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Post by agent817 on Dec 16, 2016 11:23:38 GMT -5
I decided to do a thread on this because I recently had a flashback of a Christmas episode of Dexter's Laboratory and I remember not being fond of it even when I was a kid. The episode is that Dexter tries to prove that Santa Claus doesn't exist. It lead to the main part of the plot with Dexter chasing Santa around the house to prove that he was an impostor, only to find that he was very much real. But that wasn't my only beef with the episode. In the episode, Santa mostly didn't talk and just uttered "Ho ho ho" in his dialogue. Dexter's parents and Dee Dee wake up and find that Dexter had ripped off Santa's beard, which then lead to Dexter mentioning to his family about how Christmas is about family and loving. Then Dee Dee said "You stupid! That's not what Christmas is about!" Then Santa said that Christmas is about presents. This is what also pissed me off about that episode. Number one, the message that Dexter tried to convey was debunked by his dimwitted sister, and number two, all of sudden Santa can talk and even goes with the debunked message? Seriously?! Dexter's Laboratory was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid, but I never liked this episode.
Also, another one I should mention is the Simpsons episode when Bart destroys the Christmas tree and lied about it being stolen.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 12:26:37 GMT -5
First to come to mind was The Simpsons episode that ended with the whole town robbing the Simpson house.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 16, 2016 12:32:49 GMT -5
Simpsons-Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (the one where the students were trapped in the school wasnt much better, but at least it didnt have that nonsensical ending that Miracle had) Regular Show-The White Elephant Gift Exchange/Merry Christmas Mordecai
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Post by chrom on Dec 16, 2016 12:33:52 GMT -5
Twit Titans Go ended with the same way with claiming that presents are the only thing that matters
Jimmy Neutron also had him smugly claiming that Santa was not real and hurting everyone's feelings and in the end gets what he always wanted for Christmas whilst Cindy who got on to him for how he acted gets coal
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Dec 16, 2016 12:42:58 GMT -5
Only Fools and Horses - Miami Twice (specifically the second part of it). The OFAH Christmas special was always a big part of Christmas here and all the other previous Christmas episodes hadn't disappointed. Yet for this one, they over-hyped it and gave us a convoluted plot about Del being wanted by the Vatican and being a dead ringer for a Florida Mob boss. But worst of all, it just wasn't funny. The following year they concentrated more on the comedy than the plot and gave us the classic Mother Nature's Son.
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Post by mizerable on Dec 16, 2016 13:23:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I gotta go Miracle on Evergreen Terrace. It's a pretty weak episode in general.
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Post by Cela on Dec 16, 2016 14:56:40 GMT -5
I remember disliking the Scrubs episode where Turk lost his Christmas spirit. Or any where one character is really trying to hammer home the Jesus story being the reason for the season.
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Post by karl100589 on Dec 16, 2016 15:01:20 GMT -5
Only Fools and Horses - Miami Twice (specifically the second part of it). The OFAH Christmas special was always a big part of Christmas here and all the other previous Christmas episodes hadn't disappointed. Yet for this one, they over-hyped it and gave us a convoluted plot about Del being wanted by the Vatican and being a dead ringer for a Florida Mob boss. But worst of all, it just wasn't funny. The following year they concentrated more on the comedy than the plot and gave us the classic Mother Nature's Son. I'll add "If The Could See Us Now" and "Sleepless in Peckham" to that list as well. (I quite liked "Strangers on the Shore" though)
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Dec 16, 2016 15:09:06 GMT -5
Only Fools and Horses - Miami Twice (specifically the second part of it). The OFAH Christmas special was always a big part of Christmas here and all the other previous Christmas episodes hadn't disappointed. Yet for this one, they over-hyped it and gave us a convoluted plot about Del being wanted by the Vatican and being a dead ringer for a Florida Mob boss. But worst of all, it just wasn't funny. The following year they concentrated more on the comedy than the plot and gave us the classic Mother Nature's Son. I'll add "If The Could See Us Now" and "Sleepless in Peckham" to that list as well. (I quite liked "Strangers on the Shore" though) I think Mother Nature's Son was the last great Fools and Horses episode. Fatal Extraction was pretty good but not what I'd call great. The (what was supposed to be at the time) "final" trilogy was ok but again, I don't think they were that great (particularly the Batman and Robin bit, which is IMO one of the most unfunny OFAH moments ever and I'll never understand why people cream over it) but they were still decent. However, then came the final trilogy which raised my opinion of the previous three. Although I agree that Strangers on the Shore was pretty good, easily the funniest of the three. To Hull and Back remains the best Fools and Horses Christmas special to me. Followed by The Jolly Boys Outing and then Mother Nature's Son.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 16, 2016 15:20:06 GMT -5
The Saved by the Bell episode where Zack gets a job at the mall and befriends a homeless girl and her father.
Like every non-main character of SbtB, the girl and her father are never heard from again.
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Post by Shai on Dec 16, 2016 15:46:59 GMT -5
Nobody's said Alf yet? Ya know the most depressing Christmas episode in the history of television.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 15:54:52 GMT -5
95% of all old time radio Christmas shows are depressing and sad.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Dec 16, 2016 16:03:21 GMT -5
Okay not technically Christmas but it was part of the Holiday season but the Vicar Of Dibley new year special from 2005, which features the Make Poverty History campaign including showing a real film about orphans in Africa and the end is just the main characters solemnly looking into the camera. Just too jarring and preachy overall.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 16, 2016 17:48:36 GMT -5
I disliked the Christmas episode from Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's not that the episode was particularly bad. It's that it really did not fit the show in any way. The ending of the show came where Angel decided that it was best for Buffy and the world for him to commit suicide by waiting out at the scenic viewpoint for the Sun to come out and burn him to a crisp. Buffy tried to talk him out of it and was given an extra day to talk him out of it by a freak weather event that caused a snow storm that completely blocked out the Sun all day long (did I mention that the setting of the show is in Southern California, a place well known for their freak blizzard events?)
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 16, 2016 17:52:19 GMT -5
Alf's Depressing as hell Christmas
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 16, 2016 17:58:11 GMT -5
Nestor The Long Eared Christmas Donkey has always struck me as odd. I guess it's that that kind of Rankin-Bass style thing being connected to the Biblical Christmas Story just seems disjointed and bizarre and kind of offensive. And I'm not even Christian.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Dec 16, 2016 18:07:43 GMT -5
Nobody's said Alf yet? Ya know the most depressing Christmas episode in the history of television. American TV maybe. The UK has EastEnders, which has a depressing Christmas episodes TV Trope page basically dedicated to it. Domestic abuse, rape, deaths, many murders, burning flesh. Happy f***ing Christmas EastEnders! And we also have The Snowman too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 18:53:36 GMT -5
Alf's Depressing as hell Christmas never saw that so I looked up a synopsis of it and holy f***ing christ what is wrong with the writers of alf? I'm glad the government caught him
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Post by Spider2024 on Dec 16, 2016 19:20:42 GMT -5
Nobody's said Alf yet? Ya know the most depressing Christmas episode in the history of television. That or Doug.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 16, 2016 19:29:00 GMT -5
Um there was a special based on this really popular movie from 1977, wasn't there?
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