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Homemade Sweater from Hell
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The Homemade Sweater from Hell is a sweater that is one step from being pixelated if it's on television — or otherwise garish. The sleeves might be different lengths, initials might be knitted into it in a bizarre fashion, it might be an awful color or an awful mix of colors, it might be a childish pattern in an adult sweater, or it might just be tasteless. It might even be awfully itchy. And it was a gift from someone who picked it out or knitted it specially (most often parents and grandparents), so even if the character normally has taste, they'll have to wear it and pretend they love it to avoid offending the gifter. Sometimes it will actually look like a perfectly wearable sweater, but most characters will react to it as if it were the most hideous thing ever — an Informed Attribute that's like a distant inanimate relative of Hollywood Homely. This happens most often during Christmas Specials, since that's when most Homemade Sweaters from Hell are worn in Real Life, and also because Christmas imagery lends itself very well to tacky designs (which can range from making the wearer look like they belong underneath the tree to looking like they belong on it). But it doesn't have to be Christmas. A character with a sufficiently bad sense of style or financial problems might wear them all year, weather permitting. With a hint of Irony, these kinds of Christmas Sweaters briefly became high fashion in December 2012. A Sub-Trope of Unwanted Gift Plot and Impossibly Tacky Clothes. Often overlaps with Crappy Homemade Gift, and always does with Clothes for Christmas Cringe. May overlap with Needlework Is for Old People if an old person knits it (which they often do). It might also overlap with The Dreaded "Thank You" Letter if someone has to write to the gift-giver to say thank you. Compare My New Gift Is Lame. Contrast Sexy Sweater Girl when the sweater is seen as attractive rather than tacky, and Handmade Is Better for when the fact that the clothing is handmade is treated as desirable/impressive instead of lame. |
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One of Sherlock's deductions hinged on the assumption that a man would only wear the uncomfortable, hideous Christmas sweater in an effort to please his mum, who presumably was the one who gave it to him. | |
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In Arthur Christmas the titular character wears one, and if the production notes are to be believed, has one for every day of the year. | |
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David, the host of Supermarket Sweep, wore an incredibly loud and oddly-colored sweater in every episode. (It was The '80s.) Buzzr, which airs the reruns, has fun with this in one of its ads, having an elderly-sounding woman explain that "my grandson David" told her how cold it is on the set of the show and "he asked me to knit him some sweaters!" | |
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The Twilight Child: It's suggested that no alicorn can knit at all. Celestia and Luna have caught on, while Cadence hasn't, and every year she knits them sweaters for Hearth's Warming Eve which are incredibly uncomfortable and itchy, and neither of them have yet mustered up the bravery to inform her about this. The only pony immune to the effect of the sweaters is Shining Armor. | |
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The turn-based spinoff Heroes of Dragon Age plays with the trope. Among the creatures who can be collected and used are nugs, the odd little "bunny pigs" from the main series. Four of these, classified as Rare, are the "Nugly Sweater" set; Red, Blue, Black, and White Nugly Sweater nugs each wear a sweater in one of the in-game faction colors. They can generally only be acquired by completing special events during winter months. | |
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Ranma ½: More like the Homemade Scarf from Hell in this case... | |
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Repeatedly subverted in The Addams Family: Morticia knits sweaters that look horribly malformed, but will in fact fit one cousin or another perfectly. | |
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Dr. Hibbert also frequently wears one when he's off-duty, since his family is a parody of The Cosby Show. | |
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On the Pawn Stars Christmas Episode, the Old Man gives Corey one of these... then makes Corey wear it for the whole day. | |
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On That '70s Show, Hyde is given one of these by Kitty on his eighteenth birthday. | |
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On X-Play, when Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb were wearing sweaters like this, Adam said the antler hat didn't emasculate him. Morgan agreed because "It's the sweater that makes you look gay." | |
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The above was hilariously referenced in an episode of White Collar; when Peter's in-laws are coming to visit, he wears the sweater his mother-in-law knit for him, prompting Diana to call him "Dr. Huxtable". | |
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The Simpsons: Implied in the episode "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": Dr. Hibbert also frequently wears one when he's off-duty, since his family is a parody of The Cosby Show. |
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iCarly featured the sweater vest that Freddie's mom picked out for his first date. | |
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In an episode of Justice League, J'onn J'onzz (Martian Manhunter) is visiting the Kents (Superman's family) one Christmas. Martha gives him a sweater, but it's too large. J'onn is pleased with the gift, though, and says he can grow into it; he promptly uses his shapeshifting abilities to do just that. | |
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In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Second Christmas", all the Titans get these for Christmas. They rag on them, but love them. | |
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The Grinch is forced to wear one of these when he attends the Christmas Eve festivities in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. | |
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A Jurby, in The Meaning of Liff, is an article of clothing knitted by an incompetent aunt which reaches to the knees and has at least three armholes. | |
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Borderlands 2: Krieg the Psycho, of all people, has an ugly Christmas sweater as one of his alternate skins. It's a reward for completing the "How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day" DLC. | |
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In Mike & Molly, Mike buys a repugnant green sweater from his partner's cousin. | |
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In the Disney cartoon Pluto's Sweater, Minnie Mouse knits for Pluto a hideously fuchsia sweater, to which he immediately takes a disliking. Forced to wear it outside, and quickly becoming the laughingstock of the neighborhood, Pluto spends the entire cartoon trying to extract himself from it. Figaro spends the entire episode laughing at his misfortune only to be struck with Laser-Guided Karma when it shrinks and is too small for Pluto but now is his size. | |
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In Curtis, the protagonist's dad claims to have won the Ugly Holiday Sweater contest at work for the past three years. He's not too thrilled about it. | |
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MultiVersus: During the game's holiday FestiVersus event, several characters received a new variant titled "Ugly Sweater", having the characters wearing Christmas themed wool sweaters and other winter accessories. | |
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Harry Potter: Mrs. Weasley tends to knit jumpers for all the children for a two-fold purpose: because the Weasleys have very little money and because she's so motherly. No one complains because she's so nice and jolly and they don't want to hurt her feelings. Then again, after the last book showed what she is capable of, perhaps they are too scared. It's mostly Ron (who mainly complains because every year it's maroon, his least favorite color) and Percy who complain about their jumpers, rather than all the children. It's also a bit of heartwarming for Harry. He tends to be given them as presents as well, which not only makes him an unofficial member of the family, but are also the first regular Christmas presents in his entire life; his biological family either give him nothing at all for gift-giving occasions, or else they give him things like toothpicks and coat hangers. (The nicest present they are shown giving him in the entire series is a fifty-pence coin.) Also, while some of the Weasley siblings are more or less horrified at the thought of getting and wearing these jumpers, Harry himself never reacts negatively. It's probably partially because of the heartwarming aspect, but it may also be because the Weasley siblings have simply grown tired of getting a jumper every Christmas or just don't like jumpers in general (even the well-knitted ones). At least, the jumpers don't seem to have many of the tacky traits in the trope description, though sometimes they have the first letter of their owner's name on the front. |
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The Tenchi Muyo! OVA had Ayeka attempt to knit one as a gift for Tenchi. She gets lost in a daydream and knits the thing much longer than it should have been. She's never shown trying to give it to him, though. | |
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In the cold opening of the Producing Parker episode "15 Minutes Of Parker" Massimo is forced into one, much to his chagrin. It causes him to be teased by the other neighborhood dogs and called "snowflake." | |
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In A Green Christmas, Buttercup gets a sweater from her grandpa that's missing a head hole, but she ends up using it as a sleeping bag. | |
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Mark Darcy (Colin Firth's character) in the first Bridget Jones book. | |
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Among the many presents gifted to Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends by his stalker-girl Berry, includes a dumb-looking sweater. Inverted in that he actually likes it, since it fits him so well. His body is basically a cylinder, so he probably does have a hard time finding clothes which fit "really well across the chest". | |
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Garfield: Garfield often gets these as Christmas presents from Jon's mother, and is forced to wear them by Jon. An early strip (1981-12-27) shows the cat tying a loose end to a post and running to unravel his way out, only for Jon's mother to knit it back together almost as fast. On one occasion, he got one that didn't even have a hole for his head. And when she finally gets it right, Jon and Garfield become noticeably worried. While Garfield is a frequent recipient of tacky sweaters, he's not the only one: The December 26, 2021 strip sees Garfield, Jon, Odie, and Liz each receiving one such sweater from Jon's mother (and they match). None of the recipients likes it. |
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Discworld: Mrs. Whitlow, Unseen University's fearsome housekeeper, is noted to knit sweaters that always seem to have something wrong with them, like a neck that's too long or too many sleeves. They always end up in donation bins, but Ankh-Morpork being Ankh-Morpork, there's at least one person who can wear them. John "Not a Vampire at All" Smith, president of the Ankh-Morpork chapter of the Uberwald League of Temperance, is infamous for his dreadful pullovers according to Thud!. There's a picture of one in the Reformed Vampires Diary, along with an explanation that some of the more obsessive League members (and no-one does "obsessive" like a vampire) are deliberately trying to dress as "uncool" as possible, since having style is a vampire thing. Vimes has a "scarf" knitted by Lady Sybil in Jingo that was originally supposed to be a sock. "Er, how long do you think my legs are, Sybil?" |
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In the Mickey Mouse (2013) short "Couple's Sweaters", Mickey is on a date with Minnie, but he's annoyed that they have to wear couple's sweaters, noting that they're incredibly itchy and uncomfortable (he starts breaking out into a rash halfway through the date). In the end, he finally confesses to Minnie about how much he hates those sweaters and only wore them for her sake, only for her to reveal she hates them too. They both agree to never wear them again. | |
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In the Christmas episode of The Muppets (2015) Miss Piggy is trying to decide on a sweater to wear to George Clooney’s ugly sweater party, but she feels like none of her sweaters are ugly enough. Then Scooter enters her dressing room wearing a tacky sweater his mother made for him covered in lights. Piggy takes one look and exclaims, “Scooter! Your sweater is hideous! I must have it!� | |
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Even World of Warcraft has these. Behold the gaudy Winter Veil sweater! | |
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The classic French comedy Le père Noël est une ordure ("Santa Claus Is a Stinker"): One of the characters is offered as a Christmas present such an ugly homemade sweater, he initially thinks it's a mop. | |
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On The Big Bang Theory, Leonard has a red, itchy sweater from his aunt. Sheldon makes him wear it with nothing underneath as part of an In Another Man's Shoes scheme (he wants to show Leonard how not having closure is like an itch in his brain), and it gives him a terrible rash (causing Penny to ask, "Is it made of bees?"). | |
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In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Maddie rigs the Secret Santa so that London draws her name, hoping for an expensive gift. However, London, after being told that homemade gifts are more thoughtful, knits Maddie a sweater... in the loosest sense of the word "sweater", since it has three arms and no neckhole. | |
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Kankri of Homestuck wears a lurid candy-red turtleneck, which was a gift from Porrim which she hoped would conceal his even uglier high-waisted pants. | |
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A couple of times in Retail a customer comes in wearing an ugly sweater asking if he could return a sweater. When the retail worker of the strip says they can't return something worn, the customer glares and holds up a different sweater they're returning. | |
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In the second DuckTales (2017) Christmas Episode, "How Santa Stole Christmas!", Scrooge's Christmas gifts for the kids are woolen hats, as he believes they deserve something practical. While Webby eagerly accepts her gift, the boys are less than pleased with theirs. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's iconic green-and-red striped sweater started as one of these, but now it's hideous for a much different reason. | |
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An episode of Leave It to Beaver was about Beaver giving his mother a sweater that she really didn't like, but was too nice to tell him about it. And then he suggested that she should wear it to a parent/teacher meeting. | |
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Vimes has a "scarf" knitted by Lady Sybil in Jingo that was originally supposed to be a sock. "Er, how long do you think my legs are, Sybil?" | |
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An episode of Lizzie McGuire revolved around Lizzie's reluctance to wear a bright green homemade unicorn sweater in her Yearbook photo. | |
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One Scamp story has the Tramp trying to deal with an embarrassing dog sweater his owners made for him. He literally gets stuck in it trying to get it off, until Scamp shrinks it off using cold water. Unfortunately, it shrinks small enough that Lady makes Scamp wear it instead. This story appears to be adapted from the animated short Pluto's Sweater, where Minnie gives Pluto a sweater and Figaro ends up getting it after it shrinks. (And by the way, it was turned into a comic too. Interestingly, the original short wasn't set at Christmastime, but the comic adaptation was.) | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Tooey's Hole-i-Day Sweater", it's revealed that in the Ookami family, you have to wear an ugly Christmas sweater until you outgrow it. Tooey's older brothers Jay and John both had to wear it before handing it down to Tooey. Tooey thought that this year would be the last year that he wears the sweater, but it gets a hole, is fixed, and he has to wear it for years to come. | |
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Dead by Daylight offers an "Ugly Sweaters" collection every holiday season, with more being added each year. | |
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Do not let Louise start knitting in The Hill of Swords. Whatever she knits invariably will come alive at some point and attack either her or the person wearing the article of clothing. And she keeps trying! | |
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In So Awkward, Lily's mum has a habit of knitting her jumpers that are both hideous and embarrassing. In "Parentology", she knits Lily a jumper with Lily's own face on it. Then, under the mistaken impression that Ollie is Lily's boyfriend, she knits him one with his face on it. | |
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Given by Wally West (The Flash) to his wife one Christmas — not to be worn, but as a reminder of her speech on what really mattered in giving. The sweater is actually store-bought, and a running joke in the story is wondering who buys the hideous things. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Home Cooked Meal", Miss Enright knits one for Mr. Boynton. One arm is terribly short, tight, and cuts off his circulation. The other is far too long. | |
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In "Christmas in Kansas", part of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series, Martha Kent gives everyone in the family, and the visiting Bruce and Diana, tacky Christmas-themed sweaters she found on sale. Diana loves hers; Bruce hates his, but grudgingly accepts it when she cheerfully guilt-trips him about how difficult it is to find a sweater that will fit a man with his shoulders and muscles. | |
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An episode of KaBlam! had a scene where Henry's mom gives him an embarrassing purple sweater with a train on it. | |
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Teen Titans (2003): Mother Mae-Eye has Starfire wear an oversized green sweater with a red stripe. | |
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¡Three Amigos!. On El Guapo's birthday, his bandits give him an ugly two-tone sweater as a present. Hilariously, despite getting something as useless as a butt-ugly sweater in the Mexican badlands, El Guapo likes it and he wears it like a mantle for the rest of the scene. | |
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In Glee, such sweaters were commonplace in Artie's wardrobe, as per his nerdy image. As the series progressed, though, they became less prevalent. | |
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One episode of M*A*S*H had Hawkeye receive a sweater in a care package from his sister. It was nicely made and would keep its wearer quite warm. Unfortunately, it was also several sizes too large, a rather repulsive shade of pink, and one sleeve was longer than the other (and even the shorter one was too long for Hawkeye's arms). | |
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The Loud House: In a flashback from "Sleuth or Consequences", Lincoln attempts to flush one of these made by his mom down the toilet. He ends up clogging it in the process, earning yet another tattling from Lola. In "Insta-Gran", Pop-Pop's new girlfriend Myrtle gives all the Loud kids one of these. |
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Kim Possible: Kim's Nana presents her with a rather bulky wool sweater (in Florida, in the summer). Taking it off messes up Kim's hair worse than any fight or Death Trap ever did. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: As part of the fun of staging his very own old-fashioned variety-show Christmas special, the Joker wears a Bing Crosby-style turtleneck / cardigan ensemble in bright red and deep green. There's no clashing patterns, but the colors look absolutely hideous next to each other. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In "Santa Claus", Gypsy gives Mike a sweater with "JOIKE" embroidered on it. (She started making it for Joel, but then he escaped in a convenient plot device.) Mike actually likes it, though. Gypsy makes a complete set of them in "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't". There's nothing wrong with this batch... except for the fact that, going by the initials knitted on them, each sweater was given to the wrong person. Jonah and the other bots like them anyway. |
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In the Regular Show episode "The Christmas Special," Benson wore a tacky reindeer sweater that even Santa himself insulted. | |
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Splatoon 2: The theme of the December 2017 Splatfest for North America & Oceania was a battle of undesirable holiday presents, Sweaters vs. Socks. | |
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One early Hannah Montana episode had Miley get a sweater with what looked like a stuffed cat in the front and back... AND it meows! In the same episode, Oliver mentions that he got the puppy version for Christmas. It barks "Jingle Bells." They duet at the end of the episode (the sweaters, that is). | |
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In What You Wish For, Lori Loud notes that the Christmas sweaters are ugly. | |
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Scootamom: Princess Celestia's first attempt at knitting is anything but a rousing success. It manages to warp space and time around itself, and ordinary ponies become sick just looking at it. (A Physical Goddess did it, and even she isn't sure how.) Scootaloo thinks it's really cool, though. | |
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Ireland and big woolly jumpers go together. Veteran crooner Val Doonican was renowned for them on his weekly variety TV show. And Father Ted was like an anti-fashion show for horrible woolens. Father Maguire's lurid tank-tops were just the start of it. Aran sweaters of varying degrees of fit were the approved uniform for folkies such as The Chieftains. | |
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Harold and Hilda of Ever Decreasing Circles wear matching homemade sweaters in every episode. It never turns up in the script, but it's heavily implied that Hilda hand-knit these herself. | |
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This comes up on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's segment on the "Right to be forgotten" (i.e., the right to remove embarrassing things about oneself from the Internet without invoking the Streisand Effect) when John suggests that everyone share their most embarrassing photos online all at once so to all be on the same page. His first example is a picture of himself as a child wearing a sweater with his own name on it, but he says that that picture doesn't really count, because he actually likes the picture. | |
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In A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, Fozzie wears one that was made by his mother, and presents the human Claire and her mother with identical sweaters. One of the extras on the DVD reveals that his mother actually made the exact same sweater for everyone in the entire cast. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, to make up for her sudden outburst towards Koichi, Yukako gives him multiple gifts, one being a hand-made sweater that fully displays his name, which only creeps him out even more. | |
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In Make the Yuletide Gay, the mom seems to wear nothing but them. | |
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In Cul-de-sac, Mrs. Otterloop's Christmas sweaters are all somehow able to play out an animated scene related to the holidays (for example, a snow plow clearing away falling snow. They're also pretty stiff — Alice injures herself running to hug her mother while she's wearing one, and Mrs. Otterloop can't bend over to pick her up afterwards. | |
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Many Danny Phantom fanons that involve ghost puberty or Danny receiving his powers for the first time involve Danny having to hide glow spots or his jumpsuit with an ugly Christmas Sweater. It's ironic since Danny hated Christmas before The Fright Before Christmas in the canon. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob once made Squidward an itchy sweater made from his own eyelashes. To make up for it, he makes another sweater out of tears. | |
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In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled's Winter Festival Grand Prix, Polar can get one as a costume. In a subversion of this trope, he doesn't seem to mind too much (probably because he's a non-evolved polar bear). | |
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Nanase from El Goonish Shive often wears a cutesy heart sweater to please her mother. She changes out of it whenever possible, because it tends to subvert the badass image she likes to project. | |
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In Better Off Dead, Jenny gives her husband Al a truly horrific hooded aardvark suit for Christmas, complete with ears and a snout. He makes the comment that everyone will be wearing one next year, then goes outside and finds his neighbor is indeed wearing one as well. | |
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This Bites!: Perona made a few of these for the Christmas season, and forces Absalom and Doctor Hogback to wear them (though it takes her using one of her more powerful, fear-inducing techniques before Absalom agrees to it). | |
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Doctor Who: In "Amy's Choice", the Doctor is at one point asked by an old woman to try on a sweater she's knitting for her grandson. Said sweater makes the Sixth Doctor's coat look like the epitome of good taste. | |
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In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella Wonderella is far from impressed with the kitschy holiday sweater phenomenon, and yells that Kilroy and his henchmen look like horses' asses. | |
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Dorkly Originals In "Dr. Light's Gift To Mega Man X", Dr. Light makes X wear a Christmas sweater he knitted for him, but X doesn't want to wear it because he's afraid the mavericks will laugh at him. |
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In 2013 YouTube comedy channel JASH had several of its member comedians (Sarah Silverman, Tim & Eric, Reggie Watts, Michael Cera) don these for a cancer charity texting campaign. | |
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Averted and Played Straight in Level 30 Psychiatry. Roll makes very nice and tasteful winter sweaters but while she puts the extra effort into Gardevoir's one (including holes for her chest-horns), the egg-shaped Chansey gets a very ill-fitting sweater. | |
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In an episode of Pushing Daisies, Emerson Cod complains to the Coroner about the Christmas sweater the Coroner is wearing and how a Christmas sweater is a stupid gift to get for Christmas, since you can only wear it on Christmas. | |
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Mo Rocca made a comment about how he disliked homemade sweaters while on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, claiming that homemade sweaters are "always itchy." The following week, host Peter Sagal reported that "the knitting community" was up in arms over the remark, and Mo phoned in a prepared statement apologizing for using the "i-word" and saying that his comments were indefensible even though there was a reason behind them involving his time as an exchange student in Ecuador, limited sleeping arrangements having forced him to bunk with the family's teenage alpaca, Chucho. The knitters' response to Mo's remark culminated in several members from Ravelry.com teaming up and presenting Mo with a sweater they'd made. He accepted the present, put it on, and good-naturedly admitted that his new sweater wasn't itchy at all. Observe. |
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In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, a DLC conversation features Tyme knitting a sweater for her sister Ryme. At first, Ryme refuses to wear it because a beige sweater clashes with her rapper image. She eventually agrees to wear it while off the clock, though. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown: Greg decides to put on a sweater his Grandma knit for Sweetie in her house. It fits, but it's super itchy, possibly because the dog had fleas. | |
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One mission in Bully had Jimmy receiving a terrible Christmas sweater from his mother, and had to walk all the way back to the dorm to change it. The other students would laugh at him for wearing it, though if you wanted to wear it anyway, you could make Jimmy beat them up for laughing at him. | |
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In the QI K season Christmas Episode, the panelists wear ugly holiday sweaters. | |
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle: One of the reasons the kids love her is that she accepts such gifts (for example, an overly-long scarf) with sincere joy and enthusiasm. | |
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Regina knits one of these for Steve to celebrate their one-month anniversary on The Steve Harvey Show. | |
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Alluded to in Home Alone. Kevin tells the snow-shoveler that his grandma gave him a hand-knit sweater with a giant bird on it, which he refused to wear because of a fear of getting beaten up at school. | |
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Homestar Runner The stairway of the house of the Brothers Strong has pictures of Strong Mad and The Cheat wearing hand-made holiday sweaters, implying some relation knits Christmas sweaters for all four residents, despite their... unique physiques making for some weird measurements. One of the shorts featured in "Decemberween in July" is a music video by The Cheat for a song about "Seasonal Sweaters" performed by Marzipan. The video features a number of garish sweaters, many of which also have cheesy slogans on them (like "What Shopping?" and "Ho Hum"). Homestar receives an ugly brown sweater as a Decemberween gift from Marzipan's parents in "A Death Defying Decemberween." |
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The "Itchy Sweater" upgrade from Cookie Clicker. Supposedly, it makes its wearer feel like you're wrapped in a dead Sasquatch. | |
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I ♡ Arlo: In "Swamp Itch", Arlo gets a sweater from Edmee, which in turn causes him to get a swamp itch. | |
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From Firefly, Jayne's "Cunning Hat" may not be a sweater, but it surely must qualify, considering that it's ridiculous-looking, knit, and made by his mother. Subverted in that he gives every indication that he loves the hideous thing. Ironically, the hat has taken on a life of its own, becoming a symbol for the fandom and a rather popular merch item. |
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Brian gets one of these on Family Guy in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas": | |
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An unusual variant appears in Fairy Godmother Tycoon, depending on how you choose to resolve Little Bo Peep's lost sheep incident. If you persuade the Pied Piper to give her all his rats to replace her sheep, she knits you one of these. It's not shown, but the horribleness is implied by the fact that the sweater is made from rat hair. | |
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Sea Princesses: A beanie rather than a sweater, but in "The Runaway Grandmother", it's Salacia Day and every year Ester's grandmother knits her an embarrassing red beanie, which she loses so she can wear something much cooler. This year, she replaces it with a headband, just as her grandmother appears. | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Loose Screw", Stella Starbella knits sweaters for Wander (his is way too big) and Sylvia (hers is way too small). | |
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Averted nicely with Gravity Falls. Mabel makes her own sweaters, and their perceived ugliness is a work of art to her. She makes one for everyone in the series finale, and everyone agrees they're very comfortable; even Pacifica swallows her pride and puts hers on. | |
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