Have yourself a merry little Geekmas
Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled
Community, Christmas Pageants, Fellowship of the Ring, Lady Gaga’s Muppet Holiday Special, Sandman, Spiderman, Christmas Shoes, Crazy Stupid Love, Love Actually, It’s a Wonderful Life, Shut Up and Sit Down, D&D, BBC Christmas Specials, Vicar of Dibley, The UK Office, Phantom of the Opera, Muppet Christmas Carol and/or Special, Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas, Star Wars Holiday Special, Holiday Vacation, Lion in Winter, Nightmare Before Christmas, A Colbert Christmas, and shamelessly Think Geek
Our outro is Debs & Errol’s Tribbles off their new album Ctrl+Alt+Duets
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There is actually a Hallmark movie of the story of Christmas Shoes. The Nostalgia Chick gives it a brutal take down;
http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-the-christmas-shoes-5810388
My favorite Christmas gaming thing was a few years ago, when Tom decided that the Hunter drinking game had been so fun that he wanted a Mage drinking game. We saved Santa in the Umbra, but since everything in the Umbra is a mishmash of all human beliefs throughout time, everyone at the North Pole was a combination of holly jolly Rankin and Bass characters and hungry pagan winter gods. At one point, there were claymation elves cheerfully announcing that blood makes the crops grow.
Also, we showed Billy Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time this year, and he’s been quoting random lines at inappopriate times. The only thing sillier than him informing his aunt that there’s more of gravy than of grave about her is him announcing to Tom that his future is a horror story.
Elf is a Christmas classic, but don’t forget about Bad Santa from that same year.