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 * The ''[[Love Hina]]'' Christmas special focuses on Keitaro and Naru trying to meet up with each other while it is still Christmas Eve.
 ** ...as does the ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' Christmas episode.
-* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' both upholds and subverts the trope, as the protagonist and his ladylove use the holiday as an excuse to kiss over a Christmas cake, while there are scenes of the religious aspect -- a priest and a (very obviously Christian) church are highlighted in one sequence, implying that people in the city were taking in Midnight Mass just before the [[Humongous Mecha]] attack launched by Kamujin.
+* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' both upholds and subverts the trope, as the protagonist and his ladylove use the holiday as an excuse to kiss over a Christmas cake, while there are scenes of the religious aspect—a priest and a (very obviously Christian) church are highlighted in one sequence, implying that people in the city were taking in Midnight Mass just before the [[Humongous Mecha]] attack launched by Kamujin.
 * On ''[[Vandread]]'', Hibiki gives Dita the gift of Christmas snow, despite their position on a ship in deep space, by grabbing a chunk off a nearby comet with his Vanguard mecha.
 * In ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'' the Christmas episode involved Kasuga [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|time traveling]] [[Reset Button|three times]] in order to create a Christmas Eve meeting that didn't leave either [[Love Triangle|Hikaru or Madoka]] furious at him, due to the [[Serious Business|Serious implications]] of a [[Wacky Marriage Proposal|Christmas Eve Date]].
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 * ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has one of these. [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Genma and Soun]] are grumbling about how, in their day, [[Lampshade Hanging|everyone was still Buddhist and didn't celebrate Christmas.]] [[Feminine Women Can Cook|Kasumi]] comes in and asks if everyone is ready for a Christmas ham, leading Genma and Soun to cry, "Hooray for Christmas!"
 ** Similarly, in the original manga version of ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'', Al gives Leona a Christmas gift, which she gladly accepts, though she mentions if her devoutly Buddhist grandfather ever got wind of it, he'd smack her with his boukken.
-* ''[[Tokyo Godfathers]]'', of course, for a unique Japanese Christmas story. It even opens with two of the main characters attending Mass and watching a Nativity scene, and there is a surprising number of allegories to the birth of Christ in itself --the most obvious being the Three Magi.
+* ''[[Tokyo Godfathers]]'', of course, for a unique Japanese Christmas story. It even opens with two of the main characters attending Mass and watching a Nativity scene, and there is a surprising number of allegories to the birth of Christ in itself—the most obvious being the Three Magi.
 * ''[[Kamichu!]]'' subverts this when the [[Patriotic Fervor|rather jingoistic and culturally supremacist]] [[Miko]] Matsuri would [[Misplaced Nationalism|rather it ''not'' be Christmas Time]].
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 * Parodied to the max in the [[Britcom]] ''[[Nightingales]]''. In the Christmas special, three security guards are attempting to celebrate Christmas when they are approached by an unmarried, highly pregnant girl called 'Mary' for a room for the night. They let her stay, only if she promises NOT to be an allegory for the true meaning of Christmas. She later [[Away in a Manger|gives birth]], but to a stream of unlikely objects (such as a goldfish, a set of golf clubs and a toaster). At the end of the episode, she reveals that in fact, it WAS an allegory all along and mocks the guards for not noticing how she was showing that Jesus had been replaced with a stream of consumer goods. The episode ends with [[The Pope]] and [[Harold Pinter]] leaving on a trandem.
 * At the end of the TV movie ''[[The Hebrew Hammer]]'', the titular Hammer brags to his mother that he's saved Hanukkah, and she isn't at all impressed - it's not like he saved one of the high holy days.
-* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' had a [[Christmas Episode]] in one of the earlier seasons. Carol developed laryngitis, and Cindy pleaded with a department store Santa Claus to give her back her voice so she could sing the solo at church on Christmas Day -- which of course is exactly what happens. It was the only instance in the entire series where the family attended church or mentioned religion at all.
+* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' had a [[Christmas Episode]] in one of the earlier seasons. Carol developed laryngitis, and Cindy pleaded with a department store Santa Claus to give her back her voice so she could sing the solo at church on Christmas Day—which of course is exactly what happens. It was the only instance in the entire series where the family attended church or mentioned religion at all.
 * The Christmas episode of ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' has this. Especially blatant in that it's the (otherwise irreligious) ''teenage kid'' and not the parents who insists that everyone attend Christmas Eve mass.
 * Subverted in the ''[[Community]]'' episode "Comparative Religion". Shirley plans an overtly religious Christmas party for the group, but learns that the others are all non-Christian. In the end they share a decidedly secular, inclusive holiday together.