Comedic roast/review of The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022 Lifetime movie) starring Kelsey Grammer as grumpy businessman Brian Conway who crashes his car on Christmas Eve... and wakes up to Santa giving him 12 do-overs of the same day to fix his messed-up family life (with real-life daughter Spencer Grammer as his on-screen kid – adorable meta casting!).It's basically Scrooged (cynical exec gets supernatural holiday wake-up call) slammed into Final Destination rules: mess up the day, die in increasingly ridiculous ways (sliding down snowy hills to doom? Chef's kiss cheese), reset, try again. Santa's like the grim reaper with a beard – "Fix your relationships or stay dead forever!" The deaths are hilariously low-budget and over-the-top, the family drama is pure Hallmark cheese, but Grammer's Frasier-level grumpy exasperation carries the whole thing.I laugh at the absurdity: workaholic dad ignores everyone, Santa intervenes, cue 12 Groundhog Day-style loops with escalating fails, heartwarming kid moments, and that classic "true meaning of Christmas" payoff. Is it original? Nope – total mash-up of A Christmas Carol vibes, time-loop tropes, and holiday schmaltz. Is it funny-bad-good? Absolutely – peak Lifetime holiday trainwreck energy!If you love bad/good Christmas movies, Kelsey Grammer rants, or "what if Scrooge had to dodge death 12 times?" this is your chaotic seasonal watch. No major spoilers in the intro, then full comedic breakdown!
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00:00Hey, it's Joe from BKMTV Studios.
00:02Merry Christmas, everybody.
00:04Hope your holiday season is going really, really well.
00:09Or at least better than Kelsey Grammer's.
00:11Wait a minute.
00:11Why am I talking about Kelsey Grammer again?
00:14Okay, well, at least this time I'm not talking about him doing this.
00:18But I am talking about a movie where it's a combination of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge,
00:25Groundhog's Day, and Final Destination.
00:28What?
00:28How do you combine those four things?
00:31Well, Lifetime did.
00:33And that movie is called The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve.
00:37So like a good Lifetime, Hallmark, Great American Country movie, it starts in the past.
00:43We meet Kelsey Grammer's character as a child, learning from his father how to work with his hands.
00:50On Christmas Eve, they're out here working on an old-fashioned radio.
00:54Yeah, if you learn how to fix these things, young Kelsey Grammer's character, you'll be able to make money.
01:01You'll be the guy that everybody calls on like his father was.
01:04At first, I was thinking, oh, is this radio going to, you know, come back later in the story?
01:08But no, that's a music box.
01:10This is just a regular radio.
01:12But this is a core memory to the character that Kelsey Grammer plays here.
01:16Can we work on the music box now?
01:18Not today.
01:19We have to go to Mrs. Martin's house to fix her stove.
01:22But it's Christmas Eve.
01:23Exactly.
01:24Which is why she's paying extra for me to fix it.
01:27And what is his apron?
01:28To quote Kevin McAllister, a guy could get beat up for wearing something like that.
01:33The father is teaching a very important lesson.
01:35It's to work hard.
01:36And by working hard, his son isn't going to have to suffer the way he did.
01:41One day, you'll be rich, successful.
01:45All your Christmas wishes will come true.
01:47But if you really don't want your son to suffer, dad, you got to do something about this kid's outfit.
01:52I kind of want to punch him and I'm like a grown man, okay?
01:55Imagine how the other kids are going to feel.
01:57So now we're in present day.
01:58It's Groundhog's Day.
02:00The only thing different is that this is a made-for-TV budget.
02:03So they might not want to spend the money to license out Sonny and Cher.
02:07I'm not really sure why he's so bitter.
02:09You can't hang up any Christmas decorations.
02:12It looked like his childhood was okay.
02:14You couldn't even do that thing where in a Lifetime or Hallmark or Great American Country Christmas movie,
02:19you hire some outsider to decorate the place.
02:22It's just weird to hire someone to plan their Christmas.
02:25Wow, who climbed up your chimney?
02:27You may not care about Christmas, but you run a business.
02:30So at least pretend, right?
02:32Wow!
02:35Yeah, jump scares in a Christmas movie.
02:38So this movie incorporates those horror movie cliches.
02:42It's not a horror Christmas movie like your Terrifier 3.
02:47No, it's still a Christmas movie that aired on Lifetime.
02:50Santa will have a harder time delivering gifts this Christmas Eve.
02:54It seems that Ginger the Reindeer has escaped from the local petting zoo.
02:58Sounds like Ginger has finally snapped.
03:01And I don't know if you caught that, but that's a little foreshadowing for the future.
03:05Let's add a little Final Destination.
03:08See this slippery ice patch that they keep warning you about?
03:11Kind of like in the Final Destinations where you can see all the things around that might take somebody out.
03:18And you're just wondering, how's this all going to happen?
03:21So we've gotten our Christmas carol, our Final Destination.
03:25Now let's add a little bit more of the Scrooged element into this.
03:30Kelsey Grammer, he runs a very successful business.
03:33But it's not doing super well.
03:35At this point, they may need to merge her with another company just to stay afloat.
03:39So he's going to make all the board members come into work on Christmas Eve.
03:44He's Mr. No Days Off.
03:46Or in another movie, Mr. St. Nick.
03:50I don't care if you have to work all night.
03:52Um, it's Christmas Eve, sir.
03:56I took my father's tiny appliance repair shop and turned it into a multi-million dollar electronics retail chain.
04:03Number one.
04:04He works hard, so they gotta work hard.
04:07Didn't do it by taking days off.
04:09And you know what?
04:10They could be here the entire day.
04:13So if you have other plans, cancel them.
04:17But I am a benevolent boss.
04:20So, if anyone can come up with a solution right away,
04:24then you may all get home in time to put out a plate of cookies for Santa.
04:29Wow.
04:30What a shitty boss.
04:31So we have the wacky assistant, you know, the quirky guy, our comedy relief.
04:37Yeah, no matter what this guy says, I wouldn't trust it.
04:41This guy is Brian's assistant, our comedic relief.
04:46You know, you can't take a single thing he does serious.
04:48He's got weird hobbies.
04:50So he's weird.
04:51I have no life outside of this job.
04:54Jed is a strange dude.
04:55He suggests that they hire an influencer.
04:58We could appeal to Gen Z.
05:00Through this woman?
05:01I don't think so.
05:02And if she's so important and influential,
05:05why is she wasting her time online talking to Jed?
05:08She follows my hamster fashion account.
05:10Oh.
05:11I do not care if this sounds judgmental,
05:14but you deserve to live alone
05:16if you're off running a fashion account for your hamster.
05:19With his business struggling,
05:21Brian Conway agrees he might need an investor.
05:24Nina wants to meet you at the store so she can check it out.
05:26So I don't have to pay for lunch.
05:28Perfect.
05:29So now we're going to meet Brian Conway's daughter Michelle
05:31and his granddaughter Harkin.
05:34They arrive at the worst time.
05:36Brian is way too busy,
05:38but Michelle needs his help.
05:40And the mother is off in Brazil.
05:42So, yeah, she's just as bad as Brian.
05:45You want me to babysit?
05:46What about your mother?
05:47Well, besides the fact that I trust her
05:49even less with a child than I trust you,
05:50she is in Brazil in Yurt.
05:52Ironically enough, searching for her inner child.
05:55And Brian's not Scrooge-level bad at this point,
05:58but he's not great either.
06:00I don't really even understand why Harkin even likes him.
06:02So I'm not going to play with Papa today?
06:04Not today, sir.
06:05And this is where we meet our investor, Nina.
06:07And Nina has the Christmas spirit.
06:10Is that the newest Pokemon game?
06:12I'll take all of them.
06:13She just bought a stack of,
06:15I think, Pokemon games for the Switch.
06:18I'd say she has the Christmas spirit,
06:19or at least a lot of money to spend on Switch games
06:22you're not even going to play.
06:23What will you do with so many?
06:25Give them away, of course.
06:27And I don't really understand why Brian is so like,
06:29wait, you just bought like 10 copies of the same game.
06:33That's all profit for your store, dude.
06:35It's Christmas Eve and nobody's bought any of these games.
06:38So take the win.
06:40You know, I'm starting to like this day.
06:43I may even be feeling some of that Christmas spirit they talk about.
06:46We get a shot of Christmas days of old.
06:48He is trying to raise money for the hospital
06:51with his fundraiser on Christmas Eve night.
06:53But he's also really selfish with how he goes about it.
06:57I'm the one who should be banking you.
06:59It's the least I can do for the children.
07:02So he's not leasing the town,
07:04just his employees,
07:05who are no longer going to get a bonus.
07:08All that money is going to donations,
07:11which is also going to be a tax write-off.
07:13So we get nothing.
07:14And he gets a tax write-off.
07:16Generous and business savvy bananas and shit.
07:19There's a good guy deep down,
07:21which is why he donates to the hospital.
07:24So later on, when he has to be redeemed,
07:27you're not thinking,
07:28wait a minute,
07:29why would we give this guy another chance?
07:31He sucked from the beginning.
07:32No, you're thinking,
07:34all right,
07:34maybe the chances that Santa gives him will actually work.
07:38He's redeemable.
07:39Like your Ebenezer Scrooge,
07:41he spent all this time investing into his business
07:44and not into his family.
07:45And not only has it cost him relationships with his daughter,
07:49but he's also been divorced.
07:51He has loves that have left him.
07:53How long has it been?
07:54Since you broke my heart.
07:56As I recall,
07:57you're the one who broke up with me.
07:59I got tired of waiting for you to come home from the office.
08:02I was building a business.
08:03Silly me.
08:04I was building a life.
08:06The investor's here
08:07and she wants to buy the company.
08:09This company,
08:11it's my whole life.
08:12I'm going to bypass the deep sadness of that statement
08:15and just point out,
08:16you're going to make a lot of money in this deal.
08:18The investor realized that too.
08:19We're on the same page.
08:20I have worked hard.
08:22It's time I got what I deserve.
08:24Let's drink to that.
08:26Here's to my just desserts.
08:27Because this is a Christmas movie,
08:29when you say things like,
08:30I'm beginning to like this day.
08:32I wish it would never end.
08:33Or start talking about yourself,
08:35you're going to get things like this happening to you.
08:38Brian has agreed to sell the company.
08:40Is he looking out for his employees?
08:42No.
08:43Not only did he give away their bonus,
08:44but also their future is on thin ice.
08:49He doesn't care what happens to any of these people.
08:51Not even Hamster Guy.
08:53What's going to happen to your employees?
08:55That's not my problem.
08:56Jesus, dude.
08:58Don't go around saying things like that.
09:00You're in a Final Destination-y kind of movie.
09:03And what are you doing?
09:05Tempting fate?
09:06Are you just purposely trying to get Santa to be like,
09:09well, that's how you wanted to be killed.
09:11Ho, ho, ho.
09:13Let's do that.
09:13When you add all this Final Destination-y stuff
09:17to a Christmas movie,
09:19that makes a guy like me want to talk about it.
09:21A guy who's also ranked Final Destination kills.
09:24Maybe I should also rank all the different ways
09:27that Brian dies in this movie.
09:29As he's driving home from this great Christmas party,
09:32at least in his mind,
09:34Christmas music keeps playing on the radio.
09:36Now, because he's our Scrooge,
09:38he ain't feeling here in Christmas music.
09:40He can't even fake it for Christmas Eve.
09:42I get it when it's November the 28th.
09:45On a Christmas Eve, listen to a carol or two.
09:48I hate this song.
09:49But that's the only song that's allowed to play on his radio.
09:54You know, even if he went to the pop station,
09:56I bet it would just be Sabrina Carpenter covering that song
10:01right after her Christmas version of nonsense.
10:10Remember that reindeer that we heard about earlier?
10:12The fakest looking CGI reindeer,
10:15like the type of effects I'd have access to,
10:18goes walking across the bridge,
10:20and because, you know,
10:21you don't want to run into the reindeer,
10:23you swerve.
10:24And by doing that,
10:25off the bridge,
10:26he's dead.
10:27The end.
10:28Hope you enjoyed this 20-minute movie.
10:29Well, it looks like Brian is in purgatory.
10:33And Santa, I think, is the angel of death?
10:35Am I dead?
10:37Pretty much.
10:38I'm just here to send you on your way.
10:42The angel of death is Santa?
10:45It's different for everyone.
10:47At least it's better than the tired cliche of
10:50Santa is Satan.
10:51Yeah, you're so clever, Jack Black.
10:53I'm way better than Santa.
10:55Ho, ho, frickin' ho.
10:57Brian is gonna get a second chance.
10:59You see,
11:00Santa makes a naughty list
11:02and a nice list.
11:04And, you know,
11:04Brian's somewhere in the middle there.
11:07And that's just not a list that Santa's made.
11:09You gotta be one or the other.
11:11Give me a second chance.
11:12I'll do anything.
11:13Well,
11:14you're not quite on the naughty list,
11:17but you've never been particularly nice.
11:19Santa issues Brian an ultimatum.
11:21You have 12 days to fix your life.
11:24Every day that you do not learn a lesson
11:26is another day you've wasted
11:28and another day you're closer
11:30to being sent to purgatory, I think.
11:32Maybe he's like one of those ghosts
11:34that I learned about
11:34and he's gonna be stuck haunting
11:37because he's not bad enough to be sent there,
11:39but not great enough to go there.
11:41He's gonna haunt the influencer.
11:42So he's got 12 days to try to make things right.
11:45That's where our title comes in.
11:47If you blow out the candle
11:49or die,
11:51the day repeats.
11:52If you've seen Groundhog's Day,
11:54you know how this works.
11:55It's day two.
11:56We're a dream.
11:57And the same day has now started again.
11:59It's the same news report.
12:01It's the same greeting with the neighbor.
12:03It's the same ice patch.
12:05It's the same morning interaction.
12:07This just blows Brian's mind.
12:09Why is everything repeating?
12:10With Nina Nishi yesterday?
12:13It wasn't a dream.
12:14I can't breathe.
12:17It's real.
12:18Santa was real.
12:19He can't handle any of this.
12:20So he goes running back to his apartment.
12:23And remember that ice patch
12:24that we were talking about earlier?
12:26Final destination.
12:27He slipped and he died.
12:29Damn!
12:30Wow, did he blow attempt number two.
12:31You've already wasted one day.
12:34You've got 10 days left.
12:37Don't blow it.
12:38And his next attempt does not go any better.
12:41Brian is under the illusion that,
12:43you know what?
12:44The spirit of Christmas
12:45is just to give people money
12:47for whatever reason.
12:49I've decided to give you all the week off.
12:51And I'm going to give you a 10% raise
12:54and a week's salary as a bonus.
12:57Everyone?
12:58Yes, Jet.
12:59Everyone.
13:00Including you.
13:01And where did he get all this money?
13:03On the money plane, of course.
13:06It's a legend in the underworld.
13:07To those of you who know,
13:09it's the money plane.
13:10They like stuff.
13:11I'll just hand out crap.
13:13That'll be enough to keep me out of hell.
13:15And it doesn't work.
13:16Because who wants this crap?
13:18Here you are.
13:19What am I supposed to do with it?
13:21Well, whatever you like.
13:22You see how unselfish I am.
13:23Merry Christmas.
13:24I bet that it's stuff that his store
13:27was unable to sell.
13:29He's just handing people overstock
13:31that he wanted to get rid of anyway.
13:32Instead of spending time with his family,
13:35which you'd think would be the first thing
13:36that would pop into his head.
13:37Because I'd assume in this universe,
13:40he's probably also seen Christmas movies
13:42that are canon in that universe
13:44and seen those lessons and thought,
13:47hey, you know what?
13:48I'm living one of those.
13:49I should copy that.
13:51Hang out with family.
13:52First thing you think of, right?
13:55No.
13:56Still, I can't watch this kid.
13:58I gotta go to the shelter
14:00and get a random dog for my granddaughter
14:04because I've heard that's what she wants.
14:06But guess what, dude?
14:08She's allergic.
14:09So you weren't really listening.
14:11That's your daughter's beef with you.
14:13Your real life daughter.
14:15In real life,
14:16Michelle is Kelsey Grammer's actual daughter.
14:19Brian is just doing all the wrong things,
14:21thinking that's gonna be his get out of jail free card, right?
14:25He's not gonna be sent to hell.
14:27You can't kill me now, Santa.
14:28And by saying that,
14:30you've even scared this kid.
14:31You see, Santa?
14:32You see all the nice things I'm doing?
14:34You can't kill me now.
14:35Santa kills people?
14:38So this is where the final destination aspect
14:41really comes into play.
14:42A lot of the things that are happening in this movie
14:45end up being the things that kill him each day.
14:48Take, for example, buying a shelter pet.
14:50When they argue at this Christmas Eve fundraiser,
14:53the dog comes running up to him,
14:55and I think he did it on purpose,
14:57and pushes him off the balcony.
14:59So after two attempts,
15:01he's gotta be a little bit better at this.
15:04When his daughter said,
15:05you don't really know us,
15:07she was right.
15:08And at least he got that hint.
15:10Sure, he's still gonna be a dick to his staff,
15:12but he will watch his granddaughter today.
15:14But he has no idea how to entertain a kid.
15:18Thanks, Dad.
15:18I wouldn't ask if I wasn't desperate.
15:20I know how busy you are.
15:22It's really generous of you.
15:24From your lips to Santa's ears.
15:26He should just do what the investor did
15:28and go over to the Switch section of his store
15:30and buy a game or two.
15:31In fact, you don't even have to buy it.
15:33You already own them.
15:34Just take it.
15:35So they're having a decent time together
15:37until the granddaughter pukes on him.
15:40I am pretty sure that is real puke.
15:42Again, what's his beef with Christmas?
15:44I understand working hard
15:46and that maybe he's devoted his whole life to business.
15:50But why is his Christmas decorating so crappy?
15:53Things again go off the rails
15:55as he's yelling at his daughter and his granddaughter.
15:59He chokes to death.
16:05No, it's a combo.
16:07No, just spoil your granddaughter with stuff.
16:11Brian just keeps failing
16:13and Santa comes in
16:15and kind of pushes him where to go.
16:19You're on the right track.
16:21You're just going in the wrong direction.
16:24Maybe try asking Harkin where she wants to go.
16:28Santa reminds me of like modern day video games.
16:32Like in Uncharted where they're like,
16:33hey, have you checked behind the wall?
16:36Hey, have you checked behind the wall?
16:38And then you get like maybe somebody on the same stage,
16:42like one of the buddies you travel with in the game
16:44and they think,
16:45hey, I found something over here,
16:47over here, over here.
16:49Because you've spent 20 minutes wandering everywhere
16:52other than with a game wants you to go.
16:54That's what Santa does.
16:55I don't think he wants to see Brian go to hell,
16:58which is kind of weird for Santa to have that power.
17:00I've seen a lot of Christmas films.
17:02The dudes fought Martians was Satan
17:05and also all-powerful can travel through vortexes,
17:10time loops, through his bag.
17:13Santa has a lot of abilities is what I'm saying.
17:15And also, Brian,
17:16cool it with trying to buy your way out of this situation.
17:19It's got to come from the heart, man.
17:21Why are you being so difficult?
17:23You're acting just like your mother.
17:24Yeah, well, I'd rather be like her than you.
17:26She's right.
17:27You are just a mean old man.
17:30And now the movie just gets ridiculous.
17:33You know the CGI reindeer from earlier?
17:36Well, that's topped with this scene
17:38where when he's trying to chase after his granddaughter
17:41to apologize,
17:43he ends up on a sled.
17:44And just look at this.
17:46Look at the effects here as he's going downhill.
17:49Is there like an acting school
17:50that teaches you how to convincingly look
17:52like you're on a sled?
17:53Matthew Broderick's character
17:55got off lucky in his Christmas movie.
17:57At least when he ended up on a sled
18:00and going through all that chaos,
18:02he lived.
18:03Which I can't say about Kelsey Grammer's character.
18:08So then it made me think,
18:10okay, so he dies and that starts the next day.
18:13But there'd still be an aftermath
18:14in this universe, right?
18:16You'd still have Harkin
18:18witnessing her grandfather die
18:19in a sledding accident.
18:20And Brian is slowly learning each day.
18:23Instead of trying to bribe the child,
18:25he's just gonna talk to her.
18:27And that goes well.
18:28They even share a love of fixing things.
18:30It's too bad I don't have my tools.
18:32You know what?
18:32I bet I can fix this.
18:34You can fix stuff?
18:35Hold on.
18:36What's one of the movies that we're ripping off?
18:38Is this the Twilight Zone?
18:40Well, like Groundhog Day.
18:41What?
18:42They knew.
18:42And while Brian may be hitting it off with Harkin,
18:45he really doesn't know his own daughter.
18:48He thinks, oh, you know what?
18:50She works too hard at the hospital.
18:52She needs some time off.
18:53I thought it was time someone did something for you.
18:55So I called you, boss.
18:57You're free for the week.
18:59We're going to the Bahamas tomorrow.
19:02That's not how you make things right.
19:04She didn't ask for this.
19:05This is something that you did for you.
19:08This fundraiser setting is like getting 80%
19:12into a level and then dying.
19:14You almost did it right.
19:15You could see an ending, but you didn't make it.
19:19When he has that argument with his daughter, he's like,
19:22Santa, kill me now.
19:23So a chandelier gets dropped on Brian's head.
19:28Again, there's a lot of people at this party,
19:30and this is still somebody's universe, right?
19:33You have a whole bunch of people who just wanted to go to a Christmas gathering,
19:37and now they just watched somebody die brutally.
19:39So it's implied that Brian has made a lot of money through his business.
19:44And yet, he still forced his daughter to pay her own way through medical school.
19:50Is that why she resents him?
19:51Kind of, but it also seems like it actually taught her to be on her own,
19:57self-sufficient, not need things.
19:59She didn't ask for his money.
20:01Everybody has to learn that nothing in this life is for free.
20:04Mom and J-Lo say that love don't cost a thing.
20:07But she also never got any of his love.
20:10To-ra-la-la-la-ra-la-ra.
20:14Oh, great.
20:15Grandpa's drunk, and he's singing Irish lullabies.
20:18Did I accidentally watch one of those Christmas Irish movies?
20:22You know, like with a castle and a prince
20:24and a young American girl going to a foreign country and finding love.
20:28Tis the season to be Irish.
20:30That's an Irish lullaby.
20:35Brian recognizes that the investor that he meets up with,
20:39she's a lot like him.
20:41They're both driven.
20:42Work is the thing.
20:43They're pushing off family and love and all this other stuff to keep working.
20:48And since Brian is, you know, dead and possibly going to hell,
20:52he knows that that was focusing on all the wrong things.
20:56You know what?
20:57One of the good deeds I should do before, you know, time runs out
21:01is to at least put this woman on the right path.
21:05Sometimes you just got to reach out and eat that cookie.
21:10That's kind of the Christmas Carol thing,
21:12where you got Jacob Marley coming in and being like,
21:15Scrooge, the change of origin life,
21:17are going to be the ones you have in death.
21:18Seriously, fix this now.
21:20Or you're actually doing worse than me.
21:22I don't know how you manage that,
21:24but oh my God, I'm screwed.
21:26Imagine how screwed you're going to be.
21:28Embrace Christmas.
21:29Live it up.
21:30If somebody offers you a cookie,
21:32you don't put that cookie down.
21:33Put that cookie down.
21:35Now.
21:36You eat the cookie, even if it's terrible.
21:38Brian is starting to get it,
21:40which he should,
21:41because at this point,
21:42he's cracked his head on ice,
21:43been pushed off a balcony by a dog
21:45and had a chandelier dropped on him.
21:48What more could they do to him?
21:49Figure it out.
21:50And he kind of does.
21:51He realizes that he wasn't the greatest father
21:54and that his daughters turned out really well.
21:57So when she comes home upset
21:58that one of her patients almost died on the operating table,
22:01he consoles her.
22:03You are smart, kind, and hardworking.
22:08Maybe I don't say this enough,
22:09but I'm proud of you.
22:11And I always have been.
22:17It's heartwarming stuff.
22:19It's Christmas-y.
22:20Hold on.
22:21What other movie are you referencing, guys?
22:23That has somehow managed to shift you
22:24from Scrooge to Santa.
22:26Okay, well, if you're going to be blatant
22:27with what you're stealing from,
22:29at least you're acknowledging it.
22:30Santa is not the saint some people think he is.
22:35Oh, really?
22:35You know this how?
22:37Let's just say he has decked my halls several times.
22:40Thank you very much.
22:42Oh, okay.
22:42Well, the next time you see him,
22:44tell him I said hi.
22:45And then I'm still waiting on that Cabbage Patch kid
22:47he owes me.
22:48Was she going to make her mom or her dad
22:50go in one of those riots that people actually had
22:52in the 80s for these things?
22:54That's selfish.
22:55Brian can't go back in time
22:57and buy that Cabbage Patch doll.
22:59But what he can do
23:00is offer to pay off all that debt
23:03that Michelle still owes for her medical schooling.
23:07I'm not a spreadsheet, Dad.
23:09Oh, so that's what you're trying to do.
23:11Trying to buy your way into my good graces.
23:14You can't just clear off your debt
23:16by paying off mine.
23:17Well, that's not what Brian meant,
23:20but big fight and you failed.
23:22You failed again.
23:23You're running out of time.
23:25It's 27-3
23:26and Nick is basically
23:28your New England Patriots at this point.
23:30And just how unsafe was this Christmas tree?
23:33In some other reality,
23:36one where, you know,
23:37they're not trying to teach Brian a lesson,
23:39it's somebody else getting electrocuted.
23:41You sure showed me.
23:43Brian is starting to get it.
23:44You can't bribe people.
23:46You can't fake the feeling.
23:47You can't rush things.
23:49So you know what?
23:50Just sit back
23:52and learn about your girls.
23:54Learn about your daughter.
23:55Learn about your granddaughter.
23:57And trail with them, okay?
23:58You know what?
23:59They want to do charity work?
24:00You're joining in.
24:02This time, though,
24:03unlike the other times
24:04where it's Brian clearly causing the problem,
24:07I don't know.
24:07I feel like when the investor calls,
24:09he wasn't trying to stay away
24:11from his daughter and his granddaughter.
24:13He got put into a rough situation.
24:15His daughter wasn't trying to understand him.
24:17Maybe one day,
24:18I'll be able to forget
24:19all of the times
24:20that you chose work over me.
24:22But today is not that day.
24:24This time,
24:25Brian caught a bad break.
24:26Also,
24:27the Santa hat that he's wearing,
24:28I don't think matches the suit at all.
24:30So I'm a little taken out of this scene.
24:33Santa is a sick bastard.
24:35To end the day,
24:36Brian walks right in front of a bus
24:38and Santa laughs like,
24:41I got to think of like
24:42another five ways to kill this guy.
24:44I'm having a great time.
24:45And right after I thought that,
24:47they go into a montage
24:48of his next few failed attempts.
24:50But that's kind of the last
24:52Final Destination-like kill
24:54that we're going to get for a while.
24:55Now, whenever he fails with his daughter
24:58and they have an argument,
24:59he just blows out a candle.
25:02But not the green candle.
25:03So Tommy Oliver,
25:05you're safe this Christmas.
25:06You can go enjoy it
25:08with your pal,
25:09Alpha Phi.
25:09Wow, this is what I call Christmas magic.
25:12Merry Christmas, everybody!
25:14Blowing out a candle
25:15is a lot less interesting
25:17than having a chandelier
25:19dropped on you
25:19in the middle of a Christmas party.
25:21So we find out
25:22that when Michelle was a little girl,
25:23she had a music box slash clock.
25:26And at one point,
25:27it broke.
25:28Since her dad was a
25:30fixer of this type of stuff,
25:32I mean, obviously,
25:34he'd fix the thing, right?
25:35It's for his little girl.
25:36The guy at the very beginning
25:38of this movie
25:38was shown as a little boy
25:40learning how to repair things
25:42from his father.
25:43So you'd think,
25:44oh, well,
25:44yeah, of course,
25:45he'd repair his daughter's
25:46music box slash clock.
25:48But he didn't
25:48because he was an absentee dad.
25:50He prioritized work
25:52over doing things
25:53with his daughter.
25:53So Brian gets this bright idea.
25:55That's it.
25:56I'm going to replace
25:57that music box.
25:58If I do that,
25:59then the relationship
26:00will be repaired.
26:01Brian has extreme
26:03video game logic.
26:04He's figured out
26:05the solution, right?
26:07And instead of backtracking
26:08and maybe,
26:09I don't know,
26:09doing other stuff
26:10with the remaining time
26:11he has for this day,
26:12he just suicides himself.
26:14Why go back to the beginning
26:15when you can start
26:16the next day fresh?
26:17He's going to go on eBay.
26:18He's going to buy it now.
26:20That clock is his.
26:22It's going to keep Brian
26:23from going to hell,
26:24fix the relationship
26:25with his daughter,
26:26and save Christmas.
26:28That is a lot of pressure
26:30to put on one eBay purchase.
26:33You're trying to stay out of hell
26:34and repair your entire life
26:36over something
26:37you can buy it now.
26:39That would be like
26:39the last thing I bought on eBay,
26:41keeping me out of hell.
26:42This Kalisto action figure
26:44that I bought
26:45for my nephew to play with.
26:46And I didn't even realize
26:47that I bought it
26:48with a broken hand.
26:49This is going to keep you
26:50out of hell?
26:51Something like this?
26:52Lucha, lucha, lucha.
26:54No, Brian.
26:55Way too much pressure.
26:56I don't think that's
26:57what Santa meant.
26:58I don't think
26:59you're on the right path.
27:00You know,
27:00they never really address
27:02the father situation here.
27:03What's Michelle's deal?
27:05Is there a husband?
27:07Boyfriend?
27:07Is she a single mom?
27:09Brian is trying to learn
27:10from his mistakes.
27:11Instead of getting involved
27:12with the investor lady,
27:13he blows her off this time.
27:15He's going to spend time
27:16with his granddaughter
27:17and his daughter.
27:18If this was a video game,
27:19he's getting further along
27:21in the level.
27:22He's now at the part
27:23where it's the Christmas Eve party,
27:25the fundraiser,
27:26and he still can't bring himself
27:28to really embrace Christmas.
27:30My father dressed as Santa
27:31every year.
27:32I'm not my father.
27:34I am no Santa.
27:35Okay, even the Grinch
27:37put on the Santa suit.
27:38If you're going to die
27:39and you know this for a fact
27:40because you've been interacting
27:41with Santa Claus
27:42who's told you this,
27:44just put on the suit.
27:45And if this was a video game,
27:47this is the equivalent
27:48of rushing the final level.
27:50You're so eager
27:51to get to the boss,
27:52you forget all the trophies
27:55and side quests,
27:57which is like
27:58when this woman
27:59from his past shows up,
28:01instead of realizing
28:02that this might be
28:03an important character
28:04to make up with
28:05and maybe rekindle
28:07a romance for himself,
28:08he bypasses that.
28:09No time.
28:10I want more time.
28:11I have to get that clock,
28:13that music box clock.
28:14That will get me
28:15to tomorrow,
28:16which actually is Christmas.
28:17And he's freaking out
28:18about this clock.
28:19The clock hasn't arrived
28:20and he's not really
28:22into Christmas anymore.
28:24He's trying to wrap everything up
28:27because he knows
28:28he's running out of time.
28:29So now he's starting
28:30to make mistakes.
28:31The clock arrives
28:32and he gives that as a present,
28:34but because, you know,
28:36he's lived different timelines,
28:38he's confusing things
28:39that have happened
28:40as things that are canon
28:42to this future.
28:43So this gift
28:44doesn't quite work.
28:47It's the music box clock
28:48I gave you when you were 12.
28:50Yeah, the one that
28:51you wouldn't help me fix.
28:52The music box failed.
28:54Wow.
28:55That'd be like completing
28:56the video game mission
28:57with the second
28:58to worst possible outcome.
29:00You were doing so well
29:02and you botched it
29:03right at the end.
29:04The only way that run
29:05would have been any worse
29:07is had he died
29:08before even presenting
29:10that lackluster gift.
29:13Thanks.
29:14And because he sold
29:16the company to Nina,
29:17she goes up there
29:18and gives a speech.
29:19She's selling the company.
29:20Everyone's fired.
29:22Oops.
29:23Kind of made a mistake
29:24there, didn't you?
29:25Because while you were
29:26trying to fix things
29:27with your daughter
29:27and your granddaughter,
29:29you screwed over
29:29all these people.
29:31They're going to be
29:32without a job.
29:33Yeah, they got fired
29:34on Christmas Eve.
29:35Good going, Brian.
29:36And when you tried
29:37to meddle
29:38and save your daughter
29:40from the embarrassment
29:41of having that surgery
29:42go wrong,
29:43all you really did
29:44was mess up the timeline again
29:46and you're going to
29:47be punished for that.
29:48That patient almost died
29:49during the surgery.
29:50If I had done the surgery...
29:51The same thing
29:52would have happened.
29:53Well, thank you
29:53for having faith in me
29:55as a surgeon.
29:55Because even if she had
29:57or hadn't been
29:57at this surgery,
29:58this patient was always
29:59going to have a medical
30:00issue happen.
30:01And had she been there
30:02or not been there,
30:04she's going to feel
30:04guilty either way.
30:05I thought you had changed.
30:07You sure fooled me.
30:09You're right.
30:10I was an heir for you.
30:12I don't deserve you.
30:13Well, game over.
30:15That was the last attempt.
30:16You failed, Fraser Crane.
30:19Psychoanalyze this.
30:20Okay?
30:21You didn't do it.
30:22I'm a horrible father
30:23and I'm a horrible boss
30:25and I'm a horrible human being.
30:28Oh, you're right.
30:29You're all right.
30:31It's over.
30:32You're going to hell
30:33and Santa's
30:34going to send you there.
30:36And this is going to
30:37become canon, right?
30:39This is going to be
30:39the Christmas Eve
30:40that carries over
30:41into the next day.
30:42Brian is dead.
30:43The company is sold.
30:45Everyone's been fired.
30:47And the daughter
30:48and the granddaughter
30:49are now traumatized.
30:50That woman who was
30:52looking to be
30:52back in his life.
30:54You know,
30:55she never even got a shot.
30:56Way to go.
30:57Even Santa realizes,
30:58ooh, that's a bad ending.
30:59I gave you 12 chances.
31:03I know.
31:04And it would be
31:06had Brian not figured out.
31:08Wait a minute.
31:08And we had 11 attempts, right?
31:10Because you can't count that first day
31:12because I didn't know
31:12what rules I was playing by.
31:14You've only given me 11 chances.
31:16Ah, got him on a technicality.
31:18And Santa,
31:19you know,
31:19he's willing to play along.
31:21But, you know,
31:22you don't fully get to win here.
31:24You're still gonna die
31:25at the end of the day.
31:26But,
31:27you get one more chance.
31:29So,
31:29don't slip on ice.
31:30That would really suck.
31:32When the day is done,
31:34so is your life.
31:36So, on day 12,
31:38Brian is pitching the perfect game.
31:40He's got the Christmas spirit.
31:41He's living it up.
31:42He knows that
31:43this is the end.
31:44Every mistake
31:45is now being corrected.
31:46In that boardroom meeting
31:48on Christmas morning,
31:49he makes Jed
31:50his new COO.
31:51Jed's always been there for him.
31:52He's helped out
31:53countless times
31:54throughout this story.
31:55I won't let you down, sir.
31:57Please call me Brian.
31:58Yes, sir.
31:59I mean,
32:00Brian, sir.
32:01I mean,
32:03Brian.
32:03All right.
32:04You should work on that.
32:06The rest of the board,
32:07they get raises.
32:08They get appreciated.
32:09And also,
32:10the bonuses
32:11don't go towards
32:12somebody else.
32:14They actually get the money
32:15that they earned.
32:16I don't really know
32:17what they did.
32:17They could all be bad people, too.
32:19Like that boardroom in Dogma.
32:21Then,
32:22in what I think is
32:24kind of breaking the rules,
32:25he warns his daughter that
32:27your patient,
32:28the one you're about
32:28to operate on,
32:29has a brain bleed
32:30that no one has noticed.
32:32All right.
32:32That's going to be something
32:33that the daughter's
32:33going to ask about
32:34if, you know,
32:36this day had continued
32:37into Christmas Day
32:38and, you know,
32:40out into
32:40friggin' New Year's.
32:41And now,
32:42he's going to repeat
32:43the things that worked
32:44on other days.
32:45He's going to have
32:46a heartwarming conversation
32:47with his granddaughter.
32:48Fixing things together?
32:50That worked.
32:50That conversation I had
32:52with Nina the investor
32:53about devoting your life
32:54to things outside of work?
32:56We're doing that again.
32:57But while I do that,
32:59I'm going to talk about
32:59a partnership
33:00that saves this business
33:01because I know that Nina,
33:03she had other motives.
33:04At the end of the day,
33:06all these people
33:07aren't going to get fired again.
33:08I do want you to invest
33:09in PC Electric,
33:10but only
33:12if it's part of a life
33:14you want to live
33:15and not an excuse
33:16to hide from it.
33:18You're not the person
33:19I thought you would be.
33:23I'm not the person
33:24I thought I was.
33:25This is the speed run,
33:26right?
33:27Because now we're
33:27back at that party.
33:29The fundraiser
33:30is just really fun now.
33:32There's Christmas decorations.
33:34He's going to put on
33:35the Santa suit.
33:37It's so much fun
33:38that Nina,
33:39having learned
33:40from him earlier,
33:41decides,
33:42you know what?
33:43I was going to
33:43screw over the company,
33:44which obviously
33:45we know about.
33:46I'm going to invest.
33:47You know what?
33:47I could really see
33:48this being something
33:49that helps me grow
33:51as a person.
33:52And I want a family too.
33:54The Christmas spirit
33:55is everywhere.
33:56That woman
33:57that keeps coming in
33:58and was the love interest.
33:59Well, now he's got time
34:00for that side quest.
34:01That's a weird thing
34:02I just referred to her as,
34:04but I mean side quest
34:05as in this is something
34:07that should have been
34:07taken care of too.
34:08Not as in like,
34:10oh, he should,
34:11you know.
34:11I thought you hated Christmas.
34:13A man can change.
34:14Anyway,
34:15they now reconnect.
34:17So had he lived,
34:19Brian would have had
34:20an actual future.
34:21They could have had something.
34:23They could have been together.
34:24He could have made her
34:25toss salad and scrambled eggs.
34:27This is a true Christmas movie.
34:29So he discovered
34:30the magic of Christmas,
34:32the Christmas spirit.
34:33And it's not just about
34:34Santa,
34:35who I guess is real,
34:36but also Jesus.
34:38Yes, Jesus.
34:40Did you forget about him
34:41in this Final Destination
34:42Christmas film?
34:43I sort of did too.
34:44But he makes this all possible.
34:46Brian loves his family.
34:48Brian loves love.
34:49And that's Christmas Eve.
34:52It's going to really suck
34:53for this family tomorrow
34:54when the grandpa,
34:55who finally seemed like
34:56he was changing,
34:58just drops dead.
34:59Oh, okay.
35:00Well, it looked like
35:01Santa was just
35:02messing with Brian.
35:04I think.
35:04Unless he's in purgatory
35:05and he's a ghost
35:07and he's in this house,
35:09but he's not here anymore,
35:10if you know what I mean.
35:11It's Christmas,
35:13I'm alive!
35:15Michelle!
35:16Horkin!
35:16It's Christmas morning,
35:18wake up!
35:18So what you're saying is,
35:20Brian is a final girl,
35:22isn't he?
35:23Santa has spared
35:25Brian's life.
35:26He's lived through
35:26the Final Destination.
35:28And his final destination
35:29is to be down
35:30in their living room,
35:32opening presents
35:33with his daughter,
35:34his granddaughter,
35:35and singing
35:36an Irish lullaby.
35:37Tor almore almore
35:40Big finish.
35:41That's an Irish lullaby!
35:47Sweet gifts, too, right?
35:49Because this girl
35:50just got a vintage
35:51Rock'em Sock'em robot.
35:52She doesn't strike me
35:53as the type who would have
35:54asked for this gift,
35:55but hey,
35:56don't stereotype.
35:57Especially not at Christmas time.
35:59And Santa has left
36:00a gift for Brian.
36:01A little reminder.
36:03It's the death candle.
36:05That's kind of weird, Santa.
36:06But it's a good reminder
36:08for Brian that
36:08if you ever try this crap again
36:10or go back to your old self,
36:12your ass is mine.
36:14Could Brian have asked
36:15for a different gift?
36:17Maybe a ticket to
36:19money plane?
36:21Now bring me
36:22my money!
36:23That was the
36:24Kelsey Grammer vehicle
36:2612 days
36:27of Christmas Eve.
36:29And when you get
36:30burnt out
36:31on all your
36:31holiday classics
36:32and then have seen
36:33all the, you know,
36:35so bad they're good
36:36Christmas movies
36:37and have burned through
36:38all your
36:40schmaltzy,
36:41lovey-dovey,
36:42big-time woman,
36:44small-town guy,
36:45big-time guy,
36:46small-town woman,
36:47and this one,
36:48I don't know,
36:49you gotta add it
36:50to the list of
36:50Christmas movies
36:51worth watching, okay?
36:53That's just how
36:54I'm feeling about this one.
36:56It's too good.
36:57Trust me, okay?
36:59I try to watch
37:00all of these things
37:01and, you know,
37:02I just watched
37:03the Eddie Murphy
37:03Candy Cane Lane one.
37:05No, I'd rather
37:06watch this again.
37:07I watched that
37:08Ludicrous Christmas one.
37:09Would rather watch
37:10this again.
37:11I watched
37:12the one with
37:13Vanessa Hudgens
37:14and there was
37:15A Night from the Past.
37:16That was a good one.
37:16Actually, I liked that one.
37:18Hey, if you liked
37:18this video,
37:19join the channel.
37:21I put stuff
37:22behind the paywall,
37:22but it's only two bucks
37:23because you and I
37:24both know
37:25paying for subscription fees
37:27is kind of stupid, right?
37:28I mean,
37:28it makes sense
37:29to support creators,
37:30but also,
37:31who wants to give
37:32their money away?
37:33You do, to me.
37:34I'm a terrible salesman.
37:36Merry Christmas.
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