Mini-Transmission: Surviving Christmas (2004) | The Christmas Comedy Hollywood Tried to Hide

Fresh off their reluctantly festive detour into 2004, Truman and Landen return to tie up loose ends from Surviving Christmas—a film so aggressively seasonal that the Machine still smells faintly of plastic tinsel. They revisit the leftover questions, stray observations, and mid-2000s oddities that didn’t quite fit into the Main episode. And as always, they play The Trailer Game, trying to guess which chaotic assortment of Affleck faces and faux-holiday cheer the marketing team stitched together before watching the trailer for the first time. Next week, the Machine has locked onto October 22, 2004, teasing only the clue: HIP HOP MEETS SHOP TILL YOU DROP.

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