The Christmas Experiment 2014: Hours 21+22: The League of Super-Lucys

Here's where we get to the miscellaneous stuff with no classification really.

The I Love Lucy Christmas Special: In living color. For some reason. Look, I am not a fan of colorization on the best of days and they colorized The Christmas Episode which is, well, just a clip show. Seriously, clip shows. The one nice thing is that CBS left the flashbacks in black and white so some of the sanctity of I Love Lucy is preserved. That all said, yeah, I Love Lucy isn't perfect but it's still a classic and all that.

Anyway, most of the clips are from Season 2, namely while Lucy was expecting. It's a fun set of clips and all but still, you have to wonder why CBS chose to colorize it. Regardless, it's all worth it for the scene at the end where all four leads are dressed as Santa and then, an extra Santa shows up. It's a classic example of Santa getting revealed to be real. It was also a reshoot of a similar gag from an earlier season.

They also have the episode where Lucy and Ethel get jobs colorized. It's famous so I figure that's why they went with it. I'm not going to synopsize it but its fun enough.

X-Men "Have Yourself A Morlock Little Christmas": Okay, this was one of those shows that I was able to watch with my mom all the time when I was a kid. My mom was a fan of the X-Men like me and it made for fun. The X-Men are having Christmas and, like at most things, they're terrible at it. Jean Grey was mostly useless on this show but her and Sleazeball Gambit cooking dinner makes me desire a spin-off.

So, the main plot is that The Morlocks, a group of mutants who live in the sewer, are stealing an ambulance because a Morlock Kid is dieing.  The X-Men go to help out. It's pretty terrible. There's a little girl that makes The Littlest Orphan from earlier today look like a cynic. Also, Storm is technically these people's leader and it's a plot point on numerous occasions that she sucks at her job in the episode. I mean, really. She relinquishes her leadership at the end of the episode. The thing is, this won't make things any better. In fact, it might make things worse. Jubilee gives up all the gifts she was buying for other people and giving it to the Morlocks who invite the X-Men for dinner. Gambit and Jen don't react so well. Merry Christmas from the X-Men. They're almost as terrible as Jeffy.

Justice League "Comfort and Joy": Justice League is probably one of the two best Super Hero cartoons ever made. In this episode, we get to see what the League does on Christmas. The Flash brings presents for orphans and they want this year's megatoy, DJ Rubber Ducky... who farts out a rap. It's super ultra awesome! Superman bring Martian Manhunter home with him. Green Lantern and Hawkgirl first play in the snow and then go and engage in a barfight. We never see Wonder Woman or Batman. Wonder Woman is a worshipper of the Greek Gods so she's probably off making an offering to Zeus. Batman's parents are dead so he's trying to ignore it while Alfred drinks some Egg Nog and gives Tim Drake some dinner.

It's a very sweet episode in the middle of a very action heavy series. I think why it works and "Have Yourself a Morlock Little Christmas" doesn't is because it feels like they're being true to the characters while the other never did. The X-Men are jerks constantly while this, this builds on everything we know about these characters. It's heart warming and beautiful.

Non-Viewing Thoughts: I think I'm pretty at ease right now. It's nice!

Late Christmas Ideas: I wouldn't mind a stuffed Rubber Duck that Farts a rap. What? Stop staring at me like that!

Notable Commercials: PooPourii is a product that covers up the smell of the bathroom. They have one revolving around the idea that even Santa needs to poo. I don't even know anymore.

Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 4
Amps left: 2
Coffee Drank: 2 Bottles
Pumpkin Pie Left: 1/3rd Left
Sanity Rating: (1 being a classic sitcom episode, 10 being a marathon of  The Neighbors and Selfie): 1