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Occasionally one encounters a ''Jewish'' mall Santa.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In issue #378 of ''[[Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'' (by [[Peter David]]), Rhino (a supervillain) becomes a Mall Santa, He givies this advice to kids: "Give! Give! Give! You want everything handed to you! Why not do what I do? Take stuff! See it? Want it? Take it!"
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** Archie gets this job himself a lot. One year he tried to use it to get present intel from Betty and Veronica, but the girls saw through it and tricked him instead. Another year he learned the [[True Meaning of Christmas]] from some special children he met on the job.
** A one-shot Li'l Jinx featured the titular character pestering a mall santa about a letter she got.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111026145033/http://www.img.archiecomics.com/press/bvfdd219.600.jpg This] Betty and Veronica double digest cover, in which a ''teenaged'' Betty is bothering a mall Santa.
** Yet another story featured Betty and Veronica as [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Mall Santas]]. This isn't counting the times they've just worn a [[Sexy Santa Dress]].
 
== [[FanficFan Works]] ==
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4755435/1/Metal_Gear_Santa Metal Gear Santa] featured Old Snake dressed up as Santa Claus and Sunny and Otacon dressed up as elves.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[The Ends]]'' has the crazy priest preaching from a mall Santa's chair.
* Psycho Mantis attempted to get a job as one in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]''. He bounced when someone got ahold of his employee record (or, rather, complete lack of one). Ocelot, upon learning of it, becomes completely freaked out.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Tariq dresses up like this to earn some cash in the ''[[Kate Modern]]'' episode "Grabbed By The Bells". "You think your life is a mess? I'm a 24-year-old Muslim man dressed as Santa!"
* A woman had to pose as Santa. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203214411/http://ponderous.0catch.com/holiday3.htm Ponderous Woman]
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'': In "Christmas Tree of Might," one of Turles' mooks had this job, and he was particularly nasty about it, dropping a fire truck on one kid's house and killing another because he asked him to cure his cancer.
{{quote|'''Krillin''': God, you are one of the worst mall Santas ever — right behind those ones that molest kids!
'''Minion''': So I'm the ''worst'' mall Santa?
'''Krillin''': Oh, come on! }}
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''
** The pilot.
** The much later episode "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" featured the title Jack Lemmon figure giving Lisa her wish in his guise as Santa, getting fired over it, and spending the next year sponging off the Simpsons. After the year has passed, [[NotComic AllowedBook to Grow UpTime|Bart is still a ten-year-old fourth grader and Lisa is still eight and in the second grade]].
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' had hard-nosed gumshoe Harvey Bullock going undercover as a mall Santa. Let's just say there have been better candidates.
{{quote|'''Kid''': "You're not the real Santy Clause!"
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* [[Metalocalypse|Dr Rockzo, the Rock & Roll Clown who does Cocaine,]] got a job as a Mall Santa after he was given a [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]. [[Man Child|Toki,]] who apparently believes in Santa Claus, ran into him.
** "Thats don'ts makes sense!"
* Skarr from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]''. He nearly kills Billy, but no one intervenes (except the elves) until his beard comes off. Then, everyone beats him up for not being Santa.
** they also start a riot and burn the mall to the ground.
* Coco from ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', who says she needed the money to pay off her vacation home. When Mac accidentally rips her beard off, she's fired and refuses to speak to Mac for the rest of the day.
* The main six in ''[[Recess]]'' meet a mall Santa in the [[Christmas Episode]]. Though out of frustration, he rips his beard off and asks his assistant if they can get the next mall Santa to cover.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Tariq dresses up like this to earn some cash in the ''[[Kate Modern]]'' episode "Grabbed By The Bells". "You think your life is a mess? I'm a 24-year-old Muslim man dressed as Santa!"
* A woman had to pose as Santa. [http://ponderous.0catch.com/holiday3.htm Ponderous Woman]
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'': In "Christmas Tree of Might," one of Turles' mooks had this job, and he was particularly nasty about it, dropping a fire truck on one kid's house and killing another because he asked him to cure his cancer.
{{quote|'''Krillin''': God, you are one of the worst mall Santas ever — right behind those ones that molest kids!
'''Minion''': So I'm the ''worst'' mall Santa?
'''Krillin''': Oh, come on! }}
 
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4755435/1/Metal_Gear_Santa Metal Gear Santa] featured Old Snake dressed up as Santa Claus and Sunny and Otacon dressed up as elves.
 
== Other ==