Finally, a Christmas Comedy About Child Neglect...? (Baby in a Manger REACTION) 

As a CPS hotline worker for one of the poorest US states, I can tell you that YES we can place kids in safe homes every day, every hour, even Christmas. It's a 24/7 deal. I work overnights and have coordinated this kind of effort multiple times. Also I only make 29k/year. None of my furniture matches, and most of my things are secondhand. CPS pays its workers so little, many of us are on medicaid and food stamps. Still, I love my job. I'm proud of what I do.

As an actual child welfare worker, I'd like to point out that emergency foster placements exist for a reason. No organization would let an employee and a random cop take a newborn baby home when they have foster parents that are actually qualified.

If the mom is horrible for leaving the baby she couldn’t feed in a church and should be arrested, then where is the witch hunt for the father who left his girlfriend and child alone in a random town in the middle of nowhere without any money, food, or form of transportation? Where’s cop boy’s anger for that?

"Should we just leave her [in this freezing car]?" Aren't you a wholeass child protective service agent???? What kind of question is this, you arrest people over this!!!

Wouldn’t… the police’s next move after finding an abandoned baby be to hand them over to child services anyways?

If you’re not gonna allow abortions, at least don’t guilt trip people out of adoption. That’s how we get families who were in horrible situations, homeless, and create very damaged children.

Alison literally staying up all night to care for the baby, only for Brock to be praised as a hero and perfect dad for showing up well-rested with a nasty used toothbrush mobile and gas station E. Coli is a perfect depiction of every straight marriage.

The most realistic part of this movie is the police and child services fighting instead of helping the actual child

Jokes on you Nick, I'm both the gay cousin AND I have a gay cousin. We're doin' the Lord's work- keeping the family expectations rock bottomed!

It’s not Christmas without Nick voice shaming an elderly woman.

Once you notice that all of the women wear red and all of the men wear green in these movies, you can't unsee it. Nick, call out the lazy costume choices and remind them that other colors exist and that women can wear green and men wear red too.

I love when Nick tells a joke and is so taken about by their own audacity that they just can't stop laughing

So no papers were signed, babies are being handed over to random people and they can just take them home? Ok what a wonderful state system.

With the cops blatantly unresolved Mommy issues, and his creepy insistence on taking the child completely against protocol, I get the feeling that this is secretly a thriller Serial Killer Cop movie that was merely disguised as a Christmas family movie. "What's in Brocks Basement" has a nice ring to it, I think.

I like how the cops first reaction to the (presumably underage or barely 18 year old) mother’s story about being abandoned by her (probably abusive) ex is to just yell at her about how *she* should somehow just manifest a secure life for her child out of her ass, like bro what even? Very on brand. Much misogyny. Yes. (Now watch the FL fall in love with him anyways because the writers are also men and somehow think this is an endearing character trait.) Ah projection, the killer of subtlety

Officer Shapiro over here traumatizing that girl with his strong feelings that he needs to ignore the fact that she literally left her baby with a social worker and a cop, the best options available.

Wait. This is a single woman that works for CPS, and she somehow has a giant house, that's fully decorated, AND two full sized Christmas trees..? Man, CPS must pay A LOT better- and allow their workers so much more free time and mental health care- in Canada! Here in the US, they're all overworked, overstressed, and broke.

Not sure about Canada, but US has the Safe-Haven Law, which would have protected the mom from cop pressing charges since she left the baby at a church(?). Like, what did he expect her to do? Die of starvation and have the baby follow suit? I feel like even if she resorted to stealing, he'd still blame her and be upset because of his own unresolved issues

I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this was heavy on the mom shaming and mom focus, unresolved mom issues that needed to go to the comments section to raise their hand to ask, "where's all the dads in this damn story?" Oh wait I forgot this was religious conservative propaganda, men have little to no guilt or responsibility.

Instead of a police drama, they should have done a competitive talent show and the winner gets the baby. It makes just as much sense, but it could have ventriloquism.

allison getting her current job without the higher ups bothering to interview her sure explains a lot about her lack of basic knowledge about childcare

Amazing how every screenwriter trying actively to write a terrifying villain has fallen short of the love interest in this baby comedy

"but it's bring your own baby spine" I am both embarrassed and disturbed at how hard that made me laugh.

I love how Nick blended "Basketball" by lil Bow Wow and "how I beat Shaq" by Aaron Carter. True Millenial memory blending.

As a former foster kid, there would be red flags for me if some cop was that desperate to take this baby. that's not protocol at ALL. She would definitely be the one to take it into the CPS building to be placed with parents on the waiting list.

Christmas and child neglect? Hits a little too close to home.

every gay cousin should get free healthcare for: 1) carrying every family function on their backs 2) therapy

"I need to deal with facts not feelings!" Well he certainly is sporting the right hairstyle for that take.

My jaw dropped when she sprayed that officer. She would’ve been arrested immediately. Thrown to the ground and everything in real life. Lmao what is this?! 😂

The cop saying situations require a bad guy is a something I've heard from many cops. They're often trained to think that way and it causes emotional issues and destruction for everyone. It's like they don't understand that not every circumstance requires aggression and punishment. Life is too complicated for that.

There is no feeling like watching an old Nick video for the third time when a fresh one is announced before your very eyes! I feel so blessed! 🧚🏻‍♂️

the baby being named CHRISTina was not subtle lmfao

I love how every video you openly talk about issues in todays society. It’s so refreshing to see someone address them even on “silly movies”. I hope you’re having a safe and happy holiday season!!!

me taking my birth control: "don't get pregnant! don't, don't get pregnant!!"

Hey Nick! Re: "a dingo ate my baby" / Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton - really wasn't expecting a throwback to a staple of '80s and '90s culture, but you're always full of surprises. This phrase was everywhere when I was growing up, and it was used in place of "an unbelievable, implausible lie to avoid punishment for committing an obvious crime or social faux pas". For example, you'd steal a cookie from the cookie jar and lie about it, and someone might retort "and a dingo ate my baby!" It was on TV, on the radio, in conversation, in advertising. It was worldwide. I had no idea until adulthood that it was based on an actual incident. Lindy and her husband were both charged with their infant daughter's death. Lindy was jailed for 3yrs, then released for a retrial, exonerated in the early '90s, paid restitution by the Australian government, and officially pardoned in 2012 when investigation and research determined that, yes, a dingo had actually stolen the infant from her tent while the parents slept, dragged her away as the mother witnessed, and later ate her. I cannot imagine how difficult Lindy's life must have been for the thirty years or so between her infant disappearing, which is tragic, and her final pardon from the government. It's similar in many ways to the famous "coffee burn" case from the '90s - a woman was seriously hurt, and McDonald's hired lawyers and PR people to turn the talking points into mockery to discredit her. Anyhow. Lovely video, I'm so glad Sweetheart Drywall and One-Dimension Beige got together or whatever. I completely agree about the ending - gross to suggest the family "needs" a biological child to be complete. Also a really ugly slice of conservatism around the "tragedy" of young motherhood. Everyone in this movie is allowed to be incompetent except the teenage mom? Take care, love your stuff, you are hilarious and hot, happy holidays!

Fun fact: police officers don't file charges, prosecutors do! Another thing this movie is wrong about lmao

I would love to see you tackle The House Without a Christmas Tree. The angry dad doesn't let his daughter celebrate Christmas with a tree and I hate it lol

The moose and beavers have conferred and I am here to relay the message: Canada would be happy to have you. A team of sled dogs will be dispatched at your earliest convenience. Please proceed to your nearest goose to convey your availability.

Does Canada not have safe-haven laws? Maybe people wouldn't be performing Ocean's Eleven baby abandonment heists in your church if there was a designated safe place to leave them.

that "oh oh oh ORIELLY'S" representation just made my day. IT JUST COMES OUT SOMETIMES

Yeah the hospital "running a quick check" like we have our patients DNA on file for convenient look ups.

"Did they just throw the baby like a basketball?" That mental image made me giggle

Director: we found joy's mother in a hotel room. What's the soundtrack? Music: I'm feeling like Netflix quirky whimsical comedy where the main characters fight with each other over a misunderstanding.

I loved that you brought up the infrastructure bill. My high schools water filtration system didn’t work and we were all told not to drink from the water fountains, school was also frequently canceled cause of plumbing issues. It’s a really important issue that I hope we see some change with soon

4:00 Mom must be a ninja considering she managed to place the child, and remove the doll, right by a group of people during a short blackout without a single person noticing (incl. all the people watching the actual show). She properly has to go on a long mission so that is why she cant keep the kid.

"I'm not going to feel safe until I see that baby handed to somebody with a gun" nick, hon, bold of you to assume half of the church-goers present didn't take their guns to the house of god

Nick, as a social worker your critique of child welfare systems are extremely poignant 😅

The DiRama club, come for the raunchy humor, Stay for the political commentary about real issues that need to be said! Still the best thing on RU-vid

"Cause my ovaries to water" I choked on my drink 😭

wow the birthmom shaming coming from officer bluelives in this christmas movie is actually upsetting. if you cant take care of your baby call an adoption agency, seriously.

Just when I thought the film sounded too progressive by having the poor young woman reunite with her baby, they gotta have her give the baby to the successful stable white woman at the last minute, just to make sure they've thoroughly expunged the sin of being a young/single/poor mother. I should not be surprised. But, as ever, your commentary is both critical and hilarious, I was giggling at my stove trying to make soup.

My ovaries are so drying up when I see babies. I'm 40 and so glad that I stuck to cats

I got to your brief synopsis and immediately thought "Did the filmmakers watch Tokyo Godfathers and think 'We can do that but change it enough so nobody notices?''

The joke about the cycle of abuse made me crack up and then be like wtf trauma 😒 😑. Thanks for helping me laugh at hard shit.

You want to see this premise done right and in a less annoying manner: Tokyo Godfathers. 3 homeless people find a baby and try to return her to her mother.

legally arent churches considered safe havens meaning that parents can leave (unharmed) children there without disclosing personal info and face no legal consequences? churches police stations and fire houses all qualify meaning that the mother literally did follow the law but ig that doesnt matter since this cop has mommy issues or smth

The song "Basketball" is orginally by Kurtis Blow but Lil' Bow Wow did a cover for Like Mike

That cop’s sense of “humor” is similar to mine. However, I’m on the Autism Spectrum. I don’t know what his deal is. I adopted my oldest children from the foster care system. They were 5 and 11 at the time and are now 23 and 18.

I'm so grateful you touch on all these religious movies and shows. There's always so much solidarity in the comments, make me feel so seen! Plus you always have the smartest and funniest critiques with some real life advice as a cherry on top!

I'm surprised Nick didn't mention the reluctance the cousin had to take something from that sad little plate of holidays treats at the end. He was not looking thrilled to be in the scene.

My mom threw away my Lil Bow single because it was "Rap" music. Just a few weeks ago after putting on the Nsync Christmas album I played her Where my Dogs At and then played her Under My Tree and asked her which one she actually found more inappropriate for an 8 year old to listen to. It was a wonderful teaching moment.

As a nurse, your extensive destruction of that mother-baby nurse absolutely killed me

Been working 13+ hour workdays and generally feeling so unfestive and lonely. Your videos have been so helpful to me on my early mornings alone at the office. Thank you!

speaking of driving drunk on a weeknight our county sheriff literally just got caught doing that this week- crashed his car and ended up in the hospital. He had his gun with him. The system is beyond broken.

I love how no movie or even crime procedural (looking at you CSI) has any idea how the criminal justice system works. Cops don’t get to choose what charges a person faces, they suggest charges to the district attorney and the prosecutor decides what, if any, charges are actually pursued in court.

Ok but Mary wasn't alone when she was having a baby. She had Joseph, all those barn animals, and the holy ghost.

"Officer sag bag" i busted out laughing

Nick you’re an angel i just boarded my plane back home and pressed download SUPER fast so i could enjoy it midair!

Seeing a Stand By Me clip with "This, but worms" is the funniest thing i never expected

"Make what harder?" How can you deliver that line with a straight face 🤣🤣🤣

"You people need to calm down about having stampedes at shopping malls" I actually laughed for 45 minutes!!! It's so true though!!!

101 Dalmatians could technically be called a Christmas movie, it'd be awesome if you could do a breakdown of the live action version!

As a Canadian we welcome you Nick! Come enjoy our bad movies!

Makeup on point, jokes on point, sass always on point. Love it!

Roasting Christmas movies like chestnuts on an open fire! Thanks Saint Nick ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

that worm joke at 0:22 made me laugh so hard i couldn’t breathe. i really needed that tonight after the supreme court leak, thank you nick

These clip breakdowns are hilarious! It’s even better when I’ve never watched the movie before, it’s great

It's called emergency foster care placement, and they're are emergency foster parents for wish a situation to limit instability for the child. This movie is disturbing in the narrative that they've constructed to explain a number of services of which many people don't understand beyond a surface level. Social services and CPS varies from state to state but fostering to adopt (non-emergency) takes time (over years sometimes).

My sister and bro I'm law were foster parents for ten years and sadly they got more than one child that not only came from neglect and abuse but they so came from foster homes where they were also neglected and abused... it was truly sad

nick you are an absolutely joy! i just got top surgery (yay!!) last week so I've been rewatching a lot of your videos since I can't do a lot else and it's been just perfect so to have a banger of a new video like this is a treat! C: -edited to add: your unflinching relentless cop shaming isexactly what I like to see in my content! keep up the great work lmao acab baby!

I will never get over how much Nick laughs at themself. I've never seen someone so entertained by the ridiculous shit that comes out of their mouth. Lmao

Did you just serve us with the new RuPaul Christmas song, “Bussin’ for Christmas”?

It always bothers me when they have the adoptive parents have a biological baby at the very end . It just seems like they’re saying: Now that the women gave birth and has a REAL child and is a REAL mother . They can be a happy family😁 Cause why would we show that a couple is truly happy with an adopted child.

This movie said "fuck basic logic, we need this mediocre cishet white couple to fall in love!"

The thing about an adopted child needing to have a sibling who is the parents' biological child is so fucked and I'm mad about it because I have friends who pretend they don't feel that way but actually do. I have a friend who has told me for years that they want to adopt kids, but recently had a pregnancy scare and told me they would give the baby to their fiancés mom to raise until they were ready for kids (????) And when I said that sounds kind of fucked up for the kid, and also I don't think people in general should be having biological children right now (there are so many kids in the foster care system who need homes, not to mention the fact that the world is going to shit, we maybe shouldn't be bringing kids into it, but that's just my opinion) they told me of course they'll still adopt, they've just always wanted a child of their own. Like an adopted child isn't a "child of your own"? They weren't pregnant, but we've talked about it a few more times (I admit I've been a dick about it, pushing the issue when they didn't really want to talk about it) and I eventually asked why they wanted a biological kid so bad and they were so mad that I kept asking they said "why aren't you okay with me having a real kid?" Of course. I should've known all along they never actually saw adopted kids as real kids. I just didn't want that to be the case.

the priest is wearing the wrong color robes for xmas, the same attention to detail we can expect from a fox news segment

i really appreciate the way you bring up specific topics when it comes to human safety/rights. instead of just vague blanket statements, def sharing info others might not know or realize

LOL. That, “Is the baby parents here in the congregation?” bothered me waaaay more than is should have.

This intro 🙌🏿 😭 Edit: I love that you spend the whole video roasting the cop solely off the fact that his punk ass is a COP

Yes, Nick. The uterus sneezes when it's tickled. 😅

Ohhhh “Christina” like “CHRISTina”…. Knew her real name would be conveniently Jesus-y.

Haha if a baby had been left in a Manger while I was working as the Christmas play director at the last church I attended I would have just gotten on stage "Okay, where did this baby come from? Come on folks we have like 30 members in this church and it's a small town. Everyone knows everyone and you know who's baby this is. Who? It's Bill's? Dang it Bill stop leaving your baby in random churches! The laws already talked to you about this! Bill! Bill stop running! Okay, someone go down the road to the Baptist church and get the Sheriff. Tell him Bill's left his baby at another church."

It's weird how polished every scene and every set is in a movie about child neglect. None of the giant houses, hospitals or foster homes look realistic even tho its a movie about a very real issue. It's like they're making a christmas fairytale about abandoning a child and almost romanticizing it idk

I am fostering a very stubborn pug pup since today and consider Officer Sweetheart as his possible name now😅

I have never clicked on a video so fast! Ngl I’m here in the uk and my wife went back to the us last week and she’s been affected by the tornado that just hit. It’s sad being so far apart but your videos always manage to cheer me up. Honestly made my day so thank you! 💕

I went to middle school with the girl that played the mom. She was my gay awakening and this channel helped me come out and be proud of myself. So I guess you could say my life has come full circle.

"Dear Lord, Nick..." is what I find myself saying more and more with your jokes. Wouldn't have it any other way though.

Not Brock projecting his childhood issues at a possible crime scene and then Alison shrinking him 😂

When you said "...because she wasn't convinced that you weren't just getting a whiff of your own balls, officer Blue Lives Matter" *I screamed* 😭😭😭💀 LMAOOO

DYING at the "yelling at scared teenagers is not actually part of the job description" part because the officials from my time in the system were downright gainfully employed in legally sanctioned child abuse slight jk but this movie does reflect some terrible realities of the punitive legal system and how it treats minors really, alarmingly well