Syfy Press Tour: Christmas Specials - "Eureka," "Haven," & "Warehouse 13"

By Jamie Ruby

Christmas SpecialsLast Christmas Syfy brought us two Christmas specials. This year three scripted shows will be airing special episodes in December for the holiday season, during the Countdown to Christmas week. The three standalone episodes will air December 6th, starting at 8pm.

A member of the casts of each of the series, including Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter on Eureka), Emily Rose (Audrey Parker on Haven), and Eddie McClintock (Pete Lattimer on Warehouse 13), attended the Syfy Digital Press Tour in Orland, Florida last month. The three talked to the press about the special episodes.

Colin Ferguson, Emily Rose, & Eddie McClintockAccording to Ferguson, the episode of Eureka is animated in a variety of styles. "We pulled up the mics in Cafe Diem, and we all sat down for three or four hours and just sort of barked out all of the dialogue. It was great. It was such a weird concept to do something with multiple animation styles in it...There's an anime style that comes in, and we do [styles of] Looney Tunes and Simpsons and South Park. There's all sorts of styles all the way through it. It's really fun, [but] so much work for everyone else."

Ferguson added that there will be quite a few guest stars in the episode, new and returning, including Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica), and returning guest stars Chris Parnell, and Matt Frewer who returns as Taggart.

McClintock told us that this year the special would be more like a regular episode of Warehouse 13. "Although I liked last year's episode, it seemed a little fluffier than this year's, certainly. This year's episode is an actual Warehouse 13 episode. It's got a lot of great twists and turns. And Pete, when he falls in the Aisle of Noel there...he comes into contact with an artifact that makes him so that he had never been born. What would have happened to the warehouse had he never been born?"

Rose talked about filming the Christmas episode of Haven in July, which was written by Brian Milliken and directed by Shawn Piller. "We should have shot our Christmas episode first because we film up in Nova Scotia, and it's freezing. It feels like Christmas half the time when we are there anyway. But we actually did this as our last episode. It takes place sort of out of sequence even though it's going to be obviously after the finale has aired...Chester was the same way. Chester, Nova Scotia, was big. I mean, we had the entire town decorated in Christmas decorations, which really aided the fact that Audrey's, you know, "What on earth is going on?" It just looked so out of place, but, you know, Chester just enjoys anything that we do there, and they were really supportive. And it was really fun to actually see what that town would look like all decorated. And it was a good first for Haven to have this sort of warm, fuzzy, wonderful, little Christmas episode."

She also said that Eric Balfour had to wear a Santa suit the whole time, which we saw him in in the clip we were shown before the panel. The three talked about what they were thinking during the clip, which is when McClintock started joking about his "post-traumatic hair disorder."

Rose also answered the question I asked her, which is how she felt about Audrey and Nathan finally getting together on Haven. "It relieves some stress in the workplace. You know, it's just always fun. Their relationship is an interesting partnership that exists, you know, in this strange little world, and it will be interesting to see if we get a chance to see where that goes. I mean, it's always fun. I think the best part for me is just seeing the fans react. It's like we hold out for so long, and then, when it happens, it's such a huge deal. One of my favorite scenes from the season -- I think it actually was in the finale, which was after the kiss and everything -- is we are literally working together in really close proximity, and it's just really awkward being that close to each other. And just, for me, what that provides us, the subtext that can be going on when we are saying all of these other factual things, the fact that that can be, you know, the underlying current, to me, it's just always fun to play as an actor. So I enjoy it because it gives us a lot to do, but I don't really know what the future holds for them, if they get one, because, to me, the play is that tension of on again, off again, you know, what that creates. So it's a lot of fun."

To read the full interview, you can read the transcript below. Also stay tuned for more exclusive photos and interviews with the casts of Eureka, Haven, and Warehouse 13, as well as my reviews for the upcoming Christmas specials.

Syfy Digital Press Tour
Christmas Specials – Eureka, Haven, and Warehouse 13
Colin Ferguson, Emily Rose, and Eddie McClintock

October 10, 2011 11:30 AM ET

MARK STERN: The next one up, this is a fun one as well as the other ones. We are doing a panel this year about the holiday episodes. This is something new we tried last year, which really worked out well for us. We are very excited about them, and we did a new batch. I think you guys got DVDs in your bags. You saw them, and you saw some real innovations and really amazing stuff these guys did, particularly Eureka with their animated episodes. So I wanted to bring them up here, and then we've got some clips from each of them that we wanted to show you, but let's bring up our cast. Oh, wait. I have some news, too. I really do have some news. Hold on. Ready?

(Telephone app plays as follows: "Wow.")

That's my news. They are going to be airing Tuesday, December 6th, from 8:00 to 11:00. So right after is going to be our Countdown to Christmas week. We have Neverland on Sunday and Monday and then our holiday episodes in a row, Eureka, then Warehouse 13, and then Haven. Okay. So let's bring up our cast now. So please welcome Colin Ferguson, Emily Rose, and Eddie McClintock.

(Applause.)

Colin FergusonCOLIN FERGUSON: Good morning.

EMILY ROSE: Good morning.

MARK STERN: You got two bottles?

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.

EMILY ROSE: Oh, yeah, two bottles.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: How are you doing, Mark?

MARK STERN: Very good.

EMILY ROSE: Are we just going to hold them like this?

MARK STERN: You've got another water.

EMILY ROSE: Do you want two more?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: They always said I had a drinking problem.

COLIN FERGUSON: I'll carry them for you.

EMILY ROSE: Oh, thank you.

COLIN FERGUSON: I'll carry them for you.

EMILY ROSE: Good guys. Good guys.

COLIN FERGUSON: Good morning.

EMILY ROSE: Good morning.

MARK STERN: Let's watch some clips.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Oh, yeah.

MARK STERN: Let's watch some clips.

(Clip shown.)

COLIN FERGUSON: I'm intrigued. I'm in. What happens? What happens?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: I know. Right.

MARK STERN: So obviously some very different episodes there, I guess. So, Colin, what was that like to do an animated episode like that?

COLIN FERGUSON: We did most of it in a day. It was amazing. It was great. We pulled up the mics in Cafe Diem, and we all sat down for three or four hours and just sort of barked out all of the dialogue. It was great. It was such a weird concept to do something with multiple animation styles in it. I didn't -- and I didn't think it was going to work. I don't think anything is going to work, right? I'm constantly a pessimist. But the ranken (ph) and vast stuff there is so great. Like, it rang -- did you guys like that, that style? Yeah? I liked it. I thought it was -- I thought it was great. And there's an anime style that comes in, and we do Looney Tunes and Simpsons and South Park. There's all sorts of styles all the way through it. It's really fun, so much work for everyone else.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: They looked really luxurious.

COLIN FERGUSON: Didn't they?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: That Shanaynay thing going on.

MARK STERN: And you have some guest-star voices as well.

COLIN FERGUSON: Oh, that's right. We had -- Jim Parsons came in. We had -- Eddie Olmos came in. We had -- who else came in? Taggert obviously came in, Urek (ph). Anyone else on that one?

MARK STERN: Did you get to work with them, or were you just all --

COLIN FERGUSON: No. Eddie did his out -- I think out of New York or L.A., and Parsons did his out of New York. And then Chris Parnell came to -- he did his out of L.A. and then came for a day on set.

MARK STERN: Yeah.

COLIN FERGUSON: So we did have some stuff. We were shooting this one scene. It was 4:00 in the morning in Chilliwack. We had no time to shoot it because we had a hard-out on the street. I think they had seven giant crates of ice that they were breaking down because we were bringing, like, a dog sled through the street and town in July. So that felt Christmasy and weird because the cast and the crew and everybody break down the ice with, like, axes because we had no time. Everyone had to sort of chip in to get it done. So that was really entertaining. And the town really enjoyed seeing that. The town of Cilliwack was like, "What do you people do for a living?" you know, as we were breaking down ice.

MARK STERN: (Unintelligible) ice where you were shooting in the street?

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah, yeah, so that we could shoot a dog-sled scene in July, as you do.

MARK STERN: That's great.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.

MARK STERN: And, Eddie, so obviously, this year, it looks like Warehouse is doing a little bit of a -- somewhat of a plight (ph). Did you channel your, like, inner Jimmy Stewart for that, or how did that work?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: I was almost going to do a Jimmy Stewart, but it's not good enough to do in front of all of you knowledgeable people. So, you know, although I liked last year's episode, it seemed a little fluffier than this year's, certainly. This year's episode is a -- it's an actual Warehouse 13 episode. It's got all of the -- it's got a lot of great twists and turns. And, yeah, Pete, when he falls in the Aisle of Noel there, an artifact -- he comes into contact with an artifact that makes him so that he had never been born. What would have happened to the warehouse had he never been born? And there's some really great stuff. Jack Kenny, our executive producer, he directed the episode. And he came to me, like, two weeks before, and he just said, "Look, I'm directing this episode. You are in every scene. There's a lot of talk" -- because most of the time I just get in there and act like an idiot, and, you know, then I get to walk. I'm done. But this time I actually had to act and do some, like, pages of dialogue. So he said, "Be prepared." And I was really pleased with the way it turned out. We got to see it a couple weeks ago at Jack's house. I think you guys are going to like it.

MARK STERN: And, Emily, so this was the first holiday -- first of all, thank you for being here, Emily, from the Middle East, from the country of Jordan.

Emily RoseEMILY ROSE: From Jordan, yes.

MARK STERN: It's probably, like -- God only knows what time it is for you.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. I have no clue.

MARK STERN: But what was that like? Was it good to kind of do a completely different episode that kind of stepped out of the flow? Was it weird to shoot a Christmas episode in July? And, obviously, they made it work in the storyline, but --

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. We were all laughing. We were saying we should have shot our Christmas episode first because we film up in Nova Scotia, and it's freezing. It feels like Christmas half the time when we are there anyway. But we actually did this in -- as our last episode. It takes place sort of out of sequence even though it's going to be obviously after the finale has aired. It takes place somewhere, I think, in between 6 and 7 or 7 and 8, somewhere in between there. But Chester was the same way. Chester, Nova Scotia, was big. I mean, we had the entire town decorated in Christmas decorations, which really aided the fact that Audrey's, you know, "What on earth is going on?" It just looked so out of place, and -- but, you know, Chester just enjoys anything that we do there, and they were really supportive. And it was really fun to actually see what that town would look like all decorated. And it was a good first for Haven to have this sort of, you know, warm, fuy, wonderful, you know, little Christmas episode. It was really nice.

MARK STERN: Yeah. And Shawn Piller directed that, right?

EMILY ROSE: Shawn Piller actually directed it. He's one of our executive producers. And then just a really cool story is that it's written by Brian Milliken. And Brian Milliken actually started as an intern in our producer's office out of college, and he's been a writer's assistant for a really long time. And they handed over this episode to him and said, "Here. Go ahead and write your first episode." And so he came up, and it was like Christmas for him, getting to watch it, you know, all be made. And he did a fantastic job. And so that was his first, kind of, step into the writing world, and it's been really neat to see how it turned out.

MARK STERN: That's great. Yeah. It's been great to see Haven in its second season kind of take ownership of what it is as a series.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah, yeah.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah. That finale was amazing.

EMILY ROSE: Oh. Thank you.

COLIN FERGUSON: It was great. It was great. I watched it with her and Eric and Lucas.

EMILY ROSE: It was good to have you there.

COLIN FERGUSON: It was great. Yeah. We didn't get him up to the Warehouse 13. It was weird. Did you get invited to it? because I didn't get invited..

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Well, they asked if I wanted you to come, and I said no.

COLIN FERGUSON: (Inaudible.)

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Because I have to be, you know, the biggest one in the room.

(Laughter.)

COLIN FERGUSON: I could have catered. I could have catered.

EMILY ROSE: He catered at ours.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Really.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah, yeah. I saw him by the food table a lot.

COLIN FERGUSON: I was --

EMILY ROSE: You were there.

COLIN FERGUSON: I was eating.

EMILY ROSE: Frequently.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah, it's true.

MARK STERN: What a perfect cue to open it up to questions.

COLIN FERGUSON: I took half of it --

EMILY ROSE: You did.

COLIN FERGUSON: -- and put it away. I spilled all over my trunk.

MARK STERN: Good morning.

COLIN FERGUSON: Good morning.

QUESTION: A question for Colin and for Eddie. Considering the season finales of both of your shows, where do the Christmas episodes fit in the continuity?

COLIN FERGUSON: They are sort of free-floating episodes so that they can air, you know, year after year after year. I guess it's -- where does it fit in the continuity? Happy day in Eureka is I would say. You know, it's not supposed to be anywhere specific much like Emily's answer, I think.

Eddie McClintockEDDIE MCCLINTOCK: The same with ours. They are just standalone episodes that have nothing to do with any of the other episodes. Like, last year, our Christmas episode ran after Myka had left the warehouse. And everybody was like, "Great, Myka is back. Myka is back." But it was, again, like it is this year. They are just in and of themselves their own story.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah. Mid-Season 4 is what I would say because there are certain things that are obviously in our Christmas episode. You have Jenna and Kevin. So it -- yeah. So it's mid-Season 4 somewhere.

QUESTION: Thank you.

COLIN FERGUSON: You are welcome.

(Laughter.)

QUESTION: This is for Colin. Given the final season of Eureka is coming up --

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.

QUESTION: -- what could you tell us might be the real moment we should be looking for during the season from your perspective that everybody should really -- or everybody will really grasp on to?

COLIN FERGUSON: Wow. I don't think it was really built toward one specific moment, but obviously, you know, the end where we say goodbye was very poignant for us. You now, we had the benefit of knowing it was coming while we were shooting. So that's a huge gift to sort of be able to soak up those last three weeks with each other and put some heart into those final episodes, and it was -- the end was -- I'm not terribly emotional about stuff like that, but it was wonderfully moving, you know, saying goodbye, your last scen with someone who you have been working with for seven years, you know, and you are -- and in some of the plot lines, they are leaving. So you are actually saying goodbye, and you actually are saying goodbye because you don't know if you are going to have a scene with them. So that was really strangely -- it gets you in between takes. So, for us, that was a moment. We probably did it terribly. So there's probably other moments you are going to want to watch out, too.

But there is some really funny stuff, which -- we did an episode where we become one another, and that turned out fantastically. So look forward to that. And there's a lot of -- if we like to be remembered for anything, it's for being fun. So definitely the moments where you are laughing, remember those. Oh, how awkward.

SCIFI VISION: This question is for Emily. How do you feel now that Audrey and Nathan are finally getting together? because you were talking about that before it happened [about the possibility during a conference call].

EMILY ROSE: Are they getting together? That's such a good question.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: They're just "hooking up."

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah, exactly.

(Laughter.)

EMILY ROSE: It relieves some stress in the workplace. You know, it's just always fun. Their relationship is, you know, an interesting partnership that exists, you know, in this strange little world, and it will be interesting to see if we get a chance, you know, to see where that goes. I mean, it's always fun. I think the best part for me is just seeing the fans react. It's like we hold out for so long, and then, when it happens, it's such a huge deal, you know. It's, I think, one of the -- one of my favorite scenes from the season -- I think it actually was in the finale, which was after the kiss and everything -- is we are literally working together in really close proximity, and it's just really awkward being that close to each other. And just, for me, what that provides us, the subtext that can be going on when we are saying all of these other factual things, the fact that that can be, you know, the underlying current, to me, it's just always fun to play as an actor. So I enjoy it because it gives us a lot to do, but I don't really know, really, what, you know, the future holds for them, if they get one, because, to me, the play is that tension of on again, off again, you know, what that creates. So it's a lot of fun.

SCIFI VISION: All right. Thanks.

Colin Ferguson & Emily RoseQUESTION: Good morning, everybody. How are you doing?

COLIN FERGUSON: Good morning.

EMILY ROSE: Good.

QUESTION: What's it like when you do the Christmas episodes compared to doing the regular episodes? Is the tone different, like, on set? Is the feel different, or do you treat it just like another episode?

COLIN FERGUSON: It's hot.

EMILY ROSE: It's very hot.

COLIN FERGUSON: It's always in July. You always shoot in the middle of July, and you are wearing parkas and hats.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. Eric had to wear that whole Santa outfit the whole time.

COLIN FERGUSON: When you see in the clip, he's like, "Yeah, we are working hard to trick you."

EMILY ROSE: Totally.

MARK STERN: It's called "acting."

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Yes.

COLIN FERGUSON: No. It's nice. I mean, for us, it's really nice to shoot. It's -- by the end of the episode, you sort of feel festive, and everybody -- some good mood comes out. It's odd, but it does. It's a good thing. I mean, yours was dark, so what was -- or darker, you were saying.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Yeah. And the last two years, it's been our last episode.

COLIN FERGUSON: Oh.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: So we know that when we are done -- and I get to fly home from Toronto and see my family that I haven't gotten to really spend much time with for the last five or six months. So it's great. And I think that some of the holiday spirit just rubs off because with all of the, you know, fake snow and holiday cheer, it's good, yeah.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. It was definitely -- I think it was weird for us this year because we hadn't done a Christmas episode last year. So when we ended on our finale, we sort of had these sort of, you know, very sentimental feelings towards the season. And it was weird for us choosing the finale as being the second to the last episode that the Christmas episode is a standalone thing, but it really was. I remember knowing we were shooting a Christmas episode for a long time, but then walking on set and watching all of the Christmas decorations come up and, you know, everybody was coming to work in Santa hats, you know, it makes for a really fun last day because everything is just, like, all lit up, and it's a lot of fun. But it's definitely weird to be in the head space in August.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah. And what's fun when you do shoot in a small town -- like, we shoot in July in Chester, and the people of town come out to see what, like, a professional set deck team can do to their street, and it's, like, almost -- like, it's amazing what they will do. They will turn the thing -- it's amazing what professionals can do.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah.

COLIN FERGUSON: So that's fun to see them sort of go, "Wow, this is our street. You know, can we take pictures?" Yes, you can take pictures. It's your street."

MARK STERN: By the way, there's a lot, actually, that happens on that street in Chillawack. That whole area in front of the sheriff's office, which is not really a sheriff's office --

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.

MARK STERN: -- and the statue and the green --

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah. They built that out. And the street that we show there isn't actually on the green, out in front of the -- they do it for the show. They put that whole green section in. And the town loves it. The town is sort of lobbying to like, "Can we put in some green here like the professional set deck people said? We'll lose these parking spots because it's so pretty."

MARK STERN: Yeah. Any other questions?

Emily Rose & Eddie McClintockQUESTION: Okay. This one comes from the Twitter verse. It is a Haven question. Is Edge staying on the cast of Haven or just popping in here and there?

EMILY ROSE: You know, I don't know. I don't know. He's fantastic, isn't he? He was such a great addition this season. He is -- you know, when I heard were getting a wrestler on this show, I envisioned something completely different. I thought we'd have somebody coming out of -- bounding out of the trailer in Spandex and a shaved head and stalky and sort of ripped. And then I met Adam, and I was like, "You look like a surfer. You are amazing." Another good-looking guy on the show. Thank you very much.

MARK STERN: You are welcome.

EMILY ROSE: Then, on top of that, he just did an amazing job in all of the scene work and was just such a -- everyone just really resonates with him and really gets him. So I hope that if we get a chance to come back, that he will come back as well because we really, really enjoyed having him, and I know that he really enjoyed his time with us, too. And Chester, oh, my goodness, look out. There's a lot of fans in Chester that love him as well. So we'll have to maybe hide him if he comes back.

QUESTION: Over here. When you guys were watching the clips before, I was watching you guys watching the clips, and you all had an amused look on your face. I'm just curious what was going through your mind watching them? There's another question about why not. Overall, I was wondering what is it about your individual shows that sort of is your passion for it? What drives your passion for these shows?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: I was thinking that my hair looked a little high. I have hair issues. I was on Bones a few years ago, and I was like, "You know, let's shave my head. Let's shave it. We'll shave the head." And they were like, "No, no, no, because we don't want you looking like David Boreanaz." Everybody already thinks I'm David Boreanaz anyhow. So they gave me this, like -- I just said to the hairdresser -- I go, "Just do whatever you think is going to be good," and they gave me this floppy Dorothy Hamill side part with the weight in the back and a --

COLIN FERGUSON: This is what's going through your head?

MARK STERN: That's very deep.

COLIN FERGUSON: It's so detailed.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: I guess so.

MARK STERN: (Unintelligible) they are almost the same type of inner --

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Yeah. I have post-traumatic hair disorder, and I was -- well, I was thinking about Colin's luxurious lips and, you know, your guys' great scene in the prison.

COLIN FERGUSON: Well, that's -- I mean, that's the weird thing. Like, these are my friends.

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. It's weird.

COLIN FERGUSON: I see them all the time, and it's really nice to, like, when I see their work, I'm really -- it's not stupid -- I'm really proud of them and, like, "Oh, they are doing good work," and, "Oh, that's a nice turn," and, like -- so it's really fun to see, you know. You are up on stage with your friends, and you are like, "Oh, good job," you know. Like, it's nice. It's warm. So --

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: You know, interestingly, when Warehouse was first -- I think we had done the pilot, and I guess we had been picked up, and we were getting ready to do some shows. We were in New York, and I met -- I hadn't met you before.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yes, you had.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: But we were welcomed into the Warehouse 13 family by the cast of Eureka, and they were like, "Oh, we are just like a big family here." And then last year --

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. That was two years ago.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Two years ago --

EMILY ROSE: Yeah.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: -- I saw you, and it was like, "Hey" --

EMILY ROSE: Yeah.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: -- "welcome," and it's true.

EMILY ROSE: I was like -- it was such a breath of fresh air. I was so nervous. It was going to up-fronts, and it was before we'd even started filming. So everybody was kind of, like, aware of you but not really sure why you were there, but sort of -- and I came into this, you know, network and into this room kind of just not knowing what to expect. And Eddie walked right up to me and welcomed me to the family, and so, meeting, Colin did the same thing. And just to -- I don't know. It was so -- it was so wonderful. So to be sitting here with them now is a huge honor. And then, of course, what's going through my mind is going, "Oh, my gosh. They are watching my work. I'm sitting here while they are watching my work. I don't know how I feel about that." I mean, that's, you know, what actors think.

COLIN FERGUSON: You look great, by the way. I like that haircut.

EMILY ROSE: Oh, thank you. Yeah. There's a little -- I had actually --

Colin FergusonCOLIN FERGUSON: Eddie looked a little weird with his hair, but you looked great.

EMILY ROSE: I actually have this --

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: I looked like Danny from "Grease." "What?"

MARK STERN: Deep thoughts.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Yes.

MARK STERN: Eddie --

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Six years of college for me.

EMILY ROSE: I actually have a sock in my hair in that scene. That's a little interesting hair fact.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Interestingly enough, I had a sock in my -- what?

MARK STERN: Anyway.

(Laughter.)

EMILY ROSE: And that's what we are thinking.

(Laughter.)

MARK STERN: It's dark in there. Any other questions?

QUESTION: My question for you is now that you've done all of the holiday specials together, do you have some holiday traditions now that you do when you are on the set? Sorry if I stutter. I'm sorry.

EMILY ROSE: No. You are fine.

COLIN FERGUSON: Traditions? Traditions that have come up from shooting the holiday episodes?

QUESTION: Yes.

COLIN FERGUSON: We've only done two. So I don't think there will be another tradition to follow.

(Laughter.)

EMILY ROSE: Together with another Christmas episode?

COLIN FERGUSON: Exactly. We are going to do a pantomime in our garage.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: I mean, in Warehouse 13, we have a band room, and there's drums and a couple guitars and, you know, like, a shaky egg, one of those shaky eggs.

(Shakes hand like shaking a salt shaker.)

And so everybody goes up there and hangs out and has holiday cheer up there. So I guess that was -- would be the closest thing that we have to a tradition like that. Yeah.

COLIN FERGUSON: Also, just to get back to the last question, one of the reasons -- one thing I get amused about is also things like seeing Eric sweat, you know, because we all sort of know the tricks of shooting at different times of the year. So we know it's July, and it's like, "ah-ha-ha," because we know. So that's something that makes me laugh, you know, and the fake snow. It's like, "Oh, yeah, you've got to go here."

EMILY ROSE: Yeah. I think --

COLIN FERGUSON: We are in sweaters.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: We actually did the reverse in Season 1 of Warehouse 13. It was the -- the resonance was -- we actually shot out of order. We shot resonance first. And Mike and Pete were supposed to be in Colorado in kind of a semibalmy, snow-covered, beautiful town in Colorado, and we were in, like, this insane -- I mean, the crew had those parkas on where all you can see is like this, but the fur, the arctic parkas. And Joanne and I were dressed in like, you know, a light blazer and stuff. And, literally, you'd be like this (making a shivering movement) and "Action." And then you'd stop, and as soon as they yell "Cut," you are like --

EMILY ROSE: That's me every day at work.

THE WITNESS: Is it?

Emily RoseEMILY ROSE: Every day of my life up there.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Yeah, yeah.

COLIN FERGUSON: Remember the ice-cube thing? The light stuck in the ice cube until they yell "Action" so your breath doesn't have the smoke?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: No.

COLIN FERGUSON: That's awful. You are in a T-shirt in subzero weather with an ice cube in your mouth. You are like --

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Thanks. Rub it in.

COLIN FERGUSON: -- I can't deal with that.

(Makes a spitting motion.)

"Action."

MARK STERN: The joys of production in Canada. Any other -- up here.

COLIN FERGUSON: Wow.

QUESTION: I've got a lot of --

COLIN FERGUSON: Blah, blah, blah.

QUESTION: Since the specials have shades of inspiration from other movies and specials and everything, what are your personal, most favorite holiday movies, TV specials, and then the ones that you hate and why?

EMILY ROSE: Well, I was thinking when I was getting ready this morning for this -- I was trying to think of, you know, all of the other Christmas episodes kind of in history that have been out there and have gone on. The one -- I just laughed because the ones I really remember are like the Muppet Christmas specials from when I was a little kid. I just remember being so excited and going into the living room and -- you know, because that's the great thing is about Christmas episodes. It's kind of this -- when you don't have a -- like, a large, you know plus-20 order of television, when you have these now 13 episodes, it's really kind of great to have a Christmas gift that you give the fans the middle of the year when you are not around. You get attached to these people and attached to these characters. So to be able to have them come over for the holidays is a lot of fun. And I just remember that. I just remember going around the Christmas -- it's part of that, you know, Christmas traditions. Those Christmas traditions is watching, like, the Charlie Brown Christmas story --

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.

EMILY ROSE: -- and "Rudolph" and having these things come on air. So to have our characters be a part of that story and part of the experience for the family to me is really awesome.

COLIN FERGUSON: I think "It's a Wonderful Life" and "The Grinch" are probably, for me -- and one from Canada that nobody knows or watches, but it's "The Sweater." If you've ever seen it from the National Film Board of Canada, the Hauschka Viay (ph) story, this kid who gets a hockey sweater from the Toronto Maple Leafs. He's a Canadian fan. And the end of it is this horrible ending where he goes to church and begs God to make moths eat it, the end. It's this really weird.

MARK STERN: Horrible.

COLIN FERGUSON: Exactly. So that's one that my brother and I, we always used to go, like, "Yeah."

EMILY ROSE: "The Sweater."

COLIN FERGUSON: That, and it's 15 minutes long. And Roch Carrier, he actually narrates it. So it's this really thick, French-Canadian accent the whole time. "When I was a small boy growing up...." you've got to watch it. It's 15 minutes long, the best 15 minutes of your life.

(Laughter.)

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: For me, because I grew up, and I used to have to get up and actually turn the channel on the TV, so the old "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with the Abominable Snowman, when they put the -- when they put the mud on Rudolph's nose, then he talked like this until the thing of mud came off, and they all made fun of him, I guess I related somehow. They used to put mud on my nose. But, you know, this was -- obviously, this was before DVDs and any of that. So you actually had to wait a full year to ever see any of these shows again. Like, my boys now have the DVDs, and they watch Christmas shows all year round. So I don't know. It seemed -- those shows, I guess, are -- they mean more to me, you know, because I had to wait so long to get to see them again.

COLIN FERGUSON: Was there another -- was Father Time -- was that a different ranking of that one, or was the "Rudolph" one the only --

Eddie McClintockEDDIE MCCLINTOCK: There was "Santa Claus" --

EMILY ROSE: Yeah.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: -- "Is Comin' to Town," "Frosty the Snowman."

EMILY ROSE: "Frosty the Snowman."

COLIN FERGUSON: Which was the one with Father Time where it got scary in the middle? Do you remember?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Well, there was the one with the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser.

COLIN FERGUSON: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: "I'm Mr. Heat Miser. I'm Mr. Sun."

COLIN FERGUSON: How does it go?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: "I'm Mr. Heat Blister. I'm Mr. Hundred and One."

MARK STERN: I miss the toys.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: "I want to be a dentist."

QUESTION: Well, what about the ones you hate?

COLIN FERGUSON: Oh.

MARK STERN: "The Sweater" one.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: "A Very Barney Christmas."

EMILY ROSE: Oh.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Yeah. That always creeped me out.

EMILY ROSE: I don't really have one.

COLIN FERGUSON: Now I'm blanking. What do you have? What's -- does anyone have one that they hated?

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: "A Jersey Shore Christmas." "Hey. Yo." I love them.

(Eddie McClintock rolls his eyes.)

QUESTION: I think "The Sweater" is a contender.

COLIN FERGUSON: Oh, really?

MARK STERN: It's a love and hate.

COLIN FERGUSON: You've got to see "The Sweater."

MARK STERN: I think that's -- I think that's it. So -- oh, one last question that we must ask.

QUESTION: For Eddie. Fans are just devastated about what happened with Jenks, very cruel, and I was wondering what the cast's reaction was.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Man, I can tell you. I mean, it was an emotional day when we shot that, you know, when -- because Allison Scagliotti is so -- just, her presence is such -- for a young kid, you know, she's so amazing. So she -- for me, you know, when Pete comes down those stairs and sees the reaction on Claudia's face and when she kind of intuitively knows what happened, I mean, just talking about it -- I don't know -- it's one of those moments as an actor, for me, where I go that's as real or as close to showing people a true-based emotion as I'm going to get, you know. And so it is really powerful. I mean, to watch it for me was -- because -- because I think Erin did such a great job making Jenks a likable character that it was hard to see him that way when we walk in and see him, eyes open like that. It was tough. I mean, it was very quiet that day on the set. And, you know, as the saying goes, "You are never dead in sci-fi, really." So who knows what's going to -- who knows what will happen, whether he'll be back or not. Again, I don't ask because I like to -- I like to discover, you know, as we go along. I sure hope that -- I sure hope he comes back.

Colin Ferguson, Emily Rose, Eddie McClintockMARK STERN: Okay. So these guys are going to be down here for a few minutes to chat with you. We are also, then, going to break for lunch, which is going to be at Jake's American Restaurant/Bar. So we'll see you there. Thanks, you guys.

COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah, thank you very much.

EMILY ROSE: Thank you.

EDDIE MCCLINTOCK: Thank you, guys.

(Applause.)

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