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I'm Sienna Jakole and I'm Leanna Holsten, and welcome to Tossed Popcorn, the podcast where two idiots watched every film on the AFI's one hundred Greatest American Movies of All Time, the Very slightly Less Racist tenth Anniversary Edition, and are now watching movies directed by women.

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This podcast is a safe Christmas for people who don't know anything about movies.

Today we're watching Happiest Season Better than Your Room at the Orphanage.

Oh, I wasn't in an Orphanage.

Warning there will be spoilers about this merry and gay recent film.

Yeah, it'd seen this before I had.

I'd like to apologize.

I'd like to apologize for a lot of things I think we're gonna find throughout this whole thing, and my notes.

I just want to say before before we hear my uh homophobic prediction that I that I really think I was mixing this up with another movie of low production value.

Okay, anyway, I guess let's just get it over with.

Okay, Well, time for everybody to cancel.

Sienna, Yes, here's my prediction of Happiest Season I'm sorry.

Hi, Leanna, this is Sienna.

I'm about to watch the Happiest season drop the happiest season, Thank you.

It is going to be a lesbian Christmas movie.

I think somebody's in love with Aubrey Plaza.

Aubrey Plausa is like an X or something that the other two are Christian Store and that lady from Black Mirror, and.

You know episode.

I don't remember it being too good, but I think it'll be fun to talk about.

I bet there'll be some people in this who say stuff where they're like, do do women really do that?

Stuff?

I could not, Okay, I love you, goodbye.

I think what I was trying to say was, like I thought, so I remember this being like a low production value, like that there would be like their parents would be like as if a girl could date a girl kind of vibe, and then low production value and the production value is low.

Okay, you know what I mean?

Like, you know, I guess the production value is low, so everybody's a little bit more homophobic, just like I thought.

That the ignorant people would be more ignorant like that it wouldn't be well written, Okay, But I genuinely think.

I'm mixing it up with another movie, huh, because well, if anybody out there knows of a low production value lesbian Christmas film, do write in.

I think what happened is that I watched several Christmas movies at around the same time, and one was this one and the other was, like, I don't know, you know, if there was some random movie that like Anna Kendrick was in that you forget about it.

There's often a movie that Anna Kendrick was in, you know what I mean.

And then I was like, I mixed up the feeling of that with the plot of this because it was incredibly different than I was thinking.

And I do apologize.

I apologize for like coming in negatively anyway, Leonna.

I'd love to hear your prediction here she goes good mornings, Oh my god, oh my god, fresh from the cryptness.

Truly.

I predict Plaza dan Levy.

I think Dan Levy is like cleaning a fish tank on the phone at some point.

Yeah, yeah, and I think it'll be like melancholy, but then maybe it'll end happily.

It freaking better.

I love you about it.

So you had seen this film?

Uh no, oh, you just remember that stuff but for some reason, very recently, a clip of Dan Levy interacting with a fish tank while on the phone popped up on my Instagram feed.

There he goes from that movie.

And I definitely was on Twitter when this film came out, and because it was co written by Mary Holland, who's a big UCB person, every UCB person was tweeting about it.

That makes sense because it's very ucy be heavy.

It's very ucyb.

Yes, yes, yes, oh that's cool.

But yeah, I watched it this morning.

As you can tell from my good I sound like an old crone.

When I said Lupians, it sounded like I was reciting a spell.

Have you ever seen the Christmas movie The Night Before Christmas?

With him?

And He's a night love love that.

If there's any reasonly I think I've watched Tricksy and Katia watch that film.

Please be directed by a woman.

Please be directed by a woman.

Please be directed by a woman.

It is okay, we're Somethingy're gonna have to watch that, all right, Maybe we'll watch it for New Year's Hey, why not before we start talking about the film, Hey.

Girl, hey girl.

Yes, we were talking about this off Mike, but decided to bring it on Mike so that the people be made aware.

Mm hmmm.

I've been eating good, good, good recently, got a bit of a holiday paunch going from eating good.

Just sometimes at every possible moment, I'll say, yeah, i'll eat, I'll eat good, i will eat.

You know, I'm good today.

That sounds good.

I'm gonna chow down to me, I'm gonna eat that.

I'm building too.

I'd love to enjoy that I'm building myself up.

Sometimes a bit of a holiday punch can be the sort of like the strongest you know how a triangle.

Is the strongest shape.

Yes, it's sort of like having a bit of a paunch from eating good.

Yeah, can be the strongest foundation, could be the strongest shape.

You could be very much gearing up for a hibernation.

That's how I'm That's how I'm eating good.

Yeah, I'll do a little little light treat like immediately post lunch.

Yeah, arguab part of lunch, desserts, lunch, I'm eating good.

So like what like a little piece of chocolate.

There's a lot of chocolate bars orbiting my space right now.

Yeah, so little little little nibble of a bar something like that.

Yeah, particularly if it's a dark chocolate, you really can only have a nib mm hmm.

But you're still eating good.

Moral of the story is you're eating good.

Yeah, you gotta eat good.

Yeah.

At the holidays, at Christmas, Hey, happy Hannakah.

By the way, happy Honkah, thank you.

And also with you.

Oh, I had a latka two days ago because we went to they had a Menora lighting for the first night of Hankakah at the little Green in our neighbor.

Also was it a Menora lighting?

Oh my god.

And they had free they were giving out latkas for free.

Oh my god.

And I said, and it's the move, y'all.

I'm eating good, I mean good.

You said, I'll take one because I'm eating good.

I'm eating good, So I'm gonna have to have a latka.

Thank you please.

Yeah.

Yeah, we're in the same We're in the same state.

Yeah.

Hey girl, hey girl, well this is related.

I think part of what I'm really eating good is if I'm like exercising in a new way, then all of a sudden, I'm like i feel like I'm building up my strength.

Yeah, you know what I mean.

Like, I'm like I'm building I'm building this thing, saying being my whole, my whole body, my vibe.

I'm building it, so I need under materials.

Yeah, and I went to a gym yesterday.

Okay, my friend goes to the gym, and I went with her as a guest.

And I walked into that gym and I said, I have no idea what to do in this establishment.

I walked in.

Yeah, well, I guess I'm on the treadmill.

Yeh.

Went on the treadmill for a while, and then I went because I'm like, this isn't what I need from the I could run outside.

I want to try to use this stuff, but it was like the song and dance of I have to sit down and learn how to use it.

But I ended up having a good time.

Oh oh, It's one of those things where gym if it's in a class, I know, I know.

It's one of those things that's weird too, where when I imagine people who are really like really fitness people, I'm like, their stamina is so much higher than mine, and they're doing all sorts of things I would never imagine, which is true to an extent, but also a lot of these machines people will use them for like four minutes and then move on like it's not It's not like people are sitting there for hours at a time, like for example, in the Sims.

In the Sims, if your sim goes to the gym, they're there for like eight hours wooing up their strength.

Oh my god, So do you have just some extremely strong sims?

Yeah?

Whoa like an army of jack.

I never thought of it that way, but I suppose they could be thought of that way.

Wowe.

Anyway, I went to the gym and I got through it, and I was I was scared at first, but I did some very interesting machines that It involved strapping things and lifting things, and it was interesting.

But then I got home and I went while I got to eat good to build this thing.

Oh yeah, eating good to build that than.

Well, well, I guess that's what's going on.

Speaking of eating good at the holidays and mainly specifically the holidays and Christmas.

M H.

Siena, could you please give us a synopsis of the film Happiest Season.

Yes, Happiest Season.

Harper invites her girlfriend Abby home for Christmas.

While drunk on holiday spirit.

It is revealed that actually Harper is not out to her family, who is obsessed with being perfect.

A lot happens after that.

A lot of events are attended where people have to look nice and put together.

They're sibling rivalries.

And a lot of yelling.

There are the high school people come back in the picture, including Harper's ex'es, and yeah, it's it's a pretty horrible trip for Abby altogether.

Yeah, will the will these girlfriends end up together?

Should they the end questions with two separate answers.

Yes, in the end, they do end up together.

But I think everyone in the world wishes that Chris's Stewart and Aubrey Plaza were together.

Oh yeah, wow, because yeah, boy does Harper flop?

Oh my god, Harper's such a flop.

She has to get it together.

Oh my god, Oh my god.

I'll say I really enjoyed this movie though.

Yeah.

It helps that I thought I remembered it being absolute garbage.

Yeah, wow, your expectations were very completely different.

It was great.

It was really dreyable.

I laughed often.

There were a lot of faces I was happy to see on screen.

And you know what I think, Well, no, I can talk about this later, but okay, I do want to know but not right now.

Yeah, no, it was.

It was cute.

It was cute, It was cute, it was fun, it was well done, it was very high production value.

So let us assuage.

Yes, I know we may have imbued in you the leved listener.

What was the wildest for me?

Because so many Christmas movies can be so bad, even if.

There's all these celebrities in it.

Style, Yeah, there must have been some other thing floating around Hulu because this is not what I was thinking.

Okay, Leonna, I'm gonna go ahead and look at your notes.

This is there a segment phone notes where we tell you about the notes we took on our phones while watching the film.

Okay, I have a question about this, Leanna.

You've said I would not climb someone else's scaffolding to sit on a roof.

I would never do that.

I would never do that.

This question actually isn't very good now that I think about it.

But I was gonna ask what would you do?

What would you do if you slip down and were grabbing on side of a house, which people do in many a Christmas movie?

Right, that is a classic Christmas thing?

What would your plan be?

M Well, and it's Okay, you know, in this case, she had a friend there.

I think usually there's someone in screaming distance.

But yeah, this is a stretch of the imagination because really I would never do that.

I just would never be in this circumstance.

Yeah, it really was someone else's roof, someone else's roof, and then they turned to the lights on, so she was like, belly out fully exposed.

Yeah are you peeping?

Yeah?

What would I do?

I know, I don't have the arm strength to pull myself back up onto the roof.

So when people could do that along and try to spider down in some way, what would you do?

Hmm?

I guess I would try to like knock on the window with my knee.

A little bit and get help from within.

Yeah okay, but but I think a lot of how I'd explain myself would be in that kind of situation would usually be using my hands, being like.

I'm so sorry.

Yeah, yeah, you have to use your finds up shrugging, But I wouldn't be able to, so I just look scary.

Yeah yeah, I have to take one large foot on the window, and they'd be terrified.

And imagine they were in bed, all tucked in the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, and then a big siena foot smacks.

Onto your window, smacks onto the window size ten and a half actually full eleven.

According to nordstrom Rack recently, when I went on a very very humbling trip to get for a wedding.

Oh, north strim Rac has really done me dirty before, shoe wise in particular.

It was like the things that said ten or ten and a half like did not even fit on the front of my foot.

It was so humiliating.

They really Nordstrom Rac kicked me out sizing in the in the range ladies and then freaks yeah, and you're like, well, I guess I'm a freak.

I'm sorry, lady.

I apologize.

Oh great, I have.

To go take a few minutes to go do something.

It doesn't matter what it is.

But can you tell me what kind of fish that was that I was supposed to feed.

I'll be right back.

Cila, you wrote apparently Mary Steinberg and can compose music now in her head.

I have to look this up to verify it.

Let me just verify really quick that this is true.

Did she fall down and now she can compose music in her head?

Literally?

Yes, WHOA.

So apparently she went in for like a surgery of some sort.

I don't know what she went for, like some operation, yeah, and they put her under and then when she woke up, she just like heard music in her head.

Whoa, And she was hearing it all the time, and then she just like started composing music.

And now she's like an award winning composer.

Oh my god, because she just sort of woke up with like a different brain.

Whoa after well into her acting career.

WHOA.

Isn't that insane if you went under for surgery?

What's the skill you'd want to wake up having?

Oh my gosh, Because you know, sometimes people will wake up and apparently can speak another language or something.

Yes, Now what I don't get because I'm like, when did you learn the words?

It's not like it's just hidden in.

There is the grammar correct?

How's that?

But it really does tell you.

It makes you feel better about not being a great talent in certain things because it's like, well, some people just have things floating around their head all the time.

What would I want to wake up with?

Oh, such a great question.

Oh my gosh.

As we know, I would love to be a fan fantastic mime.

And do you think it's something in your brain that you're missing that's stopping me doing that right now?

I do, okay, because that one's real physical if I could do if I woke up and I knew exactly, I think that some of it might be a brain thing, because I don't know how to do a cartwheel at all, and I know I could teach myself hmm.

But if I woke up and I was.

Like, I know exactly how to use my body in that way, I can do cartwheels and flips and stuff, I would absolutely love that.

Do you think it's a center of gravity thing?

Like if you had a real sense of your center of gravity maybe all around it a body awareness?

What about you?

I think it'd be fun to be able to see really far.

Oh that's a good one.

Or you know, I do wish my hearing was a little better.

Okay, So just the time I want to tune up.

Yeah, I want to go in for a tune up.

Have them oil the joints.

If all my joint stuff could get sorted, I mean, if that turned out to all be in my head and the surgery fixed it, that'd be awesome.

I also think one of my legs is shorter than the other one.

One of mine is medically as we know.

Yeah, I don't think mine is like but I do think I have a bit of it it.

And also I think my legs are just too long.

Okay, there's a lot that I would like fixed.

I don't know what i'd want.

So you'd wake up with shorter legs, better, better eyes.

But not short legs, just like I would want a more proportional because I think my torso is really very short and my legs are long.

So my torso is she's there's there's she's not doing much.

She's not doing much.

She's doing a bit more right now because I've been eaten good.

But she's not getting a lot done.

And you think maybe I could be a little bit stretch if I could be stretched in the tours.

I also think that would help with all my joint pain.

Okay, leanam back to your notes.

You've said, what city is this?

I couldn't tell you either.

I thought it was San Francisco because the hills the first Oh, it's Pittsburgh.

Thank you for answering that.

You've said, Yes, I interesting, what city is this?

And then seconds later they walked past a bar that had a Pittsburgh Penguin's logo outside, and that's where, Oh my god, that's where they're visiting.

No, that's where.

It's not where they start.

They start in Pittsburgh, okay, and then we go where I want to say, upstate New York.

But I just kind of assume that it's.

One of those sort of thing quote unquote small towns.

But there's also people like Aubrey Plaza who are gorgeously walking around within the sane star power as if that's normal.

And yeah, there's like a drag bar where Jinks Monsoon and Benda La Krem are like the the regular drag queens of the city of the town of the Sure, yeah it's a fictional place.

It's a fictional place, but yeah, it was Pittsburgh.

Aubrey Plaza is so cool and hot.

It's really wow.

It's a lot to take in.

Wow.

If I could just wear pants the way she wears them, I feel like everything would be different for me.

Her hair is so smooth, and her face is so effective, I.

Know, I know, and she says things in a way that's like charming and cool, and you just you want to impress her.

She's intimidating, but she also seems nice, yeah, and like a good hand, good values, good values, good value.

I can tell you can tell you has good values.

Healthy woman, healthy health, happy, healthy values.

I just she's the perfect woman.

Speaking of healthy, Cianna, you wrote, I guess her redeeming quality is that she's pretty horny all the time.

Okay, bir sucks.

Harper really sucks during this movie, really sucks.

Can we remember any of the times let's think, yes, she.

Outed her high school girlfriend Riley, Oh well yeah, in high school.

In high school, yeah, which is insane.

She's constantly she's so afraid of people finding out, especially her family finding out about her sexuality, that she's like becomes really really really self centered because she's just like so stuck in that little world, which is very sad and very difficult, but it's like, you really are fucking.

People over in a big way around Just sport your shit out, mama.

And then in addition to being just like you know, the internalized homophobia and the like being cruel because of that, she's also just not being a good house guest notes house a host.

She's not being as she's awful.

Imagine being invited to somebody's home and then finding out you have to attend like four different giant events, like where you have to dress formally.

Oh my god, press council members.

Yeah, and also the person you know is going to abandon you at every single event and just leave you on your own.

If I messed up.

If I visited you, If I visited you and then turns out there were like four business events with people I did not know in an industry I did not understand, and it was very important that impressed people, and then you walked away from me.

I would be like, this is weird.

Yeah, and that's what she's doing, oh, the entire trip.

And then when there is leisure time, when they have leisure time where they're not going to some sort of business thing for her dad's political career, she's like hanging out with her high school people.

Yeah, and her faceless ex boyfriend.

He didn't have a face that is so accurate, does not have a face.

That man has no faith.

He's handsome in a way that I can't see him, which is different from being handsome in a way that I can't look at him, can't totally Adam, completely true.

That's very completely different, very different.

This is a faceless man.

A faceless attractiveness for a specific type.

That he's just born to be a dad.

Yeah, the suburbs.

He's meant for the suburbs.

What I was saying early on, though, Her one quote unquote redeeming quality is that she is incredibly horny.

Forever she wants to bang, she is always.

Like either being very rude or like very much like, sorry, sorry, I have to go do this thing for my dad.

And then she comes back and she'll be like, should wean?

Here's my boob?

Yeah, hey you want to bang?

Yeah, here's a boob.

Baby, it's too much?

Yeah, what a rollercoaster, Leanna.

You said, if I came out to my parents with a girlfriend, they'd be so thrilled.

That I was with anyone at all.

Oh my god, you would rejoice and they'd be like, I think I'd be elected mayor.

They'd be like, what can't she do?

She's conquered the impossible.

She has a girl, she can do it all.

She just has someone.

What do you think of the kids in this?

I loved them.

They were insane.

They were such freaks.

They were really funny.

They were so so scary and I loved it.

They really reminded me of the boy especially.

Do you know that meme the homophobic, the homophobic, the homophobic dog.

No, you must, it's this one.

I'll send you a photo of it.

I'm sure you've seen this before.

This was this kid when he saw Harper in Abby's room through the crack in the door.

Okay, this is a wiener dog looking sort of dismayed, looking at the sort of side eyeing the camera, and then in front of it is text that says.

Bit fruity.

That is exactly what that boy was doing looking through the crack in the door, the homophobic dismayed ween.

Yeah, yeah, bit fruity.

But they were very silly.

I didn't like that they put the thing in her tote bag that I didn't enjoy.

That was children nonsense.

But the rest of it was very funny stuff.

I just love when I can tell that, like they didn't need to be acting that intensely, but that little girl was like she was giving it her all and she was being incredibly scary and it was very funny.

Yeah, Leanna, you said this is a bisexuals nightmare.

When Okay, when Alison Bree appeared, I was like, she's in this too.

It was really overwhelming.

Her hair is so straight, so straight and soft and beautiful.

In this she looks so gorgeous, but in her different in a very different way, in a mean old.

My god, and she's doing that voice and she's so insane and I loved it.

I love how insane she is in this movie.

I know there were times where everybody I was looking at on screen was so so gorgeous.

It was really it was kind of terrifying.

H it's a little scary.

It's unsettling.

Leanna, you said we met on bumble, Kill me with a gun, tell me more about that.

He just Anna Gasteyer's character, who another woman I was happy to see in this film.

She's like introducing her husband at this function and she's like, this is my husband.

We met on bumble and she says it in a way that's funny.

So it's fine, but it made me realize we are approaching a generation of people, professionals who are going to be at functions saying we met on hinge oh no, which God did not intend.

We were not meant to people.

We were not meant to meet people in this way.

Yeah, and some of ages.

It's not right rifling through who we think looks beautiful in a specific way.

I don't like it.

It's not good.

It's it's people say, recession indicator.

I think apocalypse indicator.

Agreed, Agreed.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse, bumble, hinge, tinder, take your pick for the last one.

If you're a gay manner, if you're a gay woman, les we're just lesbian generally.

If you're a freak, Field, if you're a Christian, that's the one.

I know most people on Field just so scary.

Fourth one, Yeah, yeah, La, you said so many skinny Republicans.

Oh my god, this movie was very skinny.

I will say that everybody was in a Black Leaves stress in a way that was very skinny.

And it was all giving Republican.

I mean, yeah, never was it.

Oh, I had but coated what they were wearing.

Everybody in that with everybody at that country club certainly Republican.

There's tom where there at a Yeah, definitely confirmed repub There is a moment where Mary Holland's character h who I love I believe we haven't talked about her yet.

Loved her in this we obsessed with her.

What was her name, Jane Jane.

I actually that's one of those like goofy characters.

I thought it was a very unique character that also I completely believed in her own weird way.

Like sometimes those kind of like those silly freak characters can just be like random, Yeah, they'll be like and then she runs in naked and then she would you know, But in this one, I really believed this character.

I loved her vibe that she's getting too close to people and people keeping like Jane, No, Jane, Jane stop just a goober.

She's just a goober.

And her little speech about her painting, Oh my god, we cry.

That's like the thing I remember the most from this movie.

Weirdly, it was so sweet's I think she co wrote this, right, did she?

Her name was in the opening credit somewhere with She's so funny in this I love she.

Was really really good.

She's just a great actress and so so funny.

But there's a point where she's wearing a dress with like big poofy sleeves and like tights, and everybody else is wearing like little black cocktail dresses and they're they're trying to take a family photo and they're like, uugh, okay, Jane, move aside, and I by far like Jane's outfit the most.

Like Jane's outfit is.

So one that all my friends would wear, and uh, it was just funny to see that be like the the disgusting weirdo look.

So I was like, I hate the dresses that the other women are wearing in this right now, the like lacy top, black short bore.

There was a moment where.

What's her name, Mackenzie Davis lo she looked large compared to Alison Brie, and that scared me so much because she's like the skinniest person I've ever Sally Live.

Yeah, so then to see I was like, how small is Alison bree?

Oh my god?

You know what scares me?

Skinny?

I couldn't see past how much Mackenzie Davis as Harper reminded me of Alison Williams in Get Out.

Oh.

And it's kind of a similar vibe of somebody like visiting another person's family and that yeah.

Totally, and then things are not what you expect and they kind of turn yeah, and it's like I don't even know who you are anymore.

It really was like it was white lesbian get out.

Yeah.

Oh, I want to talk about this.

We were talking about their outfits, Sianna.

You wrote, I never have the perfect Christmas outfit.

Okay, this is one of those parts of adulthood where you're like, literally, when was I supposed to figure this out?

When was I supposed to get I live somewhere else, I come home for Christmas.

All my stuff at home is high school stuff.

Yeah, there's almost no event I need to go to at this moment of my life and career in which I need a very like beautiful professional or formal, like elegant Christmas outfit or dress or something like.

I just don't have enough need for that to to go buy that and bring it in my suitcase home.

But at one point Harper comes downstairs.

She's wearing like a perfect like and I guess she's trying to be perfect for a family, but like this green oh dress.

Eat.

But even Christen Stort's very gay outfit because she's giving up by that point of Chess Day and is wearing a gay Zorro shirt and a loose tie.

I'm gay, Hello, I'm gay.

Yeah, But all that is like everybody's ready to like dress up for the event.

I'm like, I don't know how to do that.

Yeah, I don't have an event that's formal enough to wear the thing that I have to wear.

I either am like silly cash like nice shirt, but it will be jeans or a gown and inappropriate shoe.

And I don't have the in between.

I don't have the business Christmas look, yeah, which seems to be what's needed.

Yeah, just like I also perfectly green, perfect color, because we host Christmas in our house.

Oh, so it feels very silly to put shoes on a household and be like, I'm ready to go into the other room of this same building.

I guess that's why they used to have.

You'd be upstairs and then you'd walk down the stairs.

To like the drawing.

Yeah, you'd present you entered.

Yeah, there's a presentation versus coming out of my room shoes on.

My room is on the same floor as the kitchen where we do havetizers, which is in the same open plan area as the dining room where we go for the meal.

There's no place to do a transformation of any kind, and it would be insane.

Leonna have some great notes from you.

You said, you pointed out this quote.

I don't want to have this conversation anymore, Yes, you said when Alison Brie said that and then left, I was like, I wish that it was acceptable to do that.

It would free so many of us from so many inane chats.

Well, if somebody said that to me, I wouldn't be a I would say thank you so much, that's okay.

Yeah, if they said that, it means neither of us was having a good time.

So, yeah, it's time to go.

One minute, everybody, I've accidentally found myself in a room filled with skinny Republicans.

Give me a moment while I extricate myself.

We'll be right back.

Leanna, you said, girl go home.

She needs to go home.

Wouldn't she leave?

That also is what made this feel like a horror film.

It was like, just do the reasonable thing and get out.

But it's because she had no weight, this little woman looking for an uber in upstate New York.

That is nuts.

But really I was literally saying out loud, go home.

And then in the middle of that, the screen popped up that it was gonna cost a thousand dollars, and.

I said, oh, that's the other cruel thing about inviting somebody to a place and not being a good host.

Yeah, what's she supposed to do?

She is trapped.

You can't borrow someone's car.

Totally, totally, this is why we need trains.

Oh my god.

Yeah, I wonder if there probably would have been one.

They're in fact, there certainly would have been one.

Uh Leanna, you said it's crazy how hot and also gay abby looks.

I loved her whole styling.

Oh my god, her Christmas looks specifically, I was like, y'all, that is a lesbian.

She was just trying to she was trying to tell them non verbally at this point.

She was like, your daughter's gay gang.

Look at me.

He of her companion, and I'm dressed like a pirate in a really good way.

Yeah, a New Year's pirate.

Like, let's be honest.

I loved her, like bleach blonde hair, with the bobby pins.

The bobby pins.

They were doing fun things with.

That little Chris crossing.

You've said, this is how I open presence, and I see now why everyone hates it.

What do you mean?

Remember when they're doing White Elephant and that old woman is very slowly opening a gift.

Yes, and then Mary Steinberger is like, just rip it.

Yeah, that's exactly.

But yeah, you go like, oh, it took me seeing that old woman opening it that way to realize, oh, that is really annoying.

That is not fun for anyone else.

Crone, old Crone, Oh my god, yes, old Crown.

Wow.

You said, oh, that's actually a really nice painting.

It was a nice painting, so good.

Why were people not being like that's amazing?

Everybody was being weird.

They're all like, uh, what is this?

Oh a big painting of main Street?

It was lovely.

Yeah, if you don't want to put it in the community center, what the hell?

It's very big.

It was big.

That speech just broke my heart.

You said, I don't have any secrets, but I am an ally me.

Yes, well, I'm like, listen, y'all, I wish I had some some juicy gos or some some form of intrigue.

I don't, but for anybody who does, I'm here here for you.

I don't have any secrets, but I am an hour ally.

She's so funny.

I loved her.

I loved her, and I believe she is she is mm hmm.

Leonna your last note is, Wow, no one's hair changed to show that time had passed.

I was really surprised by that, because they do a time jump, they do one year later to show that everybody's still together and happy minus the divorce.

Yeah, you're right, So basically they just got rid of one character of color.

The my god, the only black guy in it was no longer in this The divorcee would certainly have she'd have gotten changed hair, she had changed her hair.

Yeah, that surprised me.

Normally everybody's got like a slightly like a new part.

They're they're parting their hair differently.

Yeah, somebody's wearing glasses or come on, let's be honest, dramatic, wearing a bold lip to show that time has passed.

Yeah, none of that.

No, none of that.

Oh, well, should we badge and tragic?

Let's badge and trag This is where we award badges for bisex stowels who are kind to you at Christmas, and trag is for treating your girlfriend terribly.

Yes, all in the name of dad becoming the mayor.

I have a badge for Mary Steinbergen using the iPad.

That was funny all the time she was taking photos on the iPad was cracking me up.

I'm sorry, that's funny.

It's funny to use an iPad.

Just is a badge for that was a smart way to do exposition.

I thought the drawings in the opening credits it was cute while unsettling, were cute and a good way to show like, oh, this is how they met and they've been together for a year now, cute here we find them.

Yeah, badge for these kids are eating up this roll.

Those kids were being so mad and creepy and I love them fun addition.

A badge for the Mary's Mary Steinberg and Mary holliw And It's not without Mary.

The cast was so awesome.

Yeah, the cast was awesome.

It was good.

Speaking of I have a badge for the uh security guards.

That security guards scene was really funny.

Tim Simons and Laura Kiss Oh my god, did you watch Veep?

Yes?

Oh my god, Jah watched the heck out of Veep.

Unbelievable And you know, you know this was directed by the woman who plays Selena Meyer's security guard who looks like.

No wait from from but I'm a cheerleader.

Yes, Clia Duval.

Oh my god, Okay, that's awesome.

Wow, I did not know that.

That is freaking awesome.

Yeah, a badge for the scene where she calls Dan Levy and he's doing a puzzle and he's like, I'm in the middle of something.

What I went to myself, Oh, I want to do a puzzle, and then real I'm in the middle of doing a puzzle because I have this Advent calendar puzzle where every day is a new dog in a Sana hat.

Oh, and I caught up on my Advent calendar puzzle.

That's so awesome.

That was awesome.

It was a badge for that whole situation.

I'm so happy for you.

Badge for the spaces in this movie actually feel really authentic.

For example, when she was in the basement at this house, it just really felt to me like being in someone's basement you're visiting, Like I could feel how cold and quiet it was, but also cozy because it's like your special space while you're there, you know.

And I could feel the walking around the town felt so nice and christmasy.

Yeah.

I don't know, I just like I really and that Hey, that's on the production value right there.

I think there were just a lot of things that were very authentic and I could tell it was very well directed.

Hey, s badge for I love Sloan.

She is insane Al's character.

I loved her.

Sorry, I loved her from her first introduction on screen where she walks in She's like, kids, I'm Sloane and then walks away.

Ah, I have a badge for and stick with me on this.

Okay, a badge for going to a bar with a hot stranger who you have a connection with to have a fun, eye opening conversation.

Okay, how would I need to not stick with you on that.

I'm one hundred percent with you.

If anything, I'm walking ahead of you into the bar.

That seems like to me, the perfect bar experience is to be there with like an Aubrey Plaza.

She can give you some juicy information and insights about your life, your partner, your situation in some way, and you got to just have fun and she's so hot and so funny, and you like get to just spend an eve.

Uh.

There's no weirdness or no frustrations because you don't know each other that well.

It's just sort of like a nice evening at a bar with like a cool stranger.

That's awesome to me.

A benevolent bisexual.

A benevolent bisexual enters the chat and you get to spend a nice little evening.

She's like that angel and it's a wonderful life.

Clarence.

Okay, they kept referencing the movie in that.

In this movie they keep looking at the it's showing at the movie theater.

It's on the awning.

Oh yeah, the marquis right.

A badge for Mary Steinbergen's line.

I once took too many ambient and I bought a racehorse online.

That was so funny.

I also wrote the mom is so funny, and I think I wrote.

It at that line.

Oh, and also the she's very heavy footed her life.

Everything she says is so funny.

She's really really good in this movie, very fun for her, so good in everything.

Do you have any That was the end.

I have two more.

I have a badge for the bar.

The straight bar that she goes to after the drag bar is called Freddy's.

Yeah, that was so funny.

And then my final badge is a badge for it.

During the credits, they're scrolling through the family Instagram account and the family goes to Pride and there's a photo of them all at Pride and clear Duvala is in the photo.

That was a really I am.

I thought the little Instagram thing at the end was really cute.

That was really sweet, and it was so better because they're going backwards in time, so it ends with them their family Christmas photo.

All loved.

Uh in that she has when they get engaged.

It's a hashtag and Gage, I loved it.

I tech trages trages trage for me family.

Everyone is so mean to each other and just generally people in this are very very mean, which is funny at some time, at some points for sure.

But then yeah, for example, when like when Jane made that beautiful painting and everyone's like.

Oh, okay, that was weird.

That was odd.

Isn't there, sweetie?

Isn't there sweety here?

I thought, I mean, it would have made sense if she painted like one of the characters from her fantasy novel, right, who was like a little goblin or something.

But it was just a lovely painting of the main street of the town they all live in.

The f Yeah, you all love that town.

You're politicians, you have to love that.

Now, that's a good point.

My first trage is a trage for oh, S and M with Rudolph.

I don't know about that.

Now.

This is when so she's hanging off the roof of this home and they turned the lights on.

She falls off the roof the very beginning, and this woman comes out in a Santa suit and is holding a whip, and then a Rudolph comes out in like an SNM style, a little vest or something.

And I now, to be fair to the film, I was watching it at eight in the morning, and nobody's ready for SNM with Rudolph at eight in the morning.

But it was a little mutch for me.

I didn't I don't even remember that.

What the heck.

It was a very quick line and moment, but yeah, yeah, I don't need that.

I'm sorry, I don't need it.

Rudolph's been through enough.

They didn't let him play any of the reindeer games.

You got really into some other ones.

No tra trag for she is a bad partner.

Lol, she's a bad partner.

I'm sorry.

I know you're going through a lot, but like that's part of what it's that's part of being alive.

You have your problems, and you say, listen, we're about to enter the space, and I'm gonna have a lot of problems.

Do you still want to go?

And then your partner can say yes or no.

And but she just she left her all on her own.

It was very thoughtless.

M M.

Trage for strobe is an inside baseball term.

They're talking about taking the family Christmas photo and one of them goes, so, remember, don't wear anything that will strobe, because that's the term for like, if you're wearing stripes on camera, the camera will go a little bit jumpie, which they call strobing.

And I said, no, no, get that out of here, get that out of here.

That's only something that people who've been on camera would know.

No one says that.

Nobody says that.

Oops.

My two other trages were badges that I put in the wrong place.

Oops, but hear them.

Well, my these final badges accidentally are for Jane's monologue and John's monologue.

They just both made me emo, who's John?

Oh?

Dan?

Dan's came yeah, yeah, his slim shouldn't be John, But God Dan loveylice that at all?

Yeah Dan?

A trage for oh the fish are Dad.

I did not realize because I knew Dan would be at the fish tank on the phone.

I did not realize he'd be flushing the fish away because he forgot to feed them.

That was sad.

Yeah, trag for he killed those fish.

A trage for this movie feels long.

It was a little too long.

It could have been ten minutes shorter and it would have been perfect.

Yeah, I think that's totally ninety minutes, one hundred too many.

They decided to hit every single, every single thing.

Yeah then, which I did appreciate, but yeah, others would have cut it.

Yeah, it was long.

My final trage is a trage for justice for Riley.

Aubrey Plaza and Kristen Stewart's characters should have ended up together.

It just makes sense, it does it does.

I guess it would have been weird because Aubrey Plaza would have had to move, But you at least could have seen she at least could have They could have had a romance that coaxed Abby out of this bad relationship she's in.

Yeah.

Yeah, anyway, Well, let's strobe into our next segment.

How to pretend you've seen this film This is for You are at the country club, and oh, what's the dad?

The mayor Dad's name?

Well, should we just call him mayor Dad.

Yeah, apparently it was ted, but I like Mayor Dad.

Okay, And Mayor Dad comes up to you and says, oh, I'd really love to be able to count on your vote this holiday season.

And oh, speaking of the holiday season, that really reminds me of a movie about a man who loves ships.

And also somebody in there is queer.

There's one of them queers in that film.

And in order, oh no, no, that's fine.

And in order to impeach Mayor Dad, here are a few things you can say to pretend you've seen the film Happiest Season.

Yes, Mayor Dad, I've seen Happiest Season.

It was produced by the company Tri Star.

And the only thing scarier to me than the pegasus in the Tri Star logo is a homophobic mayor.

So no, you cannot count on my vote.

Yes, Mayor Dad, I have seen the film Happiest Season.

Director Clea Duval wrote the film as an autobiography.

She has said that she wrote it so she could see her own experiences play out on screen.

Damn, girl, I hope you broke up with her unless she was the other one.

Can you imagine that would explain why she's written in such an unfavorable light.

If it's like selfism, mad at themselves.

Yeah.

And in addition to that, this also marks the screenwriting debut of Mary Holland, who protrays just as you said.

Yes, really, I really really liked the writing of this.

Yeah.

They all the characters were just the characters all felt really consistent and funny, and it was very thoughtfully done.

And it's so fun to get all your goofy friends in to do little goofy, little goofy moments.

And they were good.

Sometimes comedy films can be really stupid, and it wasn't.

It was good.

They did a good job.

I love women.

Yes, Mayor Dad, I've seen Happiest Season.

I'm afraid I have to excuse myself right now because I have to get to somebody else's house and feed their fish.

Because I would never forget to feed someone's fish to the point that the fish die.

I would never do that.

Oh wow, Yes, may Or Dad, I have seen the film Happiest Season.

In an interview on the December third, twenty twenty episode of Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Aubrey Plaza said that at the end of production in February twenty twenty, She asked the man driving her to the airport if she should be worried about COVID nineteen.

He replied, that shit's been in Pittsburgh for a long time, and then several people on set came down with COVID nineteen.

Whoa, he was right.

The Pittsburgh Penguin was right.

That shit.

Yeah, the thing is Pittsburgh Penguin was driving her.

That shit's been in Pittsburgh for a long time.

Wow.

Yes, may Or Dad, I've seen the film Happiest Season.

Unfortunately, you will not be allowed to continue this conversation with me until after I've opened my Christmas present, which is beautifully wrapped.

And knowing me, this is going to take a while.

I didn't know that about you.

It's a fun fact.

People don't like it.

They really don't like it.

If you give me a gift wrapped, not in a bag, but like wrapping paper present, you're gonna want to sit down.

It's gonna be a minute.

Yes, may Or Dad, I have seen the film Happiest Season.

Last fun facts, the film did feature several queer actors in it, which I noticed.

They cast a lot of queer actors, including Christian Stewart, Dan Levy, Victor Garber and Aubrey Plaza and then of course the queer director Cleo Duval.

And it was scored by a woman slay.

First holiday themed movie by a major studio to have a female composer, which is awesome.

God.

Then I know there's been so many and.

A lot of them are marketed definitely towards women, So that's fucked up.

And then fun fact, the production wrap party took place at a haunted house in an amusement park.

Love that cool?

Love that?

Do you think that's where they staged the photos of the kid's birthday in the credit?

Oh?

Maybe that was so cute.

So those kids are freaks.

Those twins are so freaky, bit fruity.

Oh, let us drive for one thousand dollars into our next segment, Should you watch this?

Or where we tell you our holiday listeners, our Christmas listeners, if we think you should watch this movie or if you should do something else with your holidays?

What do you think, Lehanna, I'm gonna do a should you watch this?

And I think you can watch Happiest Season.

I think a lot of it is very silly, funny.

You're gonna have to get past the fact that Harper sucks.

It's yep, it's a tough pill to swallow, but the rest of it is fun.

And you could watch the show.

The show Feel Good by May Martin starring May Martin Charlotte Ritchie, who I once saw in a charity shop in London.

She was standing right behind me in line and I said, I'm so sorry to bother you, but I loved you in Ghosts and didn't feel Good.

Oh, because she's in Ghosts, which is my favorite show of all time.

It is so good.

They took it off whenever.

You can also watch the Ghosts Christmas specials because they do Christmas specials for each season.

Yeah, they took it off of everything.

They took it off Industries Cooked, Man Cooked Come to the UK.

You can watch it on BBC iPlayer.

Okay, Sanna, what would you say?

I would say, you can totally watch this movie.

I thought it was a really fun holiday film.

I just really liked it.

It's very funny.

They did a very good job.

It's a great new Christmas movie.

It does it is like intense, like hmm, there she's.

Being so bad to her girlfriend.

Yeah, but it's there's still a lot that's really fun about it.

It was so well cast and everybody's so funny.

Yes, you know what, would you rate the film Happiest Season?

I would rate this movie four point five Exotic Fish out of five.

The point five off is because oh, they should not be together.

I really enjoyed it.

This is gonna be one of my faves to watch.

WHOA.

I can't believe I had such a problem.

I can't believe I've imagined it's so so wrong.

I remember being like, oh, I love the cast, but it's too bad that it's just kind of like one of those shitty comedy movies.

That's what it was.

In my mind.

Were the dog about it?

I was being a homophobic dog, and I do apologize for that homophobic dog.

I will give the film happiest Season.

And this is interesting and I'm not really sure why, but for some reason, I'm going to give it three point five Christmas Bisexuals out of five.

I think it's because I had to watch it so early in the morning.

I think that's take my view of it.

That's completely fair.

And remember my I thought it was going to be so bad that I think it's from the skyrocketing extra.

True so probably we're evening out at a four.

And Harper was such an impossible character to be on the side of, but everybody's so good in it.

And also it reminded me too much.

She reminded me too much of Get Out that I was really scared and it feels like one of those nightmares where you're trying to leave but you can't.

Okay, anyway, all the acting was so good, the writing was really fun.

Mary Holland is a gift to us.

We're so lucky to have her.

God, she's so funny.

Oh what a tree?

Yeah, yep, Harry, Christmas, everybody christ This has been Toss Popcorn's review of happiest season.

It's the happy of all.

Yes, that's our last episode for the year.

Everybody else, we have to go into repose.

Yeah, we need to go hot on Nibernation because we've been eating good.

Because we've been eating good.

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