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== Holidays existent in-universe ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' has the Juraian holiday Startica, which happens to involve Christmas trees for some reason.<ref>Given that the Jurians are a much older civilization and have had secret influence on our governments for Tsunami knows how long, it is probably more accurate from an order-of-events and origin-of-the-practice standpoint to say that Christmas involves Startica trees for some reason.</ref>
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* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', the desert-dwelling Sun Folk celebrate the Festival of Flood and Flower.
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* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' gave us such delightful Dantrovian holidays as "The Festival of the Fudge Sauce", "Terzayyl", and "The Day The Colonists From Earth Finally Understood."
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* Bobunk in ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''. It's too bad that Salem accidentally deleted it...
* The pilot of ''[[Firefly]]'' opens on "Unification Day," a yearly celebration of the Alliance's victory during the civil war some years previous.
* ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'' has Garlic Tuesday, a
* The ''[[30
=== Music ===
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* ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' has a bunch of holidays that are either made-up (Yay Day, La-Di-Day, Bright Lights, Festivale) or [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] holidays (Toy Day [Christmas], Bunny Day [Easter], etc).
* "[[Team Fortress 2]]" has Australian Christmas. Every December the 17th, children in Australia make weapons and hats for Old Nick, a crotchety old man who lives at the South Pole. After receiving all of his gifts, Old Nick realizes he received many duplicates of gifts, so he sells them off for incredibly low prices!
==== MMORPGs ====
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' uses a mixture of real-world and fictional holidays, to go with its fictional calendar: The Festival of Jarlsberg (New Years Day), St. Sneaky Pete's Day (St. Patrick's Day), Oyster Egg Day (Easter), Generic Summer Holiday (Summer Break, more or less, rather than any specific day), Dependence Day (Fourth of July aka Independence Day), and Crimbo (Christmas) circulate around the calendar along with real-world holidays like Valentines Day and Halloween. Borderline cases such as Labór Day and Arrrrbor Day also exist.
* CAPSLOCK DAY in ''[[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN]]''
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has similar events, including Noblegarden (Easter), Love is in the Air (Valentines Day), Lunar Festival (Chinese New Year), Midsummer Fire Festival (Independence Day), Brewfest (Oktoberfest), Hallows End (Halloween), Pilgrim's Bounty (Thanksgiving), and Feast of Winter's Veil (Christmas), alongside a few real-world holidays like the Day of the Dead and original ones like Children's Week.
=== Web Animation ===
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* In [[Monsterful]] we get the "Monster unity day" instead of Halloween, a day where peace and unity of all monsters is celebrated by dressing as other monster species, which is quite normal considering the setting of the comic is a monster-only world.
* In Triquetra Cats, the Antreyki celebrate Go, a harvest festival style holiday that combines elements of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The main symbol of the holiday is a pumpkin carved with the family symbol topped with an evergreen wreath and harvest fruits a la a cornucopia.
* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20130817172242/http://antihero.keenspot.com/d/20050718.html Coffee Shops are Closed Day]. Naturally, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|coffee shops are closed on that day]].
=== Web Original ===
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* Freedom Day in ''[[Futurama]]''!
* In ''[[American Dad]]'', Steve tells Stan and Francine that he saw Roger heading into Stan's study with a watermelon and a giant hammer. Francine, thinking Roger has a good explanation, asks Stan if it's Gallagher Day. Stan angrily asks her "do you see a Gallagher Tree, Francine?!"
* Edipan in ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'', a week long event where ''all'' magical beings are on vacation, and that includes June herself. Unfortunately, she has the bad luck to run into a grouchy giant who doesn't observe the holiday - and he doesn't like Labor Day much either.
* Two of them in ''[[My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic]]'':
** Summer Sun Celebration, appearing in part two of the pilot. Held on the Summer Solstice, it commemorates the battle where Princess Celeste defeated and imprisoned Nightmare Moon, restoring the sun to Equestria. It's not exactly a happy occasion for Celeste herself, as she long regrets having done so. Notably, the episode where the holiday takes place is where Luna is finally released and redeemed.
** Nightmare Night (in the episode “Luna Eclipsed”) is the Pony version of Halloween, and much like such has trick or treating, candy, and costumes. Much like Halloween it is a frivolous holiday with origins in a more serious event, where the candy represents offerings made to Nightmare Moon to convince her to stay away. The episode takes place after the aforementioned episode with Summer Sun Celebration, so unlike most rituals intended to appease evil spirits, the "guest of honor" is welcome to personally attend.
=== Real Life ===
* The calendar is littered with official days declared by the government, but you don't get to stay home. One that
* [[Talk Like a Pirate Day]].
== Holidays Made Up By A Character ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[Doraemon]]'', Nobita uses one of Doraemon's magical gadgets to declare "Do Nothing Day". [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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=== Newspaper Comics ===
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Schroeder didn't make up Beethoven's birthday ''per se'', but he decided to turn it into an observance. It's December 16, by the way.
=== Web Comics ===
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