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Christmas Creep
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A phenomenon which can be found anywhere Christmas is celebrated but is probably most prevalent in North America, Christmas Creep refers to the tendency of Christmas-related merchandise, decorations, music, television programming, and so forth to start appearing earlier and earlier each year. Prior to The '80s, the Christmas retail season in the U.S. didn't start until after Thanksgiving Day (although Christmas catalogs for Sears, JC Penney, etc. were being mailed out as early as August at least as far back as The '70s). The Friday after Thanksgiving was the default kick-off to the Christmas shopping season, and stores responded with big sales on that day, which has come to be known as Black Friday. The earliest known reference to this name dates to 1961 in Philadelphia, because of the huge traffic jams and crowds of shoppers. The phrase took on a darker meaning in The '90s, following several incidents where shoppers and store staff were injured or even killed in stampedes of people rushing through store doors trying to get the best deals. Since the Turn of the Millennium, it's more or less universal that Christmas merchandise will take over as soon as the Halloween stuff is moved to clearance (though many grocery stores try to reserve at least some display space for Thanksgiving). And even when Halloween occupies the main "seasonal" aisles, some Christmas stuff will turn up by mid-October. Christmas Creep isn't confined to the retail world, either: many radio stations that switch to an "all Christmas Songs, all the time" format now do so as early as November 1, for instance, and it's not unusual for homeowners to get a similarly early start on putting up their own lights and decorations. (Though, in cold-weather climates, this may stem primarily from a desire to finish outdoor decorating ahead of the harshest winter weather. Many will set up and test their lights beforehand, but save an "official" turn-on time for Thanksgiving weekend.) Moreover, this phenomenon has begun to affect all holidays with an opportunity for commercialization. It is no longer uncommon to see paraphernalia for an upcoming holiday appearing in stores as soon as (if not before) the previous holiday is over. Thus, Valentine's Day decorations will appear in stores even before Christmas is over, with St. Patrick's Day material popping up around the beginning of February, Passover and Easter things at almost the same time,note though this is justified by the fact that both holidays can fall as early as late March summer items as soon as Easter and Passover are done with, back-to-school sales as early as July,note this too is justified by the fact that school can resume as early as August in some districts and Halloween items in July or August. Recent surveys indicate that Christmas Creep isn't all bad: Some people often report feeling excited for Christmas as early as March, and in the UK, many people flock to their television screens to watch the premiere of the latest big-budget Christmas Advert produced by John Lewisnote a chain of department stores popular among the entirety of Britain, despite their perceived expensiveness and upper-class attitude by outsiders. Maybe not so much in 2021 as so many stores have been closed down due to Brexit and the Covid thing. at the start of November each year. See also Everyone Is Christian at Christmas and Santa Clausmas. If Christmas Creep appears in-universe, it's generally Played for Laughs, poking fun at the earliness itself or mercilessly mocking the commercialism involved. Has nothing to do with The Krampus, or the guy at the office Christmas party (you know, the one with the lampshade on his head) who has too much eggnog and forgets the concepts of "personal space" and "hands to yourself." That would be a Christmastime creep, since it's something a creep would do at Christmas time. |
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The "We Need a Little Christmas" number from the 1966 musical Mame has the title character deliberately applying this, since she's at a low point in her life (having gotten wiped out in the 1929 stock market crash) and needs Christmas to cheer her up. Her nephew Patrick protests, "But, Auntie Mame, it's one week past Thanksgiving Day now!", implying that it's far too early to be getting into holiday festivities. Since around the Turn of the Millennium that lyric is often changed to "one week from (or 'til) Thanksgiving Day", as even most critics of Christmas Creep would not consider any time post-Thanksgiving to be particularly early by modern-day standards. | |
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Parodied on an early episode of the Nickelodeon show Roundhouse, where immediately after a Troperiffic horror movie parody entitled Hellraiser Freddy The Thirteenth Halloween Chainsaw Massacre On Elm Street 12 during a Halloween-themed segment, Natalie comes in advertising a store's pre-Christmas sale, leading to this exchange. | |
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HoloFunk: Ina has got a Christmas-themed promotional event lined up for her in Week 5, complete with a Santa outfit to act the part, alongside many other spares for the other girls to wear. As Aloe points out, it's taking place in the month of August for whatever reason. | |
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The Simpsons brings this up quite often. In "Treehouse of Horror XIV", a Halloween special that was pre-empted and aired instead on November 1st. In the opening scene, Kang and Kodos complain about the episode airing a day late, because at this point nobody gives a crap about Halloween anymore and have moved on to Christmas. The two of them already have their own Christmas decorations up. "Treehouse of Horror IV" ended with the characters in the very end suddenly diverted from the story when snow starts falling from nowhere and the Simpsons were humming a Christmas carol. "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (which again aired after Halloween on November 2, 2008) ends with Tom Turkey defeating the Grand Pumpkin only to wind up attacking the humans when he finds out they eat turkeys on Thanksgiving. The last line of the episode has Marge wishing the viewers a Happy Holiday season. |
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ClickHole features an article about how stores had already been rolling out their Christmas displays for the next year! | |
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Hannah Swensen: In Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (the first novel of the series), Hannah and her assistant Lisa Herman visit the Tri-County Mall, where Hannah is surprised to find Christmas decorations out in October. Lisa tells her they put them out right after Labor Day. In Strawberry Shortcake Murder, Hannah's mother Delores has a version of this - she states that she starts her Christmas shopping for the next year on the 26th of December. |
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Teen Titans Go!: The episode "Halloween vs Christmas" is about the Titans battling against Santa Claus, who has decided to take over Halloween. It is the only holiday popular enough to rival Christmas, so if he takes it, he will rule all the calendar's holidays. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal posits that retail stores follow the "actual" Christmas schedule based around Santa's arrival, rather than the "official" calendar-posted December 25th. "Actual" Christmas comes slightly earlier every year because Santa orbits the sun slightly faster than Earth, and thus arrives earlier every year. The end result: Christmas items appear in stores earlier and earlier, until they are eventually never sold during the calendar holiday season. | |
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On Halloween 2020, Global TV in Canada played The Polar Express in prime time. Whatever the intention, this is an extremely surprising decision. | |
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A For Better or for Worse strip that aired the day after Hallowe'en had Ellie glad that the radio would finally stop playing Hallowe'en ads, which had been going since August. She switches it on to find a store advertising their pre-Christmas sale jamboree. | |
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In Airlocked, after deadland reverts to the Mason's Harbour setting, Mai (who's from Japan in 1999 and unfamiliar with the level of Christmas creep found in 2006 America) is confused by seeing Christmas decorations in Costco in August. Deciding that they must have lost track of time after being alone in the town so long, she decides to drag home an artificial tree and gets heat stroke. | |
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Discussed in the Cheers episode "Thanksgiving Orphans". Sam gripes about the holidays starting earlier and earlier as he and Woody are putting up Christmas decorations a few days before Thanksgiving, Woody points out that Christmas starts on December 25th. | |
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In the Corner Gas episode "No Time Like the Presents", Emma is shown to be a victim of this when she comes home and declares that she has all of her Christmas shopping done. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity: After complaining about the Christmas creep, the boys decide to deal with it by combining Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas into a single holiday called Thanksmasoween. Its traditions promise to be interesting, as one of the characters carves the turkey with a chainsaw while wearing a hockey mask and Santa hat. | |
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Cracked: "4 Ways Companies Are Trying To Start Christmas Already", which mentions that some retailers had been putting out Christmas decorations since June. There is also mention of 2013's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales starting in September(The actual date of Black Friday that year was November 29). 6 Ways Stores Go Out of Their Way To Annoy You (And Why) has this at #1, with the reason given being "They hate you". |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin deliberately tries to spread this in one strip, singing "Silver Bells" at the top of his lungs in mid-September. His parents respond by forcing him outside. Calvin shoots back, "Not thinking about it won't make it go away!" In a strip from the day after Halloween: Calvin and Hobbes wake up sick from all the candy they ate. Calvin remarks how the day after a holiday is depressing and suggests going into town to look at Christmas decorations. |
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In The Dresden Files Kringle is one of the fae but only takes up the mantle of Santa during Christmas season. He tells Harry in Cold Days that he hates Christmas Creep and he has drawn the line at Halloween, refusing to become Santa before then. | |
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Garfield has been devoting more and more time in December to Christmas-themed strips, crossing into November for the first time in 2002. | |
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In King of the Hill, Bill becomes a Mall Santa, and keeps his suit and Christmas decorations at his house well after Christmas, even up until March. Dale remarks by saying "They start Christmas earlier and earlier each year!" Becomes harsher in hindsight when it's revealed that he hadn't taken the Christmas tree down after his wife left him years before the show began - even after the last needle had fallen off. | |
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Retail, being about, well, retail, has a lot of examples: A strip in October 2015 featured Cooper looking at a Halloween display on one side of the store and a Christmas display on the other, and commenting that Tim Burton was ahead of his time. (As mentioned below, it was this sort of thing that actually gave him the idea.) Christmas stuff being put out in September is a recurring plot. Every year the customers are surprised by that. One year Cooper finally yelled at them that Christmas stuff came out so early because management thought they wanted it, prompting the customers to wonder what happened to his Christmas spirit. One year Cooper and Donnie find Christmas ornaments in their shipment...in May. Donnie begs for it to be a mistake. Cooper exploits this trope once by using leftover Christmas wreaths to pretend to build a display in the middle of the summer just to see customers' heads explode. Not only does Stuart actively encourage this trope, he tried to make Easter a second Christmas shopping season since Christmas is when Grumbel's is at its most profitable. He's also given out Christmas flyers and candy canes on Halloween (prompting the kids to egg his house) and openly disdains holidays that aren't retailer-friendly. Helping Stuart (and not helping the others) is that corporate encourages pushing the Christmas Creep. The managers meeting that happens in June always discusses Christmas, they've encouraged store managers to play Christmas music starting October 1 (which Stuart made mandatory in his district) and sent a sign reminding people that it's time to think about Christmas in August (which promptly got torn up by customers). Marla, for her part, resists pushing the Christmas Creep as much as she can, even saying one year she flat out refuses to play Christmas music in October unless corporate mandates it. (Cooper quips that that mandate probably isn't too far off.) Should be noted that this came at the end of a week where Stuart tried to go behind Marla's back to get someone else to play the Christmas music, only to find that Marla hid the cds containing them and Val would only tell him where they were if he bribed her 1000 dollars. While Christmas is the most obvious, it's not like the other holidays aren't exempt. One year on February 9 a Valentine's display changed over to an Easter display in the amount of time it took a customer to look at her phone. Another year Donnie noted that the Easter stuff had been out since the day after Christmas. Cooper claims that the Christmas Creep occurred because a boy wished to a genie that Christmas be four months long (because his father was the CEO of a department store chain) and then threw the lamp in a volcano so no one could undo it. It should be noted that all of this is to the detriment of Thanksgiving, which may as well not exist to Grumbel's management. (Stuart once even said the concept of Thanksgiving was obsolete and these days Thanksgiving only served to kick off Christmas season.) One year, when a customer asked if Grumbel's had anything for Thanksgiving, Val's only answer was 'a six hour shift'. Another year they finally let one Thanksgiving decoration be sold in their stores...and that was only because the turkey was wearing a Santa suit. |
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A later TV special, Why, Charlie Brown, Why?, has Linus make a remark about Christmas decorations being put up earlier every year after Snoopy and Woodstock's bird flock crash into a tree while sledding. | |
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Cathy is outraged that she can't buy a swimsuit at a department store in summer as they're moving in the fall merchandise. She demands to see the manager, who shows up in a Santa suit. | |
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In the mall area of System Shock 2, Xerxes reminds shoppers over the loudspeakers that there are only 163 days until Christmas (In other words, it was July). | |
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On an episode of The Angry Beavers, Norb and Dag find themselves launched into a large conifer, which is then all lit up for Christmas. It's then revealed that it's April. | |
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An easily-missed line in Mallrats has Brodie stating that the Easter Bunny setup has apparently been at the mall since "two days after Christmas". | |
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Spooky Month: In "It's spooky month", the video takes place on Halloween, but at the end of the video, the calendar changes to November 1st, and Lila is already in costume for Christmas while telling Skid and Pump that it is November. | |
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It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown shows Christmas sales beginning in April. | |
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In The Hidden Almanac, one of the recurring advertisers is Suzy's Seasonal Assassins, whose services include discouraging this behavior with extreme prejudice. | |
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An episode of Garfield and Friends has Garfield putting up Christmas decorations during a July heat wave as part of an attempt to "think cool". When Jon's neighbours see he has his decorations up early, they decide to put theirs up early too, which leads to everyone in town thinking it's already Christmas and celebrating the holiday early before they remember it's still July. Even Santa Claus is fooled. | |
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In Holidaze (2019), Jingle is introduced magically turning the neighborhood into a Christmas Wonderland on Halloween night, implying that he represents the sudden shift between holidays. | |
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In Lily and Dunkin, Dare complains about seeing a flyer for the eighth grade holiday dance in December when it's not even Halloween yet. She grumbles, "There should be a law against advertising holiday stuff this early." | |
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In a Halloween episode of The Real Ghostbusters, Ray looks around at some lights and says, "Wow, they're putting out the Christmas lights earlier and earlier every year... Wait a minute! It's not Christmas!" And he was right; the lights were the result of ghostly phenomena, but the irony is that society has changed since The '80s, and today anyone making that remark would be only noticing something absurd in the sense of silly, not noticing the kind of anomaly that would make you stop and think "This can't be true, no one would put out Christmas lights as early as Halloween." | |
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The "other holiday" variant of this was spoofed in The Loud House episode "11 Louds A Leapin'". Near the end of the episode, once the family has opened up all their Christmas presents, Rita decides that it's time to start decorating for Valentine's Day and starts to take down all the Christmas decorations. | |
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"Christmas in July" by Joe Scruggs has the singer observing how Christmas decorations are up practically all year in the mall, from August until July, resulting in them having Santa Claus "in Bermuda shorts, standing by the sleigh/reminding folks the holidays were six short months away." In the end, the singer remarks that cooler heads ultimately prevailed, and they'll take down the decorations by Saint Patrick's Day. | |
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In Scalie Schoolie, Grizzelda wins a Halloween costume contest by dressing up as the Ghost of Christmas Future, "here to remind you all that it's just a few short weeks away!" | |
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Bob's Burgers: Parodied in "Christmas in the Car". Linda has a Christmas tree up while the kids are still eating their leftover Halloween candy. It's all dried out by Thanksgiving, so she buys another one - which is all dried out by Christmas Eve, so they drive out to buy yet another one. | |
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In the Rugrats, the babies think it's Christmas already when the house has a Christmas tree and Grandpa dressed as Santa in August. It's actually the adults setting up their Christmas card picture. This is because the adults are so slow at getting their cards done (they normally do this in October, but Grandpa says the cards never get finished until February). | |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game makes fun of the trope in the Times Square level. Upon hearing of the new Boson Dart mode, Winston says, "It's like Christmas came early!" Ray overhears this on his radio and balks, "Earlier than what? Santa came to my house dressed as Dracula last year!" | |
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Despite a perennial Christmas Story marathon being a Christmas Eve/Day institution on TBS and now TNT, the former snuck airings of the movie earlier in December 2019. In 2021, the film aired on December 11th. | |
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In one episode of You Know Whats Bullshit the Bullshit-man complains about the overabundance of Christmas decorations, not just the fact that Christmas decorations begin appearing in stores as early as October, but also that people still have decorations on their houses in mid-January. | |
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Peanuts jokes about this trend carried over to its animated specials: invoked In A Charlie Brown Christmas, the message of the special is that the overt consumption around Christmas and how much earlier it seems to show up every year are both bad things, since the True Meaning of Christmas gets lost by all of the commercialization. This special is what also gave us the name for Aluminum Christmas Trees as a symbol of over-consumption and companies working to profit from Christmas early. Partly thanks to A Charlie Brown Christmas mocking them as kitschy items, aluminum Christmas trees were off the shelves a few years later. It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown shows Christmas sales beginning in April. Another special, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, has the characters complain about retailers stocking Christmas items before Thanksgiving. A later TV special, Why, Charlie Brown, Why?, has Linus make a remark about Christmas decorations being put up earlier every year after Snoopy and Woodstock's bird flock crash into a tree while sledding. |
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Given an interesting spin in Arthur, King of Time and Space: the others expect Lancelot to hate the practice, but he explains that he might deplore the commercialism, but maintaining the Christmas spirit all year is something he's in favour of. | |
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One FoxTrot comic that ran in November was about Andy complaining about how the decorations came out earlier every year, and stores begin pushing holiday merchandise. The punchline was that she was complaining about Valentine's Day decorations, despite it not even being December yet. Apparently, Christmas sales ran their course back in September. | |
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In one Shoe comic strip published and taking place on July 1, Professor Cosmo "celebrates" July 1 as the day when his Christmas decorations are no longer up too late, but too early. (Which is to say, he leaves them up all year round because he's too lazy to take them down.) | |
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In Nomine: In the scenario "A Very Nybbas Christmas", this is a plot by the Demon Prince of Media, intended to completely separate what people think of as "Christmas" from anything to do with goodwill to all men or the Son of God. | |
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South Park: In the episode "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", Cartman is looking forward to Christmas on the day before Halloween, to the point of circling what he wants in a shopping catalogue and singing Christmas carols while he and his friends set up their Zany Scheme to scare the fifth graders. Eventually, a delivery man shows up with a package for his mother, but Cartman assumes it's his Christmas present and takes a peek. It turns out to be an Antonio Banderas love doll, but Cartman is ecstatic over it. The plot in "The Problem With A Poo" when Mr. Hankey gets the children to practice the Christmas pageant before Halloween and while the City Council is cutting the budget due to his offensive behavior. |
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The Blondie strip for September 14, 2013. As Dagwood and Blondie are walking through a mall, Dagwood complains about the stores playing Christmas music in September. | |
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A variant takes place in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory where Wonka shows the room where his geese lay chocolate eggs. Remember, the tour takes place on October 1st... | |
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In 2021, CBS aired Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) on November 22, the Monday before Thanksgiving. Usually, the special airs in December, or at the very least after Thanksgiving has passed. This probably occurred because the network shares the rights to the special with Freeform, or perhaps to better coincide with sweeps. | |
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This trope is the central theme of Saltatio Mortis Willkommen in der Weihnachtszeit note Welcome to christmas time, besides general consumerism. | |
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Ghost of True Capitalist Radio once made the mistake of revealing that he hated Christmas as he was the one who had to buy everyone presents. In response his trolls began playing Christmas songs to him in September. | |
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Tickets for various productions of The Nutcracker and other Christmas shows tend to go on sale by September, if not earlier. As well, the advertisements, such as e-mail reminders to regular patrons of these events, begin during the summer. Auditions and rehearsals for Christmas-themed shows range from June to September. | |
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An unusual example occured with the Disney Hits station on Sirius XM: songs from Olaf's Frozen Adventure (which is a Christmas special), The Nightmare Before Christmas and a Disney version of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" are in regular rotation on the channel, and have been since it launched in March 2021. The channel also debuted the Hannah Montana version of "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" in October of 2021. However, the channel didn't start playing more Christmas music until December 13, 2021, which was 12 days before Christmas. | |
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invoked In A Charlie Brown Christmas, the message of the special is that the overt consumption around Christmas and how much earlier it seems to show up every year are both bad things, since the True Meaning of Christmas gets lost by all of the commercialization. This special is what also gave us the name for Aluminum Christmas Trees as a symbol of over-consumption and companies working to profit from Christmas early. Partly thanks to A Charlie Brown Christmas mocking them as kitschy items, aluminum Christmas trees were off the shelves a few years later. | |
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The stance of Jul i Skomakergata is that over-commercialization of Christmas is bad, but that it's good to not limit your celebration too much either. One episode revolves around a woman who takes the anti-Christmas-creep mentality so far that she thinks any celebration before Christmas Eve itself is too early, and protagonist Jens Petrus Andersen managing to make her soften her stance. On the other hand, there's also an episode where an obnoxious door-to-door salesman tries to push an overly-commercialized Christmas on people, which makes the normally-mild-mannered Andersen kick him out and angrily tell him to leave the town. | |
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Another special, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, has the characters complain about retailers stocking Christmas items before Thanksgiving. | |
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