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Compare [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]], [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Not quite [[Older Than Television]], but in 1954 [[CS Lewis (Creator)|CS Lewis]] wrote a text called ''[http://www.getmorphed.com/2003/12/xmas-and-christmas.html Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus]'', in which the people of [[Sdrawkcab Name|Niatirb]] celebrate ''two'' holidays: [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|A secular one with parties and gifts and a religious one in temples]].
* Hogswatchnight, along with its patron spirit the Hogfather, from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' books, though this is used more to examine and comment on Christmas and winter solstice holidays in general.
** The name is a combination of New Year's Eve being "Hogmanay" in Scotland and "Watch Night" in traditionalist Christian communities (and possibly also "hogwash"); it is also on the Discworld (at least around the Circle Sea) the culmination of the pig-slaughtering season.
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* [[Rhett and Link]], who are Christians, played around with this trope on a collection of fake outtakes from a fake commercial. Rhett also mentioned in one podcast that he celebrates the Harvest Season as opposed to Halloween.
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has Yule instead of Christmas, though it’s essentially the same minus the Christian overtones: there is no Christ or reason to have a mass for such a figure. Instead it’s modeled after the Germanic celebration of Winter Solstice, complete with Yule Log and giant effigy burning.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' gives us "Slavemas" an ancient Egyptian holiday where the people of Egypt had to serve as slaves to Pharoah Atem. Until the thief king tried to ruin it, at which point he just made EVERYONE slaves all year round. And it's done as parody of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animation)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', too. Yes, 'tis awesome.
* ''[[Dragonball Z Abridged]]'', Santa never came to the Saiyans on Planet Vegeta, they heard of the joy he brought to children, of the presents, of the merriment, that they were denied. Planet Vegeta never got Christmas, all they got was Freeza Day.
{{quote| '''Dogku:''' What happened on Freeza Day?<br />
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* The PBS kids cartoon ''[[Cyberchase (Animation)|Cyberchase]]'' had an episode, Starlight Night, where penguin cyber-citizens celebrated a holiday where penguins used special fairydust to fly around their town and give out presents, including a very corny "Holiday" song.
** Starlight Night also involved all of [[Cyberspace]] celebrating the relighting of Cyberspace's stars (in a fashion similar to the countdown to the midnight balldrop in Times Square on New Year's Eve, complete with a Starlight Night parade grand marshal pulling a switch to relight said stars).
* ''[[The EmperorsEmperor's New School (Animation)|The Emperors New School]]'' (despite being set in the pre-Columbian Incan Empire) features 'Kuzmas' (and other holidays such as 'Kuzcoween'). The series is ambiguous as to whether it takes place in a Flintstones-like past, or in the present in a modern day Peruvian village.
** This series' closest counterpart to Christmas is 'Giftmas', when Papa Santos grants wishes to nice people who believe him and would even make Kuzco emperor again had it been wished by someone in the nice list. However, Papa isn't all-knowing, considering his naughty list has 'Yzma' and 'Amzy' as second and third naughtiest. (At least until Kuzco started to work his way out of the list)
* ''[[Blues Clues]]'' had an episode where the characters celebrate "Love Day" instead of Valentine's Day.
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* ''[[My Little Pony]]: Twinkle Wish Adventure'' has the Winter Wishes Festival, which has all the trappings of Christmas, but is never referred to anything other than "holiday." The main attraction of the festival is placing the Twinkle Wish Star on top of the Ever-Forevergreen tree, a huge pine tree in the center of town, decorated with ornaments and colored lights. Once the star is up there, it grants everyone "one holiday wish."
** This seems to be a unicorn thing as the ponies in Ponyville celebrate Christmas, as shown in ''A Very Minty Christmas''.
* You ''could'' probably put ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'''s "Winter Wrap-Up" in this category as well. While it's not a gift-giving holiday (it involves lots and lots of manual labor), and it signals the ''end'' of winter, the citizens of Ponyville do seem to look forward to it, and it even has its own [[Ear Worm|maddeningly catchy song]], to boot.
** The season 2 episode "Luna Eclipsed" takes place on "Nightmare Night", which appears to be Equestria's answer to Halloween.
** The very first episode centered about the "Summer Sun Celebration" (the longest day of the year), which seems to be analogue to Summer Solstice or Midsummer festivities held in some cultures.
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