So last week I went over the shows I tried to get through, but just couldn’t make it. So I thought this week I’d do the opposite: shows I persevered through and stuck around with even though it was painful and took a great deal of effort.

So a new year rolled in on Thursday. It did not bring in hoverboards and holograms like it was supposed to, but a new year means New Year’s Resolutions. It’s only been 2 days, but I’m pretty sure I’ve already given up on my resolution to lose some weight. I’ll just buy some new pants, that’s way less effort. In much the same way as most people give up resolutions within a few days, sometimes there are TV series you just have to give up on. Sure, the trailers looked cool and appeared to be full of such promise, but you keep watching and watching, and after a while you realize you no longer enjoy the show and just have to throw up your hands and go “I’m done!”.

Yes, I realize Christmas was two days ago. But if movies have taught me anything (and they have, practically everything I know I learned from movies), it’s that Christmas isn’t just a day on a calendar, but a feeling that can last the whole year through if you really try. So here’s a list of my favorite Christmas films you can watch anytime to get some Christmas cheer.

Since last week I discussed my love for Sweetums, I figured this week I would expand out and cover the rest of the Muppets. For this list I stuck mostly to The Muppet Show and its follow up productions, so no Fraggles or Sesame Street characters. Those will show up in another list sometime. I should also probably mention that my favorite Muppet film as a kid was The Muppets Take Manhattan, which I watched dozens of times as a kid, so that may have skewed the list a little bit.

Let’s just do something completely different this week. Just a fun list of monsters. Not all of them scary, but all of them big and hairy. Oh hey, that rhymed!

As you may have seen over on the Facebook page, this year for Halloween I went as Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Because if you’re gonna do something, you should do it all the way, this necessitated that I shave my head. Now that I myself am bald, as I look around, I see far more bald people than I ever noticed. So that’s what brings me to this list of people I immediately think of when you say “bald”.

There is a long history of things being bigger on the inside (or smaller on the outside, depending on your point of view) in genre media. Everyone always immediately thinks about the TARDIS, but while it’s probably the best known example, it’s not the only one.

As promised, I round out the hierarchy of cartoon animals this week with mice. Come for my rant about why Mickey Mouse doesn’t make any sense to me. Stay for my tale of childhood trauma in a bathroom at a pizza place. Good times!