{"id":23593,"date":"2016-12-20T20:38:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23593"},"modified":"2016-12-20T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:39:22","slug":"entertainment-that-puts-me-in-the-holiday-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/entertainment-that-puts-me-in-the-holiday-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment That Puts Me in the Holiday Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What puts you in the Holiday Spirit?\u00a0 What puts me in the Holiday Spirit?\u00a0 Honestly, as I grew up in and near Montreal, Quebec, Canada, some of my traditions are a tad different from those I live surrounded by now in Southern California.\u00a0 Growing up, every Holiday Season, some movies and TV shows were broadcast in Quebec for all of us to watch as an odd little community spread out over a huge, snowy territory.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, these movies and TV shows help me get in the mood for the Holidays and as I am having a hard time getting in the Spirit this year, I figured I\u2019d watch a bunch of them and share them with you all.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Bean TV series
\n<\/strong>Every night, around dinner time, on Radio-Canada if memory serves well, Mr. Bean would make an appearance with one episode.\u00a0 Of course, the Holiday episodes were the most fun to watch and seeing this goof get stuck inside a turkey or put a Dalek in the manger became a tradition.\u00a0 Mr. Bean is quite British in terms of humor while also being physical humor.\u00a0 To me, England looks so Christmassy this time of year and I associate London with the Holidays because of this tv series.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an official compilation of his Christmas\/Holiday hijinks.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cin\u00e9-Cadeau
\n<\/strong>A bit later in the evening, every night from mid-ish-December on (for most of the Holiday school break), there was Cin\u00e9-Cadeau on T\u00e9l\u00e9-Qu\u00e9bec which showed a collection of films one per night.\u00a0 This is where most of us would tape off tv movies like the Ast\u00e9rix series, Tintin, Lucky Luke, Bach et Bottine, and a bunch of other ones.\u00a0 These holiday season special presentations had an intro which reminded you of the season and made kids pay attention.\u00a0 They also reran in the afternoon the next day so you could (and usually would) watch the same thing twice in 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Just a few of their intros:
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d63Itz01HIk
\n<\/a>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KDcwVajwfPg
\n<\/a>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y4vzlyXhZbY
\n<\/a>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HeLLjUIEWrI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Passe-Partout
\n<\/strong>This show is something pretty much all French-Canadians (at least in Qu\u00e9bec) grew up on for decades.\u00a0 Their Christmas music and Christmas specials are something that put me in a very strong Holiday Spirit still for some reason.\u00a0 It\u2019s made for kids and teaches lessons, it\u2019s won a bunch of awards through the years, and yes, it\u2019s weird.\u00a0 It\u2019s a show created in the late 70s that ran through the 90s with humans, puppets, kids showing how stuff works, songs, songs, and more songs.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a part of one of their Holiday Specials which explains some Qu\u00e9bec traditions (in French):<\/p>\n