After an unexpectedly long hiatus, we are back with a new episode in which the randomizer goes all the way back to 2023, to one of the seemingly hundreds of times Disney has taken one of their beloved awe-inspiring unforgettable animated masterpieces and reimagined it as a tolerated "meh"-inspiring live-action blockbuster that costs more than the GDP of most countries and completely leaves your memory before you even find your car in the parking lot. This time, they got around to remaking the film that changed animation forever, the era-defining fairy tale classic that revitalized the company and kicked off the Disney Renaissance. So naturally, for the remake they slathered everything in exceptionally ugly CGI, hired the "My Vag" lady to imitate 70s porn music (twice!) and got an oceanload of semi-deserved free publicity by angering the worst people on the internet when they dared to cast a (gasp!) b-b-b-b-b-b-BLACK woman as the titular fish-assed protagonist. Join Tony Goldmark, Kalani Mitchell, Kit Quinn and Luke Ski as they steal the voice of THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023)!

Watch my late-2010s movie review series One Movie Later: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXVC39FA6kPcHwKsP-XNMF2XJnc9IF_pL
Watch me vlog with Emily Clark and her crew about the 2019 Little Mermaid live special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1lHq3phpM

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KALANI MITCHELL
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KIT QUINN
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LUKE SKI
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SURPRISE! Happy holidays, folks! Join Tony Goldmark and a Surprise Special Guest as they curl up by the Christmas tree with a warm blanket and a mug of hot cocoa and enjoy A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS MOVIE YULE LOG!

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What do acclaimed Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, a hideous whiskey-drinking Spanish-speaking monkey puppet, and the daughter of the Queen of Hearts all have in common? Well, apart from that unforgettable evening at Burning Man a few years back, absolutely nothing...until now. For our one and only Christmas episode of 2025, the randomizer is going all the way back to the mid-2020s to pick a trio of Christmas shorts - a Simpsons short where the "Con Te Partirò" guy serenades the most important family in Springfield, an Argentinian sitcom special where a repulsive talking monkey puppet forces holiday cheer down the throat of a depressed widower, and of course a Disney Channel music video where the offspring of a villain infamous for decapitating her subjects demands that Christmas must be bent to her will aesthetically. And if that's not what Christmas is all about, I don't know what is. Wait, yes I do. Join Tony Goldmark, Charlie Callahan, Haley Baker Callahan and Zach Hurst as they try to find excuses not to attend CHUECO'S CHRISTMAS AND OTHER CHRISTMAS SHORTS!

Shorts covered in this episode:
- The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad" (2022)
- Chueco's Christmas (2023)
- Descendants: The Rise of Red "Red Christmas" Music Video (2024)

Here's that clip from Castle we mention in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0t2_DMOd30

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CHARLIE CALLAHAN
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HALEY BAKER CALLAHAN
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjYjtuqtRKT0wCcO1T9j2dQ

ZACH HURST
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