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YULE TUBE: Holiday demento!

And now we point you toward yuletide strangeness fit for our favorite Dr.

Our nominations for 2009's three kings of Christmas peculiarity --

Here's a truly creative Christmas present from HBO. The big Big Love family sings about the season in their own particular way -- I Saw Three Hummers, Deck the Compound, and six other delightful, downloadable ditties. And who doesn't love a Harry Dean Stanton music video? (What a coincidence: Big Love Season 4 starts on HBO Jan. 10.)

2. Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman

Neil Patrick Harris' Barney from How I Met Your Mother morphs into the familiar Christmas cartoon character in this most adult mashup. If you don't want to hear about porn and bullwhips, don't go here. (Courageous clickers may also enjoy last year's Two and a Half Men naughtiness.)

3. A TVparty Christmas!

One of the web's coolest tube sites salutes the season with pages devoted to everything from Amos 'n Andy to The Yule Log. Wallow in sitcom holidays, classic animation, vintage music, lost shows, untold stories, and more. Be sure to check out old-time toy commercials. (Atari game systems! Instant movies from Polaroid!) And don't miss Amahl and the Night Visitors. (Yes, Virginia, there was a time when TV networks actually commissioned original operas.)

Finally, two non-tube stocking stuffers:

The worst Christmas album covers ever!

Jingle Bells goes Bhangra!:

Have a cool yule!

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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