# Tv show where a kid wishes it was christmas everyday, now it is
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 25, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714 "2014-01-25T23:52:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/1 "2014-01-25T23:52:57Z")
My mom was telling me about a TV episode (she implied it may have been alfred hitchcock presents, or twilight zone) where a child wishes it were christmas everyday but after going through it for a few days the kid gets really unhappy with how things are going.
What episode would this be? I know there is a movie called ‘Christmas every day’ but that was from 1996. I’m thinking this episode was earlier than that. There was a 1987 TV show with the same title though. I’m not sure if that was what she was referring to.
Are there any others, because I’m not sure if the 2 I listed above are the ones she was referring to.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/2 "2014-01-26T00:03:37Z")
_Elmo Saves Christmas_ follows this plot, but he’s a Muppet not a kid 🙂
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/3 "2014-01-26T00:13:36Z")
I’ve read this as a short story, but I can’t remember much else about it.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/4 "2014-01-26T01:33:20Z")
[Christmas Every Day?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115891/)
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/5 "2014-01-26T20:59:08Z")
William Dean Howells wrote a short story (or maybe it was published as a children’s book, it’s aimed at children) with this plot called “Christmas Every Day.”
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/6 "2014-01-26T21:11:47Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> [Christmas Every Day?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115891/)
Uh, he mentioned that in the OP. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/7 "2014-01-26T23:23:44Z")
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but memories can be conflated and this added, so: “[It’s a Good Life](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29)” is one of the more classic _Twilight Zone_ episodes. He wishes for snow, not specifically Christmas, and he doesn’t fix it at the end. It was remade for the movie, got a later sequel, and was used in the THoH episode in Simpsons S2.
Or Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’,” although I think he means a different type of snow…
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/8 "2014-01-27T00:49:00Z")
I think there was a segment like this in the “Twilight Zone” Movie, as well. Although I think it was the adults who were slowly disintegrating under the pressure.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/9 "2014-01-27T07:49:16Z")
Timmy Turner made that wish once on _The Fairly Oddparents_, but I doubt that’s the one your Mom spoke of.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-where-a-kid-wishes-it-was-christmas-everyday-now-it-is/679714/10 "2014-02-15T08:12:52Z")
Having it be Christmas every day would truly be terrifying.
No one would be working, except for emergency workers and movie theater operators. The economy would grind to a halt. You’d have to find some way, somehow, to do Christmas shopping even though no stores are open, because you need to find Christmas presents for _tomorrow_.
After a few weeks, the whole nation – nay, the entire world – would become a post-apocalyptic hellscape. And when “Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas” came on the radio, you’d choose the moment where he sings “Don’t you wish that ev’ry day were Christmas day?” to end your life.