Brinens and Things

(somewhat related to this thread:)

I think I may have just figured out why I hate “The Little Drummer Boy”. (I mean, more than most Christmas songs.)

My mom’s been rewatching The West Wing lately. I was mostly drowning it out on my headphones, as there’s rather a lot of awkwardness in The West Wing for my liking, but when they started playing “The Little Drummer Boy” I didn’t think I could safely drown it out. So, I ended up watching the final bit, and I was like ‘…hang on, wait a minute’.

I asked Mom when she first started watching The West Wing.

“I think I saw this episode when it originally aired.”

The episode was set in the then-present day of Christmas 1999. I was six years old the first time I saw this episode, with several re-runs over the next few years. Tiny Brin at her most relevantly psychologically vulnerable, hearing “The Little Drummer Boy” played over a funeral. Hello, Pavlov, my old friend.

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