On The Golden Girlsfriendship and laughs were a must as Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia navigated their "golden years" living together in balmy Miami, Florida. For seven seasons the series explored their love lives, their family histories, and their bond as roommates. Often themes of love, family, and the special magic of friendship were put to the test during the holiday episodes, when Christmas wouldn't always go according to plan.

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Each of the main characters had their own way of relating to the festive season; Dorothy liked to complain about its superficiality, Rose liked to help the less fortunate, Blanche liked to shop, and Sophia liked to reflect on Christmas's past. As long as they had each other, it didn't matter how they chose to celebrate, but it's still fun to imagine which Christmas movie each character would get the cheesecake out for.

Dorothy: Scrooged

Bill Murray in Scrooged (1989)

It's fitting that Dorothy Zbornak, fed up with the commercialization of Christmas, would enjoy an anti-Christmas movie where the main character (Bill Murray, as a big time ad executive) would be forced to understand the true meaning of the holiday by being shamed by three seasonal spirits.

Dorothy's abrasive attitude also isn't unlike the personality of A Christmas Carol's Ebenezer Scrooge, from which the '80s comedy draws its inspiration, and often had her frigid heart moved by the hokey -but nevertheless charming- sentimentality of her roommates.

Blanche: Meet Me In St. Louis

Esther leans against a wall in Meet Me in St Louis

While there are plenty of Hallmark films that feature a contemporary love of the South, Blanche Devereaux would want to watch a classic, sprawling romantic tale set in the Yuletide season. She wouldn't even care that it's set in a Yankee city like St. Louis as long as it had the fabulous Judy Garland!

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The film, which focuses on Garland as one of three sisters who mature in the shadow of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, might as well have been Blanche and her sisters at Big Daddy's estate. The young women's search for true love by way of song (including the emotional "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"), dance, and gorgeous period costumes would set her debutante heart aflutter.

Rose: White Christmas

The main couples in White Christmas

Given her propensity for stories set in the comfort of quaint small towns, it's no surprise that Rose would love a Christmas classic like White Christmasstarring the sonorous Bing Crosby, the energetic Danny Kaye, and the beautiful chanteuse Rosemary Clooney.

Set at a country inn in need of revenue, a jolly troop of singers pledge themselves to helping it return to its former glory. Their perseverance is as admirable as Rose's, who often has to work to keep the spirits of her household up. Despite much emotional turmoil, from heartache to belly laughs, the quartet eventually achieve a Yuletide miracle as good as one of Rose's St. Olaf yarns.

Sophia: The Godfather

The Godfather Marlon Brando

Like Die Hard, The Godfather isn't often thought of as a Christmas movie, but the historical epic that spans generations of one Italian mobster family has been gaining in popularity recently as a traditional holiday viewing requirement.

Picture it, New York City, 1940 and the Corleones are poised to become one of the biggest crime families in the East Coast. Like Sophia, they hailed from Sicily, and fought their way to the New World to earn a piece of its prosperity any way they could. The film may not center on the holidays, but its emphasis on family bonds and family fights make it perfect for Dorothy's feisty Sicilian mother Sophia.

Stan: It's A Wonderful Life

George with his family in It's a Wonderful Life

Dorothy's goofy husband Stan constantly tried to get back into her good graces, but after leaving Dorothy for a younger woman early on in their marriage, she closed her mind off to any reconciliation. Stan perpetually dwelled in a state of "might have been" and "what if" about the life he could have had with Dorothy before he threw it all away, making It's A Wonderful Life the perfect holiday film for him.

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It focuses entirely on George Bailey, a man who couldn't see how fortunate he was in his life until an Angel showed him what others' lives would be like if he never existed. The realization that he impacted so many people made him not only value the present, but showed him all the things he could look forward to in the future.

Miles: A Christmas Carol

a christmas carol 1951

Rose's stalwart beau Miles Webber was known for two things on the series; reminding everyone he's a college professor, and being a miser when it came to money. Given these characteristics, no doubt he'd be cuddling up to A Christmas Carol, which offers a historical setting for the astute academic and a life lesson for the spendthrift.

Rose tried to get through to Miles about his habits, but evidently she didn't have the impact of the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. They even ended up breaking up over their different perspective about money at one point, before eventually reconciling with a happy ending worthy of the Dickens' classic.

Salvadore: I'll Be Home For Christmas

Jonathan Taylor Thomas in I'll Be Home for Christmas

Salvadore was the love of Sophia's life, and throughout the series she mentions him as one of the best things that ever happened to her. Every roommate but Dorothy lost their husbands, and Sophia's loss might have been the most far removed in years but it was definitely still just as close in her heart.

Salvadore often appeared in flashback sequences to Sophia, making the perfect movie for him the '90s Christmas classic I'll Be Home For Christmas, about a young college student who does absolutely everything possible to get back to his loved ones for the holidays.

Gloria: Fred Claus

Vince Vaughn and Santa in Fred Claus

Gloria Petrillo, Sophia's sister with whom she had a tempestuous relationship, always seemed to bring out the worst in her whenever the two were together. Unfortunately, Gloria's presence stirred up old grudges, and the animosity between the two sisters often caused them not to speak for years at a time.

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Sibling rivalry and vengeance is the basis for Fred Claus, a film about upstanding Nicholas Claus and his disappointing brother Fred who, after becoming a petty criminal comes to the North Pole to work off his bail debt making toys. The arguments and antics between Fred and St. Nick make Gloria and Sophia look jolly.

Michael: Eight Crazy Nights

A red-haired lady talking to two people in 8 Crazy Nights

Dorothy's saxophone-playing, jazz musician son showed up sporadically throughout the series, usually darkening his mother's doorstep whenever he wants a place to stay or some extra money. She wishes he'd get his life together so that she doesn't have to close her heart off to him.

The Adam Sandler animated Christmas movie Eight Crazy Nights also follows a man who had big aspirations in life but came back to his home town with very little to show for it. Eventually, the community rallied around him and helped him become a better person, just like Dorothy did with Michael.

Rebecca: Just Friends

Just Friends starring Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart

Blanche's daughter Rebecca didn't always see eye to eye with her mother, and the two proud women often went many episodes without speaking. First, because of Rebecca's weight problem, then because of her decision to have a baby through IVF.

Rebecca's journey mirrors the Christmas comedy Just Friends, where an overweight man (Ryan Reynolds) returns home for the holidays after losing a great deal of weight, and realizes that people treat him differently. Blanche had to learn to love Rebecca for who she was, extra weight and all, and realize the pain her superficiality caused her daughter.

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