Kids today have it so easy! Here are 45 struggles from the old days that today’s kids will never understand
1.Old school cell/cordless phones
1.Old school cell/cordless phones
December 16, 2019
December 11, 2019
Five Things I liked in Santa Clause 3:The Escape Clause
And
now for a challenge. As you guys know, I kike to take a bad movie and
find good things about it. Since it’s Christmas, I knew the perfect
choice for this. The problem? I really hate this one. But can I find
five positives anyway? Let’s discuss:
I heard Tim Allen say that he was going to make this on The Tonight Show and my reaction was, what the heck is the plot going to be? Twelve years after the first movie, we got this unnecessary sequel, The second movie managed a premise that made sense. Enough sense anyway. This one was pushing things but to be honest, I was in on the premise. It sounded like a neat idea. Santa gets disgruntled and wonders if he should have ever become Santa at all. Ok, not original but it had promise. It didn’t work out quite that way,
The Sets
With the stupid Canada joke we get a good look at the sets for the north pole here,and they are very well done. Of course the Hall of Snow Globes is amazing, and they did a real good job changing the set in the alternate tine lime so that it almost doesn’t even look like the same place.
I heard Tim Allen say that he was going to make this on The Tonight Show and my reaction was, what the heck is the plot going to be? Twelve years after the first movie, we got this unnecessary sequel, The second movie managed a premise that made sense. Enough sense anyway. This one was pushing things but to be honest, I was in on the premise. It sounded like a neat idea. Santa gets disgruntled and wonders if he should have ever become Santa at all. Ok, not original but it had promise. It didn’t work out quite that way,
The Sets
With the stupid Canada joke we get a good look at the sets for the north pole here,and they are very well done. Of course the Hall of Snow Globes is amazing, and they did a real good job changing the set in the alternate tine lime so that it almost doesn’t even look like the same place.
December 8, 2019
Top 10 Home Improvement Christmas Episodes
I love Christmas episodes and some series really go above and beyond, like this one…
The reason I am focusing on this show is that it did something which was kind of unqiue. It managed a Christmas episode every single year. I was going to say this was the only show that did that, but there are a few others that did especially “The Middle” which I never watched. I thought it would be fun to go over these episodes and see which was better. Oh you may be wondering, if Home Improvement had 8 seasons how can this be a top 10? I’ll explain the two honorary episodes as we go.
#10.”No Place Like Home” (Season 6)
Ok ok, I have talked about this episode before and how awful it is. And not just as a Christmas episode either, it’s one of the worst episodes of the series. I honestly think they threw the Christmas elements in there because felt they needed a Christmas episode again. Even though Christmas is barely in it and it has none of the elements that make the other Christmas episodes so memorable. I think they meant the Thanksgiving episode that year to be the official Christmas episode in heart, since that episode mentioned the lighting contest and had a tribute to the old Rankin/Bass stop motion shows.
The reason I am focusing on this show is that it did something which was kind of unqiue. It managed a Christmas episode every single year. I was going to say this was the only show that did that, but there are a few others that did especially “The Middle” which I never watched. I thought it would be fun to go over these episodes and see which was better. Oh you may be wondering, if Home Improvement had 8 seasons how can this be a top 10? I’ll explain the two honorary episodes as we go.
#10.”No Place Like Home” (Season 6)
Ok ok, I have talked about this episode before and how awful it is. And not just as a Christmas episode either, it’s one of the worst episodes of the series. I honestly think they threw the Christmas elements in there because felt they needed a Christmas episode again. Even though Christmas is barely in it and it has none of the elements that make the other Christmas episodes so memorable. I think they meant the Thanksgiving episode that year to be the official Christmas episode in heart, since that episode mentioned the lighting contest and had a tribute to the old Rankin/Bass stop motion shows.
December 2, 2019
Christmas Movie Anniversaries in 2019
I
spent a lot of time this year discussing some big anniversaries that
happened to be this year. One area I missed was Christmas movies. And
believe it or not, a few have notable anniversaries in 2019.
Let’s run them down:
Christmas with the Kranks-15th
Ok this isn’t the best Christmas movie ever made, by far!, but it’s still worth a mention. Where many films fade away (anyone remember Deck the Halls?) this one has managed to stay alive in people’s thoughts. Maybe because it starts Tim Allen? Flawed, but not as jaded as some other movies that have come out in the last 15 years that were really detestable.
Let’s run them down:
Christmas with the Kranks-15th
Ok this isn’t the best Christmas movie ever made, by far!, but it’s still worth a mention. Where many films fade away (anyone remember Deck the Halls?) this one has managed to stay alive in people’s thoughts. Maybe because it starts Tim Allen? Flawed, but not as jaded as some other movies that have come out in the last 15 years that were really detestable.
December 1, 2019
Ten Memorable Coca-Cola Christmas Commercials
I
was looking back at my Christmas articles and I found a very old one
where I discussed my favorite Christmas ads. I considered re-publishing
it like I did a few times with other articles this year, but really it’s
fine. So instead I will focus on one specific area I haven’t given
enough love to.
I love Coke, and drink way to much of it. And in fact, Coca Cola is almost synonymous with Christmas. And I don’t just mean because it’s available in stores every year. In fact, it was the early ads for Coke that featured Santa Claus which helped to define the look that we all love today. From 1931-1964, Haddon Sundblom took inspiration from a certain Clement Moore poem to give us the first official ads with Santa. So with this connection, is it any wonder coca-cola always has memorable Christmas ads every year?
Rather than go through the history of the print ads, because you can find that elsewhere on the internet, let’s go through some of the great and memorable TV ads we’ve had over the years. And let’s get the obvious one out of the way first:
This is one of those ads that is more than just a memorable Christmas commercial. It’s one of the most famous commercials ever made.
I love Coke, and drink way to much of it. And in fact, Coca Cola is almost synonymous with Christmas. And I don’t just mean because it’s available in stores every year. In fact, it was the early ads for Coke that featured Santa Claus which helped to define the look that we all love today. From 1931-1964, Haddon Sundblom took inspiration from a certain Clement Moore poem to give us the first official ads with Santa. So with this connection, is it any wonder coca-cola always has memorable Christmas ads every year?
Rather than go through the history of the print ads, because you can find that elsewhere on the internet, let’s go through some of the great and memorable TV ads we’ve had over the years. And let’s get the obvious one out of the way first:
This is one of those ads that is more than just a memorable Christmas commercial. It’s one of the most famous commercials ever made.
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