Christmas TV shows kind of make me feel like a little kid

While I'm a little annoyed that they played it before it's even December, I just got more than my fair share of enjoyment out of the Charlie Brown Christmas special. This year I got to see bits and pieces of both the Halloween and Thanksgiving specials as well. I'm not entirely sure why this makes me so happy, but it really does.

I also look forward to How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated one with Tony the Tiger singing the Grinch song), the Rankin-Bass specials (Rudoph, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Frosty the Snowman etc.) and, of course, Ralphie shooting his eye out. Not having cable, there are definitely years where I don't get to see these things. However, I take the opportunity whenever possible. I've still got fond childhood memories of all of these Christmas TV shows and I kind of wonder what adults have been thinking the last 20 years, because I can't think of any good Christmas TV shows/movies that have come out since my childhood. The live-action Grinch movie (the Jim Carrey one) is OK (I know Dan will rend his garments with rage when even reading the name of the thing), and there are a few movies I associate with Christmas (like A Series of Unfortunate Events), but I can't really think of any good TV specials or whatnot. Everything I've seen has been entirely too schmaltzy (and I haven't seen Elf or Bad Santa). Kids these days, they're missing out.

I'm not a huge fan of most Christmas music, but I own a copy of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack and it goes into regular rotation during the month of December. When the special is on TV, I get up and dance in my living room while the kids dance to "Linus and Lucy" and I totally dance just like they do. I don't care who is watching.