Year of Release: 2000
Directed by: Ryan DiGiorgi
                      Logan Lee
Writing Credits: Logan Lee (improvisations)
                            Ryan DiGiorgi (concept)
Genre: Comedy / Holiday
Tagline: A Very Logan Christmas
Description: Sure, Christmas time is fun, but it comes with its share of complications and headaches.  Dr. Logan travels the halls of Brentwood High and asks the students and faculty what's been troubling them this December.  Then he utilizes his "Doctor of Christmas" know-how to banish their yuletide woes.
Background: Ryan was asked to produce a five to seven minute holiday project for Channel 3 and this is what he and Logan came up with.  Letting Logan take point while he filmed, the two produced a quite memorable Christmas classic.
Runtime: 7 minutes

Cast

Logan Lee	....	Dr. Logan
Jean Hoogewind	....	Herself
Steven "O.J." Davidson	....	Himself
Kimberly Bayliss	....	Herself
Jason Guthrie	....	Larry
Wesley Adams	....	Himself
Ashley DeVault	....	Herself
Kim Clark	....	Herself
Mandy Bicsak	....	Herself

Edited by: Ryan DiGiorgi

Camera: Ryan DiGiorgi

MUSIC
FATHER CHRISTMAS
Written by Ray Davies
Performed by The Kinks
Courtesy of Velvel Records

Trivia
• Dr. Logan says he’s the Dr. Logan you’ll remember from Blender Agenda, yet he lacks the Dr. Logan costume. Is he the REAL Dr. Logan? We may never know.
• Logan almost slipped in a patch of ice during the intro. You can see him glance down to avoid it before crossing to the table.
• Originally the shots of Dr. Logan rocking out to the Kinks’ “Father Christmas” (which were entirely improvised and accomplished with one take) were going to be interspersed throughout the film, but Ryan eventually decided to put it all in one big intermission chunk.
• During the intro, you can’t quite see what Dr. Logan bumps into. It’s a plastic trash can.
• Ryan and Logan wandered around Brentwood High after hours for quite some time trying to come up with an idea for a Christmas project. Finally they decided on the interview format and Holiday Problems! was born.
• The music faintly heard in the background of the interview with Mrs. Hoogewind was caused by the camera accidentally picking up a radio station. The problem was corrected for the other interviews.
• Hoogewind’s exam schedule can be seen on her blackboard. Also visible is a chalk drawing of a smiley face with the word “funny”. Unrelated to the film, but appropriate.
• Mrs. Hoogewind printed this picture from Holiday Problems! and hung it on her classroom wall. It remains there today.
• The scene of Dr. Logan mocking Ashley DeVault while she recounts her problems is a nod to a bit Chevy Chase and Jane Curtain did on “Saturday Night Live”. The bit where Dr. Logan attempts to check his watch but realizes he doesn’t have one also appears in Dr. Logan’s Day Out. Since we get asked frequently, Ashley was indeed aware she was being ridiculed. We asked her to ramble on as long as she could.
• Though Logan knew the questions he would be asked a few minutes ahead of time, none of the interviews were rehearsed except the one with Mr. Adams to produce a good ending.
• The Florida segment took the longest. Several version exist as outtakes. Most of them ended with something inappropriate for television, necessitating re-shoots.
• Although it was filmed for use on government access TV, it never aired due to one joke being deemed inappropriate by Brentwood High School teacher Mark Madison. When Larry asks Dr. Logan to help him with his money troubles, Dr. Logan searches his pockets and is only able to produce an empty plastic bag. This was perceived to be a drug reference, when in fact, it was only intended to demonstrate how inept and unhelpful Dr. Logan is. Ironically, Holiday Problems! was nominated for Best Short Feature and Most Entertaining at the Second Annual Brentwood High School Night at the Oscars. Unfortunately some other crap won.
• The pages of the master break-out plan that Dr. Logan shows to Mr. Adams were actually the Lazy Bear bios that the Lazy Bear Players filled out for use on this site. Check them out here.
• Logan and Ryan consider Mr. Adams’ wacky run-off at the end of the film to be the funniest run-off ever.
• Larry used a pseudonym for fear of embarrassment. His real name can be seen in the cast list on this page.
• Ms. Clark remarks that her holiday problem is finding a turkey large enough to feed Coach Norris, a fellow BHS teacher. Logan and Ryan tracked Norris down to get a response, but before they could even explain the concept, he quite curtly declined saying he doesn’t do interviews.
• The word help is written backwards on the window behind Dr. Logan during the closing.
• Logan cracks up at the very end because he thought Ryan would never use that take. Ryan liked it and left it in.
• Holiday Problems! was responsible for getting David Chilton, who portrayed David in Dr. Love Strikes Out , to become a Kinks fan. He liked “Father Christmas”, the Kinks song used over the opening and closing credits.