Wii wish you a Merry Christmas

[A Black Falcon]

I'm actually not all that surprised about this, given that ABF and DJ are generally the two people on this board that have never once heard about things that are incredibly popular.

I was thinking that myself, actually... :)

It does seem to often be true. The part that isn't is when you imply that somehow that's a bad thing.

Though clearly in this case a lot of people have. I've also been totally ignorant of the existence of the band "Queen" up until a couple years ago. Not that into music so I never really hung around music stores or anything of the sort. It's just not this "very definition of Christmas" that it's being portrayed as. Maybe if I had never heard of Scrooge you'd have something there. At any rate, the hallmark of something being just THAT well known is how many parodies one sees of it. I can't remember a single parody of the plot you're describing, and in holiday "lineups" they sometimes do in shows I don't see anyone resembling Ralphie there. I see Frosty, Rudolph, Santa, the Grinch, Scrooge (always shown as being grumpy, no one ever bothers remembering him at the END of the movie, why don't they ever use "Scrooge" as slang for "insanely obsessed with giving") and various others but anyone like that smiling chap? Nope. Juuust not popular enough to be "definition of the holidays" material, at least not yet.

Bands... now THERE is something I don't know much about... :) Have heard of Queen though, though the only know of two of their songs. (the "We Are The Champions" one which I first heard in D2 (Mighty Ducks 2) and "We Will Rock You" which is played constantly at sporting events...

Anyway, my favorite Christmas movie... probably Mickey's Christmas Carol, the half hour Disney version of Dickens' The Christmas Carol. Because I have it on VHS (taped off of the TV like ten years ago along with two Disney winter cartoons that went before it and the Garfield Christmas Special (and the second half of the original Peanuts one)... for something so short, it does a surprisingly decent job... though that's mostly nostalgia speaking, I know. :)