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Holiday Pardon
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So, The Grinch has been caught and is about to be punished for his crimes against Christmas when suddenly, the people plead for the police to let him go. Why? Because it's the holidays! It wouldn't be in the spirit of the season to do otherwise. In several cultures, some festive days are associated with new beginnings and giving second chances is a part of it. This could be brought on by a person's adherence to tradition, respect to a person being celebrated, or a personal decision to bring goodwill to people on these days, even to those who have done them wrong. While they wouldn't always think that someone deserves Forgiveness, they'd let go as they want to lessen their own stress because Good Feels Good. Still, Everyone Has Standards. The more heinous the offense, the harder it will be to forgive and it wouldn't matter if it's a holiday. An Asskicking Christmas or whatever else will ensue. This can overlap with Karma Houdini, depending on how severe the wrongdoing is. Compare with Screw the War, We're Partying for truce among combatants during festivities. The True Meaning of Christmas usually comes into play for this as an Aesop. Contrast with Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday, when horrific things happening coincide with holidays. This usually happens at the end, so expect spoilers. |
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Downplayed in the Justice League episode "Comfort and Joy". Flash didn't immediately send the Ultra-Humanite to jail after he rampaged through a modern art museum because he volunteered to fix a toy he broke (or more accurately, he knocked Flash unconscious first and he was already fixing the toy when the speedster woke up). Together, they delivered the toy that Ultra-Humanite customized (from making fart noises to reciting The Nutcracker) to the orphanage and the kids loved this unique version. When Ultra-Humanite went to jail, The Flash left him a literal aluminum Christmas trees as a present. | |
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In Yogi's First Christmas, Herman and Snively are let off the hook after they realize they were wrong about Christmas being "for dum-dums." | |
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In The Polar Express, the two main unnamed protagonists are in Santa's sack with "that know-it-all kid" as the protagonist boy calls him. The elves say that the kids aren't meant to be there, but "since it's Christmas, we're gonna let you slide!" | |
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Love the Coopers: Emma is arrested by police officer Percy Williams after she attempts to shoplift a piece of jewelry as a gift for her older sister, Charlotte. In his car, Emma engages him in a conversation about their personal lives while pretending to be a psychiatrist. When she let slip that she lied about certain things, he cut her off before, some time later, forgiving and letting her go, with advice that she buy Charlotte the most expensive Christmas gift she can afford. | |
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There is an episode of The Andy Griffith Show wherein a grumpy older dude, feeling lonely at Christmas and wanting to be able to spend it somewhere with people, attempts to steal a bench. Andy (possibly only ostensibly) lets him go because it's Christmas. | |
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: The 2019 animated Christmas Special has Santa Claus forgive Rudy Giuliani for stealing the Naughty & Nice List and read an entry from the nice list that describes Rudy as an inspiration during September 2001. | |
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In the fifth Skulduggery Pleasant book, Valkyrie convinces Skulduggery to give Scapegrace a second chance on account of the fact that Christmas is the the season of forgiveness. | |
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The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke explain that it was a tradition for the Roman governor of Judea to release a prisoner (of the Jewish crowd's choosing) during the Passover feast. When Jesus is arrested, Pontius Pilate is reluctant to have him executed, but also fears to defy the Jewish religious leaders who want Jesus dead. Pilate tries to escape the situation by suggesting that Jesus could be this year's Passover pardon, but the crowd (egged on by the religious leaders) rejects this, insisting on releasing the insurrectionist Barabbas instead.note Since no other historical sources mention this custom, historians generally doubt it was real. | |
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If you know how the Fruity Pebbles commercials starring The Flintstones go, you know they always involve Barney doing some antics to steal Fred's pebbles. In two Christmas-themed commercials, Barney attempts to steal Fred's pebbles by pretending to be a holiday figure. After Fred finds out Barney's ploy, another character in the room reminds him of the holiday spirit (Santa in the first one, Pebbles in the second). After which, Fred gives Barney a bowl. | |
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Lucky Luke: One story starts when a newly-elected governor declares a general amnesty to celebrate his election, including the Daltons. By the end of the book (as Luke is bringing the Daltons back for their newly-committed crimes), one of the penitentiary guards says they've gotten the rest of their inmates back. | |
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The Murdoch Mysteries Christmas Special "Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas" centres on an Inspector Gadget-esque thief named Jumping Jack stealing holiday gifts from the rich to provide the poor with necessities. When Jumping Jack is apprehended and revealed as a department store returns clerk and his shopgirl sister, the people he helped show up and offer to return their warm clothes so Jumping Jack can be released. Moved by the loyalty, one the men pressing charges convinces his colleagues to reconsider and let the poor people keep what they were given. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "I Bob Your Pardon", the town has a hastily-planned turkey-pardoning ceremony for a bird named Drew P. Neck. But the Belchers find out that the bird is set to be killed anyway because the nearest animal shelter is full, so Linda and the kids (with a reluctant Bob in tow) scheme to steal Drew and find him a new home. | |
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This is deconstructed by The Purge. For twelve consecutive hours every year, all crimes are made legal to de-stress people by getting all of their violence and anger out in a night of catharsis. | |
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What's New, Scooby-Doo?: In "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas", the monstrous Headless Snowman had been going around the small town of Winter's Hallow every Christmas and destroying people's homes, making it reach the point where Winter's Hallow refuses to even celebrate Christmas. When unmasked as the Snowman, the remorseful Professor Higginson admitted to his motive of wanting to find his family's stolen gold, and told the town sheriff to turn him in...until a young, idealistic kid named Tommy suggests that, because it's Christmas, everyone should just forgive the professor. They do. | |
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The Red Skelton Show: In the adaptation of O. Henry's "The Cop and the Anthem", Freddie the Freeloader's schemes to Get into Jail Free for Christmas, such as by running up a huge restaurant bill that he can't pay, are repeatedly foiled by people letting him go out of holiday spirit. Ironically, no sooner does he decide to go back to honest work than he's arrested for loitering. | |
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In The Night Before Twistmas, a book set in the universe of Moshi Monsters, the Moshi Monsters equivalent of Santa says, "Since it's Twistmas, I forgive you." | |
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The plot of Dogma revolves around a special absolution ceremony happening in a Catholic (at least the film's version of it) cathedral in Redbank, New Jersey. Two Fallen Angels set off on a journey to exploit this because the ceremony would grant forgiveness to anyone for any sin, and because the Bible says God must hold true in Heaven what holds true on Earth, this ceremony would allow the angels to return to Heaven. However, the angels' potential absolution presents a big problem: God had specifically barred them from ever returning to Heaven, so their dogmatic absolution would disprove God's infallibility — and bring an end to all existence. The protagonist is given the call to prevent this from happening. | |
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The Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", set during Christmas: Holmes believes the guilty party has learned his lesson and actually being punished would only make things worse. | |
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One issue of The Punisher had Frank following a bunch of guys who had the late Stilt-Man's outfit in their possession. As he is about to open fire on them, Rhino runs into him and convinces him to let them go, as it is Christmas. | |
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Accidentally done in one Judge Dredd storyline where the computer running one of Mega-City One's hab-blocks goes haywire and sends Christmas gifts to every resident, including a pardon for a murderer on the run. However, the computer turns out to have given people what they want regardless of whether it's allowed or even possible (like the murderer a kill-who-you-want order in Dredd's name, or sending a widow a letter from her husband telling her she's alive), and the whole thing breaks apart as human nature takes over (the murderer starts killing people left and right, children start fighting because they don't want another kid to have the same gift as they did, one man is forcibly evicted by a neighbor who wants his apartment, etc.). | |
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Henry Danger: Inverted in the episode "Christmas Danger". It being Christmas makes it harder for the people in jail, as the judge is out of town for the holidays. With no one to hear their case, Captain Man and his allies are stuck in jail until the judge returns. | |
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In The Bridge on the River Kwai, Colonel Saito uses the anniversary of a historical Japanese military victory as an excuse to release Lt Colonel Nicholson from the sweatbox and give in to his demands about officers not doing manual labor without losing face. | |
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OZ: In season 2, Gov. Devlin pardons Said during the celebration of Ramadan (as well as an unnamed Jewish inmate for Hanukkah and Christian inmate for Christmas). Subverted, though, as Said sees through the attempt at good public relations and refuses the pardon. | |
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Subverted in the South Park episode "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!" where Stan goes with his friends to spend Christmas with Cartman's relatives when his parents said he couldn't go and he lies about them being dead. They decide to postpone his punishment until after Christmas. | |
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The Book of Life: On the Day of the Dead, Manolo went to the Land of the Remembered when he died and his final challenge before he can come back to the Land of the Living is to fight a giant skeleton bull combined from every bull his family has killed. He refused to fight it, singing an apology in behalf of his family instead, which it accepted and it passed on peacefully, making Manolo the winner. The Candlemaker, Xibalba, and La Muerte also temporarily brought the other Sanchez ghosts back to the Land of the Living (without losing their Calacas appearances unlike Manolo who is flesh and blood again) because the holiday has a certain amount of leeway. | |
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Coco: Mama Coco's father is forgiven on the Day of the Dead after decades of being an Un-person to their family when Miguel was inexplicably given the chance to meet him in the afterlife and know why he left his wife and daughter. Hector didn't want to; Ernesto de la Cruz murdered him. | |
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In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, after the Grinch learns the True Meaning of Christmas and returns the presents he stole, the Whos don't punish him for stealing them in the first place. | |
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