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Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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In Poland for every Christmas we're watching "Home Alone". People were filling online petitions when one of main TV stations threatened to drop it last year.

Does it have that horrible Lector dubbing?

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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My wife and I are in Barcelona at the moment, and yesterday we learned about Caga tió, or "Shitting log", Catalan's version of Santa Claus. It's literally a log with a smiley face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal Each family buys or makes their log and covers the rear with a blanket. Children then hit the log with sticks until it poos presents, often while singing one of several songs. https://www.yout…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

Spain seems to have multiple poop based Christmas traditions.

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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In Poland for every Christmas we're watching "Home Alone". People were filling online petitions when one of main TV stations threatened to drop it last year.

Does it have that horrible Lector dubbing?

Of course. Like almost all of the films in tv. But almost everyone is already used to this, we don't even notice it.

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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In the UK 'The Snowman' has become a bit of an institution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman#Animated_film

When I was a lad [mid to late 1970s] the BBC Christmas Day movie, every year was The Wizard of Oz. I don't think you've had that kind of 'fixture' in the schedules for a long time now.
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