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Before we get to this month's videos, two observations about Christmas commercials that are currently running.

The new Lexus ad where the guy remembers being a kid and getting a new Atari for Christmas and how that used to be his best gift ever until his wife said to hell with the economy I'm going to buy my husband a ridiculously audacious gift: is that Roger from Swingtown?

Second, the candle commercial where the woman buys a candle that smells like gingerbread men and then tries to trick her friends into thinking that it's not the candle but it's the gingerbread men that she just cooked even though she bought them at the store: why does she leave the candle approximately one inch from the gingerbread men? Does she think her friends wouldn't notice it?

Anyway, on to the classics...

This is a really clever idea.

Betamaxmas takes a bunch of Christmas specials and episodes of TV shows that you can find on YouTube and puts them on one site, inside an old-fashioned television. You can even change the channels and adjust the volume on an old remote control.

Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley on Lost, will be in New York City's Times Square next Monday to celebrate the release of the Lost action figures. The dolls are of six characters during season one of Lost: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Locke, Charlie and Shannon.

We've shown you sneak peeks of several of the action figures here (and there are more pictures here). What we didn't realize is that the action figures also have voice chips that will broadcast quotes from season one episodes.

In case you're in NYC and you want to meet Hurley, you have to get a ticket here. He'll be signing boxed sets at the Times Square Toys 'R' Us from 4p-7p on Monday, Nov. 6.