Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Tuesday TV Touchbase: Christmas Specials




Hi there and welcome to the Tuesday TV Touchbase where I post about stuff I've seen on television.

Since tomorrow is Christmas, the topic of today's post are holiday theme TV shows I've seen this month.  

Let's kick off the post with A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.   



Sabrina opens the special with a word of thanks to her viewers who could be doing something else such as spending time with family or volunteering with the less fortunate. “Instead, you’re here, half-watching a big screen while scrolling social media on a smaller screen,” Sabrina says with a smile.  

Interspersed with an assortment of holiday themed musical numbers by Sabrina and guests are comedy sketches.   Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson and Cara Delevingne appear with Sabrina in a Christmas Carol sketch about women who have been ghosted by “Ebby” Scrooge.  And my favorite sketch features SNL’s Kyle Mooney as a super generic relative, leading to a song called What Do I Get My Brother-in-Law.

Chappell Roan turns up dressed as a gift to sing Last Christmas, by the light of TV karaoke, in the aftermath of a raucous house party. (In the post credit outtakes and bloopers, Chappell comments that here outfit makes her feel "straight".)  

Andrea and I also caught the Nate Bargatze Nashville Christmas special. There's some strong musical performances and comedy bits including a sketch that riffs on Nate's  Saturday Night Live skits where he plays George Washington trying to explain oddities of America's future.  Here Bargatze is Gabriel the angel explaining modern-day Christmas traditions to Joseph and Mary, played by "SNL" cast members Ashley Padilla and Mikey Day.

Joseph:  "I do not understand, angel: a pine tree IN the house?"

Gabriel: "Yes, it will be so?"

Mary: "But why?"

Gabriel: "Nobody knows."

Andrea and I caught Christmas theme episodes of Ghosts (Jay got to see and interact with the ghosts for an episode. It was funny and very cool.), Happy's Place, St. Denis Medical and Night Court.  

And the holiday themed edition of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (with Pat Sajak back as host).  

Regular Wheel of Fortune (with Ryan Seacrest as host) spent 2 weeks with a Disney sponsored Secret Santa series.  

We also watched an old special from the 1980's,  Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.  It was a very surreal experience.   

We also watched an episode of The Play Goes Wrong called The Spirit of Christmas about a poor sad kid who only wants for Christmas is for her parents to stop fighting and blah blah blah, who cares? Anything and everything that can goes wrong goes wrong. 

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That is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase. 

Next week's post, I look back at some of the TV I watched in 2024. 

The week after that as we begin a new year, the Touchbase will touch base on...

  • What We Do In the Shadows
  • Star Trek Lower Decks
  • Creature Commandos

and more! 

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.    
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Later today, one last Countdown to Christmas 2024 Post.   


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