The Movie You Air Every Year When You Have Nothing Else To Show

[@Daisythepage]

You look like my uncle but you’re funny

[@Tink00]

To be fair, grandma busting in to court to announce the man who ran her over is innocent is very brain-damaged behavior

[@ferretappreciator]

Probably why she needed those anti psychotics

[@TheKorfish]

He also kidnapped her so Stockholm syndrome could be a factor

[@KrausHaus0]

The songs in this movie banged. Not even just the titular song, Grandmas Gonna Sue The Pants Off of Santa is 🔥

[@plushdragonteddy]

that is The Best One

[@chandlercampbell3356]

I still sing that line from time to time and nobody knows what I’m talking about lol

[@mysticdigital5936]

Been in my brain since I was young and it's never gonna leave. Formative movie

[@crimsondynamo615]

No pantalones!

[@finland4ever55]

Why they going with "Brazil" as a theme tho, has nothing to do with Christmas

[@lyleabner2475]

The only thing I remember about this movie is that the aunt was unreasonably stacked

[@iamcool544]

I think you mean very reasonably stacked

[@Jayys_Karat3]

@@iamcool544 😂😂

[@williamsapong81]

Cousin Mel was fine as hell

[@wes4736]

Coolest part about being in my 20s now is that I get to see commentary on content I've actually grown up with instead of seeing just people's perspective who were just a bit too old to entirely relate to.

[@Naokarma]

2015-ish KZbin was basically just watching people 5-10 years older than me talk about things that came out like 2 years before I was born, that basically always started with "We've all seen [thing]." It's nice to see how things have changed by not really changing at all where it matters outside of now I'm the target audience.

[@TemTelevision]

This and Olive the Other Reindeer would play ALL the time and it was the best as a child

[@rinlamb5929]

I completely forgot about Olive the Other Reindeer, so thank for unlocking that memory. I shall watch it tonight.

[@stun3282]

I loved these two

[@jamj4r]

I had a DVD of that! My aunt worked for hallmark and she got it for free.

[@thatlycantomboy]

The reindeer going “WHA-HA, FOLLOW ME GUYS” in a bootleg Sonic voice really has remained stuck in my mind for no reason

[@Hanako-Kun-t9b]

1. Alcoholic eggnog does exist. This special taught me that. 2. I had a crush on the grandma as a kid. Which would explain why I liked old Joseph Joestar later in life.

[@SugarVampieArts]

Tbf Grandma is kinda pretty in an old person way.

[@connoromalley4004]

Doug Walker is that you?

[@Hanako-Kun-t9b]

@@connoromalley4004 ha

[@leahdavis9434]

I thought eggnog was traditionally alcoholic and then we made a virgin version later

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

Never realized why adults liked egg nog so much and why they acted drunk after drinking it. 😊

[@dolomitilino9015]

I love the fact that the credit that pays posthumous respect to someone, the image used are bored sleeping church goers

[@brooketilton6215]

I actually saw Dr. Elmo last week at work, he was preforming with Holiday Express at the school I work at. He sang the song, his microphone was having issues so it was hard to hear him but I think he sang the version that was in this “movie”. Also yeah he introduced himself as Dr. Elmo so I think he has a doctorate in something. That or he’s an 80 something year old man so they’re going to let him call himself whatever he wants

[@kevinrosario2729]

He actually is a doctor. He specializes in veterinarian medicine.

[@ShadowOfCicero]

I think he was involved in the project from top to bottom and even voiced Grandpa.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

"With cellphones and E-mails people never really stop working" that's sadly accurate

[@jamj4r]

Like I know right why is this carbon dated film still fresh and accurate?

[@SpecialInterestShow]

Now wait a minute! The Raindeer know canonically how to speak, apparently. If that's the case, are they Sapient? If so, shouldn't THEY be the ones to be arrested? The reindeer can't keep getting away with this!

[@LocalAceAJ]

6:50 THANK YOU. Every time I watch a Christmas movie where Santa is actually real, I would always think, "If Santa is real in this universe, does that mean parents or extended family are taking credit for the gifts to the kids?" Like with that kind of freaky shit, if I was a parent where gifts mysteriously appeared that I or my possible spouse got for them, I'd be more inclined to believe Santa was real (because tbh, thinking about a stranger that isn't Santa, a benevolent being, breaking and entering into my house just to deliver gifts to my kid(s) is way more creepy to me)

[@theconfidentchicken3414]

the frame at 12:05 is terrifying, his eyes are looking at 2 different directions

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Hot take here: This special probably has one of the highest stakes among Christmas movies. Because if Santa goes to jail, Christmas is irrevocably changed forever. Either Christmas is completely canceled or the elves take Santa's place as the main gift giver to the world's children. If we go the Christmas is canceled route, people will have to create a new holiday to replace it. ...Seriously, the original version of "Grandpa's gonna sue the pants off of Santa" ends with Santa being found GUILTY for grandma's death! Which leads to Christmas being canceled since Santa is needed to deliver presents.

[@foxymetroid]

There needs to be a Christmas movie where "Santa Claus" is basically just a job title instead of a specific person. It's more believable if all those presents were delivered by "one man" if that "man" was really a large group of elite present deliverymen each delivering presents to a mere portion of families instead of a lone person doing it all himself. It would also explain how he could have different names (Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, etc.). It could also explain mall santas as well as how "one man" could have lived for apparently centuries.

[@swagless6719]

@@foxymetroidthe Santa clause ?

[@mistergrool3941]

@@foxymetroid literally the plot of Santa Inc

[@sonofab30]

@@mistergrool3941 Santa inc is doodoo so it doesn't count

[@Eric_Pham]

@@foxymetroid The closest i can think of is Arthur Christmas, but that's more of elite present delivery elves

[@plushdragonteddy]

it is so wild to find out you're a year younger than me, but that explains why you seem to remember EXACTLY the shit i do from childhood. i saw this movie several times before i found the sheet music for the song in a music book i had, and i was so stoked about it. i was like "IT'S FROM THE MOVIE" and my bass teacher was like "what"

[@malachioom]

No same cause when he said he was born in 2001 I was like "....but I was also born in 2001...."

[@RandomInternetLozer]

I’m a year younger than him so I know how you feel about Andrew and his content. It warms my heart with the nostalgia he opens up with what he makes videos on and I learn about stuff from the same time period that I had no interest in (like wrestling)

[@alexspeakman761]

This was my FAVORITE Christmas movie growing up. I would watch every instance of it on tv until I got it on DVD. So nostalgic that it's still good. Edit: After watching this... it's still a banger

[@askwhateverlol]

Same!

[@BlackMoonHowls]

The dog's name is Doofus, in 2022 that's funny because that was 20 and some change years ago. No the movie is not that good, the writing is strange, and the song plays too many times, it seems like that keep making up and adding lyrics that are not there. The beginning of the movie is set up like a Windows Movie maker school Cinematography project and PNG logo intro. Very 90's and 2000's-esque.

[@lyleabner2475]

I guess that was the age of dumb dog names along with dukey from Johnny test

[@BlackMoonHowls]

AND Grandma sounds suspiciously like Granny Smith in FIM. Praise the Two Sisters.

[@TrebleStarcrush]

There’s also a salsa song in the movie for no reason and it lasts 30 seconds. This movie is very well made

[@kevinrosario2729]

@@TrebleStarcrush Its actually a cover of another song made by the guy who wrote the "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" song which the movie is based on but made into a tropical sounding theme.

[@AloysiusWaffle]

At 30:02 it says “the kids are loyal to a fault” in case anyone was wondering

[@hbmcu24]

OHH MY GOD I saw the thumbnail and knew IMMEDIATELY what it was. We had this on VHS when I was a kid, and "Grandpa's Gonna Sue the Pants off of Santa" gets stuck in my head like once a month, so seeing the images of the weird Carmen Miranda shit from that scene wrecked me

[@josephdavis9234]

"The elf does the ET gimmick" Thank you so much. I have not watched ET, and now at long last I understand this joke.

[@ClownLordi]

As a kid Cousin Mel always made me feel some sort of way. Especially in that dance number.

[@MylingCyrus]

As a blossoming queer child....yes absolutely

[@horaciosi]

"Redheads! You gotta love 'em!"

[@jamj4r]

Same but I can't reminisce about that. I've got a wife now and she plenty mean. Why just today I said "I love you" and she said "come over here so I can spit this mouthwash into your eyes". Cousin Mel still got it but there's no beating that ❤

[@flappletarts]

You can’t fool me with the way you’re swinging that mug around. There’s no sauce in that mug at all!

[@Cagebreaker]

This is a fun admission, but I had the producer of the actual song perform at my job with the band he’s in. I was one of the two main audio technicians who worked with them, the other was my buddy, who was showing me the ropes. They were great guys, fantastic to work with! They even played one of their songs I had told them I really enjoyed on their last performance with us. EDIT: If anyone was curious, the band is California Cowboys and the song that they played for me was “Timberline,” it was such a sweet gesture and I still have the stuff they gave me for working with them!

[@JohnDoe-wl5xm]

i like when you called him terminally online, its so much more ominous than chronically online im definitely stealing that

[@jamj4r]

10:42 damn. I made my dad pay money to see The Lorax in theaters when i couldve wait 10 years for this video to come out

[@pillowvibes]

this and scary godmother are my two most nostalgic holiday movies, iconic

[@SummerAlleriaWindrunner]

I remember this movie so wrong 😭 I was so confused by the 'hospital' room recap, for some reason I thought Santa had done this to 2 other elderly human women as well 😆 I remember being sketched out as a kid and wondering if he was trying to get with granny 😅

[@knightofarnor2552]

"The Narrator is telling kids in his post-apocalyptic tribe about the Old World" is a take I was not prepared for.

[@reddemon13xz]

Definitely cheered for cousin Mel in this movie has a kid they need to stop making villains hot

[@chikipichi5280]

It's kinda sad that now with cable being dead kids will never experience the joy of watching shitty Christmas movies on TV each year :[

[@Miqbtn]

It airs every year on The CW which is free with an antenna.

[@RandomInternetLozer]

@@Miqbtn”mommy what’s that sucking out of that house over there?” “oh sweetie those people live in the the far off past of the early 2000s”

[@laurorrichie7788]

I’m about to get fired and we can’t get together with our family for Christmas because we’re snowed in, but this is helping

[@memethyst]

it's come to the point where i'm old enough that big youtubers are born in the same year as me and i think that's really jarring and weird

[@thatrantinggirl7376]

Reality challenged is crazy😭 it’s like chronically online but more mean because if someone called me reality challenged I’d talk about it in therapy

[@oddlynicole16]

For some reason I thought Grandpa was a bigger part of the overall plot. Like I thought he was more like Grandpa Joe and not just a typical boomer who hates his wife.

[@AloysiusWaffle]

🎵Grandma get murdered by her husband in a Santa suit, he altered the boys mind to forget, now in the 2070s, the boy tells this story a whole lot less gory, he makes the two hot girls the cause of the worry. 🎶 My belief of what happened

[@KrisRN23935]

I was literally thinking about this movie last night when I couldn't sleep.

[@jameshargrave118]

12:42 Why does every state look normal, except Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

[@FieryRedmond]

And Long Island is gone (good)

[@jamescorvus6709]

I HATE this movie with a passion. One year in 2003 Cartoon Networked played Bill Plympton's "12 Tiny Christmas Tales". That 22 minute animation got me into animation. I wanted to see it the next year (thinking it was going to be an annul thing like everything else) and I waited to 6:00 to 7:00pm, which was the time it aired the previous year. What I was met with was THIS movie. They didn't show 12 Tiny Christmas Tales that year. So I waited next year, the same, THIS movie. Again the next year, THIS movie. I don't believe they ever played 12 Tiny Christmas Tales again, but every Christmas from when I was a kid, it was ALWAYS THIS movie. I did eventually find 12 Tiny Christmas Tales but it was frustrating when I was a kid and KZbin didn't exist yet or most movie sites especially for niche stuff like Bill Plympton's Animations.

[@lanagomisc.6005]

I was born in 1999, and even back when I used to watch the special, I thought Cousin Mel and I.M.Slime were really good friends, instead of just a attorney-client relationship (especially with their musical number). Mel has more chemistry with her than the proto-Elon guy. Now whenever I look back at this movie, I think the possibility of Slime being gay for Mel is pretty likely. Considering Grandpa and Proto Elon have a thing for her, I wouldn't be surprised.

[@AlejandroLopez-ib2jx]

Nigga what!

[@ducky19991]

THE LOOK HE GAVE HER 😭😭 I am unwell

[@elitettelbach4247]

Lmao I also watched this movie every year growing up. It’s so campy and fun! It being good was never the point lol. I already enjoyed the song it’s based off of, but the movie helps me appreciate it more. “Grandma’s gonna Sue the pants off of Santa” is ridiculous and also super catchy. Also Doofus being the dog’s name is funny, but I always crack up at the way they overenunciate Spankenheimer.

[@ev.8972]

I guess they saved on animation by giving the characters only 4 fingers on each hand

[@saneira]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers this. And I also thought it was dubbed over, even as a kid, the animations just look so weird.

[@vixenrevitup]

When someone asks me what my top three favorite Christmas songs are, I say: 1) Merry Christmas, Darling (the Carpenters) 2) It’s Christmas [All Over the World] (Sheena Easton) 3) Grandpa’s Gonna Sue the Pants Off of Santa (Cousin Mel and I.M. Slime)

[@olliemoee]

12:05 his eyes are looking in opposite directions 🤣

[@gabrielmendez4161]

I remember watching this and the billy and mandy chrismas special for years

[@carlbrown1000]

I feel like Santa's just happy he didn't get sued or arrested for man slaughter and messing with evidence at the crime sign like a serial killer.

[@christopherwesterberg4511]

I Love the Picture of Mister Rogers on Your Shirt

[@megarakadmea]

I’m terribly allergic to real pine trees. I’m allergic to all trees but pine especially. My family couldn’t understand why I was miserable every Christmas for a little while until I got tested. I half heartedly apologize whenever my family is watching a movie that rags on fake trees.

[@abbystarheart1]

My brothers and I are the same😭

[@StevenTLawson]

Yeah this movie ragged on fake trees. But in this film the dad brought an INFLATABLE tree. I've seen plenty of fake trees but if I ever walked into someone's house and saw an inflatable Christmas tree, I would genuinely wonder what was wrong with them.

[@JacobHillSBD]

When you said “breaking bad news” I thought maybe you were gonna tell us Walter White was in the movie. EDIT: Oh, you made a Breaking Bad joke later in the video wow.

[@someonewhocommentsonyoutub3779]

Cartoon Network played this so many times a day, sometimes back to back that I've developed a visceral hatred of it, even hearing the first few words of the song is enough to piss me off

[@thesmugargonian5357]

whens the modern remake "grandma got shot dead in l.a"

[@coyotekent2267]

Kid me always felt like this was TWO movies, first was getting back Grandma, then the second one was the court case

[@Masherful]

Having Liquid Snake brings this movie up a few notches.

[@haylose]

wow just by reading the title, i was like “is this about grandma got run over by a reindeer?”

[@samuelrichards5521]

Alright I’ll say it; Cousin Mel could spike my fruitcake with reindeer pheromones if you know what I mean.

[@Mo_Nilla_Co]

ayyy same

[@Loader2K1]

Rule 34 can be your friend if you let it, Sam. XD

[@staticrecord6123]

100% thought this was a Scooby Doo special as a kid

[@rudevoices9204]

I used to have the most VISCERAL reaction to the song. I don't know what it was about it, but I was always in tears because of it like I genuinely couldn't stand to be around anything that reminded me of or played it, so this special was just as traumatizing to me for the longest time. Now...yeah what the hell is this

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

So, Cousin Mel isn't blood-related to Grandpa because she is the daughter of Grandma's brother or sister? Or is Grandpa going all Targaryen om his granddaughter?

[@jimmyjimjims7483]

I absolutely loved this movie as a kid (along with Olive the Other Reindeer) right up until my grandma actually died right before christmas 2005. Now I can't watch it all the way through without tearing up a little

[@trapadvisor]

“Help guys grandma off the meds”

[@jazming001]

this movie was deeply buried in my brain. like an old sweater in a box in the closet of a basement. i vividly remember there being a conga line for some reason. edit: ok, it was not necessarily a conga line, but vaguely tropical/salsa adjacent.

[@eddyangstman]

we arent allowed to sing that song or watch that movie bc my dad had a really good relationship with his great grandma who got hit by a car and died on christmas eve. great video though!

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

My grandma made me watch this every year and my grandpa would tell me that my grandma actually got ran over by Santa's sled and stupid child me believed him 😔

[@ragantate3995]

😅I was 19 in 2000, I remember this movie, i remember the song. I think the red head looks so much like Daphne from Scobby Doo that I’m convinced she’s living a double life. 😅Did they ever check her fingerprints? 😅

[@mysticdigital5936]

I honestly love this silly little movie. I feel like most Christmas or Holiday movies rely heavily on nostalgia and this one does that for me. I try to watch it every Christmas.

[@ArvelDreth]

I just realized that Austin Bucks is voiced by Cam Clarke. The guy who voices the male version of Corrin from Fire Emblem.

[@randomtangle4629]

Every frame of silence that passes makes the hole in my stomach widen just a bit.

[@salems.7285]

Congrats on making it through the algorithm and ending up in my recommended. ❄️

[@Obsessedwithanimation]

I just realized I made my main character in my book series look just like a Latina Cousin Mel

[@cora1334]

"Frosty the Snowthem" will live rent free in my mind for many years to come

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

“What’s next? Frosty the Snow-Them?” I have never laughed so hard at a strawman argument. Amazing work.

[@rhaeasoul8531]

If we have to have a special based on a Christmas song air every Christmas I’d rather have “the night Santa went crazy” by Weird Al.

[@MochiJelly4877]

I remember this movie it play every year for multiple years. I was born in 2004 and considering my very bad memory and I still remember this movie pretty damn well. It must have been still running quite recently for when I watched it.

[@destinib.7344]

This was one of the few movies we had at my grandma's (it was VHS) and my brother and I watched this repeatedly & year-round because we had to wait till grandma finished her soap operas before watching cartoons. Mind you, we were there probably 5 days a week so we saw this very often but watching this vid was still "wait that really happened in the movie didn't it?"

[@mauropereira187]

I remember this movie airing on Cartoon Network every now & then and the movie grew on me. It gives nostalgia and I haven't seen it in a while.

[@captaincrazycreative]

I remember this movie! I remember as a kid being happy that grandma didn't die 'cause the song always upset me when I was younger.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Well, the original grandpa sue santa song ends with Santa found guilty of Grandma's death! Which means NO MORE CHRISTMAS!

[@trapadvisor]

This movie really takes me back, the last time I had cable around Christmas was like 2013. I never thought the movie was good but enjoyed how outlandish the concept was. I was a snob even as a kid.

[@ramonsanchez6903]

Fun fact ice burgs that tumble in wave currents are called Growlers

[@omgitskittyandjaja]

I actually have jury duty January 3rd that just threw me off so bad

[@41dn]

ok but i like this movie BECAUSE it's not good I was too young to have an opinion at the time, but some of its nonsense is so ridiculous it wraps back to being entertaining

[@ValerieTheBat]

Aw yes the Christmas Special that I never watch but I knew existed on Cartoon Network for a long time. Also, in a alternate universe, Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer is actually called "Grandpa Got Polio from a Reindeer." Sorry Pan Pizza

[@cursedimagegoblininc9276]

I love this movie I have so many memory’s of watching it with my Grandpa every year I actually have it on VCR

[@eatatjoes6751]

Oh, this was *horrifying.* What's more is that the Fake Tree war could be its own movie.

[@joshelton1382]

I haven't watched this movie in so long oh my gosh.

[@malikmuhammad9085]

That movie was a 7.8/10 too much xmas, not enough cousin Mel.

[@TheGabbaGhoul666]

All of the sudden the algorithm is sending me your videos, good stuff This movie was a head trip as a kid, I could never figure out why the hell they just busted out into song when they found out they could sue Santa, which in itself is strange

[@ickyvicky]

Hated this movie as a kid, it would be the only cartoon playing

[@reidye]

This is by far the weirdest Xmas special and I always watch it and I’m always baffled by it

[@WOKEchair]

when I got nothing to watch and I want to watch something i usually just put it on gravity falls or spongebob (the list grows every time i find a good show) current newest addition: The Owl House

[@mystikblack_]

Unironically, I listen to Grandma's Killer Fruitcake as a pick-me-up.

[@kosm518]

Easy the narrator is living In night city I’m the year 2077. Although the corporations have wedding the holidays down to a capitalistic hell scape, he still looks back on it fondly… stupid joke I know

[@cartoonhistory353]

High off the edible watching this gem

[@sophie2118]

Best Christmas gift I could have asked for

[@hammydown9942]

I’m sorry this movie was one of my favorites as a child.

[@sunset1326]

I actually never watched this in my life and yet you make this video for me to realize this lmao

[@qtipmr7526]

Nice Jet set radio reference

[@pablanollama]

it’s a classic right up there with the scary godmother and it’s sequal the scary godmother: jimmys revenge halloween movies that used to air on cartoon network in like 2005-10is era

[@Poison_Paradise]

the robot has doubts