I Love the Holidays
I Love the Holidays is a 90-minute television special and the seventh installment of the I Love the... series that premiered on VH1 on November 20, 2005. It follows the same format as VH1's other I Love the... series, and many commentators from previous series are featured here. Celebrities comment on things related to the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's holidays.
| I Love the Holidays | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Narrated by | Doug Jeffers |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | VH1 |
| Original release | November 20, 2005 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | I Love the '80s 3-D |
| Followed by | I Love Toys |
List of ideas and events
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Hell Night
- Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song"
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Halloween
- Dreidels
- The First Thanksgiving
- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- Hanukkah
- Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash"
- Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad"
- Black Friday
- Halloween costumes
- Monsters (specifically The Invisible Man, Werewolves, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and Dracula)
- Fruitcake
- Latkes
- Annual presidential turkey pardon
- The Rockettes
- Thanksgiving Day
- Witches
- Run–D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis"
- New Year's Eve (specifically New Year's parties, New Year's resolutions, New Year's countdowns, New Year's Eve in Times Square, New Year's kiss, and Auld Lang Syne)
Yule Log #1: White Christmas
Holiday Survival Guide (Halloween): Hell Night, Halloween candy, and Halloween costumes
Holiday Survival Guide (Thanksgiving): Turkeys, stuffing, and Black Friday
Yule Log #2: The Christmas Song
Holiday Survival Guide (Hanukkah): Dreidels, Hanukkah gelt, and presents
Holiday Cheer: Arrow Through the Head
Holiday Survival Guide (Christmas): Eggnog, mistletoe, carolers, and fruitcake
Yule Log #3: Jingle Bells
Holiday Survival Guide (New Year's): Alcoholic drinks, dating, countdowns, and Dick Clark
Santa Does Stand-Up: Reindeer (rockets), leprechauns (elves), and chimneys (teleporters)
Recurring segments
- Yule Logs: Three yule logs are presented but are interrupted by three Christmas songs.
- Holiday Survival Guides: "Weird Al" Yankovic presents the survival guides for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's
- Holiday Cheer: Patrice O'Neal wears an "arrow through the head"
- Santa Does Stand-Up: Santa Claus tells jokes about Christmas