I know everybody’s blocked it out (and rightly so) but the Star Wars Christmas Special celebrated Life Day, a Wookiee holiday.
There’s no such show.
It was called the Star Wars Holiday Special.
There’s one coming out now with Johnny Depp called:
“Black Mass”
OK you don’t like that one:
Black Sabbath with Boris Karloff
Also
World Premier of Magical Mystery Tour was on Boxing Day 1967
The Star War on Christmas has indeed been long.
Raising Hope also took on Arbor Day. And I suspect it’s a much different take than the Peanuts gang had (if I’ve ever seen the Peanuts one it was decades ago, and I don’t remember it).
What about “It’s VJ day Charlie Brown!”
It’s Rex Manning Day!
I’m pretty sure they mentioned Arbor Day on Toxic Crusaders, at least once.
A Captain Planet episode wouldn’t surprise me, either—but then, they also did episodes on drugs, gangs, AIDS, and Northern Ireland. So nothing would really surprise me.
A number of anime works feature real, but obscure to many westerners holidays and festivals, but I don’t recall any that featured Japanese holidays that were obscure to most Japanese people—there’s not a Gundam episode where they visit the Grave of Jesus (In Japan) Festival, or anything.
I’d guess that Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year are probably actually overrepresented in certain settings, albeit only used as background color.
Not exactly what the OP asked for, but you rarely see the U.S. Independence Day celebrated on TV shows.
That’s because first-run shows generally air holiday-oriented episodes shortly before the holiday. The American broadcast TV networks usually run first-run episodes from September through May. By the time the Fourth of July rolls around, the networks are already deep into rerun season.
One notable exception: The Bob Newhart Show had a bicentennial Fourth of July episode where Bob and Emily got locked in their apartment’s storage room.
Same here.
I used to mix up the holidays I thought I knew as well. I’d tell a friend, “hey, Happy JewishHoliday” only to have it explained that my “happy” was inappropriate, as this was some sort of atonement/dead people holiday.
Curious George had an episode “Curious George’s Dragon Dance” in which he helped celebrate the Chinese New Year. I think he also helped celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
Does Festivus (Seinfeld) count?
Somebody actually watched Captain Planet? Now that surprises me!
Has anyone mentioned Groundhog Day, yet?
Actually, it’s not that uncommon for family sitcoms to do episodes about their summer, usually focusing on or at least including some sort of big 4th of July todo, even if the episodes themselves air in the fall or spring.
For example, The Simpsons episode Summer of 4’2", where the Simpsons and Milhouse head to the Flanderses’s beach house for the holiday, and Lisa tries to reinvent herself as cool to make friends with the other kids at the beach.
Off hand, I remember other 4oJ episodes on Wonder Years and The Middle.
Another Simpsons reference…
Mr. Burns gets a fortune cookie which reveals to him “You will find love on Flag Day”.
Best use of Flag Day in any TV show that I can recall.
This is the first time I have heard of it
Each one of these days need to be new horror movies forthwith.
Yes, that’s the day all the ships come into the 'Arbor.
I was going to complain that lesser-know Peanuts specials are not available, but I see it is bundled with* It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.* I may have to get it.