I regret that, in a post which muses on Marcus Aurelius and Ray Bradbury, I have only the below to contribute, but there it is:

Wretchard wrote: “Unfortunately we don’t a movie called It’s a Horrible Life … ”

Actually there is a good riff on the movie from the sleazy old TV series, ‘Married With Children”: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marriedwith_children_its_a_bundyful_life/

“In this hilarious spoof of the classic film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Al Bundy of television’s “Married with Children” winds up, on Christmas Eve, wishing he had never been born. But his guardian angel, played by comedian Sam Kinison, makes him change his mind after showing him how happy everybody in Al’s family would be without him. This holiday edition of “Married with Children” features the entire regular cast from the series”.