Ramble #98: Christmas in Evergreen
Merry Christmas!
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Being from Colorado and having visited Evergreen (CO) I kept getting whiplash every time I heard 'Evergreen' in this video
I have never related to a character more than the curmudgeonly sister saying the town has "some very unique sadnesses." I love that lady, I'd like to get drinks with her.
Hannah's actress (Rukiya Bernard) being Simone from Yellowjackets takes me out. Talk about range and different genres!
Spending the money from the bonds on a Christmas museum when there is only one road in and out of town that routinely gets blocked is absolutely diabolical. Impeach
permission granted!
If you HAD to do the Hallmark reality show, you could pair it with the reality show Twelve Dates of Christmas. A thought 🎅
Immediately jealous of your charjabug plush, i love that evo line so much
I don't feel entitled to any kind of promises about future videos or schedules. My vote's to stop giving updates, if they add to the stress. We're here to support Jenny
If you don't want to do updates, don't do them! You already have to get every Patreon video out in a month, on a topic you didn't pick, on top of your other work; you might as well have a more artistically satisfying final product. And there are some drawbacks to creating public anticipation for projects in production that may not pan out or happen quickly. I imagine there's something a little soul-killing about saying "and I'm still working on x and battling scope creep" for six months on end and then wanting to put the project aside for a while but feeling like you have to apologize for it because you already talked about it to fans.
Chiming in late about the updates. I support and understand if you don't want to include them in the videos.
The first time I heard that end credits song, I thought they were saying “We want some stupid wishes” lol
Omg I hated that Christmas shoes song so much as a kid lol, they played it like 5 times per day on the classics station
Why does Ezra kinda look like Brendon Fraser?…
I 100% support you not doing the updates at the end of the videos
Who else was admiring Jenny's plushies besides me?
late reply but I’m here on my 12th rewatch to concur that the plushies are a stellar ensemble - the tree in the red coat is definitely the conventionally handsome and appealing romantic lead of this ramble
coming back to this video to say that the third (?) one or whichever with the nyc journalist sounds like a worse version of Book Lovers, which I highly recommend to any romance novel readers. It’s a subversion of the Hallmark formula and celebrates the NYC literary types.
I realize I'm a little late here but as a relatively new patreon subscriber i find it very fun when watching videos from the backlog to hear things like "I'm determined to finish the evermore video before i start on the star wars hotel video", it really adds something intangible for me that makes me love your content that much more on re-watch. If it truly dissatisfies you from a creative standpoint i would have no problem with text updates in the description of these posts (or standalone update posts if that feels better to you) but please don't feel it is common for patrons to watch these videos and ends up feeling like they received a lesser product due to baked-in main channel updates as, for a huge majority of patrons at the least, they are neutral/positive. (i believe)
I really love that you mentioned the fact that the Burnaby Village Museum renovated its restaurant in a modern style - I'm currently working on a publication about historical museums of this sort and the thesis is generally about modernization, cultural identity, and the actual messages that these historical sites are putting out about life in the past. Really fun to see that come up tangentially in one of your videos!
Wait, is that the bridge from Beetlejuice‽
RIGHT?!?!? I immediately went back! I was like….i know this bridge!!!
Is the 2014 Hallmark movie "An Evergreen Christmas" related? It is a uniquely awful piece of media which I was really hoping to see dissected. It serves primarily as a long-form covert political advertisement against the "estate tax," and is packed full of bad-natured caricatures of big city liberals and others who might oppose repealing inheritance taxes on estates of 6.5 million dollars or more. It's sickening and fascinating and truly deserves a critical examination. It may be the most cynical and hate-filled Christmas movie ever made
that sounds fascinating!
Team Spencer 4 Eva
girl get that coin, you deserve to make money from your videos (as long as the ads aren’t for, like, child gambling)
59:12 Obviously it's Jenny.
This is not important but about the veterinary practice - my dad was a vet in the countryside (albeit Sweden and not US) and he ran his own clinic with everything from house pets to farm animals.. He referred people to specialists if needed obviously but most of vet care is like vaccinations, neutering, de-worming, common infections, wound care etc. Nowadays there's a lot more specialization in the field than there used to be though so vet practices are kinda becoming more centralized in general. My understanding is generally in Europe small practices were/are common in the countryside and in small towns.
Is there any reason you couldn't cut out the update part into its own short clip and then upload both separately?
As an NYC resident, I'm always offended that these movies think we're so miserable. We are, but that does not interfere with our Christmas spirit.
I completely understand if you don't want to do the updates at the end anymore, but personally I really enjoy them! It's reassuring to have these small updates when the projects take so long to make. As for older videos, I also enjoy learning about your process, or about dropped projects that I didn't know about, it's a fun peak behind the scenes. I see the patreon videos as like, little extra treats so I don't really get the feeling that their momentum is ruined, specially because some of my favorite rambles are ones where you completely drop the premise and talk about Tarzan & Jane for half an hour lol I guess there must be some part of you audience that is very Not Chill about this kinda stuff tho so I get it. Maybe you could write the updates on the post itself instead, so they're still there but the videos stand as their own.
I like the updates! I just skip them when I'm doing a relisten
I'm fine with no updates. I never watch anything in a timely fashion anyway, so it makes no difference to me.
im fine with leaving out the updates, its what i usually skip when watching older ones
Please reconsider covering Harry Potter in the future, even in Patreon videos. When you made the spider plush video, matching a donation was relevant to the stakes, at that time. It's different now. Contributing to the cultural relevance of Harry Potter now directly funds efforts to repress, and ultimately, kill, trans people worldwide.
I don't mind whatever form the video updates come in, but I also never saw the updates being there when rewatching older videos as a bad thing. I don't really care if something 'dates' a video, and in a way I liked that when I first joined and went through the backlog the updates helped me place them chronologically in terms of the main channel videos (in a way that just looking at the numbers doesn't do for me). I also just find it interesting to hear about video topics that ended up being dropped lol.
Germans. Germans are the ones going to a town for Christmas and pencilling in a Christmas museum lol Maybe theyre trying to corner the German Christmas tourism market? Think about it, if you don't have a cool castle like Rothenburg Ob de Tauber, how are you going to be competitive in that market- the abandonned top hat factory must have been the most whimsical old-timey building they had on hand 🤔 they must have cut the parts where they used the bonds to hire a marketing firm to run extensive research into target demographics instead of revitalising the old water main infrastructure haha
Jenny please visit Truth Traveler in Pigeon Forge, insane creationist vr attraction and planetarium
I think putting the updates in the text post would be great! Add it to the youtube description too!
I’m DEVASTATED by the renovations to the restaurant 😭 When will the ugly modernization-grey end?? Not even Evergreen is safe
My guess is they wanted to make it more appealing to corporate rentals :(
The reality vs fantasy notion makes these movies feel like a reverse Narnia
I love these cheesy Christmas media videos :) When watching old rambles, I think it's fun to hear the old snapshots of your work process! But if it bothers you I hope you can do what feels right. I think people would adapt pretty quickly
i dont mind dropping the updates at the end of the video and adding them as a separate text post. or dropping them entirely!
Help the needy? New roads? Nope! Christmas Museum! 🤣
I can't get over the acting of video-call-fiancé lol
I really wonder if there was a disconnect, maybe they did want to have him cheating or something, then changed their mind last second. I thought she was exaggerating, but no, it really looks and sounds like he's hiding something!
I love hearing the updates at the end of the videos but I have zero problem with you stopping or moving them into the text instead - I support whatever type of update you prefer :)
It’s a new year! I think a text update is a good idea! As someone who’s explored the backlog of videos, the update at the end is awkward lol.
I wouldn’t be bothered about having the update be text in the video description! If the general opinion sways the other way, I would add that, as someone who joined and was delighted to see such a backlog to go through, that the updates in older videos are very charming. It’s really fun hearing past Jenny saying that she’s working on evermore or vampire diaries or the Star Wars hotel and knowing that they turned out so well. It’s a lovely time capsule. But *also*, would not be at all disappointed to read the updates instead 🙂↕️
I also love watching the old updates
Read this as “Christmas in Evermore”. Was sad lol
Thanks for taking these dumb movies seriously enough to articulate why exactly they are crap. We all know deep inside they are but I don’t have the tools to list all the reasons why, all the shortcuts they take, and how that pisses us off a bit while still allowing us to laugh at them. This is why you’re a cultural critic! And why I subscribe.
This is you Patreon and these are your videos! We’re all here because we love you! You always have permission to do whatever you want! Those who are here for your amazing content will always stay!
I’ll weigh in on the updates! I think they’re nice, i look forward to the come-down after the video. It’s fun when Jenny talks about videos she’ll never finish! I do wish Jenny would repost her tweets on blusky.
As kids we used to go all the time on field trips to the Burnaby village Museum and we would reenact what it was like to be in school back in those days. One year we went I had my nails painted and they banished me outside the school house and accused me of being a witch.
Do you boo. Put updates in the text body of the video. It's your Patreon. 💕
I like the updates at the end of the videos...Ad reads are annoying because I'm getting unsolicitedly sold something whereas these are like how the Disney Channel only had ads for itself. It's nice to hear what's coming up for a channel I'm already enjoying.
As others are saying: I, too, enjoy the project updates, and I think it's actually kinda nice how they add a sense of time and context. But, I think you know better than anyone what works and what doesn't for your videos and creative process, and you should go with whatever you think makes the most sense.
it would not bother me if you stopped giving updates at the end of the bonus videos, but i will say as someone who subscribed relatively recently and then went back through the archives, i think the updates at the end of older videos kind of give them a fun sense of time. like when one of them ends with you talking about a video that came out 3 years ago it feels like a little time capsule moment.
I’m ambivalent about the rehabilitation of The Big City in the third film
did cackle at the sister saying 'this town has some very unique sadnesses' uhhuh
Thank God a fellow Hannah is the best protagonist of this series
Last year's videos have been amazing (the Japan trip one alone!). I wish people wouldn't give you so much grief over small stuff like the updates. I can definitely see why you would prefer to put them into the description and I think you should do whatever you want with them
love love love the set dressing in this video. such holly jolly joy! very festive. also, you should do the updates however you'd like! honestly if people say otherwise, just ignore them. the updates are nice, but the format is irrelevant.
I agree! Many are saying they like the updates in the video as a time capsule, but having them in text works for that just as well.
Your hair is GORGEOUS in this video! I do enjoy the updates at the end, its a nice treat. But you ought to have the creative control over how you format your videos.
personally i'm good with the updates being in either the video or the body of the post, whatever works for you
The Incredible Dr Pol sees farm animals and dogs and all kinds of critters!
I do enjoy having the updates in the video so when I rewatch old videos when topics are hinted at or discussed I feel like oh cool that’s when she was working on that video, but obviously do what you want I’m all for having it in the text box :)
i definitely vote for putting the updates in the text box/caption or whatever you'd like!! i don't see why anyone would make you say them out loud haha
i'd definitely prefer the updates in the text vs the actual video! it is a bit weird watching old patreon videos and seeing references to videos that are on the backburner. as an artist myself i totally get switching projects so no judgement there, but it would certainly make the videos be evergreen as you said lol. but ofc i'll watch and read anything you upload! thanks for another great monthly vid!
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All in favor of not having the ‘video progress updates’ at the end of every ramble video 🙋🏻♂️ (Maybe we can just let her make the content that she feels comfortable with and not forced to)
I love hearing the updates at the end of the video, for what it's worth! I think it's such an interesting look at your process and I don't mind if it's not super polished since the ramble videos are more informal anyways :)
For what it’s worth, I love watching old ramble videos without a sense of when they came out and then you say ‘still working on the evermore video’ and I get to go oh my god this is before evermore?? That being said you can do whatever you want forever and I would be just as happy with updates in the text. Thank you!!
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way late to recommend a bad christmas film, but I wholeheartedly recommend Random Acts of Christmas. the perfect storm of bad hallmark-esque christmas films
You could do a separate update mini-video, but putting it in the text is more than fine, IMO. I'll even go further - I am fine with no updates - the arrival of every video would be like its own very special holiday :-)
jenny your malevolence, do whatever makes your horribleness happy!! put it in the text!! we can read!!
get BACK IN THE CLOSET GBF CHARACYER YOU WILL NEVER BE SEEN WITH ANOTHER MAN ON SCREEN
I’d hope you structure your videos to your preferences. I think that adding video updates to the description or a monthly text post would be cool. I love that you don’t do ad reads and I remarked to my partner that that’s probably why I didn’t hesitate to become a patron.
Admittedly, the monthly updates are always fun to look forward to. Especially when it’s a ramble that doesn’t line up with my interests, it gives me a reason to watch all the way through
5 minutes in and fully lost it at the Cris Kringle Kitchen (Don't worry, they spelled it with a "C"). I am deceased.
Happy New Year everyone!! I watched this video on my second monitor while I got a new high score on Caves and Corridors on Neopets! So thank you for the entertainment while I crawled my way up ladders and got hit by multiple rocks. Also, I would totally be down for you moving the update/'what I'm working on' section to text and not having it in the video. They have never bothered me when going back and watching old rambles, but I can see your perspective and I think it makes sense to not have them baked into the video themselves. I hope you are recovering from being sick and that you have a good new year!
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if only the hat had 3 hangy down things im still 12 seconds paused into this video trying to figure out what that part of the hat is called. i give up if anyone knows please comment below. stocking cap hangy down bit
Re: formatting, Im on patreon because of jenny and how she chooses to make her videos. If she wants to change them, I'm on board for it. I want to pay for jenny to have the freedom to make what she wants, the way she wants, and not be at the whim of an algorithm or sponsors or whatever. Do what you wanna do, and if that's putting an update in the description instead of the video, I think that's a considerate compromise for the fans!
I grew up going to Burnaby Village (the carousel is sick) but I haven’t been in years and this is how I found out they millennial greyed the cafe and I am horrified
Maybe next year we can get into the Hallmark Hanukkah Cinematic Universe.
You shouldn't ever feel like you need our permission but I 100% want to voice that I'd be happy for you to not do them/pop them into the description for the videos. Your patreon is already a source of such joy for me - the monthly videos really brighten my months and I know they're often labour intensive/involve you putting main stuff on the back burner for a week or so while you sort them. I think your community occasionally forgets how lucky we are to get these monthly videos, because as a subscriber to a few patreons I can confirm you're the only youtuber I know who does this rather than just occasional bonus videos or short text updates. So all that to say...if it stresses you out and ruins it for you PLEASE feel free to stop doing it as you already give this community so much 💜😊
I'm sorry! but please keep doing the "what I'm working on" at the end! It's so wild do be 3 years back and hear like "I'm working on the Furbie video, so that one should be out soon". I'm sure things like that are a source of embarrassment for you, but the sheer number of things you've talked about releasing, and have never finished, is really endearing to us. It's so nice to see the standards you hold yourself to, and the work that gets done behind the scene that we don't otherwise see.
Just on the small town point - my mom grew up in a small town that somewhat resembles those in Hallmark movies (though less twee) and she moved away and never moved back - but my siblings and I always spent a lot of time visiting and know the town and people (many of whom are relatives of ours 😅) well. We were always excited to visit and it always felt like half the town knew when we were coming and were excited to see us. I feel like that's a middle ground more Hallmark movies could explore - that characters can have a long term, meaningful relationship with Evergreen for example, without trapping all the characters there forever. (It sounds like they half do this with Allie, but also that whole situation is confusing...)
"This town has some very unique sadnesses" make me CACKLE out loud for several minutes, like I would stop and remember that line and delivery and laugh again. How ICONIC, oh my god. If I was in these movies, I would want to play that character, but also that actress clearly does such a good job with it that I wouldn't want to take it from her.
They should really make a Christmas in Evermore film series
I think having the video progress updates at the end of patreon videos is a fun little time capsule if I watch an older one, but I don't really care that much
I feel like I got all the Christmas Magic of watching these movies as if I were someone who likes hallmark movies, which is someone I aspire to be. A Christmas Miracle! And a Happy New Year to you and yours! re: format: It's your show, do what you want, right?
I know I'm late to the video so maybe someone already commented this, but there was a lesbian Christmas movie on Hallmark this year and yes, the lesbian couple was the main couple. You're right that they definitely pulled back on it for a while, though Jonathan Bennett - who previously only played straight for Hallmark - has been getting steady work from them as a gay lead or co-lead for several years. They could absolutely be doing better, but we're starting to see them move in the right direction again!
PS yes, Allie's mom is Barbara Niven and is a Hallmark ICON
RE: moving updates to text. Your Maleficence, this is *your* Kingdom of Evil and we are but your minions. Do what works for you! If people whinge about it, throw them in the Volcano of Doom.
I personally quite like returning to older ramble videos and seeing references to projects you were working on at the time, it's interesting if the video has since come out to listen to you talk about how working on it was going at the time, or which projects you were considering and abandoned/paused at different points. It feels like an interesting insight into your creative process. That being said I think you should do whatever you're most comfortable with, so if you'd prefer to move it to text please do!
I think text updates are totally fine but i also dont feel the updates interrupt the video in any way- also did i miss something? Or is january poll coming later?:)
Excellent video, Your Jolliness
+1 for update in text. Make the videos timeless, like Evergreen itself.
I feel like text updates are totally fine. I have followed other Patreons where the content would be a video and the update on what’s next would be in the text body, and feel like that works fine.
I’m totally fine with the video progress updates being text in the ramble descriptions!
Is Evergreen the Silent Hill for single 30 to 40 year old people that need a lesson on the meaning of christmas + a partner?
Christmas Tree Head?
Move the updates to the text box!! Huzzah!
I think it would be nice to leave the update stuff to the description/separate posts. Seems like a good idea for the reasons you mentioned. If the info is available for the people who want it, it shouldn't be a big deal.
Just to weigh in on the update section of the video - I think adding them to the text body is fine, however I do enjoy your video updates at the end as well. I recently got patreon and have watched a ton of old videos, and to me it's really interesting to hear about videos before they were released / videos that never ended up getting made and listening to your month to month progress of those videos. I feel like it's a peek behind the curtain that I really enjoy, and while it does "date" the video, it also provides interesting context into your creative process that I enjoy. At the end of the day, though, these are your videos and we are here to enjoy the things you *want* to make, so if you dislike the video updates, I certainly think you should do what you want in order to preserve your artistic integrity
You pretty much summed up my thoughts exactly!
New video updates in text posts would absolutely slay ❤️ see you in the new yearrr asf
"I feel like I wiggled it like a hot dog in front of you" made me cackle for no reason. Love you mama your videos genuinely bring me so much comfort and joy Jenny, you are an incredible speaker and not to be parasocial but I feel like we'd be besties if we knew each other irl lol 🫶🫶
They filmed at Burnaby Village and DIDN’T INCLUDE THE CAROUSEL?!!?? The carousel is amazing. It’s over a 100 years old and has been beautifully restored, with all the horses uniquely painted and given individual names… I don’t remember anything about the village, but I definitely remember the carousel from visiting 20 years ago.
Their cafe makeover looks like what they did to Cracker Barrel, and we all know how well that worked out.
This is such a typical Jenny Nicholson experience for me: I start watching this ramble about a series of TV movies I have no interest in, just because it’s enjoyable, funny, and cozy. Then, starting about 18 minutes in, Jenny makes a lowkey devastating point about emotional growth and how you can’t really become a new person by moving to a new place, which makes me reflect on my own life because I’ve moved a lot, and suddenly it all seems much more profound. Then she goes on to make many more extremely sharp observations, such as the one about NPCs that exposes both the problem of bad writing in Hallmark movies *and* the toxic ideology of certain internet bros. One of the best Jenny rambles in a long time, it reminded me of some of my favorite older media reviews on her main channel when she was posting them more often.
I'm wondering now; whom amongst the towns people is kept awake at night by the knowledge/belief that a christmas wish is super easily accessible in this town, as long as it comes from the heart... and still no world peace. Whose looking at the people around them and thinking "Really? No one?" Or worse, they made the wish and it didn't come true. Meaning they know that they just don't want it enough. Or maybe World Peace is achieved in the Hallmark Cineverse. Maybe someone sleeps soundly in Evergreen at night, knowing why. Anyway I'd be more happy to have the updates as text under the videos.
I came across one episode of the hallmark men reality show on cable tv and the challenge was that they had to work in teams to untangle christmas lights, except the christmas lights were wrapped around a huge weighted block that one of the men had to lift using a rope pulley system while the other guy untangled it. Except it seems like they had made the block WAY too heavy and overestimated how long they would be able to hold it up for, (it was like 80 lbs if i remember) so they were struggling a lot, turning red and getting really sweaty and complaining about how heavy it was. I think the producers designed the challenge to show how strong and sexy the men are but it actually revealed the opposite so that was really entertaining.
Another fantastic ramble! And I'd be totally fine getting project updates in text rather than at the ends of the ramble videos.
Ah yes we got that dog in us
I love the updates a lot, but I would enjoy them just as much in text format. I think you should always do what works for you and makes you feel the best about your work! Thanks for another video. I don't comment that much but I always look forward to whatever you end up talking about. Have a happy new year!
Maybe updates would feel like less part of the main video if you did them just as voiceover? Like, here’s the giant spider to tell you what Jenny’s working on in his giant spider voice. But really you should just do whatever you’re comfortable with —we’ll be fine
I second this
The updates should be done as a Star Wars opening crawl: Episode LXXX PITTSBURGH It was a time of war in the galaxy. Bed bugs had invaded Jenny’s hotel room.
I think if putting the updates on the current projects in the text box works best for you, go for it! I'm good either way.
jenny you have my permission to do your upcoming updates any way you please, i just enjoy getting a little semi-countdown every month. it’s sort of like an advent calendar in a charming christmas town
I think the jenny nicholson patreon community should be known by the moniker "DOGS" from here on out. a bunch of hotdog hungry dogs :)
Regarding the updates, maybe I am alone in this but I feel like it adds a lot of charm to the old videos. Like idk when the update is like “I’m gonna do starcruiser next! Hopefully it will be a bit shorter than what I’m working on now” it just feels interesting to me to know that in fact it was not like that. But also I’m happy with the content as is, so like I wouldn’t mind but I don’t think of them as bad.
As someone who has been watching a lot of old rambles for the first time, I completely agree that you should take out the updates because it ruins the pacing. imo you don’t even owe us updates in general because it seems to stress you out and I don’t like you feeling pressured— we’ll just get what we get whenever
Since she isn’t Amtrak she shouldn’t have to estimate timelines and explain delays
I do want updates on what you're working on, but I don't mind if they're part of the text on the patreon post. I like having the updates in the video, but I understand your reasoning behind excluding them. I also really appreciate that you don't have sponsers in your videos. Those are far more intrusive than WIP updates.
Jenny’s mother has seen every Hallmark movie. It skips a generation. I hope she’s ridden every Six Flags roller coaster and loves to tell Jenny about the cobra rolls and Immelmanns.
i think "wiggling a hotdog" was the perfect metaphor actually
The two leads in the first movie should not be allowed to have children. The kids would have a jawline that puts Robert Z'Dar to shame.
Evergreen: Last Outpost of the House of Hapsburg
Is Evergreen the Silent Hill of Christmas metaphor towns?
So, do you just naturally become interested in things with names starting with "Ever..."
Time to introduce her to Everhood.
I actually have liked watching previous videos that include “what Jenny is working on”. I’ve thought it’s fun to see what ended up being dropped, what was completed, how long some videos have taken, etc. over the years.
You don't have to do end-of-video updates and can relegate that to text within the Patreon posts. Personally I do like the updates in the video since they're kind of a time capsule / snapshot, but if you don't like doing them and would prefer the videos remain agnostic in that sense, go for it!
you don’t need to update at the end of the videos!!! thanks for this great video for my winter break!! shocked tai’s comatose neglected wife is running a town museum
I don't know if I just have face blindness or what, but the first three female protagonists look exactly the same to me. They even have the same hairstyle.
Merry Christmas Jenny! P.S. permission granted P.P.S. You don’t need our permission.
If you do video updates in written format I would like the text updates to be in the patreon text as well as the youtube mirror description- i rarely watch on patreon app. Merry Christmas Jenny!
what is the barbie video actually about XD? Like the movies? the doll line? Sorry if she's already said this I just joined!
It's the movies. There's a preview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60153883?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share
The vet career plot is hilarious because I promise you if you were poached for being good at large animal medicine, you would only go even more rural or work strictly on-site at some huge cattle processing plant that's located the furthest away from any form of a city because of its smell and ethane emissions.
Merry Christmas your nastiness! I agree that putting updates in the description would be better… so I say go for it!
I can't remember what cartoon said this but my favorite address-your-villain-royalty-where-negative-words-are-valued phrase was "Your odiferousness".
Doing written updates on Patreon instead of in the video makes sense. Merry Christmas :)
Merry Christmas! This was a delightful video. Thank you for watching these movies and telling us about them so I'm not tempted to waste my time. And I hope you stop doing video updates at the end of these videos. Permission granted a million times! I cant stop anyone from being a jerk about it but I can tell you they dont speak for me, and I hope they are reasonable about your choice.
Merry Christmas Jenny! Thank you for another year of great content (: My magical snow globe wish is that you no longer feel required to put updates at the end of the video and do what your heart desires.
The lying fiance on the phone is the best part! "Ooh, hey baby can't make it to your mom's for Christmas, just had a tornado warning." "Yeah, things have been crazy at work, guess I'll have to spend the night at the office again." Merry Christmas!
Yeah Jenny, you don't have to put updates in the video lol.
ben writing the feminist article about evergreen being a woman-run utopia hit me like a truck omg
I will give you permission to not put updates in the video anymore
I appreciate the updates, but I definitely wouldn’t mind if you put them in the text on the Patreon post
That Build-A-Bear Christmas tree is the cutest thing ever.
Speaking for myself, description beats clips every time. And text updates (or no updates even) are totally fine!
This video must have been so much work. Thank you and I hope you have a great holiday.
oh yeah. this one is gonna need a star next to it in the master post.
I, Evergreen resident Nick (definitely not Santa), personally grant you permission to put updates in the text post instead of the video. Merry Christmas!
i'd be fine with it being in text. Personally the updates are something I can take or leave, but if you find that putting it in the videos feels worse, you do you girl
Happy Holidays to Jenny and All :) From my perspective those outros are not needed, as you see fit.
i kept getting distracted by how much i love the chunky christmas tree buildabear its so awesome
The road will be cleared…tonight! Hegh hegh heh! Yes!…hue heuh heuh
I love how much this first movie is almost a Stephen King story
Happy Honda Days, Jenny!
I would like the updates being in the text more
Jenny, here's one vote for putting the video progress updates in the description, I usually skip that part on re-watches. I agree the ramble vids would feel more 'standalone' without that part.
I have no investment in these movies or this town but the renovated museum cafe pictures made me shout in affronted dismay
Description box progress updates only from now on, I say! Don't let the world stop you from achieving your dreeaaams!
idm the work in progress info being in the text! but watching them at the end of the video is also fun. i rewatch old old rambles constantly and its always a nice slice of time to see that at the end. i get wanting the video to be a complete piece though (I am someone who gets annoyed when there is book previews in my books. it needs to be puuuuure)
seeing the footage of the real life filming location, I immediately recognized it as the set for the Shake Tramp music video by Marianas Trench. I didn't watch any of the actual movies to recognize it from though
SAME!!
I had a friend (we are no longer friends) who was sure most people in the world were NPCs. Really easy way to dehumanize people while at the same time feeling superior to them. He also thought people who like to read books were less intelligent, deluding themselves into thinking they were smart by reading. He didn't like to read. I think he just wanted to feel special but man I couldn't keep hanging out with him
What a disgusting worldview.
People are always wiggling hot dogs in front of me, I can't stand it.
This patreon is so ridiculously stacked. Half of these videos could be main channel videos and Jenny pumps them out every month. So glad I'm subscribed. Happy holidays all.
It don't think it's unheard of for a veterinarian in a small community with a farming contingent to serve both small and large animals. You're right that they would probably have more than one vet, so then while one is seeing outpatients, someone's at the office. It seems like it's the same principle as rural doctors where you just have to try to do a little bit of everything.
Jenny I know it’s too late for you to cover it I’m kicking myself for not commenting on the last video but you need to watch Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. Instant camp classic featuring Dolly Parton as the world’s most glamorous homeless person, weirdly graphic descriptions of death given the tone of the movie and an inexplicable amount of Wizard of Oz references
Dolly Parton impregnates a woman with Christmas magic. Can’t believe I almost left that out of the pitch
All Creatures Great and Small (the books, old series and new series) are about small-town vets in rural England in the mid-20th century, and they're all pretty great. The new series gets really good around season 3.
DS guy oreereeeeeeeeeee
Appreciate your description of these rich people small towns, I always feel like I'm going crazy when I see these cutesy towns. Like, okay, I'm not necessarily expecting a trailer park, but in my dad's old town you'd have stuff like the farm implement dealership, the pharmacy, the mechanic's, a dance hall at the armory (tons of small towns had them, bands would travel in a circuit). And for sure there'd be somebody with a salvage side hustle where they'd buy stuff that (literally) fell off a truck, so on any given day there might be furniture or it might be a big pile of sheet metal. And he was in the county seat with the courthouse and a teacher's college and everything. Nowadays it's gonna be mostly Walmarts and stuff because those big chains are the only ones who can afford to keep a business running in a dying podunk-- the old standby mom and pop places go under.
I notice all the pairings are very racially segregated, there don't even seem to BE any mixed-race people.
Jennyyyy!!! Of course you can put it all in the text for the video hahahah Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and everyone!!!
31:30 Surely no one ACTUALLY believes that!!
You said "where everyone drops off their Santa letters". You meant where all the CHILDREN drop off their Santa letters... right? The adult aren't THAT into Christmas, are they?
I appreciated that Buckaroo Banzai paraphrasing. If only the ancient Athenians had his wisdom
The two Finding Mr. Christmas bits that I will always mention with little or no prompting: the winner of the first season was a dud. His movie, Happy Howlidays, really showed his limitations. I think Hallmarks are a challenging acting environment — they seem pressed for time and demanding in particular ways — so I’m glad they gave the winner of S2 a significant supporting role instead of a lead role this year, to cut his teeth a bit. Second, there’s an episode in S2 where a contestant is acting opposite Ashley Williams, lead of the first Christmas in Evergreen. The contestant keeps eating these enormous grapes and just won’t stop, and it honestly seems like Williams starts housing grapes in the scene in a “Let’s try to make this guy look normal” kinda way.
🎄Merry Christmas Jenny!🎄 Thanks for another year of rambles/vlogs/videos!
Like most folks are saying, totally fine with updates via text. I'm sorry you feel like you have to ask permission. Love your content as always
Jenny do you, stop putting updates in the outro. Theres plenty of patrons who want to respect your wishes! Block the haters i say
I'm happy to see updates at the end, it can be kind of fun to watch an old patreon video and go "oh! she was working on that video at the time! crazy!" but I'm also happy if they go in the body of the text. I like getting the updates! I like knowing what is happening behind the scenes and what is coming next to the main channel, but not worried about how that happens
What a treat. My two cents is do what you like with your updates! It’s wild to me that anyone would be mad about all of this bonus content. It’s just gravy, babies!
Was driving around town earlier when I saw some cows on a hill and I teared up a little knowing I don't live in a cowless city 🐄 😢
If only there was some sort of mystical object (preferably globe-shapped) Jenny could wish upon to change the way video progress is announced without complaints... I personally prefer to get happily jumpscared when a new video appears on my timeline without notice
I give a strong yes to cutting the portion of the video about upcoming videos. If I rewatch a video, I'll always stop it at the end of the "main topic" section, so it would actually be a small positive change for me personally.
i rewatch patreon vids and i don't mind having the updates! if i don't feel like watching them i just end the vid. but it's fine to include them in the text body of the post as well :)
Jenny you need to read "All Creatures Great and Small". Its a autobiography by a vet working in Rural Yorkshire during the interwar period. And he does small animals and large animal work. Even though he has 2 colleagues. Hope I am not being rude. And regardless of anything you should aboslutly read the book. Its amazing and a great comfort read.
I was thinking about this too! How accurate is it to the modern vet experience though
What they did to modernize the cafe was criminal!!
Updates through text is good with me! Honestly though I don't really mind if you nix updates for every video altogether- maybe like every now and then when you foresee a significant delay or change in plans.
This. I don't care for/about the updates, seems like a brief paragraph in the body of the post is a good compromise
Yes to updates in text! I actually agree with you about the vibe.
DARK, DANK HUMOR WARNING. There, y'all was warned. So anyway..... my stepmom is currently in memory care. Before we made the move, her favorite pastime was watching everydamnthing on Hallmark. And as soon as the opening credits appeared, she'd say, "Oooh, I've seen this one, it's my favorite!" Even if it was a new product. And she was right.
I definitely read 'Evermore' instead of the actual title and got excited for a disappointing theme park experience 😂 x
please feel free to omit the updates from the video -- whatever makes you comfortable !
Regarding updates, text is fine; anything that makes it easier for you & doesn't give weirdos (or the cowless) a stick to beat you with.
“This is a man that I could never trust to have holiday spirit” took me out
Trying to decide if I’m going to watch this tonight or save it for Christmas morning
Happy Christmas Jenny, and fellow pateron pals ✨️
Us mangey dogs were already delighted with the video your Nastiness, but then you dangled a hotdog in front of us and it became Appointment Viewing. (I'm also OK with the hotdog being confined to the text box)
Please! I feel the same way as you do about those update segments. I don't need 'em!
The metaphor of being stifled or trapped in the pursuit of an early idealized situation -- like getting back together with your first romantic partner -- is hinted at everywhere in these movies; some would say this theme appears unspoken in half the scenes in these movies even spelled out in foot-high letters on walls or giant signs: all the rom-com protagonists are trying to re-live their early EVERGREEN love stories, where everything felt (as far as they could tell) vibrant and exciting and perfect, because their love was randomly ended by Fate before it had a chance to fail. Following this lens, the entire town is an ongoing project to reject messy realities in the name of chasing a dream, like re-re-re-decorating the same green-but-long-dead pine Christmas Tree grandma bought ten years ago and never threw out. Moreover, the diner lady's panic and insistence on editing the visiting girl's broken snow-globe wish felt more like she knows that people who wish "to always spend Christmas in Evergreen" are often magickally kept there in decades of eternal meet-cute, bound there as securely as if they'd been trapped inside a giant glass snow-globe.
Yes to text post!
Permission to skip end-of-Ramble status reports...GRANTED!
i like the updates, i don’t care where they are! but i also don’t think they ruin the videos at all - it’s sort of nice on rewatches to hear, it’s part of the nostalgia.
Idk if this is interesting to anyone but the Main Street of “Evergreen” is in my city and it’s actually a museum lol!
Okay just got to the end of the video and I’m feeling very validated by Jenny’s thoughts on the new stupid café renovation
It’s always wild and upsetting to me when you talk about something you tried on Patreon and then people got mad at you. It’s YOUR Patreon and you should do whatever you want! You already have a stellar Patreon including the back catalogue- I will appreciate anything additional you decide to share here, in any form. Follow your heeeaaaarttt
Merry Christmas! I'm happy to have updates in the written description rather than in the video. This was a great ramble! It's very fun to hear you describe bad/weird movies like Hallmark and Lifetime movies. One of my favorite rambles is a few-years-old video where you just describe a Lifetime movie and it's wild. XD
As long as there are updates in some form about what you’re working on, I have no preference as to where those are! So just in the text of the post would be lovely. Also I’ll say as someone who personally watches your older rambles all the time I never mind the updates at the end, but if you’re feeling they break up the video then I’m all for changing the format of delivery.
Spam Jenny with Top Hats 🎩
i am pretty shocked by the segregation of the romances in this film, like i have to hope in 2025 it would not be controversial for hallmark to portray an interracial couple and yet between Michelle and Hannah there are 3 love interests and all of them are black and they’re the only black men in these movies
37:36 That is clearly a Swiss train in Switzerland, so is Evergreen an American enclave in Switzerland? Did that guy fly a helicopter across the ocean from DC???
To be fair, some things did change in Evergreen. The love interest wore a bluish sweater instead of green in the final scene.
Haven't scrolled thru all the comments yet! But I'm a veterinarian and absolutely especially in rural areas in America there are still mixed practice vets and they can be single doctor practices, where they do see any species and often are the only vet for miles around. She also would definitely make more money in a city vs as a rural mixed animal vet. I'm an urban small animal vet and I make about 30% more than my rural mixed animal practice friends.
however this lady sounds like she has way too much time on her hands for a small town single doctor vet practice owner
You can put the updates in a separate 2 minute video, no?
Text updates works for me. Happy holidays!
US film companies seem to believe that setting the story in Canada makes it unrelatable. Pretty much the only reason films are set in Seattle is that it's the US city that looks most like Vancouver, which is where those movies are actually filmed.
YES to text updates on upcoming videos
I'm a patron partially for the updates but whatever form they come in doesn't matter to me! Text is all good. You're right that they do date the videos, but I've been a patron so long that when I go into the backlog the updates are almost nostalgic. "Remember when beanie babies was being worked on or the mystery lodge video? Good times"
yeah as someone whose revisiting the patreon i do think the updates at the ends of videos are kind of like a fun (advent-calendar-themed) time capsule, where its fun to get occasional reminders of the history of jenny’s channel. thats not meant as a reason to keep them around, replacing them with text is absolutely fine, im just pointing it out cus i think its funny and interesting how they create that effect with people
You're cowless!! (Derogatory)
Nyesss, your Cowlessness
WOODEN FISHES
Bless us, everyone
There's a 2007 ABC Christmas movie called Snowglobe where a woman gets a random and mysterious snowglobe in the mail and is magically transported into the Christmas town featured in said snowglobe. The snowglobe is huge with a giant wooden base and wind up mechanism. The globe scene itself is somewhat spare, but it's much more fitting for a mystical snowglobe and waaay better than the Evergreen one.
Love this movie purely because Christina Milian was a childhood favorite of mine 😆 In no way is it peak cinema but I think about it some Christmas seasons. Will be looking for it this year thanks
I love hearing about the updates in the video because I enjoy learning about your process. You and the way your mind works is part of the ‘product’ I’ve bought into so I don’t think it’s out of place to hear about it in ramble videos, it feels on brand & for me it entrances the experience. I also like hearing them at the end of previous ramble vids when I rewatch, feels like a bit of an Easter egg.
Entrances the experience?
I'm watching Finding Mr. Christmas with my bachelor draft group, and we're loving it! It might not be meaty enough for a video topic. But the vibe is actually kinda wholesome and GBBO adjacent for me! All the men are best friend with each other, and at least once an episode a man cries because he's so pleased that everyone is complimenting his work (which is so silly and over the top but also still cute!) and it's been good vibes. Would text updates potentially be slightly more recent, since it'll be at time of editing, not filming? (Even if not, seems like a good justification for the change 😉)
as a michigander I need to say I think the real-life town of evergreen is actually frankenmuth lol. I also support putting project updates in the text box instead of the video itself!
Another vote for updates in the video text / not doing things that make you stressed or unhappy.
New Englander here, I'm not sure where Evergreen is supposed to be in Vermont, but the Northeast part of the state is pretty unpopulated. I would assume "up North" refers to them being away skiing or at like a hunting cabin. I'm not sure why they would say "up North" instead of just "skiing" though.
Patron for many years and I will miss the off topic outros. I think of them as little time capsules, like trailers at the start of a worn-out VHS tape (Pizza Hut’s “right field” trailer on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tape)
I think I would prefer text updates, personally.
They shot something at my neighbour's house in January and I'm pretty sure it was a hallmark movie. I didn't want to pry and ask them, but it was a small production that was there for like a week and they shot it right after a big snowfall. And defs don't feel obligated to include project updates in the video
patron for many years and totally fine with you dropping the off topinc outros:)
I’ve not seen any of these Hallmark movies, but based on your description I’m going to headcanon in a character named Blanche Christy Fasch.
I would totally be okay with the update just being in the text description. The information still gets out there.
your hotdogness, i think you should definitely start putting the updates in the description if you think it's affecting the vibe !! not sure why people care that much about hearing vs reading them
I don't recall a previous request to do text updates, I just recall a ramble where the update was missing entirely which was disappointing to many including myself. I don't care if the update is text or audio
I definitely misread this as "Christmas in Evermore" and thought, "Oh, wow, she snuck into the ruins?"
I kept calling it Evermore when I was recording, I think I caught it and resaid it every time but it was an ongoing problem
I think it'd be fun to spice up the property by making the 5th movie A Murder in Evergreen. It gives the lead couple a good avenue to meet (one's an unspecified law enforcement officer, one's a local busybody) and there's also ample room for twists in re whether the murderer is a shady tourist or Old Johnny who was driven mad by the mercury fumes from the Xmas Museum.
But I would love a hotdog Your Nastiness! I think future video updates and notes in the video descriptions is a great idea let the rambles be about the rambles. Also love the Christmas plush especially Aragog's hat :D Happy holidays everyone and I hope you don't get too sick Jenny.
Absolutely would love if updates were in the text body of videos!
"So you just already have a child ready to go" is killing me.
I live by the Burnaby Museum, and in case you're wondering, yes, everyone hates that they redid a bunch of stuff. It's kind of a staple to everyone who grew up in Vancouver and the surrounding cities, so any change is bound to be pretty controversial. Don't get me started on the poor carousel.
In bed with a sore throat and this is such a treat! I genuinely read the title and thought Evermore had opened again with a Christmas theme. "Here we go again!"
Nyeehh, a most vile resentation, Your Despicableness
Honestly would love the updates being in text, that way if the ramble of a particular month doesn’t interest me I don’t have to scrub the video for the update.
Loved this vid!! And would be perfectly fine with text video updates; I'd honestly prefer it, as it would be easier to check.
I like the updates and it doesn't hinder my enjoyment of rewatching old rambles (which I do frequently), but definitely do whatever you want. It wouldn't make me want to stop being a patron, and I certainly won't be mad at you for something so innocuous. I was going to say no one would be, but I know the internet can be so rude, so I'll just speak for myself lol
i would actually ALSO way prefer the updates in the text body because a lot of times i’ll zone out during the update portion or i’ll be asleep by then and it would make it easier to just glean the info about the update. the actual ramble topic is where the entertainment is, update is just info!!
I got SO jumpscared for a minute there because Allie's dad was the evil teacher on Riverdale who was making students do murder conspiracies at the evil prep school in season 4
my wife and I got a samsung TV this year after years of dedicated roku watching, and we quickly got really into the free channels — particularly the free hallmark one. you’re getting the real c list of hallmark content on there. we ended up forming a gilmore girls kind of attachment to a show called “good witch” (no the) that had neither the budget nor the creative will to really show any on screen magic. it was mostly just a small town lite drama where a bland woman owned an inn and vaguely maha-coded apothecary/candle shop. it got cycled out for the christmas content and I miss it dearly. rip good witch
I LOVE THE GOOD WITCH. I can't believe how hard they leaned in to there being no actual magic, it's almost camp. They have several movies called THE good witch, and also made a shorter format series called just good witch, with the same premise. If it doesn't get put back in the rotation you should check your library! Mine has some Hallmark DVDs but also hoopla has a bingepass for Hallmark+ with soo much stuff on there!
Hallmark Christmas movie romance writers should watch the alarmist 95 TV movie Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare and take note of the "hunky beekeeper who provides a ton of exposition about bees" character. He has long hair, an unconventional job, is good with (thousands of) animals, and is charming. IIRC he doesn't date anyone, (like a hot divorced mom who moves to a town full of bees) which is one of this movie's several flaws. Not saying Hallmark Christmas movies should fill their sets with live and CGI bees which would present filming challenges and tone issues but you *can* have interesting people in your romance thing. Modelling your male love interest after that guy would be a start
Yes to in text post
clearly Allie is moving to DC to be the personal vet to the Generic Nice President's dog (or cow maybe the president is quirky in this movie universe. missed opportunity to take this cinematic universe in a different direction. no hallmark president's day movie?)
Yes, it was filmed at the Burnaby Village Museum! They did renovate but honestly the original interior looked better in photos than irl. The outside is still old-timey, including the patio. They have a free Christmas event every year: https://www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/EN/main/what-s-on/festive-village.html If you ever come up to Vancouver for a video, I'd also recommend Merry and Bright, the other fake Hallmark Christmas town where they film all the stuff. It's pretty close to Fort Langley, a non-fake super cute town where a bunch of Hallmark Movies are filmed (Love Hard on Netflix comes to mind). I bet one of the town's tourism boards would cover your travel if you wanted to do a video, it's a super cheap flight.
I was going to suggest Martini Town too! (Also Fort Langley is moderately fake, as the buildings are mostly recreations built in the 1950s! Also, fun fact: the original fort was near Derby Reach park!)
This video’s hat was so adorable I kept getting distracted by the fluffy ears- does anyone know where it’s from?
it’s a disney duffy and friends hat! i found a listing on mercari by searching “duffy santa hat,” but you may be able to find it elsewhere for cheaper
Oh my god shout out to RODNEY AND RHONDA REINDEER off to the side there 🥰
Every time, EVERY TIME, Jenny says "Evergreen" my brain is confused that she didn't say "Evermore."
They need to film an evergreen at evermore. The crossover we all need.
I live not far from the Burnaby Village Museum. Time to do a Jenny Cinematic Universe pilgrimage
Yargh, to the text accompanying the video with the progress updates if that be more in keeping with your personal preferences says I
Please put the updates in the text box. I 100% agree that it doesn't need to be in the video.
Text updates with posts are fine I think!
wrt what you asked about at the end: i would actually prefer it if you put updates on projects in the text instead of at the end of videos! i dont always want to watch every ramble but i am always curious about how the main channel videos are going, so having them in the text for the rambles would be more convenient than skipping to the ends of ones im not as interested in. and (way more important than my personal preferences) youd be doing what you actually want to do. so please, go for it!
This! I watch the rambles but I normally skip to the end first to watch the update and always have to guess if it's gonna be the last 45 seconds or 3 minutes or whatever. Text in the post would be so much more convenient!
Hi Jenny
I'd certainly be okay with the updates just being in text each month! I think the important thing is to get them, and I don't really care what format they're in when I do lol
I would definitely be okay with you skipping the “what I’m working on” section. I tend to rewatch these over and over after the fact. As far as the Evergreen series, all I can say is that it’s always nice to see Holly Robinson Peete get work 😊
Also for queer Hallmark movies I genuinely recommend The Christmas Setup. Fran Drescher plays the mom trying to set up the high-powered lawyer main character while he's back home for Christmas, it's very cute. Single All the Way is fun too (Jennifer Coolidge is in it) and it's on Netflix.
it's hard not to develop some manner of parasocial crush on someone who dresses up their plush charjabug for christmas. that's just so legendarily adorable. to even HAVE a plus charjabug is such a good vibe communicator. absolute sweetheart behaviour. good on ya, jenny. you weird weird diamond.
That costume is part of Pokémon Go, just introduced this month.
The best Hallmark Christmas trilogy is The Three Wisest men, which has acting just good enough to make all the movies watchable, but enough classic Hallmark camp to make it fun to razz
The Burnaby Village Museum is so fun to visit during Christmas!
I am not going to claim that Hallmark is a shining star of representation, because it certainly is Not. But we still get gay characters in modern movies! This year we got Jonathan Bennett (because, as another person pointed out, he is responsible for most of the gay rep on Hallmark) with a male LI in the ensemble movie Keller Christmas Vacation. We also got a lesbian married couple as our full leads for our final movie of the year, The Christmas Baby. They refuse to actually use the word gay or lesbian in the movie, but they do gesture to the fact that a lesbian couple faces unique experiences (there's talk about how "couples like us don't normally have a surprise baby"). It's baby steps, but we're still going forward.
Dear Jenny, please follow your heart and put the video updates in the description box. We will adapt, just like Evergreen will.
Thanks for another video and here's to another year of patreon! Happy Holidays! Feel free to put the updates wherever you want them, I'm just happy to get an update!
As this went on, I kept thinking "maybe I'll watch those for a laugh" and then thinking "but they're not actually funny; it's the commentary". So I guess I'm suggesting that you need a Mystery Science Theater style collab series with Hallmark.
As someone who recently watched the entire backlog, I didn't mind skipping the video updates. That said, I'm on board with leaving the updates out of the videos themselves. It would make them feel more finished.
Burnaby village mentioned! 🗣️ A staple for field trips in the lower mainland lol. I don’t know if it made an appearance in the movies (since i will never watch them) but they also have a beautiful old indoor carousel there. Which could have had some great plot points. Maybe it malfunctions and two of the love interests get stuck on it? Maybe that tinker-er love interest would have to fix the carousel before the annual Christmas merry-go-ride? Maybe instead of the magic generic snow globe, they dress up one of the horses as a reindeer and IT grants wishes when you ride it. Endless possibilities.
One of the couple could think the other has left Evergreen and is never coming back, then on Christmas they go to the carousel (they said in a previous scene that they had cherished memories of it and wish to see it restored). Suddenly it lights up and turns to reveal the love interest standing on it in a coat and scarf with an "aw shucks it's me" type expression
In response to your plea at the end, I say: do whatever you want. I like your content, and I’m planning to watch no matter how you present it (for the love of god, please continue to stay “low budget,” I can’t take the over edited YouTubers). Usually, if there’s a seasonal topic from a previous year, I either click out before your updates at the end or reminisce about when that video came out. As for Hallmark content: yeah, Finding Mr. Christmas is not the gold mine you’d expect and is frankly kind of boring? The most baffling thing is all of these hot men going “I’ve never acted before in my life” on a show where the prize is A JOB ACTING. Another Hallmark Christmas movie series you might consider is A Godwink Christmas, which I find boring, but frequently have insane premises. There’s also the Cherry Tree Lane movies, the Christmas House (with a canonical gay couple!), and the 3 Wise Men and a Baby movies, which are sequels but have a ton of meat tbh. I just feel so lucky to hear your thoughts on these terrible boring movies!
Jenny, have you considered maybe making the "what I've been working on" section a small, separate video? Maybe it could be for the $5 and up tier and count as the "video previews" reward for that tier. IDK anything about video production so I don't know how much more work it would be, but maybe small videos with brief clips of things you worked on for the past month would allow you to keep doing those video updates without having to attach them to rambles. Anyways, awesome ramble as always, I hope you feel better!
I consider video previews to be spoilers instead of rewards. I wish she would just stop doing them. Uploading YouTube videos to Patreon simultaneously is enough.
Merry Christmas and thank you for a whole year of entertainment!
Forget showing gay couples, apparently Hallmark doesn't even allow mixed-race relationships
merry christmas and happy holidays everyone!
Absolutly go ahead and put the update elswhere. Happy holidays, best wishes for 2026 and also hope you won't get sick!
Make a separate post! That way it doesn’t get lost! But yeah I definitely hear you. Weird time capsule tone shift.
Agreed. Not sure how painful it is on Patreon to release a 72-minute video and a 2-minute video nearly simultaneously, but that would solve the problem of having a 74-minute video with a tone shift.
Yippeee! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Jenny!
have some RESPECT, that christmas tree is the train conductor
controversially i think rambles about a specific movie/series are more fun when jenny mostly describes them rather than through clips. just comes off more casual (which feels more suited to ramble format), and the descriptions are funny. that's why i really like the rambles about the lifetime movies and the tinkerbell movies
same, her descriptions are really entertaining and I feel like I’m getting more of her opinion/viewpoint
Heyyy Rodney Reindeer in the background there
Love that guy. Still have my tiny ornament-sized one from the 80s
hooray new jenny video for christmas!
Nah, Hallmark movies do have gay characters in couples still, it's just that one of them is always Jonathan Bennett.
Jonathan Bennett is carrying Hallmark's gay representation like Atlas. I appreciate him for fighting the good fight.
The clips that you showed immediately made me call to mind a youTube video I watched lately "Netflix Lighting and the Death of Cinematography" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Nv7mxoIGY I imagine by the way that Evergreen inhabits the same universe and is the next city over from the one in the TV Series The Good Witch.
jenny this is unrelated to the video but i just want to tell you that i have a Galvantula in my pokemon sword file that i named 'Aragog' in honor of your boy
Just as a note on the veterinary side of things: a lot of small towns just have a single-vet practice and that vet handles both large and small animals, so that's not too outlandish to me. Haven't seen the first movie, so I could be wrong, but when you mentioned that her former lover was in DC, my assumption was that she applied for the job to be close to him, not that the DC practice head hunted her. In 2018 in the US we were starting to feel the strain of the vet shortage, so it tracks as to why she may have gotten the gig (plus running a single-vet practice, she probably has a lot more cases under her belt than most other applicants her age, which could be attractive to the DC practice). Shame on her for not lining up a replacement for her town, though (haven't finished your summary, she might have lol)
Cant wait for the hallmark movie Christmas in Evermore, where a lady from the city (perhaps a youtuber) meets the owner of a failing theme park
Omg I'm obsessed with the Blinky plush!!!! And Charjabug with the bow 😍 Merry Christmas and happy holidays!!!!
In terms of christmas movies being A Series i feel like I see that with Netflix Christmas movies like A Christmas Prince (it of the deep themes of facade) and The Princess Switch, which is part of the Vanessa Hudgens Christmas Universe, or the VHCU
Merry Christmas!! I think it’s totally reasonable to leave updates out of rambles and move them the text description, I agree they kinda change the vibe and can de-evergreen videos but I don’t feel super strongly about it
Happy holidays Jenny and everyone! Hope you have a good one🪻🍄 Recovering from food poisoning so I needed this❤️🩹
also you're not wrong to think of us as dogs
I wouldn't mind receiving updates through the text that accompanies videos. I'm of the same mind that updates ruin the "timelessness" of videos. That said, I did skip straight through to hear the update because I was curious.
Same lmao
Merry Christmas diva!!
Yay happy holidays!! Jenny, I'm not sure if you read the comments here these days but any chance of making old videos available as a youtube mirror here for patrons? Like the Hallmark creepy cocktails video for example- it's not available at my patreon level for some reason. Thank you for the Christmas gift of the early ramble 🙏
That was a main channel vid, I send it to my friends who are Jennycurious but not ready for a 3-4 hour video about a theme park.
yayyy right when i’m making christmas cookies!!!
happy holidays everybody!! ♥️
Tier ranking fish please babe
ofherbsandaltars and jenny video on the same day this is my christmas present
