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Santa Claus (1959)

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Prepare yourself for a Big Brother Santa Claus fighting the evil forces of prancing demons with the help of child labor and Merlin.El Santo Claus was directed by Rene Cardona and written by Cardona and Adolfo Torres Portillo. The original film was produced in Mexico in 1959 and features primarily Spanish dialog. It depicts the adventures of Santa Claus in preparation for and during his annual Christmas rounds. Most commercial adaptations of the Santa Claus legend add a distinctive twist to the traditional story, but this film trumps them all with its depiction of an interdimensional Santa doing battle with a demon sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas by killing Santa and "making all the children of the Earth do evil." Furthermore, Merlin (yes, that Merlin) serves as Santa Claus' Q, inventing things like The Flower to Disappear for Santa to use.Believe it or not, there's a good explanation for the film's... unique take on Santa Claus. In the late 1950s, Santa remained an unfamiliar figure in much of Mexico, where holiday gift-giving customs still focused on the Magi and their feast day, Epiphany (January 6). Even today, many discussions of Mexican Christmas customs make no mention of the jolly old fat man, instead focusing on such traditional holiday elements as posadas and piñatas. Santa has become more popular only in recent decades. Another odd running theme is the focus on social standing and class, which was a major concern of Mexico during that period; see Los Olvidados.A dubbed and slightly edited English-speaking version was produced for U.S. release in 1960 under the direction of K. Gordon Murray. Santa Claus was considered to be a financial success over several holiday-season theatrical releases in the 1960s and 1970s. Broadcast of the film also became a holiday tradition at several U.S. television stations. The film garnered at least one award, winning the Golden Gate Award for Best International Family Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1959.A series of shorts by K. Gordon Murray mixed clips from Santa Claus with new footage shot at the various Santa's Village theme parks. These were riffed by RiffTrax as "Santa's Village of Madness". RedLetterMedia's Best of the Worst reviewed the full version of Santa Claus, which RiffTrax also lampooned on December 4, 2014; both shows used the full version that included Vulcan and other scenes that were edited out of the famous MST3K cut. On December 15, 2020, Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, as part of their "The Mads Are Back" series, did a livestream riff of a shortened version of the cut used by MST3K, making this the second of only two films to be riffed on three times by MST3K and its alumni (the other being Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, targeted by MST3K, RiffTrax, and Cinematic Titanic).Not to be confused with Santa Claus: The Movie.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the episode recap page. It was also reviewed in the 2013 Christmas Episode of Best of the Worst.
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: After being manipulated into believing a violent criminal is outside his residence, a man pulls a gun out of his nightstand. In addition to not checking to see if the thing is loaded, he waves it around carelessly. While waving the gun around he briefly points the gun at his wife.
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Love Potion
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Love Potion: A variation. Billy's parents are given a drink that makes them recall that which they love most, and it's their son.
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Not-So-Harmless Villain
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Pitch spends most of the plot just pulling pathetic and often unsuccessful impish pranks. But at one point he decides he's through playing around and kicks it up a notch. He sabotages Santa's magic items, allowing Pitch to sic an angry dog on him and trap him in a tree, plants suggestions in the heads of people living nearby that Santa is a burglar out to murder them all (using one man's sleep-talking to put in a panicked call to the fire department), and stops by Lupita's house just to mock her for not having a doll because she wouldn't listen to him earlier.
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Only Six Faces
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Only Six Faces: The multinational groups of Santa's helpers are mostly the same few kids in different costumes.
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Darkest Africa
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Darkest Africa: How the kids from Africa are cringingly depicted.
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Take Our Word for It
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Take Our Word for It: Santa's sleigh "almost ran into the Moon!" Sure it did, Narrator. You keep telling yourself that. Visiting three houses in Mexico City apparently equals delivering toys to all the children on Earth.
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Weird World, Weird Food
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Weird World, Weird Food: In a couple of odd As You Know moments, Pitch exposits to Lucifer about how demons eat red hot coals and Santa talks to one of his young helpers about how in the Fifth Dimension they eat "pastries and ice cream made from soft clouds."
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Good Is Not Nice
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Good Is Not Nice: Santa, oddly enough. He's not above stooping to Pitch's level.
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Mall Santa
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Mall Santa: The animatronic Santa in the storefront. Oddly, some naughty kids attacking the animatronic Santa seem to somehow injure the real Santa too.
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Companion Cube
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Companion Cube: Surprisingly encouraged by the rich boy's parents, who advise him to practice piano if he ever feels lonely while they're out socializing.
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Poor Lupita desperately wants a doll of her own. Although initially tempted by Pitch to steal one, she ultimately refuses. Later during her nightmare when the evil dolls are taunting her, Lupita still stands firm that she refuses to steal because of how wrong it is, even if it means losing her only chance of having something she desires.
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Beard of Evil
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Beard of Evil: Pitch.
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Catapult Nightmare
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Catapult Nightmare: Lupita has one of these.
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Scatterbrained Senior
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Scatterbrained Senior: Merlin has some difficulty in figuring out the best way to deal with a vicious dog.
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Arch-Enemy
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Arch-Enemy: Pitch is this to Santa. At the beginning of the movie, Lucifer orders Pitch to capture Santa and ruin Christmas, and it's implied that Pitch is given this job every year.
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The Man Behind the Man
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The Man Behind the Man: Lucifer, whose only scene is ordering Pitch to capture Santa Claus.
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: The narrator, who describes every single thing that happens on screen.
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Public Domain Character
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Public Domain Characters: Featuring a list of characters not typically in the same movie. Santa Claus, the title character. Merlin, who is basically playing a magical version of Q from James Bond. Satan, and his lesser demon minions who try to steal Christmas. Vulcan
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Leg Cling
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Leg Cling: Santa, out of pity, appears in front of the Lonely Rich Kid... who then grabs Santa's boot and begs for someone to love him. Seriously, if you didn't feel a tug inside during this scene, you have no soul.
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Pretty in Mink
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Pretty in Mink: Billy's mother wears a silver mink wrap to go with her evening dress.
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Laughing Mad
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Laughing Mad: That one laughing reindeer is by far the best example of this.
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Truth Serums
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Truth Serums: A variation is found in Santa's "Cocktail of Remembrance" which he gives to the rich boy's parents after they've left him alone at home to attend a dinner party.
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Santa and his army of child laborers from the Fifth Dimension (assisted by Merlin) battle a demon sent by Lucifer to persuade the children of earth to do evil. That is the actual plot.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Pitch's punishment, even if it wasn't done on purpose. He's soaked in water... in the snow. The Narrator brags about how he'll probably catch pneumonia. Given how Pitch is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain at worst, it comes off as a little mean-spirited.
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Our Demons Are Different
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Our Demons Are Different: Pitch. He eats fire and brimstone, prances effeminately, and wears red tights.
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Narrator
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Narrator: A particularly obnoxious one, at that.
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Synchronization
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Synchronization: In one scene the naughty kids throw a rock at an animatronic Santa Claus in a store front... which causes the real Santa in his Fifth Dimension castle to recoil and shout in pain as if he had been hit himself.
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Flash Step
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Flash Step: Apparently, not only can demons teleport, but it sounds like a piano key being struck.
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Gratuitous Japanese
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Gratuitous Japanese: One of Santa's child helpers is a Japanese boy who speaks in unsubtitled Japanese.
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: Surprisingly Averted in the English dub, which was uncommon for back in the time it was dubbed. The setting of Mexico is still kept, and the Mexican characters' names are not changed.
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Public Domain Soundtrack
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Public Domain Soundtrack: Just count how many times "Jingle Bells" plays as background music.
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Rump Roast
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Rump Roast: Santa gets his bottom burned when Pitch lights a fire in a chimney he's trying to go down.
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Evil Laugh
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Evil Laugh: The animatronic Santa doesn't sound jolly so much as this. The real Santa's laughs aren't much better. Pitch has an evil laugh of his own, but sadly it just doesn't compare. The clockwork reindeer as well.
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: The Flower to Disappear was originally named "La Flor de No Te Veo" (the flower of "I can't see you"), which is a play on the phrase "no te veo" and "Nochebuena", the Spanish name for the poinsettia.
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Unusual Ears
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Unusual Ears: Pitch. They're pointy, and very big. Not to mention Santa's "earscope," a satellite dish with a giant plastic ear in the center.
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Another Dimension
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Another Dimension: Instead of the North Pole, this version of Santa lives on a Floating Continent in the Fifth Dimension.
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Culture Equals Costume
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Culture Equals Costume: Santa's helpers, who are all dressed in stereotypical outfits according to their nationalities.
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The Faceless
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The Faceless: Lucifer, who never appears as anything but a booming voice and a burst of flames.
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Carpet of Virility
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Carpet of Virility: Vulcan has what looks to be an actual fabric sample glued to his chest.
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Crystal Dragon Jesus
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Crystal Dragon Jesus: Santa Claus. The full version of the movie states that Santa is in fact a being from the Fifth Dimension.
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Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Though as the film progresses, it descends into Gray-and-Gray Morality territory — Pitch seems less evil than intended.
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Badass Santa
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Badass Santa: With all of the powers that Santa has and with Merlin as his Q, Santa is able to defeat a centuries-old demon with ease, multiple times!
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TricksterArchetype
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Trickster Archetype: Pitch. Most of his attempts to stop Santa revolve around sneaky (if poorly considered) plots.
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Creepy Doll
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Creepy Doll: Lupita has to face some of these in her Pitch-induced nightmare.
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: The awkwardly named Flower To Disappear is a good example of this. It's a literal translation of a pun that doesn't work in English, see Punny Name below.
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Clockwork Creature
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comment
Clockwork Creature: The reindeer which pull Santa's sleigh are this, complete with wind-up key.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_9381f239
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type
How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?
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comment
How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?: According to the shorts culled from the film, Santa uses the fifth dimension to be everywhere at once, so Merlin apparently discovered quantum entanglement and superposition. In the film, however, Santa visits three households before returning back to the North Pole. It actually attempts to retcon in the rest of the world; when Santa first gets to Mexico, it's explicitly his first stop, then a little while later, his helper mentions he's already been everywhere else.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_967b9ebe
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type
As You Know
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comment
As You Know: Santa and Merlin go back and forth on how to use his various magic gadgets. Both keep pointing out how they should both really know all of this, but their memories are terrible.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_9843be73
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_99e87707
type
When You Coming Home, Dad?
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_99e87707
comment
When You Coming Home, Dad?: The Lonely Rich Kid thinks this, if he doesn't actually say it.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_99e87707
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type
Evil Counterpart
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_9b54d536
comment
Evil Counterpart: Lucifer and Pitch as evil counterparts to Santa and Merlin, due to them sharing the same dub voice actors, respectively.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_9b54d536
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_9bf3470e
type
Santa Claus
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_9bf3470e
comment
Santa Claus, the title character.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_9bf3470e
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_9f6fb586
type
Leitmotif
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_9f6fb586
comment
Leitmotif: Pitch has one. Appropriately enough for a demonic servant of Lucifer himself, it's...a goofy-sounding bassoon piece.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_9f6fb586
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_a1b74f5d
type
And That's Terrible
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comment
And That's Terrible: The narrator seems to believe the Viewers Are Morons since he is incapable of letting any of Pitch's shenanigans go without commentary and sometimes even admonishment.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_a1b74f5d
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type
Parental Neglect
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_a54534a0
comment
Parental Neglect: The rich boy is constantly left home alone by his parents while they go out socializing.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_a54534a0
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type
Lonely Rich Kid
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comment
Lonely Rich Kid: One subplot involves a rich boy whose parents frequently socialize, even on Christmas. Naturally, he writes a letter to Santa wishing for his parents to come home.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_a7016efe
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type
Oh, Crap!
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comment
Oh, Crap!: Santa has one of these moments when he realizes his sleep powder and Flower To Disappear are gone... and there's a big dog coming right at him.
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type
Narrating the Obvious
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comment
Narrating the Obvious: The narrator spells out every last little thing about the story, no matter how apparent it might already be.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_ae254ead
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type
Robe and Wizard Hat
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_b00a7c5e
comment
Robe and Wizard Hat: Merlin wears these while working in his magic lab.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_b00a7c5e
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type
Fridge Brilliance
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_b0cd3349
comment
Though with Santa out of the way, and only children left to guard his castle, the resources Santa uses could indeed be used for much darker intentions than giving children presents.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_b0cd3349
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type
Cool and Unusual Punishment
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comment
Cool and Unusual Punishment: If Pitch fails to capture Santa this year, Lucifer is going to force feed him chocolate ice cream: a double whammy since not only is Pitch lactose intolerant he's also incapable of tolerating cold foods due to a usual diet of red hot coals. In the original version, Lucifer threatens to dip Pitch in chocolate ice cream instead of feeding it to him, which is almost as bad.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_c007c53
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_c3bafbce
type
Satan
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_c3bafbce
comment
Satan, and his lesser demon minions who try to steal Christmas.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_c3bafbce
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_c3bafbce
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_cdb2653e
type
Africa Is a Country
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_cdb2653e
comment
Africa Is a Country: When Santa's helpers from Africa are introduced, not one African country is directly mentioned and we just see a bunch of black kids in leopard skins with bones in their hair who play bongos.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_cdb2653e
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d1814802
type
Big Red Devil
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d1814802
comment
Big Red Devil: Pitch.
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 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d397657d
type
Hoist by His Own Petard
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d397657d
comment
Hoist by His Own Petard: Pitch, at the end. So, Pitch has gotten Santa stuck in a tree and plans to expose him to the world. To do this, he uses his dream powers to make a sleeping man sleep-call 911 and report a fire. The Fire Department arrives, sees the flames and smoke put off by Pitch, and hose the devil down.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d397657d
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_d397657d
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d68c925d
type
Creator Provincialism
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d68c925d
comment
Creator Provincialism: Santa allegedly delivers gifts to all the children of the world, but we only see a few stops in Mexico City. Santa also has children from every country helping at his workshop, and naturally one of the Mexican kids is Santa's right-hand helper and gets more screen time than the others (of course that kid was also shown as part of the American and Spanish groups, so who the hell knows).
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_d68c925d
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d99a228f
type
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d99a228f
comment
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Lupita's reaction to seeing giant, evil dollies in her dream is... Dull Surprise.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_d99a228f
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_d99a228f
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_dfa71e43
type
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_dfa71e43
comment
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Pitch. He was obviously intended to be evil, but his portrayal is really more buffoonish. Most of his shenanigans seem designed more to irritate Santa rather than capture or kill, and in the end, he manages to defeat himself purely by accident.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_dfa71e43
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e1ff8ff6
type
Fantasy Kitchen Sink
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e1ff8ff6
comment
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Downplayed, but for the typical Santa elements, this film throws many other elements in there.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e1ff8ff6
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_e1ff8ff6
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e3d2f2
type
The Fool
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e3d2f2
comment
The Fool: Pitch, basically. He bumbles his way through everything so ineptly that sometimes it seems like he wouldn't even be able to survive a trip to the grocery store without his magic.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e3d2f2
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_e3d2f2
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e540d1e6
type
Camp
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e540d1e6
comment
Camp: Pitch can out-effeminate HIM at times.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e540d1e6
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_e540d1e6
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e54326a2
type
Hell
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e54326a2
comment
Hell: In a Christmas movie? That's... different...
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e54326a2
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_e54326a2
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e5448c9
type
Pimped-Out Dress
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e5448c9
comment
Pimped-Out Dress: Billy's mother wears a very fancy dress when going out. It has a beaded bodice, and pleats all around.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_e5448c9
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e8f2d4f2
type
The Devil Is a Loser
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e8f2d4f2
comment
The Devil Is a Loser: Pitch fits this to a tee.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_e8f2d4f2
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_e8f2d4f2
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_ec0bf4a1
type
Take Over the World
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_ec0bf4a1
comment
Take Over the World: Pitch declares that he will rule the world with Santa out of the way. Apart from his plan making very little sense to begin with, not only is he in the service of Lucifer, but the way he says it implies that he thinks Santa is the incumbent ruler of the world... Though with Santa out of the way, and only children left to guard his castle, the resources Santa uses could indeed be used for much darker intentions than giving children presents.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_ec0bf4a1
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_ec0bf4a1
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_ecd42310
type
Goldfish Poop Gang
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_ecd42310
comment
Goldfish Poop Gang: The trio of "bad boys" who plot to kidnap Santa.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_ecd42310
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_ecd42310
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_eef90616
type
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_eef90616
comment
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: One letter sent to Santa asks for, among other items, a bicycle, a baseball bat, an atomic laboratory, a machine gun... you know, typical children's toys.
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_eef90616
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f4aeb714
type
Human Aliens
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f4aeb714
comment
Human Aliens: Santa who, as stated, is from the Fifth Dimension. Possibly Santa's helpers as well. They're said to be from Earth and are even given Earthly nationalities, but at the same time they seem to know very little about Earth, with one boy asking Santa about the types of food Earthlings eat and being shocked at the answer.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f4aeb714
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_f4aeb714
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f51dd9ec
type
Americans Are Cowboys
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f51dd9ec
comment
Americans Are Cowboys: All the kids from around the world hanging about Santa's workshop are decked out in the most stereotypical garb imaginable. Naturally, the two kids from the United States are wearing colorful plastic cowboy hats and "western" clothes.
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 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f8b3482c
type
Stop Trick
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f8b3482c
comment
Stop Trick: Done in very obvious fashions in scenes involving Pitch popping in and out of view.
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_f8b3482c
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Santa Claus (1959) / int_f8b3482c
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_fe64d5a1
type
Evil Is Petty
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_fe64d5a1
comment
Evil is Petty: After Santa avoids the bad boys' ambush, Pitch contents himself with manipulating them into fighting each other. By this point, he's seemingly desperate for any kind of win.
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type
Flaming Devil
 Santa Claus (1959) / int_fff850d
comment
Flaming Devil: Pitch, and Lucifer as well.
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Africa Is a Country / int_e92653af
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Americans Are Cowboys / int_e92653af
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Badass Santa / int_e92653af
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Bad Santa / int_e92653af
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Big Brother Is Watching / int_e92653af
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Big Red Devil / int_e92653af
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Bigger Than Jesus / int_e92653af
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Chew Bubblegum / int_e92653af
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Christmas Episode / int_e92653af
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Cool and Unusual Punishment / int_e92653af
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Dude, Not Funny! / int_e92653af
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness / int_e92653af
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Feet-First Introduction / int_e92653af
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Flaming Devil / int_e92653af
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Homegrown Hero / int_e92653af
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Interactive Narrator / int_e92653af
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Invisibility Cloak / int_e92653af
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Lemony Narrator / int_e92653af
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Lonely Rich Kid / int_e92653af
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Mechanical Horse / int_e92653af
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Mexican Media / int_e92653af
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Narrating the Obvious / int_e92653af
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Organ Grinder / int_e92653af
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Parental Neglect / int_e92653af
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Protagonist Title / int_e92653af
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Santa Claus / int_e92653af
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Stop Trick / int_e92653af