Completely satisfied holidays, you rapscallions! It’s Christmastime over right here in Seahawkland, and we’ll all be celebrating with our households (as we hope you’re). However heck if it isn’t time for an off-topic vacation submit first.
I grew up within the eighties (prime Seattle Seahawks period). I’m the center youngster of three boys, and all of us had been an enormous ache in our dad and mom’ butts. Consequently, we spent a whole lot of time in entrance of the TV (the babysitter field) at any time when my people wanted a break… which was 85% of the time.
A lot of the yr, we watched “Prime Gun,” “Again to the Future,” or “Predator” on VHS, however round Christmastime, that shifted to “Christmas Trip,” “Scrooged,” and “A Christmas Story” on TNT.
As most of us with heads on the opposite aspect of our necks know, TNT all the time had “A Christmas Story” on throughout the holidays. And on Xmas Eve, they ran (and nonetheless do!) it for twenty-four hours straight. The household was hilarious, however Ralphie stole the present with memorable scenes like almost capturing his eye out along with his Crimson Rider BB Gun, dropping his first f-bomb, and beating the crap out of the neighborhood bully… to not point out probably the most horrifying Santa of all time, and the child that bought his tongue caught to the steel pole. That film dominated.
My dad was weirdly obsessive about Invoice Murray, so we owned most of his movies. Scrooged was no exception. We completely needed to view it a number of instances every December. Murray (like Nicholas Cage) is often at his finest when descending into insanity, which Scrooged units up splendidly. There’s additionally an important cameo by Bobcat Goldthwaite, who exhibits as much as enact revenge on his boss after getting fired on Christmas, solely to get an enormous sloppy Murray kiss as an alternative. Additionally, the Jacob Marley character is tremendous gross.
I do not know who wants to listen to this however SCROOGED is probably the most UNDERRATED Christmas film. Invoice Murray is a nationwide treasure! pic.twitter.com/0MG7W1FU3G
— Critically Pondering & Ingesting (@TheCriticalDri1) December 10, 2024
Of all of those, Christmas Trip is the crown jewel. There’s no extra archetypal 80s/90s dad than Clark Griswold. The poor man simply desires some good old style household enjoyable throughout the holidays. Nothing appears to go proper – his large Christmas mild show received’t mild, Cousin Eddie dumps his crap down the sewer, then his vacation bonus verify doesn’t arrive… lastly, he will get locked within the attic crawlspace after which falls by means of the ceiling. However Clark is unflappable. When locked within the attic, he takes the chance to observe household motion pictures, and when he falls by means of the ceiling (fortunately onto a high bunk), he warms his palms. This type of moxie purely typifies the 80/90s suburban dad.
So, what’s the most effective vacation film? Most of these questions are tough as a result of they’re all wrapped up in nostalgia. The most effective? Certainly, the one that you simply grew up on. Identical to the Seahawks will all the time be the best soccer group of all time.
So, I suppose the query is, what did you develop up on? “Miracle on thirty fourth Road?” “The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Die Arduous,” “It’s a Great Life,” or “Jingle All of the Manner?”
Take a break from Seahawks soccer and pontificate within the feedback beneath!
Additionally, do any Seattleites bear in mind this banger? My mom had it on repeat from 1987 – 1997:
Completely satisfied holidays, 12s!
