The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time

The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time

A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg (1986)

A Muppet Christmas with Zbigniew Brzezinski (1978)
An Algonquin Round Table Christmas (1927)
Ayn Rand’s A Selfish Christmas (1951)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Santa (1973)
Christmas with the Nuge (2002)
Noam Chomsky: Deconstructing Christmas (1998)
The Lost Star Trek Christmas Episode: “A Most Illogical Holiday” (1968)
The Mercury Theater of the Air Presents the Assassination of Saint Nicholas (1939)
The Village People in Can’t Stop the Christmas Music — On Ice! (1980)

HT: John Scalzi, who goes into hilarious detail here.


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