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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:Seasons Beatings.jpg\|framed\|link= Magic: The Gathering\|My color is Red~~<br~~ /> At my worst, I am shortsighted and destructive.]] {{quote\| ''It's the least wonderful time of the year!''}} The holidays are a time of happiness, togetherness, and fun right? Wrong! They are an awful time of the year that drains your money, time, and patience. Line 14: For the other definition of "holiday", compare [[Busman's Holiday]] or [[Horrible Camping Trip]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == [[~~Commercials~~Advertising]] == * 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]]) == [[Film]] == * The basic plot of ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]''. (Then [[It Got Worse]].) * ''Home for the Holidays'' has Holly Hunter going home to spend Thanksgiving with her dysfunctional family. After getting fired from her job. == [[Literature]] == * There's a scene in ''[[~~Discworld/Hogfather\|~~Hogfather]]'' where the wizards at Unseen University start thinking back on all the things that bug them about the holiday season, including disappointing presents, family feuds cropping up, and flaming rows over board games. * ''[[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.}} == [[Live -Action TV]] == * ''[[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. Line 36: * Most holiday episodes of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)\|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' involve some kind of holiday-specific disaster occuring. Sabrina spent most major holidays fixing the holiday related problems she had created. Notable examples include taking over delivery of Christmas presents after injuring Santa Claus, trying to prevent Christmas from being erased as a holiday, rounding up a bunch of monsters she'd recruited for a halloween party, and dealing with a bunch of zombies she had inadvertantly summoned to Westbridge. * Tommy Solomon, ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', about their first Thanksgiving on Earth: {{quote\| Sorry I left like that. I found out something pretty cool. You know how you try to make this a special day, but all the resentment I have for you came spewing out and we ended up spending the whole day avoiding each other? It's ''normal''.}} * Thanksgiving is a frequent target of ''[[Friends]]'' episodes, including one in which they all shared their worst Thanksgiving memories. Some of these include losing body parts. ** Chandler in particular hates Thanksgiving because they remind him of his divorced parents and how they screwed up his childhood. It gets so bad that they have to prepare non-Thanksgiving food for him. * Christmas and [[New Year Has Come\|New Year]] are particularly bad holidays for Amaka Okoh in ''[[Tinsel]]''. When she's not being held hostage by a lunatic, she's in jail for murder. ** Angela Dede doesn't fare any better. * ''[[Adam -12]]'' had one where the officers were trying to help a poor family by getting them some gifts after theirs were stolen-only to have the gifts stolen when the car they were in was swiped. There's also a drunk driving incident. * There are some [[Saturday Night Live]] sketches like this including: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVXYp2KIeE Home for the Holidays] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvwX18oMR4 Best Christmas Ever] == [[Music]] == * [[The Arrogant Worms]] song 'The Christmas Song'. And some of the other songs on their 'Christmas Turkey' CD, which is basically a collection of [[Anti-Christmas Song~~\|AntiChristmasSongs~~]]s. * The song [http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/b/bobrivers10338/12painsofchristmas335547.html "The 12 Pains Of Christmas"] * "Holidays in the Sun" by [[The Sex Pistols]] - "A cheap holiday in other people's misery." * "Christmas at Ground Zero" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] describes ''the'' most extreme case. == [[Web Original]] == * ''[[Cracked.com]]''{{'}}s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20092_5-everyday-things-that-can-literally-drive-you-crazy_p2.html 5 Everyday Things That Can Literally Drive You Crazy] links seasonal affective disorder in part to "three straight months of Christmas music." == [[Western Animation]] == * On one episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', both Helga and Arnold complain on how their families ruin the Thanksgiving Day, and decide to leave their homes and go to Mr. Simmons' house expecting him to have a perfect celebration, it turned out his Thanksgiving Day was even worse. * Averted in ''[[South Park]]'', in which Christmas in [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] is actually really enjoyable. * Ironically subverted in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' [[Christmas Episode]]. Given Dr. Doofenshmirtz's [[Affably Evil]] nature and his history of [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood\|sadistically tragicomic and consistently crappy childhood experiences]], everyone expects him to hate Christmas. It turns out he honestly has no problem with it and was one of the few times in his childhood that "was always fine. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either." ** Turns out that he hates every other holiday, too. ''Every one'', including Flag Day and Mardi Gras. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FggbppZZi8U Explained in song!] * Ironically, one of the most beloved [[Christmas Special~~\|Christmas Specials~~]]s, ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'', is mostly about how the main character is depressed during the holidays. "I know everyone doesn't like me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?" {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Just for Pun]] [[Category:Holiday Tropes]] [[Category:Pages Needing an Entry Pimp]] [[Category:~~Episodes~~Significant Date Episode]] [[Category:~~Crappy~~Christmas ~~Holidays~~Tropes]]