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A religious holiday episode which only mentions the not-overtly-religious trappings of the holiday, without the religion. Religion doesn't even crop up casually. This applies to all of the big Christian holidays.
 
This does reflect real life somewhat, as these days there are plenty of people from Christian backgrounds who are not particularly religious but still celebrate Christmas and Easter with parties and gifts and chocolate, as well as some who aren't Christian at all but do the same. After all, few say no to free presents. Or [[Everything's Better Withwith Chocolate|chocolate]]. <ref>Except people who are allergic to chocolate, paranoid about bombs or not from regions where christmas is practiced drinking hot chocolate.</ref>
 
Contrast with [[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?]].
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== Literature ==
* The Whos from ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Literaturenovel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'' celebrate a non-religious, albeit warm, caring and good-natured, version of Christmas.
* [[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]] wrote a couple of essays highlighting the commercialization of Christmas [[Older Than They Think|in the 1950s]]. In fact, this problem became a subject for concern very soon after the "old-fashioned" Christmas-as-we-know-it was invented in the 19th century.
** [[Nostalgia Filter|Which was still better than the older Christmas traditions of 'get drunk off your ass and burn shit'.]] The main reason for the commercialization was to avoid property destruction that the holiday caused before.
 
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== Webcomics ==
* When Bun-Bun sets out to become the King of All Holidays in ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'', he has to kill the previous leaders of the holidays to gain their titles and powers. To gain control of Christmas and Easter, he kills Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, not Jesus.
** Well, Bun-Bun or not, Jesus probably would've [[Kung Fu Jesus|kicked his ass]], so...
 
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* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' paint the Easter Bunny as a disgruntled "hard-boiled" figure who is envious of the big guy's popularity.
** As in Jesus?
* ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' plays this straight by making Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo, a Christmas Spirit in the vein of [[Frosty the Snowman]]. There is an Easter Episode wherein the secret message behind the Easter Bunny, hidden from you by [[Corrupt Church|the eeevul Vatican]], is uncovered.
** Actually averted in the shorts thet preceeded the actual show, where Santa Claus and Jesus try to kill each other over who's the real Christmas deity, [[Irony|only to be presented with the message of what Christmas is about]]. Similarly, a couple of episodes in the main series do alude to the schism between religious Christmas and commercial Christmas.
* In ''[[Sesame Street|Elmo Saves Christmas]]'', the Easter Bunny sells "Christmas Easter Eggs for Easter". There's nothing religious about any of the episode, whether Christmas or Easter.
* ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' featured "Juniper's Egg-Cellent Adventure". Here Easter is all about eggs.
* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', all the holidays are in their secular forms, though, interestingly, Jack ''does'' refer to God offhandedly twice in "Poor Jack".
* In the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' universe, Christmas (pronounced X-Mas) is less about religion and more about finding a good hiding spot from the killer robotic Santa who judges everyone to be naughty due to his standards being set too high.
* [[Rugrats]]' first Christmas special does this, focusing on Santa, but the second [[Averted Trope|averts]] it: the babies stumble across a nativity scene and don't understand what it is, but decide to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|give presents to the baby Jesus]]. (Of course, they never refer to him or the scene by name, so arguably this is more [[Playing Withwith a Trope]].)
** Also [[Played With]] during the show's Passover and Hanukkah episodes: the Biblical stories are recounted, but [[God]] is never directly mentioned, even though the various miracles occur. (Non-fatally, in the Passover example--a mysterious force is going to "[[Never Say "Die"|take away]]" the firstborn.) There was a normal episode of the show based on Noah's Ark that did the same thing, claiming that Noah was just "told by the Heavens" (or something) of the coming Flood.
* On ''[[Family Guy]],'' when Lois discovers that she's Jewish and wants to put on a seder, Peter objects because it's Easter.
{{quote| "In this house we believe in the Easter Bunny! He died for our sins in that helicopter crash..."}}
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