It's Christmastown
@itschristmastown.bsky.social
A gentle comedy podcast about Hallmark original movies, unnecessarily large dinner rolls, quonset-related time travel, wine clowns, trauma swaps and the Christmas Wicker Man from Jeb Lund (@Mobute.bsky.social), David Roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) and pals
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Complete Movies List (Updating) | This Week In Atrocity
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People have asked about this, and we keep forgetting to pin it, but here is a complete (unpaywalled) list of the movies we've covered, in case you've been meaning to jump in with one you've heard about.
Since so many people have asked, yes, we know about the Bills and Chiefs Hallmark movies. They're coming up soon, we promise.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Since so many people have asked, yes, we know about the Bills and Chiefs Hallmark movies. They're coming up soon, we promise.
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I believe it was also the viewers’ consensus that Buckley was freeballin’ in this scene, for anyone interested
So last night for our live show we talked about "Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper," starring (and story by) Robert Buckley, and we all agreed it was a 5 out of 5. So here's a thousand words on the subject of "Robert Buckley Understands the Damn Assignment."
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I believe it was also the viewers’ consensus that Buckley was freeballin’ in this scene, for anyone interested
So last night for our live show we talked about "Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper," starring (and story by) Robert Buckley, and we all agreed it was a 5 out of 5. So here's a thousand words on the subject of "Robert Buckley Understands the Damn Assignment."
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So last night for our live show we talked about "Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper," starring (and story by) Robert Buckley, and we all agreed it was a 5 out of 5. So here's a thousand words on the subject of "Robert Buckley Understands the Damn Assignment."
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finally had a chance to listen to this today and it really is an extraordinary episode! it made me think! (mostly about what my role as a rescue dog foster really means but also other things) but it was especially interesting how they came around in the end to see nuance in a Hallmark movie!
Did Hallmark graft a talking guide-dog movie on a grim tale of a woman losing her sight and boyfriend? Yes. Was guest
@hollyanderson.bsky.social attacked by its message of "you must get healthy enough—for work"? We all were.
Amazon: bit.ly/3WgYImV
Spotify: bit.ly/4qiHvY1
Apple: bit.ly/3WKSZpt
@hollyanderson.bsky.social attacked by its message of "you must get healthy enough—for work"? We all were.
Amazon: bit.ly/3WgYImV
Spotify: bit.ly/4qiHvY1
Apple: bit.ly/3WKSZpt
140 - Blind, Incoherent and Metal as Hell
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November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
finally had a chance to listen to this today and it really is an extraordinary episode! it made me think! (mostly about what my role as a rescue dog foster really means but also other things) but it was especially interesting how they came around in the end to see nuance in a Hallmark movie!
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GET. HIS. ASS.
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
GET. HIS. ASS.
As a point of order and/or ADHD obsessiveness and/or avoidance: The average runtime of our last 38 episodes (January, 2021-Present) is 77 minutes. Subtract an average of 5 minutes for intro/outro/interstitial music and movie clips, and it's 72. Hallmark originals run anywhere between 83-86 minutes.
At @itschristmastown.bsky.social we don't go in for flashy Times Square billboards. That sort of thing isn't why we watch Hallmark movies and then talk about them in episodes that are on balance longer than those movies. I don't know why we do all that. Also I would never be photographed like this.
Ben Shapiro is spending a lot of $$$ trying to win the inaugural Best Podcast award at the Golden Globes.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/ben-shapir...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/ben-shapir...
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
As a point of order and/or ADHD obsessiveness and/or avoidance: The average runtime of our last 38 episodes (January, 2021-Present) is 77 minutes. Subtract an average of 5 minutes for intro/outro/interstitial music and movie clips, and it's 72. Hallmark originals run anywhere between 83-86 minutes.
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Hi! Working on story for Bustle on women who left their big city corporate jobs for "Hallmark" lives, i.e., moved to a small town to open a bookstore, left finance for farm life, dumped a Bay Area tech gig to become a florist, etc. If that's you, I'd love to talk! DMs open, rebeccafishbein@gmail.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hi! Working on story for Bustle on women who left their big city corporate jobs for "Hallmark" lives, i.e., moved to a small town to open a bookstore, left finance for farm life, dumped a Bay Area tech gig to become a florist, etc. If that's you, I'd love to talk! DMs open, rebeccafishbein@gmail.com
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@itschristmastown.bsky.social "guy who didn't understand a hammer" is not the Hallmark alter ego I would have guessed
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@itschristmastown.bsky.social "guy who didn't understand a hammer" is not the Hallmark alter ego I would have guessed
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Holiday Date (2019) @itschristmastown.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2ASh...
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Holiday Date (2019) @itschristmastown.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2ASh...
It's worth a future essay, but basically it seems like CandyCams and others fundamentally mistook that the draw was a what, not a who.
@itschristmastown.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social @mobute.bsky.social I wonder how long until Candy Cams comes crawling back to The Crown?
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's worth a future essay, but basically it seems like CandyCams and others fundamentally mistook that the draw was a what, not a who.
It is uncanny sometimes how good the algorithms are at just, like, recreating a whole you out of something as little as 240 hours of dialogue.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It is uncanny sometimes how good the algorithms are at just, like, recreating a whole you out of something as little as 240 hours of dialogue.
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Tonight’s Hallmark movie is one I’ve been fascinated by ever since I listened to the @itschristmastown.bsky.social episode about it: PUMPKIN EVERYTHING
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Tonight’s Hallmark movie is one I’ve been fascinated by ever since I listened to the @itschristmastown.bsky.social episode about it: PUMPKIN EVERYTHING
Oh boy.
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Oh boy.
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You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll plotz.
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
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November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll plotz.
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as a Gentile, I always appreciate getting to learn about other cultures, and there are several words tossed around casually in this episode that i'd never heard before. (it's also so funny that sometimes i had to stop listening so i could breathe again.)
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
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November 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
as a Gentile, I always appreciate getting to learn about other cultures, and there are several words tossed around casually in this episode that i'd never heard before. (it's also so funny that sometimes i had to stop listening so i could breathe again.)
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Scalded by negative reviews for their first "Hanukkah" movie ("Who Is the Secret Jew Among Us at Christmas?"), Hallmark responded by making a movie that is the MOST Jewish. Naturally, @davidjroth.bsky.social and I made @mauraquint.bsky.social, @ugarles.bsky.social and @andylevy.net watch it with us.
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
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November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Scalded by negative reviews for their first "Hanukkah" movie ("Who Is the Secret Jew Among Us at Christmas?"), Hallmark responded by making a movie that is the MOST Jewish. Naturally, @davidjroth.bsky.social and I made @mauraquint.bsky.social, @ugarles.bsky.social and @andylevy.net watch it with us.
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@itschristmastown.bsky.social finally. The Day The Wine Clown Cried has been released.
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@itschristmastown.bsky.social finally. The Day The Wine Clown Cried has been released.
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
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November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Finally!
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
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November 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Finally!
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
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While this *technically* debunked in one of the @itschristmastown.bsky.social episodes, I believe in the hallmark multiverse and that several pocket universes remain untouched by 9/11
This is very similar to a theory that @sarakatew.bsky.social had about the Hallmark universe
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
While this *technically* debunked in one of the @itschristmastown.bsky.social episodes, I believe in the hallmark multiverse and that several pocket universes remain untouched by 9/11
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Every time I think of this man swapping out hats to bring Christmas cheer I laugh so hard
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Every time I think of this man swapping out hats to bring Christmas cheer I laugh so hard
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We talked about how all the Christmas stores in Hallmark movies are drug fronts and what Hallmark's version of HBO's Oz would look like and what Hallmark's "an inmate died" air horn would be. Plus another 110 minutes of other stuff. Listen to the preview why not.
Bob McNamara's Garbage Time Cinema, Vol. 001 - H.H. Holmes's The Christmas House | This Week In Atrocity
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We talked about how all the Christmas stores in Hallmark movies are drug fronts and what Hallmark's version of HBO's Oz would look like and what Hallmark's "an inmate died" air horn would be. Plus another 110 minutes of other stuff. Listen to the preview why not.
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@itschristmastown.bsky.social Today in song titles that seem like they could be named for It's Christmastown episodes
TFS - Dunning Kruger's Loser Cruiser (Official Video)
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November 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
@itschristmastown.bsky.social Today in song titles that seem like they could be named for It's Christmastown episodes
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On this episode I imagined Adibisi from Oz wearing s tiny Santa hat on his head and I need it so much
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
On this episode I imagined Adibisi from Oz wearing s tiny Santa hat on his head and I need it so much
We talked about how all the Christmas stores in Hallmark movies are drug fronts and what Hallmark's version of HBO's Oz would look like and what Hallmark's "an inmate died" air horn would be. Plus another 110 minutes of other stuff. Listen to the preview why not.
Bob McNamara's Garbage Time Cinema, Vol. 001 - H.H. Holmes's The Christmas House | This Week In Atrocity
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We talked about how all the Christmas stores in Hallmark movies are drug fronts and what Hallmark's version of HBO's Oz would look like and what Hallmark's "an inmate died" air horn would be. Plus another 110 minutes of other stuff. Listen to the preview why not.