When is your favorite Christmas special airing this year?

Last Christmas Eve, I settled down with my girlfriend to watch some Christmas specials on TV. You know, a little Rudolph, maybe a dash of Grinch. But there was absolutely nothing Christmas-y on TV at all. Nothing! On Christmas Eve! Finally, after an hour or so of restlessly flipping by Everybody Loves Raymond reruns and that freaking show about the surly crab fisherman that's always on, we ended up downloading the Charlie Brown special off of iTunes and then watching it huddled around my girlfriend's laptops like gypsies.

Every year it seems like TV stations are scrambling to air all of their Christmas specials earlier in December, it's like they're competing to see who can get 'em all out of the way first. Well, this year you won't have to worry about missing any of your favorite specials, thanks to this handy guide. Not only does it tell you about the good stuff, it warns you when shows are coming up that you would want to avoid at all costs! (If I happened to accidentally land on CMT when they were showing Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau, for instance, I'm pretty sure my face would melt off like those Nazis at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.)

And if it turns out you've already missed your favorite, you can always console yourself by popping over to Pee-Wee Herman's revamped (and spectacular) website to view his classic Christmas special from the '80s. (See it by clicking on the magic screen.)

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