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Or, as English Majors know them: Subordinate Clauses. Usually occurring during the Christmas-themed episode, a male character gets a job at The Mall (or a department store in older works) as Santa Claus, either for a part-time job or as a last-minute substitute. Hilarity Ensues. We invariably see a series of kids on his lap doing things like questioning his authenticity as the "real" Santa Claus, attempting to pull off his beard, asking for extravagant or impossible gifts, or, in the most crass of Sit Coms, urinating on him out of fear (more refined sitcoms might have the kid simply cry out of fear). A common joke has the Mall Santa promising to deliver an outrageous gift come Christmas, much to the dismay of the kid's parents. If the character playing the Mall Santa is a cynical Jaded Washout/Deadpan Snarker type, he may comment on the materialistic behavior of the kids or the commercialism of Christmas. Added points if the Mall Santa is drunk. The female equivalent is being stuck in a Sexy Santa Dress and/or hideous "helper elf" outfit. In more outlandish shows with Speculative Fiction or Mundane Fantastic premises, the character may be the real deal after all, or maybe he could be the real deal but the jury is out. Occasionally one encounters a Jewish mall Santa. |
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Everybody Hates Chris, Julius plays Santa at the mall for extra money. When the children tell him what they want for Christmas, he makes them cry merely by honestly telling them how expensive the toys/gifts are, how long their parents will have to work for it, and how they might not get what they want. | |
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Clone High: The episode "Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode" features a variant with a Mall Snowflake Jake, as it is established in the setting that Christmas and all other religious holidays have been abolished and replaced by a secular winter holiday called Snowflake Day, with a pirate named Snowflake Jake being the Santa Claus equivalent. | |
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In the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, Rowley is seen on a mall Santa's lap, asking for a puppy, a cat, and a gumball machine. | |
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The eponymous Tourettes Guy aptly describes his dad as one. Big mistake. | |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High has in its brief mention of Christmas a Mall Santa dealing with a wet lap from a child peeing in his pants. | |
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There was an episode of That '70s Show where Red worked as a Mall Santa: | |
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On Shake it Up, CeCe gets a job in the mall as Santa's Helper after wasting the money for her mother's Christmas present. | |
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The Simpsons In the pilot episode, Homer becomes one in order to get the money to buy his family their Christmas presents. Bart finds out it's him when Milhouse dares him to rip off his beard. The much later episode "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" featured the title Jack Lemmon figure giving Lisa her wish in his guise as Santa, getting fired over it, and spending the next year sponging off the Simpsons. After the year has passed, Bart is still a ten-year-old fourth grader and Lisa is still eight and in the second grade. |
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In Kevin & Kell, Kevin takes a temp job as a mall Santa to earn the money to buy Kell's family heirlooms from her brother Ralph, who plans to sell them off anyway. He's surprised when ex-wife Angelique, herding her stepchildren from her (failed) second marriage, fails to recognize him. (It's pointed out to him that, with twenty children to keep track of, anyone would be a bit distracted.) | |
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On Are You Being Served?, an episode dealt with the store employees' competition to be the Mall Santa. | |
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The European horror/comedy short subjects and the later film Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale purport to tell the true story of where the red-suited entities seen in stores at Christmas actually come from. They're actually centuries-old cryptozoological wild men, captured and trained until they can be trusted to hold children on their laps without ripping them apart. That is, unless someone is foolish enough to do one of the things that enrages them... It's revealed in The Movie that these "Santas" are in fact just Santa's little elves. The real Santa is much, much worse. And most definitely Mall Santa material. | |
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Thelma Harper takes on the job in the Mama's Family episode "Santa Mama", to fill in for her son Vinton, who lost his voice practicing his "Ho Ho Ho". | |
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Dash & Lily: Lily's "Uncle Sal", a good friend of her grandfather's, works as a Santa at Macy's. He plays a role in one dare. | |
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And in the crossover with Jessie, Bob takes Charlie to a mall Santa. | |
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Mary Jane Watson gets a job as one of Santa's helpers in the Christmas display at Macy's Department Store. She feels more than a little silly in her Christmas Elves outfit, but she turns out to actually be pretty good at the job. The next year, Mary Jane plays the main role herself when the men who play Santa aren't available. She dresses up as Mrs. Claus and invites the kids to sit on her lap, explaining that Santa had a bad cold and he didn't want anyone to get sick, so she's filling in for him. |
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In World of Fizz Fergo, already a security guard, was assigned to play Santa at the mall one year. | |
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Roseanne convinces her boss to let her play Santa herself, and the kids fall for it even though she doesn't remotely sound like a man. Jackie plays Mrs. Claus...as a drill sergeant photographer. | |
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In Merry Christmas Mr. Bean we see Mr. Bean has a habit of annoying mall Santas by pulling their beard off. One of them unfortunately has a real beard... | |
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A random Santa Claus can be seen wondering the streets of Dobuita late in the year in Shenmue. He carries a bell, greets with "Merry Christmas" and everything. | |
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Discussed in The Polar Express where the ticket conductor notes that the boy didn't get his photo taken with a department store Santa. | |
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Tariq dresses up like this to earn some cash in the KateModern episode "Grabbed By The Bells". "You think your life is a mess? I'm a 24-year-old Muslim man dressed as Santa!" | |
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Coco from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends gets a job as one in "A Lost Claus", saying she needed the money to pay off her vacation home. When Mac accidentally rips her beard off, she's fired and refuses to speak to Mac for the rest of the day. | |
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Dirty Bertie: In the story "Elf!", Bertie's dad has to be a mall Santa while Bertie has to be a helper elf. He finds the job boring and wants to be a goblin instead. | |
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Santa Vs. Zombies: The main kids are brought to a mall, and the boy rips the Mall Santa's fake beard off. | |
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In Fred Claus Fred gets harassed by several mall Santas for working on the street with no permit. They give chase of him through the streets and into a shopping mall where Fred eventually takes them out with toys. | |
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Married... with Children. Considering that many of the kids' parents were neighbors Al didn't like, he told one kid to tell daddy to stay home when the mailman comes over. He tells a girl who wants a pony that he'll leave one under the tree, but if it's not there by morning, her mother chased it away and killed it... Al dressed as Santa becuase earlier in the episode a new mall was doing a promotion in which a guy dressed as Santa would parachute down into the mall parking lot... only for the Santa to end up slam dunking in the Bundy's back yard. Al dressing up was to get the kids to go away so medical personal could haul away what was left of the "Splattered Santa." Al got a job as a Mall Santa in two other episodes — one on season seven and again near the end of the series' run after two young men replace Al and Griff at the shoe store. |
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Dr. Rockzo, the Rock & Roll Clown who does Cocaine, got a job as a Mall Santa after he was given a Get Outof Jail Free Card. Toki, who apparently believes in Santa Claus, ran into him. "That's don'ts makes sense!" |
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In an early MADtv (1995) Christmas Episode, Nicole Sullivan's Vancome Lady character serves as a gatekeeper to one of these. She turns away one kid for being fat, another for being homeless (she isn't), and another for being Jewish, all with her trademark phrase "Tcha, you know what? Uh uh!" She is, of course, fired, but as a parting shot reveals a bit of the mall Santa's indiscretions with her and then tears off his fake beard. | |
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Murphy Brown: Murphy uses her Intrepid Reporter skills to find the absolute best Mall Santa in the DC area for her son's first Christmas photo. Then when she gets there, it's his day off. | |
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Hot Fuzz features a scene of Peter Jackson as Father Christmas stabbing Simon Pegg in the hand. | |
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The Fanboy and Chum Chum episode "A Very Brrr-y Christmas" has Mr. Mufflin work as a Mall Man-Arctica (an ice-themed superhero who also happens to be this universe's Santa Claus) at the Frosty Mart. | |
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Tycho from Penny Arcade worked as one. | |
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Madam & Eve: Thandi ambushes the Mall Santa and forces him to listen to her wish list here.◊ | |
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The Wonder Years: The fourth-season episode "A Very Cutlip Christmas" sees Kevin go to the mall (to buy Winnie a present) and he recognizes his nemesis, Coach Edward Cutlip, as Santa Claus. Instead of his overbearing, bullying behavior shown in class, Cutlip is shown to be very tender and kind to little children, a point he makes to Kevin when the two visit about their encounter. Kevin sees Coach in a new light and is rewarded with kinder treatment, but it doesn't last. Still, Kevin gets some new insights about Coach: the man he is at school (a pushy, overbearing teacher who tries too hard to get the most out of his students) and the man he is outside the classroom (a deeply insecure man who loves children and truly sees working with youths as his passion). | |
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Harry from 3rd Rock from the Sun was a helper for a mall Santa, and mentioned that children over 16 years of age should not sit on Santa's lap. He was also horrified when he saw the mall Santa remove his costume, as Harry had believed he was really Santa. | |
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Kenan & Kel had Kenan playing the Mall Santa (after the previous one was knocked out by a Spoiled Brat) to earn the last bit of money he needs to buy a mountain bike he'd been saving up for. However, after getting his money he decides use it to buy gifts for two of the kids he met whose mother couldn't afford to buy them herself. The real Santa rewards Kenan for his generosity by delivering the bike under his family's tree. | |
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Elf: Buddy, who knows the real Santa, is incensed when an impostor shows up at the department store he works in. He accuses the fake of smelling "like beef and cheese!" and gets into a fistfight with him. After that, the store gets a different Santa- who is black. It's funnier than that: the black Mall Santa is the manager of the toy department and Buddy's former boss, implying like hell they had no time to find a replacement. |
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In Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas, Chief Quimby is disguised as a Mall Santa in one of the series' more memorable extended gags. | |
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Crabgrass: In a december 2021 storyline, Miles is revealed to still believe in Santa, and convinces Kevin to believe again so they can get a video game they want. To ensure Santa knows Kevin is a believer, Kevin gets his mom to bring him and Miles to visit the santa at the mall. However, Kevin immediatly makes it clear to the guy that he knows he's not the real Santa, and even rips his beard off to prove it. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In "Christmas Tree of Might", one of Turles' mooks had this job, and he was particularly nasty about it, dropping a fire truck on one kid's house and killing another because he asked him to get rid of his cancer. | |
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Both versions of Miracle on 34th Street supposedly use the real Santa, Kris Kringle, as a department store Santa. In the original, it's Macy's; in the remake, it's Cole's. He's replacing a terrible, drunken Mall Santa, so bonus points there. | |
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Look Who's Talking Now features Kirstie Alley's character having to work as a department store Santa's Elf. A kid asks her if she's an elf, and she replies that she's actually a Vulcan. | |
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In an early Something*Positive strip, Jason works as a mall Santa. A circle of children's heads demonstrates the inevitable questions posed to him. The final panel is someone asking him what he wants for Christmas, to which he replies, "A vasectomy." On top of this, though, the first girl on his lap mentioned how she'd asked for a kitten the year before, and instead got Tap shoes (metal plates on the heels and toes). Her mother told her to thank Santa for bringing them, and she decided to show them off, leading into a Curse Cut Short. Given just that experience, who can blame Jason for being a bit cynical? |
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In Rocket Power, the gang find an Embarrassing Old Photo of Otto and Reggie sitting on Santa's lap when they were younger, which features Otto crying hysterically. A subplot also features Tito auditioning to play a Mall Santa. | |
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In A Pinky and the Brain Christmas, The Brain once tried to take over the World by posing as a Mall Santa. Given his diminutive size, it did not end well. | |
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Kramer in Seinfeld. | |
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In the Naturally, Sadie episode "A Very Sadie Christmas", Hal gets a job as a mall Santa and uses it as an opportunity to scam free stuff, demanding bribes from kids in exchange for promising to grant their Christmas wishes. | |
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The Flash (2014): The season 2 Christmas Episode "Running to Stand Still" has a dark twist on this trope when The Trickster dresses up as a Mall Santa so he can give the children visiting him a present with a bomb, which he then threatens to detonate if Flash doesn't allow Weather Wizard to beat him in a fight. | |
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The Flintstones: "Christmas Flintstone" has Fred get a second job at the mall and eventually becomes a Mall Santa. He loves it, but then he gets approached to stand in for a very real, very sick Santa Claus. | |
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In the Drake & Josh Christmas movie, Drake plays Santa, while his brother Josh plays Santa's sack (of toys). Drake ends up making a promise to a little girl that the two of them spend the rest of the movie keeping. | |
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The crime film The Silent Partner involves a mall Santa who turns out to be a bank robber...and then gets caught up in dueling gambits with a teller at the bank who wants to keep the loot for himself. | |
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The Day Santa Stopped Believing In Harold: Santa himself apparently worked at a mall the previous year, where he was surprised that Harold had had a growth spurt that drastically changed his appearance. | |
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Multiplex has the Blogger play the part of a movie theater Santa, in which role he frequently argues with the kids' taste in movies, at odds with the jolly persona he's supposed to maintain. On quite a few occasions he loses the argument. | |
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The holiday episode of Welcome Freshmen has Walter going to visit a mall Santa (despite being in high school). When Santa gets Walter to confess to a few transgressions, he realizes that "Santa" is actually his father doing a little moonlighting. | |
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In "A Berry Bear Christmas" on Bear in the Big Blue House, the kids were told that Santa Claus was busy, so they got to meet one of his helpers, Santa Hogg, at the Woodland Valley Mall, who was actually just regular character Doc Hogg dressed up. | |
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The Ends has the crazy priest preaching from a mall Santa's chair. | |
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Psycho Mantis attempted to get a job as one in The Last Days of Foxhound. He bounced when someone got ahold of his employee record (or, rather, complete lack of one). Ocelot, upon learning of it, becomes completely freaked out. | |
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The cast of Glee encounter a rather Jerkass mall Santa, who promises dim Brittany that he will cure Artie's paralysis. In Season 4, Santana, Kurt and Rachel work as Santa's Helpers. They bring home the mall Santa who proceeds to rob them. |
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Monk, in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa": Monk and Natalie go undercover at a shopping mall trying to locate the person Stottlemeyer suspects tried to kill him. To do so, this involves Monk being disguised as a Mall Santa, with Natalie wearing a wig to pose as his elf. Although the humor revolved around Monk's obsessive compulsive disorder and having to be up close to children. | |
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Nip/Tuck, where a drunken Sean dons the Santa outfit. | |
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The Loud House: In "The Whole Picture", one of Lincoln's photos he tries to recreate with Clyde is him sitting on a mall Santa's lap. | |
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In Hogfather, Death (who's already standing in for the real deal), attempts to replace the Hogfather at an expensive department store. Since he already has the Hogfather's sack, he horrifies the store owner by giving away wonderful presents, thereby heavily eating into the profits. Not to mention Death's failure to perceive certain human conventions regarding appropriate gifts for children. Such as the full-size, completely real broadsword he hands to a little girl, before being hastily convinced that a fully functional weapon might not be the best idea (he just turned the blade to wood). Or a girl wants a real life pony to be in her home... in a second floor apartment. Overall, he gives children toys that they actually want, rather than what their parents consider appropriate for them. Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes not. | |
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The main six in Recess meet a mall Santa in the Christmas Episode. Though out of frustration, he rips his beard off and asks his assistant if they can get the next mall Santa to cover. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series had hard-nosed gumshoe Harvey Bullock going undercover as a mall Santa. Let's just say there have been better candidates. | |
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Fountains of Wayne has a song called "The Man in the Santa Suit" about an unnamed guy doing this. He is not very good at it, but the song is from his POV, so it's pointed out that neither is anyone else. | |
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In "Dan Vs. the Mall Santa", Dan is actually an elf. However, a matter of opinion (plus the fact that the Mall Santa is a Jerkass) causes him and the faux Santa to bicker. In the end, however, Dan ends up getting him fired for beating him up, and takes his place as the Mall Santa. | |
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The fourth episode of Helluva Boss has a group of Cherubs trying to show an infirm, suicidal supervillain a mall Santa to show the simple joys and purpose that childhood wonderment can provide. Blitzo gives them the counter-argument by revealing "Santa" to be a gross, scabby pedophile in disguise. Chaos ensues. | |
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Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace (US) has been a Mall Santa at least once◊. Much to his annoyance, Dennis and his friends have come to see him. | |
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The Boondocks episode "A Huey Freeman Christmas" has a subplot where Riley, angry at not having received a Christmas gift he asked for in previous years, physically attacks the local Mall Santa with golf clubs and BB guns. After hiring a security guard for Santa does nothing to deter Riley, Uncle Ruckus is left as the only Woodcrest resident willing to be the Mall Santa, but none of the children who come to the mall are willing to accept a black Santa Claus as real. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In the episode, "Nice-Capades", the Belcher kids harass a man out of a store's massage chair, only to learn that he was a Mall Santa on his break. Worried that he'll tell the real Santa about their bad behavior, Louise schemes with her siblings to put on an ice show to show just how nice they were all year. In "Yachty or Nice", Teddy is playing Santa at the Yacht Club boat parade, handing out presents donated by Yacht Club members. Louise thinks she can get Teddy to give her and her siblings good presents without getting in line, but he’s too nice to do that. |
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Archie comics have used this plot in many a Christmas themed storyline. Archie gets this job himself a lot. One year he tried to use it to get present intel from Betty and Veronica, but the girls saw through it and tricked him instead. Another year he learned the True Meaning of Christmas from some special children he met on the job. A one-shot Li'l Jinx featured the titular character pestering a mall santa about a letter she got. One Betty and Veronica double digest cover, in which a teenaged Betty is bothering a mall Santa. Yet another story featured Betty and Veronica as Mall Santas. This isn't counting the times they've just worn a Sexy Santa Dress. |
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The Sliders Christmas episode, "Season's Greedings" had Arturo become a mall Santa with Wade and Rembrandt as his elves. | |
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The Brady Bunch had a rare aversion of the trope, a kind man who was very patient with the children, even one who asked for a huge list of things and clearly had Santa bewildered. The problem was when Cindy came to him with a selfless but impossible wish he didn't have it in him to tell her it might not happen. (Thankfully, this being the Brady-verse, it did.) | |
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In A Christmas Story, Ralphie goes to the Department Store to ask Santa for his Red Ryder BB Gun. This Santa is a particularly nasty, arrogant, and impatient one as are his two elves. He becomes just the latest character to mention to Ralphie that "You'll shoot your eye out!" right before he boots him down the slide. | |
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In The Santa Clause, Scott Calvin assumes that the guy who fell off his roof while dressed like Santa just needs a ride back to the mall. He has no idea... In addition, while looking for Scott after he "abducted" Charlie, the police arrest about a dozen Santas. |
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A.N.T. Farm: Darryl takes a job as Mall Santa to spy on Roxanne and figure out what she got him for Christmas so he can know what to get her, as well as appointing Cameron as his elf. They both end up fired when their cover is blown, and the manager later hires Lexi as the new Santa and Paisely as the elf. While Paisely seems to enjoy the job, Lexi finds her Santa costume to be her worst nightmare. | |
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According to Jim. Jim gets into a minor car accident at Christmas time. The other guy gives him fake information. Later, Jim recognizes him as the mall Santa. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The one in All I Want for Christmas is visited twice, due to Hallie thinking her first wish was phrased wrong. | |
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Saturday Night Live An early fake commercial for "Santi-Wrap", a plastic sheet similar to disposable toilet seat covers, featured John Belushi as a slovenly, drunken mall Santa, thereby illustrating why such a product is necessary. A later SNL featured Master Thespian taking the job of mall Santa, seemingly without doing the research and winging it - even working in a hammy death scene. Then there was the Sally Field/Tony, Toni, Tone episode where Chris Farley's motivational speaker character Matt Foley plays a Mall Santa. |
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Peanuts: In an often-reprinted strip, Linus tells Lucy that he wished the store Santa a Happy Hanukkah and discussed "Judas Maccabeus and the cleansing of the Temple" with him. "It's not often you find a Santa Claus interested in religion", he says... It also occurred in a later series of strips which involved Sally Brown expressing her concern that Santa could, "have a coronary in some kid's living room", and visiting a department store to tell the Santa there to watch out for his cholesterol and try to, "check for a crease in his ear lobes." She gets chucked out of the place and arrives home to hear news that a department store Santa had a heart attack and had to be rushed to hospital after a little girl caused a disturbance earlier on. |
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Zim abducts a mall Santa to gain information about how to use the image of Santa Claus to Take Over the World. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: In issue #378 (by Peter David), Rhino (a supervillain) becomes a Mall Santa. He gives this advice to kids: "Give! Give! Give! You want everything handed to you! Why not do what I do? Take stuff! See it? Want it? Take it!" | |
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Leverage: A mall Santa comes to the team for help because he was fired and the new mall Santas all seem to be criminals. Elliot ends up playing Santa for a while and is terrible at it, but Parker seems to enjoy her role as a Christmas Elf. | |
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Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future features Danny Fenton playing a mall Santa, which is he explains is a way for him to afford presents for his children. | |
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Mall Santa | |
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In PvP, Skull is accidentally pressganged into being a mall Santa while stoned on a bad orange julius and ends up telling a mother where she can buy the game console Francis had squirreled away for himself. | |
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Without a Trace: The victim in one episode was a mall Santa. He'd had a confrontation with a slutty woman with a thing for Santas and a brawl with the mall's previous Santa (which the woman found very sexy). | |
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Boston Legal had an episode in the first season where Alan Shore represents a mall Santa who's a Wholesome Crossdresser (not at work) in a court action to keep him from being fired because of it. This ends with Al Sharpton being coming into the courtroom and having no clue what he's doing, and saying "So give the world a black Santa Clause!" | |
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Mall Santa | |
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In the Team Fortress 2 comic "A Smissmas Story", Scout, Soldier, and Spy all end up being sentenced to community service for blowing up a mall santa training facility. Being Team Fortress, Hilarity Ensues | |
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In SHAZAM! (2019), there's a recurring extra of a Mall Santa who keeps getting caught in the middle of the fights between Shazam and Dr. Sivana. In the aftermath of the final battle, he ends up hijacking a news report and letting out a Cluster Bleep-Bomb. | |
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In Beetlejuice, the episode "Keeping Up With the Boneses" sees Beetlejuice forced to work off his credit card debt by becoming a badly-costumed Mall Santa (a pillow he's using as stuffing is visible), with Lydia playing his elf. Beetlejuice, of course, is less than happy about all of this. | |
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Justice Society of America: Ma Hunkel, the original Red Tornado, spent time each Christmas as a mall Santa. A group of crooks make the mistake of attempting to rob her mall on the Christmas Eve the JSA turn up to recruit her as their housekeeper. | |
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An AsteroidQuest Christmas Special side-story has Polo and Rokoa in a Buddy Cop Show, currently looking for an important witness in a mall. When he's spotted in Santa's chair, Polo is extremely displeased, because it means that the only way she can talk to the witness without attracting suspicion from nearby crooks will be through making use of her diminutive stature to approach him a a kid. | |
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Brad from The Class Menagerie was one, and approved of a kid's desire to have a shotgun for Christmas. | |
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Mall Santa | |
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While not in a mall, there's a mission where you have to beat up elves belonging to a man in a Santa costume in the town square in Bully. The hobo Santa could also count. | |
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Mall Santa | |
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A few have been featured on World's Dumbest.... They tend to be very drunk. | |
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Bad Santa featured a thief working as a Mall Santa in order to rob the stores. | |
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In Home Alone, Kevin runs to find a Santa in time on Christmas Eve. He finds one getting into his car after quitting time. He quickly puts his beard back on and does his best Jolly Old St. Nick, but Kevin tells him not to bother. He already knows he's not the real Santa, but he knows he does work for him. The Santa just goes with it. Kevin then asks him to relay the message that he wants his family back. | |
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2 Broke Girls: The two girls get jobs as Santa's Helpers during Christmas in order to make a few extra bucks. | |
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In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, feeling the barghests, Miranda asks for direction, and is sent to the mall. Where they find that the Mall Santa is actually Father Christmas, who can deal easily with a pack of Hell Hounds/Living Shadows. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware has Vin Diesel serving as a Birthday Santa during Tommy's birthday party. | |
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Family Guy: Stewie Griffin once got the short end of the stick with an Asian Santa who rudely turns him away due to Stewie not telling him what he wants fast enough. | |
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Third Watch's Season 5 episode "The Spirit" had grumpy policeman Sully playing Santa at a toy store. | |
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On Best Friends Whenever, Naldo goes to his new job in the mall as Santa only to be kidnapped and interrogated by Bret and Chet who crazily believe that Santa is up to something not recognizing that it's Naldo. Barry ends up filling in for him when he goes to bring Naldo the gifts he forgot to deliver and the children mistake Barry for Santa. | |
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The Cat Who... Series: In book #15 (The Cat Who Went Into the Closet), Qwilleran is drafted into being the Santa Claus of the small town of Pickax. He takes things fairly well, but panics when he learns that he's not done because he's still required to do lap-sitting. | |
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In one Artemis Fowl fanfiction, Artemis's mother takes a five-year old Artemis Christmas shopping and makes take a picture with one. Artemis bluntly tells the Santa that he knows the man is a fake. The Mall Santa rolls with it, telling Artemis of the Santa Conspiracy. Artemis then resolves to uncover Santa's operations. |
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Frasier: In season 5 Frasier does a stint as Santa for a charity with Roz as his Mrs. Claus. Right before their shift starts Frasier reveals that he accidentally told Roz's mother that she was pregnant, something Roz had been waiting to reveal in person when her mother visited. Roz blows up at him and storms off wailing about how the holiday has been ruined. Frasier is left to explain to the kids why "Mrs. Claus" is so upset. In a later season Roz volunteers as an elf and develops a crush on the Santa Claus she's paired with. At first she assumes she's attracted to the guy playing Santa but when she runs into him at Cafe Nervosa she's put off by the lack of beard and his weedy laugh. Daphne realises that Roz was actually attracted to the Santa persona and immediately starts teasing her about it. |
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Joey gets a job as Santa's Elf in a season one episode of Friends. Apparently he was actually Santa Claus the year before, but this year he lost out to the guy who's sleeping with the store manager. A later season gets Chandler dressed as the man himself (and Monica asks if he can keep the suit for later that night). | |
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A mall Santa appears in Week 5 of Friday Night Funkin', being held at gunpoint by Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest as they have a rap battle with Boyfriend. After their songs end, the mall is ravaged and emptied off-screen and the Monster appears wearing the Santa's bloodied hat, implying that he killed him. | |
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One video created by Buzzfeed is titled "Things Santa Does That Would be Creepy if You Did Them", and one of them is having strangers sit on your lap to negotiate. | |
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In Jack Vale Films, one of Jack's "Nonsense" pranks takes place at a mall around Christmas, and a mall Santa joins in when Jack starts babbling about things not working. | |
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