Courtesy of author John Scalzi, here are the
10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time.
Do read his descriptions which are as great as the titles:
- An Algonquin Round Table Christmas (1927)
- The Mercury Theater of the Air Presents the Assassination of Saint Nicholas (1939)
- Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951)
- The Lost Star Trek Christmas Episode: "A Most Illogical Holiday" (1968)
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Santa (1973)
- A Muppet Christmas with Zbigniew Brzezinski (1978)
- The Village People in Can't Stop the Christmas Music- On Ice! (1980)
- A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg (1986)
- Noam Chomsky: Deconstructing Christmas (1998)
- Christmas with the Nuge (2002)
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7 comments:
Excellent. As a lifelong academic, I particularly appreciated Noam Chomsky's contribution.
Clare,
This is super. I have to email it to everyone I know. So many people are suffering holiday exhaustion by this time of the year. Who could resist this list which I'm sure will re-energize everyone.
Terrie
So many of them are real pick-me-uppers, aren't they?
OMG! Are these real? How hilarious!
Well, the list was once also printed by National Lampoon, so the odds are- as plausible as I, too, find some of them- they're frauds.
These are sterling! Don't you wish you could watch some of these?
Check out the following from SlateV:
'Tis the season of the Hollywood blockbuster, but over the years, there have been some truly awful Christmas movie releases. Torie Bosch wades through the Slate staff's all-time holiday-movie pans.
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1342099582
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