The 50 Specials Of Christmas - "Bob Newhart Show"
I think I damaged my hearing the other night. Everything sounds lower than it should be. I noticed because I've been watching The Bob Newhart Show Christmas Special!
Like Newhart's comedy, this Christmas special takes a little time to ramp up to greatness. The first few scenes are your regular Christmas special cliches: gifts awkwardly exchanged, one member of a couple being more giving than the other, etc.
But once Bob gets into his routine about Christmas parties, the special becomes really funny. Though a lot of it revolves around a Christmas party at the office gone awry, it feels fresh. The theme of Christmas guilt and presents gone awry is handled extremely well - better than most other attempts at the subject. Bob keeps trying to be giving throughout the holiday, only to find his honest attempts backfiring.
Here's a guy without the general cynicism of most modern Christmas specials and films. He wants to do the right thing for everyone, which turns out to be the wrong thing for everyone else.
It's a very smart, adult take on Christmas - there are almost no children in this episode - that we rarely see in specials, and well worth watching.
Like Newhart's comedy, this Christmas special takes a little time to ramp up to greatness. The first few scenes are your regular Christmas special cliches: gifts awkwardly exchanged, one member of a couple being more giving than the other, etc.
But once Bob gets into his routine about Christmas parties, the special becomes really funny. Though a lot of it revolves around a Christmas party at the office gone awry, it feels fresh. The theme of Christmas guilt and presents gone awry is handled extremely well - better than most other attempts at the subject. Bob keeps trying to be giving throughout the holiday, only to find his honest attempts backfiring.
Here's a guy without the general cynicism of most modern Christmas specials and films. He wants to do the right thing for everyone, which turns out to be the wrong thing for everyone else.
It's a very smart, adult take on Christmas - there are almost no children in this episode - that we rarely see in specials, and well worth watching.
posted by Mike Drucker at
11:45 AM
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