REPLAY - The Ultimate Christmas Present

Välillä tuntuu, että maailmaan megakkova silloin kannataan pitää mini-tauko ja tilata välipolaksi hampurloinen, jonka välissä on megastimakua ja ministimitään turhaa. Tään välid mini-mega hampurlainen viis 20 ja veke mini-mega kasviss hampurlainen nelje 20. [Musiikkia] Wow! - Oh, yeah! - Merry Christmas! - Merry Christmas! It is great to be back here today on Decom Descendants OR! On deck the homework if you're listening to us there. It's a little program called Decom Descendants. We do Decom Descendants to drop. - It's a single drop on two feats. It's a single drop, it's a feed drop, it's multiple feats. It's a feed double feed drop. - That's exactly right. - We'll get there. We will. - Good job. - For those-- - Drop the different shows and the different feet. - Yeah, you do that. - You do that, right? - Well, this shows. - We're just by brandy and gray. - It is. - It's true. It's true. - Yeah. - I don't touch the feed stuff. - Just wait till I bring this to show you guys. It's gonna crush. Dan, what is Decom Descendants for people that don't know about this? - You're going to show the deck the homework if you welcome into the superior show. Why? 'Cause no Brian. - Brian's a girl. - Yeah. - So he's better. - He's better. - This is a show without what I'll say. - Without the four deck the homework segments. But with four segments of their very own, but one takes up the majority of the time. We're gonna take a look at a Disney Channel original movie. We started at the beginning. I've never seen any of them. These two people claim to be experts, but you find out often they've not seen them along the way. And we have a good old-fashioned fun time. And it's a little bit more PG-13 than deck the homework. So if that's something-- - It won't be today. - It won't be today? - No. - You've heard the show already. - It's ultimate Christmas prayer. There's nothing about this I could get PG-13. - That's right. - Yeah. - Couldn't. Couldn't. There's no way. Not with that Santa. Not with that Santa. - I have a list of naughty girls. - I think we should hold off on Santa. - Santa is a full voyeurism for Santa there. - When you're alone in your room. - Yeah. He sees you when you're there. - He's making some assumptions. - It was a pretty accurate one. - The Russian T-3 times a day is not an assumption. - Yeah. It's a weird one to make. - That's one too many, right, though? - It wasn't the first segment though, Brain. It spells out D-com. Brain's very proud of that. So our four segments will D-C-O-M. That's very important to the show. If you don't have that, you're gonna be lost. - You might be like, "What are we doing here?" - Yeah. - It's time for Delish. - Aaron, each and every week, you provide us something, a snack, a bevy, somewhere in between. - I think it's actually-- - This is somewhere in between a snack and a bevy. - That goes along with the movie that we're talking about today. What do we got today? - All right, so today we have a, what I'm gonna call like a summer twist on a snow cone. So this is blended watermelon with a little bit of sugar and then drizzled over top. It's been in our freezer all morning. Drizzled over top is some sweet, incandensed milk. - Okay. - But this movie has a ton of snow. - It does look like kind of like slush. - It's a summer snow kind of situation. - But it is a-- - It really, really goes. - It goes in degrees outside and also it's a red for Christmas. - Cheers everybody, let's see. - Woo! - That's good. - I love watermelon. - I don't like it. Dan doesn't like it. Dan hates it. Dan thinks you're dumb. - Yeah, I know. - No. - No, no. - I don't think you're dumb. - Show your thoughts. - It's just not my favorite thing. I'm weird on watermelon if watermelon's really good. - You're weird on fruit flavored things. - Yes, yes I am. True, I like the texture of it. I like that it's cold like a snow cone. It's not for me. And that's okay. - I like it a lot. - Also, Brandon, I'm just letting you know right now. I'm gonna have to pop out of the parking lot here in two minutes for about two minutes. You can keep recording or you can stop it. Just let you know. - Is today-- - Stay drugged? - It is today is drugged day. It's drug Tuesday. - I lost it. - So what is it called? - What are we calling it? - I don't know. - What if we call it? - I don't know. - Snow cone surprise. - Christmas in July. - Fun times? - Fun times. - It's the Christmas in July. Fun times. Watermelon frozen. - Straight in the swing. - Dan hates it. - We'll be-- We're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna come back. Here on! - Dig on! - This and this. - This and this. - Feel bad. - We're back! - Oh boy! - We're back from that perfectly normal size break. - It was perfectly normal. - Ultimate Christmas present is what we're talking about today. It's time for. Comchat? - That's what they remember? D for D-com. - D for Delish. - Com is Comchat. - C for D-com. For C-com. We're gonna get there. - Comchat. We're talking about the Ultimate Christmas present. It was released on December 1st in the year 2000. Our last 2000 movie. - Yes. - Here in the Disney Channel. - I feel like we've had 20 movies in the year 2000. - It's been a big, big year for D-com. They went really hard in 2000. - Directed by Michael Hitchcock. - Dude, he's an actor. He's a comedic actor. Unless it's a different Michael Hitchcock. It very well could be. - I mean, he's got his own Wikipedia. He is an actor, a comedian, a screenwriter, and a television producer. - He's really funny, dude. He's in some Christopher Guess movies, I believe. - There you go. - He's in my favorite comedy all the time. - Oh, sorry, he's written by him. It is directed by Greg Beeman. - I feel like we've seen a lot of-- - Greg Beeman, yes. - And starring Hallie Hirsch and for the first time. - Brenda Song. - Brenda Song, let's go to for Brenda Song. - Brenda. - Thank you. Phil Marshall is the theme music composer. I think he does a lot of music for Disney Channel FM. - Is it too punny to call Brenda Song the unsung hero of D-com? - No! - The unsung hero. - It's not too punny. It's just, I think, wrong based upon-- - It's the theme. - Okay, all right. - Oh my gosh. - It's a big promise there. - We have at least three more? - We have three more. At least that we know of. She could have-- - I get remember. - Yeah, she could have done more later than after the fact. But ultimate Christmas present. Let's dive into it. So the movie kicks off with-- I don't know. Would you call it Scott? It is-- - Reggae. - Yeah, like a two-tone reggae situation. - Yeah, it's a two-tone reggae. Once the third tone comes in, you can kick it. - That's Scott, that's full-bones Scott. - That's it. - Yeah, three-tone is, you know, different world altogether. - Can you break that down for me? What's the first tone? - I don't know. I know that two-tone sky is pretty much reggae. And three-tone sky is the stuff that you would listen to. We would listen to growing up. - Fourth wave. - Third wave. - Third wave. - Yes. Why would it be three-tone fourth wave? I don't understand. Where did the extra wave come from? - Third tone. Fourth wave. - Can't lose. - It's decked the halls. This is what I'm trying to say. It's on this play. It is three days before Christmas in meteorologist Edwin Hadley. Edwin Hadley is telling us it is going to be a hot, hot Christmas. Then when you first saw Edwin Hadley, did you think that Edwin Hadley was going to be a big part of this movie? - No. He was such a bad actor in that scene. He's not as bad the rest of the movie. But in that scene, he's playing awkward. He's playing like. - He's a weatherman. - Yes. - Well, they're going awkward. - In that first scene because she was watching the news so intently, I thought it was her dad. - Yeah, she's really into it. - I didn't think he'd be a big part of it. I'm still not convinced he is. - I think the thing about him though is. - Go for it. - You're right. He is a weatherman. But he's really more interested in just the teaching of meteorology. The guy that wants to impart meteorologists wisdom on other people is the bad guy in this movie, which is neither here nor there. - I mean, you want to teach science? - How dare you? - It would be like some seltzer water and some sort of alcohol, I think. - You think that that would bring that home? - Yeah. - Wow. - Not everything has to be alcoholic. - It's true. - You didn't have to freeze it as a slush. I could have just blended it, mixed it with vodka. You don't like rum. - I don't like vodka. - I would take a run by Rebecca. - Wow, okay. There you go. - Allie Thompson is our main character. She is in middle school and she has a neighbor who is her best friend played by Brenda Song. Let's get her for Brenda Song. - Brenda Song, everybody. - They're calling her the unsung hero. - They are. I ever heard that. - You just don't get it. Brenda Song's name is Sam in this movie. - She's a Wendy Wu, man. - Oh, she's a homecoming queen. - Warrior. - Warrior. - She's going to do a fighting. - Stuck in the suburbs. - Oh my gosh. Get a frickin clue. - Dude, how about we just do this one? Can we do this movie? Since we're here, man. - I'm going to play that song nonstop for like the whole week. Get a clue. - Wake up. It's me. - It's you. - Wake up. It's me. It's you. It's us. Everybody around here. You're doing stuff to get a clue. - Brenda Song's name is Sam in this movie. - After school. - And after school. - The Com Chat sentiment is where the time has been. - That's right. - And after. - Why are we on track? - Rollin. - After school. After being assigned a ridiculous paper right before Christmas. They go on a little bike ride. They get lost in the woods. And they stumble upon a cabin in the woods. - Not that cabin. - Ali decides that she's going to look through the window of the cabin. Which I would have probably done too. If I stumbled upon the cabin of the woods. - You wouldn't have them as a middle schooler. You wouldn't look through the window of the cabin of the schooler. - I would have not known to not. I would have gone into the woods alone without an adult. - You're so responsible. - Such a rule follower. - If I came up on the cabin. No, I'm not going to go looking people's windows. - It's a cabin. - It's a Taylor Swift reference. - Really? No, we called it. We all tracked it. - Yes, she's the only one to have ever. - Sorry, I look at people's windows. - Okay, just me. - Okay, thanks, bye. - I'll just. - Explain it more. I think it would help. - Would you help me? - But no, I would not have gone. - I would have been too afraid of like. - Dan and I are definitely looking at it. - Yeah, we're definitely looking at it. I'm creating a story in my head. - Is he the only reason why we were not friends in middle school? - And maybe burning it down. - Yes, of course. - What? - What? - You're burning. - I would. - You said that. - I didn't. - I came out of nowhere. Middle school boys never play with fire. - I can play with fire. - Yeah. - I'm on board with that. - Okay, great. - You're on board with burning down the cabin. - No, playing with fire. - Just playing with fire. - Erin is actually leading the charge and burning down the cabin. - That's right. - She doesn't want you to know it. - She doesn't want you to look in. - Guys, we will not look in that window. - But. - Did somebody say fire? - She doesn't want to look in the window, because she wants to feel guilt for you when she burns it down. - But try to not know if anybody was in it. - For sure. - Yeah. - Peach is 13, guys. - No, Santa can't catch on fire. - He can't catch on fire. - I don't know if you've seen that fireproof suit he has. - Yeah, from this movie. - No, I just think all Santa knowledge off the Santa Claus. - It's the best Santa's. - It is, yes. - But so you think all Santa's wear the suit from the Santa Claus? - It's, yes. - All right. I'm down. - That's the way that he became Santa. - Go, go, go. - Santa Claus is Santa Claus for me, and then everything else is just like fan fiction. - Wow. - But what if I fall off the roof? - Fan fiction. - Fanfic. - Rainier up on the roof. - It is a great movie. - It's a great movie. - She'd watch that. - Someone's running on naked somewhere. - So. - Oh my god. - They find. - It's so good. - Normally. - How do you explain me to move on? - But naked. - Morning, Mr. McLare. - How do you expect this to just move on? - It's Christmas in July. We're talking Santa Claus. - We know they got a hot apple pie. - Well, you did. - Mm-hmm. - It's your weekend. - This is you. - No, this is you. - Planned milks fine. - So they find the cabin in the woods. - Yeah, and to look in the window, they see an old guy. He's working on some sort of contraption. - Contraption. Contraption. - Contraption. - And it's ultimate Christmas present. That's what we're talking about. Thanks for asking. And this guy gets mad at this. - Did this movie go down in my rankings because of the Santa Claus talk? Maybe. - Wow. - I was hoping I had the opposite effect and go up. - Maybe you can trick it in your mind. - No. - To be like, we actually watch Santa Claus movie. We just talked about. That's gonna sting here. - So. - This infection. - Yeah. This is just some dumb fan fiction. - Ali probably wrote this story for her glass. - That's right. - This is the thing we don't have to record today. We can go as long as we want. - Ali, Sam. They see him throw something out into the trash can. They go to the trash can. They get the thing out of the trash can. They're like, what is this? We don't know. We're gonna take it home. So they do. They take it home. They start messing with all the little nozzles. - This is where you, if this is you in the story. - By it. - You in the story, you would say when things started going to haywire, I can't get in trouble for this. - Yeah. - Because you just got something out of the trash can. It's something you would do. - 100%. - Yeah. And you'd be like, well, it's not my fault. - It's not my fault. - I can't get in trouble for this. - It was trash. - It was trash. Have you ever used a magic curb in front of our house before? Were you put things on the curb and it's gone? Have you ever done this? - No. - And in our neighborhood, if you put anything on the curb that is not trash, it will be gone. I got rid of some deck furniture, old chairs, barely held together, gone within five minutes. - Wow. - And now if this chair started a storm, who's following that bee? - Not ours. - Not ours. - Not ours. Except for tree limbs, they don't take those. - They don't take that for a long time. - They sit around, they're supposed to take those. - Yes, they're supposed to take those. - Yeah. Is it every week? - It's supposed to be. - It's insane. The same street, like every week. - The same street just has piles of chelips everywhere. - It's supposed to be everywhere. - They're supposed to be everywhere. - You could only take down so many chelips. - They shouldn't commit to every week if they can't do every week. - That's right. - Yeah. - And sometimes they'll show up twice in like a month. - Sometimes they say done goofed. - Yeah. - It's insane. - Shout out though. Yeah, that's great though. - Yeah, a lot they do ride though. - A lot to do right. - The water. - The machine is kind of cool to watch. - Hearts in the right spot. - And the water. Have I mentioned the water? - Past water. - Oh. - So they're playing around with the machine. They turn on one button and it's the rain in the room. Lightning strike. Lightning crash. - They have their machine. - Thank you. And then they do a little earthquake. All this stuff. They do the snow button. - They put it outside. - And oh, it starts to snow inside. It's amazing. Let's put it outside to see what happens. They do the thing and it doesn't immediately take off. - Let's just let it sit. - Forget it. - Allie wakes up the next day. Snow is all over the ground. And she's like, it worked. This is amazing. They're so excited. And why wouldn't she be? As a kid who, this is Los Angeles. - Los Angeles. - Why wouldn't she be thrilled about snow? - The best scene of this movie is the snow day. These kids and Los Angeles kids. They've never had a snow day in their life. - Well, they don't even know what a snow day is. Breakfast song has to say, my cousin in Boston said that sometimes there's so much snow. They can't clear the streets fast enough to be canceled. - Did you grow up in Boston, greater Boston? Did you get a lot of snow days? Couldn't have, right? Most days you just had to go to school? - I would say when I was younger, I feel like we had more snow days. And then as I got older, when we had a new superintendent, he was very big on just being in school whenever it was possible. But we were a big, like a city where we had a lot of kids that walked. So sometimes the street would be clear. But if they couldn't get all the sidewalks pad, they would cancel school anyway, 'cause kids couldn't. - Wow. - There you have it. - But yes, snow, no school. - I grew up in Florida, and so you were hoping hurricanes came. - So many times. - You were pulling for the hurricanes. - Yeah, dark kids. - I don't, I don't. - You said this wasn't PG-13. - I don't know if that. - I think that's rated R. - That's a thing that all kids in Florida were falling for. - 100%. 100%. - Kids don't get it. - I really don't get it. - Kids don't get it. - You go came through when I was living and saying, - Oh, you have no idea. - I was like, maybe we won't go to school tomorrow. This is fantastic. - It could go, you know, what the best, the best is when you get school canceled, but you don't lose power. That's obviously the ideal. - Yeah. - It starts here coming way behind. - It's gonna be really great. - That's gonna be really great. - It becomes way less fun in the summertime when the power goes off. You know how long you're gonna be on it. - We do have Brian on the street in Florida interviewing some local kids about hurricanes. - Brian. - Oh, and we lost that too. - We lost that too. - Oh, we lost that. - Wow. - I did see pulling for hurricanes live though. - That's really good. - Pulling for hurricanes quite a bit. And they were two-tone, which is weird. - Yeah. - But I hear the thirds coming though. - The thirds coming. Fourth wave, third tone. - So they're so excited. They run outside. They don't have school. They're playing in the snow. They're, you know, making sleds out of like pool noodles and stuff. Like trying to use anything to go sludding on. It's big fun. But our guy Edwin Hadley, meteorologist Edwin, is a couple of things happen. One, his boss pulls him in and is like, you are, this is the biggest thing to go on and forever and you are boring everybody to death with your things. You gotta get to the important stuff. Like the fact that the friend's cast is stuck in the studio and stuff like that. Like you've got to really get into all the nitty-gritty. But two, Edwin, being the science-focused man that he is, is really concerned about where this is coming from. What is the source of this? - Yeah, 'cause it doesn't make sense to scientists. - He's a scientist. - So he's committed to finding the root of this snowstorm. - Edwin's also in trouble because he didn't predict it coming. - He didn't predict it. And that's tough. - It's almost like magic was involved and not science. - What? - It's possible. - Now we heard Brian's bad weather. - Oh, man. Brian's bombed. - What's that? - So he needs to do this segment and everything. - He seems angry about it, too. He seems angry. - It's almost like he didn't get paid. We're just false. - What? - It's ridiculous. So everything is going really well for them. But then the snow just keeps pondering. - Yes, that's what I was getting to. It starts to become not so fun. - Yeah. - Snow begins to continue to spread. Not just from Los Angeles, but going up the coast. And eventually getting to San Francisco, which is where Ali's dad is because he is what you're doing. What's he trying to get ready? What's he trying to do? - Loans for Bowser to come. - Loans for Bowser. - Loans for Bowser. - Yeah. - Korean Cameron spokesperson. So you lucky dog call back. Brian, I just want to commend you on the complete and utter self-control. Because you said the word San Francisco and didn't go off on a tangent about Roni. - What's up about Roni? I thought you might be. It is. Here's the thing about Rice the Roni day. And I'm glad you brought it up this time. It's a San Francisco treat. A lot of people everywhere think that it's a treat for them. And I say, "No, sir, have you had it in San Fran?" So. - I always forget about Rice the Roni. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Because when I hear a different disco, I just go Francisco. - Francisco. - That's fun to say. And then my brain is off. - Any pain? - Sir. - Yeah, I'm off on a totally different tangent. - Try it. - But Rice the Roni. - Yeah. - It's a San Francisco. - San Francisco treat. - I'm a code decom dissenting. - Why is I not e-mail the Rice the Roni people? Why am I not e-mail the Rice the Roni people? - I don't know. - It's your whole thing. - They're probably owned by some sort of decorate. - It's your entire identity as a human being. If someone says San Francisco, you go. Have you heard about this, Rice the Roni? - Can you look it up really quickly? Rice the Roni. Who owns it? If it's a self-made company. If it's not run by one of those big boys, then we could probably get him. But once you get started getting owned by the, you know. - PepsiCo subsidiary Quaker Oates. - Screwed. - And Rice the Roni. - We're in trouble. - We can't get him. - Jay Domenico, brothers. Invented Rice the Roni 1958. After seeing their sister-in-law combine Rice, Vermicelli, and Swanson's chicken broth. - Let me guess where they lived. - Tell us about Oklahoma. - Did they live in San Francisco, Dan? - Dan, did they live in San Francisco? - I think they did, yes, thank you. - I think we could be sponsored by a Pepsi subsidiary. - Oh, Dan, tell everybody really quickly the story about the person sitting next to you on the plane that asked for Pepsi. - Oh my goodness, we're on a plane, a red eye. This guy is sitting next to me. - From the west coast to the east coast. - This is actually the east coast of the west coast. - I don't know, it's the reverse red eye. - It's the middle of the night. - The reverse red eye. - This is my own business and the drink cart comes through and they do the bit. You want anything to drink and I get just like a club soda. - I don't think it's a bit. - It's a bit. - It's a bit. If you are a flight attendant, you do non-stop bits and we all know it. None of them are talking in their real voice or as their real person. - Wow. - Everyone is doing, everyone is put on their flight attendant character suit and they are flight attendants. They are not who they are. - You're saying flight attendants aren't real people. - No, I'm saying they're paid today. - Dan just said flight attendants aren't real people. - No, it's not what I said at all. - Got a lot of respect for flight attendants. They're all interested. Many are saying I love flight attendants more than anyone else. - Yeah. - I mean, I would agree to that to an extent but them asking do you want anything? - You're saying you've never had a flight attendant. - I agree. - Every flight attendant themselves. - You watch a flight attendant's countenance as you're walking off the plane. They're a different person. It's pretty nice. - Sorry. - They're doing a bit and I asked the guy if he wanted anything. - It's like being a server in a restaurant. You have to be the best version of yourself. You just have to. - They ask this guy if he wants to. - They ask everyone's need to drink and he goes, "Yah, the Pepsi." And she goes, "Is Coco okay?" And he goes, "Can I have cranberry juice?" That's the interaction. - How do you get there? I would like a Pepsi. "Oh, you only serve Coke products." Well then in that case, my second option is cranberry juice. - I used to think that the most ridiculous thing that could happen was when I asked for a root beer in this day. We have Dr. Pepper, 'cause that's not close. - No. - But it's closer than cranberry juice is the Pepsi. - Yeah. - So. - Those are just vastly different flavor products. - So different. So different. Imagine craving a Pepsi. And he goes, "If I can't have that." - At least I won't have a UTI. - At least I won't have a UTI. - Yeah. - I'm going close to the world. - Cranberry juice. - Might as well. Any whom. So the storm's getting real bad is what we're trying to say. And his dad's stuck in San Francisco. Now while all of this is happening, Santa's elves are now have made aware of the situation. - Of course. - Yes. - By John Sally and the guy from Coach, not Coach, the other one. - SpongeBob Squarepants. - Start Patrick. - He's Patrick Stark. - Yeah, he's not SpongeBob either. He's not SpongeBob or Coach. I want to be very clear about that. - He's not. - Oh man. - But he is in the Patrick Stark show. That's not Patrick got his own show. - Patrick got his own show. - That's correct. - I think Sandy Cheeks got her own show too, which is ridiculous. Talk about a one note character. We get it. You're from Texas. You're a squirrel. You live in a dome under the water. Like. - Which is ridiculous. How did they get real angry about this? - I don't know how they got there. Like it's all sea creatures and you got Sandy. Sandy Cheeks. - How do we get here? - San Francisco. - Oh yeah. - The elves. - The elves. - The elves. - Sparky and Crumpet. - John Sally and B.H. - John Sally. - Rick Fox. - Our guys there are now committed to coming and helping Santin. What they are going to be doing is they are going to first, this is, you know, somebody stole it. - Yep. - Again questionable. - Yeah. - You threw it out. - I can't control for this. - Yeah. - But they say no nice person would do that, which as if let's start with the naughty. List. They get, they find a shoe print, they trace it back to a specific type of shoe that would only be worn by women. And so they get, they track it down. We're going to look at just the naughty girls. - Please. - Can you say that? - I will say, sounds weird that Brandon is saying it that way. - Yeah. - But that is how they say it in the movie. - Still isn't making up anything. That's what Santa says. - Brian carries around a list of naughty girls regularly. - naughty girl. - Let's see. - So they pull out their, they know the shoe size. - Seven. - Seven. - And they know that, you know, obviously they have a, Santa knows what shoe size. - There's like 17973. - Right. - naughty girls. That wear a size seven. - That's a little thing. - That wear, that wear a size seven of those shoes. - That's what I was about to say. - Which that seems high. - That seems high to me. - That's say, like Santa, this is a specific shoe size seven, also naughty girl. - I first, when he started to say that we were on TV, I thought he was trying to say there was like 1900 girls in Los Angeles. And I was like, ah, I think there might be a few more. - Do you think there's, there's 1900 naughty girls in Los Angeles? - And I wasn't going to get PG-13 just wild. - Do you think that there are 1900 naughty girls in LA? - You're the one that does the research. You told me, buddy. - That, that wear the same size of the same shoe. - I think that's what the movie says. - That's all I'm asking. - So Ali decides she needs to turn off the machine. She turns it off, but it turns it back on. - She wants dad. - Right, can't come home for Christmas. - Right, so we need to turn it in the storm. - She turns it off. It does not work. It turns right back on. It creates a blizzard. - We get, it clears. Plains are going to start taking off. And mom goes, storm is over. Dad can come home. And Ali's like nailed it. - Boom. - We did it, but then she goes to sleep. - And when she wakes up. - Still snowing. - It's bad news. - Oh, Los Angeles is under. - It's, it's as bad as it's ever been. And so then they just kind of like mope around for a while. And they talk about sad stories. - Dad is stuck in the airport. - Yeah. - Mom's a caterer. - Seems like at least you have a dad. - It gets really dark there. - They don't even get to the whole Los Angeles. There are probably thousands of people dying every hour. - We don't get to that. - Yeah. - Speaking of that, though. - Since mom is at nurse, she's got to leave Sam at Ali's house and go brave the weather. - Yeah. - To take care of all those people who are dying. - That's right. So Edwin is now trying to track down where he's coming from. He finds a snowmobile that somebody is driving, takes it from him. So he's a naughty boy. - He has a little lab at his cupicle. - Yeah. - He tracks that storm to Ali's name. - I didn't know that. You could do that. If you could take it, but whatever, it doesn't matter. So, still the snowmobile and begins to head towards. - I mean, you could do whatever you want, but you will end up on Santa's naughty list. - That's true. You'll be on the naughty list. So. - It's naughty boys and girls. - Ali and Sam, the power, the power goes off. - They go to, I believe, get a flashlight or something in this shed. And that is when they come across Santa. - Santa Claus. - And the L's, Popo, and that's where they are going. - Chris Crinkle. - Santa Claus. - And Ali is like, well, you're not Santa proves that he is Santa with. - There he is. - With some quick toothbrush impacts for you. - Very intrusive information that he knows. - Yeah, Santa says some basic things. Like you. - Like cheese pizza. - You like cheese pizza. - Yeah, you like thick crust. Cheese pizza with sausage. And then Samantha, you brush your teeth three times a day, but you don't floss. And Ali's like. - I'm not impressed. - Anybody could know those facts. - Yeah, anybody could know those things. - And then Santa says my favorite line. Samantha, when you're alone in your room. - Say it. - Say it with a straight face. - Yeah, you say it. - We'll get that sound. - We're not allowed to say it. - But Santa says. - Santa leans down. - It's a Samantha. And then there's a pause. And I was like, Santa, you can't say that. - It is. - Yeah. - And then he just says, like, you dance around a Ricky Martin like this and pretend you're married to him. And he does a little dance. And Ali laughs and then Santa goes, oh, you're gonna laugh? Just you wait. Your family looks like they're perfect. But really, you're too busy to actually hang out with each other. And you feel alone. - He goes from magic trick to just full trauma, like so quickly. One of those two girls now thinks someone's a grown man is watching them in their bedroom. And the other one had their deepest darkest secret revealed. - Yeah. - Christmas magic, everyone. - He went from first gear to trauma gear. He didn't even stop somewhere in between. Something about like, you say your favorite color is this, but secretly is this. - Nothing like that. - Well, you were for the one toy you wanted was. - Yes. - No. - You should do the trick in secret. - No, no. - You haven't even told yourself that. - Sometimes when you tell your brother, I'm gonna kill you. You actually think through ways you actually could. And it takes over your entire day thinking about ways you could further. - Speaking of brother, shout out to JJ. I have never wanted to kill you. - There you go. - Shout out. - Shout out. - I'm not listening. Favorite brother this week? - Pat! - Woo! - Jesse is over. You went pat Josh back to pat. - Yeah. - It's unbelievable. - Yeah. - You said he's coming. Last week you're like, he's coming. - I didn't say he was coming. - I didn't say he was coming this week. - I didn't believe this. - I said he was coming. - Two brothers of the week nods in. Jesse ain't got a mention. - Nope. - Jesse. - He knows what he did. - Yeah. - So. - Jesse's a friend. (laughing) - We don't have time. - We don't have time. - So at this point, a meteorologist fella Edwin shows up at the house because he's tracked it down. Kind of tricks his way into the house by. - He says you've won our contest spending a day with me. - Yeah, which is weird. And then he demands her to go make bread. - Yeah, he's trying to get her out of the room. She's like, do you want coffee? And he's like, yeah. Add cream and sugar. But do that in the kitchen. - And then he keeps giving more things. - Right, so could you make me some toast? - A roast. - A roast. - A roast. - Which is getting bread. So while she's in there, he runs up. He gets the machine. - Which for a little brother has found. - Yes, because he thinks that it is-- - It's his Christmas present that she is hiding in the flower box. And you may be asking, why would he think she hid his Christmas present outside in the flower box? - There's a history there, guys. - Apparently that's where she is. - She hid the birthday present out there. Don't ask. So he takes the machine and he is going to make a run for it. As he's getting ready to leave, they come out of the garage area, the shed. They see him, they're going to chase after him. He's on Snowmobile. They know a shortcut though. Don't ask that as well. He swerves to not hit somebody. And that causes him to go through a what type of shop? Is it a mattress shop? Be a light shop. See a regular grocery store or see the candy. - The candy. - See the candy. - So this is tough because I say the candy every time and I've never been right not once. And I feel like now's the time to change. I'm going to go light shop. - I'm sticking with C/D, the candy. - It is the candy. - See the candy, D, the candy. - Yes, it's the grocery store. - Yes, it's C twice. - It is the candy. - Finally it was going to be the candy and you messed it up. - I was so excited. - It's a candy shop. - No, to the candy shop sugar ray. So he barges into this candy shop. - I just want to take time for this. You saying candy shop, which features 50 cent, to the tune of naughty girl by Beyonce and yelled out the band sugar ray. That is, you want, you hit the trifecta. You hit that, that was it. - D, the candy. - You were playing Bramble Jam Bingo over there and you crushed it. - Thank you. So, he flies into a vat of chocolate. He gets out, he kind of makes a run for it. Unfortunately for him, he's tracking chocolate everywhere so they can find him. And he ends up falling down into the cotton candy as they try to get him. - How's that cotton candy store? - It's just freaking kidding me right now with this. Cotton candy, everyone knows you're getting a bag. You then unzip bag or undo the zip tie. - Have you ever had cotton candy from a zipper bag? - No, like the zipper bag. You can own zip bag. - Twist tie. - Twist tie. - You imagine? - Yeah. - I mean, it would work. - It would work because it needs to be air locks. You can't just be a willy nilly or else it's gonna go stale real fast. - All of a sudden he's a science major over here. - It's a floppy sugar. - Well, he got into a couple de coms ago. He got into looking at cells and such and it just really started his story. - I've seen the paper. - It's gotta be air locked. - Yeah. - But yeah, this cotton candy is not stored in any airtight tin box. - The cardboard box. - It says bowl cotton candy. - Open cardboard box. - It wouldn't work. It's all I'm saying. He can't eat that stuff. - He falls in. - He's gonna go to chocolate and cotton candy. And they take the thing back. And they are really the mean to him. - It's a bomb. You can't eat that cotton candy, but false. Sparky does eat it off of Edwin. - And then they're just really mean to him. They like, you know, don't let him leave. It's a sad thing. The machine is broken though. Or so they think. So they gotta do some, you know, rewireings and whatnot. Then they just pop in some new batteries. It works easily, which is great. - We crank that bad boy up to 58 degrees to melt all the snow. - Yes. - Could it go any higher? No. Santa's magical and goes so far. Would 88 be way better and way quicker? - Yeah. - How about 98? If you can have snow, you can have a real hot. - Hands are tied. - Hands are tied. - 90 degrees. - So the girls get back home for Christmas. Dad ends up showing up thanks to the elves, which rescue them and dropped them off via some magic. And Edwin is sent to Antarctica to teach scientists about the weather. - I've seen we all needed it. - And I guess that's good for him. He's happy about that. That's good. Anyway, that was the ultimate Christmas present. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll break this movie down a little bit more. Here on. Did you come or said this? - Welcome back everybody. - The color set was a smooth 2022 minutes. - It's not bad. - It's not bad. - It's not bad. - It's time. - We're professionals. - It's time for overtime. It's where we talk about how this movie aged over time. - We have time as in D-com. - Yes. - D for D-com. - No, the EZ for D-com. - Oh, for D-com. - Y'all are dumb. - So, we're locked. - We're locked. - It's got to be air locked. It's all I'm saying. - I'm Gary. - Hong Kong. - We're off for no one. - For us. - We're off this week. - So, please, don't expect. - Hong Kong. - So, it's time for a joke. - It's time for the news. Gary. Hong Kong. - Gary doesn't do that much. First of all. - It's time for a time where we talk about how this movie aged over time. I do have some letterbox reviews if you would like them. Up first is Georgie with half a star that says there are 1,837 girls in Los Angeles with size 7 feet. That's the review and I do think that it was important to read it. Jacob Wilson says two and a half stars. What the H.E.L. hockey sticks is Santa doing at a summer cabin on December 22nd. - Yes. - Yes. Anyway, Thigh says three stars. A five-page single space paper. Yeah. I'd make us no storm too. Clara says two stars. I can tell the annoying brother isn't acting. He's just being his normal self. - Oh, a poor spinster. - Anna says two stars. This movie implies at one point that Jennifer Love Hewitt died by slipping on a patch of ice while in Burbank. Which means that these two kids who stole Santa's weather-changing machine have a body count. Depriving the world of her Oscar-winning performances in Garfield and Garfield, a tale of two kids. - Important stuff. - That's it. - Jennifer Love Hewitt movies to pull. Interesting. Garfield and Garfield, tale of two cities. Bobbot says the ultimate Christmas present would be not watching this movie. Victoria Moonin says Disney kids be acting with eyebrows only. Mac Prudence says one and a half stars. I guess the real ultimate Christmas present was the friends we made along the way. And I think that's sweet. Lila says four stars. Okay, but why does Santa have the weather machine in the first place? It's a great question. It's a good question. We don't get answers. There's one sentence where he talks about a beautiful slow meandering snowfall. But I don't really know why. It could have made a meal out of that, too. They could have really made it to where they could have wax poetic about the beauty of snow and the brand would have been all in. I would have been all in. MCK says two and a half stars. Santa, who is committed to memory the shoe sizes of every girl in LA. And by his own admission, keeps a list of quote-unquote naughty girls. Holes two children against their will at a dimly lit garage. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Jimmy says, remember kids, Santa is watching you dance in your room to Ricky Martin through a grainy CCTV footage. And that's tough. Do you feel festive, yes? Yep. And last but not least, Shane says one and a half stars. Justice for Edwin, honestly. Honestly. He's on, he's on team Edwin, like you are, Dan. Before you get into it, speaking of reviews. June 14th is the last time we've gotten a review for this podcast. June 14th, Brian. How does that make you feel? I'm mad. I'm mad, right? Right. It's almost a full month. I'm more hurt. Yeah. Is it anything? Guys. But maybe all the people that are listening to us on the deck, the hallmark for you can do us a solid. Do you have descendants? That's all we're asking. Yeah. Let's talk about how we thought this movie aired over time. Aaron, you've seen it. You said early on that you haven't watched it, I think since the year 2000, since way back. It's been a long time. It's been a while. So now watching in 2024, how do you feel about it? Yeah. I give a lot of opinions on this movie while we're watching it. You can take the tape.com here. Oh, it's a great one. Here all those great thoughts. I did not like this movie as a child. And unpacking some of that in our little therapy session while we watched it, I think it's because I lived in a state where we had plenty of snow days. And I understood that it wasn't a good idea to create a non-stop blizzard. And then when the machine gets broken, it just gets out of control. A lot of anxiety for 10-year-old Aaron. Not a big fan. I didn't love it as a kid. Like, not a lot of Christmas feels for me. But today, I had a great time watching it. It's crazy. Sand is not a list of girls is a line I'm never going to forget as much as I try. But yeah, probably not what I'm going to watch like every Christmas. Like I would with Halloween town every Halloween or panel of the mega plaques. But I didn't hate it as much. It was funny to watch it with Brandon Dan. Thank you. Say no more. 10-year-old Brandon not have anxiety watching this movie. He loved every second of it. I can see now as an adult watching this movie that this movie, there's ways that this movie could have been better. I like the overall premise. Finding a machine that makes us know unless Andrews and realizing that that comes with great power, good responsibility. And figuring that out and then trying to write the wrong there and getting close to your family in the process. I like that. The Edwin of it all is a giant miss in this movie. Having a meteorologist that is not good on TV is obsessed with just finding out science. And then does a weird villain arc where he basically tricks his way into a house to steal something from kids. And while he once he gets it, he says that now I'm never going to be wrong ever again because he can control the weather. It was so one weird and two unnecessary in this Christmas movie. And so because of Edwin, Edwin's not a huge part of this movie until the end. But even throughout every time they went to Edwin, it came to a screeching halt. And there was a family fun time that we could have just told that story and had, you know, like Santa and himself shown up and being like, you can't have this blah blah. That's all fine. The Edwin meteorologist plot of this movie is unnecessary and unfortunate. And so without that, I love this movie a ton. With it, I'm going to have some tough decisions to make here in the next segment. Yeah, this movie is not good. And I think, here's my thing, is I would have been in Brands camp as a kid, not Aaron's. As a kid, 9/10 years old, I would have thought this movie was really fun. A lot of fun, a lot of high jinks, crazy Santa fun times. My anxiety would have kicked in at roughly whenever I watched it, whenever this morning was at 40 years old. Three reasons. Number one, Los Angeles is currently because of this movie just hemorrhaging people. It is, you can't watch this movie and think about, if you've ever been to Los Angeles, thinking about a blizzard that lasts three or four days. What it would do to not only the infrastructure, but the people in the city, it's not a fun happy go, hey, go, we did it time. It's not a decom, real bad. Second, Santa is a creeper. I know that Santa sees you when you're sleeping and knows when you're awake. But good Santa movies don't concentrate on that. They don't bring that into the forefront. You keep that back in the further recesses of your mind when you think about Santa. Well, I've always envisioned it like, when I do a good deed, like, Santa knows I've done something good. I don't picture Santa having CCTV into my bedroom. I've always thought of it as information that was just in his mind. Even though the lore is he sees you when you're sleeping, he's watching you sleep. Listen, it's creepy. Santa, as an entity, is creepy. This movie decides to lean into the more creepy, predatory aspects of Santa instead of the fun jovial aspects of Santa. Even the way the guy delivers his lines. Just not okay. That's two. And then number three, the bad guy in this movie is a meteorologist that wants to better understand science and weather. He's the villain of this movie is pro science and wants to be better for his city and his community. What are we doing? So it's kind of a train wreck. Great idea. I'm with Brandon. As a nine year old, I've been like, snow out of nowhere in South Carolina. Sign me up. But watching it now, I couldn't get past these massive roadblocks in this movie that made my enjoyment of it. Only because I'm watching it with friends. That would be the only reason that I enjoyed it. So yeah, not for me. I think having lived down here for like a year now, and having lived through two winters here with no snow, I can see how if I had grown up in a place that didn't have snow, it would be more magical to be like cold. Just out of nowhere, we can have a snow storm. Yeah. We have plenty of that up north. Yeah. So I was like, this is, we don't need more things. I mean, they're playing with shovels. You guys hate shoveling snow up there. Yeah, as an adult living in New England, after so many inches, I personally stopped shoveling. It will just melt. It'll go away eventually. It'll go away at some point. That's how I handle leaves. Should I go away eventually? I mean, as a child, shoveling was fun. I loved getting all dressed up to go help my dad with the driveway. And then at a certain age, like post-13, I was like. How can I get out of this? I'm going to take 30 minutes to put on a glove. I'll see you guys at that. A glove. It's time for making a list. We're going to make our list. We're going to check it twice. So we're going to tell you where. It's the air decom. The ultimate Christmas present land in our rankings. We've been ranking all of these. But we're only going to read the top 10 of each of our list. And of course, if somehow, ultimate Christmas present didn't make the top 10. So where it lands. Where it lands. Aaron, I can't imagine that it didn't make your top 10, but. One for sure for me. Let us know where is ultimate Christmas present that was your top 10. Ultimate Christmas present is coming in hot at 14. Oh, me too. Hey. Hey, y'all. Me too. 14 for all three of us. What are the, oh my goodness. Out of how we do? 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24. Out of 24 movies, we all have it at 14. I thought for sure it was going to crack 10 for you, Brian. Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised it didn't either. But I thought the other side of that for you, Aaron. It's right in between Rip Girls and Ali Cat Strike. Yeah, I've got Ali Cat Strike at 15. I think you've got it at 13, right? No, I have it at 15. Oh, perfect. And then you said Rip Girls? Yes, 13. Because again, I would still love to inherit land in Hawaii. Rip Girls at 13 is a, is a, is a crime. I don't even see that on my list anywhere. Where is that? At 10, I was like, you're telling me I could inherit oceanfront property? Rip Girls is 22 on my list. It's 21 for me. 22 on my list. Oceanfront property. Aaron just wants to be by the beach. Keep saying it. I start going. Okay. So, we have number 10. Mom's going to date with a vampire. Wow. Nine. Brink. Eight. Xenon. Seven. The other. Five. The color friendship. So, that is down from number three. We've had a little switch them ups. Yeah. Slowly. Listen. I can't wait until your white guilt just goes away. And you move it back out of the top 10 warehouse ship. I will say. Yes. You were eight, Aaron. It was not great. You were eight. I love Lindsay Hunter. Oh. But the other girl, the world plays piper in color friendship, is in another decom that we're going to watch real soon, Xenon is equal. And I'm just saying that maybe her performance in that has affected the color friendship. I don't know. Just saying. Number four. Halloween town. Number three. Smart House. Two. Miracle Lane Two. One. Jenny. Oh. Man. Number 10. Genius. Number nine. Ali Cat Strike. Baby. Hold nine. Hold nine. Hey. It's better than rib girls. It's quick. There's no ocean in Ali Cat Strike. Seven Phantom of the Megaplex Six Halloween Town. Four or five Miracle Lane Two. Four. Mom's going to date with Vampire, which means everybody I have three Halloween related movies ahead of the Christmas movie. Good for you. So, people say I'm not trying here. I do. Shut up. You're trying to break your trying. Number three. Smart House. One. Max. You have no more Christmas spirit. Number two. Johnny. I obviously, obviously, ultimate Christmas present did not end up in my top 10. However, I've. Way to end up. We've already done this. How dare you. I have two switches. Last week, genius was 10. Smart House was 11. Smart House back in at 10. Woo. Genius down to 11. I moved them. I think Smart House stuck with them. So, Smart House 10. Zenon 9. Other Me 8. Another move. Quints was 6. It dropped to 7. Moving up to 6. A movie that I've enjoyed thinking about. Even though I did not like it as much. Don't look under the ban. Some of the mega points. Six. Five. Brink. Four. Miracle in Lane 2. Three. Mom's got a date with the Vampire. Two Halloween town. One. Johnny. It makes me so happy. You rank in these movies. I think they're pretty definitive. I think there's a. The fun thing about this is unlike homework movies where they all exist in between a four and a six. These movies have quite a bit of a sliding scale to them. Yeah. Ranking homework Christmas movies. Like I do that on my letterbox as well. And there are some like that obviously belong at the bottom. Yeah. And some that obviously belong at the top. And then ranking those middle 30. Number 13 to 28 on your homework list are one movie. It's all. It's all for you. So this is a little. You add it to your list and you just kind of feel it. As you scroll up and go. We ask me where I want to try it. I go. 22. And then I look at it. I'm like that. That feels like it's where it should be. It feels right. Yeah. We did everybody congratulations. Next week we're going to be back. We're going to be talking about our very first sequel. Zeen on the sequel. And you may ask. Isn't that just a sequel? And we say. It is a sequel called sequel. And I think we'll get to it. 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