Top 10 Holiday Tech Fails From Christmas Movies Past

It’s that time of year again to deck the halls, trim the trees and pull out all the latest and greatest technical holiday advances. Whether it’s to inspire holiday spirit, encourage family togetherness, out do the neighbors holiday movies have always shown us what can happen when good technology goes bad if left in the wrong hands.

Here’s the top 10 holiday tech fails from Christmas movies past:

10. Snoopy’s doghouse in A Charlie Brown Christmas When Snoopy goes all out decorating his doghouse to win money in a community contest Charlie Brown laments, “My own dog gone commercial. I can’t stand it.”

9. Robo Santa in The Santa Clause 2 An animatronics Santa and his toy soldier army stage a coup in order to steal Christmas

8. Terrorist attack at Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard John McClane is left to save the company Christmas party with no shoes but at least he has a machine gun and some detonators ho ho ho

7. Upgraded toys in Nightmare Before Christmas It’s not cool when your Christmas present tries to eat your brother; well maybe it is

6. Gym floor in It’s a Wonderful Life I’m sure the town physician loved the colds that came after the gym floor opened up and the dance became a pool party; good thing Mr. Gower was back on the wagon before he filled all the prescriptions

5. Santa’s sleigh engine in Elf No matter how far internal combustion can get you there’s no match for some good old fashioned Christmas cheer

4. Light bulb in How the Grinch Stole Christmas Unscrew one bulb and the whole town goes out? The reality of it is scary

3. Alarm clocks in home alone Had the McCallister family gotten up when they were supposed to Kevin would have made it to Paris and the Wet Bandits wouldn’t have third degree burns on their hands and scalps

2. Dad’s leg lamp in A Christmas Story Apparently the lamp was designed with a poor center of balance or it wouldn’t have fallen over so easily- right mom ;)

1. Christmas lights in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 1 giant knot, 250 strands, nothing says Christmas like the smell of fried cat

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