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Hot and Bothered

Ending Of: White Christmas

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Books, Feminism, Intersectionality, Arts, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s bi-weekly scene study, Vanessa and Hannah analyze the ending of White Christmas. They discuss 50's nostalgia and why ballerinas are 'Christmas' coded.


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0:00.0

We'll follow the old man wherever he wants to go, long as he wants to go, opposite to the foe.

0:14.0

We'll stand with the old man, wherever he wants to say, long as he stays away from the manned way because we love him,

0:23.6

we love him

0:25.6

especially when he keeps us on the ball

0:28.6

and will tell the kids we answer to his call

0:32.6

with the grandest son of a soldier of them all.

0:43.7

I'm Vanessa Zoltan.

0:45.5

I'm Hannah McGregor.

0:48.8

And this is Hot and Bothered. Thank you. Hannah.

1:09.5

Hannah, I think I could summarize the end of white Christmas,

1:14.6

but I think that you could just act out the end of white Christmas. So why don't you take it?

1:22.0

In detail. Okay, so it's the day of the final Christmas show. And the general is shocked to find out that both of his suits are at the cleaners. What kind of tricky housekeeper messed up? And he says, over my dead body, will I appear in uniform?

1:29.8

But then he does appear in uniform.

1:31.9

And we realize the entire narrative function of his granddaughter being there is to be

1:36.8

extremely impressed by her grandfather being in uniform.

1:41.4

Then she escorts him into the main performance room, truly one of the most shape-shifting spaces that has ever existed.

1:50.1

This dining room changes sizes, sort of willy-nilly, just depending on the needs.

1:54.8

Sometimes it has a fireplace, sometimes not.

1:58.1

You know how chimneys are.

1:59.6

And it is absolutely full of people and they give him a standing

2:04.4

ovation. And then his regiment comes out on stage and begins to sing. It is a reprise of the song that

2:13.6

they sang to him during the war to thank him for being their general.

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