I've Cracked the Code: Hallmark Christmas Movies

I've Cracked the Code: Hallmark Christmas Movies | Don McMillan Comedy

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@JoseRojas-yo3dt 8 ай бұрын

He missed two elements. First, one of the leads is forced to spent Christmas in town because: car broke down, family member got sick/die, required by work, snow storm closed roads, etc. Another essential element in the plot is that the leads have to save a place or event: a farm, town historical landmark/building, community center, Christmas pageant, another town tradition, etc. 😂

@jobaecker9752 7 ай бұрын

Reunion, art fair, baking contest...

@kirknitz3794 6 ай бұрын

You left out former lover comes into town nearly ruining the budding romance.

@hazukichanx408 6 ай бұрын

Hallmarks of a Hallmark movie. _Nods sagely_

@Eztli__Void 6 ай бұрын

And theres always a boyfriend that hates Christmas

@VioletPersuasion Ай бұрын

Insert obligatory baking scene, every one as well.

@dalemartell8639 4 ай бұрын

If you play a Halmark movie backwards, a small town girl sells her business, breaks up with her boyfriend, moves to the big city and becomes a rich lawyer.

@wrathofthelamb318 Ай бұрын

Honestly sounds so much better that way

@3nd1ess77 Жыл бұрын

This is actually very much true. I live in a small Canadian town: North Bay. We are known as the city of cameras, cuz that's all we do in the winter: film Christmas stuff.

@ikvangalen6101 5 ай бұрын

Filming is all they do? What about breathing?

@3nd1ess77 5 ай бұрын

@@ikvangalen6101 Okay, smartass, yes we also breathe as well.

@paulpotter7188 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your analysis. I am an architect who actually lives in THE small town in Canada where some of these Hallmark movies are filmed. 😊

@jonathanp1884 4 ай бұрын

I bet it look a lot like Vermont. What town is it?

@NinaKatharinaWeber 4 ай бұрын

That would be a romcom I‘d watch 😊 Architect meets extra from Hallmark movie filmed in his hometown …

@hairyairey Жыл бұрын

So basically, 1,000 possible Christmas Hallmark movies!

@ghost307 11 ай бұрын

Not counting the innumerable remakes.

@hairyairey 11 ай бұрын

@@ghost307 Let's not even add the multiverse or there'll be no end of them!

@ghost307 11 ай бұрын

@@hairyairey Agreed.

@einsteinalb75 10 ай бұрын

Yuk

@oledahammer8393 Жыл бұрын

It's SO true about those Hallmark movies!!! You can tell the ending within the first 3 minutes!!! Drives my wife crazy when I offer to tell her how it will end in the first scene. LOL!

@chrispham6599 5 ай бұрын

I think you better stop doing it buddy

@steffenbendel6031 2 ай бұрын

@@chrispham6599 otherwise we can predict how the marriage ends.

@EdKolis Ай бұрын

@@chrispham6599maybe he wants to be the female lead's ex husband

@shallbetterdj 8 ай бұрын

0:47 actually 85% are filmed in the salt lake metro area in January. I can usually fall over laughing at how ridiculous their travel scenes are since I recognize each mountain and if they followed the path the film suggests they took they would have passed their house half a dozen times, and driven the shape of a pentagram

@Flyboy_73 Жыл бұрын

The Christmas Child was actually filmed in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. I know that because it’s my hometown and it was quite a buzz with people I know who still lived there at the time.

@neilspiller7264 3 ай бұрын

Whenever two protagonists are in a kitchen /living room/precinct discussing the murder, at least one must have a coffee cup in their hand.

@XyName Ай бұрын

preferably so obiously empty

@kjata77 Жыл бұрын

You did it again, Don! Straight genius comedy :) They're so formulaic but we watch them anyway.

@charlesacker8552 6 ай бұрын

An observation about Hallmark movies from a "car guy." I happened to catch several of these movies due to the females in the family. Have you noticed that the young female protagonist always seems to own/drive a spotless perfectly restored 1965 Mustang convertible. I have seen it in at least five movies.

@ikvangalen6101 5 ай бұрын

I couldn’t bare watching 5 minutes of any of that stuff

@RoamingAstro Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! I just rewatched the Babylon 5 episode "The Corps Is Mother, the Corps Is Father", and I saw you as the bartender. Great surprise! And I hope you enjoyed your time on that set. Again, great stuff! 🙂

@Man-In-The-Home-Stretch Жыл бұрын

Hallmark scientists are reporting that they are very close to developing a second movie plot. Stay tuned for further updates.

@JZsBFF 7 ай бұрын

Unlikely ever to happen but I'll stick around until then.

@davidyoung5114 11 ай бұрын

Christmas Island was a Hallmark movie filmed here in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, last August (what fun seen fake snow on the ground during a REALLY hot summer!) And you can check off all those boxes when it came to them filming here!

@jackdeniston6150 10 ай бұрын

I watched a fewof these. A surprise, in every film they have one moment of real human truth that the writers sneak in. That becomes the game.

@jongilbertson2106 8 ай бұрын

I am somewhat impressed. Although I have to say that cracking the code to Hallmark movies is like cracking the code to Tic Tac Toe,

@brunomadero7054 Ай бұрын

I love Hallmark movies and this video is so fun. Applause.

@heinz812 2 ай бұрын

Don has engineered himself to be my favorite comedian!

@densetsu4286 10 ай бұрын

I feel attacked lol hallmark xmas movies are a guilty pleasure...

@timdere Жыл бұрын

Don McMillan. The original AI

@Eddie42023 9 ай бұрын

Wow! The stand-up comedian got BETTER toward the end.

@joachimdeussen Ай бұрын

144 christmas movies re-runs till christmas. And this is exactly what i told my wife what the recipe is. Thanks Don.

@kuukeli Жыл бұрын

thank you for the video

@Iskelderon Ай бұрын

The Nutcracker joke hits even harder if you know the second meaning Swan Lake being on TV has there. 🤣

@mikerowave1986 9 ай бұрын

The same method is used for making Family Guy, but instead of a slot machine, there are hundreds of balls with random things written on them and manatees picking a few of them, put them in a basket, and those things will be the gags of family Guy.

@YxG713 3 ай бұрын

🤔 sounds like the plot of a Family Guy episode.

@amazinggrace5692 Жыл бұрын

We know they’re all the same. We don’t care! He missed the ones where you marry Santa’s son. Also the leads are frequently doctor/vet/paramedic. Thanks for the fun!

@davidkenner-rb8go Ай бұрын

Brilliant.

@oldblackstock2499 4 ай бұрын

He's right, Hallmark Christmas movies are boy meets girl, has virtually nothing to do with Christmas, and the same plot could be in any time of the year. Enjoy it anyway ! Not trying to spoil it. "A Perfect Christmas " 2016 is an exception to this. The couple are already married and they have a Christmas play at the end. Includes some Christmas carols if I remember correctly. "A Grandpa for Christmas " 2007 with Ernest Borgnine is another exception. No romantic relationship, grandpa didn't know he had a granddaughter and there is a Christmas play at the end.

@scottkennedy7741 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to get the source data? I want to make an urban spoon like app for hallmark movies

@chrissmith7669 8 ай бұрын

There was a town in Connecticut that also seemed film Christmas movies year round. Lol

@bikerjon8934 8 ай бұрын

"I rest my case" let's do it again

@enanan1300 3 ай бұрын

you musnt forget the house swap that focuses on two different couples

@eh_miiee 3 ай бұрын

As someone from Manitoba, they are filming alot of hallmark movies here.

@debrawolleycrochet 5 ай бұрын

I love@this guy

@amyd10 Ай бұрын

Holiday Touchdown only had one of these, unless you say Derrick was a workaholic. Maybe Hallmark is starting to branch out.

@walterengler5709 11 ай бұрын

I want the generator lol

@Penny-v1m 6 ай бұрын

Funny!

@bikeny 8 ай бұрын

Danica is currently working on a new movie (she is also a writer for it), but as she left Hallmark, that might explain why the plot isn't quite matching up with your slot machine. Royal Christmas Ball: Follows Chelsea Jones, a dance instructor, as she travels to the small European country of Havenshire in search of her heritage during the Christmas break. I didn't see dance instructor as a job for the lead. But I am not quibbling. Your slot machine does work quite well. BTW, Danica is 49 years old. I didn't realize that.

@jimmyboy131 8 ай бұрын

It just has to be a small, quaint, mountain town of 99.99% white people, and one black person. I really don't care, I'm not at all being political, I'm white, I've seen tons of these with my mother over the years, LOL. It's just something you can't help but notice.

@STEAMerBear Жыл бұрын

Binaural, THANK YOU!!!

@learkingofalbion8520 Жыл бұрын

You sound like one of the “Chinese Restaurant Menu” Hollywood film producers post-1975. “One from Column A, one from Column B” is a bigger commentary on brain-death posed as creativity than you note.

@debrawolleycrochet 5 ай бұрын

The slot machine was great

@JustaGuy_Gaming Ай бұрын

Another important aspect is the Cast. Pretty much every Hallmark movie has at least one former famous actor/actress in it. They however haven't made a movie in a decade and aged so poorly no one would ever recognize them if their name wasn't in the title.

@v0n1b0 Ай бұрын

If it's got Lacy Chabert or Alison Sweeney I might join my wife on the couch.

@sandyhess3477 Ай бұрын

You forgot the list of adjectives or phrases that are used at least a in each movie : you look amazing, it’s complicated; and you lied to me/I can’t trust you.

@js5665 3 ай бұрын

Aliens. Why can't Hallmark create a Christmas movie of either a alien invasion, or aliens decide not to invade because of Christmas. But stay away from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians! Or aliens just show up, wait for it, the aliens follow a star to earth. Then we have, Girl meets boy. Aliens arrive. Girl meets aliens. Girt teaches aliens about the "True Meaning of Christmas". Aliens leave earth and spread the Christmas joy around the universe. Girl meets boy, again. But girl devotes her life to finding out more about the aliens. Boy is heartbroken, but he still has Christmas joy. There, I fixed the Christmas loop. You're welcome.

@bobtnailer 9 ай бұрын

You failed to mention that her job title ALWAYS includes “freelance”.

@Robsan40 Жыл бұрын

One of those last movies is a remake.

@Enjoymentboy 8 ай бұрын

The Christmas movie inn still waiting for us where everyone finally has the realization that there's nothing special about it and it's just not worth the hassle. The movie ends with no one overeating or in additional debt after being pressured to over spend on things no one needs simply because some advertising executive has brainwashed them.

@AlanEmmons-qw6bg 6 ай бұрын

Inopportune meeting , don't like each other , go to dinner, get married, no sexual encounters. Perfect for Hallmark or lifetime except the lifetime movie has a stalker or abuser who dies.😘😘👍☝. Keep looking up? Pure but unlikely but wholesome and endearing.. Aaahhhh.🤔😁

@CraigerAce 8 ай бұрын

He used to work for Hallmark.

@crabbegirl Жыл бұрын

😂

@josephthomas2226 10 ай бұрын

My wife watches these movies and he is right. Mean handsome white man comes to small town to (a) close the factory (b) tear down the historic house (c) slaughter puppies. All by Christmas Eve. Attractive white lady (with several beautiful white friends) hates him because she is saving any of the above 3. By the end they fall in love, he quits his job and saves the factory/house/puppies and moves to that town and marries her. Don is one of my favorite comics - clean and hilarious.

@DoubleDoubleWithOnions 9 ай бұрын

Then it becomes a lifetime movie after she's killed by the husband. It's always the husband or boyfriend.

@amethyst_cat9532 7 ай бұрын

There is also a Black best friend of the lead who only functions as a plot device and is only in one scene

@josephthomas2226 7 ай бұрын

@@amethyst_cat9532 but the BBF is ALSO slim and good looking!