Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Christmas in July: Quick Reviews - Third Rock From the Sun / Pahappahooey Island: / Molly and the Christmas Monster / New Age Christmas

Third Rock From the Sun : Jolly Old St. Dick (1996)
Third Rock From the Sun : Happy New Dick  (1998)
Repeat Viewing | Filmrise
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A couple of fun holiday episodes from this classic sitcom. Probably my first time watching them since they originally aired . What a cast!

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Pahappahooey Island: Christmas Episode (1999)
First Viewing | Tubi
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   Puppet based kid show I’d never heard of. Must be faith faith based because the human / animal/ robot inhabitants are putting on a nativity play. A Decent offering for younger kids and I’m sure familiarity with the characters could only have made it better. Not an unheralded classic but nice enough. 
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 Molly and the Christmas Monster
First Viewing | Tubi
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 I feel a bit foolish watching kids shows, I graduated from having to watch these things years ago, but here I am, a slave to random program selection.
  Pretty good, if a little bit weird (but that’s not a bad thing). Don’t imagine I’ll ever revisit it though, even once grand kids enter the picture. 
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 New Age Christmas  
First Viewing | Tubi
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 Christmas ambiance video featuring festive scenes of primarily  Very pleasant, gave the family room a nice relaxed holiday vibe. If it’s still streaming come Christmas I’d definitely throw this on to have as background   
It turns out the same producer has a ton of these ambiance videos available on Tubi, so there are a bunch of options with different styles of music and visuals.

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Naughty and Nice: 3rd Rock wins the nice - nothing was bad enough to earn the naughty.