Christmas Songs: Difference between revisions

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{{trope}}
[[File:starwars-xmas.jpg|link=Star Wars|frame|WARNING: [[Schmuck Bait|Never, ever]] listen to this.]]
 
 
{{quote|''"All of a sudden there comes Christmas, and there is an absolute tidal wave of darling little girls and sweet little boys making millions of dollars on records singing enchanting little Christmas songs that are perfectly nauseating."''|'''Anna Russell'''}}
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If you're looking for the story by [[Charles Dickens]], that's ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. (Except when it's [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]].)
 
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== Straight ==
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIuElVFKfAM Jingle Bells]".
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* "Ohhhh, Santa Claus, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSilUOS4Ph8 Santa Claus, You are much too fat..."] The highlight of many an Elementary School Christmas performance.
* ''Jingle Bell Metal'' by Psychostick contains parodies of several Christmas songs.
* "Ho Ho [BEEP] Ho" by [[Kevin Bloody Wilson]].
* [[They Might Be Giants]] have a few, most of which involve Santa Claus acting like a dick to the narrator.
* In ''[[The Colbert Report|A Colbert Christmas]]: [http://www.colbertnation.com/video?keywords=A+Colbert+Christmas The Greatest Gift of All]'', Stephen performs the cheery, extremely unsubtle "[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/211035/november-23-2008/a-colbert-christmas--another-christmas-song Another Christmas Song]", which is all about people buying "Another Christmas Song" and hopefully making it a yearly Christmas standard so that Stephen can get rich. Multiple levels of metafiction at once coupled with multiple levels of [[Special Effect Failure]].