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But if he misses his deadline, his boss (Jesus) would fire him, and shut down the whole department.
If the hogfather doesn't deliver presents, the sun wont rise anymore.
He fears the wrath of the baby jesus
There's A LOT of Christmas media that's just "there's someone who doesn't want to be involved in Christmas and we must force them to be involved, because once they are, they will be saved and love Christmas, like the rest of us"
It's fucking rough yo
Is the grinch like a racist Jewish stereotype?
I know the writer wasn't the best person ~___~
That's just Christianity in a nutshell, no?
Yep they inadvertently put their whole missionary /crusade / colonist mentality into the "art".
It'd be funny to have a movie that's the opposite, where someone is super pro-Christmas at the beginning and then winds up changing religions or something. Similarly, there should be a movie where someone discovers through the magic of Christmas that rural life sucks and moves to the city.
Yeah, I didn't think much of it when I was a kid, but now it seems kind of offensive to those who don't celebrate Christmas
The holiday isn't Santa's to postpone. He is an avatar and caretaker of the Christmas spirit, not a master with control over it. Often in the ebin deep lore of these stories, Christmas itself has both power on the specific date which is needed to fuel Santa, and it has a need for the rituals to be completed least it be damaged like the holiday itself is some kind of withering god. Like an Aztec sacrifice to ensure the sun rises, it isn't just the sort of thing you can delay.
Christmas is one of a number of important rituals that are distributed between cultures and spaced out in specific intervals over the year to keep Dread Cthulhu sleeping so no it can't be postponed. When Santa is sad that he won't be able to deliver gifts, he doesn't give a crap about the kids who'll be so very sad they're not getting the newest Barbie Pony Slaystation, he's really deathly afraid of what's going to happen to the world.
When my kids were little I used to tell them things like, "This movie was made in 1985. That was the year your mom saved Christmas!"
Then, like a decade later we were watching Back to the Future one family movie night and my daughter bursts out, "1985? That was the year mom saved Christmas!"
So proud 😁👍
How would everyone know?
He can leave presents for everyone, but he can't leave a note?
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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