A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.