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We can’t go a year without defending holiday classics, can we? At this point I don’t know if they’re trolling for anger-fueled clickbait, not realizing that some people take fun or parody articles seriously now, or if they’re really that lame as people. There are folks out there who love writing articles or making videos critical of the wholesome Christmas specials nobody makes any more. Well, almost nobody but it seems when Rankin Bass stopped making Christmas specials so did everyone else. With the increase of channels, increase of animation studios, and the internet you’d expect a lot more than the weak offerings we get now. There feels like less holiday specials than more. And no, I’m not counting music concerts because they aren’t holiday stories, though it is the last bastion of the variety special.

Writers seem to want everything to be edgy or dark, which may explain in part why you have this vocal group insisting a movie with a lot of swearing where the hero shoots a bunch of bad people and sends the lead villain falling to his death is the perfect movie to represent the season of peace on Earth and goodwill toward man. Unless they make you cut your feet and ruin your Christmas party. Look, I like explosions as much as the next guy unless the next guy is boring. But they play “Let It Snow”…which is a winter song not a Christmas song even though that’s the only time it gets played, which is a whole other pet peeve so just enjoy it and stop trying to convince me it counts. Please?

This leads to a recent article by CBR, the site formerly Comic Book Resources until they decided to talk about everything, like the American Movie Classics of geek news sites. I don’t know if this list of eight “traumatizing” holiday specials is supposed to be a joke but I find there are people who will take these kinds of lists to heart and totally accept it as gospel, so either for fun to counteract the stupidity I’m going to act as if they mean it, sad as that makes me. If this traumatized them (granted I haven’t seen The Snowman nor did I grew up with the book so I’m only going over seven of them) then how do they watch horror movies? I don’t watch horror movies but even as a kid I loved them and that hasn’t changed at age 47.

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