Santa workshop ambience (8 Hours). Oh boy, it's a Christmas movie episode! Well… we are focusing on a faux Christmas movie commercial that appears in an actual Christmas movie. This episode puts us into a busy Santa's Workshop (but does not include any terrorists or assault weapons and absolutely no harm to Reindeers).
Look, at the very beginning of the movie Scrooged (1988), the camera flies us through a snowy wonderland into a busy Santa's workshop. The elves are making toys, and Mrs. Claus hands out cookies. Then, suddenly, the workshop is under siege as RPGs rain down on the workshop. Mrs. Claus unlocks a closet of assault rifles. "Seven o'clock. Pyschos seize Santa's Workshop. And Only Lee Majors can stop them," says the announcer.
It is unhinged and my favorite start to a Christmas movie.
So Scrooged is our Christmas Eve wrapping movie these days. We had been watching Die Hard (also 1988) because it was a nice violent break from the children's shows we had to endure when our kids were awake (the Wiggles, or Caillou, that whiny little *****). But the constant one-sided argument that "Die Hard is a Christmas movie" is a trend on social media every year—that no one argues against because arguing either way is stupid.
Anyway, Scrooged is something; Bill Murray, Carol Kane, the Solid Gold Dancers, and a ton of other awesome folks are in this movie. Maybe give it a spin this holiday.
PS: If there are any Mack Bolan book cover fans out there, I was trying to catch that vibe for this week's episode cover.