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== Live Action TV ==
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* One ''[[MASH]]'' Christmas, BJ insisted on keeping a critically wounded soldier alive so the soldier's children wouldn't remember Christmas as "the day Daddy died." Despite their efforts he died with roughly 35 minutes left to go - so Hawkeye moved the hands of the clock and said, "Look at that, it's not Christmas anymore."
* On ''[[The West Wing]],'' Josh Lyman suffers a complete mental breakdown on Christmas, to the point that the constant cheery Christmas carols flooding the hallways of the White House trigger severe traumatic flashbacks to his recent shooting.
* The first ''[[Scrubs]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] starts off like this, but then goes [[Away in A Manger]]. Still worth mentioning just for the [[Anti
{{quote| On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,<br />
Twelve beaten children,<br />
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* The legendary "Woodland Critter Christmas" episode of ''[[South Park]]''.
* In an ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' [[Christmas Episode]], Stan mentions the so-called "Christmas Rapist" (though due to [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] he's been renamed "the Holiday Rapist").
* ''[[Doug|Doug's Christmas Story]]'', where after accidentaly biting Beebe Bluff and injuring her leg, Porchop is sentanced to trial and is almost put to sleep. The [[Wham! Episode]] of the series.
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* The Cyclone Tracy hit the Australian city of Darwin around 10pm on Christmas Eve, 1974, and dissipated on Boxing Day.
* The storm Lothar that ravaged Europe on December 26th, 1999.
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* On a more personal scale, the Christmas period is well known as a period of peak demand for [[Useful Notes/Suicide Prevention|Suicide Prevention]] hotlines.
* [[Truth in Television|It happens.]] It's not uncommon to hear stories about fires on Christmas (either due to putting old, possibly frayed, electric lights on a dead, dry tree, or the rise in deep-frying turkeys having bad consequences.) Barring that, holidays can be a ridiculously stressful time. Women have frequently gone into labor during Christmas (while not twisted, birth is a stressful thing even at the best of times) and there's probably been at least one heart attack on that day. Add to that the fact that, in a lot of areas, Christmas is a damp, snowy, or ''icy'' holiday, and accidents aren't uncommon as well.
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