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The Santa Clauses
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Spoilers for all The Santa Clause works preceding this one will be left unmarked.The Santa Clauses is a Christmas fantasy comedy series and Sequel Series to the Santa Clause film trilogy. It is directed by Jason Winer and showrun by Jack Burdit (30 Rock, Modern Family) with Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, and David Krumholtz returning from the original movies. Kal Penn and Laura San Giacomo join the cast.On the brink of his 65th birthday, Scott Calvin realizes his powers as Santa Claus are fading and may not be able to keep running the North Pole. Upon learning of a "Successus Clause" he takes stock of his life and family and decides to retire. He selects struggling tech entrepreneur Simon Chokski as his replacement and hopes to build a new stage of his life back in Chicago. Unfortunately, Simon is ill-prepared for the role and begins making radical changes to how Christmas is run, and there are more secrets to the Santa Clause than even the elves fully understand.The series premiered on Disney+ on November 16, 2022. Originally billed as a miniseries, a second season was ordered in December 2022. It will premiere November 8, 2023 and will include new cast members Eric Stonestreet and Gabriel Iglesias.Previews: Teaser, Trailer | |
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Thinking Up Portals | |
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Thinking Up Portals: Here, Santa conjures vortexes that the sleigh can fly through to reach other parts of the world. | |
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Practically Different Generations | |
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Practically Different Generations: Charlie is now in his thirties and has children of his own while his younger half-siblings Cal and Sandra are in their teens.note If their actors' ages are accurate, Eric Lloyd is 36 to Austin Kane's 18 and Elizabeth Allen-Dick's 13 which would put Charlie at 18 years older than Cal and 23 years older than Sandra. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: In the first episode, the pie chart Simon Choski is looking at has Apple, eBay and Walmart as inferior delivery options to Santa Claus himself, with a healthy 17% for old Saint Nick (labeled as “Unknown”), until you get to the last 48%... which is solely Amazon... | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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In episode 6, when Scott sees the aftermath of Carol's Curb-Stomp Battle against the giant plastic soldiers from the second movie, he compares her to John Wick. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Simon is initially hesitant to become Santa, but is convinced to accept the role by his daughter, much like how Scott was eventually persuaded to take the role by his son. However, while Scott Took a Level in Kindness and embraced the role of Santa to become a much better person, thereby strengthening his bond with Charlie, Simon lets the power of the Claus go to his head and Took a Level in Jerkass, ignoring his own child in the process. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When the subject of retiring from being Santa and choosing a successor is brought up, Scott decides to have Charlie take over since he had expressed a wish for "joining the Family Business" in the first film. However, Charlie admits to Scott that the perspective and responsibilities he has gained in the past two decades of growing up and starting his own family have caused him to see the drawbacks of becoming Santa, particularly that he would either have to have a long-distance relationship with his wife and kids and miss out on their lives or bring them to the North Pole and live in isolation away from other humans (which would result in them having No Social Skills like Cal and Sandra). Thus, he declines the offer. Having been Santa for just short of three decades, Scott retiring from the role and returning to his civilian identity proves to be a bit of a struggle. He still acts like Santa on a few occasions, and instead of coming across as genuine and sincere, it appears weird and creepy to average folks who have no idea that the man before them was once Jolly Old St. Nick. | |
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Distant Sequel | |
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Distant Sequel: Takes place almost two decades after the third film. | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water: After two decades living at the pole, Carol and Scott have missed some developments, at one point talking about renting a VCR from Circuit City and then some VHS tapes from Blockbuster. | |
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Flashback | |
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Flashback: The series occasionally flashes back to the beginning of Scott's time as Santa by showing scenes from the first movie. | |
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10-Minute Retirement | |
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10-Minute Retirement: Scott’s attempts to retire are put on hold once the new Santa’s efforts put the elves’ lives in jeopardy. | |
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Power Incontinence | |
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Power Incontinence: Sandra is dealing with increasingly strong and difficult to control powers as season 2 begins and seeks help from La Befana to manage it | |
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Bad Santa | |
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Bad Santa: Simon starts to slip into this the longer he stays in the job. While he genuinely means well and wants the world to be able to get what they want for Christmas, his ego starts swelling up as most of the elves actually start doing what he wants instead of pushing back, and starts spending less time with his daughter. Then, when Christmas spirit starts fading away faster and faster and the elves begin to disappear (including right in front of him), he dismisses their turning to dust as them not getting with the program, and fires Betty for daring to stand up to him. It's mentioned that during the Dark Ages, there was a "Mad Santa" who threatened the very existence of Christmas before he was taken down and replaced. This particular Santa returns in Season 2 as its Big Bad. | |
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Raised by Wolves | |
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Raised by Wolves: While they are Spoiled Sweet, Cal and Sandra have some maladjusted social skills because they know nothing besides their parents, elves, and some of the local magical beings. Cal especially is fascinated with mundane things like mowing a lawn. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Simon has one when he is reminded of what Christmas really means by his daughter. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Simon's last name, Choksi, is phonetically very close to the Yiddish word "tchotchke," a small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional. Simon is in the business of selling (and delivering) everything. | |
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Internal Deconstruction | |
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Internal Deconstruction: The series deconstructs several elements of both the film trilogy and the traditional Santa Clause mythos: Carol reveals that she's felt burdened by the responsibilities of being Mrs. Claus, such as the fact that most of the world thinks of her as the character's popular image of an old housewife which is nothing like her actual personality. Cal and Sandra, Scott and Carol's kids, have had their social skills stunted due to growing up in isolation at the North Pole without other kids and are desperate to explore the outside world. Charlie himself recognizes this is a problem and doesn't want to take over for Scott because he doesn't want to put his own kids through that. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
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Remember the New Guy?: Betty the Head Elf and Noel who is Santa's personal assistant, among a few other named elves, are newly introduced to the show. Excepting Bernard and Curtis, this has been the case for each installment because the pre-teen actors cast in the roles grow out of them shortly after. | |
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Passing the Torch | |
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Passing the Torch: Invoked three times. Scott originally believes he is getting too old to be Santa and that his magic is faltering as a result. He first intends to pass the role to Charlie, who turns it down because the North Pole is not a good place to raise a family. Eventually, Simon is selected to be the next Santa, but he never actually puts the coat on, having lost it because it deemed him unworthy. Simon's tenure proves disastrous, exacerbating the actual problem, a decline in Christmas spirit, that Scott assumed had to do with his age. Scott takes back the role just in time for Christmas, but turns it into a family operation. When the time comes when he truly is too old for the job, it is heavily suggested that Cal, who inherited some of his powers already, will assume the title and role, with Sandra as his second-in-command.. By Season 2, Scott has officially begun training up Cal to succeed him. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Scott briefly mentions that Lucas owns pajamas with Buzz Lightyear printed on said pajamas. Tim Allen had voiced Buzz in Pixar's Toy Story franchise. Of course, he's not the only actor to have done so. | |
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Aspect Ratio Switch | |
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Aspect Ratio Switch: During flashbacks, both from Scott's perspective to moments from the original movie and from Simon's to the first christmas after losing his wife, the aspect ratio shifts from a cinematic 2:35 to 16:9. | |
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Immortality Begins at Twenty | |
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Immortality Begins at Twenty: The series in general has had the elves as appearing to be in the 10-12 year old range while Really 700 Years Old, with Bernard an outlier who appeared to be a teenager in the first movie (while evidently older in the second film, David Krumholtz was passable as being roughly the same appearance). As Bernard appears in this series it's explained that prolonged contact with the outside world will cause an Elf to age and since Bernard was the oldest and the Head Elf doing many excursions to the human world he naturally aged a little more. His absence from the third film and subsequent much older appearance in this series is explained that he fell in love with a human woman (Vanessa Redgrave) and settled down, now realistically looking like a man in his forties. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When arguing with Simon about Christmas Every Day, Betty complain that it takes away the ancipation of waiting for Christmas, that it detracts from the spirit of giving, and people won't know when to watch It's a Wonderful Life. Seventeen mentions that he served through the Great Depression, World War II, Vietnam and The Star Wars Holiday Special. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: Former head elf Bernard returns in the fifth episode, following his absence from the third movie. It's explained that he left the North Pole because he fell in love with a human woman, namely Vanessa Redgrave. The 17th Santa Claus, aka the Santa who fell off Scott's roof, returns and reveals he didn't actually die in the first film and planned for Scott to become the new Santa. Simon pulls some toy soldiers from the second movie out of storage. The season 2 trailer confirms that Sandman and Cupid will be returning, having last appeared in the third movie. Cupid is the first to return, showing up in episode 2 to convey the council’s concern over Scott naming Cal as his successor. Sandman shows up 2 episodes later to check up on Cal's progress for the Council. | |
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The Big Damn Kiss | |
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The Big Damn Kiss: Cal and Riley get one in the final episode. | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Scott finds it difficult to put aside his Santa mannerisms when back in a normal life. Approaching children with a familiar tone and randomly saying "Ho, Ho, Ho" takes on a different tone when it is done by a regular looking guy and not the fat man in a red suit. When bringing Cal and Sandra to school, Carol instinctively goes back into principal mode and tries to send someone to her (non-existent) office. | |
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Big Bad | |
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It's mentioned that during the Dark Ages, there was a "Mad Santa" who threatened the very existence of Christmas before he was taken down and replaced. This particular Santa returns in Season 2 as its Big Bad. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Saving Christmas: Again. Scott’s successor, Simon Choski, is causing problems at the North Pole by trying to reshape it into an Amazon-esque delivery service, causing the elves to vanish into thin air. This forces Scott to halt his retirement plans to set things right. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: The previous clauses from the movies are shown on the card with the Successus Clause. Betty reminds Noel about the Toy Santa from the second movie when he proposes to duplicate Santa. The Clauses still have their big Santa-face fireplace from the third movie. Jack Frost's attempt to hijack Christmas in the third film is referenced. A stress-related condition is nicknamed Curtis-itis, of course named for the regularly highly strung Curtis from the second and third movies | |
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Forgotten First Meeting | |
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When the time to retire approaches, Scott realizes he knows little to nothing about his predecessors. The elves seemed oddly casual about the last Santa dying. Betty later talks with Simon about the missing Santa coat, and she says it was made from the coat the original St. Nick wore, the first indication of an origin story to the title. It's revealed that the entire Santa Claus world came from the original St. Nick causing such a swelling of hope that it spawned the magic that created the elves, with prior Santas also magical beings born of the same magic and intended to serve each era a little differently. Scott was actually the first human Santa, selected because his predecessor believed a human Santa was needed to help maintain the spirit of Christmas and Scott had met the previous Santa when he was a child. Bernard outlines that Scott's recruitment was planned ahead of time and allows him to meet all of the previous Santa incarnations. | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
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Double-Meaning Title: The Santa Clauses not only refers to the Calvin-Claus family themselves, with Cal and Sandra both inheriting some of Scott's Christmas powers, but the various clauses of the contract, which Scott learns were actually created specifically for him and his family. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Peyton Manning appears in the third episode as an applicant for Santa, looking to rub it in Tom Brady’s face. He doesn't get the job. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Charlie was Demoted to Extra in The Santa Clause 3 but he has more of a role in “The Successus Clause”. | |
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Christmas Every Day | |
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Scott continues to embrace the various Christmas traditions in spite of the fact that the world is losing a lot of its Christmas Spirit. Simon, meanwhile, ignores them in favor of making it Christmas Every Day and acts more like a big-headed CEO trying to keep up with the times. | |
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Edible Theme Naming | |
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Edible Theme Naming: While the higher-up elves seem to have normal names like Betty, Noel, and Bernard, the rest seem to follow this pattern, with elves named Noodle, Churro, and Peppermint just for starters. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Santa’s retirement announcement is met with panic among the elves. This is actually a relief to Scott, who was worried they would be surprisingly okay with it like the last Santa disappearing without warning. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Carol is slightly more ready for Scott to retire and return to normal life than he is, and was excited to relax back into casual clothes. But when they are about to leave a long line of elves ask her for a last hug, making her tearfully ask Scott to recant this decision. Scott's retirement and moving his family to Chicago came with a few adjustment issues but was a generally positive experience for everyone. But he never anticipated how Simon was going to misuse the position and never fully understood the underlying magic that came with the Santa Clause to begin with. Betty is the main elf that pushes for Scott to retire, thinking that they would be better off with a new Santa, as she only looks at things through efficiency. Simon ends up being a mirror reflection to her, caring even more so about such things, and demotes her to working on toys. | |
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Following in Relative's Footsteps | |
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When the subject of retiring from being Santa and choosing a successor is brought up, Scott decides to have Charlie take over since he had expressed a wish for "joining the Family Business" in the first film. However, Charlie admits to Scott that the perspective and responsibilities he has gained in the past two decades of growing up and starting his own family have caused him to see the drawbacks of becoming Santa, particularly that he would either have to have a long-distance relationship with his wife and kids and miss out on their lives or bring them to the North Pole and live in isolation away from other humans (which would result in them having No Social Skills like Cal and Sandra). Thus, he declines the offer. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Rapidly growing businesses such as Amazon are implied to be contributing to the fading Christmas spirit, with their online stores and fast deliveries prompting fewer children to ask Santa for presents and gradually giving him and the elves less to do with each passing year. When Simon takes over Scott's duties, he attempts to turn the North Pole into a similar operation, with disastrous results. In episode two, Simon attempts to win back the investors for his eCommerce business by showing off his drone delivery system. The lead investor points out that the cons of drone delivery out-weigh the pros. Simon then attempts to prove him wrong… only for his delivery drone to malfunction and crash through the window of the board room. In the fourth episode, Cal is excited about the Memorial Day festivities in Chicago... until Scott informs him the holiday exists to honor fallen American soldiers. | |
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Living Clothes | |
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Living Clothes: Santa's coat. When Scott hands it to Simon at his retirement ceremony, it tries to escape Simon's grasp. Then, on Simon's first official day as Santa, the coat disappears. At first it's assumed Simon has lost it, but it turns out it somehow left on its own and went to the Christmas Witch's house. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: While looking for the elves in episode five, Scott sounds out for "Pudding, Goose, Crumpet, and Bob." When Santa calls the reindeer, he uses their names from "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Sandra, who can talk to animals, tells him that they prefer to be called "Chopper," "Razor," "The Hoofster," "Atomic," "Hot Shot," "Pretty Boy," "Airbender," and "Steve." | |
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CoolAunt | |
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Cool Aunt: La Befana becomes this to Sandra as she helps her with her burgeoning magic powers in season 2. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Scott is retroactively shown to have been this, before he grew up into the cynical Jerkass that he was introduced as in the first film. A flashback to his childhood reveals that he once wrote an infamously long list of presents that he wanted from Santa, not for himself, but for other friends in his neighbourhood who no longer believed. This act of altruism was the very reason that the Santa of the time chose Scott to be his successor, thus setting the events of the original film into motion years later. | |
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Yes-Man | |
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Scott is very respectful and kind towards the elves, even acting like a father to many of them. Simon expects them to act as his Yes Men, and when they start disappearing, scoffs it away as them not getting in with the program. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Scott and Carol were forced into a Fourth-Date Marriage in the second film, but it's shown that they are still very happy together. Carol can be a little sarcastic over her more abstract role as Mrs. Claus but it's clear they have a lot of affection for each other. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Curtis does not return, even despite Bernard coming back for the first time since the second movie. Despite featuring a return to Scott's hometown (as evidenced by Sycamore High reappearing from the second movie), Neil, Laura and Lucy do not appear, nor are they even mentioned. Carol's parents Bud and Sylvia receive zero mention. None of the other legendary figures return for season 1. Some, like Father Time, the Molinator and the Easter Bunny would be unable to return due to their actors having passed, yet you'd think Mother Nature, Sandman or Cupid might drop in on a long-serving Santa's retirement party, or even that Jack Frost would pay a visit given it was Santa (and his niece) who helped him change his ways right? No, although Jack was mentioned in episode 2. This is ultimately corrected for the second season, with trailers revealing Sandman, Cupid and the Easter Bunny are back, albeit with the latter having been subjected to The Other Darrin, with Tracy Morgan taking the role due to the passing of his original actor, Jay Thomas | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: In the second half of the trailer, once it’s made clear Christmas is in trouble and elves start disappearing, a slow bell can be heard tolling over the footage. | |
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Monochrome Past | |
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Monochrome Past: The Great Depression-set period where Scott is taken to in Episode 5 is in monochrome tones. Judging by Scott's comments about getting back to the present where it's in full color, he apparently sees it as this as well. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: When Edie the Elf vanishes into thin air in episode 4, her last words before doing so are "I don't feel so good." Also in episode 4, we get an allusion to Elf as Cal explains to Riley why he goes by his middle name (Calvin) instead of his first name (Buddy). "Do you know how many elves are named Buddy?" When Befana appears between Scott and Simon out of a cloud to stop them from reaching the coat in episode 6, Simon calls it a Smoke Monster. To which Carol wonders where she has seen this before. In episode 6, when Scott sees the aftermath of Carol's Curb-Stomp Battle against the giant plastic soldiers from the second movie, he compares her to John Wick. When Cal comes through the elf door after living in the 'real world' for most of the year, he clunks his head on the door frame. Tim Allen's character ''Tim Taylor'' would hit his head in a similar manner. | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: When the time to retire approaches, Scott realizes he knows little to nothing about his predecessors. The elves seemed oddly casual about the last Santa dying. Betty later talks with Simon about the missing Santa coat, and she says it was made from the coat the original St. Nick wore, the first indication of an origin story to the title. It's revealed that the entire Santa Claus world came from the original St. Nick causing such a swelling of hope that it spawned the magic that created the elves, with prior Santas also magical beings born of the same magic and intended to serve each era a little differently. Scott was actually the first human Santa, selected because his predecessor believed a human Santa was needed to help maintain the spirit of Christmas and Scott had met the previous Santa when he was a child. Bernard outlines that Scott's recruitment was planned ahead of time and allows him to meet all of the previous Santa incarnations. In conjunction with the above, Carol realizes that she may actually be the FIRST Mrs. Claus. The character was possibly a fanciful marketing gimmick, but she never had an actual predecessor at the North Pole. | |
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Ascended Fridge Horror | |
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Ascended Fridge Horror: Cal points out that Santa is at risk of being murdered by psychopaths that want the role for themselves. Scott wonders how the elves will take his retirement announcement because they seemed oddly casual about the last Santa dying, making you wonder if they even liked him. This came from Tim Allen's own observation of the first movie. Turns out the last Santa didn't die and had actually planned for Scott taking over for him. The elves were so casual about it because he told them about his plan so they were prepared. | |
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Letting Her Hair Down | |
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Letting Her Hair Down: When Scott discusses retiring with the family and makes the decision, Carol is prepared to relax her very high-top bun. After the first pin is released, the rest have to dive for cover as the rest of the pins explode off in a Flechette Storm. | |
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The Other Darrin | |
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This is ultimately corrected for the second season, with trailers revealing Sandman, Cupid and the Easter Bunny are back, albeit with the latter having been subjected to The Other Darrin, with Tracy Morgan taking the role due to the passing of his original actor, Jay Thomas | |
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Company Cross References | |
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Company Cross References: Notably in "Chapter Four: The Shoes Off the Bed Clause". At the start of the episode, Scott notices Lucas holding a Grogu plush and briefly mentions the child owns Buzz Lightyear-themed pajamas. When Edie, one of the elves, vanishes into thin air, her last words before doing so are "I don't feel so good." | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Betty and Noel have a sickening amount of these for one another, all based around desserts. Cal and Riley start calling each other “floofy” in season 2. | |
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Flashback with the Other Darrin | |
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Flashback with the Other Darrin: The Easter Bunny in this series is now played by Tracy Morgan and has a completely different design from Jay Thomas' original Easter Bunny shown in the previous Santa Clause films. While it initially seems that the previous Easter Bunny passed on his mantle at some point, the new Easter Bunny is also shown in one of Mad Santa's flashbacks set centuries before the events of the trilogy, seemingly retconning the previous Easter Bunny out of existence. | |
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Addiction Displacement | |
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Addiction Displacement: Scott retires as Santa because the energy put into delivering Christmas presents was causing strain with his family. Once they move to Chicago the kids go to school and Carol finds a new job as a school principal, leaving Scott without a job to keep him occupied. The job he does find? Delivering packages with Simon's "Everything Now" startup. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: Charlie has yet to tell his wife that his dad is Santa Claus, with her still thinking Scott manages a shrimp fleet after several years. | |
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Speaks Fluent Animal | |
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Speaks Fluent Animal: Sandra is able to hear what the reindeer are saying. Later, the same thing happens to her with a horse. | |
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How the Mighty Have Fallen | |
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How the Mighty Have Fallen: E.L.F.S (Effective Liberating Flight Squad) have become this thanks to Betty cutting their funding. They've slid from the highly skilled response force they were under Bernard to consisting of one out of shape guy in a dingy little office. | |
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Tech Bro | |
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Tech Bro: Simon is a failed tech startup entrepreneur. When he gets a look at the Magi Tech used at the North Pole he decides to reinvent the entire method of doing Christmas by adopting their abilities into his previous Amazon-esque deliver ideas. | |
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Overcomplicated Menu Order | |
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Overcomplicated Menu Order: While visiting a coffee shop, Scott orders a coffee with instructions to add sweet ingredients like cookies, peppermint, and chocolate. The barista has to use both sides of the cup sleeve to get it all down. Carol orders black coffee. | |
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