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Santa's Sweatshop
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We all know the stories about Santa and his workshop staffed by elves over at the North Pole, where they build quaint wooden toys for the children of the world. Recently, however, a more cynical take on this concept has arisen, mostly due to the realization of the logistics necessary to even attempt such an endeavor. When the question of how to supply toys to billions of children each year arises, it's easy to conclude that these days, some form of sweatshop environment would be involved. Choking pollution, unsafe work conditions for elves, even Santa himself may be at risk of snapping under the pressure. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sub-Trope of Christmas Town. Bad Santa is especially likely to run this kind of operation, though depending on the author's cynicism, even the regular version may not be immune. Often a form of a Nightmarish Factory and can also be a Dangerously Garish Environment. Examples: |
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The Late Show with David Letterman: One Top Ten list ("Top Ten Elf Complaints") implies this trope. Entries include "Santa's union-busting goons killed a guy last spring," "Workman's comp doesn't cover mistletoe lung," and "dead elves just tossed out on tundra." | |
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Discussed in a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin claims that Santa's secretarial staff must be "a bunch of underpaid and woefully unprepared temps". | |
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In an episode of American Dad! Santa kidnaps children to work as miners to dig out the eyes and head of a slain Sumerian giant. One of the kids that gets captured is Steve, who thinks it's all part of a holiday simulation. He realises the truth when one of the other kids collapses from fatigue and is thrown into a rift by a pair of elves. | |
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More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: Santa Claus appears as the main antagonist of the story "Santa's Helpers". Instead of being a Benevolent Boss like in most portrayals, this Santa is a Mean Boss who overworks his elves, who are not allowed to quit or leave. The workload is so bad that some elves attempt to run away from the North Pole, prompting Santa to send the other elves to recapture them. In the story, the elves sent to recapture the two latest runaways mistake two human children for them and take them to the workshop, where Santa sentences them to 18 hour shifts for the next five years, with a measly two day vacation afterward only if they work hard enough. The kids will presumably be stuck doing hard labor for the next couple of years until they grow enough for Santa and the elves to realize their mistake. | |
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Implied by the "pixie helper" in the TV adaptation of Hogfather who is actually celebrating that the boss is "dead" and he's free. | |
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Futurama: Robot Santa rules Neptune with an iron fist, to the point that his "elves" are actually short due to malnourishment, and his actual workshop is more of a blatant fortress. Even when Fry, Leela, and Bender trap Robot Santa in the ice and take over the factory in "A Tale of Two Santas," they don't actually improve working conditions all that much. | |
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A DLC for The Escapists is literally titled "Santa's Sweatshop", and has you play an elf trying to escape Santa's factory complex. A similar level, "Santa's Shakedown", is included for free in the game's sequel, The Escapists 2. | |
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The Santa Clause 2 has the toy replacement Santa go bad and turn the workshop into a toxic environment. The real Santa returns to set things right in the nick of time. | |
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One Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic shows Santa whipping his elves, screaming at them to "Work faster, you idiots!" Subverted when the caption notes that Santa's only doing that because the elves like it. | |
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Saturday Night Live: In a parody of the play Glengarry Glen Ross, a higher-up elf played by Alec Baldwin (who is a Captain Ersatz of the salesman played by him in its film adaptation) comes in to harshly criticize some workshop elves after they complain about the inferior tools they are using and reminding them to "always be cobbling," a parody of the line in the play "always be closing". | |
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This shows up often on Robot Chicken, usually being played for laughs. A particularly noteworthy example of this is one skit where elves are in constant danger of being eaten. | |
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In Epic Rap Battles of History's "Moses Vs. Santa Claus," Moses compares Santa to the pharaohs and implores him to "let [his] little people go." The elves themselves are quick to deny being slaves, though. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Road to the North Pole", rampant demand for presents has reduced the North Pole to a polluted wasteland, the elves have devolved into barely sentient mutants, and Santa himself is suffering from a Heroic RRoD. | |
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