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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Generally on Thanksgiving it's watching the parades. The time was when one of the networks would cover a selection of parades from all across the country. That was our favorite, but this year it seemed all we could get was Macy's parade. And naturally, being originally from Detroit, we watch the Lion's game.

We also have a tradition on Christmas Day. We have a video tape that we made some years back of multiple versions of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", beginning with the 1938 version starring Reginald Owen, and going through a few other versions both live and animated. One of my favorites is one made for TV starring Henry Winkler called "An American Christmas Carol." Anyway........every Christmas morning we put the tape in and let it run all day....one version after another.

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NOT watching TV is my holiday tradition...we didn't have a TV for several years as I grew up...and those we did were never that interesting. We turn it off and *talk,* and make sure to spend extra time playing around with the lids.

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Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is must for me. It makes me feel that the holiday season has offically begun.

This year over at our friends house we watched the annimated movie "Prince of Egypt" with the kids, in between eating, laughing and pretend phone calls from Santa to the four year old.

I will also watch it's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story for sure. To me those are just classic movies for the season.

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Seems to be a new tradition nowadays. Pulling out the laptop and showing pictures.
"NICE" pictures. lol

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every year we watch a christmas story (bastages!! lol) and national lampoon's christmas vacation (the hap-hap-happiest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse! lmao) at least twice. love those movies. the philly parade on thanksgiving, nowadays. but when i was a kid it was the macy's parade. we used to all pile in the car and go into the city. fun times.

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Before dinner, most of the men (this year my fiance included) sit on their asses in the living room and watch the football game while the women cook and clean. Who gets the better end of THIS deal? LOL

After it's all over we pop in a video (usually a christmas carol or some holiday type movie) and sit around to watch it. This year, we had 13 people packed into the living room. Then we put up the huge tree that mom has and that's a community effort practically (not a media tradition but I'm sure a lot of you guys and gals put up the tree on thanksgiving).

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Detroit Lions football. It's funny, because I really don't follow the Lions at all and have no particular allegience to them ... but every Thanksgiving, I seem to end up watching them play.

Then, after dinner, did the dishes and sat around chatting. All that was home were our four sons ... but it was great having a chance just to visit with them. We're going to see our daughters on December 11th (I think) and make that a combination Thanksgiving/Christmas celebration. That should be fun.

BTW, hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

My wife is one of six, so when we had (mostly) everyone over for Thanksgiving, the afternoon was spent talking about and chasing after the kinder. Now that the families are older, we still spend much of the day talking about the children, but more now about finances and how to save and make money. Dearsweet and I do most of the dinner prep, with Dearsweet managing the parts requiring magic, I peeling the potatoes, cooking the bacon, chopping the onion. This year my son herded the rest of the kinder into cleaning up! This led inevitably into long discussions among the adults about how they were required or prohibited from Thanksgiving involvement.

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oops, shame on me. musta had johnny dangerously on the brain. that was supposed to say "bumpases!"

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

I have already been given the schedule for today's events. I'll be off repeating ^^^ the tradition and this is one repetition I'll enjoy.

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Yessir! It is one of the better family times.

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