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Peking Duck Christmas
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It's Christmas! Hooray! Hoorah! Lights everywhere! Presents! Family gatherings! And to top it off, a massive home-cooked dinner. Except... You're Jewish (and not of the Informed sect). Or Muslim. Or Hindu. Or atheist. Or The Grinch. Or you're estranged from your family, or you simply don't have a family. Or you're a hungry Jehovah's Witness looking for a quick bite after the meeting. Or a pack of dogs just ate the massive home-cooked dinner. Or you need a quick solution because you either burned the roast when you attempted to use Oven Logic, or it's still frozen solid because you (or your less domesticated spouse) failed to take it out of the freezer in a timely manner. Or you're just plain alone and bored. Or you're going to be out of town for several days and don't want to waste the food. Whatever the reason, the usual Christmas festivities are simply not possible for you. It's just another miserable winter's day, except that because you're off work (if you're lucky) you have even less to do than usual. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })What are you supposed to do? Well, you could go out... but virtually everything is closed. Except... There's that one Chinese place in town. It's still open! Grateful to find any human contact, you order the Peking duck and gorge yourself. Bonus points if you bond with the owners despite a language barrier. It's a happy Christmas for you after all! This has historically been Truth in Television. It is almost a tradition in some (non-Orthodox) Jewish circles to eat Chinese and go to the movies on Christmas. Note that this generally does not apply to chain restaurants serving Chinese food, which typically close for Christmas like everything else. |
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In the Narbonic parody of A Christmas Story, the Narbons go to a Chinese restaurant after Dr Narbon blows up the street to get back at the neighbor's dogs. "At least, I think it was a restaurant". | |
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An episode of The Bob Newhart Show has a Thanksgiving variant of this, with Emily leaving town to visit her parents and Bob staying home to spend the holiday getting plastered and ordering moo goo gai pan with Jerry, Howard, and Mr. Carlin. ("More goo to go!") | |
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Like many tropes about Jewish families, this one showed up in Brooklyn Bridge. The Berger/Silver family had Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant and the grandfather, utterly unsure of what blessing to say over the meal, settles for "Boruch ata... Chinese food." | |
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At the end of the House episode "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't," House (an asshole who wouldn't want to attend any Christmas event he was invited to) and Wilson (who besides being Jewish is about to go through his third divorce) go to House's apartment and order Chinese food on Christmas. | |
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The Simpsons During a Christmas special song-and-dance, Krusty and his dad get a part where they sing " Even though we're not Gentile we get together for a while, and shoot the breeze and eat Chinese, 'cos Christmas time is here! Oy!" Another episode referenced the trope with the Elderly Jewish Man remembering his childhood Christmas. In the 2013 Christmas Episode opening sequence, Krusty and other Jewish characters are seen eating at a Chinese restaurant. Briefly mentioned in the episode where Krusty gets his bar mitzvah — "On Christmas, you have to eat Chinese food" is treated as one of the rules of keeping kosher. |
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In the Kevin & Kell parody of A Christmas Story, the Dewclaws go to a restaurant run by pandas. | |
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: "Snow" is about a Vietnamese woman working as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant, who gives a man an order of chicken on Christmas Eve. She's surprised to hear that he doesn't celebrate Christmas, because he's Jewish. She thought all Americans celebrated Christmas and reflects on how Vietnamese celebrate every holiday no matter what their religion is. | |
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Implied in G.I. Joe: Renegades. Christmas comes and most of the Joes aren't in the Christmas spirit. Nicky Lee, a.k.a. Tunnel Rat explains his feelings toward Christmas to the other Joes by saying his family owned a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn. | |
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In The Puzzle Place's holiday special, the Jewish Jody cites going out for Chinese food and the movies as her family's typical activities on Christmas Eve. | |
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Arrested Development: Not the holiday precisely, but a similar idea. The setting has two Punny Name restaurants. One is called "Skip Church's" and is a Sunday Brunch place where Christians go in lieu of church. The other is "Miss Temple's", a Chinese restaurant frequented by Jews in lieu of synagogue. | |
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Head of the Class also has a Thanksgiving version, with Mr. Moore (the teacher) spending the holiday alone and the usually-antagonistic Dr. Samuels (the principal) escaping his in-laws. They happen to choose the same Chinese restaurant to go to, and bond. | |
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In Arthur's Perfect Christmas, Francine and her family are shown having takeout Chinese for dinner after celebrating the last night of Hanukkah the night before. When she and Muffy later reconcile after an earlier fight, Francine's family invites Muffy and her parents to the movies. Also Brain and his family are still at work at the ice cream shop because they celebrate Kwanzaa. | |
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The Daily Show: Jon Stewart joked (while discussing Barack Obama's Nobel Prize) that Yasser Arafat got his Nobel Prize just for shaking hands with a Jew; and that if that was all it took to get a Nobel Prize, then, well, the owner of his local Chinese restaurant should get at least a dozen every Christmas. Also, this: |
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Lampshaded in Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Biff recalls eating Chinese food on Joshua's birthday while they were studying with Balthazar the alchemist, and remarks that Jewish people in the modern world seem to have kept up this tradition. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged's take on The Tree of Might (which became a Christmas Episode), Tien and Chiaotzu are noted to be Jewish. In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue when it's revealed what everyone got for Christmas, they ate Chinese and went to a movie-namely, Yogi Bear in 3D. Chiaotzu is no longer allowed to pick the movies. | |
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Happens at the end of Milo Murphy's Law's Christmas Episode when most of the cast ends up snowed in at the mall during a blizzard. | |
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Referenced in the comic strip Stone Soup, with a Jewish character saying that the song "Jingle Bells" makes him hungry for Chinese food. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special there is a variant since the franchise is set on a furry version of Ancient China. Here, Mr. Ping runs a special Winter Festival party for all the lonely people with nowhere else to go, and pay extra for it. | |
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On an episode of The Newlywed Game, host Bob Eubanks asked the couples what was the last Jewish food they ate. One husband answered "chow mein". | |
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YidLife Crisis has an entire episode about it. | |
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In A Christmas Story, Mrs. Parker's turkey is eaten by the neighbors' dogs. Thinking quickly, Mr. Parker has them go out for Chinese, where they eat what Ralphie calls "Chinese Turkey" (really, Peking Duck) and sing Christmas carols with the owners. | |
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Subverted in The Santa Clause: After Scott Calvin burns the Christmas Eve turkey, he tries to take his son to a Japanese restaurant. It's closed, so he takes him to a Denny's, which is filled with Japanese businessmen and fellow fathers who burned the turkey, at least one of them has bandages from hurting himself. | |
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The Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse sketch/song "Christmas for the Jews." | |
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In Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1, Harley takes a Mall Santa out for dinner on Christmas Eve to thank him for saving her from a humbug that was stuck in her ear (It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context). The only place that is open is a kosher deli. | |
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In American Psycho, while on his way to a Christmas party, one of Patrick Bateman's associates alarms him of the growing influence of Japan and Japanese business in America. After this, Bateman feels compelled to murder the first Japanese bike messenger he sees and dump food his victim was carrying on top of his body, only to discover in doing so that his victim was actually Chinese, delivering food to a certain Sally Rubinstein. | |
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YouTube musician Brandon Walker's breakout hit was about this, cleverly titled "Chinese Food on Christmas". | |
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In Ethan, Suspended the title character mentions this as a family tradition. | |
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In Grimm Fairy Tales 2013 Holiday Edition, Sela, Liesel, Britney, and Robyn end up ordering 'disgusting amounts' of food from General Tso's Chinese restaurant after their Christmas feast is destroyed in a battle with Krampus's minions. | |
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Bostick in The Big Year. | |
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