Hallmark Christmas Movies - Winter Theme

Curl up on the couch with some eggnog and enjoy this winter-themed episode all about Hallmark Christmas movies! Quizmaster Andi watched three yuletide movies brought to us by the Hallmark Channel and she invented a fourth! Think you can spot the made-up movie? Join hosts Tanner and Sups as they try to find the fake! 

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Sups 0:02

Or maybe it's just a plane. Lie.

Tanner 0:04

Yeah. It's Hard to tell

Sups 0:06

a lot of mind games here.

Tanner 0:07

Yeah. Santa.

Sups 0:08

Help me

Andi 0:11

Silent Night with a twang. Everyone has

Sups 0:15

Okay. And

Andi 0:15

all of them are good.

Tanner 0:21

That's awesome. I kind of wanna watch that one.

Sups 0:24

but this one is, Traditional Hallmark. classic. It's so classic. That's why I'm thinking this is the one she

Tanner 0:29

up.

Andi 0:30

Hello and welcome to this episode of the I Should Have Known podcast, the trivia podcast that can't be trusted. Each week our Quizmaster presents you with four big facts on a topic, but one of those facts is a lie, and we are doing winter for the month of December. and today I Andy, am your Quizmaster and I'm doing a find the fake episode on Hallmark Christmas movie. So I will present you with four movies. three of them are real Hallmark channel movies, and one of them I have invented. So join our other hosts, soups and Tanner in figuring out which one it is.

Sups 1:03

I love Hallmark movies, I love it.

Tanner 1:06

Yeah.

Andi 1:06

Oh, well you should have researched this episode

Sups 1:10

I always have tears even though I know what's going to happen in the movie.

Andi 1:14

Yeah. Yeah. I definitely think there's some like catharsis. That's kind of the whole of the genre. Yeah. But yeah, so I actually watched the three real movies and then I. Invented one. So I wrote full synopsis of the three that I watched. And then I wrote a fake one for a fake movie I invented, Right. But let's back up a little bit. Do the low hanging fruit in case we have listeners who are like, what are you talking about? So low hanging. the Hallmark Channel was created and named for a company that is widely known for what? Paper product.

Sups 1:46

cards?

Tanner 1:47

Greeting cards.

Andi 1:48

Yes. Greeting cards, yes. So Hallmark Card Inc. Is now officially the name of the company, And they started the Hallmark Channel it officially launched in 2000. and they produce original movies for their channel and in December, they do like a Christmas countdown and they produce several Christmas movies. But nowadays the term Hallmark movie has kind of just become synonymous with any movie that is like very family values, very happy ending. And usually there's romance involved. So,

Tanner 2:22

it's made for tv. These aren't in the

Andi 2:24

right? These are for TV or dvd. Some of them actually went to D V D.

Sups 2:29

Yeah. And now for streaming platforms

Andi 2:31

yeah. So these are all official Hallmark Channel movies except for the one that I invented, That's an Andy original, but Hallmark. You can hit me up if you like it. You know So we're gonna go in chronological order of the release. the first movie is called A Boyfriend for Christmas, was released in 2004. Career-oriented Spinster lawyer. Holly Grant is angry with Christmas. that's because when she was 13 years old, she asked Santa for a boyfriend. And the 20 year time limit on the promised is almost up. Santa, who spends his busy holiday season volunteering at a Salt Lake City Women's shelter. sends fellow lawyer Ryan to her house on Christmas, decorated with a boat. Holly is eventually intrigued and brings him along to her family Christmas party. Under the pseudonym, Doug Furk he charms all of them traditional gender roles, Enue and Holly finds herself falling for Doug one problem. Her ex-boyfriend Ted, who relentlessly pursues Holly, despite her utter lack of interest, even proposing to her out of the. Toxic masculinity reigns as Ted and Doug continue to scheme. For Holly's heart, Ted discovers Ryan's real identity. And exposes him at the Grant Family New Year's Eve Party. Santa, who is still there for

Tanner 3:46

some reason,

Andi 3:47

watches as Holly rejects Doug slash Orion disheartened that he has failed to deliver a Christmas wish for the first time. Ted makes a second public proposal as Santa sinks further into dejection, but Holly declines to go find Ryan instead, the kiss as the midnight fireworks begin and Santa Ho, ho, ho. In.

Sups 4:05

Relief. Love it. Yes. I don't think I've seen this movie

Tanner 4:11

I love these names.

Andi 4:12

Yeah. Also her

Tanner 4:13

Holly. Yes. Fur wood. Like, come on. These are so Christmasy.

Andi 4:17

Yeah. So, my favorite highlight from this one is the credits opening and closing. they have a knockoff version of Mariah Carries All I want for Christmas is You. So it's like an original version with different lyrics and like only just changed. Melody to, to just not be all I want for Christmas is you. it's like Santa send me a boyfriend for Christmas. It's, yeah, it's uh, wow.

Tanner 4:42

That's amazing. They I have so many questions. Okay. the Santa being an actual character in the movie is really surprising to me.

Andi 4:51

Yeah, he's, a character. when you hear the other synopsis, you maybe won't be so surprised that Santa is a

Tanner 4:56

a character. Also, Santa's Christmas gifts have a 20 year shelf life. Like what is

Andi 5:01

that Yeah. Yeah.

Sups 5:02

But this is like real, real center, not like a mall center.

Andi 5:05

No. Yeah. Well, he is in a mall at the beginning. Okay. But then like he is

Sups 5:09

real

Andi 5:10

Santa. Yeah. Okay, Okay.

Tanner 5:12

This sounds like a great movie,

Sups 5:13

Yeah. Yeah.

Tanner 5:14

yeah,

Sups 5:14

I totally watch it.

Andi 5:15

I will say definitively I have no desire to watch any of these a second time.

Tanner 5:20

Wow. Okay. So that one puts you in the mood. This one gets your

Andi 5:23

it's Christmas Eve.

Tanner 5:24

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's real or not. I really need the other ones

Sups 5:28

ones. Yeah, I know, right? I mean, but these movies, like all of them will sound real. Yeah, right? Yeah.

Andi 5:33

two. Okay. Movie number two. A red, white and blue Christmas. 2008. Medical doctor and austere British stereotype. Annabel Powell is on her way back home from a conference when her chartered plane is forced by a frequenter storm to land at a municipal airport in rural. Vale is informed that she must remain in the small town of Elizabethton. Over the holidays, the airport cafe owner Clara Birch, takes pity on her and offers to have her over at her house, a huge mountain chalet that she can somehow afford. Clara has eight adult sons, all of them home for Christmas with their families. The only single one is Chase, a free spirited street artist. The general chaos and Americanness of the house shocks poor Anna. during a rowdy game of backyard football, chase twists his ankle and is attended to by Bell. She sneers at his profession and lack of seriousness while he calls her an uptight press. But it is his turn to be shocked. The following morning when she takes along on a family quail hunt and proves herself a capable huntress. She reveals that her father had been a gamekeeper on an estate in Brandon sh, where she grew up. Chase proves himself not so frivolous by showing Bell one of his early murals downtown, while the family is. They almost kiss, but Bell reminds him that she goes back to London the next day in a self-conscious ripoff of love. Actually, chase stops bell at the airport and confesses his feelings for her. The entire airport collapses as they kiss, including an airport Santa, and they leave for London together.

Sups 7:08

Dang.

Tanner 7:09

Wow.

Sups 7:10

Wow.

Andi 7:11

so a couple highlights.

Tanner 7:13

God.

Andi 7:13

Every song is Country five. Yes, And of course, Elvis's Blue Christmas is among them. Elizabeth Tin is a real place. Okay. In Tennessee.

Tanner 7:23

And Brandon? Sure.

Andi 7:25

Brandon? Sure. is not a real place. Is it

Sups 7:26

Oh, okay.

Andi 7:27

No.

Tanner 7:27

gonna Say, these location names are very specific. Yeah, yeah,

Andi 7:31

Yeah. they clearly picked Elizabethton because She was Queen at the time of this movie. Yeah. And she's British,

Tanner 7:37

I like how the, names come up again. Mm-hmm. Clara Birch. Yeah. Right. Everyone has a tree name, apparently. Sure.

Andi 7:44

And then her name's Bell.

Sups 7:46

Bad. the only thing that I don't like that the name of the guy is Chase and not Hunter. Yeah.

Tanner 7:51

Come on. I

Andi 7:52

Oh

Sups 7:52

would be, like, you know, they go qua hunting. Okay. Yeah.

Andi 7:55

Hunter Yeah. They go quail hunting.

Tanner 7:57

Qua. I mean, the football game and the, hunting. That sounds like wedding Crashers. Like they, they're just ripping off all these other movies, you know.

Sups 8:04

Wow. yeah, sure. I totally believe this movie exists.

Tanner 8:08

Yeah. I'm surprised they didn't get more Americana in there,

Andi 8:10

It's in there. It is. Like, I I can't, I can't do the music for you, but like the music is really the big thing. It's just country versions of everything. Silent Night with a twang.

Sups 8:20

Okay. Okay. And the

Tanner 8:22

cafe

Sups 8:22

owner has eight sons. I love

Andi 8:24

a mountain ship. La

Sups 8:26

Wow. I mean, this must be an overpriced

Tanner 8:29

cafe, Mm-hmm.,you only

Sups 8:30

can

Tanner 8:31

town.

Andi 8:31

a municipal airport.

Sups 8:33

Yeah. And she has a. British accent. Yes. yes.

Andi 8:36

yes. Yeah. Everyone has

Sups 8:39

Okay. And

Andi 8:39

all of them are good.

Tanner 8:43

That's awesome. I kind of wanna watch that one.

Sups 8:45

yeah. Okay. Nice.

Tanner 8:48

It could be real, could be fake. say. I'm leaning towards real on that one, but I'm really on the fence. I need two

Sups 8:54

more

Andi 8:55

All right, movie number three? The Santa incident from 20. Santa Slay is mistaken as a U F O and shot down by Homeland Security

Tanner 9:04

Wow. I'm starting strong

Andi 9:07

the next morning. An unconscious and bled. Santa is found at the docks by two children, Daniel and Sophia, who barely save him from being dramatically squashed by a. Santa is taken to the hospital in a coma where the children's single mother, Joanna, who is a nurse, cares for him. When Santa's skull fracture miraculously heals in a day, Santa stays with Joanna and the kids Homeland Security, it turns out, has been tracking Santa for years and sends no nonsense. Agent Erickson and his bumbling comic relief partner to follow him. They're using him as bait to catch his elves and his entire operat. Meanwhile, Santa turns part of the town into an impromptu toy factory and schemes to get Joanna and the town share of Hank. Together, the elves played by bad child actors and led by a toy robot show up to rescue. in a final showdown. Agent Erickson presents Santa with the evidence of his international security threat, a huge cage full of stuffed animals. After he is rescued, Santa is reunited with his sleigh, elves, and reindeer just in time to make his Christmas Eve delivery, but not before gifting Nurse Johnson and the sheriff missile toe so they can kiss while the children laugh

Tanner 10:16

Aw. a weird

Sups 10:18

That's right off the bat, the title of the movie is not a traditional Hallmark that you'd

Tanner 10:25

expect. right upon. Right. didn't say Christmas, they said Santa. Yeah. And it sounds like a mystery.

Sups 10:30

Right. And Homeland is involved. And UFOs, Yeah. A lot of things happening Yeah. And it's not like a typical romantic movie.

Tanner 10:40

No.

Andi 10:40

Yeah. No. It's, barely romantic.

Tanner 10:42

like it's a subplot

Andi 10:44

Yeah.

Tanner 10:44

so this movie, sounds to me like it can't figure out if it wants to take itself seriously. Like Santa's real, let's shoot it down with Homeland Security. Or if it's like magic, like elves are real, Is it magic? Is it real? It sounds like this movie doesn't

Andi 10:57

No. He just builds stuffed animals

Tanner 11:00

and then gives them to kids.

Andi 11:01

Yeah.

Tanner 11:01

And he has elves. yeah, And he also flies with his sleigh. With reindeer. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, is real.

Sups 11:09

Yeah.

Andi 11:10

Like laughed out loud when they show the shot of Santa unconscious on the railroad track. Cuz, cuz he's like, you know, he's like, he's Santa so he is like tubby but he doesn't have his red suit on anymore. He looks like he escaped a prison and then is like a drifter who fell asleep on the train tracks and then two children have to save it.

Tanner 11:27

And then he has a skull fracture that miraculously heals. Wow. there's a lot of magic in this. See, I would believe that this was a movie, but not a Hallmark movie. It doesn't sound super family oriented and like lovey and romantic. maybe they were getting sick of all those movies being the

Sups 11:44

the same

Tanner 11:45

They wanted to try something.

Sups 11:46

I mean, this is a drastically different than your traditional Hallmark Blos. Yeah, right? Yeah. Starting with the title of the

Tanner 11:53

movie. Yeah. And the names, there's no puns in the

Andi 11:55

Yeah.

Sups 11:56

I mean, I believe this is a real movie, only because the plot is so significantly different that I'm sure the executives one year, okay, let's try something creative, you know? Yeah. Or maybe it's just a plane. Lie.

Tanner 12:08

Yeah. It's Hard to tell

Sups 12:10

a lot of mind games here.

Tanner 12:12

Yeah. Santa.

Sups 12:13

Help me

Tanner 12:14

This is my 20 year wish. If you're not knocked out on the

Sups 12:17

the docks somewhere, please save me. Yeah,

Andi 12:20

All right, one more. One Movie number four. A Christmas wedding tale from 2011, and this is Tale t a i l.

Sups 12:30

Ooh.

Andi 12:31

As you will find out why soon. Mm-hmm. self-styled city girl, and recently unemployed. Susan moved to a small town in California bringing her golden retriever Rusty, while well on a walk. Rusty, who actually narrates the movie meets Fluffy white poodles Sherry, and falls in love. Sherry's owner, Jake is taken by Susan and offers to give her a tour of his vineyard. Both nervously reveal that they have children and dead spouses.

Sups 12:59

what's going on

Andi 13:01

They and their dogs quickly fall in love. Jake proposes and they agree to marry on c. As they quickly plan their wedding, about an hour of problems enue, including a dog chase through a bakery and some light misogyny. When Susan reveals that she's been offered her dream job in New York, Jake refuses to go with her. The dogs unite the kids to ask a poorly miked Santa to get their parents back together. He gets Jake's friend to play a super romantic silent night for them to dance during, and Susan decides that her career is nothing compared to a man who then sings rockabilly jingle bells so badly that even the other actors can't keep from cringing. Then they get married in a wedding that it's easy to forget because it's California is Christmas themed. Rusty, the dog declares everyone happily ever after.

Tanner 13:49

Oh, rusty, come on. Narrated by a dog.

Andi 13:53

Yes. Rusty Narrates the movie

Sups 13:55

I mean

Tanner 13:56

oh, okay.

Sups 13:57

yeah, the tail is real.

Tanner 13:58

Yeah. From tip to Tail. This movie is crazy.

Andi 14:02

Yeah.

Tanner 14:03

This is a cartoon. This sounds

Andi 14:05

so fake. No. It's live Action

Tanner 14:07

man.

Andi 14:07

They're real dogs.

Sups 14:08

this sounds so bad that it's true

Tanner 14:12

Yeah, it really does.

Andi 14:14

When Susan and Jake go on their first date, they're like bantering and Susan says longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Tanner 14:23

That's her like

Andi 14:24

line.

Sups 14:24

Oh, she's into, I should have known podcasts,

Andi 14:27

Yeah. I

Sups 14:29

And the dogs are, also in love.

Andi 14:31

Yeah.

Sups 14:33

Wow. You know, it's, it's a movie for animal lovers. It's a movie for career oriented people.

Andi 14:40

are in lots of kids, between the two of them, they have Five children.

Sups 14:43

Okay.

Tanner 14:44

Wow. It's like the Brady Bunch.

Andi 14:45

yeah.

Sups 14:46

Right.

Tanner 14:46

I don't wanna watch this movie, but it sounds kind of real. Yeah. Kind of weird enough to be real.

Sups 14:53

Okay. We've got like some four really cool plots. Yeah. But of course we know that one of them, you totally made up do you mind repeating like, the titles of the movie before we take our guesses?

Andi 15:06

All right. movie number one, a boyfriend for Christmas, movie number two, a red, white and blue Christmas. Movie number three, the Santa incident and movie number four, A Christmas Wedding Tale. One of those I invented.

Tanner 15:34

Mm That's tough.

Sups 15:35

it's really tough. Yes. all of them have really good potential

Tanner 15:39

to be yeah. Yeah. And then there becomes the mind game of did she make one That's so not hallmark, that we believe that it's real.

Sups 15:47

Yeah. Congratulations and like you well

Tanner 15:50

done. Yeah,

Sups 15:51

that's fantastic. Yeah. Which

Tanner 15:53

difficult.

Sups 15:54

Yeah. Whichever one is the fake

Andi 15:55

take one. Good. I had to say through those three

Tanner 15:57

wheels. Yeah. You should send the plot to Hallmark and see if they want it.

Sups 16:01

Yeah. Name with the first one

Tanner 16:04

Sounds kind of bland even compared to the other three. mm-hmm. which checks out for

Sups 16:08

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. The one that I have, doubts about is number two.

Tanner 16:13

Mm-hmm.

Sups 16:13

that's the one that I'm

Tanner 16:15

mm-hmm. the pun in the name. is one thing. I think that if she made up a movie, she would put a pun in it.

Sups 16:22

Yeah. I think the names. Yeah. you know, the other ones are like so weird that it stands out, but this one is, Traditional Hallmark. classic. It's so classic. That's why I'm thinking this is the one she

Tanner 16:33

up. Yeah. You know, because it's so hallmark. It's so hallmark. Oh, interesting. Yeah. I could believe that. Yeah. Number three was the Santa incident. Yeah. That one is so wild. I, I'm not sure she could make that up. you know, Yeah, wow. I think that plays into the mind games, but I think it's just out there in the fourth one. the dog one. There's another pun. There's a lot going on in there, but it also kind of fits the mold of like, you know, the classic Hallmark movie. It's just got these weird added touches of the dog and stuff. So I think maybe that one was fake. be, I think it's between two or

Sups 17:05

Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna go with number two,

Tanner 17:07

and number four for me.

Andi 17:09

Okay. So yeah. The movie Hallmark. You're welcome to this plot that I'm invented is a red, white, and blue Christmas movie number two. I made that one up.

Tanner 17:19

you couldn't resist a pun on a Christmas song.

Andi 17:23

Well, also like all of them are named that it's not like, so have you ever heard of the movie The Prince and Me?

Tanner 17:30

the Prince? and

Andi 17:31

Me? Mm-hmm. Julius Styles. Yes. She's from Wisconsin. Takes place in Wisconsin, So I was like kind of inspired by that and I originally I had it where somebody was like royalty. Yeah. So Brandon is a, in the uk, so I made Brandon Sure as like a fake dukedom and yeah, the whole idea of like, A British person or like a fancy person

Tanner 17:54

coming

Andi 17:55

to Rural America so I kind of used some of those

Tanner 17:58

elements And you switched it where it was Annabelle instead of the Prince. yeah, yeah.

Andi 18:02

and Elizabethton is a real place in Tennessee with a real municipal airport. Yeah. Yes.

Sups 18:07

that's the thing that

Tanner 18:08

names

Sups 18:09

out to me. You know, it's like things are like too

Tanner 18:12

yeah, this block. Yeah. you

Sups 18:16

Wow. Good. Good. My Hallmark watching movie scales came off finally.

Tanner 18:19

Some use Yes.

Andi 18:21

Yeah, one. But yeah, the Santa incident is

Tanner 18:24

real.

Sups 18:24

Okay. I wanna watch this dog movie

Andi 18:26

No, you don't. No. That one is I, that one truly was the worst one. That was the

Sups 18:32

was the third one

Andi 18:32

watched, and it was a struggle to finish that one. It's so, boring. Like, Ugh, I hate it. it was bad. I would not recommend that one.

Tanner 18:42

Would you recommend any of.

Andi 18:44

Honestly, this ant incident, it's not not so bad. not so bad. it's one of those movies where it's so bad. It's kind of good. Yeah.

Tanner 18:51

I should have known.

Sups 18:52

I should have known,

Andi 18:53

Thanks for listening to this episode of the I Should Have Known podcast. We'll be continuing our winter theme for the rest of the month, and as always, thanks for listening.

Tanner 19:03

Yeah,