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[[File:Seasons Beatings.jpg|framed|link= Magic: The Gathering|My color is Red<br /> At my worst, I am shortsighted and destructive.]] |
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{{quote|''It's the least wonderful time of the year!''}} |
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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. |
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. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* Tommy Solomon, ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', about their first Thanksgiving on Earth: |
* Tommy Solomon, ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', about their first Thanksgiving on Earth: |
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{{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''.}} |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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