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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 22, 2010, 12:40:12 pm ---Wow. Suddenly I'm not so embarrassed by my own habit of watching Charlie Brown and the Grinch every Christmas season.
Is Donald Duck to Sweden as Jerry Lewis is to France? ???
I used to watch Gone With the Wind on New Year's Eve.
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One year, my mother and brother decided to rent a movie on Christmas Eve. I asked which one, and they said they were thinking about getting Leaving Las Vegas. I wasn't even going to be there, but I had to forbid it. That's the most depressing movie ever. Luckily, they heeded my warning.
Penthesilea:
Ha ha, I LiKE this Swedish tradition of watching Kalle Anka. :)
Do tell us about it, lovely Swedish Brokies. Do you and your families follow the tradition?
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 22, 2010, 12:09:48 pm ---
Nordic Quack
Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
By Jeremy Stahl
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, at 7:01 AM ET
Three years ago, I went to Sweden with my then-girlfriend (now-wife), to meet her family and celebrate my first Christmas. As an only partially lapsed Jew, I was not well-versed in Christmas traditions, and I was completely ignorant of Swedish customs and culture. So I was prepared for surprises. I was not prepared for this: Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the television for a family viewing of the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special, "From All of Us to All of You." Or as it is known in Sverige, Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul: "Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas."
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Oh, that sounds delightful! And it isn't any more out of character for Cthe season than It's A Wonderful Life, which isn't even primarily about Christmas.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 22, 2010, 10:31:03 am ---I need to research cast lists, too, because I would swear that the elderly actress who played Mrs. Dilber in the pawn broker scene was the same actress who played Mrs. Dilber in the Hallmark/Scott version.
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It was the same actress:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809131/
Sophia:
ha ha ha, John you are so right. This is something more then half of the population watch. And we do organize everything around it.
Donald duck and another show that's shown later in the evening called Karl-bertil Jonsson julafton (Carl-Bertil Jonssons Christmas, its a Swedish cartoon) And its true, if someone refuse to watch it young or old. Let me tell you that person will definitely hear about. But for me this ain't something that irks. I kind of like this tradition, the combination of Christmas and cartoon. ;D
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