Funny / Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

• S.D. Kluger's answer to a kid's question about Santa being a baby is hilarious. "Everybody has got to be a baby at least once in their lives."
• This exchange:
  Grimsley: Herr Burgermeister! Herr Burgermeister! Look what was discovered on your front stoop!
  Burgermeister: What? What, Grimsley? The milk? The daily paper?
  Grimsley: No, sir. A baby.
  Burgermeister: Oh, is that all. (realizes what Grimsley just said, and immediately gasps and chokes) A BABY?!
  • What really sells it are the gasping and choking noises the Burgermeister makes along with the Spit Take when he hears the news.
• "[The South Pole] is on the other end of the Earth — you're just about as lost as you can get."
• Kris meets the penguin Topper when the penguin crashes right into Kris, knocking him off of his feet and the penguin bounces off of him and lands head first into the snow.
• The Burgermeister falling down the stairs because of a toy duck. The choppiness of the animation is the best part of the gag: each of his limbs goes limp one after the other with a significant delay, all the while he has this slack-jawed, bug-eyed look of agony on his face.
  • His other injuries are just as humorous. First, he accidentally sits on a toy soldier's sword, then he accidentally slams his cane on his broken foot in a fit of anger.
• The "No More Toymakers to the King" reprise is pretty funny — the Burgermeister gets so damn worked up over the toys.
  • "ARREST THEIR MUSICAL TOES!"
    • Also, "NO, I DON'T WANT TO DEBATE IT!"
  • During the song, the Burgermeister throws the book down, and it bounces. When it comes down, he dropkicks it with his broken foot, and then holds said foot in pain.
  • And at the end of the song, as the Burgermeister finishes drafting the new law, there's only one part he doesn't read — the little "No Kidding!" at the very end.
• The Running Gag with people criticizing Kris' clothes. When it's brought up a second time, he responds with this:
  Kris: Clothes AGAIN?
• Kris' response to the kids worrying about the Burgermeister seeing the toys.
  Kid: What about the Burgermeister?
  Kris: What about him? If he wants a toy, he can have one. I'll give him a big, red yo-yo.
• "Ah, a perfect day. Everybody is glum. Ah, see all the little children out playing with their toys... A-di-du-PLAYING WITH THEIR TOYS?!!"
  • Followed by one of the most fantastic out-of-character moments of all time:
    Kris: (pulling out a yo-yo) For you.
    Burgermeister: What th...a yo-yo? I LOVE yo-yos! I used to be able to do all kinds of tricks! WHEEEEE! Hahahaha!
    Grimsley: Excuse me, Sir, but you're breaking your own laws.
    Burgermeister: Huh? What was that? I... (realizes what he's done) Oooh, I have been bamboozled! ARREST HIM! ARREST HIM!
  • Meanwhile, the kids are watching the toy in question go up and down with blank expressions.
  • When the Burgermeister commands the guards to arrest Kris, he comments on Kris' actions as Kris climbs a tree (which the Burgermeister calls it "climbing like a squirrel"), leaps off the roof (called by the Burgermeister as "leaping like a deer") and then sliding down to make a getaway (in which the Burgermeister calls it "slippery as a seal").
• "Uh, Winter, please."
  • "I still have a little magic! Haha! I'm not such a loser after all!"
• "Put One Foot in Front of the Other" is this. The best part is when Kris defies gravity and kicks his feet in mid-air as he flies through the sky while he says "Come on, there's a good tailwind blowin'!".
  • Kris also sings this line:
    Kris: If your time of life is at hand... Well DON'T BE THE RULE, be the exception.
• "Wiggle my ears and tickle my toes, methinks I see a baby's nose! It's more than a nose. There's a whole baby attached to it!"

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