Your Ultimate 24-Hour Christmas Day Binge-Watch Guide

Want to avoid your family on the biggest holiday of the year? We've got you covered!

By Tierney Bricker Dec 24, 2014 8:00 PMTags
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Merry Christmas Eve, ya filthy animals.

Yay for presents! But boo to spending time with that creepy uncle you always try to avoid or your little cousin whose vocabulary seems to be made up of one word, "Why?"

While we personally love Christmas, we get that some people just want to make it through the day unscathed. And we're here to help!

To aid you in your quest to avoid your family, we've compiled the ultimate 24-hour binge-watch marathon, filled with holiday-related movies, TV shows and specials. (We only included seasonal offerings you can find on your TV or Netflix. No time fo' DVDs, people!)

MGM

Midnight - 2 a.m.: Let's get this party started with a classic: A Christmas Story, which is playing all freakin' day on TNT and TBS. May we humbly suggest watching with some leftover Chinese food? Mmm...

2 a.m. - 3 a.m.: Hop onto Netflix to watch Glee's Christmas episode, "Extraordinary Merry Christmas," which is super weird, but also good weird. 

3 a.m. - 4 a.m.: Stick on Netflix for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season three outing, "Amends." It's kind of cheesy, but the kind of cheesy that only works in a holiday episode. Also, David Boreanaz's Irish accent is hilarious. 

NBC

4 a.m. - 5:30 a.m.: LOL at those of you who thought you would get out of this binge-athon without watching I'll Be Home For Christmas, starring that guy who was plasted all over our walls growing up: Jonathan Taylor Thomas. You down with JTT? Ya you know us!

5:30 a.m. - 6 a.m.:" Let's get a comedy block going shall we? Start off with The Office's "Christmas Party," a season two episode jampacked with so much Jim and Pam goodness.

6 a.m. - 6: 30 a.m.: Keep the laughs going with New Girl's first Christmas episode, "Santa," which finds the gang making a trip to Candy Cane Lane. Consider us jealous!

6:30 a.m. - 7 a.m.: Feel free to build your own gingerbread house while watching Parks and Recreation's "Citizen Knope." You know why. (Yes, we are tearing up.)

7 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: How I Met Your Mother's "Symphony of Illumination" is the show at its best: hilarious, heartwarming and heartbreaking. (Warning: you will cry.)

Lifetime

7:30 a.m. - 8 a.m.: Take a break. Stretch, grab some snacks, etc. etc. You've earned it!

8 a.m. - 9 a.m.: Catch an hour of Lifetime's Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever. You can't NOT watch Lifetime during the holidays, it's basically a law.

9 a.m. - 10 a.m.: Switch over to ABC to check out Disney Park's Frozen Christmas Celebration because Frozen has officially taken over everything. Including Christmas. 

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Back to Netflix it is for one of our favorite sad Christmas TV episodes ever: Supernatural's "A Very Supernatural Christmas." Dean and Sam exchanging gas station gifts at the end, saying everything by saying nothing? Ugh, those two, man. 

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11 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Time for our favorite Christmas movie: Home Alone on ABC Family. Oh, Kevin McCallister, you are our hero. (And probably a sociopath!)

1 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: SPORTS, right?! Watch the last half-hour of the Thunder vs. Spurs game before switching to...

1:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.: MORE SPORTS, for the Heats vs. Cavaliers, which is a big deal because it's LeBron James' first time playing his old team since heading back to Cleveland. 

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2 p.m. - 3 p.m.: Two words: Santa Burger! That's what you are in for when you hit up Gilmore Girls' "Forgiveness and Stuff" on Netflix. Lauren Graham slaysand other stuff happens. 

3 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: OK, so it's not technically a Christmas episode (one of the characters is celebrating Christmas and you see a tree for a hot second!), but Lost's "The Constant," featuring the epic phone call between Desmond and his long lost love Penny, will make you believe in miracles. Chills!

3:45 p.m. - 5 p.m.: The Muppet Christmas Carol (on Netflix) is necessary viewing.

5 p.m. - 7 p.m.: ABC Family is just the best this time of year, no? Watch and laugh your butt off during National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We're 96 percent sure "Shitter's full" is the funniest two words in cinematic history.

7 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Stay on ABC Family for Elf, the closest thing to a modern Christmas classic we've got.

9 p.m. - 10 p.m.: Let's get weird...by watching The X-Files' "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" on Netflix. 

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10 p.m. - 11 p.m.: We're almost there! Grab some hot cocoa and watch Christmas in Rockefeller Center on NBC...and be grateful you are not out there in the cold. Sure, it's a repeat, but Mariah Carey singing Christmas tunes is never a bad thing.

11 p.m. - midnight: The perfect way to close out this binge-watch? The answer is always Friday Night Lights. "Always," the series finale will make you feel all the feelings. 

Congratulations, you Grinch, you made it! Same time, same place next year?