Advent Calendar Week 1—How the Grinch Stole Everything

The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Heather Price-Wright & Alex Dalenberg

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4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Spend this very strange holiday season with us, quibbling about the Christmas classics that make us merry and/or cause us to cringe. First up, the ultimate tale of holiday alienation and a master class in Committing to the Bit: The Grinch! Yuletide supervillain or just a guy sick of noise and Amazon packages? We'll be dropping more holiday goodies throughout the rest of the month, so stay tuned! xoxo

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0:00.0	Every Who down in Hooville liked Christmas lots, but the Quibbler, which lived just north of
0:09.1	Huville, had thoughts.
0:11.8	You're listening to the Quibbler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club that's mostly about Christmas
0:17.7	this month.
0:27.7	Music Mostly about Christmas this month. I'm Heather Pricewright.
0:29.2	And I'm Alex Dandenberg.
0:30.8	So, it's a tough year.
0:33.1	There's some isolation happening.
0:36.6	There's distance from loved ones. There is a pervading
0:40.9	sense that nothing will ever be okay again. And in the midst of all that comes the cultural
0:47.1	imperative that we be merry. So in response to that pretty profound cognitive dissonance, Alex and I have decided to do a little
0:57.8	advent calendar of episodes on kind of classic Christmas media properties. If you celebrate Christmas,
1:09.0	as we do, hopefully these are fun for you.
1:14.2	If you don't celebrate Christmas, I still think you'll probably find some things to like
1:19.2	because what is quibbling, if not being kind of a Grinch?
1:23.8	So we will definitely talk about the sort of like exclusionary nature and like kind of wall-to-wall nonsense that is Christmas media in addition to trying to find a little bit of the spirit.
1:39.1	Anyway, you know, if these are fun for you, then that's great.
1:43.1	We just want to keep folks company because this might be a tough year for folks celebrating
1:49.7	or not celebrating this most American of winter holiday forced merriment blitz.
1:56.6	I guess it's not about Harry Potter, but also the Quibbler podcast is very malleable.
2:05.4	And interestingly, a lot of people consider the Harry Potter movies to be Christmas movies,
2:10.5	which I think it actually says a lot about what we consider to be Christmas properties,
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