@rentropy6199

Biggest Christmas Special Cliché: Something happens to Santa and the main protagonists must “save Christmas.”

@sori_osori_

Three ghosts? Love triangle? Hmmmmm?

@DragonfameDracas

"Everything changed when Black Friday attacked."
It was horrid, we were hopeless outnumbered and overworked, surrounded on all sides, we'd do our best to stem the tides and reinforce the lines. It seemed a lost cause, as we waded through isles choked with bodies, sometimes finding ourselves surrounded on all sides outnumbered twelve to one by soulless abominations that screamed demands at us. We were not people to these ravenous hordes without empathy or kindness, were we simply objects to give what they desired when they desired it. 

Yet eventually that horrid day ended and those green to this war believed that it was over. But those who had seen this horror before, this never ending tide of greed and desire knew better and did not tell these green workers who had sought only easy work and a quick buck. This was but the first day of the Black Tide, it would return tomorrow, perhaps not as fierce as it had today, but it would return, stronger everyday until finally the day of the Savior would arrive and those of us who survived would look around at others reduced to vacant stares and hollow eyes.

I do not believe I will survive this year's Black Tide, I only hope to take some of that endless terrible mass with me as I die.

@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache

This year, please remember. Put the "Terrible Writing Advice" back in "Christmas".

@bretsheeley4034

"I see you have the 'Curmudgeon who wishes to destroy Christmas for no good reason' trope-"
"I worked retail."
"... Touché, this time."

@aaronTGP_3756

The greatest holiday (Christmas) special was A Charlie Brown Christmas.
1. Actually "gets" Christmas.
2. Calls out the commercialization of Christmas.
3. It feels like this could happen in real life.
4. Snoopy is in there.

@drakeredwingofficial

Apparently Hallmark wasn't aware this was a sarcastic video

@AnythingMachine

The target audience for holiday specials is drunk and half asleep, which explains much about their plot

@jewellefay7206

A Christmas Carol Story?
…
Check.

A Grinch who can’t accept the constant marketing of the Holidays?
…
Check.

Santa interacting with the cast.
…
Checkity, Check, Check.

Pointless plotting about trying to get a kiss under the mistletoe to fuel the shippers?
…
Knew we forgot something.

@johndoe-hr6vp

Holy crap. Ultra thin plot that serves as an excuse for various song and dance numbers, check. Hated by its creator who saw it as something he wrote for his pay cheque, check. Makes an appearance every year anyway, check. Any flaws are ignored because its Christmas, check. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was the first Holiday Special.

@mahlismith8303

Please can we have a terrible writing advice for spy novels

@jordanloux3883

Holy crap, your stock characters are becoming self aware. Is there an episode on meta-humor coming?

@firockfinion3326

"Several international treaties prohibit me from singing."

XD

@biblicallyaccuratecockroach

And what happened then? Well, in YouTube comments they say,
That JP's small heart grew three sizes that day.
Then he seized his chest, his pain flowing readily,
And then dropped dead of cardiomegaly.
I shall write this down and pin it on the wall, this is high quality poetry, mate.

@thenarrator8781

Oh! Here's a Christmas cliche I hate! The fact that Santa not being able to deliver presents means that Christmas is cancelled!
You know, because human being are  physically incapable of having Christmas on their own and the centuries old celebration of birth of Christ will suddenly just disappear from the calendar and unless a far old guy breaks into their house and gives them a present.

@kimifw58

And if anyone refuses to celebrate Christmas for any reason (besides religion),  the other characters must treat it like a serious problem and put their energy into changing that person's mind. Even in a show that's all about tolerance and individuality, the one holiday absolutely everyone must take part in is Christmas, because nothing says "good will to men" like forcing conformity!

@randomelk9801

Holiday specials are the best.
like the star wars holiday special, so good the creator didn't even think we deserved it on the planet, so he wanted all the copies destroyed.

@LibertyLocalizer

Please do a video on crossovers with overly sarcastic productions.



Also, a video on love triangles with overly sarcastic productions and hello future me.

@cosmicredpanda2420

How to make a Christmas special!

Step 1: Find a Christmas classic
Step 2: if it isn’t in the public domain, but the rights to said property.
Step 3: Put a new coat of paint on it.

Done.

@greenrockgirl5150

Also remember that no matter what, the Christmas special can only have one of three plot lines, either it’s the plot of The Grinch with different characters, the plot of A Christmas Carol with different characters, or something happens to Santa and the main characters need to save Christmas