[applause] >> sandra: and that brings to a close our west point holiday show. we would a like to thank everyo. here at west point, especially the west point band, for allowing us to share in this joyous holiday season. ban from all of us at fox news, i'm sandra smith, happy holidays to you and yours, and good night. ♪ ♪ and [cheering and applause]

>> tom: from fox news world headquarters in new york city, it's the great christmas showdown's t. ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> announcer: featuring todd piro, rachel campos-duffy, jimmy failla, kennedy, janice dean, and brian brian burke. i'm bill hemmer wishing you ain merry christmas. and now,g yo here's your host, m shillue. [cheering and applause] >> tom: what? what? come on. thank you. thank you ladies and gentlemenlm welcome to fox nations thirdns t annual great christmas showdown. we have the spirit of christmas in the air and two teams of forx favorites ready to tear each other apart! [cheering and applause]

>> tom: live studio audience, are you ready? [cheering]ce, >> tom: let's kick this off with some distracted debates. first up, jimmy versus kennedy. yourmmy topic is grandma got rn over by your reindeer. turn it up or turn it off? i jimmy, you are arguing in favor of the christmas classic. >> i am. >> tom: but wait! nothing is that simple here on the showdown. adorable elves, please bring out the first distraction. come on out. let's give them a round of applause. [applause]>> >> you kids today. >> tom: jimmy, put thosejimm snowballs down, you are arguing first. >> i don't throw them. >> tom: you are arguing in favor of theum christmas classi. go ahead, give him about five seconds before the snowballs. >> my fellow americans, thank. you for coming up tonight, i

know you have a lot of christmas game shows to choose from this time oi ha -f year.fr we appreciate you choosingom hours. so i am here to argue, i'm into the beatings, bring it on, i don't care.m i'm here to argue in favor ohefn turnining up grandma got run ovr by a reindeer.hy do you want to know why? >> why? >> to the untrained eye, this is a debate about a song, but what it's really about his raisingaw awareness. since grandma got run over by aa reindeer came on the radio in 1980, reindeer accidents are down 64%. [laughs] >> grandma got run over so your grandma's could live. do you understand? the key lyric in the song is "out she had been drinking too much eggnog, we all begged her noinkit to go, but she forgot hr medication, staggered out the door into the snow. oh there's a reminder right there to old people to take theimindr medication.. there's a reminder not to drink

so much like my opponents have e show..done before th but let's talk about the children and the perspectivespec this gives them, okay? when children hear this song, they learn that santa is a really bad driver, okay. if you are a kid and you go --u don't get the toy you want youu would be really upset you did not get it but you would feel better knowing that santa did not show uknta dp because he kid someone's grandma, you know what andmm saying? >> tom: jimmy failla! t look, there was a lot there,he wasn't there? it made me think of that song sn and a whole new light. okay, kennedy, your turn at the podium. tell at th us, why we need to tn this song off. >> this song is all about geriatricide. and that is the murdering of one of our golden americans in this

country. so here's grandma, who clearly needed an intervention. she did not need to be thrown out in the snow and cast aside like a piece of turkey carcass! [laughs] >> no. i will tell you what grandmothers deserve our respect and our defense in this country. even if they have drinking problems, even if they have to go home to get their medication, which is probably bathtub methamphetamine considering she was wearing a really, really ba week. ve, when grandmothers stay alive, we all win. [cheering]and >> that was my argument! >> tom: would you say this argument goes to read team? let's hear it. [cheering]gumeoes >> tom: or green team? [cheering]

>> tom: wow. incidentally our super scientific christmas poll said 54% of americans said turn it up, we love thsaide song. but kennedy made some great points. we are going to give it to team green. [cheering and applause] >> tom: yeah. yeah. our contestants are playing not just forpl bragging rights, but they are playing for theirthey favorite charities. thire losing team gets a stalkih of coal. and the winner gets $1000 for the charity of their choice.use] [applause] >> tom: janice, if green team wins, who gets the cash great. >> first responders children's foundation. [cheering and applause respond] >> we love them because they support first responders and their families who lov e them. >> tom: rachel?

who is team red playing for? >> hope through education, it's an organization out of new jersey that provides scholarships for childreut ow no to private catholic school. >> tom: wow. i don't know who i am rooting for. okay. next debate, rachel versus janice. your topic's office christmas parties. deck those halls or just give ml a gift card and let me glso hom? janice, you will argue in favor of the office party, and if ththat's not hard enough, elvesr please bring out the devilish distraction. that's right, here w.e go. we've got a tray here. janice, don't take to the podium, he will stay here and make your argument from behind the daisnd t and you are going e making christmas cookies. you are going to be judged on quality, quantity, creativity and of course your argumentsati. janice, will you decorate please tell us wh, ply we should deck e us whalls with the office party.

>> and i havheree helped first l all?p is there help involved? >> tom: you can gen het help ye. >> excellent. we are going to party like our jobs depend onwe a it. of course we love our christmas parties. do you think that i would rather parts.have a gift card then to t to my office christmas party wearing this? because this is like an office christmas party right here, right? would you prefer a $25 gift certificate to dick's sporting goods, know youo rtwould not. also, office christmas parties are so popular they made movies out of them. there is an actual movie called e cathe office christmas party.n one of the greatest movies of all time was of course dieharda and that's where the biggest plot happens. at the office christmas party. also, christmas is about celebrating. would really love the fact that you are giving a gift card on

his birthday? no, he would not.. so you know what, would you christmas party withh the dancing and the outfits? [cheering] w >> or would you rather a25-d 25-dollar gift card? no way! t >> tomom: janice dean! [applause] >> tom: okay, janice, stop cookies. there you go.in you are going to bg e judged on cookies and argument. why don't we go over to team red, rachel, it is your turn. tell us why yorachu would rather skip the office party.>> >> first of all, if you go to an office party you will get drunke and end up dressing like janicen dean. [laughs] >> you can't drive home in that outfit! >> all right, she brought uphe b religion so i'm going to counter. first of all, to counta lot of e

office parties are aboutt of social media and only had 12fo followers so i'm just saying. >> amen. >> also, was born with just his family in a manger.ly i he would never have gone to the office party to celebrate. here's the other part. >> i thought he was the one who turned water into wine. >> thank you. >> that's true. >> here's the problem. what's the point of an office party when there's an hr department? >> thank you. >> people will drink wine, right, people will drink wine and then end up photocopyingphot their rear end. also, inflation has been really tough this year. just give us the gift card, right? >> i get it.you >> and then if you go to the office party, if you don't

remembert re people's names, thy really hard. the other part is small talk.sm do you guys like small talk?l ta i hate small talk. >> i love small talk. >> i hate small talk. i like talking about big things. >> if i wanted small talk i would call greg gutfeld.>> id. [laughs] >> that's all i've got, fellows. >> tom: let's give it for rachel and tea>>m red. [ applause ] >> tom: you know, i thoughtou both teams made great arguments. i think it's going to come downt to the christmas cookies. let me try one of each year. yep. that's good. that's good. give me your best cookie. >> i think that one was, but thi okay. >> i'm going to go with team red. team red. [applause] >> janice, i did not mean to say r address. you >> this is very controversial.l.

>> tom: in case you arewo wondering,nd 624% of americans said they love office parties -- 64% -- so they agreed with you guys.ve ryan versus todd, when wrse return. there is not a memorable line from the entire movie of>> t hoe alone save for -- [screams]. good luck, drink up, amen. ♪ ♪ , amen

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♪ ♪ >> announcer: the greatst christmas show down, be nothing says christmas spirit like arguing with the ones you love. [cheering and applause] >> tom: welcome back to the great christmas show down. the final debate in the debateba round will be brian versus todd. this one is a battle oodd.f theo christmas movies. home alone versus national

lampoon's christmas vacation.cai but wait. there's more. delightful elves, bring out the destruction -- disgusting distraction. yes, you are going to have ts.om makeak your argument while consuming as much eggnog as possible. p go ahead, put it uosp there. that is -- oh, my gosh,, that is quite a -- >> i don't want to this eggnog. >> tom: you are going to be judged on a sinister combinatiob of argument, construction and lactose consumption. todd, we will start with you, us why christmas vacation is the superior film and may god be with your stomach. >> home alone is a fine movie. i'm not here to callne m out its flaws but let's be realistic. if we did a story about the mcallister family here at the

fox news channel, we would be dointhe g a story about parents who abandoparen their kids! they would be excoriated on every program we have here on th o e fox news channel and there would be a movement to remove the children from thatent household. so we cannot glorify them.k up let's drink up. >> thank you. . [applause] >> can i get an amen? preach on! there is not a memorable line from the entire movie of whole alone -- home alone save for -- [screams]. good luck, drink up, amen. and on that point, brian brenberg, if that is youyourr rl name. [laughs] o >> in order for a movie to be for good if you are a man, it mt have quotable lines. there are none from home alone. i found a list on the inter-webs

this morning and this afternoon of 45. some of the best are, we are on fox nation, we can believe. merry christmas [bleep]. number 1 line.he n number 3, if i woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet woi would not be more surprisedt it's a movie of quotable's. it's the best christmas moviable out there and i defy you to come up with something better. , america. [cheering and applause] >> tom: great job. >> do i get to make my case? >> tom: let's go to brian. why don't you tell us why home alone is the superior film. and i like how you are sharing the duties, that's good. take it awayhari, brian. >> i just want to point out myop opponents argument hung completely on quotable lines.

but let me just say, if at the end of this ther at e is anythig left, you can keep the change, you filthy animal. [cheering and applause] >> wow. >> tom: you've made a great argument but you guys drank abu lot t more eggnog. mor good work, team green gets the points. yeah. our poll shows americans are pretty evenlns ay spy split on e but 55% of americans chose home alone. ]cheering and applause >> tom: don't go anywhere, the great christmas showdown will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> it's getting crazy down there but trust me, you ain't seen nothin>> ig yet. [cheering and applauseseen] [che] >> settle down, men'n's warehou. ♪ ♪

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>> speaker-02: this is a fox news alert. i'm chanley painter and new york. haiti is reeling from a deadly gang attack on christmas eve. it happened during the reopening ceremony for port-au-prince's biggest public hospital. at least two reporters and a police officer were shot and

killed. several others are hurt. the hospital was set to reopen tuesday after violence forced to do close earlier this year. street gangs reportedly control an estimated 85% of haiti's capital. if you are planning to use eggs in your holiday cooking lesson that. the fda has issued a high risk recall for 24 count packs of kirkland signature organic pasture raised eggs. it's due to potential salmonella contamination. the eggs were sold at 25 costco stores across alabama, georgia, north and south carolina and tennessee and have a use by date of january 6th. officials recommend throwing them away or returning the eggs for refund. i'm chanley painter, now back to the great christmas showdown. ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> tom: welcome back to the tom great christmas showdown. i think the score is putting much tied now. onto our next round. >> 2-1. [laughs]

>> tom: kennedy. by next round it's going to be even, believ's ge me. next game, we will take it to e streets. mike o'hara is outside right now talking to random strangers. pay attention everybody, you are going toyone have to guess how t people wilhel respond to the grt debates of the season. take it away , mike. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: i'm here in foxe squarein and the christmas spirt is in the air. nation special, i visited great locations from iconic christmass, i movies like elf. radio city is right over there. i got to go to bedford falls, the inspiration for it's a wonderful life. even the christmas story house in cleveland, ohio. the elf costume though, that's for you in ther th studio for te showdown. you are welcome. let's get into it. ♪ ♪ lik >> would you like to answer some christmas -- no? sir, can i -- no, that's all right. sir. never mind. aussie, aussie, aussie.

you are from australia, i fantastic. how is celebrating christmas in australia different then here ih the united states? >> the classic australian christmas is barbecue on the beach. >> barbecue on the beach for christmas. santa in shorts. i can do that. >> and bikinis. >> i don't want to see santa ine a bikini. not that type of show. let me ask you some questions about things that you might havh to drink ot n christmas eve.ev evene. though it's warm in australia, maybe a hot cocoa. if you were going to, what would you put incoa, there? schnapps or bailey's?ea >> tom: red team, this goes to you. what are they going to say? do they want to put schnapps in their cocoa orn th bailey's? >> bailey's.de >> feeling confident? >> bailey's. theynt are australians. >> tom: let's find out.

bailey's are schnapps? >> altogether now, bailey's are, schnapps b? >> bailey's! [cheering and applause] >> tom: that's right. i think i have the numbers on this. t heaccording to our poll this one wasn't close. r8% of americans went fo bailey's. >> yeah they did! >> tom: green team, this one is up to you. take it away, mike. >> have you been naughty or nice, kids? >> good. >> nice. >> if i saw this i would becr crying too. tell me about yourselves.e ar >> here from fort collins, colorado. >> fantastic. in coloradstico is there any difference in how you celebrate ithe holidays? >> i think we have a lot more snow.. a lot more trees. >> now holiday traditions. tra you are sitting around the christmas dinner table, it's time forime dessert, there areo many great things to eat andmanx

peexperience. and then fruitcake shows up. use of the party, you don't know who invited him. is fruitcake a trick or holidays treat? f >> tom: what do you think, trick or holiday treat?ca greeken team? >> fruitcake is terrible. it lasts for 100 years.ot >> heavy. >> a lot o of gluten. >> if it's made right it'sf it amazing. >> terrible. >> tom: you are going to say terrible, they say trick. let's see. >> absolute trick. >> trick definitely. >> went with the wife on>> t tht one. >> that was from the bottom of my heart. [cheering and applauseone.] >> janice, boom. good intuition on that one. >> tom: 78% of americans say they don't like fruitcake. no surprise there. thank you mike, we will check out lights, camera, christmas on fox nation. now abby also has a new christmas special to shamelessly

plug. oh abby. >> hello tom and merry christmam to you. i knew fox nation specia l iscome called welcome to santa school. i went to michigan and i enrolled myself in the official santa claus schoolclau and as yu can see i graduated with honorso now it's time to put my skills to the test. ho-ho-ho here we go. where are you guys from?ou t >> seattle, washington. >> what brings you to new york? >> we had to come see fox news want you guise all day every day in seattle. >> amazing. have you ever seen santa claus on the airnta ? >> we have. >> okay good, now you have. when you start decorating for christmas? >> i would say before december. towards november. >> you guys watch any christmas movies over the holidaysst?. >> yep. >> what's your favorite? >> elf. >> okay well i have a question for you. best movie santa, ed asner from elf or tim allen from a

santa claus? >> tom: this is interesting. red team, back to you on this one.yo what do you think the super foxa man is going to say? >> first of all congratulations on finding the only two conservatives in the city ofcong seattle. [applause] >> that was impressive. everybody else from seattle is trying to burn down -- they were watching elf. we need to clone those people. obviously you are not supposed to bed with your heart but knowing he loves elf, his favorite christmas movie, you have to go ed asner.en i you bet with your heart in the holidays. >> i feel like more people know that tim allen is santa whereas when you think of elf.>> [simultaneous talking] >> rachel, let's let rachel decide. what do you think? >> he makes a good point. >> it is a good point. i prefer elf but i think more i people think of tim allen. >> this is risky.

>> tom: what is it?g >> tim allen. [cheering and applauseand ap] >> wow. >> that was risky. >> tom: 55% in our poll went for tim allen. green team, you are up.he >> where you guys from? >> california. >> you came from california? why?calig to >> we are going to the yankees r gala tonight for aaron judge. >> wow. you guys know aaron judge? >> we do.e >> amazing. any kids?? >> four kids and nine grandkids and number 10 on the way. >> congratulations. do you celebrate at home? >> we do. >> do you have a fireplace? >> we do.e do >> all right. when you walk into someone ht sa yule logd you see log on their tv, is that tacky or terrific? >> tom: green team, do you think aaron judge is close personal friends feel that a televised you will log is tacky

oree terrific?? >> it's amazing. >> it better be terrific, we've got them all over th e studio. >> tom: what do you think they are going to say, that's theg to key. >> i will throttle that ladieshr otneck if she says anything but terrific, how about that tom. >> tom: janice ? >> i love it. >> tom: let's see what they said. >> tacky. >> tom: wow! >> no class. >> tacky gavin newsom fans. >> tom: our panelists and >> t agree witht aaron judge's judge he friends. 63% love the yule log. [cheering and applause] >> that's america. >> tom: and we actually have aa yule log on fox nation so if you want one, turn on the fox natiol yule log. will l you know what, you shoul

get points but i've been waiting for something to tie the game up and it's an outside, everybody. we will be right bacbodyk after this. [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] [singing] >> tome go's t: what's the next? >> you are looking at me? ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> tom: we are back and we are having some fun here at the s showdown.tma our neck showdown challenge features authentic dickens eraco carolers. come on out, carolers..nt contestants, i want you to listen closely tt yoo the music. our singers will sing a line from a classic christmas carol and you are going to have to continue and seeing the next line.

each answer is worth up to three points because you are going to be judged on music and lyrics. okay, are we ready? rachel, we will start with you. t take it away, carolers. ♪ fa-la-la-la-la ♪ >> tom: next line, rachel. you can help. c ♪ don we now our gay apparel ♪ >> tom: that is the line. [applause]on wl do you know the line, kennedy? ♪ strike the harp and join the chorus. ♪ >> tom: i'm going to give twoe points to the green teamtw for that.

you have a chance to really steal. three points on the board. take it away , carolers. ♪ when the snow lay round about ♪ >> tomment: what's the next lin? >> you are looking at me? >> this is so ups care. -- obscure -- >> tom: i'm going to give you a hand, this was a toughthis so. looked out on the feast of stephen when the snow lay round about. it's about the snow. what kind of snow was roun it'd about?of >> it was... >> yellow. >> this is so easy. [laughs] >> you don't know what it is. >> i do know! >> saying it, jimmy ♪ this is

thriller ♪ [laughs] >> tom: the answer is, the snow was deep and crisp and even. you know it, right? red team, you can redeemurse ourselves. listen up. carolerslves, take it away. ♪ jolly old st. nicholas lane your ear this way. ♪ ♪ won't you tell a single sole what i'm abouty. to say. ♪ [cheering and applause]>> >> all right, settle down men's warehouse. [laughs] >> tom: now that was very good. you gow th wast all three pointt one.kenn kennedy, listen up here because green team, you have another at shot at one. carolers, take it away. ♪ on the 11th day of christmas my true love gave to me. ♪

>> everybody knows this song. don't help them, audience, you are on team red. ♪ 11 spawns a swimming. ♪ >> are they right? are listen, i will give you anothert shot. starart at 12. ♪ partridge in a pear tree ♪ >> she's going from th peth beginning. >> lords a leaping! >> tom: it is not lords a leaping. a hint.give you >> pipers piping, nobody gets a point. carolers, take it away. ♪ misfortune seemed his lot. he got into a drifted bank. >> and then he got upsot. >> tom: was that close enough?

let me askpset the questions --t me ask thesk t judges. that's good enough for me, right? one more song, kennedy. let's takee mo it away. ♪ angels we have heard on hiwe high... ♪ >> that's fantastic! hand in the right key. >> angelic music. >> tom: kennedy, here's your bonudys points. can you do the chorus on the mouth trumpet? ♪ ♪ [laughs] >> do i get points if i harmonize? >> tom : sure. [laughs] >> tom: kennedy and todd! [singing]

[cheering and applause] >> tom: thank you.appl dickensian carolers, another round of applause. [cheering and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> tom: welcome back to the great christma: s showdown. this next round is called the north been 17. did thd it? -- north "poll" -- this is thewd final word on christmas. your job is to guess what our super scientific survey says. green team, you are up first. the question is this, "the nutcracker", a treasuredasur tradition or a ballet bore? remember, it's not what you think, is what america thinks. >> i love it. >> you've got three fans here so we are cultured obviously. >> treasure. >> tom: treasured tradition.io >> correct. >> tom: survey says, 67.5 percent, treasured tradition. [cheering and applauseays perc]

>> that's right, america. >> tom: red team, the old christmas goose fell out ofch favor afterir dickens died so wk asked america, what is at the w center of your christmasha dinnr table? turkey or ham? discuss. >> i get paid in meet. look at me. [laughs] >> ham all the way. turkey is thanksgiving. i think theynice go him. a lot of italians. >> tom: you all agree? survey says, ham. >> that's what's up! >> tom: back to the green team.. once that main course is done, what are you going to do about desert? take about a breather or go strt on to gorging? a break before dessert. >> what is desert? >> tom: whatever you serve. >> i would keep on going.

>> tom: keep going. straight on keep on gorging, survey says take a breather. take a breather. only 35% said straight on gorging. okay. listen, i think the red team is ahead by maybe one or two points.wo am i right? but it all comes down to this, the final question is worth 100 points! ♪ ♪ >> tom: we will be right back with the climactic battle of the great christmas showdown. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> tom: this is it ladies and gentlemen, the final question is worth 100 points! red team, it it right, usual in $1000 for charity. $10 it wrong and you wind up with a

stocking coal of -- stocking coa full of coal. this could be the mostersi controversial christmas debate ofal all.ey hallmark s movies, sour or swee? >> is this hour question? >> tom: yes. >> this matters to me. we are all married here. if i was in a rom column it will be called "love handles, actually." maybe not the traditional sweet rom-com you guys like to watch but that being said they are so popular and during this holiday season i saw the star of many hallmark movies on a show called fox news saturday night with jimmy failla. who does not love flat? [cheering and applause] >> being around her christmas spirit tells me that they love these movies. yes, suite. >> tom: you say sweet? the survey says sweet! [cheering and applause] >> tom: red team has taken it

all! the green team gets the stocking full of coal. but come on, you know how thisnd ends.th it's the christmas season, everybody wins.wi we are giving $1000 to botnshar itcharities! where's the snowballs? let's go with the snowballs! let's hear it for the green team! e red team!it for th let's hear it for our adorable elves and our dickens era carolers, and you, the live studio audience, give yourselves a round ofe st applause! i am tom shillue, merry christmas to all and to all a good night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tis the season when neighbors battle to see to see who can be brightest