[Bad movies get new life thanks to the puppet robots of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the cast of One Tree Hill reunites… twice, and now’s your chance to see how well Terrence Howard cooks under pressure with a kid as his partner.](#)
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Happy Thanksgiving! It used to be back in the day that when Thanksgiving came around, there were two options on TV: the [Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade]( and [football](. Those are both still around, of course, but now Thanksgiving is the perfect opportunity to park your keister on the couch and soak up an all-day marathon of whatever cable’s 5 million channels throws at you. There’s everything from Futurama to Friends to Forensic Files, and we have all of them listed in [one handy place](. You can also use the time to catch up on one of our [100 Best Shows]( [start binging the most popular new series as picked by our audience]( or [find a new favorite show to obsess over](. Or, you know, just watch some of tonight’s TV picks:
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[The Christmas Chronicles](
[Santa’s a gas in The Christmas Chronicles](
Premieres Thursday on Netflix
Happy Thanksgiving! Now go watch a Christmas movie! Kurt Russell — yes, the same man who played Snake Plissken — stars as a sassy Santa Claus in this holiday film about two siblings, one a non-believer, who nearly ruin Christmas for everyone when they make Santa crash his sleigh. Together, they make up for lost time by slinging gifts down the chimneys of good boys and girls while Santa cracks wise with quips like: “Let’s get this party started.” Fun fact: Russell says that his character’s massive chin mop was actually 80 percent his own beard!
SO BAD IT’S GOOD
[Mystery Science Theater 3000](
[Let Mystery Science Theater 3000 make misery fun](
Season 2 premieres Thursday on Netflix
The term “hate watch” was born sometime in the ‘00s during television’s expanding gut and the meteoric rise of television recapping, but the good folks at Mystery Science Theater 3000 have been laughing at the screen and making bad things better since the late ‘80s. The robot puppets and comedian Jonah Ray are back for a second season of heckling, and this time they’ll throw verbal rotten tomatoes at garbage movies like Mac & Me, Atlantic Rim and Killer Fish while you wonder how these films ever got made.
LET SOMEONE ELSE DO THE COOKING
[MasterChef Junior](
[Masterchef Junior: Celebrity Edition pairs stars with adorable kids](
Thursday at 8/7c on Fox
MasterChef Junior is one of TV’s underrated mainstays; it’s a genuinely reaffirming reality show that pushes talented tykes to maximize their creativity while judges nudge them with encouragement and shower praise on their creations. But we’ll see if that changes when Fox adds celebrities as side dishes. Stars like Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet, How I Met Your Mother’s Alyson Hannigan and Empire’s Terrence Howard will be paired up with kids to cook food for Gordon Ramsay and the other judges. Let’s hope we catch Terrence attempting to convince his young partner that [1x1=2](.
SCREAM REAL LOUD!
[Pee-Wee's Playhouse](
[Don’t be a Randy, watch Pee-Wee’s Playhouse](
All-day Thanksgiving marathon on IFC
The secret word of the day is, “OMFGYESYESYES!” Cult classic Pee-Wee’s Playhouse is back thanks to IFC, which will air Paul Reubens’ series all day on Thanksgiving starting at 6 a.m., and then keep it in the rotation on Saturday mornings. Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, which ran on CBS from 1986 to 1990, was (and still is) amazing, and is the kind of series that only comes around once in a lifetime. People forget the amount of talent involved in the show; Laurence Fishburne played Cowboy Curtis, Phil Hartman played Captain Carl, and music was provided by Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh, Danny Elfman, George Clinton and Dweezil Zappa, to name a few. Let nostalgia wash over you, and discover why your hippy parents were giggling alongside you back in the day.
RETURN TO THE HILL
[A Christmas Contract](
[The Christmas Contract is the One Tree Hill reunion you’re gonna get](
Thursday at 8/7c on Lifetime
All you stans who wanted a [One Tree Hill]( reboot, we’ve got the next best-ish thing: a Lifetime Christmas movie starring One Tree Hill actors Hilarie Burton, Danneel Ackles, Tyler Hilton and Antwon Tanner! The film has another one of these hackneyed holiday movie plots, but why would you want anything else? Burton’s character returns home for the holidays, but she fears running into her ex, so to prove she’s over him, she hires a pal (iZombie’s Robert Buckley) to pretend to be her boyfriend. You know, typical Christmas stuff. Stay tuned after the movie to watch a full-fledged One Tree Hill reunion special, with the aforementioned actors plus Stephen Colletti, as well as special guests (Chad Michael Murray?).
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