Crappy Holidays: Difference between revisions

 

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* There's a Target commercial wherein a cheerful hausfrau type is decorating cakes, and describing how much she looks forward to the Black Friday sale, and then she goes on to describe her other holiday preparations, culminating in declaring, "I haven't slept for THREE DAYS!" (cue [[Laughing Mad|insane laughter]])

 

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' short story "Harry's Day Off" features more things going wrong in Harry's life than a regular novel does.

* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''. The main character hates Christmas so much he decides to ruin it for everyone else. {{spoiler|He failed, and in that failure he finds the true meaning of the holiday.}}

 

* ''[[NCIS]]'': Almost without fail, the team is working straight through whatever holiday comes up, usually at Gibbs' insistence. Topped by the time that Ziva and Gibbs were {{spoiler|trapped in a gas station, during a blizzard, on Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning, hunted by mercenaries, outnumbered, and ''delivering a freaking baby.''}}

* ''[[Bones]]'': The main characters were ''not'' happy to be trapped in the lab in quarantine over Christmas.

* "Christmas at Ground Zero" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] describes ''the'' most extreme case.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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[[Category:Just for Pun]]

[[Category:Holiday Tropes]]

[[Category:Pages Needing an Entry Pimp]]

[[Category:Significant Date Episode]]

[[Category:Christmas Tropes]]