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Sabrina Carpenter, Muppets, Charlie Brown & More Pop Culture Christmas Traditions

Season 2, Ep. 20
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Sabrina Carpenter's Netflix Christmas special is becoming a new pop culture tradition, but there are plenty of older ones to reflect on. MADE POSSIBLE BY POP CULTURE welcomes Variety TV Editor Michael Schneider, freelance writer Chris Hayner, and Consequence Senior Entertainment Editor Liz Shannon Miller to a special Christmas roundtable episode to discuss. Classics from THE MUPPETS to A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS are included, but there are some more offbeat ones in there, too, from SURVIVING CHRISTMAS to VIOLENT NIGHT, THE NIGHT THEY SAVED CHRISTMAS, and a special Bing Crosby/David Bowie duet.


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