christmas is well, it s about the best time of the whole year. no matter when they take place, modern era or period, christmas movies and television specials are always about someone who has lost their faith in humankind regaining it, saved by other people being kind because it s christmas. christmas is the landscape that everybody wants to paint on. everyone who tells stories is attracted to the heightened emotions that it brings. nostalgia plays such a huge part in christmas because it is part of so many people s childhoods. and being able to go back and relive those feelings every year by watching holiday movies is just joy. a christmas story is one of the best movies about nostalgia, family, and christmas. jingle bells, jingle bells. jingle all the way. a christmas story. i watch it every year at least twice. it s like the script of my life. can we go now? can we go now? yes. yes, we can go now. come on. it brings out every childhoo
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slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., which slut are you g