Some Christmas letters from your relatives just make you think twice if they really meant to send you a very Merry Christmas. Perhaps the festive season produced the kind of happiness for one person and annoyance/irritation for the rest of us. Even worse, it’s our own relatives that has this tendency to do this to us.
It is from this hilarious series of short musicals available on YouTube entitled “Ruining Christmas” and one of the best clips found here is entitled “Not As Merry As Mine”. On why the title seemed unpleasant, listening through the lyrics would give you in your head some not-so-pleasant situations that would ruin the festive mood just because of how some folks spend their holidays.
Roo McGoo, our host, was shown at the beginning shuffling some envelopes of snail mail. If you’re wondering why in this day and age, there is still snail mail, it is because some folks like Aunt Marigold, our letter sender, need proof that the letters she sent were received. And she sent letters to everyone just to brag. Recipients include the children’s Christmas icon, Santa Claus, and the Christians’ Christmas icon, Jesus Christ. And all along she thought she meant it when she began the letter with “Dear Family”. Perhaps Santa and Jesus are included among “family”.
Aunt Marigold is shown occasionally singing the song playing in the background that basically narrated the letter for us, feeling homey and posing for her best angles towards the camera. Roo referred to this letter as “Aunt Marigold’s Annual Family Newsletter”. That point of reference has a tinge of sarcasm in it since she seemed like the kind of person that would tell everyone everything that is going on in her life. Well, maybe just the juicy parts worth bragging to the point of making everyone who reads them feel bad. One of the first things she feel humbled to share is the yacht she bought – humbled because it can only house 50 people and it’s all they’ve got.
It may not have been much of an issue to share about selling that house in Greece for twice the market price and use the proceeds to buy a bigger house in Nice, France. But the fact that she mentioned how she’s willing to accept gifts granted the visitors shoulder their own travel expenses is hint enough that she just wanted to brag.
“So have yourself a Merry Little Christmas and may they not be quite as merry as mine” is the line that usually ended the litany of things to share in each paragraph (or stanza since this is a short musical after all). Unfortunately, it’s the same line that closed the stanza that says in the middle “I heard you’re all snowed in like a suburban igloo. But the weather here in Malibu’s divine”. We get it, Aunt Marigold, your life is damn-well lucky compared to us poor unfortunate darlings.
It’s one of the funniest diss clips against the Christmas holidays that I have come across due to the sense of realism it brings. We all have that annoying family member or relative whose idea of wishing everyone else a Merry Christmas is by highlighting everything they have in contrast to what you don’t like that comparison between the divine weather in Malibu as opposed to the snowy weather wherever Aunt Marigold’s relatives may be. They would tell you everything that is going great in their lives just so they could highlight how sorry and pathetic your life is at the moment. In the guise of wanting you to feel better for the holidays, they only dampened your hopes even more with that letter. No wonder even Santa and Jesus Christ ended up pissed off big time with Aunt Marigold.
Well, what better way to enjoy the holidays but by getting into the season of bragging. It may not be your cup of tea and it will totally not be your cup of tea anymore the moment you realize how ridiculous it would make you look. Seriously.
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