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== [[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]] ==
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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.
** 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.
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