The now-classic Christmas movie “Jingle All The Way” features a hard-working dad played by Arnold Schwarzenegger go head-to-head with another dad played by Sinbad over an exclusive toy. With a release date that coincided with the Tickle Me Elmo craze, the film feels like a critique of American overconsumption and the parenting mentality that led to the ongoing “participation trophy” rhetoric around millennial childhoods. The film’s release was met with its fair share of controversy (mainly around the script, which may or may not have originated in the mind of a high school teacher). The hosts discuss that controversy as well as the film’s hint of racial and class divide and its surface-level critiques of 1990s American Christmas culture.

 

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