Nobody puts Christmass decorations up before Christmass Eve, even retail establishments Everone who lives in a house will appear to spend thousands of dollars on external decorations such as lights and roof Santas. At least one character will learn the true meaning of Christmass. Christmass will be the only time it snows.
Coworkers will eat Thanksgiving dinner with eachother instead of their families. There will be some gag involving stuffing the turkey, usually someone will get their hand stuck it it. At least one character will learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
Everone, including small children will have access to elaborate proffesional quality costumes, even the one waited until the last minute to get one (though s/he’ll end up in the most absurd costume possible).
Would it be considered a hijack to list movies whose setting is (at least in part) Christmas? There must be hundreds beyond those obviously themed things like White Christmas and Bad Santa and Miracle on 34th Street.
And we wouldn’t have to list every version of Halloween.
Would Born on the 4th of July count?
For that matter, what will be the first movie (if it’s not already out) to be set on Martin Luther King’s Birthday? I mean we already have Groundhog Day.
One of the following will happen:
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[li]Someone will be visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future[/li][li]Someone will be shown what life would have been like if they’d never been born[/li][li]Someone will have a mysterious package left for them, containing the toy that they’d yearned for and never received the year that they stopped believing in Santa[/li][/ul]
If someone is trying to make their child believe in Santa, they will end up attempting to dress like Santa, with hilarious results, usually getting lost along the way, stuck in the chimney, etc. At the last minute, a mysterious stranger in a Santa Claus suit will arrive, making the child believe. After he leaves, the fellow dressed in Santa will make his appearance. All will then wonder whether or not that mysterious stranger was The Genuine Article.
A Rankin-Bass holiday special will typically end in two ways:
1: The villain will have a change of heart and become good
2: Santa Claus will appear and make everything right. Clausen ex machina, if you will. (I believe it was the prolific songwriter Maury Laws who joked about these.)
The harder you try for a “perfect” holiday (mainly thanksgiving and christmas), the least likely it’ll happen. (If you’re materialistic about it, you’ll end up broke and cold. But even if you just try to have a simple, family-tradition filled holiday, you’ll likely end up celebrating the holiday in an overturned bus in the middle of the woods during a snowstorm, with a bunch of buddhist monks, or something. It’ll be more embarrassing, but at least you won’t be broke.)
On the other hand, trying hard for a “perfect” Halloween makes it increasingly likely that actual ghosts or monsters will show up.
While celebrating a holiday, characters can only have hijinks and or “fun” if it’s a christian or a secular holiday. All other holidays (Like Kwanzaa, Passover, etc.) are observed with the solemnness and reverence of a funeral.