We're not locked in here with Babes in Toyland, Babes in Toyland is locked in here with us! The Mayor and Courtney earn their happy ending with the shortest, but most punishingly terrible version of this story yet, this time a 1997 direct to video animated joint with a surprisingly good cast. The rest... was less surprising.

Colleen returns to Connecticut to join the mayor in looking into the depths of madness that is the Schwarzenegger-DIRECTED remake of "Christmas in Connecticut". For some godforsaken reason.

The Mayor is joined by AAlgar and Amanda from The Death of Podcasts, because what better way to discuss two married, witty detectives than with two married, witty podcasters who may or may not be detectives? I mean, they easily could be, I don't know. I've never seen how they react when someone gets murdered around them. Anyway, here's "The Thin Man".

Guest month continues as The Mayor is joined by his friend Sarah to discuss Arnold Schwarzenegger's overreaching Willienium New Year's action-horror film End of Days, which features characters honestly named Jericho Cain, Bobby Chicago, and Father Thomas Aquinas.

The Mayor and special guest, professional pirate Lara Ianni, get WILDLY frustrated with Disney's holiday assault on their own IP, "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas". Please enjoy our bewilderment as the already paper-thin suspension of disbelief from the first one gets shredded to tiny pieces. And BURNED. AND THEN EATEN.

Stay Tuned for the Mayor's upcoming show, "New and a Bit Alarming". And apologies for talking about it in the present tense here. We've still got about 25 minutes to go.

Maggie and AAlgar of the Post Atomic Horror make a return trip to mayor's office in the company of our own Flonk, hoping for safety in numbers as we attempt to make some sense of the Canadian freeform jazz horror anthology "A Christmas Horror Story". We look at the four intersecting storylines to work out which of them are good (none of them), and which are, while perhaps promising conceptually, ruined utterly by the talent involved and the bizarre decision to chop them up and intersperse them regardless of content or pacing. (Three of them. One wasn't even conceptually good.) Also, Maggie swears so much that I didn't bother jingling it, so get ready for that.

Home Alone the franchise may be over, but Home Alone the month is not! Because at last, it's time to check out 3615 Code Père Noël! That's right, the French magical realist psychological horror film which is alleged to be the inspiration for the Hollywoo classic! Is Thomas more of a sociopath than Kevin? Is the Père Noël a better villain than the Wet Bandits? What's the final death toll going to be? Whither Pilou? Let's find out together.

Merry Boxing Day! I thought I'd do a slightly more detailed look at the 15 movies currently sitting on the New Holiday Canon and speculate a bit on which ones will still be around this time next year, as well as some reasons others might be removed. Here's the rundown... GUARANTEED SAFE* Arthur Christmas

ALMOST DEFINITELY SAFE*Gremlins *Die Hard *A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas *Joyeaux Noel *It's a Wonderful Life COULD BE DISPLACED DUE TO SIMILARITY*Scrooge, Scrooged, The Muppet Christmas Carol *Home Alone, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

COULD BE DISPLACED IF A MOVIE COMES ALONG THAT SCRATCHES THE SAME ITCH WHILE NOT PRESENTING THE SAME PROBLEMS*The Nightmare Before Christmas *The Santa Clause *Love, Actually

NOT GONNA LIE, BASICALLY A TOTAL WILDCARD*Santa's Slay

Merry Christmas Eve! Figured I'd throw this one up a day early. In this stunning conclusion to the canonical portion of Home Alone Month, The Mayor and Justin take a look at Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, also known as Home Alone 5, also known as "Home Alone... FIVE?" Join us as we look at a movie that was apparently created by a team who listened to our previous four episodes and planned accordingly.

NOTE: An early upload of this was allllll messed up. This fixed it.

The Mayor and Robbie take a look at Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, a movie that dares to ask "Hey, anyone want to watch Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House?" The answer should always be no. Join us for this examination of good character actors, bad plotting, and a fruitless quest to do South African accents.