Wes Watches

 With today, December 31, being the last day of the year, I thought I would recap the top ten new television episodes and movies I watched in 2023. Both categories will be ranked according to their rating on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). Top Ten TV Episodes I Watched In 2023 The Way Home-"Not All Who Wander Are Lost" (8.6) The Way Home-"The Day The Music Died" (8.6) The Way Home-"Building A Mystery" (8.6) South Park-"The Worldwide Privacy Tour" (8.4) The Way Home-"Lovefool" (8.3) South Park-"Deep Learning" (8.3) Hamster & Gretel-"The Bottle Episode/Micromanager" (8.2) Hamster & Gretel-"Hamnesia/Romancing The Scone" (8.1) The Way Home-"The End Of The World As We Know It" (8.1) Hamster & Gretel-"My Invisible Friend/The Bitter Sitter" (8.0) Top Ten TV Movies I Watched In 2023 "A Biltmore Christmas" (7.9) "Guiding Emily" (7.8) "To All A Good Nig

 Today, December 23, marks the 200th anniversary of the first time that the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (better known as " The Night Before Christmas", allegedly written by Clement Clark Moore, was published in the Troy Sentinel. To celebrate the milestone, I thought I would review an animated Christmas special that provides a fictional account of how Moore came to write his famous poem-the 1968 special "The Night Before Christmas". We open in the month of December 1822, a few days before Christmas and one year before "A Visit From St. Nicholas" was first published. We then cut to the Moore's house, where the three Moore Children (Clement, Emily and Charity), housekeeper Gretchen and the family dog Clyde are busy baking Christmas treats as the special's opening song "Savory Serenade" plays in the background. The older Clement Moore is preparing to go out of town for a few days and promises to bring each of his kids and

 During Thursday December 21st's episode of "Jeopardy", the third of three semifinal games in the most recent edition of the Second Chance Tournament,  one of the categories was titled "A Very Hallmark Christmas Movie". To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Hallmark Channel has been featured as a Jeopardy category. The episode's contestants (Michael Vaz, Karen Morris and Iris Masucci) would combined to correctly answer four of the five questions, missing only the $1,000 clue. (When playing along at home, I only missed the $800). Iris would go on to win the game by exactly one dollar ($5,400) over Karen ($5,3999) and advance to tonight's Second Chance Tournament Finals.  Below is a clip from Jeopardy's "A Very Hallmark Christmas Movie" Category from the official Jeopardy YouTube page.