I find this story of an underage voyeur with a speech impediment watching Mom have an affair to be disturbing on many levels. Am I the only one?
Replace the word “disturbing” with the word “arousing” and I’ll agree with you.
I always get a chuckle because Santa was my ex’s name for …well lets just say he always brought her gifts, especially when she was naughty;)
Stof,
I'm not exactly an expert on songs of the season and all, but a reasonable interpretation of the song is that the kid crept down and saw Mom kissing *Dad* who was dressed up as Santa to fool the kids while delivering presents. So basically, you're turning a rueful reflection on childhood innocence into the Postman Always Rings Twice.
You must be so proud.
Oh, and I'm reasonably certain that I've kissed married women under the mistletoe without anyone considering it an affair.Finagle-I believe you’re right. Consider the line:
“Oh what a funny site it would have been if Daddy had only seen Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.”
D’uh. Santa is DADDY!
But don’t you think that even the most stupid 4 year-old could recognize Daddy’s nose behind the fake beard? But even given that it’d Daddy in the red velour wearing the cotton-ball facial hair, the kid saw Mommy kissing someone besides Daddy.
Anyhow, both of ya, get a sense of humor. They’re on sale for Xmas.
I agree with you. I mean, okay duh, Santa is Dad,
but it still bothers me. Maybe because sheating is in my family and stuff, but I just think it sends a bad message. Yes, I am propably hypersensitive, but I always turn the song off.
A stupid four year old? Well, sure. But I was using the original poster as my benchmark.
I’ll pick my sense of humor up at the after Xmas sales if you don’t mind. They always have a lot of medium, dry, left on the shelves.
[aside] I sang this song all dressed in a little red dress for my school Christmas show when I was in the second grade. Evidentially (from reports I’ve heard), it was sweet enough to give you cavities right on the spot. [/aside]
Add the latest Gap TV ad campaign, which uses it shamefully, and I’ll agree with you (a lot of 11-year-old Britney Spears wannabes lip-synching and tossing their hair into the camera, yep, that’s gonna make me rush right down to the Gap and have a wallet hemorrhage.)
Can I contribute a song to the list? The “barking dogs” Jingle Bells. I’ve had to listen to it every Christmas since a group of Bethlehem sheepdogs introduced it on Big Herod’s “Christmas Eve Top 40” show, and it wasn’t that good to begin with. Can we please have something new? How about barking camels?
OK, so I guess I was stupid when I was four years old, because I really didn’t understand the “joke” of the song, that Santa is really dear old Dad. The fact that the narrator of the song thought it would be funny if Dad was there to see it makes the song even more creepy – what kid thinks it would be a hoot to have Pop witness Mom snarking with some old guy in a red suit? It would be real funny if Dad killed Santa in a jealous rage, I suppose.
And why is Dad wearing a Santa suit, anyway? All the times I saw an adult in a Santa suit was when the grown-ups were staging something for us kids. In this song, it sounds like the kid has stumbled upon Mom and Dad engaging in a little Christmas kink.
“I’m Getting Nuttin For Christmas” is the only holiday song more annoying than this. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” still wins for creepiest.
Crap.
I didn’t realize Santa was Daddy until… oh, let’s say 5 minutes ago.
Wow.
Yup, I’m a swift one.
OK, I agree that Santa was probably Dad, and I’m sick in the head but never quite equated Dad being dressed up as Santa to being Christmas Kink.
But WHAT IF Santa WASN’T Dad? I mean, WHAT IF?
As for the dogs barking Jingle Bells, you haven’t lived until you’ve heard cats meowing … well meowing any of the old time favorites. Silent Night, Auld Lang Syne, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, you name it. Some yahoo decided to put a lot of these things on a CD and sell it. And some idiot bought it before I did because I bought it used.
Oh well, merry Christmas one and all!
Let me add my EXTREME animosity for the Porky Pig sings Blue Christmas thing. It is NOT FUNNY, It is NOT ENTERTAINING, and I just don’t get why the radio stations play it over, and over, and over…
Is it really creepy that I always thought it was “underneath the Christmas tree” when I was little? When I think back on it, they would have to have been lying on the floor (or else really, really short) to have gotten under the tree.
I have always wondered that as well. Why dress up as Santa Claus if the kids aren’t going to see you anyway? I never thought of the “Christmas kink” angle, though (we really need an “eeeewwww” smiley.)
Perhaps Dad was aware of his offspring’s tendencies toward insomnia, and he wanted the kid to suspend disbelief for just a little while longer. Or, he just got home from his mall Santa job.
And thats all it was, Mom and Dad engaging in some role playing sex games. Its a good thing little junior didn’t come down a little later or he could have seen mom eating Santa’s candy cane.
“I saw mommy fucking Santa Claus
She said it’s 'cause of menopause…”
Jesus at McDonalds at Midnight – Mojo Nixon
Egg Nog, anyone?
::d&r::
But Elmer Fudd singing Bruce Springsteen is freakin’ fantastic!
“Ooh, ohh, I’m on Fiiiiiwaaa”
Sua