captain_slinky | The Dozen-Or-So Days Of Christmas 3 - Classic Christmas Television (Reply)

Despite starting with a very special Christmas episode of "According To Jim", this Youtube playlist of 200+ Christmas episodes from all eras of television! This has been my go-to playlist this Christmas season, containing none of "The Classics" (Rudolph, Frosty etc). This is 1970's variety show specials (like Donny & Marie, Johnny Cash, The Carpenters) and Christmas-themed episodes of classic TV shows of the 60's, 70's and 80's.

This is important to me because of a story I've told a thousand times regarding WHY I love Christmas so much. It was the year I decide to skip Christmas because it was too corny, too commercial and too inconvenient (I was 20-something and not only did I KNOW everything, but my views and opinions on things were the most valid and important views possible). And so I lied to the whole family, saying I was sick and couldn't make it. I instead stayed home and watched the Nickelodeon Classic TV Marathon. Somewhere during the hour-long block of The Andy Griffith Show, it just *clicked* for me and I suddenly had this all-new understanding of Christmas that is *impossible* to explain. It's not religious, it's not presents, it's not gathering with loved ones, it's... impossible to describe, but I love it!