What traditions has the media made part of your personal observance and celebration of the holidays?

I began thinking of this as I came home after the annual watching of the original (1933) King Kong. My daughter, who has become the family matriarch, was imprinted at the time they seemed to show Kong every Thanksgiving night, on TV for a number of years. Now, after the kids settle down from the feasting day, the adults sit like Mystery Science Theater 3000 and crack jokes all thru the movie , while chatting and eating that last piece of pumpkin pie and we KNOW that it was another pleasantly shared Thanksgiving in our little family.

So my question is not what holiday theme movie or song from the long list that we all enjoy, but what has become a “PART” of the season for you that the media has given us? Is it watching the Maces Thanksgiving day parade or maybe watching the Wizard of Oz ( ) when that seemed to be the annual networks offering? What is PART of YOUR season?

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