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VIDEO: Sandra Lee’s Drunk Christmas Tree
Published on: December 23, 2009 – 12:22 am by Jillian Madison 
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By popular request, here’s a ghost from Christmas past: Sandra Lee’s infamous cocktail tree! She boasts, “Of all the trees I have ever created, this is my very favorite one.” You don’t say, Sandra. You don’t say.
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When I first saw this, I involuntarily laughed out loud. I couldn’t help myself–it’s just so funny that this woman thinks this tree is actually professional and festive but it’s actually ridiculous and tacky! And the Nutcracker with “his own frosty drink” was just over the top–are you sure she’s not parodying herself? She can’t be serious–can she?
I love a drink just as much as the next gal… but come on. Celebrating how much you drink is just… sad. Me thinks she needs some professional help.
Absurd!
What in the hell is this nut thinking?
A cocktail tree. With a nutcracker holding a “frosty cocktail” on top. Well, I don’t know about you, but I certainly can’t think of a better way to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. I wonder if there is a little police car ornament on there somewhere with a little policeman with a handful of money, to represent all the times that Sandy Jean the Vodka Queen was NOT picked up for drunk driving as she pulled out of her driveway. Drink up, Sandy. It’s all over for you. The spirits of tackiness have invaded your brain and are holding you captive.
I think other “spirits” have invaded her brain…
sooooo, I guess it’s safe to say that if she’s taking things THAT far, then she’s pretty much an alcoholic. And if she is such, and FN keeps paying her to do goofy shit like this, then that would make them enablers. Therefore, FN is part of the problem. You’d think w/ all the money that she’s raking in for them, they’d at least offer to buy her a neck reduction.
Are you CM Punk in disguise?
Just watched it again and I have a different spin on it now. Perhaps this is Aunt Sandy’s way of trying to stay sober, since she said that she took “eeeeverything” off the bar and hung all the glass upside down on the tree. Think about it: if the glasses are all hanging upside down on the tree, she can’t fill them with vodka. Hmmm…nah. Come to think of it, she could just drink it straight from the bottle, which is something that she has probably been doing for a long time.
Five will get you ten she still had an anklet flask as backup.
There are still glasses full of drinks sitting on the table, so she lied! LOL
I remember thinking when this episode first aired that it was the biggest WTF? moment in the history of the Food Network. Nothing that’s happened in the ensuing years has changed this opinion.
Google “functional drunk” and you get Aunt (hic) Sandy… truly, the only thing that can explain this hideous specimen…
and the tree too…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
This tree was ‘created’(cough)just so Aunt(hic)(burfpff)Sandy could drink directly from the bottle.
Can you please mention Aunt Sandy just ONCE without writing (hic)(burfpff) — I’m so sick of seeing it.
Uh…..NO.
You have one joke, and I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I’m tired of seeing it. Consider it constructive criticism. Do the world a favor and add a few new jokes to your repertoire.
Uh…perhaps you should just move along. Have a nice day.
Lady, I’m not moving anywhere. I’m not sure who you think you are but you can’t dismiss everyone who offers you constructive criticism. That is pathetic. I’m not talking about this anymore in the comments section, it’s rude. Take my advice, or leave it. The end.
What’s pathetic is that you start a thread, then you don’t want to talk about it anymore because it’s rude. Time for your prozac…
Incorrect. What’s rude is to retort back and forth about it in a comments section for 20 minutes. I made my point. You’ve done nothing but try to belittle me because I dared call you out on your repetitiveness. And if you’d like to finish this conversation head to the message forums as Jill requested we do so long ago. Or let me guess, you have no respect for her or this website either? Stop being such a stupid old bitch and get an ounce of class.
Dave, for heavens sake you are rude and obnoxious. You are belittling yourself by your immature behavior. Get over yourself.
Man, that was UNCALLED for! Having a bad day????
Something tells me this is a _normal_ day for dave…. Screw off (hic) Dave and take your failure of anger management classes with you….
(hic)
Dave, be afraid-very afraid. No one attacks our beloved Byrdie without retaliation. In fact don’t try attacking Jillian or any of the regulars here or we will find you!!!
I’m a regular here and I’m sick of seeing it too. I’m just saying. Guys, it’s not funny or necessary to write it every single time. It’s grating.
I didn’t see Dave being rude or condescending until you all came at him like a bunch of cranky people on a witch hunt.
Lighten up and have fun.
Repetitious tag lines are a legitimate form of humor. There does come a point when they become tedious and boring. “Wha’ch’you talkin’ ’bout, Willis,” for example. (Hic)(Burp) hasn’t lived its full life yet, however, I think it IS in it’s senior years.
Byrdie and I have crossed swords before, but has always been done with respect and an air of “let’s agree to disagree.”
I hope this site will continue to allow frank, open, honest and dissenting opinions about both the posts AND the comments therein contained. By “this site,” I mean the commentators, and by “allow,” I mean without schoolyard gang histrionics. JMHO
I agree Lana, and calling someone a “stupid old bitch” is not acceptable IMHO.
It’s obvious that Sandra Lee’s a lush, but even more disgusting is that FN promotes it.
I have memories of drunken frat boys decorating their house tree with beer cans and church keys.
Sandy’s original inspiration, no doubt.
Go Wisconsin !
Well, her having lived in Wisconsin definitely explains her preoccupation with booze.
I’ve lived in Wisconsin my entire life, but sometimes, this drinking thing is so embarrassing…
I think it’s funny the only place you can see this epi is on youtube and it’s this quality. I guess Foodnetwork started doing damage control to hide Aunt(hic)Sandy’s obvious problem.
It WAS on again this year. Along with all the other horrific holiday disaster shows. Only the Kwanzaa Cake episode was omitted this year. I wonder why…………
That nutcracker is priceless.
Oh my God, what is wrong with this woman?!?!
The first step is admitting that you have a problem….
Wow I thought I had seen it all. I stay away from Semi-Ho episodes so this is the first time I’ve seen this tree. First of all who would be crazy enough to go out and buy a bunch of glasses to decorate a tree with (I don’t know about you all but I don’t have that many glasses in my house), and second of all how many are you going to drop and break trying to hang them up?
“Daddy Issues,” table for one!
I love how it cuts out when she mentions the table scape haha, Almost as if we can’t stand it anymore. Well better safe then sorry!
Do you think this is the tree they hang up at AA meetings across the country? Seinfeld gave us Festivus and Aunt Sandy gave us the Cocktail Tree!
This is the perfect tree if you have a family of bar fly’s!
“martini glasses, of course…”
Well, we all know what her favorite drink is. xD
When you hang your barware on a tree, you know you’ve finally run out of ideas for Christmas decorating. My kids saw this episode and my 17-year-old son said, “How much of a drunk do you have to be to put your booze glasses on a Christmas tree?” Maybe next year she can decorate with bottles of aigstrack and gaily painted and glittered tubs of Cool Whip. Martha Stewart, eat your heart out!
Geez, that tree is just an accident waiting to become a disaster. Even if there are no small children or animals around all it would take is a clumsy drunk to tip that tree over onto the “burning candles”…DUH! “A little fire scarcrow”. Need to cut and paste the two “Guiness Guys” standing around saying “BRILLIANT”. Merry Christmas 2 all.
that is quite possibly the most disturbing thing she has ever done.
I was gonna say that clearly she has no animals in the house to worry about- and no little kids. Geez, just a tad obsessed about the cocktails.
Jillian, thanks for putting this up. One of my favorite Semi-Ho moments, it never gets old.
OH MY GOD
Sandra Lee and me were huge partiers in the 80s. She was always claiming she invented vodka.
oh my god, i love it! i really thought that nothing could top the kwanzaa cake, but aunt sandy never lets me down.
Oh wow – I had never watched that – incredible. Wow.
Dave sounds like a tool