The Worst Christmas Ever Funny Video
Throughout the years, there have been an assortment of Yuletide-themed programs that have tried to make your December merry and bright. The sad truth is that for every smile that watching the Peanuts gang dance around in A Charlie Brown Christmas brings comes countless tears caused by inferior holiday programming. This time of year is hard enough to slog through without having to besides endure lame specials injecting a scrap of extra bah into your braggadocio. But which of these shows are the televisual equivalents of misfit toys? Allow's find out in this Scrooge of a list that reveals the sixteen worst Christmas specials ever made. A word of advance alert though, just because some of these entries may feature characters yous love doesn't make them whatsoever less fa-la-la-la-lame.
Annotation: This listing was co-written by Teague Bohlen and Chris Cummins, and originally ran on TR on December 24th, 2008. Hilariously, I withal don't have the ability to listing ii authors at one time. –Rob
16) Elmo's Christmas Inaugural
Elmo is Grover for a new generation, although that generation is made up entirely of stupid children. Grover was ticklish outset, and he was also the Monster at the End of this Book, and so suck it, Elmo. Ahem. More to the point, this throwaway Sesame Street special follows in the long line of poor transfers of the archetype kid'southward show to a something more — everything from the big screen to specials on the modest (I recall we tin all agree that Follow that Bird was no Muppet Picture). This 2007 Christmas special isn't all that bad — the Sopranos' accept on Bert and Ernie is sort of funny, fifty-fifty if its pop-culture shelf-life will be something like five minutes — but Elmo'southward sway over the whole scenario makes even the supreme and sublime Sesame Street sort of suck. Sad to say, but someone had to speak upward (this criticism is brought to you by the letter S and the number 5.)
15) A Very Brady Christmas
The Rolling Stones weren't referring to the Brady family when they sang well-nigh what a drag it is getting onetime, but they may have well every bit been because there's something so depressing nigh seeing the Bunch all grown up. In this 1988 Telly moving-picture show, the days of card house-building contests and pay phone antics have replaced by job and human relationship woes for the Bradys. When they all gathered together for the holidays, the formerly fun-loving family faced their biggest crisis always when Mike became trapped in a edifice plummet. Thanks to some well-timed flashbacks and an "O Come up All Ye Faithful" sing-forth, things plough out A-okay for Mike and his intensely permed head. It was CBS execs who actually had the best Christmas of all, as the film got crazy huge ratings and ignited a new surge of involvement in anything Brady-related. It too resulted in the downbeat 1990 series The Bradys, in which Marcia was a drunkard and Bobby was paralyzed. Happy holidays!
fourteen) Rudolph's Shiny New year
Despite some considerable assets (voice interim by some of the greats — Red Skelton, Morey Amsterdam, Frank Gorshin, and Paul Frees, to proper name a few; being produced by the legendary Rankin/Bass; being a continuation of the pop Rudolph storyline), this 1976 special is anything merely "shiny." Rather, it'due south a pretty deadening affair all around, referring to characters we don't know and don't care near, and de-aging Rudolph from the newly-adult stag that led Santa'due south sleigh to the more bumbling young buck that couldn't pronounce "independent". And seriously people, a holiday testify that sports Ben Franklin, a medieval knight, a caveman, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer in the same scene? Yeah, somethings desperately incorrect with the wayback motorcar, Mr. Peabody. (On the other hand, this show could easily have been where the idea for Bill and Ted's Fantabulous Take chances came from, so I approximate that'due south something.)
thirteen) Voyage of the Damned
Plain not learning a lesson from the disaster that was Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, this 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special is marred by a terrible villain (which yous tin read about here), Kylie Minogue's forgettable companion, Astrid Peth, and a by and large uninteresting plot. With a script that is self-indulgent at worst and derivative of The Poseidon Adventure at all-time, "Voyage of the Damned" fails to meet the loftier expectations raised past the previous holiday specials–while also setting the stage for the prove's disappointing fourth flavour. If yous haven't seen this yet, save yourself an hour and cheque out in a higher place fan fabricated music video that hits all the high points and awesomely features Chicago's "Yous're the Inspiration."
12) Larry the Cable Guy'due south Christmas Spectacular/Larry the Cable Guy'south Star-Studded Christmas Extravaganza
For the by two holiday seasons, Larry the Cable Guy has been inflicting his sleeveless "comedy" upon audiences in Christmas specials for VH1 and CMT. This has led to many things, including the unholy union of Larry and Carrot Top. In that location may be a Santa, but clearly there is no god.
11) Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Rankin/Bass went back to the "what does not kill you makes you stronger" claymation well once more in '77. Poor little Nestor the ass is born with long ears, which makes him the barrel of serious abuse (Rudolph, Dumbo, etc.) and leads to his mother dying in society to keep him warm ane cold dark (Bambi!). It's all so pathetic that nigh any ending would feel insufficient. Indeed, it makes kids want to see Nestor to go all Rambo, grab a scimitar, and starting time slicing himself upwardly some helpings of sugariness, sweet revenge. Which, of course, is sort of an awkward affair to try to fit into a story about the Nativity.
10) I Want a Canis familiaris for Christmas, Charlie Brown
Despite the lingering affection for Charlie Brown Christmas specials (this is the fourth, made in 2003, and each one is an increasingly thin attempt to recapture the magic of the original), this Peanuts special suffers from several bug. First, it barely has anything to practise with the holiday itself — the show could merely as hands accept been c
alled I Want a Dog for My Winter Altogether, Charlie Brownish, and it could air virtually unchanged. More than importantly, it doesn't involve Charlie Brownish himself much at all. Instead, it revolves around Lucy and Linus' little brother Rerun, who is essentially only a whinier version of Linus. Information technology as well doesn't assist
matters that his appearance is indistinguishable from that of his
blanket-clutching sibling. Nosotros realize that it'south unfair to compare this show to A Charlie Brown Christmas because they are then completely different in terms of tone and story. Only judged purely on information technology's own claim, I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown is still a pretty dull matter.
9) ALF's Special Christmas
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eight) Christmas Comes to Pac-Land
Pac-Man the videogame was pretty much just a circumvolve eating dots in a maze while existence chased by ghosts. Not much story there. And then you lot can't really mutter too much when the '82 Sabbatum forenoon drawing–and the Christmas special made in conjunction with it–just don't make much sense. In fact, Pac-Homo merely has to save Christmas because he sort of ruins information technology in the kickoff place, bringing downwards Santa'southward sleigh because the disembodied googly-eyes of chomped ghosts freaked him out. And who could blame him? To make things worse, information technology features Santa'south reindeer eating Pac-Human being's "power pellets" in lodge to get an instant energy boost. Considering that effectually this same time Nancy Reagan was putting on her "Just Say No to Drugs" campaign, telling kids that all they need are these little pill-like things that give y'all free energy and strength seems like a bad idea. That's right: Christmas Comes to Pac-Land isn't just a crappy cartoon. It'due south a holiday gateway drug.
7) He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special
Bated from the always fun He-Homo/She-Ra crossover, there's not much that doesn't feel completely forced in this giant toy commercial. Two kids from Earth get stuck in Eternia for the holidays, and their Christmas cheer attracts the bad guys, blah, blah, blah. Even Skeletor learns a valuable lesson about caring, which even at age eight, we knew was horrible bullshit. What a missed opportunity — it would have been much cooler if Santor had shown up with Elfo and Reindor in the Power-Sleigh and totally kicked Skeletor's bony ass with his Ho-Ho-Crossbow. And then Teela could come in and explicate the magic of Hanukkah (to avoid losing the Jewish toy-buying business organization), they serve roast Orko for dinner, and it's time to deck Greyskull with boughs of holly.
6) Ziggy's Gift
Does the above clip encourage children to befriend meth addicts posing as Santa Claus? That's one of the disturbing questions raised by Ziggy's Gift. The most critically acclaimed entry on this list, this 1982 Emmy winner follows Tom Wilson'south cartoon everyman as he tries to enhance money for the less fortunate by working as a street corner Santa. With his dog Fuzz by his side, he witnesses how society has forgotten the true significant of Christmas (it's about robots, correct?) as he teaches others near the inner peace that comes from giving. Yawn. There's a lot that irritates about this special, from how the chatty Ziggy of the comics has of a sudden been rendered mute to the insipid Harry Nilsson song that runs throughout the testify. But the biggest problem is the prove'due south heavy handed morality and its portrayal of Ziggy every bit a Christlike effigy. If I desire preachiness my vacation cartoons, I'll watch Linus's soliloquy from A Charlie Dark-brown Christmas, thank yous very much.
5) A Chipmunk Christmas
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Alvin learns the true meaning of Christmas… but does it really have to accept a dying kid to do information technology? Specially a child with cholera? Okay, so the kid gets ameliorate by the terminate of the show, thank you in part to the boost that Alvin'south harmonica gave him, merely withal… cholera. One of the near deadly diseases in human being history, an infectious gastroenteritis that's spread primarily through fecal matter contaminating drinking h2o. This does non make us want to sing carols along with small, sarcastic, sweatered rodents.
4) A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978 gave us two Sesame Street holiday specials, the underrated Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, and this journey into despair. Originally airing on CBS, this is the just Sesame Street-related program not to exist produced by Children's Television set Workshop/Sesame Workshop. It shows. Essentially a loose remake of "A Christmas Carol" with Oscar the Grouch taking on the office of Ebenezer Scrooge, the evidence features such invitee stars as Leslie Uggams, Anne Murray, Dick Smothers, Michael Jackson (who has about 10 seconds of screen time) and Henry Fonda (ditto). On newspaper it doesn't sound then bad, correct? Well, check out what happens at the 8:36 marking in the post-obit clip:
Terror, thy name is Ethel Merman. If kids weren't scarred enough from how she casually calls Imogene Cocoa an idiot, they would be in one case she started belting out "Tomorrow" from Annie (in an act of Internet mercy, the above clip cuts off before Merman'south butchering of that Broadway chestnut begins). During all this merriment, you may have noticed a distinct lack of Muppets. That's because the testify'south producers only ponied up for the rights to feature Big Bird, Oscar and Barkley in the evidence — with the rest of the budget probably going to quaaludes for the writing staff.
3) The Smurfs Christmas Special
This one sets its tone early: 2 kids and their granddaddy plough over their sleigh in the snow, and Granddaddy dies. And later in the show, the suggested sacrifice of children. Smurfy Christmas! But the worst part has to be the song that the Smurfs sing, Who-ville-like, a few times over the course of the show: "Goodness makes the badness become away/Goodness makes you happy every day/Badness cannot start if there's goodness in your centre/Goodness makes the badness go away." That'due south not just the chorus; that's the whole damn vocal. Over and again. I don't care if it does magically rebuild your ruined Smurf village, that's a petty ditty that just makes you root for Gargamel.
2) The Year Without a Santa Claus
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Ane of the more soulless artistic decisions in recent memory was the green-lighting of this 2006 remake of the Rankin-Bass classic. Completely devoid of the amuse that made the original such a perrenial vacation favorite, this NBC telefilm stars John Goodman as a world-weary St. Nick who contemplates throwing in the towel on the whole Christmas thing. (Which is fitting, since you'll feel the same mode subsequently watching five minutes of it). In an effort to save the vacation, his elves Jingle (Ethan Suplee) and Jangle (Eddie Griffin) go searching for folks who believe in the Christmas spirit, while a rival elf played by Chris Kattan tries to contemporize Santa's workshop. Spoiler warning, it all works out in the end. Just non before viewers have to endure this:
The only musical sequence from the original Twelvemonth Without a Santa Claus to be included in the remake, this medley is so over the top that it makes Baz Luhrmann's direction seem subtle. If you tin can get beyond how both of the famous Miser songs have been mashed up into a medley of pain, or how atrocious Harvey Fierstein and Michael McKean are equally the Heat Miser and the Snowfall Miser, there's still the fact that the rest of the testify is completely lacking whatever soul or amusement value. Information technology'south a 90 minute lump of coal inserted rectally into good people everywhere.
1) The Star Wars Holiday Special
Could whatever other special have topped this listing, other than this foreign antiquity of the Star Wars craze? Not on this website. And with proficient reason; this is the pinnacle of ludicrousness. Wookies talking in incomprehensible Wookese for long, long minutes at a stretch. Bea Arthur. Han Solo hugging pretty much everything in sight. Fine art Carney delivering Wookie Porn. An manifestly high Princess Leia, who'south singing…something. And Luke Skywalker video-phoning in a performance in which he looks similar he'southward just had his machine accident that forenoon. All this, and the first appearance of Boba Fett…sort of. And my god, information technology goes on. Just on and on. And on. Forget about the Life-Day plot, because it was laser-thin–this was merely a terrible 70s variety special with Star Wars wrapping. Granted, nobody cared that it sucked when it first came out, because it was Star Wars after all–and no one really cares that it sucks at present, seeing as how millions of fans own it on bootleg videotape. Love it, loathe information technology, or probably both–this is utter holiday ridiculousness that only can't be ignored.
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