#The year without a santa claus license#

The Cover Changes the Meaning: 'Blue Christmas' goes from a ballad about unrequited love at Christmas to a somber song about a sad little girl who misses Santa as he takes his year off.Cain and Abel: The Miser Brothers, being representations of opposing elements, really don't like each other.Busby Berkeley Number: Snow Miser's and Heat Miser's character songs, complete with miniature helper versions of themselves as dancing choruses.Blue Means Cold: The Snow Miser has blue skin.Claus tells him that Heat Miser wants to make the North Pole warmer for Christmas Eve. Big 'WHAT?!': Snow Miser does this when Mrs.Awesome Mc Cool Name: Ignatius Thistlewhite.Ass in a Lion Skin: See All Animals Are Dogs, above.In real life, when it's summertime in the northern hemisphere, it's wintertime in the southern hemisphere.

#The year without a santa claus license#

Artistic License Physics: Snow Miser objects to Heat Miser melting snow whenever it enters the Southern hemisphere, and Heat Miser decides that if Snow Miser would allow a warm day in the Northern hemisphere, he would allow it to snow in the South.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Jingle and Jangle arrive in Southtown, a police officer gives them citiations for going the wrong way on a one-way street, crossing the white line, and wearing funny-looking suits on a Sunday.Claus would take her case to Mother Nature. Anything but That!: Everyone, Elves, Miser Brothers, are terrified of the idea that Mrs.All Just a Dream: It's implied in the closing song that the whole story is something Santa dreamed.

One could argue that she was really in character, but even so.

All Animals Are Dogs: Vixen, while disguised as a dog, barked at and chased a cat.

Claus, Jingle and Jangle, their quest to prove that Christmas spirit still exists and resulting need to make it snow in the south, and (believe it or not) the Miser Brothers are all additions for the special.

Adaptation Expansion: The plot of the original poem by Phyllis McGinley is just this: Santa decides to take a holiday, the world is upset, but then Ignatius Thistlewhite convinces all the children to send presents to Santa, and when he gets them he decides to make his deliveries after all.

A Day in the Limelight: One of the few specials where Mrs.

These tropes are too much! The original special: