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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In an episode with this plot, one character (typically a child or very naive/innocent person) will believe in Santa Claus. At least one other character will try to prove to them otherwise, but by the end of the episode Santa's existence is confirmed. It will never be explained why all the presents appearing without anyone buying or wrapping them is not considered convincing evidence in these settings. Quite often it doesn't seem to happen; even though Santa is making deliveries all over the world, no one ever gets any extras unless it's a plot point. The trope is named after a famous 1897 editorial. Compare Real After All, How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?. Compare and contrast Santa Ambiguity, where it stays ambiguous through the whole work. |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Simultaneously inverted when it has to be explained to Will that Shaft was never a real person. | |
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Parodied on the back of O Ye Jigs & Juleps! | |
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A segment of Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. Naturally Goofy is an adamant believer, while bully neighbor Pete not only denies the existence of Santa, but also installs doubt into Goofy's son Max. In a reversal of the usual situation it's the child Max who gives up hope while Goofy the father continues to try and convince his son otherwise. Naturally, Santa is real, Max becomes a believer, Goofy proves that somehow he is always right in these situations, and Pete gets his. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, during the first trip to Halloween Town, Sora and co. actually get to meet Santa Claus and become his bodyguards, with Sora being a bit too excited about it. Though when they finally meet the jolly old man, Sora is revealed to be on the naughty list because he stopped believing seven years prior to the events of the game after being told by Riku that Santa does not exist. This reveal causing the teenager to moan in embarrassment. | |
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Interestingly enough, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians averts this from the start — Santa's existence is a known fact, and the movie even opens with a reporter visiting the workshop and interviewing him. This isn't a good thing, because Aliens Steal Cable... | |
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Cheers. In one Christmas Episode, Frasier is in an all-time cynical mood about Christmas - Lilith can't even say "Merry Christmas" without earning a snark from him. Norm comes into a bar with a group of other mall Santas, which Frasier can't help but mock. However, one convincing Santa with a real beard leaves the group a little early, saying he has a big night ahead of him. Norm and the other Santas don't recall him ever working a mall. Frasier says he hears sleigh bells, and starts to wonder if it really was the real Santa Claus. However, said Santa comes back in, complaining his car needs a jump. However, Frasier remains overjoyed with the Christmas spirit. When asked why by Lilith, Frasier explains that for the first time, he really did believe there really was a Santa Claus, however briefly - that was enough to put him in the holiday mood, and he leads a round of "Deck the Halls". | |
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Subverted in Lyrical Nanoha, Nanoha tells Fate about Santa, hoping that she might believe in him for a little while, but is unsuccessful when Fate begins questioning certain aspects of the Santa fairytale, like how he can fly. Nanoha notes that few kids believe in Santa in their modern society, that Arisa and Suzuka never believed him, and that her older sister Miyuki believed in him until 4th grade. | |
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: In an subversion, the reveal of Santa Claus is not the climax or the main plot point. In fact, Santa seems so casual about revealing his existence that you'd have to wonder if he was even trying to keep it secret in the first place. | |
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In The All-New Tenchi Muyo!! manga series, Washu goes to great lengths to make sure other kids doesn't destroy Sasami's perspective of Santa - mostly by teleporting items (or the other girls). In the end, it's all for naught: Sasami still believes in Santa, knows there are kids who don't - she says that's why the parents give kids Christmas presents instead of Santa! | |
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A better example happens in an issue of DC Comics Presents, where Superman tries to foil one of The Toyman's plots on Christmas Eve but temporarily loses the power of flight. He runs into Santa Claus at the North Pole, who gives him a ride and helps defeat the villain. In the end, it seems it was All Just a Dream... and then Superman finds his favorite childhood toy, that was destroyed when Krypton exploded! | |
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An old The Family Circus strip has Dolly sitting on Daddy's lap. The question she has just asked him, and he has just answered, is made obvious by her follow-up. | |
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The plot of the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Christmas episode, "A Lost Claus". After seeing a bunch of imaginary Santas, Mac and Bloo try to prove to themselves that Santa Claus exists. | |
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In one episode of Earthworm Jim, Jolly St. Nick reveals he used to be a Norse god of justice (Itself a Mythology Gag) and saves the day, to which Jim comments, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus- and he kicks butt!" | |
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Spoofed in Hogfather: '...yes, Twyla: there is a Hogfather.' Of course, the Hogfather does exist (as long as kids believe he does), and Susan's preceding speech was about how people are credulous and childish anyway, so this is something of a subversion... It turns into a Double Subversion at the end with Death's speech about how people have to believe little lies like the Hogfather before you can believe in big ones like justice and mercy, which is essentially "as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist" from the Reaper's unique perspective. | |
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Spoofed in Just Shoot Me!: "Yes, Maya, there is a J. Crew!" | |
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Miracle on 34th Street, based on the famous editorial. The kid in question doesn't believe because her mother thinks that it's not proper to believe in someone that she doesn't think exists. | |
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The Nanny did it in the Christmas episode at the hospital. I don't know which kid believed... | |
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This is Candace's plot point for all of 3 seconds in the Phineas and Ferb Christmas Episode before the elves show up. | |
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Addressed by The Onion: "Sitcom Characters Still in Shock after Christmas Episode Proves Existence of Santa Claus." | |
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An episode of Amen which had Frye acting more like Scrooge. When called in to defend a man dressed as Santa who punched another man who was ridiculing him, Frye initially thinks the man is nuts before coming to the conclusion that he is Santa, and decides to use this as his defense. After winning the case, Frye comes home to find the train set that he's wanted since he was a little boy under the Christmas tree, as a reward for being ''good". | |
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Recess, "Yes Mikey, Santa Claus Does Shave" - Mikey is the only one of the gang who still believes in Santa. He eventually loses hope until an elderly man tells him to believe with his heart. In the end he and his friends see Santa flying, leading Mikey to believe he spoke to the real Santa (who shaved). | |
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Have I Got News for You, covering a somehow uniquely depressing Christmas story, about a "Lapland forest" attraction for children that was so sordid and cheap and grimy that parents starting attacking the performers and demanding their money back. | |
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The Jimmy Neutron Christmas episode has Jimmy trying to convince his friends that Santa isn't real, going so far as to take a trip to the North Pole... where even after arriving at Santa's workshop, he's convinced it's somehow all fake. After accidentally zapping Santa and being told Christmas has to be called off, he offers to deliver all the toys from his rocket, claiming that if a mere mortal can succeed in delivering all the toys in one night, it's proof that Santa doesn't exist. Naturally, he fails, and Santa, who has gotten better, steps in at the last moment to finish the job. | |
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Class of 3000 Kam argues that Santa simply cannot exist, but it turns out he does! And he gives Kam a lifetime membership to the Bigfoot Watchers Society. | |
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The Bewitched episode "A Vision of Sugarplums" has Samantha and Darrin care for a troublesome orphan boy on Christmas Eve. The boy explains to Sam that he doesn't believe in Santa Claus because his father worked as a department store Santa, and explained to him that Santa Claus doesn't exist. Sam restores the boy's faith by giving him a flight to visit the real Santa Claus at his workshop. | |
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The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Holiday Time" starts with Buzz not believing the Santa Claus that is requesting his help is real until he reveals what the Space Ranger wanted for Christmas as a kid. XR remains skeptical until the end, where Santa told him that he always believed but didn't know. | |
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Wonderfully subverted in The Areas of My Expertise as the story instead is a grim retelling involving death and Santa's bones in a baby's rattle. | |
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The Santa Clause has elements of this. Scott Calvin pretends to believe in Santa for Charlie's sake, but once Santa actually shows up, he desperately tries to find a more plausible explanation for what's going on, breaking the ruse. Later, Charlie's mother and step-father get to discover for themselves that Santa is real. | |
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On Home Improvement, the older boys, Brad and Randy, tell youngest brother Mark that Santa died the year before Mark was born. At the end of the episode, Santa makes an appearance, giving Mark the one present that Tim couldn't find. As Santa leaves, Tim remarks that Wilson is a great neighbor to dress up like that, just as Jill sees Wilson waving to them from over his fence. | |
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Pogo reverses this at one point. A bear is dressed as Santa Claus just as the cast start discovering that there's a Georgia in the (then) Soviet Union. Afraid that the Russians stole a state, the bear reveals he's from Virginia, leading to 'Yes, Santa Claus, there is a Virginia!'. | |
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Danny Phantom has this trope between Jack (who believes), and Maddie (who doesn't). Their bickering over Santa around Christmas, got to the stage where it actually made Danny hate Christmas. | |
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The Father Christmas Letters demonstrated to J. R. R. Tolkien's children that Santa was real enough to write them elaborately detailed letters, complete with full-color illustrations, stories of the epic events at the North Pole (including battles between goblins and Santa's elves), and meticulously crafted North Pole postage stamps. This is included here because the letters weren't intended to be a book; they were only published because fans were badgering the Tolkien Estate to publish more of the Professor's writings. | |
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The Santa Trap is all about what happens when a little girl tries to capture Santa to prove he is real. | |
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Spoofed in a four page story in the DCU Infinite Holiday Special: Superman reads a child's letter asking for Santa and decides to dress up like Santa to prove he's real. Batman stops him and tells him how silly that is and that he should be helping people...which is all a ruse so he can dress up like Bat-Santa! It ends with Superman decking Bat-Santa. Wow...that just says so much about Superman. A better example happens in an issue of DC Comics Presents, where Superman tries to foil one of The Toyman's plots on Christmas Eve but temporarily loses the power of flight. He runs into Santa Claus at the North Pole, who gives him a ride and helps defeat the villain. In the end, it seems it was All Just a Dream... and then Superman finds his favorite childhood toy, that was destroyed when Krypton exploded! This is all a moot point anyway, as Santa is a confirmed entity in the DC universe. He fights his way into Apokolips every year to give Darkseid a chunk of coal. |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Crack Baby Athletic Association". Only instead of Santa, it's Guns N' Roses' Slash. | |
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The Ingalls family had to do a lot of explaining to their kids about whether Santa Claus was going to make it out to whatever new, barely-settled territory they were living in that year, and if so how, and how much to expect. In one book, when the upcoming Christmas is looking pretty sparse, Ma tells Laura and Mary that they should have realized by now that Santa can't be just one person who goes around to each individual house — but he's omnipresent and magical and manifests in unselfishness, so she thinks it would be nice if this year instead of presents for themselves they only wished for new horses for their father. In the end they do get a little candy along with the horses and their presents for each other. | |
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The obligatory Christmas episode of Spongebob Squarepants. Though Christmas is a fairly new holiday in Bikini Bottom, everyone is certain of Santa's existence, especially Spongebob...everyone except (you guessed it) Squidward. Santa of course turns out to be real...and he's scary cheerful. | |
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Likewise, The Nightmare Before Christmas also averts this by having Santa's existence be an known fact, even cancelling Christmas when Santa can't be found. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
Yes, Virginia / int_fbc58609 | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc0e7530 | type |
Yes, Virginia | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc0e7530 | comment |
One episode of Dexter's Laboratory had Dexter claim that Santa and his reindeer were his parents in disguise. He retains this opinion throughout the entire episode, even after we see that Santa doesn't have the same body dimensions as his dad and he mistakes an actual reindeer for his mother. This results in him shooting Santa's sleigh down, blowing up probably all of the presents that Santa Claus was carrying that night. In short, he ruined Christmas for the ''whole world''. | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc0e7530 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc0e7530 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dexter's Laboratory | hasFeature |
Yes, Virginia / int_fc0e7530 | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc524c31 | type |
Yes, Virginia | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc524c31 | comment |
In Santa's Slay, Santa says "yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" to a woman surprised by him breaking into the house. | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc524c31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Yes, Virginia / int_fc524c31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Santa's Slay | hasFeature |
Yes, Virginia / int_fc524c31 |
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| Miracle on 34th Street / int_e10d2a27 | type |
Yes, Virginia | |
| JuiceBoxHero | seeAlso |
Yes, Virginia |
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