Wii wish you a Merry Christmas

[Weltall]

Hold on, this is NOT an old black and white movie, it's within my living memory? THAT is supposed to be a classic icon of Christmas? Oh sure, like Jingle All The Way or The Santa Claus are now "classics" right? Pfft! That's not a classic. It's a Wonderful Life, or The Grinch, or Miracle on (I can't remember numbers well) Street, THERE are your classics. That's RECENT, because I was ALIVE at the time, and so it can't ever count, EVER!

If it was in your lifetime, it was just barely. I was only a year old when it came out.

At any rate, I don't watch "The Hallmark Channel", or even much TV at all. I've said it before but I basically just watch the Science channel, Cartoon Network, and like 3 shows on Comedy Central, so yes I could easily miss it.

Except for sports, I don't watch any TV. Ever.

Just because it's "on the TV" constantly doesn't mean people who are actually living a life outside of it have to be dead. It's not like all existence must obey the whims of "the TV" or even be aware of it. Honestly I'm shocked that you apparently think it's something I can't possibly have avoided exposure to. I've seen plenty of Christmas classics, just not THIS one. Is that really that hard to believe? Must I have seen ALL of them? I'm sure there's plenty of gaming classics you've never played, perhaps never even heard of, even though you may have played plenty of other classics.

That's hardly a fair comparison. Sure, there are probably gaming classics I've never played or heard of, but a fair comparison would have me saying "What's a Nintendo?" Even people who don't play videogames typically have at least heard of Nintendo or Playstation. It's not just a television thing, I hear it quoted on the radio, I see merchandise, people wear T-shirts (I have two!), and the movie is so fantastically over-exposed by being played literally hundreds of times every year through those all-day marathons (I've even seen them do it in the summer, under the "Christmas in July" excuse, whatever the hell that is) that I can't conceptualize any American person roughly my age never even knowing it existed, even by pure accident.

In any case, now that we've made you aware of it, you really ought to see it. Over-exposed though it may be, it's still one of the best Christmas movies there is.