The tradition with watching Donald Duck for Christmas here in Sweden started because back in the days, that was basically THE only time they showed any cartoons whatsoever on TV. It's been shown every single Christmas since 1960. We also watch "Dinner for One" for New Years Eve, they've shown it every year since 1976 except 2004 due to dedicating the time to honouring the tsunami victims.
The Disney show is called From All Of Us To All Of You, and we watch it here in Denmark too. However, Disney used to change it up every once in a while, taking out some of the cartoons and putting other ones in, and because Sweden and Denmark established the tradition at different times, even though the basic structure of the show is the same, a lot of the clips are different. Additionally, the show is on Swedish TV at 3 pm on Christmas Eve, while it's on Danish TV at 4 pm. I've married into a family which watches both, so every Christmas Eve we first watch the Swedish one, and then the Danish one right after that. We also watch Dinner For One at 11:45 pm on New Year's Eve, and have ever since... I don't know exactly, before I was born anyway. I remember there was one year in the late 80s where the national Danish TV channel decided that people were probably tired of the same thing every year, and chose not to air it. Let me tell you, the torches and pitchforks came out at that time. One thing people won't stand for is if you mess with their traditions. It's been on every year since then without fail.
Lewis has a tradition every Christmas that I used to think was weird but have gotten used to over the years, Calling Sips at a strange time of night live on stream.
In Denmark the 90th Birthday has been shown on New Year's Eve every year since 1980 - except for 1985 where they didn't play it at all, and people got so furious they haven't dared not play it since. Most years they time it so it finishes just before the queen's speech at 6 pm, which is another tradition that's lasted since it was introduced by Frederik VII in 1958 (before that the speech was only on radio since 1941, and even before that it was printed in the newspapers). But we also still have the Disney cartoons on Christmas Eve (or the 24th anyway, it's never shown in the evening) as part of the "while we wait" programming which runs all day until dinner time
You can really tell you have a great crew together for a recording when even somewhat noteworthy events in the actual game are barely mentioned and when they are it actually feels a bit intrusive. I love this short free form podcast!
Please get this team + kirsty and briony in a GTA recording! The core of Zylus Duncan (Ben) and Lewis flanked by both the boomer sisters and then also the absolute unit of a combo that is Rythian Briony and Kirsty in the mix would be intense. Everyone on autopilot about the game and just itching to get in on the chat, I can see it now.
@@dannyl434 Duncan was always one of my favorites, but in recent years he's been quite lacking.. I miss his like Tekkit days and the things he'd play with Kim. He was a lot more engaged and wanting to learn. Now whenever he plays like Minecraft he just bashes his head against a wall trying to stumble through it then complains the whole way about how bad it is yet it's because he refuses to learn anything. Like he and Ravs both constantly hate on the Botania mod saying how horrible it is but it's actually a very well made mod it's just they didn't do literally anything in it.. they just tried to beeline straight from the start to the end bosses without making anything extra.. so obviously it was stupid hard.
What's the point? Lewis blows him up in the game of GTA 5, Duncan starts to talk about the game of GTA 5 they are currently playing, and Osie cuts everyone off about birthdays. Their rule for these videos now is that if you have the vaguest thought, don't mull it over, don't let it stew, don't wait for a good time, just unleash it, and who cares how the gameplay is going.
Whooo! Duncan's back! Also a tradition my family had was to cook a holiday dish from another culture every year. So one year was Mexican, one was Thai, Polish, etc.
For those looking for a Christmas tradition, may I recommend watching the 1964 film "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians". It's guaranteed to make your guests leave early, unless you play the MST3K version, which will have them staying for the whole film. The definition of so bad it's good.
Lewis' tradition of doing nanograms/picross with gran? Btw, thx for getting me into that one Lewis. The bit of you showing Ben how to do it. My whole extended family does them now...
When Zylus mentioned that they call Boxing Day, Second Christmas I thought of the english translation for the Swedish Christmas days. 24th is Christmas Eve, 25th is Christmas Day and 26th is literaly translated to "The Other Day". That made me laugh. But I guess if you translate it by the older meaning of it, then it's "Two Days after Christmas" since the 24th is the most important one in Sweden.
When I was a child, every year when putting up the Christmas tree there would be a massive fight. It got to the point where I would mockingly call that time "our yearly scheduled fight." Which actually seemed to shame everyone into acting like actual adults for a while. So the next year I did the same thing, with similar results. Our tradition is putting the tree up as a family but sometimes the 'whole family' gets on like oil and water.
Band of Brothers used real Dutch actors for the 4th episode. For example the farmer in the night scene is Freerk Bos or the attaché of the resistance is Hugo Metsers. The figurants were also all Dutch people. In the 9th episode they cheated hard though. Almost all the German villagers including the widow aren't German. The Jewish prisoners which in the Kaufering complex were mostly of Hungarian descend were also English speaking actors.
I think the best way to truly enjoy timing your Christmas or New Years to the LotR films is to eat nothing but maggoty bread for three stinkin' days, and then finally getting to dig into a delicious roast once Merry and Pippin are discovered by the Orcs ;)
3:50 ah man I love the three amigos! when I was a kid I would quote it relentlessly much to the annoyance of my parents. Gotta watch it again now, haven't seen it in yeeeears. "what does it mean to have a plethora?" or my favourite: "EXCUSE ME, ARE YOU THE SINGING BUSH?"
An Australian radio station does a very similar thing, but not at new year’s. At first, it was the top 100 songs of all time, but after a few years of Love Will Tear Us Apart winning, they switched to top 100 songs of the year. It’s started to spread internationally, and I think has held the record for world’s largest music poll.
I love that they are talking about traditions and then discussing things they do at Christmas "because people's families are together", but Christmas already IS a tradition. For some the days of 24th, 25th, 26th are just the same as the rest of the month. There is no gathering of family nor eating yourself sick with food.
lewis is absolutely right about norwegians watching dinner for one by the way, it is a peculiar but great tradition and it is quite a funny sketch too.
7:57 same in Finland , every christmass we air Snowman animated movie on christmass eve and i remember watching it when i was young every year, it still continues to air still every christmass 🙂
My mate used to time Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight so that the drum beat hits at midnight. Also Queen is number 1 in Aus in our count down too, at least it was every time I came across the channel.
My Mum, my sister, and I watch 'Best In Show' every turkey day here in Wisconsin. They're both big fans of the dog show and I introduced them to this gem
Bohemian Rhapsody sounds like the perfect song to play on New Year's Eve, especially if you time it so the gong at the end of the song strikes at midnight.
we have some really weird traditions in Denmark, but they're not really related to holidays. The midsummer bonfires on St Hans Eve (23 June - which is NOT a holiday) are probably the ones best known to foreigners. They fires serve both as a celebration of summer solstice, and as a sort of remembrance of all the witch burnings in medieval times, which is why we burn a witch on the fire every year.
The "Dinner for one"-sketch that Lewis mentioned is called "Grevinnan och betjänten" in Sweden and watched every new years eve by a lot of people. I believe it's also big in some other Nordic country and also Germany.
A short-lived (about 10 or so years) American TV Christmas season tradition was watching the late, great Jay Thomas tell his Lone Ranger story on _The Late Show With David Letterman._ Another _Late Show_ tradition was knocking a meatball off a Christmas tree by throwing (American) footballs at it. You can find clips of both pretty easily.
5:38 I have a faint recollection that RTE Irelands broadcaster used to do this as well used play a lot of old Disney clips and episodes backto back during holidays
I've never done this timed eat what's on screen concept, but I have done an annual Extended LotR feast which is great! But it's all put on by a local theatre here, where they supply the food throughout the day with each course inspired by the films. Even have their own attempt at making a extremely filling Lembas bread!
The LotR eat-along should be impossible, simply because of Bilbo's birhtday celebration at the very beginning. He's basically arranging the Burning Man festival for every Hobbit in the Shire, which would require an ungodly amount of food.
It's like those ticktocks where someone is doing a Minecraft jumping puzzle as a bot reads a reddit thread. I don't even have to watch it. Kinda like a podcast. Good stuff to listen to while u work or play
I think Zylus was referring to our tradition of "Sinterklaas" where an old man in religious clothing goes around giving presents to children with a bunch of (in past tradition) coloured people that act as his helpers (it's quite the controversy here now :)
For the past 3-5 years (I can't remember) it has been my family's tradition to watch Cats on Christmas. I don't know why, my sister started it ironically. Skimbleshanks is the only song I pay attention for though.
The queens speech is a incredibly weird tradition, you listen to some old person who was born in a cue to get their job, and their entire life is paid for by lessers, and you get paid to do absolutely nothing, and when you turn up somewhere everyone cries and tries to get you to say hello to their baby
It is traditional to have Harry Potter on TV during Christmas even if nobody is in the room, it is also important to joke about the time dad's shirt button popped at the dinner table at least once. And we have never gone a Christmas without someone spilling wine.
At least Daphne in Frasier was English, albeit Jane Leeves was actually from Essex and seemed to be doing a non-descript "northern" accent (sometimes Leeds, sometimes Lancaster). What confused the hell out of me was when both Robbie Coltrane and Richard E Grant appeared as her character's brothers "from Manchester" and at least of them sounded Cockney 😂
In Norway we have the same procedure as every year, on the 23rd Dec we watch "Dinner for one" and on the 24th (or 25th depending on channel) we watch Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, those who are awake early enough may also watch some classic Donald Duck cartoons around 10 am i think (i am asleep every year nowadays) and "Three Wishes for Cinderella" or "Three Gifts for Cinderella" on the 24th as well.
My strange birthday tradition was my mom would wake us up early with crappy McDonalds pancakes with a single candle. Those pancakes suck, but man I love buying them for myself every birthday now
Many American TV stations play the Harry Potter movies around Christmas. I personally watch all of the Christmas Doctor Who.... and kinda all of Doctor Who...
During the tradition talk I was just thinking of ABC's Harry Potter marathon during the 25 Days of Christmas and breaking the wishbone during Thanksgiving
In Denmark we also watch a Disney Christmas show. It's also a Clipshow "hosted" by Jiminy Cricket. But it sounds like we don't have the same clips as Sweden, cause I don't recognize the one Rythian described. We also do whatch the dinner for one that Lewis mentioned, BUT we watch it at new years, not Christmas
My family has a tradition that we didn't even really notice until a few years in. But for my fathers birthday we watch Aliens. Not because we want to but because we go over to his house around the same time and the scify network plays aliens on his brithday around that same time every year and he usually watches scify.
My father was never much of a traditions man, so we only celebrated standard Chinese traditions and that's it. No Christmas, Halloween, or even Birthdays. We just didn't do them. On the upside, I never felt the need to get free stuff, and when I do get free stuff, I'm happy and content with it. Also I should've expected the Yogs to not figure out there were Bomber Plane. Been watching for years, don't know why I was expecting diffrent.
