Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club, Christmas Edition.

I'm sorry, I'm unraveling.

We just watched all three of the Santa Claus movies.

I just can't hold it together.

When the movies ended, Will jumped up in the air and was like, nothing can stop me.

I'm the destroyer of worlds.

It's true.

Have you ever tried, this is an honest question for our listeners.

Have you ever tried to watch all three Tim Allen and Santa Claus movies back to back?

But like, honestly, like I feel like my brains are coming out of my ears. So this is your idea. We talked about doing a Christmas special. What made these Santa Claus movies so important to you? First of all, they're not important to me. I mean, I saw the first one when it came out when I was a kid, like we all did. Never saw the second one. Saw the third one a year ago on TV.

Thought it was shit. Yeah. And you're like, this will be fun to watch. It'll give us jokes. Yeah, we don't have to be so rigorous. The other reason that I wanted to do it, though, the main reason I wanted to do it was because Tim Allen was kind of a big presence in the life of any 90s kid, right?

Like, he was, he was everywhere in the 90s. Yeah, but in a weird way in that he was kind of there, but no one really loved him. No, we could have enjoyed him. We liked him. Yeah. Like, you know, but, but I, I don't think anybody ever attached themselves to him the way they did, like Jim Car Carrey or Robin Williams. Those people, like, inspire really fond feelings. Tim Allen is just sort of functional. Yeah, he's there, if you will. He's funny-ish. He's affable. I just read an interesting article on the AV Club. The thesis of the article was that Home Improvement was one of the most popular shows of the 90s, but it's left almost no cultural footprint. Like, it was watched by like 25 million people a week, but you never hear anyone talk about it. There's no merch. It never plays reruns or anything. No one's like, remember that hilarious joke in home improvement? It's just kind of like an embarrassing relic, uh, if it's referred to at all. talks about it well i'm sure jostin taylor

thomas talks about it sure i mean he needs to be home for christmas on the theme of the episode oh yeah

that was a movie he made we should have watched that at the fourth one could have done a jonathan

taylor thomas episode you know the whole tima allen kind of home improvement family yeah the

die of the expanded universe.

All right.

So Santa Claus for me, or let's call it properly, the Santa Claus.

With any at the end.

Was something that I remember having a lot of buildup as a kid, like watching all the

commercials and stuff like that, seeing it on the big screen.

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