other Reindeer Pee-wee’s Playhouse (“Christmas Special”) Pinocchio’s Christmas Robbie the Reindeer Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Rudolph’s Shiny New Year Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town The Story of the First Christmas Snow Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (“The Christmas Show”) ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus The West Wing (“In Excelsis Deo”) The West Wing (“Noël”) The West Wing (“Holy Night”) Winnie the Pooh, and Christmas Too! The Year Without a Santa Claus

movies About a Boy Bad Santa A Christmas Carol A Christmas Story Christmas in Connecticut Christmas Vacation (National Lampoon’s) Christmas with the Kranks Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Die Hard Die Hard 2: Die Harder Elf Ernest Saves Christmas Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone Holiday Inn Home Alone It’s a Wonderful Life Love Actually Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Miracle on 34th Street (1994) The Muppet Christmas Carol The Nightmare Before Christmas The Polar Express Prancer The Ref Santa Claus Conquers the Martians The Santa Clause The Santa Clause 2 Santa vs. Snowman Saturday Night Live Christmas Scrooge Scrooged Serendipty Trapped in Paradise White Christmas