History Main / NewYearHasCome

** A [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] story featuring Jon Hudson, the Superman of the then-future year 2020, was set during New Year's Eve. Instead of a ball drop, an orbital habitat descended to Earth. The story also featured Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadian Android Orchestra. The character continued to be referred to as "Superman 2020" in the titles of subsequent stories, even though it was now 2021.

* ''More Film/AmericanGraffiti'' intersperses events from New Year's Eve 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1967.

* Creator/TheBBC has ''three'' shows seeing in the New Year. BBC One England has a live New Year show from London, BBC Two has, since 1993, had the music show ''[[LaterWithJoolsHolland Jools Holland's Hootenanny]]'' (with people periodically being scandalised by the "revelation" that it's pre-recorded and always has been), and BBC One Scotland, since Scottish culture traditionally sees this as a bigger deal than Christmas, clears the schedule from 10pm with a light hearted documentary about some aspect of Scottish culture, a sketch show (''Series/ScotchAndWry'' until 1992, then ''Series/ChewinTheFat'' or ''Series/OnlyAnExcuse'', and since 2021 ''Queen of the New Year'') before culminating with ''Hogmanay Live''.

* "Happy New Year Guy" from ''Wesbite/FamilyGuyFanon'' takes place over a week leading to New Year's Day, during which the residents of Quahog take extra precautions to make sure that 2022 doesn't turn out the same way like 2021.

* ''Manga/KokoroLibrary'': The three sisters, Iina, Aruto and Kokoro, pray for good things to happen in the new year - however not exactly the same things.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': Nagi wants to see the first sunrise of the new year in Kujukurihama. Guess which butler-in-debt has to take her the 100 km (62 miles) there - on bike!

* The first season of ''Anime/HighSchoolStarMusical'' ends with the shrine visit - though not with kimono - and a "See you next year!" greeting exchange between the characters that promises a sequel.

* ''Series/MySoCalledLife'' had a New Year's Episode called, appropriately enough, "Resolutions", which starts with most of the characters (except Jordan, who's in his car) watching the ball drop in Times Square on TV, and all making resolutions - Angela wants to stop being self-obsessed (and stop doing Jordan's homework), Brian wants to stop obsessing about Angela, Rayanne wants to stop drinking once and for all, Rickie wants to find somewhere he belongs, Patti wants to stop nagging Graham, Graham wants to keep Hallie from persuading him to get involved in the restaurant she wants to open, Danielle wants to persuade her parents to let her wear makeup, Sharon wants to stop sleeping with her on-again off-again boyfriend Kyle (who wants to spend more time with Sharon), and Mr. Katimski wants to give up coffee. The rest of the episode deals with how the characters try to keep those resolutions.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'': In "A Reboot-Eve to Remember", the residents of Cyberspace are getting ready to celebrate Reboot Eve - their version of New Year’s Eve complete with the annual ball rise and Reboot resolutions.

* In ''ComicBook/ReidFlemingWorldsToughestMilkman'', in an early strip, Reid and the gang attend a New Year's Eve party. Reid meets a bore, smokes some dope, and shouts out "Big Deal" at the stroke of midnight.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the second season episode "Da Boom" where Lois has her New Year's Eve party interrupted by a paranoid Peter, who fears the end of the world at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. After it does indeed happen, the Griffins must now survive in a post-nuclear town of Quahog, that is until the episode ends and it was AllJustADream.

* ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'': A key scene revolves around [[UsefulNotes/FidelCastro Fidel Castro's]] takeover of Cuba, which took place on January 1, 1959. On New Year's Eve 1958-1959, [[spoiler: Michael discovers Fredo was the one who sold him out to Hyman Roth. Michael confronts him at the New Year's Eve party and gives him a symbolic KissOfDeath.]] The Cuban Revolution then forces Fredo and Michael to flee back to America.

* ''Film/TheHoliday'' ends on New Year's, as Iris returns to England [[spoiler: with Miles]] to celebrate with her brother's family [[spoiler: and Amanda]], with the promise of a better future.

* ''Series/DesigningWomen'' had two of these: "New Year's Daze" in season 1 and the more memorable season 4 two-parter "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century", when a pregnant Charlene gets a visit from none other than Music/DollyParton, who is her [[InsistentTerminology "Guardian Movie Star"]] who guides through her birth and even tell Charlene that [[spoiler: she'll give birth to a daughter]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time Part 2"]], aired on New Year's Day 2010, featured a scene where [[spoiler: the regenerating Tenth Doctor encounters Rose Tyler on January 1, 2005, just [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose months before she would meet the Ninth Doctor]]. He tells her, [[CallForward "I bet you're going to have a really great year."]]]]
** During the Thirteenth Doctor's run, the show traded its annual ChristmasEpisode for a New Year's Day episode, partly due to one of the companions, Yaz, being Muslim. [[spoiler: In a running theme, they all feature some form of the Daleks.]] [[note]] On New Year's Day 2020, the first episode of Series 12 was aired instead of a special.[[/note]]

*** [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]] (2022) takes place [[spoiler: in a [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]]]] just before midnight on New Year's Eve 2021-2022. [[spoiler: Making it to New Year's Day is the real challenge!]]

** In "Tailgate", taking place on New Year's Day 2012, Marshall [[spoiler: visits his father's grave in order to continue their tailgating tradition,]] telling him about what happened on New Year's Eve the night before.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' had "Millennium" as its New Year's episode. As suggested by the name, it aired in 1999 and is about superstition surrounding the new millenium. Perhaps surprisingly, it doesn't have to do with [[MillenniumBug [=Y2K=]]].[[note]]"Millennium" had already done the Y2K bug in a third-season episode.[[/note]] It ''does'' have to do with religious fanatics using zombies to bring about the end of the world. In true X-Files style. "Millennium" pulls double duty as not only an X-Files episode, but [[FullyAbsorbedFinale the series finale]] to ''Series/Millennium1996'', another Chris Carter show. It also marks the [[spoiler: first kiss between Mulder and Scully, just as the clock strikes midnight.]]

** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has a pivotal decision on New Year's Eve, [[spoiler: whether or not to kill Ryoji. Killing him would [[LetThemDieHappy let everyone die peacefully]] as TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt happens, or [[DoNotGoGentle to fight the seemingly inevitable end]]. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Note that all of your teammates are for the latter (although Aigis initially insists on the former).]]]] New Year's Day is slightly more upbeat with everyone visting a local shrine and [[KimonoFanservice see the girls in kimonos]].

* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon''; most of Chapter 1 takes place on New Year's Eve, and Ichiban himself was born [[spoiler: and SwitchedAtBirth]] on New Years.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "[[Recap/ArthurS1E30ArthursFirstSleepoverArthursNewYearsEve Arthur's New Year's Eve]]", Arthur has never stayed up on New Year's Eve until he hears wild stories from his friends about what happens at midnight. Prunella claims there's a big green flash in the sky, Francine claims the New Years Police show up to arrest anyone who didn't throw away last year's calendar, Binky claims there's a wresting match on TV between an old man and a baby, and Buster claims all the parents going out on New Year's are really attending a big meeting where they come up with new ways to be rotten to kids. [[spoiler: In the end, Arthur ends up missing the midnight strike anyway.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the second season episode ''Da Boom'' where Lois has her New Year's Eve party interrupted by a paranoid Peter, who fears the end of the world at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. After it does indeed happen, the Griffins must now survive in a post-nuclear town of Quahog, that is until the episode ends and it was AllJustADream.

* ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' has the episode "Dance Steps" in which the titular character and all his friends and family assemble in Grandfather Bear's house for a New Year's party. Little Bear provides them with homemade paper hats and everyone vows to stay awake until midnight. Following a feast, they all dance the waltz to pass the time and count off as the clock strikes its hours. [[spoiler: But at midnight, only Little Bear and his friends are awake to see the new year, while the grownups all sleep.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E16AreYouThereGodItsMeJesus Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus]]", Jesus Christ and the entire town await the arrival of God on New Year's Eve 1999. As a way of making his dad proud of Him, Jesus invites everyone to spend New Year's Eve in [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas]]. Meanwhile, Cartman and the other boys are convinced that they just got their periods [[spoiler: which later turns out to be a colon infection]]. God ''does'' finally arrive (looking [[KingOfAllCosmos quite unlike normal depictions of God]]) and allows the townspeople to ask one question, which is asked by Stan who asks why he's the only one who isn't getting his period. God points out to Stan that biological males can't have periods, only females can.

* In ''Film/TheDivorcee'' Ted stalks out of a New Year's party after seeing his ex-wife Jerry canoodling with another man. At a different New Year's party, Ted and Jerry get back together, embracing as the balloons fall at midnight.

* The series finale of ''{{Series/Pyros}}'' (a reality show following a Quebec-based pyrotechnics company) has their crew split between New Year's celebrations in Quebec City and Rio de Janeiro, dealing with local celebrations and contributing to Copacabana Beach's famously ''huge'' fireworks display.

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', The Villager and the other residents gather together to count down for the new year with a timer and festivities; from ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf New Leaf]] '' onward, the celebrations are hosted by Isabelle and Redd, and in ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons New Horizons]]'', Redd is replaced with Tom Nook.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' storyline, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Life's a Glitch Then you Die]]", centered on the then-upcoming MillenniumBug doomsday scenario. True to form, the world ends on New Year’s Day because of Homer’s incompetence, and in a CruelTwistEnding, he and Bart die of ExplosiveDecompression trying to escape Earth. And Creator/DickClark was actually a cyborg all along.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E16AreYouThereGodItsMeJesus Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus]]", Jesus Christ and the entire town await the arrival of God on New Year's Eve 1999, as a way of making his dad proud of Him Jesus invites everyone to spend New Year's Eve in [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas]], meanwhile Cartman and the other boys are convinced that they just got their periods [[spoiler: which later turns out to be a colon infection]]. God ''does'' finally arrive (looking [[KingOfAllCosmos quite unlike normal depictions of God]]) and allows the townspeople to ask one question, which is asked by Stan who asks why he's the only one who isn't getting his period, God points out to Stan that biological males can't have periods, only females can.

* ''Webcomic/{{Avalon}}'': In Grades 11 and 12, the gang has a New Year's Eve party at Alison's, and [[RuleOfDrama drama doesn't take a break for holidays]].

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