Whipped Cream Difficulties

Zoey was this close to finally achieving her dream of becoming a pilot. Instead she inherited a reindeer farm.

Oddly enough, the subject of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies came up at dinner Saturday night. We have a couple of folks who are big fans of those movies – though it seems like they are fans in sort of a post-ironic hipster kind of way, if we may say so.

Anyway, after the jump, this week’s TMQ…

The pendulum is swinging from offense to defense. 518 words down.

(“Why?” TMQ’s two big reasons are: the recent rule changes favor offense, and coaches are going for it on 4th down.)

The Raiders stink, Jon Gruden is a bad coach, and he’s trading away players so he can shift blame. 334 words down.

Stat-O-Matic. Mixed: Cleveland-Tampa Bay, New Orleans-Baltimore, Tennessee-Chargers.

Geezer quarterbacks: Drew Brees, Derek Anderson.

No one can hold a Christmas candle to Hallmark Channel, which will roll out 22 new Christmas movies for the 2018 holidays.

We thought it was 37. But maybe that’s the total number of Christmas movies including reruns?

You won’t want to miss A Shoe Addict’s Christmas

Subtitle: “The Imelda Marcos Story”

premiering November 25.

Okay, here’s an actual plot synopsis for “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas” (which has nothing to do with the late great Jeff MacNelly, may he rest in peace):

…a department store worker gets locked in after hours on Christmas Eve, where she’s visited by her guardian angel who shows her Christmas past, present and future. Or maybe she’s hallucinating from a lack of food. Anyways, at some point, she must get freed from her department store prison because she also winds up preparing the annual Christmas Charity Gala with a handsome firefighter.

You can skip Easterbrook’s 363 word plot synopsis of his own proposed Hallmark Channel Christmas movie. (Somebody ought to explain “elevator pitch” to TMQ.) Instead, enjoy a real movie:

A business-minded market researcher with a potential promotion in the works reluctantly comes back home over the holidays to take care of her hobbled Aunt Ruby, take over the town’s famed baking competition known as the Cookie Crawl (I’M IN!) and butt heads but inevitably warm up to the charming handsome local.

Sure you just won the Super Bowl, but what have you done for us lately?

Lost the game and gone 3-4 so far this season? (You’re welcome.)

Purdue. Ohio State (and Urban Meyer) bashing. London games still stink. You know, TMQ does have a point: wouldn’t you expect, statistically, at least one good matchup out of the past 24 games?

Chicken-(salad) kicking: Denver, (not) Buffalo.

Do you really want to read 586 words on Elizabeth Warren’s Indian fantasies?

Jacksonville has an “evil twin” problem. The 500 Club.

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