Festive Friday Ranking 2026

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast Hi, I'm Bran, I love festive Friday Christmas movies I'm Dan and I despise festive Friday Christmas movies I'm Alonzo and I'm all about ranking things And this is Deck The Hallmark Podcast Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast Friends host this podcast

[00:00:31] We hope you like this jolly podcast Wow, wow, wow Boy You know, I What better day to do a festive Friday ranking than on a Monday? I do love that our dear friend And actual critic and journalist Alonzo Duraldi

[00:00:57] Who tries to eschew ranking movies at every turn Even though he's required to because of, you know, writing and things Now we're making him rank virtually meaningless movies Like this is like I don't know, when I told him about this, his ears perked up Literally this morning, I decided in my own personal rankings for the year You can see everything moved ahead of the Odyssey Like I have it won over all day Okay Because it's just so incredibly

[00:01:26] I've never ever seen anything like it It is only you saying that That's right That's right That has me flabbergasted That's right I think people are But you are the Nolanites I had it second Because I was like, you know, just the feat of what he did On the IMAX, blah, blah, blah And I saw it in the IMAX, saw it twice, blah, blah, blah But like, I can't stop thinking about that movie So that's like a fair conversation to have Whether, which JPR movie and nicely moved Like what we're doing here We can't see from that conversation

[00:01:55] Champ Dog I'll tell you, I have never been invited to do one of these tiered things with y'all before So I'm very excited that this is finally my movie See, he's excited We should do it for real movies I will say this We should do this for like, all the movies that the three of us have seen in the theaters, right? So it can't be just what you've seen But like all the movies that we've all seen, that would be fun It'd be fun We should tier, you know what we should tier? Shyamalan movies Shyamalan movies would be fun too Because he's going to

[00:02:24] See all of them Dude, we listened That was our intro into screen drafts And we listened on the way back from Florida with Panda And we were all arguing the whole way Because this yokel was like, well, the happening can't be last I'm like, it sure can Oh, yes it can And hey, Hallmark movie drafts now on the Bramble Jam Network That's exactly right That's exactly right Comes full circle just like that You know what else comes full circle? It always goes back to Shyamalan What? Kringles Kringles, you come full circle Unless you get the bark

[00:02:54] Barkine Well, that's speaking of which Speaking of barkines It's like we prepped you You could move your laptop there We got a special for you You know, there's a code at the bottom of your screen You can get 10% off all the time That's the whole month That's the whole month Just this week The next five days Racine Danish Kringle Has a little something Called the Wisconsin Stick Sample Now, maybe you're looking at the Kringles that we bring out And you see that giant airplane tire And you're like What do I do with it? Not for me Well, did you know How could I?

[00:03:20] That Racine Danish Kringle makes stick-sized Kringles Stick-sized Kringles Two of you could knock this out pretty easy If you're feeling froggy One of you can knock those out One of you could knock it out I can confirm Real manageable I have done this for science One of you can This is a hit in my household This week only The Wisconsin Stick Sampler Which is a box like this Easy to put in your freezer Comes with a cherry stick A cheesecake stick A cranberry apple stick And a maple walnut stick The maple walnut Big hit around here

[00:03:49] Can't go wrong with any of those Yeah, right now You can get it for five bucks off Just this week You gotta use DTH Stick 26 Just so happens Apple TV's second season of Stick Is starting right around that time It has nothing to do with that DTH Stick 26 Only this week The other code Good all month Do it at a different time DTH Stick gets you the five dollars That's exactly right We'll link you in the description Yeah, we will You'll get to hear about the stick All week long That's exactly right

[00:04:19] Don't you worry about it It's stick season It is It's the season of the sticks It's not called gymnastics Eating Kringle On the plane We'll get it We'll get it We'll get it Should I do a stick season cover? Where's that? It's for our second Christmas album Yeah, it's coming out All right This is the season of the sticks That's right I like that We have a lot to do today We do Yeah, we do

[00:04:49] We have 39 Festive Friday movies I gotta be honest When I said we should do this It was fun We were all funny games We were not looking at the numbers No I wasn't looking at the numbers I was just kind of like What is there, like 20? No Turns out we did one a week We put in the work That's right For 39 weeks So Technically We started the year off With champagne problems But that was a continuation Of Deck the Netflix We're not counting that So I did not count that

[00:05:18] Because that would be one by default I'm just kidding I mean No No But it would be close It'd be close It'd be up there Here's what we have here We have our five tiers, of course Which we've carried over From all of our other Ranking episodes Which is Starting from the bottom Bottom Dumpster fire Bad Standard feels Big fun maybe six And then up at the top Real movie territory We have 39 movies Dan, do that quick math Eight per It's eight per Eight per? Yeah

[00:05:47] One of them will have seven The other four will have eight Yeah That's a big dog And there are real movies in this There are real movies There are champ dogs And there's everything in between Yeah That's right Big dog It's the big dog movie of the week It's the champ dog movie of the week Exactly right You never know what you're gonna get That's right I am gonna suggest That we Speed Speed round it First Like just be like Hey Let's all get to an understanding

[00:06:17] Of where a movie goes Tier wise Like which tier And then come back around And we can resort it I think the tough part of this Is there's 20 of these That belong in dumpster fire And I say that As kind as I know how to say it And only eight can go there So we're gonna have to really Parse through the The excrement here To find ourselves With a movie that belongs In dumpster fire Ending up in standard feels That's gonna be the issue We have to find the nugget of zinc In the gravel That's right Yes You get it Yeah yeah of course Alright so we're starting With the Baltimoreans

[00:06:47] Which I think Is real movie territory Real movie territory Oh no question No question We are off to a Rip roaring start here Easy I remember that movie That's easy We're then going To the prime movie Oh what fun See this is where it gets tough Which was disappointing Yeah But it was not Champ Dog It wasn't Like that's the thing Is that movie's not good But like Jason Schwartzman And Michelle Pfeiffer Like we got people On screen

[00:07:16] It may end up being Real movie territory When all is Yeah Like my initial thought Is even being generous Is standard feels But looking at the The pack of stuff here It's at least gotta be Big fun maybe Yeah let's start Let's start with big fun I think we all know It's gonna end up in Real movie territory We're just trying to Can we just go ahead And say there's only Gonna be seven At real movie territory And the rest of them Are gonna have eight I think that's probably Yeah Okay All right Very Merry Mystery Which was the

[00:07:44] Own Network Mystery movie If you recall I don't remember It's a Christmas party And it's overnight Oh my god Yeah And there's the person That ends up being In the shed With their The shed Yeah Yep That's right Standard feels Right now standard feels That movie's gonna end up In big fun maybe six And we all know it I'm just telling you I'm just telling you it is I don't like it Any more than you do Yeah yeah yeah

[00:08:13] That's not a good movie But we got some stinkers Coming All right Joy to the World Which was a Hulu movie Chad Michael Murray And Oh man that movie's bad What's her name Emmanuel Shereke Yes that's right From Entourage And she does that thing She has like a A T show It's a Christmas in Connecticut Yeah Where he pretends To be her chauffeur And she pretends To have a family That's right And it all falls apart On a live TV show It's I would

[00:08:44] In a normal ranking It would be Dumpster fire for me But It's at least gotta be Bad Bad bad bad bad I think this probably Ends up in standard feels I think it may be standard feels And it probably winds up In standard feels I would slide in Standard feels right now But I could be wrong Go ahead Yeah no you're right If you're telling me That's bottom 16 We're gonna have some It's a stack deck So you're right Standard feels All right Key for key for all day long Tinseltown Oh my god The movie From across the ponds That's right

[00:09:13] Yeah where he's the actor And goes to the little town Rebel Wilson Rebel Wilson Rebel Wilson Yes Does tackle a Christmas tree In the movie So Probably gonna wind up In real movie territory But we could start it At big fun I think That's so frightening I think that's probably accurate I'm gonna throw it in big fun And we'll see what happens Oh my goodness This is gonna be so hard Okay so Unexpected Christmas Was the movie with Lil Rel Correct And Yes And he's The sisters Yeah dating the sisters

[00:09:42] He's dating both of them Yes Yeah The movie sucks man It was real That's gotta be Bad Bad Bad Right Yeah But I could see it Winding up Oh I mean we are Is that We have one good movie Is that the one where also The mom owns a church Or am I thinking of it No that's a No I think you're right You're right Yeah Yeah it's the same movie You're like mom's gonna sell the church Yeah Right The thing you should say Okay Merry Little Mystery

[00:10:11] Roku Channel Jordan Sparks Wasn't a mystery But if you remember I don't remember this at all A journalist A secret Santa A journalist comes to town And is trying to find out Who the town's Secret Santa Which was Jordan Sparks' Grandfather She starts doing that They're leaving very unwieldy gifts On porches That There's no way Nobody would hear them Unloading them And dropping them off A washer and dryer End up on someone's porch Yeah

[00:10:40] It's craziness It is a This is a bad movie This is a bad movie It's a bad movie That may wind up In standard fees We keep saying it I will say this For me Mary Oh Very Merry Mystery Is way better Than Merry Little Mystery I agree Because this is the movie That she opens up A candy cane Santa foundation On Christmas Day Which is the day Before her wedding That's right

[00:11:09] And I think it's also The one where No one's lived in the house For years But it gets decorated For Christmas every year anyway That's right Yeah But her Grandma Is That's right The grandma From all the things Somebody Somebody drops An oven off An oven off On a front porch Yes Fantastic That's what it was Not a oven Yeah Wow Okay The Christmas decoy What is this This was the one Where

[00:11:39] Oh gosh What's the best way To describe this This is the inn And the beauty queen Yes Remember the guy Owns the inn That we didn't know Was an inn For a while There's the awkward guy Who made his money In computers And now he has a giant house He lives in by himself Oh my goodness The one guy Doesn't like her Even though she's always Like been interested in him So she So he pushes The other guy at her And then when they Hit it off Suddenly he's interested again

[00:12:08] And it stars the woman Who only made the movie So she could promote Her beauty Cosmetics line Oh my That's the thing That made me remember it Just that That's gotta be In Dumpster Fire I think it's Dumpster Fire Gotta be Even though if memory serves Alonzo did like The awkward guy's I defended awkward guy's Performance As somebody who is Clearly meant to be Deeply on the spectrum But you know Sure Alright Merv Real movie territory I mean unfortunately It has to be though Right

[00:12:37] What movie's better Merv or Oh What Fun Merv Merv I don't know guys I don't know But you're right We're gonna be stuck With both of them In real movie territory Just because of the feel We can argue over that I don't like They both are premises That should work With the talent That should work Yeah I think Merv goes more wayward Than Oh What Fun But maybe I'm wrong there I didn't like either one I mean Michelle Pfeiffer does Shoplift a candle And nobody Nothing comes of it You know

[00:13:07] That's right That's true And there's a live TV show On Christmas Day Of course Involving moms Who love Christmas The cast in Oh What Fun Is nuts though It's true It's ridiculous That's quite the ensemble Let's just put it Merv where it is And then we'll We'll mess around All right All right Christmas and Mistletoe That's the movie Your friend made Oh boy Woof Talon Scouts Goes to the town The town's very reluctant To let the people Film the movie there Yeah I'm aware of this one I remember this one That's a dumpster fire It's gotta be

[00:13:37] For now But I It might go up I can see it crawling up Into bad by bad It might not Because I know the guy Who made it But it might go up Based upon quality All right Goodbye June A movie I never Want to see again Goodbye June But real movie territory Yeah I put that behind Baltimoreans What's Goodbye June The very very sad movie Very sad The Kate Winslet Directed movie Oh my god Yeah that's second That's second For sure It's second There's no question Yeah Yeah All right Silent Night Deadly Night Now that was the one

[00:14:06] Where Santa Kills Ones a year Nazis Kills Nazis Remember that And then at the end Of the movie He dies And passes that Like gift To his girlfriend To his girlfriend I loved it I really like this movie Yeah It's a full time Real movie territory Yeah That's number three For me I think that's Ahead of Merv as well I would agree I don't think that's I don't think that's Incorrect All right Holiday Twins Our introduction Into Champ Dog Oh no The bottom of the list Right

[00:14:33] Not a Christmas movie Not a movie Weird Weird lesbian scene Weird lesbian scene Just weird Not because it's lesbian But because it's weird No one saw it coming I don't You know That stays in Dubser Fire Unquestionably All right Wow Christmas Karma Is the Oh it's the Bollywood Jason's Christmas Carol Musical Everything about this Should work

[00:15:02] And none of it works None of it From the director Of Bend It Like Beckham It can't be higher Than Standard Feels Because it's a bad movie It is I think Standard Feels Is probably Like when you think About some of the other Movies and how bad Like this movie Although There's a level of Competence here Right Yeah Is it top 15 though I mean I would put it The top of Standard Feels But I think we can find 15 movies better than that one Yeah Alonzo not confident All right Hashtag

[00:15:32] Worst Christmas ever That's the BJ Brits movie That the Christmas Isn't really all that bad At all No And he goes home To spend Christmas With his ex And her new Fiance or husband Yeah They lose his luggage And there's a restaurant With somebody's face Oh is this where they go To like a club Right And she gets really

[00:16:01] Is that the one where They're in a club And like she has to Uber home drunk And the Uber driver Is the guy That she used to date Is that a different You know what I'm talking about That's not this movie That's a change That kind of rings a bell I think I think BJ Brick Gets super drunk And he Is drunk When he gets home He's in an Uber He's in an Uber He gets home Has to wake up his Ex Oh this movie says I just looked up my notes This movie says The line What in the hell sandwich Well then Bad

[00:16:31] Bad Bad Bad Yeah She's gonna have Her anniversary And birthday On Christmas day All of it's gonna be On one day Christmas day There we go As you do Yeah Oh yeah Cause he tries to say Anejo For the type of tequila He wants And it's a disaster Alright let's do Let's do a few more And then Where do we put that I put it in Bad Bad Yeah Yeah sure Why not Alright Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas ring Woof Theatrical release Yep Kelsey Grammer Kelsey Grammer In Georgia

[00:17:01] It could have been fixed So easily Like there's so many ways This movie should have been over One two minute conversation Yeah The whole thing I mean I'm thinking Bad but bad But I won't be shocked If it winds up in standard It's either at the front end Of bad but bad Or at the back of standard I think it is The best of the three Currently in bad but bad Yeah Yeah you gotta put it You gotta put it there That's where I put it Alright there we go Alright Stuck on Christmas This one's an easy one to remember Stuck on an elevator Oh boy Dumpster fire Gotta be

[00:17:30] Really bad movie Really bad movie Guys Really bad movie He looked great though Um Alright Ebony's Christmas Carol This is the one Where From the makers of this Of Stuck on Christmas It's better than that one The wine shop The wine shop The thing that I remember The most about this movie Is at the end Oh yeah Ebony Ebony Twerking on Grinding This is still Dumpster fire right I think so For sure Yeah It's a notch above

[00:18:00] Stuck on Christmas 100% And above Holiday with the Twins Yeah Holiday with the Twins Is last still This is probably I mean it's probably Better than those two movies Yeah Christmas Decoy And Christmas It's not better than Christmas Decoy You don't think so No I don't No no Time out Christmas Decoy Is that the one Collins made No Oh okay Christmas and Mistletoe Oh okay Nevermind then Yes I agree with you Okay All right Couples Weekend That's the one with Yeah Josh Gad Josh Gad Oh

[00:18:29] That's real movie That's gonna end up In real movie territory For sure I didn't like it But That's a Better than Merv Come on guys It's better than Merv What are we doing Yeah Whatever Just cause it's not Christmasy enough for you And people are fighting It's a weird Weird trip Just weird booze They find It's not good It's not a good movie Not good Yeah But better This is all relative There are performances What'd she say Do we need to take a break Let's do one more And take a break How about that Okay Let's get wild This is a

[00:18:58] Oh boy A Scottish Christmas Secret What was that The publisher Going after the author Who isn't turning in The rest of his trilogy And She's supposed to be This is the woman Who's supposed to be Working behind the scenes At the publisher But like Every time she emerges She's like crazily And takes her kid With her Takes the sister's kid Who's like a stock market whiz Oh my goodness And the author Turns out to be The secret duke

[00:19:28] Or something It was also So boring Really really bad movie Like a really bad movie Dumpster fire It's not gonna last It's a dumpster fire But it's gonna wind up In Bababab May as well put it In the back In the Bababab All right Let's take a break We'll come back We're doing the Lord's work here We're trying We'll be right back We'll rank some more movies Here on Deck the Hallmark I paused Yeah It was a weird pause

[00:19:58] Welcome back everybody We are ranking Our festive Friday movies We've got our Work cut out for us I think we've done About half At this point And we're gonna keep Going for it And then we'll come back And we'll straighten All these out Right now we're just Trying to get a good We've only done half Huh That's wild That is crazy town What a year it was 15 Yeah we've done 20 of 39 Holy cow Okay Up next we have A pickleball

[00:20:28] Christmas Good god We gotta start Watching better movies I mean This is crazy Big fun maybe six This was better Than the Netflix Pickleball movie With bigger stars in it Yeah it's gonna end up There It might end up higher I think it might Okay Balls out the door Yes that's right Balls out the door Hard to forget that That's right Good for them Tyler Perry's Finding Joy Oh this is the cabin This is the cabin That's right There's some steamy Steamy stuff here Steamy scenes in here Good

[00:20:57] Good chemistry Yeah it turns out He's really rich He just likes to stay In the cabin Fine Fine movie I guess This is a standard Field situation Isn't it Yeah it's very In this crowd It's very middle of the road It's not great But it's not like Wildly insane Might end up in big fun Maybe six It might end up in big fun Yeah All right Drink and be merry That's the guy Who owns the bar Oh I love I think this movie Real movie Yeah there's gotta be Real movie territory Better than Merv Better than Merv For sure All right

[00:21:27] You don't think It's better than Merv I didn't care for this Music City You're getting outvoted I understand Music City Mistletoe Oh boy This is the Country song Country singer The writer reached out to us And Meemaw at the hospital This is in the bottom two categories I don't know which one Yeah I think it's Bad but bad Just because like They took the lens cap off Yep Yep Bad but bad Bad All right All is merry and bright

[00:21:57] That's the Doug Jones movie Did go to theaters It's just like It's like a worse version Of oh what fun Standard feels And she gets healed She gets healed at the end She gets healed at the end By somebody who may or may not Be an angel Yeah Yeah I guess standard feels But ugh It's tough man I don't disagree I'm just looking The cookies for the governor It's a packed house At the bottom of this And we got miles to go Before we sleep We are in it I don't know where These movies are gonna go Okay There's only five spots left

[00:22:26] In the bottom two categories Oh dear The Christmas writer What is this? That's the lesbian one The Christmas story She's a writer She's the Christmas writer She writes Christmas books She's the Christmas Oh yeah That movie's real bad The bad movie guys It's standard for me I mean again I think it's sort of like I also think it's standard Okay It's kind of Again Because on this particular chart It is middle of the road You put it in bad Oh my fault Yes

[00:22:56] Pop it up There we go We'll see All right The Christmas mixer That's bad Bad bad bad It's not a dumpster fire I kind of liked Christmas mixer It had the fun Like period stuff With the grandma flashbacks Yeah The mixer doesn't wind up Being magical Which was annoying That's the biggest problem With the movie Is I was promised Magic mixer But that's not the movie's fault That's the Logline writer's fault This is the movie Where he quits his job And he's helping her Produce this video Well they both get laid off

[00:23:26] That's right And then someone's watching And says his camera works amazing You should work for the news Right Yes That's the one And it's got the barbecue place too Where did we put it We haven't put it anywhere yet Standard Fields I think Standard Fields Is probably where this ends up going Standard Yeah We're trying to Full up there Christmas snowed in With a prince Dumpster fire Dumpster fire Dumpster fire I think it's Maybe better than Holiday with the twins Agreed It's just one notch Great time

[00:23:56] Bad movie Dickens of a Christmas Ashley Nearby Her brother died Oh no Her brother died Oh no I want to say dumpster fire But I'm going to say Bad by bad I guess we got to put in Did you throw that snowball at me What time out What is the last The best movie in dumpster fire Right now The best movie in dumpster fire Is the Christmas decoy Christmas decoy The hotel And the awkward guy

[00:24:25] Oh man I guess this is better The new bro movie Is better than that Barely Yeah Yeah I think Christmas and mistletoe Is better than the new bro movie Uh Yeah I mean here's the thing New bro's in the new bro movie Which is the best thing It's got going for The best thing it's got going for The dude opposite her Is not anything But she Like She knows what she's doing Yes Absolutely You know And so

[00:24:54] I mean let's Let's put it in Bad by bad for now We can parse out later You know The actual The chasm It's Between Actors that can be On Hallmark Channel Doing this thing Yeah And Between the actors That are just They elevate it a lot They do It really does elevate A bad movie Yeah I mean It's just Guys it's getting late early I'm just letting you know Standard feels In bad by bad We got room for One more movie In each of those Alright Up next is Merry Little Baby She

[00:25:23] Had the baby packed And That's a dumpster fire Her Who she had the baby pack with Is with someone else now And so she Starts meeting with all these men To see who will Oh my god This movie Sperm donor Just do the impressions For like 10 straight minutes Yeah This is the Interviewing sperm donors Is the straight To two Yeah That's bottom three or four For sure Yeah Better than the champ dogs But down there Wow Alright Dashing through the snow That is our action movie

[00:25:53] That movie sucks It's so bad Yeah That's gotta be Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad It's a terrible movie Bad movie Agreed Bad movie Alright We're full up at Bad Bad Bad Bad Alright 12 toys of Christmas What is that? That's the Norway or Wherever it is The Scandinavian one Oh Trying to design the toys Yeah And her mom can't be bothered Because she goes to the grandma And the grandma calls And she gives away The grandfather's toys That's right The handmade toys

[00:26:22] That movie's really bad guys It's a bad movie It might be Dumps What's the end of Dumpster fire? What is the end of Bad Bad Bad Oh Dashing through the snow Dickens of a Christmas Music City Mistletoe They're not in any Particular order I would I would move Uh Gosh I would move Scottish To dumpster fire And put Uh 12 toys In Bababad Where's Scott I can't It's just too small Maybe I can

[00:26:51] Maybe it'll be better Scottish is But it's It's after Worst Christmas ever Before Music City This is helping me a ton I think we moved The The action movie Down to dumpster fire And then we put This one up For now Dashing Alright Yeah At the end Dashing through the snow And then we move This one up You think this is better Don't put But put it back That's fine Put it in dumpster fire I'm not saying I Here's You're right The action movie At least has a scene That's different

[00:27:21] With a drone I mean I don't know man It's got Like David Keckner Shows up Very very briefly Here's the Here's the thing Finding Joy Is gonna end up Moving up That's just what's Gonna happen It's gonna Finding Joy Is gonna end up Moving up To Big Fun Movie 6 I think the other thing Is this Christmas ring Is gonna move up To Standard Fields And we all know it Let's just do it We're all Kelsey Grammer And the gang Kelsey Grammer Here's what we have here We've got some Benjamin We've got four Yeah We've got four

[00:27:50] True turds Back to back to back Here Are you ready Yeah An Aspen Christmas Conspiracy Holiday Heist The Fathers of the Bride And Romance in Christmastown Oh man Four true dumpster fires I don't know what to do here Alright We've gotta First of all The first thing we need to do Is realize that the Christmas Karma movie Is one of the 16 best movies It is Move it up It is

[00:28:19] And Oh What Fun Has gotta be Oh What Fun Kick it up Kick it up Yeah Absolutely We gotta find another movie To end up there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Alright Real movie territory's capped We're done there Not moving anything Alright Well best of the order Here in a bit Okay Tensiltown Pickleball Finding Joy Christmas Karma Currently in Big Fun Maybe 6 What's next in the Standard Feels We gotta move some stuff up We have Very Merry Mystery Joy to the World God All is Very Bright

[00:28:48] Christmas Four of those movies Are going up What else is Do we see anything good Still left on our board Is there anything good Left on the board The horror movies Do you fear what I fear Is probably my favorite Of the three horror movies Okay Hold on Let's Can we go to the We'll deal with the turds last Can we skip to the Skip past the four turds Let's skip to the scaries I know what we did last Christmas That's the champ dog Scary movie God almighty Skip again Skip again I'm using another pass

[00:29:18] You know what That one I'll go standard On that one I would go standard feels On that one as well Do you fear what I fear Is the best champ dog I know No no no I know what we did last Christmas I know what we did last Christmas Okay Do you fear what I fear Is the lifetime movie Okay Okay But first we have He kills at night Which is the weird Road trip Hitchhike movie Oh no Where she ends up being The serial killer We think I've yet to receive Word from the filmmakers So you just put I know what you did

[00:29:47] Last Christmas In Standard Fields Right I did Okay And he kills at night I We gotta find three more We have to find four more movies For big fun maybe six Four Okay If I'm If I For me Do you fear what I fear The lifetime movie Yep That needs to be Big fun maybe six Of the three scariest That was my favorite But it also is the best quality Of those three movies Sure He kills at night

[00:30:17] Is a bigger swing But the swing It doesn't make sense It doesn't land Yeah It's like Yes He swung real hard And it ends up right in front of the base And you're like wow And it gives us that grace piano moment We got one more in Standard Fields Put it in Standard Well no It's gonna kick up Doesn't matter We gotta kick it up here Yeah You think it's better than Mary What is that A Very Merry Mystery Yeah it is It's better than that In the In the Emmanuel Shrieky movie He kills at night Whatever Oh you're saying What is Guys

[00:30:47] Okay Alright Of Of the movie Cause none of these None of the four turns Are obviously going in big fun So which Let's Let's deal with Standard Fields real quick Okay Which of the Standard Fields movies Need to move up To big fun movie six So we have to move three of them Christmas Mixer I would vote Mixer for sure Okay It could be Christmas Ring Could be Christmas Rider The That's the lesbian one Yeah Uh huh

[00:31:17] It could be All is Mary and Bright With Doug Jones Wow It could be the People that know what they're doing I If I would say For me Of those Of movies If I'm moving two of them up It would probably be Chad Michael Murray Joy to the world For Chad Michael Murray You still get to look at him For 90 minutes And then probably Qualitatively

[00:31:46] The Christmas Ring Oh my god I I would go Mixer and Ring You would go We've already put Mixer up That's not including Mixer Mixer Oh okay Then I would say Ring And Christmas Ring's gotta go up It's Benjamin Hollingsworth And Kelsey Gramer Like there's too much quality And what's her name Who's in some of these as well Yes I just I don't know her name Is it Jaina Kramer Yes I'm gonna look that up I'm gonna hate myself If I'm right

[00:32:16] It's Jaina Kramer Dadgum it Jaina Kramer Yes You've been You've been doing it too long Yeah You've been doing it too long Yeah you gotta move Christmas Ring up I think you gotta That makes three Six We need one more Up there Oh no For me I mean It's in between Joy to the World And All is Merry and Bright If we're just looking at Quality Joy to the World That's a Chad Michael Murray mini Oh I got you And which Oh god I would probably go I would probably lean the swing

[00:32:46] If he kills at night Over those two movies Really Maybe I'm wrong Alright Yeah I mean Either he kills at night Or Christmas writer I just I feel like even with We all disagree Yeah Even with the familiar faces In Joy to the World That movie is Just terrible And it's It's so bad And it's a terrible version Of something that's worked I mean like Even the Hallmark Take on Christmas in Connecticut That one with Jody Sweetin As the Daughter of the Martha Stewart type

[00:33:16] Who can't build a gingerbread house Was better than Yes Agreed I vote He kills at night Well you guys Both mentioned it It's gritty It's indie It's got some fun Yeah Let's do He kills at night It's got those flashbacks And it's got It's trying to do something Yeah We'll argue later But I think you could make an argument That Three movies now in Standard Fields Could be the best in that category Including Christmas Rider Joy to the World And I Know What You Did Last Christmas I think those three are better

[00:33:44] Always Merry and Bright too I don't know I don't know I don't know We'll deal with it later We'll deal with it later We got stuff to do This is stupid All four of the movies that are left An Aspen Christmas Conspiracy Holiday Heist Fathers of the Bride And Christmas and Romance Or Romance and Christmastown Those are all dumpster fires They're all dumpster fires They're all dumpster fires So we gotta start Even by this Even by this Shards Those Standards You could argue those are four of the worst five movies we watched Yeah

[00:34:14] So that was quite the stretch we had there Yeah So we gotta move Unexpected Christmas Merry Little Mystery And Worst Christmas Ever To Standard Fields then God almighty Unless there's something else on that row That you think is any better Which I don't Okay so In the bad Bad Bad Bad Tier We have Unexpected Christmas Which I just It's honestly I just don't remember it super well What about Ashley Newbrook Merry Little Mystery Are we not talking about moving that one up? The Dickens thing? Yeah

[00:34:42] Remember the whole thing where she's reading the book And they're reenacting other Dickens stories? Oh my god But like that's better than Worst Christmas Ever The BJ Britt movie was real bad That's true I do think What's Merry Little Mystery again? Merry Little Mystery Jordan Sparks in the oven on the porch Oh god no No Absolutely not I do think I will stand on business Ten toes down Merry Little Mystery is not moving up any higher I do think Newboro

[00:35:11] It gets to Newboro bump I think Sure Yes She lifts all boats I agree And then we have to do two more? Slide it up Okay Two more of these movies Unexpected Unexpected You know What was that one again? That's the L'Oreal and the Two Sisters Oh my I will say But of the movies I remember being so Like Can't believe I can't believe He's with both of them Yeah he dated both Fine Whatever And I think you got

[00:35:40] Anna Maria Harsford as the mom So you mean to tell me One more of these Just trash heaps Is moving up to the middle And it's I will say this In this order It cannot be Merry Little Mystery And it cannot be Music City Mistletoe I think those two And then what's this middle one here? Scottish? It's Scottish I would say 12 Toys frankly What's 12 Toys? For me Oh yeah she goes over It's getting the Navy out For me Like if we're talking swings

[00:36:09] I don't hate the swing Of Dashing Through the Snow The action movie Where is that? It's down in Dumpster Fire Dumpster Fire But it's going to move up It's going to move up So that's why I'm messing with this Yeah I say Scandinavia moves up I say it moves up Alright gosh There's no way that That action movie has a drone And they're so proud And it sucks It's so bad They got David Teckner for a day I think you guys are forgetting How truly miserable 12 Toys of Christmas was It's a terrible movie I hated the action movie Again

[00:36:38] All relative here Okay Alright Alright so we got to move We got to pop Oh god This is absolute There's going to be a champ dog That's going to end up I'm going to throw these down And I'm going to throw the four That we have left Down in the bottom In Dumpster Fire Yeah Okay And after you do that And we'll be sitting with like 12 movies at Dumpster Fire Then we're going to have to Take a break And just try to get our senses About us And then figure out Which one of these movies Gets the promotion Because three of them

[00:37:07] Get a promotion What is least bad Yeah So you think we need to Take a break now Or after we do that I don't know I feel like it's been About 20 minutes Since our last break So usually that's how That works We'll figure out Which of these Dumpster Fire movies Are not quite that terrible After the break Back to home Okay Okay Welcome back

[00:37:36] Here's where we're at Here's where we're at To set the table We know the The movies That are going to make up Real movie territory Big Fun Maybe 6 And Standard Feels Yes We currently have a little bit of a Conundrum A conundrum Traffic jam Because Dumpster Fire Is over full It is Overflowing Dumpster Fire Overflowing Dumpster Fire The trash people Didn't come Can I just Can we do Before we have to Make really hard decisions

[00:38:05] I think Christmas and Mistletoe needs to move up I think just the fact That there are actual Camera lines Like that are consistent In that movie Means it probably Doesn't belong with Some of these other ones In my opinion They're trying for something And It's just too long It needed to be edited Way better I think Christmas and Mistletoe should move up You disagree I'm okay with that Okay Because if you move that up Now you've got She's The Ebony's Christmas Carol Which is a I mean We're looking at some of

[00:38:35] These movies that Came out of Texas And came out of Champ Dog And came out of JPR And one of them Is going to end up Moving up Oh gosh So like now We're here We got two more of these And it's the Christmas Decoy Which every time You guys say it I forget what movie It is Ebony's Christmas Carol Look The rest of these movies Are all Classically bad Right Ebony's Christmas Carol Is the wine company She's grinding Dude Stuck on Christmas That elevator

[00:39:04] In the elevator The elevator The homophobia And the Oh my gosh The homophobia Prank Yeah Move it down What's next What is that next Merry little baby Merry little baby With all the interviews I shudder to think That we might have to put Aspen Christmas Conspiracy In Bababababab I think That you It can't be Holiday Twins It can't be Christmas Saturday With the Prince It can't be Holiday Heist It can't be Romance Town It can't be romance

[00:39:34] In a Christmas Town Let's go We gotta have one more Those seven Those seven are locked Put Aspen up there So I can clear it I put it I put it up Okay So basically One of these nine movies Is not going to be In dumpster fire And boy Howdy Are they all Burning to a crisp In a dumpster Somewhere Remind me what The Holiday Heist Even is Remember that Starts outside This guy's house A year earlier And they're waiting For the right candidate They're gonna burn

[00:40:03] They're gonna burn The family a lot They The plan was to Murder them But not until They had everything And then they're Gonna burn them a lot Because that won't Leave any DNA Yes Right And they're supposed to They're having Christmas Early but then it's Snowing but it's not Snowing and no one Can leave so they have To Oh yeah I know I've asked Four times What's the Christmas Dequick Awkward guy At the hotel And the The cosmetics line The cosmetics All right Here's where I'm at Oh my god We've got a mess

[00:40:33] On our hands Looking at Again Romance in Christmastown Fathers of the Bride Holiday Heist Holiday with the Twins Christmas Stoney with the Prince Merry Little Baby Stuck on Christmas Ebony's Christmas Carol And the Christmas Decoy For me I'm gonna write down What I would do For me At the end of the day We just want chemistry And the The chemistry Inside the elevator

[00:41:02] Stop it There is no World Hey all right Listen I threw it out there One of them has to move up guys I Let me pitch you my pick Why not the one Where they have sex In the elevator Okay Let me pitch you my pick If only they had Also A really Guys they're all terrible I'm not defending this movie The idea Of Ebony's Christmas Carol The idea Like

[00:41:31] With a female Scrooge Right And And Dan I want to make sure you remember I want to make sure you remember It's been done I have to tell you She hates Christmas Because her parents Tried their best That's right I know I know They were really good parents They live in town If you are They live in town You're asking me To rank these bottom nine movies Ebony's Christmas Carol Is number one Of those nine movies For me

[00:42:01] No Tell me what your number one is Is stuck in the elevator Possibly That's crazy Maybe Maybe it's the Stockholm Syndrome talking But I would say If I had to choose If I had to put one of these movies Into a life raft It might be the baby one What What What That's worse than brands Again None of these are good Let's be very clear about that These are all terrible We are at quite an impasse

[00:42:30] Can we all How about this Can we Can we narrow it down Then maybe we can do a better job voting I don't want Christmas decoy up Anybody else want decoy up No Okay I don't think romance in Christmastown should be up No I was about to bring it up But okay I don't I was gonna I'd just have a conversation about it And I don't Have a conversation about it My thing with I was just gonna have a conversation about it Alonzo Stuck on Christmas has the homophobic pranks Yes it has the homophobic pranks And then those three

[00:43:00] And then what is Oh Romance that has the active gaslighting of the woman Yeah Romance in a Christmas town Stuck on Christmas Christmas decoy And fathers of the bride to me Are all non-negotiable Those are all non-negotiable I don't want them up there Say it one more time Romance in Christmas town The Christmas decoy Stuck on Christmas And fathers of the bride Are all non-negotiable That I would like to propose Oh holiday twins I would like to propose I mean that's non-negotiable That based on

[00:43:28] Christmas snowed in with a prince Okay I was gonna say Also non-negotiable I was gonna say Let's move on Christmas snowed in with a prince We had such a good time I think we're talking We had such a good time I think we're talking about three movies It's Merry Christmas We had such a good time I think we're talking about three movies Ebony's Christmas Carol Merry Christmas Baby Holiday Heist I think those are the three best of the bottom nine But I'm If I If you disagree with me Tell me No I think you're I think they're the least incompetent of these movies Yeah

[00:43:58] It cannot be either of the champ dogs It cannot be JPR It cannot be fathers It cannot be decoy Exactly I agree with you So we're down to Heist Baby Christmas Carol Of those three Give me baby I think Yeah I can't believe you guys Alright You guys We've done it Again I'm in no way defending this movie You have to sleep tonight I'm saying I'm saying We're putting baby next to Next to the champ dog

[00:44:27] This woman Put on wigs And different To do voices Of people interviewing To possibly be a sperm donor Remember the yoga scene? The yoga scene Unless I forgot the yoga scene This woman filmed herself From ass viewpoint Doing yoga For five minutes What are we doing? I can't believe you guys I got outvoted Again It's all relative there This is where Everything

[00:44:57] This is a matter of degrees Alright Now we have to deal with order I think the top is done though Right? Baltimore on Goodbye June Silent Night Deadly Night Couples Weekend Drink and Be Merry Merv and Oh What Fun I think that order's fine I would put Drink and Be Merry Before Couples Weekend But I'm You know I was gonna I'm okay with it No I like it the way it is You vote Okay I vote It's two movies I don't like I got you

[00:45:27] Better performances in Couples Weekend Across the board Of course In my opinion Alright Yeah We're splitting Alright Big Fun Movie 6 Here's what we have In no particular order currently Tinseltown Pickleball Christmas Tyler Perry's Finding Joy Christmas Karma Do You Fear What I Fear The Christmas Mixer The Christmas Ring I'm sorry Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring And he kills at night Let me tell you what I Immediately popped out there For me is

[00:45:55] I do think the chemistry Of the two leads In Finding Joy Is pretty palpable Yes Like there's some cabin scenes Where they're looking at each other Yes Yeah And I think that Do You Fear What I Fear Is not a good movie But it is a better made movie Than a lot of these It was an easy watch In my opinion Those two should be At the top You think so Let me just do it And see how it works I think I put I would still have Tinseltown first here But I'm with you On those two Moving up What's Tinseltown Oh that's Kiefer

[00:46:25] Yeah yeah So Kiefer would be first Then those two Okay That's how I would go Okay If you can There we go And I'd maybe put I'd put Mixer before Karma I would also put Mixer before Karma No I don't know I don't know I think I just There's so much money Poured into Christmas Karma And it's so bad I've never seen someone As miscast as the dude From Big Bang Theory As Scrooge

[00:46:54] It's such a poor casting Christmas Mixer though Is like not good Here's what I would say I think Christmas Mixer Is one of those movies Like Hollywood and the Hot Chocolate Where like they are Of their limited resources They're making the most of it And they're making it Can I tell you this I think both of those movies Are better than Pickleball Christmas Really I do Whoa But maybe it's just me I mean I think Pickleball Christmas Works in the way that Do you fear what I fear works

[00:47:24] Just in terms of like It knows the shape of the thing Yeah Okay Okay That's fine I mean I think From that standpoint Christmas Ring Should be higher then Because Christmas Ring Knows what it's doing I just hate it Yeah I just I hate that it's Written in such a way Where you're like It just If you say Somebody say the thing And then we'll We can all go home Agree Yeah But yeah If you want to put it Before karma I guess I would slide it I would slide Benjamin Hollingsworth And Jaina Kramer Above Christmas karma Yeah I think that's how

[00:47:54] I would have those Okay So from Highest to lowest In this regard In this tier Tinseltown Tyler Perry's Finding Joy Do You Fear What I Fear A Pickleball Christmas The Christmas Mixer Karen Kingsbury The Christmas Ring Christmas karma And he kills at night I like that Okay Sure Alright Look at us Here we go Alright Standard feels This is This is the definition Of a hodgepodge peluca You guys are just higher

[00:48:23] On Very Merry Mystery Than I am I don't know How else to say that I would I would have The next I would I would have the Chad Michael Murray And all his Mary and Bride The Doug Jones And Probably the Christmas writer And probably I know what you did Last Christmas Ahead of that movie I think that movie This is Jordan Sparks This is the Jordan Sparks movie I would slide that thing down As far as we could slide it No No Very Merry Mysteries Not the Jordan Sparks movie No no no no Very Merry Mysteries Where they have the mystery party Yes

[00:48:54] Yeah Up here Oh right That one Okay okay Yeah I I really can't stand The The The Chad Michael Murray Fair But y'all are more into it Than I am I will give you that Yes Mystery is not as good As all as Mary and Bride Or Christmas writer How about we move Both of these down Then Bran How about we move That one down And then we also Move Chad Michael Murray Down two spaces Or you just You wanted You like it up there

[00:49:23] Cause he's in the movie I Okay That's a fair argument I do think that he does Bring a certain amount Of just respect To a property It's like Ashley Newbro She made this movie In Standard Feels as well I would maybe pop her Ahead of Merry Mystery But maybe that's just me What's Unexpected Christmas again Oh is that L'Rell That's L'Rell Yeah that needs to stay Exactly where it is And then The last one is The Scandinavian Navy That also is such a bad movie I think we got the

[00:49:53] The bottom two correct Yeah Yeah I could see Dickens Moving up one Eh no Okay I think Mystery Is better than Dickens Those two movies Are the bane Of my existence Like I'd rather watch A champ dog Than those two movies Those two movies Are the worst Classic mushy middle Of this Right Is like Those two movies I don't really care And then Christmas writer And I know what you did Last Christmas

[00:50:22] I feel like that's Probably correct The correct order Of those two I think it is I think You know I know what you did Last Christmas Is the best of the Bunch of that From that company But it just isn't Are we okay with this Order in Standard Feels I am I am Okay so From best to worst In Standard Feels We have joy to the world All is merry and bright The Christmas writer I know what you did Last Christmas Very Merry Mystery Dickens of a Christmas Unexpected Christmas And Twelve Toys of Christmas That gets us to Bad bad bad bad bad

[00:50:50] Where the movies are Merry Little Mystery With Jordan Sparks Hashtag Worst Christmas Ever With BJ Britt A Scottish Christmas Secret Music City Mistletoe Dashing Through the Snow The action movie Christmas and Mistletoe Dance Friends movie An Aspen Christmas Conspiracy And Merry Little Baby God I think that order Actually works I honestly This order's not bad Dan This order's not bad

[00:51:20] Here in bad Bad bad bad I hate Merry Little Mystery Guys I hate I hate That movie I would probably Have worst Christmas Ever Ahead of that movie And then A Scottish I think Merry Little Mystery At least looks like It's supposed to look For the most part And it's got Jordan Sparks And BJ Harrison Which again It's See Murray Chad Michael And New Gro Ashley You know Yeah Even though Jordan Sparks

[00:51:49] Has yet to be In a good Christmas movie She's It's true She's She's Very pleasant Like I like Jordan Sparks Yeah So There's that I like BJ Britt too He's fun Those movies are so Terrible Scottish Christmas Secrets So bad And then we're Into some stuff I will say this You can move Dashing Through the Snow Up ahead of Music City Mistletoe I'll allow that In my opinion The action sequence At the beginning Alone Gives it the Advantage

[00:52:19] In my opinion I guess Sure Yeah I know you don't Love it But like We're splitting hairs At this point I saw something In Dashing Through the Snow I usually don't see In these movies So by that alone There you go Alright let's leave this Let's leave this order And that gets us Really quick To Dumpster Fire Which we have The Christmas Decoy Ebony's Christmas Carol Stuck on Christmas Christmas With a prince Holiday twins Holiday heist Fathers of the Bride

[00:52:46] And Romance in Christmastown I think the two champ dogs Are the worst Like they're worse Than JPR even That's Christmas Snowden with a prince And Holiday with the twins Yes Yeah I think Holiday with the twins Is the worst movie We've seen Holiday with the twins Is the worst But Christmas Snowden with a prince Nothing to Put your thumb up Am I crazy To suggest That Fathers of the bride Is probably the best Of this crap You are That movie sucks

[00:53:16] Yeah That's an out and out Terrible I think it's I'm an ally But it's fine I think we have The bottom Yeah that's not That's just being wrong I think we have The bottom four Correct Holiday with the twins Stone of the Christmas Prince Romance in Christmastown And Fathers of the Bride I think those are The worst four movies In my opinion Yeah Like I'm thinking Is fathers worse Than Heist And I guess it is I think it is But it's close In Heist It's like Are they gonna kill These people Yeah I think Stuck on Christmas

[00:53:45] Is worse than Heist Personally But maybe it's just me I don't think so I think we may have It right there I think Christmas decoy Ebony's Christmas Carol Stuck on Christmas And Heist What a mess Are we locking it in I'm ready to lock it in I think we should This has been an hour Well spent Yeah What a time to be alive Let me try to see If I can make this bigger Since we're going Through the whole thing You want me to try to I gotta Y'all if you're not Watching this on YouTube You're really missing out Yeah yeah yeah The YouTube's

[00:54:15] What to do here And that's also DTH Stick 26 That's right Okay here's what we have From worst To best Okay For the 2026 Festive Friday crop A tradition unlike any other Holiday with the twins And twins Christmas snowed in With the prince Romance in Christmastown Fathers of the bride A Christmas comedy Or whatever the heck The subject A yuletide wedding comedy Thank you Yeah you wanted to put that

[00:54:45] At the top I just throw out things Cause you're an owl If we say it enough times It'll Oh boy Holiday Holiday heists Stuck on Christmas Ebony's Christmas Carol Christmas decoy Yes And then that gets us to A merry little Baby

[00:55:13] An Aspen Christmas Conspiracy Christmas and mistletoe Music City mistletoe That's too much mistletoe Back to back Dashing through the snow A Scottish Christmas Secrets Hashtag worst Christmas Ever And merry little mystery Then that gets us to Twelve toys of Christmas Unexpected Christmas A Dickens of a Christmas Merry Very merry mystery I know what you did Last Christmas The Christmas writer All is merry and bright

[00:55:42] And joy to the world Then that gets us to He kills at night Christmas karma Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas ring Still waiting on my first Good movie The Christmas mixer A pickleball Christmas Do you fear what I fear Tyler Perry's Finding Joy Tinseltown And then our real movies Oh What Fun Merv Drink and Be Merry Couples Weekend Silent Night Deadly Nights

[00:56:12] Goodbye June And our favorite Festive Friday movie Of the year The movie we started with Oh no It was literally All down nil The Baltimore I have two thoughts And one thought is Is that this is not Exactly a ringing endorsement For watching movies That aren't from One of the networks You trust But two I can't wait for Oh What Fun To put this on the DVD box Ranked the top eight

[00:56:42] Festive Friday watch Of the year Sheesh Just put real movie territory On the box Man Oh What Fun Well we did everybody Congratulations to us The good news I guess Holy moly Is that the plan is For next year To not do this And to actually Go back in time And do all of the Countdown to Christmas movies That we have not done

[00:57:11] We want to be completists You know what I mean We want to be completists Yeah We want to say We've done them all It's the only reason I'm going to the next Ice Age So we'll start in Whatever year Counting to Christmas Started which I believe Is like 11 or 12 Something like that Make our way Through the dreck Make our way through it Here comes Dean Cain And Kevin Sorbo Heck yeah That's exactly right So look forward to that Look forward to Mistletoe Murders That's the name of that show Yeah Coming out

[00:57:40] Starting in just a couple weeks And Deck the Netflix Starting soon We got all sorts of stuff We got all sorts of stuff Stay tuned for that The worst is behind us I hope I hope For now For now Until next time Maybe we're the first to wish you a Merry Christmas Deck the Hallmark It's a Bramble Jam podcast Produced by Brandon Gray And presented by Racine Danish Kringle At Kringle.com For more information on the show You can go to Deck the Hallmark.com Follow us on the socials At Deck the Hallmark And leave us a 5 star rating A review on Apple Podcast If you please

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