Brian’s GBU Christmas Round-Up: The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree was brought to my attention, as it was I’m sure to many others’, by Doug Walker in his film reviewer role as The Nostalgia Critic. This was, he said, becoming fast known as the worst Christmas special ever made. His review of the picture is about a half-hour long, nearly as long as the short film itself, and seems to cover all the important bases, so I didn’t seek the title out last year after his video went up. This year, however, seemed like the perfect excuse, and of course this 1991, low-budget, straight-to-VHS (or was it made-for-TV?) production is now easily found in its entirety on YouTube. It was actually the first Christmas special I watched this year.

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The 1st Annual Exploratory Christmas Film Endeavor

This year in Ohio (or at least, my part of Ohio) the weather has been warm. I’m sure it’s got nothing to do with climate change. I’m just sure of it. And because I’m so sure, I can observe without worry, that we’ve experienced more Spring-like days in November and December than we did in all of Spring during this past year. There’s no goddamn snow, is what I’m trying to say.

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