christmas specials starting with the grinch who stole christmas. >> the annual christmas specials were an event. when you first see that advertisement like. >> frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. >> was that on once. missed it, you were screwed. >> mom, mom can we watch that, can we watch that? mom? >> on sunday, december 4th, burl ives again tells the exciting new story of rudolph the red nosy reindeer. >> i was obsessed with clay nation. rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was the pinnacle. >> loved that show. >> tells the story of rudolph based on the show redorsal outsider. >> burial ives as the snowman, the elf. remember him? the castoff. >> i want to be a dentist. >> it's a lucrative business given that your boss santa gets paid in cookies. and of course you have clay immigration thing in the history of he. >> still scary. to this day when that face comes on errr. >> rudolph the red-nosed reindeer has run every year since 1964. making it the longest running christmas special. >> actual inherent message in rudolph the red-nosed reindeer bullying works. think about it would rudolph have gotten his life together if it wasn't for all that name calling behind the scenes? >> >> be prepared for cancel culture to come for rudolph it will happen. >> isn't there anyone who knows what christmas is all about? >> it's charlie brown and the peanuts gang. >> 65 one year after rudolph cbs aired another christmas classic. >> i love charlie brown christmas. what's not to love, right?ro i love the feel of it. it had that great sound track. >> someone paired jazz with a christmas special for kids. >> every time you hear it, you just got to go. >> charlie brown is a strange hero for kids because he appears to suffer from depression. i mean, he is in therapy even though his therapist is lucy and she charges 5 cents. >> kind of go through this awakening, i suppose through the christmas season. >> he was against the commercialism of christmas. >> charlie brown wrestles with all of these issues and you know, eventually lioness turns to him and shocking for the time, he cites scripture. >> for you to born in the city of david is a savior who is christ the lord. >> that's what christmas is all about charlie brown. >> these kids put on a nativity scene as part of a public school play. >> school board was against it, nynobody could understand him anyway it was workers' comp anyway it wah, wah. >> no way it is department of justice school board meeting. >> something something about the simplicity of children that makes it easier to understand the simplicity of the message of christmas. and that's, i think, what charlie brown nation. >> it is one of those ones you just hope is still on until the end of time. ♪ ♪ >> there are many christmas traditions that invoke a sense of joy, happiness. one tradition is met with anger and distaste. and that is the annual fruit cake. i haven't met a sole that likes it like it's the only place america still has common ground. how did christmas, the greatest holiday ever, get seattleed saddled with this ridiculous dessert. >> if i were christmas i would trade it to easter. >> fruit cake itself goes back centuries and it makes sense. when you taste a fruit cake it taste tastes like something invented before refridge rates radiation. >> he said it best when he said he thinks it's one fruit cake and passed it around have you ever bought a fruit cake. >> the whole thing started with fruit cake. >> no one played hot potato anymore but you do. it's called fruit cake and you play it on christmas. people say like oh, you know, fruit cake. >> you put thought into it honey, wouldn't it be funny if they spent three days in a bathroom? >> oh. >> this is oh my -- what holy space food garbage is this? would you honestly look forward to something like this. >> this is an off putting smell to it. >> i have never had fruit cake before. >> tastes formaldehyde. >> fruit roll up in. >> there do we have water? can i have it? >> there is no reason. we don't have to keep every tradition. we can let fruit cake go. ♪ ♪ loved him. >> i loved caroling. but caroling is a way to prepare the heart. >> people think because i have got a voice for television that i would have a great singing voice. i don't. >> no one wants to hear me sing. i will just say that first thing. is that your ploy to try to get me to sing? it's working. >> deck the halls with bows of holly. >> click click click. >> back in the old days caroling was called was selling. >> like the song. here we come awas selling. >> knocking on doors, i know you are rich. can you give us any wine whatever bottom rack can you get your hands on. they say we wish you a merry christmas, now bring us some tfigy pudding. >> you are demanding figy pudding whatever that is. >> figy pudding who has that? >> they used to be everywhere. you would find them at shops, at grocery stores. of course in your neighborhood from door to door. i mean, at first when you are a kid and see carolers come, this is nice. little snow outside. they are singing christmas songs and seem really reap really happy. then you realize those neighborhood people arere drunk and on the best bar crawl in the neighborhood. >> is that mr. at ter bury stumbling. >> always a good idea to have a drink or two beforehand. >> there is a social awkwardness with caroling. >> you see that house down the road that we have never been to and we have no idea who lives inside there? you knock on the door and see the guy who just had the worst day of his life. really? are you going to y start with te deck the halls? jeesh. >> these are slurred voices of amateurs and they go on and on. particularly when they do the 12 days of christmas and nothing against the song okay, but it's will also 9 minutes and 1 seconds. that's not a festive gesture that's a hostage situation. >> at its heart, it is a wonderful thing. it's better than a door-to-door salesmen. what would you rather have caroling or somebody selling steak knives. >> time for christmas pop quiz. what animated christmas special was based on a book in won the book of the year award and the toy that won the best toy award? 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>> same thing. it was brilliant. >> different channels had them. you have competing fireplace fires. >> that is truly an american phenomenon, i think. channel 7 is a little better this year. turn off that lame channel 4 you lost and cue in channel 7 goodness. >> i think yule log be transfixed by it. >> do you know what bothers me? when they have one of those gas powered yule logs. if i'm going to watch a fake fire i want it to be a real fake fire. >> then in the 1990s you would actually buy video of the yule log on vhs, on high definition blue ray dvd. >> this is something you need to get to make your apartment be christmassy. >> had'l you to the have the yue log. gone high tech you go to youtube and type in yule log there is pretty much a video for everyone. >> yule log. i think i spelled it right. >> got the traditional yule log. you'v got the fireplace burning with the cat and dog for pet lovers. can you cece a fire burning on the beach in florida as your yule log. >> 66 million views for that? my god that's like super bowl numbers. >> there is even one with nic who is sitting by the fire. you can watch your fire and nick onerman at the same time. i don't know who would want to do that but probably, i don't know, maybe a million people. >> if that is what does it for you, america, god bless you. i'm old fashioned. i like my video fireplace simple. ♪ ♪ it all started innocently though. >> a few very tasteful. reminds you of the season. > my memories of my dad puttg up lights in our house was miserable. you didn't want to be around him. >> this is what happens, michael. you have to wrap it around an old paper towel thing so that you don't -- okay? that's your job now. >> you a have to use every partf your body when you are untangling christmas lights. light, over an arm. wait a minute. if there was always that one house on the neighborhood block that really did it up for christmas. and what started out as one house starts to become more houses. and moreou houses. i don't know where we made the turn to crazy town on christmas lights. it was somewhere around the time when they started having those inflatable santas. frosty, next to a rudolph. next to an abominable snow monster. next to santa, stuff on the roof. nobody thinks about big christmas displays what the yard looked like in the morning. little kids are walking to school all these inflatables are lying dead like a rash of drive by shootings in your neighborhood. >> hang on. well, okay. so, come back later, and i will have this done, okay? >> now the neighborhood themselves have become tourist attractions. >> there are houses that put up light displays that can you set your radio too and broadcast the time together. >> >> you have got lasers maybe there is a smoke machine, there is are six tour boss buses on your block. >> less christmas and more like edm poster. >> $7 billion on christmas decorations, 7 billion. >> my parents couldn't get me that big wheel. >> i think our on sex with christmas lights and christmas decorations is exactly what charlie brown was trying to warn us about. >> wait a minute. oh, wait a minute. ♪ ♪rn >> and now who can forget michael loftus on neighborhood christmas lights battle? >> i'm into it because i'm a capitalist. and when people compete, it makes it better for me. i want everybody on the block to compete. that way i can drive by and just blike woo, looky, looky, it's l great. is it suck to have in your neighborhood? yes. is miller's house hou a little o darn bright when you are trying to sleep? 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' ♪ ♪ >> so what decoration gives the finder good luck? the answer is c, the christmas pickle. many claim the tradition comes from germany. so no one is sure where it originated. i think pickle ornament concept is made up. it's a conspiracy by the people at 458 mark just like valentine's day. >> now back to the holiday countdown. >> they say seeing a kid's face on christmas morning, the appreciation, the love, it makes it alworth while. i think it's a different story if you are the parent that had to go out and find that toy. >> "star wars" figures, r 2 d 22 chew becca, luke and princess leia. >> in 1977 no one expected "star wars" to the monster hit that was. >> this is not going to be the hot toy. this is going to be the only. >> -- kenner caught with pants down because they did not anticipate how much demand they would have for "star wars" toys come christmas time. >> action figures not yet available this available in stores. >> you could pay 7. 9 and get a box decorated with "star wars" figures on it. open it up. and opens up into a diorama. >> i cannot imagine how unhappy children must have been tearing open the wrapping paper. >> kids loved i do i do. >> get a certificates by mail. sent to you at home between february 1st and june 1st. >> congratulations little time, you are going to get your toy in june. this was aen punch in the soul, man. >> oh i got rock 'em sock 'em robots what did you get? >> iou. that's the cultural power of this movie. i was jealous of my friends. got an empty box for christmas. >> if you got kids you got cabbage patch dolls. miami beach when the store sold out early similar coming in from our area and around the country. >> i don't think there was bigger inciter of violence in the history of the battle to get cabbage patch dolls. pudgy soft dolls that had their own birth certificates and adoption papers the thing everybody had to have. >> i remember my mom telling me that my father had to wait in line for hours and hours and hours. >> i remember my dad going out to the mall getting a shipment of cabbage patch. i swear to god he had it up like he was playing dallas on sunday. >> like the oil crisis, right in the 1970s except it was a doll. >> that year my sister got two. which means my dad probably laid somebody out. >> oh, yeah. yeah. yeah. oh, i think it just tooted. >> do you kids even know the trouble you caused? >> you love the attention, don't you? >> yes, i do. >> yes, you do. >> dude, get a time machine tonight and go back to the right rich.we are >> elmo, particular me elmo, oh, elmo, think about the cabbage patch craze, particular me elmo, tyco came out with particular me elmo. >> they had 400,000 units ready to go rosie o'donnell who had she had enormously popular daytime talk show. >> she featured particular me elmo on her show in october and the crowd went wild. >> today show also brought elmo out and made it even more popular. >> you by thanksgiving you could not find a particular me elmo on the shelf anywhere. >> elmo. >> elmo, quiet, the adults are talking. >> particular me elmo becomes like a black market item, people are putting out advertisements saying they will sell theirs for $1,000 maybe behind the bowling alley only bring cash. >> john gotti jr. went into toys r us and bought a whole case of particular me elmo dolls. >> we have got make some money, boys. fix a basketball game? no. rob a bank? no. elmo dolls. >> are you worth $7,000 elmo? [laughter] >> it is almost like it's taunting you. ha ha ha ha, you spent a fortune on me. ha ha ha ha. >> ready for another christmas pop quiz? what classic holiday song has beenid banned from some radio stations due to its content? is it a, baby it's cold outside? b, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, c, jingle bell rock? athe answer and more christmas memories when we return. ♪ (vo) for fourteen years, subaru and our retailers have been sharing the love with those who need it most. now subaru is the largest automotive donor to make-a-wish and meals on wheels. and the largest corporate donor to the aspca and national park foundation. get a new subaru during the share the love event and subaru will donate two hundred and fifty dollars to charity. some so which song? a baby it's cold outside. about a woman who wants to leave and a man who is bigger had to stay. >> i don't see what the controversy it, you listen to rap lyrics. >> now back to more. nothing says let's begin the most wonderful time of the year like sleeping in a target parking lot. every thanksgiving day parade ends with santa claus. he says, let the shopping seen begin. >> black friday for many retailers is the first day the first day of the year they are operating in the black. >> in my household we call it diversity friday. but sure, whatever you want. >> it started innocently enough. the day off of work, day after thanksgiving. kids are with you, let's head downtown in the car, and see the christmas decorations. take in the sights. maybe do shopping. >> common from -- practice for stores in open at 6 a.m. the day after thanksgiving. >> then 4:00 a.m., then people were camping out. >> the most innocent way to let people know you hate your family. >> i can't help you with the dishes, i have to go shopping, i'll be back tomorrow. >> i wish i could stay and help you clean, but, i have to go sleep on the sidewalk tonight. >> maybe these people are outdoor type, maybe they like camping. >> nothing makes humans act more responsible than gathering together in large groups in freezing cold winter in dead of night to fight for cheap items. >> it was black and blew friday. -- black and blue frida. >> call it door buster, you are asking for trouble. what do your customers do, they bust down the door. >> it is about spectating, if you are not participating you are watching the local news station, what craziness happened. >> that is as big a tradition of shopping, tuning in to see who beat the snot out of each there are in a target 200 million shop -- shoppers spending 400 each. >> they started opening them 8 p.m. on thanksgiving, making black friday, black thursday night. is that beige thursday. >> the people that have to work that night, they should get triple pay. >> in my opinion. >> new seen of who can forget. dropping this january. on fox nation. >> if 80s were a car. it would have been the delorean. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a good rip. >> where's at beef. >> where's the beef. >> lady liberty, needed help standing up, can't blame her. most of ladies i know that age prefer to sit. >> aerosmith and run-dmc. >> john mc enroe killed more rackets than the fbi. >> a lot has been said lies. >> hands across america. >> what i remember about mondale, walter is virtually nothing. >> the last thing that big to come out of the united kingdom of the the united states. >> scandal. american posed news. >> super bowl shuffle was the worst song ever but really catchy. >> it was morning in america. >> guess what, i'm just getting started. >> don't miss who can forget totally 80s new seen, january on phoenix nation. to support a strong immune system your body needs a routine. centrum helps your immune defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc* season after season. ace your immune support with centrum. now with a new look! hey, angie! you forgot your phone! hey lou! angie forget her phone again? yep. lou! mom said she could save up to $400 on her wireless bill by switching to xfinity internet and mobile. with nationwide 5g at no extra cost. and lou! on the most reliable network, lou! smart kid, bill. oh oh so true. and now, the moon christmas special. gotta go! take the savings challenge at xfinitymobile.com/mysavings or visit an xfinity store to learn how our switch squad makes switching fast and easy this holiday season. emale narcarb-cutting, enoudiet fatigue, the calorie-counting, and stress. 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