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Why Halloween TV is the best TV

The best holiday TV is Halloween TV.

You might assume the best holiday TV is Christmas TV - you've been told this for years. But you've been told wrong. Christmas TV is frightening. Christmas TV is about dead parents and fiancees and Christmas in Santa Monica. There are dead parents and fiancees in Halloween TV, but they tend to be more lively, so to speak. Christmas TV is about young professionals who work too much and can't appreciate the spirit of the holiday, not until their family is gathered around them, at which point they realize at last what's meaningful in life. If a family is gathered around

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