ASE Christmas Special 2025 - Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

About this episode

The hosts discuss the holiday special 'Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer' and its various themes and implications.

On this year's special Christmas episode Anthony, Sean, and Tyler watch the classic(?) holiday special based on a song people don't really like that much. Does Santa secretly keep all your deceased relatives at the North Pole? What was in that vile of random junk anyway? What are the geopolitical issues facing Whoville?

People in this episode

Hosts: Anthony, Sean, Tyler

Topics covered

• Christmas special
• holiday movies
• geopolitical issues
• classic films
• song adaptations

Keywords

• Christmas
• holiday special
• geopolitical issues
• Whoville
• Santa
• classic movies

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

Places: North Pole, Whoville

More episodes of Always See Everything - A Criterion Movie Podcast

• Always Scale Everything · April 21, 2026 · 1h 8m
• Santa Succession: 226-227, 1250 · March 2, 2026 · 1h 18m
• Halloween in January - 225, 223, 1156 · January 26, 2026 · 1h 25m
• Diary of a Wimpy Podcast: 219, 222, 853 · January 5, 2026 · 1h 24m
• Attack of the Swiftoids: 215, 218, 1111 · November 17, 2025 · 1h 18m
• We've Struck Gold (Rush): 209-210, 615, 939 · October 27, 2025 · 1h 46m