Its an adult thing. Imagine if your sibling bought you jewelry and your there with his ordinary towel clumsily stuffed in a convenient paper bag. Haha. But yeah- i think gift giving is overrated. But my family was broke as hell when we were young, we were just happy if we could afford spaghetti and some meat. We inevitably continued the practice even if we’re financially alright now and i gotta tell you, removing that stress while just enjoying an extra ordinary meal is the best
I’m honestly thinking of asking my family if we can just have a rule where everyone had to get each person either chocolate or a book and leave it at that. It’s what we all mostly get each other anyways. It would be so much simpler because we are all shit at gift giving and end up dropping a lot of money on things that the recipient doesn’t even want
@@JeremyTheGraten literally sure but the implication was not that they should be required to be in the photo, but that it would be appropriate for them to be
@@bishop1412 it's also an insanely wide breadth of interpretation. There are all kinds of Christmas photos, formal professional, loosey goosey just opened presents where everyone is in PJs, posed groupings of siblings in front of the fireplace, etc. then there's the "significant other" can of worms where it could be anywhere from dating for a few weeks to married for years.
@@bishop1412 What better way to ask a question in an 'agree to disagree' video than literally? This is a common source of contention with the neurodivergent community. Say. EXACTLY. What. You. Mean. Not you in particular Bishop, just to anyone reading this.
Happened to my uncle too. His uncle, his cousin, and his grandpa all had the same birthday. Not sure if they planned it that way or not. Oh and they were all named Steve
The stigma around regifting irks me so much! Coming from a lower class family, sometimes regifting was all we had. All that matters is that your heart is behind the giving of the gift, doesn't matter where it came from in the first place. If the receiver of the regift has an issue with it being a regift, they are the problem. To me, that sounds like, "You didn't spend money on me?" No, but I still picked something out for you, thinking of you, and gave you a gift out of the kindness of my heart.
No bc literally what i was thinking. My mom does this all the time and she literally gives gifts to EVERYONE. Acquaintances, friends, family, friend’s kids, etc. She would rather give someone a gift than have them receive nothing at all. She grew up very poor and barely ever received gifts as a child, so that’s why she tries to gift everyone bc she doesn’t want anyone to feel like how she did. She usually gives the regifted gifts to acquaintances/people that she doesn’t know too well. Regardless, if it’s a regifted gift and she thinks the receiver will genuinely like it, she’ll give it to them. Not everyone can afford to spend on a gift.
I know right. I have a hard time getting gifts. Like will they actually use it. If I get a gift that someone can use better than me I will regift it. Maybe not as a gift gift but like I know that you can can use this better than me.
@@okay1549 I don't think you actually read my comment. Sometimes regifting is all you have when you're poor. Tell me you're entitled without telling me....
As someone who also was born around Christmas, how is it fair that everyone else gets a birthday AND a Christmas gift/celebration, but ours get lumped into one.
I share the same sentiment… like why do they get a thoughtful gift and i get 1 cause i got born on a day that is a day where everyone getting another present… you’ll feel left out
I wasn’t born near Christmas and I agree. If you would buy a bday AND Christmas gift for other people, you need to do it for people with bdays near Christmas too.
I was born on Christmas Eve and they used to get lumped into one when I was younger and I hated it. It makes people feel less special so I make sure my family and friends celebrate it earlier just so people separate it. Not fun!
Agreed it feels like everyone is there to celebrate a holiday instead of the day you were born. Like Christmas is pretty commercial so the fact people will care more about that then a friend or family member feels pretty shitty
@@apatternedhorizon then tell me that. I'd appreciate it more if someone said "hey man give that to someone else" rather than them pretending to like it and then a week later I see someone else using it. I have done that before too tho so I can't talk too much shit 🤣 It is disingenuous tho
If I give you a gift, I want it to bring you joy. If giving that gift to someone else makes you happy, the gift did its job and I would be totally okay with that.
Yes to having gifts on both birthday & holidays! My mom’s birthday was on Christmas Eve & as a kid, people would always give her a “birthday/Christmas combined” gift that was always wrapped in Christmas paper. Her birthday cakes were always Christmas themed & never themed the way she wanted.She never felt like she had a legit birthday because of the fact that it was on such a hugely celebrated holiday.
I’m so glad that my mom was adamant about keeping my birthday and Christmas separate. My birthday is exactly a week before Christmas, and i still had family trying to give a joint-gift as we call it. I’m glad my mom allowed me the ability to not only experience dedicated birthdays, but to also tell people now that I’m an adult that I may want separate gifts and I’m allowed to ask for that.
My mom's birthday is January 2nd and she always got one less present on Christmas than her siblings then she got her "birthday gift" that was always wrapped in Christmas papper on her birthday.
My birthday is December 1 and my parents divorced when I was 4. I alternated holidays, so my birthday was always done on thanksgiving or Christmas with my father’s side of the family depending on which was “his” holiday that year. By the time I was an adult he didn’t even know when my actual birthday was. Now I don’t allow anything Christmas in my house until after my birthday so everything is celebrated separately.
Yes! My best friend's birthday is on the 26th of December and I've always gotten her both a Christmas and birthday gift. My mum's is on the 20th, same thing there. I would never do a combined gift. Feels kinda disrespectful.
My birthday is on Christmas. I always got separate gifts on the same day and I'm grateful for that. I also appreciated being able to get an extra expensive gift instead of multiple gifts. My birthday has never been a whole day dedicated to me, which I used to like bc I'm uncomfortable being the center of attention.
Regifting can be done in a good and kind way. My best example is that I was given a Yankee Candle that the smell and color felt offensive to me. I appreciated the candle and the thought behind it. I was going to exchange scents at the store but remembered that a coworker loved that smell. So, I gave it to the coworker. I feel like that was equally as bad as if I went to the store and got a whole new candle that I preferred. The person who gave me the candle had sent it in the mail as we didn't live close to each other. So she wouldn't know either way what happened to the candle.
I agree with Courtney on the New Year’s Eve. Like tbh I have low standards for New Year’s Eve just chill at home on the couch with my family but you get a chance to recreate yourself the new year
i had the same thought. like YOU set your own expectations. if it doesnt live up to the hype im sorry but thats on you. either you need to set realistic expectations or you need to put in the effort to make something happen.
When they rolled played Ian told Courtney and Tommy that Santa wasn't real and Ian said that they didn't have a chimney meaning Santa can't get in, I thought of how my parents told me Santa would come through the backdoor. (this may be just me or maybe a cultural thing for Australia)
I get where Arasha is coming from where she still celebrates as a way to get together even if she's not Christian. In the USSR, they didn't even call it Christmas, they just grouped it all as New Year's festivities. Yes, that includes the trees, calling them New Year's Trees. They did this as a way to unify all the people of the USSR, especially those in Central Asia who are Muslim rather than Christian. You can even find Red Army Choir covers of Christmas songs like Jingle Bells. In these Muslim Central Asian countries today, they still celebrate these New Year's festivities by putting up and decorating trees.
Christmas was originaly not a christian holiday, they stole pagan ideas and traditions and added a back story. I'm agnostic and more of my fam isn't christian. Christmas has finally evolved back to just being a holiday to spend time with familiy/friends and give gifts
15:05 I’ve never had someone else out this into words, it’s such a non-problem to stress over and yet every year I get overwhelmed with this exact feeling, nice knowing you’re not the only one 😅
As a New Years’ Eve baby I appreciate it when people treat my birthday as it’s own thing instead of lumping it into Christmas since the two days are kinda close.
I love Noah's support about the photos. I have trumaabout having my picture taken or shared and my own family still struggles or sometimes refuses to understand or support me. His insanely strong conviction about this hypothetical situation where the only reason the S/O doesn't want to be in the picture is free will is so moving, I'm literally almost crying right now. He was one of my top favourite Smosh members before but this really put him to the top. He's nkt only hilarious and relatable but is always so thoughtful of others in ways most people don't even think about. We all need at least one Noah Grossman in our lives ❤.
To me it felt like he missed the point of the question. Cool to see him stand up for people who don't like to have their picture taken. However that wasn't the question being asked
@@eminemfan50098 That's the point of the video, is to hear these prompts and talk about them, hear different opinions, and expand on them. I think Noah understands the question perfectly, he just thought about it in a way that we didn't expect. Unless you did expect it, of course.
Tommy's answers just stabbing me in my soul 😂 "I have a panic attack every year" BABY BOY, SAME "All the millennials out there are thinking of that Rugrats episode" STOP READING MY MIND
i’d love to see one of these specifically about social media / youtube / smosh content i know theres been a couple with questions pertaining to social media and such but a dedicated episode would be cool
Yes! My family does secret Santa with a price limit! But that also add to the pressure sometimes because I feel more obligated to find the PERFECT gift
My stance on regifting is that it's all about COMMUNICATION. Someone gave a gift wasted on you? Take them aside privately and TELL THEM. Honestly, just let them know you won't really use it and give them the chance to regift it or return it, or give the okay for YOU to regift it! If it's someone you know would be really hurt regardless, don't regift it in the first place because out of principle they'd probably rather you keep it and it goes unused.
About regifting: If, for instance, you got a gift from a co-worker that doesn't know you that well and they actually didn't put that much thought into it for the workplace secret santa or they don't appreciate you as a friend or person, like a gift with no sentimental value, I think it's ok to regift to who ever you think will enjoy it.
Ah man Tommy's gift giving speech hit so hard. And as a younger kid, if I didn't get the perfect gift, my dad would usually scream at me and tell me that I ruined the day for whoever I didn't get the right gift for. So like... now if i don't get the perfect gift, I'll have anxiety or panic attacks. It's awful. So like... totally get that feeling of stress around the holiday season.
I brought my boyfriend at the time to my best friend's wedding. My best friend is basically family to me, and she was smart- in all of the wedding photos, my (now) ex was on the ends with me. After we broke up, she literally just cropped him out of all the pics. It was fantastic.
If there’s no way that the person you’re regifting to and the person who got you the gift will ever find out, I think it’s safe to regift. For example my out-of-state family member got me a candle and a blanket, and I love the blanket but the candle is a scent I don’t like, I see no issue in regifting to someone who isn’t in my family that would actually love the scent.
The way I see it is, if you can't tell the person who gave it to you and the person who you're giving it to that it's a regift, then you probably shouldn't do it.
@@tylerrichardson3034 yeah, if you have to hide the whole thing it's because you subconsciously know it's wrong, so you shouldn't do it in the first place
@@tylerrichardson3034 Sometimes you don't tell people things as to not hurt their feelings. Like, you might think someone's hair is ugly, but you don't tell them.
12:40 I'm somebody who has their birthday right after Christmas, and then two months later their brother has a birthday. And I came from a really dirt poor family, and my mom always made me feel special on my birthday even though it was so tight when it came to money. I think it's less about giving somebody a gift, and more about making that person feel like you didn't forget them or you're treating them as less important because their birthday is so close to a holiday. Also, not theming their birthday always around that holiday I think is also important.
As someone with a December birthday, I always had kinda shitty birthdaygifts but then have pretty awesome Christmas gifts. So if your birthday has to be sacrificed for a kickass Christmas it’s fine
My one rule to regifting is if you get something from someone that you want to regift, DON'T REGIFT IT BACK TO THEM. I gifted a family member something expensive that I spent a lot of time researching to make sure they loved it, only to have it re-gifted back to me on my birthday a few months later. Idek if they remember who gave it to them, but they are a chronic regifter. It hurt, but I did end up using said gift and now I just ask them what they want.
I'm glad Courtney got to step up and say exactly what I feel about New Years Eve, like hell yeah for her taking that on because New Years Eve rules and people need to figure out for themselves what is magical about it, not base it on a Hollywood ideal.
At one of my old jobs I got tired of the secret Santa trade because we all actually hated each other and I refused to pretend otherwise so I made a tradition of regifting my secret Santa present to another coworker that I actually liked....in front of the person that gave it to me.
Arasha: *talks about alternatives to having a spreadsheet/checklist for Christmas* Me: *literally currently looking through my Christmas Checklist Excel Spreadsheet trying to meticulously and stressfully conjure the perfect gift for every person* 👀
as a twin - i’m all too familiar with people getting me and my twin the exact same gift but a different colour/type. it doesn’t feel very personal also i’m not allowed to show my gift off before she’s opened it or it’ll ruin the surprise. i’d rather get something that’s more personal to me because me and my sister are absolutely nothing alike so getting us the exact same thing usually just ends up in a drawer and i forget about it.
if i was the person who initially bought the gift that was being regifted, I would be more bothered to find out the intended recipient sold/returned it than if I found out they gave it to somebody else, whether or not that second recipient knew it was a regift. but by bothered. i mean, i'd just make note of that gift fail and try again for the next gift-giving day. its no biggie I don't think
@@tylerrichardson3034 Thats why I included that ending to my original comment. i wouldn't be hurt by it, I wouldn't even bring it up. after I give it to you, its yours to do as you please. i would just rather they regift than return, don't ask me why. i cant give you a reason. its what I do when I get gifts I don't like even when they include a gift receipt. i never return/exchange. my train of thought is I didn't ask for cash (and when i want cash, i make sure everyone knows lmfaoo), I asked for a gift. you made that effort, and you know, sometimes the reason they chose the gift they did is more meaningful than the gift itself. i have a small collection of unopened "...um, thank you, i guess?" gifts that the thought behind them makes me nostalgic and feel all warm and fuzzy. anyways, my reply didn't need to be this long, i just kept thinking and my hands kept typing lmfao XD
Loving this series. I especially enjoy the questions where they spend a lot of time on them, arguing both sides and trying to convince others to swap sides. Love the mix of perspectives and backgrounds.
A Christmas movie must have Christmas be an integral point of the plot. In Die Hard there is a holiday party, the protagonist visits because of the holidays, etc. Therefore it is a Christmas movie
my mother's birthday is actually dec 25th (xmas) and she HATES it. she had never gotten a real birthday until she had me and I got old enough to understand how unjust and crappy it was, so when I was 11 yrs old, I made xmas into ''Mom's day''' where we bought her extra presents for her to open before we opened our xmas gifts.We did everything for her for the day that she'd have to regularly do for xmas and have continued that tradition i started for over 20 yrs... (oops, dated myself, lol)
15:35 when he says can we skip the gift. can we just love each other. is exactly why i thought at the begening why the holidays aren't stressful for me. my family and i don't bother with gifts. we save our money. and i'll buy myself whatever i want.
Tommy talking about the gifts being stressful and wanting to get a perfect one for your family. That is toooooo relatable.
See, this is why my family stopped doing presents YEARS ago. All the points he brought up. Every single one of them.
??? Just give something from the heart, if they don’t like it, don’t give them anything anymore. Presents are overrated anyways.
Its an adult thing. Imagine if your sibling bought you jewelry and your there with his ordinary towel clumsily stuffed in a convenient paper bag. Haha. But yeah- i think gift giving is overrated. But my family was broke as hell when we were young, we were just happy if we could afford spaghetti and some meat. We inevitably continued the practice even if we’re financially alright now and i gotta tell you, removing that stress while just enjoying an extra ordinary meal is the best
I’m honestly thinking of asking my family if we can just have a rule where everyone had to get each person either chocolate or a book and leave it at that. It’s what we all mostly get each other anyways. It would be so much simpler because we are all shit at gift giving and end up dropping a lot of money on things that the recipient doesn’t even want
I think a fun way we could all learn more about Hannukah would be a Hannukah themed Bepordy
I should host it
We did get a Hanukkah themed eat or yeet
Noah just absolutely missing the point on the family photo question was adorable
Noah is the only person who grammatically understood the question.
@@JeremyTheGraten literally sure but the implication was not that they should be required to be in the photo, but that it would be appropriate for them to be
@@bishop1412 it's also an insanely wide breadth of interpretation. There are all kinds of Christmas photos, formal professional, loosey goosey just opened presents where everyone is in PJs, posed groupings of siblings in front of the fireplace, etc. then there's the "significant other" can of worms where it could be anywhere from dating for a few weeks to married for years.
I misread it the same way, until they explained their positions.
@@bishop1412 What better way to ask a question in an 'agree to disagree' video than literally? This is a common source of contention with the neurodivergent community. Say. EXACTLY. What. You. Mean. Not you in particular Bishop, just to anyone reading this.
I absolutely died at courtney handshaking saying IM HORNY 😂😂 the funniest episode
I really appreciate the types of points Chanse and Arasha bring to these.
Chanse needs to host more.
meh
2 truths one lie with chanse and arasha
@@IcyLightning00 you say meh but it was a strong enough opinion you felt you had to counter their praise. so cant be meh.
You mean non white ones? Lol
Courtney during the naughty question had me cackling 😂
Court is the gift that keeps on giving!
I need a story time of how and why Noah's parents got all three of their children to be born on the same day. EXPLAINNNN
Gaurentee Dad's birthday.
well, when a mommy and a daddy have a very strained relationship, once a year...
Witchcraft.
Happened to my uncle too. His uncle, his cousin, and his grandpa all had the same birthday. Not sure if they planned it that way or not. Oh and they were all named Steve
They included a caption on screen that helped explain the timing haha
The fact that Ian wanted to role play punching kids cause he'll never get a chance should qualify him on the naughty list. 😆
Courtney’s ability to bring TRAUMA to a high five is legendary 😂
The stigma around regifting irks me so much! Coming from a lower class family, sometimes regifting was all we had. All that matters is that your heart is behind the giving of the gift, doesn't matter where it came from in the first place. If the receiver of the regift has an issue with it being a regift, they are the problem. To me, that sounds like, "You didn't spend money on me?" No, but I still picked something out for you, thinking of you, and gave you a gift out of the kindness of my heart.
No bc literally what i was thinking. My mom does this all the time and she literally gives gifts to EVERYONE. Acquaintances, friends, family, friend’s kids, etc. She would rather give someone a gift than have them receive nothing at all. She grew up very poor and barely ever received gifts as a child, so that’s why she tries to gift everyone bc she doesn’t want anyone to feel like how she did. She usually gives the regifted gifts to acquaintances/people that she doesn’t know too well. Regardless, if it’s a regifted gift and she thinks the receiver will genuinely like it, she’ll give it to them. Not everyone can afford to spend on a gift.
I know right. I have a hard time getting gifts. Like will they actually use it. If I get a gift that someone can use better than me I will regift it. Maybe not as a gift gift but like I know that you can can use this better than me.
Especially if it’s something you don’t want or need. If I got a shirt I already had, I don’t need it.
yeah how ridiculous for people to want a gift picked out for them specifically instead of a generic gift you wanna rehome!!!
@@okay1549 I don't think you actually read my comment. Sometimes regifting is all you have when you're poor. Tell me you're entitled without telling me....
Opening with Ian punching kids iconic
As someone who also was born around Christmas, how is it fair that everyone else gets a birthday AND a Christmas gift/celebration, but ours get lumped into one.
I share the same sentiment… like why do they get a thoughtful gift and i get 1 cause i got born on a day that is a day where everyone getting another present… you’ll feel left out
I wasn’t born near Christmas and I agree. If you would buy a bday AND Christmas gift for other people, you need to do it for people with bdays near Christmas too.
I have a friend that celebrates her half birthday for this very reason.
I was born on Christmas Eve and they used to get lumped into one when I was younger and I hated it. It makes people feel less special so I make sure my family and friends celebrate it earlier just so people separate it. Not fun!
Agreed it feels like everyone is there to celebrate a holiday instead of the day you were born. Like Christmas is pretty commercial so the fact people will care more about that then a friend or family member feels pretty shitty
Regifts can be used as an EXTRA gift. Still give a real gift, then include an EXTRA regift. Works great.
Or just don't regift
@@simplekid4328 yeah throwing it out or letting it sit somewhere unused forever is way better than giving it to someone who would actually like it.
@@apatternedhorizon this was sarcasm. Just making sure people understand. Always regift if you really don't want that gift. Someone might want
@@apatternedhorizon then tell me that. I'd appreciate it more if someone said "hey man give that to someone else" rather than them pretending to like it and then a week later I see someone else using it. I have done that before too tho so I can't talk too much shit 🤣
It is disingenuous tho
@@simplekid4328 Not so easy when it's your grandma or something. You just take whatever they give you.
Wow, hearing Courtney say "I have a big family so they don't really know me as well," was the most validating thing I've heard on Smosh ever.
Noah's joke about Tommy's birthday is one of the funniest things I've ever heard on smosh 🤣
I didn't get it 🥺
@Captain Nemo Lost in the ocean his birthday is 9/11.
My jaw dropped when I googled "Tommy Bowe Smosh"
Arasha makes me emotional by how just well-reasoned she is. I feel so comfortable hearing her opinions and how she treats other people's opinion
Chanse is just a natural...I love his vibes!
Chanse and Arasha are great additions to the Smosh crew. Love their energy and fresh perspectives on things! 😊💗
If I give you a gift, I want it to bring you joy. If giving that gift to someone else makes you happy, the gift did its job and I would be totally okay with that.
Yes to having gifts on both birthday & holidays! My mom’s birthday was on Christmas Eve & as a kid, people would always give her a “birthday/Christmas combined” gift that was always wrapped in Christmas paper. Her birthday cakes were always Christmas themed & never themed the way she wanted.She never felt like she had a legit birthday because of the fact that it was on such a hugely celebrated holiday.
I’m so glad that my mom was adamant about keeping my birthday and Christmas separate. My birthday is exactly a week before Christmas, and i still had family trying to give a joint-gift as we call it. I’m glad my mom allowed me the ability to not only experience dedicated birthdays, but to also tell people now that I’m an adult that I may want separate gifts and I’m allowed to ask for that.
My mom's birthday is January 2nd and she always got one less present on Christmas than her siblings then she got her "birthday gift" that was always wrapped in Christmas papper on her birthday.
My birthday is December 1 and my parents divorced when I was 4. I alternated holidays, so my birthday was always done on thanksgiving or Christmas with my father’s side of the family depending on which was “his” holiday that year. By the time I was an adult he didn’t even know when my actual birthday was. Now I don’t allow anything Christmas in my house until after my birthday so everything is celebrated separately.
Yes! My best friend's birthday is on the 26th of December and I've always gotten her both a Christmas and birthday gift. My mum's is on the 20th, same thing there. I would never do a combined gift. Feels kinda disrespectful.
My birthday is on Christmas. I always got separate gifts on the same day and I'm grateful for that. I also appreciated being able to get an extra expensive gift instead of multiple gifts. My birthday has never been a whole day dedicated to me, which I used to like bc I'm uncomfortable being the center of attention.
Noah has to have been sitting on that Quakers joke. 💀
14:19 Courtney wanting to get a reaction and not succeeding really reminds of me trying to get everyone hyped for the holidays
Dude, Noah's retorts have been on fire lately. Holy hell.
Everyone: Cortney what are you doing over there on the naughty list?
No, that's okay Ian, you can stay over there.
Regifting can be done in a good and kind way. My best example is that I was given a Yankee Candle that the smell and color felt offensive to me. I appreciated the candle and the thought behind it. I was going to exchange scents at the store but remembered that a coworker loved that smell. So, I gave it to the coworker. I feel like that was equally as bad as if I went to the store and got a whole new candle that I preferred. The person who gave me the candle had sent it in the mail as we didn't live close to each other. So she wouldn't know either way what happened to the candle.
Everyone synching up Chanse’s dance was about as perfect of an ending as anyone could ask for. Great video. Love everything about this series
The face Arasha makes after Chanse's government comment was hilarious.
Chanse really gave the "thanks for ruining christmas" dad face during that roleplay lol
Ian definitely deserves to be on the naughty list. He punched two little kids not even 15 minutes ago.
Courtney and Tommy being Arasha and Chanse's kids somehow makes sense 😂
I agree with Courtney on the New Year’s Eve. Like tbh I have low standards for New Year’s Eve just chill at home on the couch with my family but you get a chance to recreate yourself the new year
i had the same thought. like YOU set your own expectations. if it doesnt live up to the hype im sorry but thats on you. either you need to set realistic expectations or you need to put in the effort to make something happen.
When they rolled played Ian told Courtney and Tommy that Santa wasn't real and Ian said that they didn't have a chimney meaning Santa can't get in, I thought of how my parents told me Santa would come through the backdoor. (this may be just me or maybe a cultural thing for Australia)
Yeah. We don't have many chimneys where I live either and what I was told was that Santa had a magic key that let him into every house.
I get where Arasha is coming from where she still celebrates as a way to get together even if she's not Christian. In the USSR, they didn't even call it Christmas, they just grouped it all as New Year's festivities. Yes, that includes the trees, calling them New Year's Trees. They did this as a way to unify all the people of the USSR, especially those in Central Asia who are Muslim rather than Christian. You can even find Red Army Choir covers of Christmas songs like Jingle Bells.
In these Muslim Central Asian countries today, they still celebrate these New Year's festivities by putting up and decorating trees.
To be fair I think most people don’t celebrate it with any connection to Christianity.
Christmas was originaly not a christian holiday, they stole pagan ideas and traditions and added a back story. I'm agnostic and more of my fam isn't christian. Christmas has finally evolved back to just being a holiday to spend time with familiy/friends and give gifts
The energy Tommy was bringing during the Die Hard Christmas Movie debate was immaculate 😂
Courtney and Ian at the end literally had me crying laughing 😂😂😂
Chanse really feels like he's been with this group for years.
Tommy describing one of the 3 big Christmas Horror movies this year on accident is sending me
i’d love to see this sort of format for aita to see multiple opinions and arguing lol
Omg yes I’d love that!! Especially if Shayne, Jackie, and Courtney were involved! They all had such interesting takes in the AITA videos!
This is one of my favorite series at smosh
15:05 I’ve never had someone else out this into words, it’s such a non-problem to stress over and yet every year I get overwhelmed with this exact feeling, nice knowing you’re not the only one 😅
OMG Tommy you spoke straight to my heart with the Rugrats version of Hanukkah!!
this is honestly one of my most favourite series on this channel!
As a New Years’ Eve baby I appreciate it when people treat my birthday as it’s own thing instead of lumping it into Christmas since the two days are kinda close.
Love the mini therapy sesh with holiday anxiety 😭
I love Noah's support about the photos. I have trumaabout having my picture taken or shared and my own family still struggles or sometimes refuses to understand or support me. His insanely strong conviction about this hypothetical situation where the only reason the S/O doesn't want to be in the picture is free will is so moving, I'm literally almost crying right now. He was one of my top favourite Smosh members before but this really put him to the top. He's nkt only hilarious and relatable but is always so thoughtful of others in ways most people don't even think about. We all need at least one Noah Grossman in our lives ❤.
To me it felt like he missed the point of the question. Cool to see him stand up for people who don't like to have their picture taken. However that wasn't the question being asked
@@eminemfan50098 That's the point of the video, is to hear these prompts and talk about them, hear different opinions, and expand on them. I think Noah understands the question perfectly, he just thought about it in a way that we didn't expect. Unless you did expect it, of course.
this group's energy is infectious!
Could someone at Smosh please give Tommy a fucking hug?
"A macababy's gotta do what a maccababy's gotta do," will forever be imprinted on my mind from Rugrats
Chanse was so passionate about the regifting 😂
23:48 best part of the video I'm practically suffocating from laughter
Tommy's answers just stabbing me in my soul 😂
"I have a panic attack every year" BABY BOY, SAME
"All the millennials out there are thinking of that Rugrats episode" STOP READING MY MIND
This is probably one of my favorite series they do. You really get to know who they are as people.
i’d love to see one of these specifically about social media / youtube / smosh content
i know theres been a couple with questions pertaining to social media and such but a dedicated episode would be cool
1:50 I think the fact we have the same debate about Die Hard every year makes it a Christmas tradition, and therefore a Christmas movie.
Yes! My family does secret Santa with a price limit! But that also add to the pressure sometimes because I feel more obligated to find the PERFECT gift
My stance on regifting is that it's all about COMMUNICATION. Someone gave a gift wasted on you? Take them aside privately and TELL THEM. Honestly, just let them know you won't really use it and give them the chance to regift it or return it, or give the okay for YOU to regift it!
If it's someone you know would be really hurt regardless, don't regift it in the first place because out of principle they'd probably rather you keep it and it goes unused.
About regifting: If, for instance, you got a gift from a co-worker that doesn't know you that well and they actually didn't put that much thought into it for the workplace secret santa or they don't appreciate you as a friend or person, like a gift with no sentimental value, I think it's ok to regift to who ever you think will enjoy it.
Tommy's struggles about having a small family and wanting the best for them hit so hard, it legit made me cry 😭
Ah man Tommy's gift giving speech hit so hard. And as a younger kid, if I didn't get the perfect gift, my dad would usually scream at me and tell me that I ruined the day for whoever I didn't get the right gift for. So like... now if i don't get the perfect gift, I'll have anxiety or panic attacks. It's awful. So like... totally get that feeling of stress around the holiday season.
If this was the only video series they did, I'd be okay with it. These are my favorite, I love hearing how everybody thinks on things.
Noah's quaker joke was too fucking funny omg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 shit had me weak
@2:16 Ian, you asked for it and they gave you Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
“Die hard is like adult home alone” was too funny 😂 die hard is definitely a Christmas movie!
10 years into a long a
deep relationship and Ian's cousin still takes 2 family photos.better safe than sorry
Our family puts them at the end so they can be cropped out in future
I brought my boyfriend at the time to my best friend's wedding. My best friend is basically family to me, and she was smart- in all of the wedding photos, my (now) ex was on the ends with me. After we broke up, she literally just cropped him out of all the pics. It was fantastic.
If there’s no way that the person you’re regifting to and the person who got you the gift will ever find out, I think it’s safe to regift. For example my out-of-state family member got me a candle and a blanket, and I love the blanket but the candle is a scent I don’t like, I see no issue in regifting to someone who isn’t in my family that would actually love the scent.
The way I see it is, if you can't tell the person who gave it to you and the person who you're giving it to that it's a regift, then you probably shouldn't do it.
@@tylerrichardson3034 Why?
@allycookie2009 Because of you can't tell the people you're doing it then it's probably wrong. Otherwise you could just tell them
@@tylerrichardson3034 yeah, if you have to hide the whole thing it's because you subconsciously know it's wrong, so you shouldn't do it in the first place
@@tylerrichardson3034 Sometimes you don't tell people things as to not hurt their feelings. Like, you might think someone's hair is ugly, but you don't tell them.
noah was so real in this episode
12:40 I'm somebody who has their birthday right after Christmas, and then two months later their brother has a birthday. And I came from a really dirt poor family, and my mom always made me feel special on my birthday even though it was so tight when it came to money. I think it's less about giving somebody a gift, and more about making that person feel like you didn't forget them or you're treating them as less important because their birthday is so close to a holiday.
Also, not theming their birthday always around that holiday I think is also important.
Glad this is a regular series now.
I think this is the absolute best episode of this series.
As someone with a December birthday, I always had kinda shitty birthdaygifts but then have pretty awesome Christmas gifts. So if your birthday has to be sacrificed for a kickass Christmas it’s fine
@13:44 might be the best Court/Tommy moment, just her succinct voice and their stances, perfect!
yessss closest thing to smoshcast and i’m eating it up
My one rule to regifting is if you get something from someone that you want to regift, DON'T REGIFT IT BACK TO THEM. I gifted a family member something expensive that I spent a lot of time researching to make sure they loved it, only to have it re-gifted back to me on my birthday a few months later. Idek if they remember who gave it to them, but they are a chronic regifter. It hurt, but I did end up using said gift and now I just ask them what they want.
Chance and Tommy can have me any day of the week I swear
The 5th grade teacher at my elementary school got fired for telling her whole class that Santa wasn't real.
I'm glad Courtney got to step up and say exactly what I feel about New Years Eve, like hell yeah for her taking that on because New Years Eve rules and people need to figure out for themselves what is magical about it, not base it on a Hollywood ideal.
At one of my old jobs I got tired of the secret Santa trade because we all actually hated each other and I refused to pretend otherwise so I made a tradition of regifting my secret Santa present to another coworker that I actually liked....in front of the person that gave it to me.
😯
The salty "not anymore" about NYE had me laughing so hard,it resonated with me so much. I miss NYE so much 😭
23:50
Uh-oh.
I feel like that whole Winepepper episode is going to happen soon...
Dude, the on the spot improvs in this episode were so entertaining
As a retail worker, yea the holidays are so so freaking stressful. It’s the most stressful time of year for a retail worker. No breaks just overtime
Arasha: *talks about alternatives to having a spreadsheet/checklist for Christmas*
Me: *literally currently looking through my Christmas Checklist Excel Spreadsheet trying to meticulously and stressfully conjure the perfect gift for every person* 👀
YES THE RUGRATS HANNUKAH EPISODE. I can't believe Tommy had such an accurate call out haha
Ian has my full permission to tell my kid that Santa isn't real.
as a twin - i’m all too familiar with people getting me and my twin the exact same gift but a different colour/type. it doesn’t feel very personal also i’m not allowed to show my gift off before she’s opened it or it’ll ruin the surprise. i’d rather get something that’s more personal to me because me and my sister are absolutely nothing alike so getting us the exact same thing usually just ends up in a drawer and i forget about it.
if i was the person who initially bought the gift that was being regifted, I would be more bothered to find out the intended recipient sold/returned it than if I found out they gave it to somebody else, whether or not that second recipient knew it was a regift. but by bothered. i mean, i'd just make note of that gift fail and try again for the next gift-giving day. its no biggie I don't think
Why would you be bothered by them returning it and getting something they would rather have? Either way they got rid of your gift.
@@tylerrichardson3034 Thats why I included that ending to my original comment. i wouldn't be hurt by it, I wouldn't even bring it up. after I give it to you, its yours to do as you please. i would just rather they regift than return, don't ask me why. i cant give you a reason. its what I do when I get gifts I don't like even when they include a gift receipt. i never return/exchange. my train of thought is I didn't ask for cash (and when i want cash, i make sure everyone knows lmfaoo), I asked for a gift. you made that effort, and you know, sometimes the reason they chose the gift they did is more meaningful than the gift itself. i have a small collection of unopened "...um, thank you, i guess?" gifts that the thought behind them makes me nostalgic and feel all warm and fuzzy. anyways, my reply didn't need to be this long, i just kept thinking and my hands kept typing lmfao XD
i’m so confident that the only people who say die hard is a christmas movie say it specifically to piss off the people who say it isn’t
I had to look up Tommy's birthday. As someone who has a birthday the day after, JESUS CHRIST NOAH
Loving this series. I especially enjoy the questions where they spend a lot of time on them, arguing both sides and trying to convince others to swap sides. Love the mix of perspectives and backgrounds.
As someone who was in “nice” family photos and is no longer with said person, you put us on the end. That way we’re easily cropped out
I take pride and immense joy in telling children that Santa is not real. The same thing goes for the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tommy talking about buying gifts for family and getting emotional is so relatable, and very much a Virgo thing so I can totally relate 😅
Tommy's face at 23:54 was worth this roller coaster of emotions
A Christmas movie must have Christmas be an integral point of the plot. In Die Hard there is a holiday party, the protagonist visits because of the holidays, etc. Therefore it is a Christmas movie
that Freudian slip was hilarious! lmao
director kimmy?? hell yes!
Tommy bringing up the Rugrats Hanukkah special... I've never felt more seen lol
my mother's birthday is actually dec 25th (xmas) and she HATES it. she had never gotten a real birthday until she had me and I got old enough to understand how unjust and crappy it was, so when I was 11 yrs old, I made xmas into ''Mom's day''' where we bought her extra presents for her to open before we opened our xmas gifts.We did everything for her for the day that she'd have to regularly do for xmas and have continued that tradition i started for over 20 yrs... (oops, dated myself, lol)
15:35 when he says can we skip the gift. can we just love each other. is exactly why i thought at the begening why the holidays aren't stressful for me. my family and i don't bother with gifts. we save our money. and i'll buy myself whatever i want.