It's still kind of hard to sleep this night

As is the tradition at ACME, most of the staff and their family have joined the Caligaris for the Christmas Eve dinner of the seven fishes; we keep losing track of how many fishes we've consumed, (it might have something to do with the number of bottles of white wine that we've consumed. But please join us - there's always room at the table )

Well, maybe you were already in the holiday way (especially if you've been playing the home version.) Check out these clips from the late night shows while we recount if we've actually eaten seven fish dishes -













Why not watch these cartoons for your family while we try to sober up -

Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936) -




Christmas Toyshop -




Bedtime for Sniffles -




Christmas Night -




One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.


Sometimes TV is your only friend, so why not have another marathon of Christmas themed episodes.

Christmas Shopping   The Jack Benny Program -



Mel Blanc steals this show without a doubt.


Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid   That Girl -



Christopher Shea, the child-actor playing Tommy, is best known as the voice of Linus in A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and several other Peanuts specials. At the time this episode was broadcast, Shea was also a regular cast member in the short-lived Western series Shane.


Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid II   Mary Tyler Moore -



James L. Brooks, the writer of the That Girl episode, Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid wrote a sequel (of sorts) for this The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, the sitcom's first Christmas special.


My Own Personal Jesus   Scrubs --



The version of The Twelve Days of Christmas that plays when Turk is in the On-Call room goes as follows: Twelve beaten children Eleven drive-by shootings Ten frozen homeless Nine amputations Eight burn victims Seven strangled shoppers Six random knifings Five suicides Four beaten wives Three O.D.'s Two shattered skulls And a drunk who drove into a tree


Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas ...   The Bob Newhart Show -



When Bob returns to his room immediately following his surgery, you can see a gold chain around his neck under his hospital gown. This is an error in authenticity as patients are required to remove all jewelry before surgery.


Now that you're in the proper mood for the holidays - I'll leave you with these thoughts from Ogden Nash and his poem: The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus.




I've told my kids and maybe you'll tell yours - Dammit kids, get to bed! The sooner you go to sleep, the quicker Christmas will be here.

Norad Santa

Demand Euphoria!