No Right Answer: Best Christmas Special Ever

[Firefilm]

Best Christmas Special Ever

Happy Holidays from your old pals, Dan, Chris and Kyle. Chris caught a big of the holiday blues (and also a cold) so he sounds like an old, chain-smoking lady. Make fun of him while he defends your childhood with Charlie Brown Christmas versus all other Christmas specials ever!

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[GeorgW]

I really hope that's an actually picture of Dan's rabbi uncle.
For me, the right answer is X-mas story, Futurama's first Christmas special.
It has an evil robot Santa who's trying to kill everybody, real emotion, great jokes and a nice song (though not great).
Also, I've never seen the Charlie Brown Christmas special. I don't even know if it airs here in Sweden.

 

[Avaholic03]

The discussion begins and ends with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Everything else is just second place.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I only sided with Kyle since I never watch Charlie Brown Christmas special (or maybe I forgot about it) but yet again I was really into that show as a kid.

 

[217not237]

Christmas Vacation is #1 hilarity, true meaning of Christmas, and a real Christmas problem. The perfect Christmas special, in my book.

 

[The Great JT]

A Christmas Story stomps Charlie Brown to death every time. I can't believe we're having this conversation.

 

[ritchards]

Yes, it's another Christmas tradition... being sick. Blargh...

 

[Drazi]

They had it there at the end. Die Hard is clearly the best Christmas movie.

 

[Jikuu]

I must be the only person who really hates the kids in the Charlie Brown Christmas special. They're all bratty jerks. I prefer The Year Without a Santa Claus and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, for what that's worth. Oh, and by the way, awesome seeing a Rush shirt. ^^ Totally not Christmas related, but I just wanted to say.

 

[erbkaiser]

Kyle loses automatically cause he compared Chris to a Nazi.

Yup, automatically disqualified per Godwin's Law on top of being incorrect. 'Seenterklaus'? Sinterklaas? DUTCH, not German. German Catholics do recognize St. Nicolaus but it is not and has never been the same as Dutch Sinterklaas, which is where the Yanks got their Santa Claus from.

I am of the opinion Peanuts is extremely overrated but I must give this win to Chris. Unfortunately.

 

[Saltyk]

It has to be every other special. Variety is the spice of life, my friend. Just one special would get old. I hate Christmas music because I spent something like 3 months listening to it 8+ hours a day everyday at work. It was a radio station and all they played for the Holidays was Christmas music. Not even a variety. Just the same 6-7 songs. You'd hate Rudolph, too, if you heard his song seven times, or more, a day.

So, for the sake of variety, every other special wins. Also, I'm not the biggest Charlie Brown fan.

 

[nintendo414]

I gotta vote for my man charlie brown he is the epitome of my feelings on christmas and the whole season.

 

[InsomniJack]

As much as I really like the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, it's not A Wonderful Life. Or Home Alone. Or The Santa Clause. Or A Muppet Christmas Carol. Or Batman Returns. Or Love Actually. Or The Nightmare Before Christmas. Or Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. Or Scrooged.

And it's certainly not frakking Die Hard.

So I say there's no reason for it to be exclusive to Charlie Brown.

 

[Dygen Entreri]

The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen, the first one. The other two were stupid cash grabs, but the first is one of the best fun Christmas movies ever. In fact, it's so good that it spans a full year and celebrates Christmas twice! This movie also gets points for dysfuncional family, having the main kid's name be Charlie, and the most awesome set for the North Pole ever.

EDIT: Also, how the hell is A Charlie Brown Christmas better then How The Grinch Stole Christmas (both versions), A Christmas Carol (pick any version you like), and It's A Wonderful Life put together? All three practically define Christmas specials along with Charlie brown.

 

[RTR]

Die Hard is the best christmas movie ever!

 

[TheLazyGeek]

It seems everyone is forgetting the number one Holiday Special of them all; The Star Wars Holidays Special.

 

[Hitchmeister]

I think the crass commercialism of this No Right Answer would have deeply upset Charlie Brown, which is perfectly in keeping with the message of that special, giving it the win.

Although, it's hardly fair. This was not a No Right Answer, this was a case of one clear winner with nothing to debate. Unless your opponent is stupid. I feel sorry for Kyle, I guess somebody had to take the wrong side.

 

[Right Hook]

It's impossible for one movie to be better than every other movie of the genre combined, Charlie Brown Christmas loses to every other Christmas movie, I'm sure there are individual movies I'd even consider better. That being said, Chris is such a ridiculous person that if he wasn't sick I wouldn't be surprised if he had somehow found a way to win this one.

 

[azurine]

I vote for Charlie Brown's Christmas. I can't think of any other Christmas special that deals with the subject of Christmas being devalued to a commercial event.

Charlie's a depressed kid who lost faith in Christmas. Not "Santa Claus", or "The spirit of Christmas", but Christmas altogether. The whole special is about how the holidays don't mean anything anymore, other the climax of the year and the season of spending.

That's what makes the special so great. It's about getting back to what's important about Christmas. There's just this charm about it.