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{{quote|''It's the least wonderful time of the year!''}}
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For the other definition of "holiday", compare [[Busman's Holiday]] or [[Horrible Camping Trip]].
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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]])
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== [[Literature]] ==
* There's a scene in ''[[
* ''[[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
* ''[[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.
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* 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
* 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
* 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]] ==
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* 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
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