What Christmas Movies Should We Subject Ourselves To This Year?

Christmas is almost here (that's why, every time you go to the grocery store, Paul McCartney keeps insisting he's merely having a great holiday season), and if you're anything like me, you begrudgingly try to force yourself into the spirit of things with movies. Nothing gets me in the mood for some Christmas like experiencing the holiday vicariously through holiday morality tales.

But with so many variations on the Christmas Carol story, and so many showings of A Christmas Story on TBS, which Christmas movies should you make time before playing with that slot car track under the tree?

That's what I want to know. Let's hear the Christmas movies (or TV specials) you're watching by choice, sense of obligation, accident, or because someone had a copy of A Grandpa for Christmas starring Ernest Borgnine and it seemed like a funny idea at the time.

I'll start:

(alphabetically)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Story
Futurama - Xmas Story
A Grandpa for Christmas (starring Ernest Borgnine)
Home Alone
The Muppet Christmas Carol
MST3K - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Office (UK) Christmas Special
Scrooged
The Tick - The Tick Loves Santa

Addition: Oh, I forgot that a friend recently got me into his family tradition of watching The Long Kiss Goodnight every year.

What am I missing?

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