It’s always sunny in Philadelphia: It’s a very sunny Christmas

A special Christmas episode of the It’s always sunny in Philadelphia sitcom. For those of you who don’t know the series: it is very raunchy. Maybe you have seen this NSFW clip where Danny DeVito emerges naked out of a leather couch.

But this Christmas special is not only about nudity and sex (although there’s a good part of it). There’s an impressive claymation sequence that reminds me of the Rankin/Bass films like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

An Old-Fashioned Christmas

Everybody who grew up in the Sixties can remember the Bell Telephone Hour, a weekly music show that featured the best in classical and Broadway music. Most popular were the yearly Christmas specials with artists like Florence Henderson, Gianna d’Angelo, Phyllis Curtin, Lisa Della Casa, Anita Gillette and Mildred Miller. Here’s the famous Christmas song Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire performed by the show’s host Florence Henderson.

A Christmas Journey To Freedom

This production is an interesting experiment in tying together the history of the famour Underground Railroad and motives of Christian faith. The true-life story revolves  around the slave Joe (acclaimed vocalist Wintley Phipps) who gets saved from slavery by Harriet Tubman, a Moses-life figure who helped hundreds escape to Canada while risking her own life. Besides telling the story of this larger than life heroine the DVD contains insights by historian Dr. Allen Callahan and many Christmas songs like O Holy Night and Sweet Little Jesus Boy.

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker – featuring the San Francisco Ballet [Blu-ray]

This new production of the classic ballet, choreographed by Helgi Tomasson, is a timeless holiday classic. From the lovely Waltz of the Flowers to the amazing Snowflake Waltz, each scene is breathtaking in its own right. They all bring to life the famous and popular characters with great originality.

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