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The Parody Before Christmas
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The poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas has been an iconic poem for decades, so naturally, it attracts parodies, and that's what the Parody Before Christmas is. They might change the setting (e.g. making it the day before Christmas, the night before Easter, or the night before a Fictional Holiday that may or may not be a You Mean "Xmas"), or replace Santa Claus with some other gift-giver. Regardless of who's giving the gifts, they'll often give gifts that suit the characters' personalities (giving the Big Eater food or the Hard-Drinking Party Girl alcohol for instance). Expect a Title Drop at the beginning, a silly roll-call of "Now A, now B, now C and D" and a riff on the phrase "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night". Compare Yet Another Christmas Carol, Gift of the Magi Plot, and How the Character Stole Christmas for other sorts of Christmas parody. Is often a Whole-Plot Reference or Parody Episode. Also compare Christmas Every Day, which is only sometimes a parody of a Christmas story. If it's specifically a spoof of the reindeer roll call with the wrong names delivered by accident, see Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Nixon. See also The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas, which gives a similar treatment to another Christmas song. 'Twas the night before Tropemas, and all through the examples... |
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The Addams Family: In "Halloween With the Addams Family", the Addamses read a poem on Halloween that is clearly a spooky parody of "A Visit from St. Nicholas." For instance, it talks about hanging lanterns to guide "Sister Witch" and her team of vampire bats. | |
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Shrek the Halls: The entire special deals with the characters telling their own version of the story: Donkey's version involves him wandering around in a Christmas-wonderland with a parade and lots of food. Santa himself is a giant statue made of waffle, which Donkey then eats. Puss doesn't even get into the story, because he spends the whole time describing Santa as a "hot, Latin cat" and is then distracted by the fluff on the end of his hat. Gingy's version is a horror story about himself and his girlfriend being terrorized by Santa while hanging out at a Make-Out Point. Shrek's version feature himself as "Ogre-Claus", who shows up to make the house more disgusting, befitting an ogre-family Christmas. |
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Bug Martini did one of these in which the narrator mistakes Santa for a burglar and promptly gets beaten up. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity had one for their An Ass-Kicking Christmas special. | |
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Baby Blues had a story arc in 1993 parodying the poem, which, from Darryl's perspective, describes an attempt from him and Wanda to take baby Zoe to the mall to have her picture taken with a Mall Santa for Christmas cards. Unfortunately in the end, while the family is standing in an extremely long line, the guy playing Santa has finished his shift and is going to another mall. | |
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Animaniacs has "The Day Before Christmas", in which Ralph, with a sleigh drawn by the gangster pigeons, delivers presents to the Warner siblings. | |
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A Garfield arc from 1983 has the poem's original lyrics printed at the top of each comic. Garfield makes commentary about the poem in each panel. The story arc revolves around Garfield meeting Santa while he's delivering presents. They get along well. | |
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Hop ends with Fred saying, "Now Cheepers, now Peepers, now Biscuit and Fuzzy, now Chucky, now Plucky, now Feathers and Carlos" as the chicks pull him in a sleigh like reindeer. | |
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Luann had a Sunday strip where Luann's older brother Brad forgot to get her a Christmas present until the last minute, and shopped for auto parts for her on account of everywhere else being closed. The strip was narrated in the style of "The Night Before Christmas", to wit: | |
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xkcd also did one. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas", Princess Morbucks goes to the North Pole to switch the names on the Naughty and Nice Lists so she can trick Santa Claus into granting her wish of being a Powerpuff Girl. The Narrator speaks in rhymes throughout the special, and he opens it with this: | |
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Neopets: One Christmas site theme came with the message "'Twas the week before Day of Giving when all through the site, not a Petpet was stirring, not even a Tigermouse. The stockings were stufftacular and hung with great care, in hopes that a holiday theme would be near; when out in the preferences there arose such a clatter. So, go take a look, to see what's the matter!" | |
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Politically Correct Holiday Stories includes "Twas the Night Before Solstice," in which a politically correct-minded family meet Santa Claus and judge him for his enslavement of reindeer and commercially-driven gifts. The poem ends with Santa expressing his exasperation. | |
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Hogfather has several references, starting with the back cover blurb, which begins "It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet". The opening line is also used in the text, except that a mouse is stirring, which is how the Death of Rats gets involved. And Death exhorts the wild boars that pull his sleigh by saying UP, GOUGER! UP, ROOTER! UP, TUSKER! UP, SNOUTER!, but to no effect. | |
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A Rugrats Night Before Christmas is a book based on Rugrats. The kids are awakened by Santa Claus's sleigh bells late at night and they sneak downstairs. He's delivering the gifts and Angelica's tempted to take all the presents for herself, but he shakes his head at her, so she admits they're for everyone. Santa smiles at her and departs, and as he leaves, he calls out, "Merry Christmas to all, and to all, nighty-night!" | |
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In A Muppet Family Christmas, the Sesame Street cast put on a pageant version of the poem. Ernie is the narrator, Grover is the mouse (carrying a bowl and spoon to show that he's not stirring), Bert is the wife (and is not too happy about playing that role) and the Two-Headed Monster is Santa (causing Sam the Eagle to mutter "is nothing sacred?"). | |
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The Night Before Twistmas is a parody of the classic poem set in the Moshi Monsters universe. Dr. Strangeglove and the Glumps take down all the Twistmas decorations, but are Easily Forgiven by the Santa Expy. | |
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The Danny Phantom Christmas Episode "The Fright Before Christmas" takes this to extreme when, after Danny provokes the wrath of the Ghost Writer by destroying his Christmas poem, the ghostly writer traps Danny in a new poem. For added fun, almost all the dialogue said is spoken in rhyme, much to Danny's chagrin. | |
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Twisted Translations: In "Google Translate Ruins 'Twas the Night Before Christmas", Malinda recites the poem, alongside a version of the poem that's been butchered by Google Translate. The translated version is something of a Dark Parody, containing lines like "His team was bleeding" and "He stuck his head in the oven". | |
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Johnny Bravo: The short "Twas the Night" deals with Johnny Subbing for Santa after he mistook him for a burglar and attacked him. | |
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Question 23 of The Impossible Quizmas starts with the opening lines of the poem, before thrusting the player into a Christmas-y living room without any instructions on what to do. The solution is to leave the cursor still for a few seconds; as the poem states, "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse". | |
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Stuart Little: The Littles rewrite 'Twas the Night Before Christmas to say, "Not a creature was stirring, not even a louse" instead of "mouse", since Stuart is an anthropomorphic mouse and they feel the poem's depiction of mice is "belittling". | |
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The original poem that inspired The Nightmare Before Christmas was this: a dark story about what happens when Halloween meets Christmas. Though the only part of the poem to make it into the film proper was the title, "The Nightmare Before Christmas", the poem itself would be used in later Nightmare Before Christmas media. The poem would be read by the Ghost Host in the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay in the Disneyland attraction The Haunted Mansion, and the original poem received a narration from Christopher Lee and an animated short, which was featured in special features of the film's releases. | |
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