72: A (Not) Definitive Guide to Christmas

12/17/21 • 37 min

Join some of our Agents for a cozy in-person recording. They are cozied up in Christmas sweaters and Santa hats (really) and surrounded by snacks (or the remains of them). They have paused in the middle of a Christmas movie marathon to tell you about their favourite Christmas movies and try to answer all your holiday movie questions: Why are there SO MANY Christmas movies? What makes a good one? What makes them angry? What would they like to see improved? Why are we eating so many snacks? Come listen in and then go on your own festive mission with the Official Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H. Holiday Movie Bingo Cards.

Christmas Movie Discussion and Recommendations

Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk and Erika Ensign

Show Notes & Links

*What our Agents are Watching: * - Very Merry Bridesmaid: Very pretty except for all the fake snow - Christmas CEO: Enraging, trust us, seriously maddening - Enchanted Christmas: Just plain boring and even more fake snow - Single All the Way: Love it! Go watch it. - 5 Star Christmas: Fake snow, yes, but also a cute family and good chemistry - Nine Lives of Christmas: Kinda perfect with two cats - Nine Kittens of Christmas: Wook at all da kittenssssssssss. - Princess Switch 3: It’s a Christmas HEIST! - A Castle for Christmas: Disappointingly dull with good knitwear

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Christmas Movie Discussion and Recommendations

Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk and Erika Ensign

Show Notes & Links

Find us on Twitter @agentsofsmooch and tell us about your Holiday Movie Bingo games.

Become a member because the Incomprehensible Agents of SMOOCH did new commentaries for A Castle for Christmas and Princess Switch: Romancing the Star just for our members.

Support this show and other shows like it on The Incomparable network by becoming a member. Members get early access to podcasts, bonus episodes, and more.

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71: You Could Kill Someone With That Scarf

Our Agents who knit and crochet convene for this mission about our favourite pop culture knitwear. Instead of talking about lovers, we are talking about something that we love. Join us as we discuss our fibre art origin stories and things that we like to knit or crochet. So often during missions, our agents end up talking about knitwear and wardrobe and whether or not Christmas sweaters are good sweaters. This mission is a grand experiment that lets us fawn over pictures of knitwear so we can discuss what we like (or don’t like) about cable-knit sweaters. Yes. Of course, we talk about THAT sweater. And the longest of long scarves.

Knitwear Love

Annette Wierstra with Amanda-Rae Prescott, Erika Ensign and Kelly Guimont

Show Notes & Links

In no particular order and with extra items that we liked but ran out of time to discuss, we’ve provided an extensive list of links so you can see pretty knitwear too.

Thanks to members Rachel and Marlene and listeners Katy Beth, Megan, Sarah, Heidi, and Riley for helping do some of the research for this episode.

Erika’s Long Scarf Blog

Annette’s MA Knitting Research Blog Posts: Breaking My Knitting with Yarn Bombing also My Yarn Bomb Your Yarn Bomb and then Knitting is-My Interface and finally Knitting with Chinese Characteristics

Doctor Who THE Scarf And also

13th Doctor Scarf

Red striped Shada scarf or Season 18 scarf

Jo Grant’s striped sweater And also

Leela’s literal fisherman sweater in “The Horror of Fang Rock”

Rose’s Boomtown scarf

Amy’s Vincent & The Doctor lace scarf

Amy’s red cable scarf (Pandorica Opens)

Amy’s Night Terrors striped scarf

Amy and Rory’s Christmas Sweaters

Knives out Ransom’s sweater

“This sweater needs its own spin-off movie”

Marta’s Scarf

When Harry Met Sally

2019 Little Women, Fibreworkshop released the patterns

The Mandalorian, Mon Cala fisherman

Harry Potter Hermione’s Scarf and Hat

Fringe, Olivia’s black cable knit hat

The Dude, Knitting pattern for The Dude’s cardigan Like the classic Cowichan sweater from the Coast Salish Nation in British Columbia Canada and made by Pendletone Sweater

Outlander

All the Claire things:

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73: The Smoochiest of Smooches

This might be the smoochiest of Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H. episodes and likely overdue. We are holding a favourite kiss draft just in time for the New Year. We have all kinds of kisses for you from movies and television, classics and new shows. They all get our Agents’ motors going and our hearts humming. So get out your chapstick and lip gloss. It’s time to SMOOCH.

See our extensive show notes for all our picks and related links if you want to watch along.

New Year's Eve Smooch Draft

Annette Wierstra with Jean MacDonald, Shelly Brisbin, Moisés Chiullán and KatyBeth Schmid