The Christmas Experiment 2015: Hours 33+34: Christmas Comedies

I don't care for sitcoms as part of this but ehh, whatever.

The Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special: In the Grand Spirit of CBS colorizing I Love Lucy, they've moved onto another sitcom. The main premise of the episode is that Ben, the department store owner, catches a moonshiner and insists on him getting locked up on Christmas. This results in many people getting locked up at Christmas and your standard, "His heart grew three sizes that day." It is funny because Ben keeps trying to get locked up in Jail to join in on Christmas and having to find new ways to get arrested, many of which get thwarted in the process.

Also, Don Knotts is horrifying in full color. Some things were not meant to be known in full color.

All That - Christmas: From long before they started harvesting talent from the pods beneath the Nickelodeon Studios. The kids are pretty decent with humor in the first Christmas episode. Also, I forgot that Keenan Thompson started out here, Good Burger spun off, and then he moved onto SNL. I got some good laughs out of this one though,I will admit, some of it would have been funnier to 10 year old Will.

Mork and Mindy: "Mork's First Christmas": Robin Williams's alien character learns all about Christmas. The thing I always found funny about this show is you could switch out "alien" with "foreign" in many of the episodes. This is one of those. Mork makes Christmas presents for everyone. It's cute. The real present is helping everyone remember things they had forgotten. Robin Williams was a class act and I think the world is a much darker place without him.

Mama's Family: "Santa Mama": Mama is being a scrooge. She's depressed because they can't find the star for the tree. I wonder if it's the same place that Jeffy's family left their star. Mama ends up becoming Santa Claus, gaining the Christmas spirit. It's okay. Vicki Lawrence had been playing the role for years at the point and

Notable Commercials: Antenna TV is going to start showing episodes of Johnny Carson starting next year. Should be interesting.

Non-Viewing Thoughts: The worse thing in the world is when you really want to talk to someone but there's not much you can do about it.

Late Christmas Ideas: Dry weather tomorrow. Don't have that? Then hell if I know.

Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 9
Amps left: All Gone
Coffee Left: All Gone
Pumpkin Pie Left: 1/4th left
Sanity Rating: (1 being ordering your Christmas Stuff online, 10 being shopping on Christmas Day at the one place that's open): 6