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Awesome Christmas

All I Want for Christmas is The Black Parade

All I Want for Christmas is The Black Parade

You’d never think that Mariah Carey would blend so seamlessly with My Chemical Romance but oneboerdjeu’s holiday mashup proves that sometimes the whole is better than the sum of its parts.

Star Wars Nutcrackers

Star Wars Nutcrackers
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Celebrate the holidays in style with these officially-licensed Star Wars nutcrackers, featuring the likenesses of R2-D2, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and a Stormtrooper. We wouldn’t recommend the last one though, as it probably misses the nuts all the time.

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Come Together

Come Together

Retailer H&M enlisted director Wes Anderson to apply his colorful, fastidious, and bittersweet style to their big holiday advert, which stars Adrien Brody as a train conductor who must break the news to his passengers they won’t make it home in time for Christmas.

Buster The Boxer

Buster The Boxer

The 2016 Christmas commercial for UK retailer John Lewis totally rips off a classic YouTube clip, but it’s still a fantastic antidote to all the negative Juju floating around the universe in the wake of the recent US presidential election.

Christmas Will Break Your Heart

Christmas Will Break Your Heart

LCD Soundsystem briefly reunited to record their New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down for Christmas. Frontman James Murphy says he’s been singing it to himself for the past 8 years, but they never found the time to record it.

Yule Log 2.015

Yule Log 2.015

Relax, sit back and drink in the warm glow of the yule log, done in the style of dozens of different animators, in this annual tradition orchestrated by Daniel Savage. Check out, then loop each of the individual short films here. James Wignall’s Yule Dog is our favorite.

Darth Santa

Darth Santa

…aka Darth Vader. Forget about getting gifts. If he were Santa Claus, Christmas would be the worst day of the year, regardless if you were naughty or nice. Wrenthereaper took over for Corridor Digital’s Sam and Niko for this holiday episode. Making-of here.

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SNL: Christmas at Nana’s

SNL: Christmas at Nana’s

A mom tries to guilt trip and blackmail her bickering teenage kids into settling their differences. Go on an emotional roller coaster ride in this dark and twisted unaired skit from Saturday Night Live‘s 2015 holiday episode.

Robo-sleigh

Robo-sleigh

Builders of the robopocalypse, Boston Dynamics celebrated the holidays this year with a video postcard, in which Santa’s reindeer have been terminated and replaced with creepy headless robo-reindeer. Merry Christmas and sweet dreams!

Xmas Spinner Turkey Cooking

Xmas Spinner Turkey Cooking

On a quest to keep his holiday turkey from drying out, madman Colin Furze created this insane device that cooks a bird from the inside out by rapidly spinning it as boiling hot water courses through its innards. It’s still not as dangerous as frying a turkey.

Improv Santa

Improv Santa

WSAZ shared footage of Sophie Jo Riley, a young girl who thought she spotted Santa Claus at the supermarket. But she was actually talking to a fellow shopper, a bearded man named Roger. Or maybe he really is Santa, pretending to be a man pretending to be Santa.

Inside Santa University

Inside Santa University

When you need Santa Claus to show up for a Christmas event, the company you turn to is Arvada, Colorado’s Noerr Programs, who doesn’t just dress white-haired, rotund men in costumes, but actually offers them a four-day course on how to be a good Saint Nick.

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Kylo Ren vs. Santa Claus

Kylo Ren vs. Santa Claus

We have two really big days to look forward to this month: Christmas, and The Force Awakens release day. To celebrate, Nerdist pitted the Kylo Ren and his crossblade lightsaber against Santa Claus and his candy cane light blade. Oh, and the baritone narrator? It’s Tay Zonday.

Lump of Coal Soaps

Lump of Coal Soaps
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Latika Body Essentials has a silly holiday gift for folks who’ve been naughty or literally dirty. Its Lump of Coal soaps are partly made of activated charcoal and smells like smoked wood. Each bag contains three pieces of soap.

LWT: Regifting

LWT: Regifting

(PG-13: Language) Last Week Tonight is on hiatus until February, but John Oliver briefly awoke from his hibernation to teach us the basics of regifting. And make numerous inappropriate analogies for unwanted gifts.

12 Days of Frasier

12 Days of Frasier

Sure, Frasier has been off the air for years, so it seems like an odd choice of source material, but we’re still impressed with the editing mastery of MovieBitches, who turned sound bites of the classic sitcom into a popular Christmas ditty.

Phoenix: Alone on Christmas Day

Phoenix: Alone on Christmas Day

For A Very Murray Christmas, Phoenix covered Mike Love’s uplifting holiday single, with a few out of tune grunts from Bill Murray. The song was supposed to appear on a 1977 Beach Boys Christmas album, but it was never officially released until Love re-recorded it this year.

Dadholes: Christmas

Dadholes: Christmas

(Crude humor, PG-13: Language) “Baby It’s Cold Outside isn’t even a Christmas carol. It’s more like a police report.” The miserable fathers rant about taking plane trips with their kids, marrying too early, eggnog and more.

Christmas Spirit

Christmas Spirit

For his latest clip, Eclectic Method celebrates the holidays with a musical mashup of sound bites fromn classic Christmas movie clips and TV shows. It’s catch enough that we’ll forgive him for using the colorized version of It’s a Wonderful Life.

Alex Boye: Little Drummer Boy

Alex Boye: Little Drummer Boy

Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, vocalist Alex Boye and the Genesis Choir’s uplifting African version of the classic tune doesn’t put you in the holiday spirit, nothing will. Download the track on Bandcamp.

Happy Sad Songs: Jingle Bells

Happy Sad Songs: Jingle Bells

The Gregory Brothers borrow a page from Chase Holfelder’s Major to Minor, transforming happy songs into sad ones. For their holiday jam, they turned Jingle Bells into a dark sort of dirge that belongs in a Tim Burton movie.

One-eyed Saint Nick Ornament

One-eyed Saint Nick Ornament
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He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. Santa has got his eye on you this year. And it’s one big and ugly sucker with Middle of Beyond’s creepy, yet awesome blown glass ornament that’s sure to freak out the family when they visit this Christmas.

Oddly Greeted Holiday Cards

Oddly Greeted Holiday Cards
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Illustrator Jacob Elijah of Puppy Grenade decided that typical holiday cards were just too boring, so he created his own line of dark and twisted cards that are sure to get attention when you mail them out to this Christmas. Also, you don’t talk about Reindeer Fight Club.

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