The Santa Clause
Added 2021-11-21 05:01:49 +0000 UTCHo Ho Ho! There's a present under the tree and its a new shiny franchise! BC:SF is discussing the Santa Clause Trilogy starting with 1994’s The Santa Clause. Topics include: accidental Santa homicide, Tim Allen's career, Joey Sims being traumatized by the movie as a kid, getting coal, Santa's workshop aesthetic ranking and more.
The movie starts at…18:21
Remastered by AJ McKeon (2022)
Comments
Nice bit of foreshadowing for this miniseries when Ben says he’s “not that into spelling”
Kyle Lark
2024-08-12 19:39:04 +0000 UTCFrom afar (Britain)I think the early 90s was a bit of a dark age of mainstream US sitcoms. Simpsons and Seinfeld exist in reaction to and subverting the clapped out family sitcom. Home Improvements popularity is probably down to the paucity of good alternatives.
David Kirk
2022-02-23 14:04:21 +0000 UTCThat was truly undercelebrated
Rad Rodge
2021-11-27 18:30:02 +0000 UTCBen needs comedy points for saying one of the reindeer is named Plisken
Jenny Potter
2021-11-24 17:15:22 +0000 UTCI got home around halfway through the commentary and jumped on Disney+ to watch along. Definitely I find myself on the Griffin/Benducer side of this debate. David is my Blank Check Spirit Animal, but he's just wrong here. This movie is terrific by dopey holiday movie standards. And much to my chagrin, I have to give a lot of credit to Snitch Allen's performance. he may not be a good actor, but sometimes he sure seems like one. Now I count the days until we can watch my beloved Elizabeth Mitchell together.
OG McDuck
2021-11-23 19:29:25 +0000 UTC1:42:48 —-1000 comedy points to David
Bryan Cohoon
2021-11-23 15:58:02 +0000 UTCSince Sims is doing this for Griffin they should do The Kissing Booth trilogy for Sims😏
Joshua Ochoa
2021-11-23 08:52:14 +0000 UTCI also want to say, while Scott isn't particularly a great father, he doesn't seem like the worst. Maybe up there for dads in the 90s. And while there's friction early with Judge Reinhold early, he doesn't despise Neil and isn't trying to win back his wife or screw her over. It's a pretty evolved "co-parenting, divorce" movie, I think.
Jacob Bowman
2021-11-23 00:36:58 +0000 UTCI like to think that when Tim Allen grunts his ho ho ho and later tried to put on the toy toolbelt is because he and the director told Disney - “the people will riot if we don’t sneak some Toolman into this!”
Hayley
2021-11-22 16:58:37 +0000 UTCNot enough kissing?
sjwerewolf
2021-11-22 13:31:38 +0000 UTCHas Griffin seen Christmas Chronicles? That has an unhinged Santa I feel like he’d be into
Domenic Mezzanotte
2021-11-22 12:04:53 +0000 UTCI hate to say it, but David was being a bit of a Scrooge in this.
Alan
2021-11-21 23:14:48 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Santa 2, Art LaFleur died today. I know you've already recorded and so you cannot say anything, but I hope you dug into him a little bit when he popped up as Tooth Fairy. He certainly had a long and varied career.
OG McDuck
2021-11-21 20:18:46 +0000 UTCThis is great, and I love that this is the next series, but when they first teased a Christmas series I kind of hoped it would be the two Columbus Home Alones and maybe the new one to cap off the trilogy. Maybe one day?!
ElectricGayhem
2021-11-21 19:15:17 +0000 UTCI'll be interested in hearing the Santa 2 commentary. I don't remember anything about the first movie, but years ago I caught the second one on cable and was so beguiled by Elizabeth Mitchell that I still remember it as the Vertigo of shitty Christmas movies.
OG McDuck
2021-11-21 19:02:15 +0000 UTCThe “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” version from this one is iconic for me. Lots of this movie fills me with disgust but at an older age but that swingy multipart harmony gets me every time
Roy Martini
2021-11-21 15:10:29 +0000 UTCi have been informed it is 'Kris Kringle'. i have been sacked.
Jordan B. Anderson
2021-11-21 10:01:04 +0000 UTCHeck yeah. The Toolman murders Chris Cringle.
Jordan B. Anderson
2021-11-21 07:59:04 +0000 UTCYes, thank you Joey Sims. For little me, this movie was straight up Cronenbergian.
Kenny Madison
2021-11-21 06:30:32 +0000 UTCLooking forward to hear you guys talking North Pole aesthetics. That’s a sweet spot. Polar Express Nuremberg brutalism gets my vote.
Josh Rioux
2021-11-21 05:06:07 +0000 UTCHave I been a good boy this year? I don't really know, but having this present is the opposite of coal!
Jacob Bowman
2021-11-21 05:03:31 +0000 UTC
