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[Alex]

It is, but so is the reason that It's a Wonderful Life is a holiday staple in the United States.

Copyright was mistakenly allowed to lapse. So TV stations could play it without paying royalties. So they showed it. After years of showing it, people got attached to a miserably treacly movie and decades later is comes to embody the event.

Many of our traditions are simply things that for some accident of history happened several times in a row and then the masses decide that because it happened three straight years it must now happen every year for eternity or somehow it is indicative of the end of society and loss of social cohesion.

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by Alex

After years of showing it, people got attached to a miserably treacly movie and decades later is comes to embody the event.

Reindeer s**t. It's a Christmas movie that reaffirms the meaning, for a lot of us, of the season; family, loved ones, community, being happy with the life you have, etc. Perhaps you don't enjoy it, and that is perfectly fine, no problem, but those of us who do cherish this movie don't simply do so because of some quirk of history, so go belittle somebody else' traditions. We're perfectly happy with ours.