‘Tis the season to use the term “‘tis” – I don’t get to use it much the rest of the year.  ‘Tis also the season for watching Christmas shows on TV.  This time of year, about 95% of the stuff on TV is holiday themed.  A lot of the specials are based on Christmas songs, for some reason.  My favorites are the creepy, obviously drug induced, stop-motion ones from the 60s.

Person1:  “People like that song… We should make a movie based on it.”

Person2:  “But the song is less than a minute long.  How can we make a movie about that?”

Person1:  “We’ll just throw in some crap about an abominable snowman, a dogsled-riding prospector, an island of talking toys that are led by a flying lion, and an elf who wants to be a dentist.”

Person2:  “Yeah, that makes sense.”

But it’s not just the Christmas specials.  It seems like every normal show has to have a Christmas episode.  And every single one of them has one of only two plots:  If it’s a children’s show, Santa is in trouble and the characters help save Christmas.  Otherwise, the characters encounter adversity, through which they learn the “true meaning of Christmas”.

Person1:  “Boy, those sure were some adverse events leading up to Christmas.”

Person2:  “Yes, but we’re still happy.  And, after all, isn’t that what the true meaning of Christmas is all about?”

Person1:  “Um, what about all of that stuff in the Bible?”

Person2:  “The what?”

So, happy TV-watching to all.

-FG

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