The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" (sometimes spelled "The 12 Days of Christmas" or just "12 Days of Christmas") is a Christmas song first created in 1780 but popularized by English singer Frederic Austin in 1909, who added lyrics that have varied throughout the years. As a staple of the holiday season, it has been recorded by several recording artists since then.

As such, parodies of the song have also been made and have gained their own popularity to the point of playing on the radio in junction with the basic recordings for Christmas. It can be either a few bridges of the song heard or indeed the full twelve days of Christmas in the new song. The song could also be deconstructed on occasions — after all, who willingly gives birds and people as Christmas gifts?

Sub-Trope of Song Parody. See also Chaos of the Bells, We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies, Filk Song and List Song. An example of Counting Song.

For the Sister Trope stock Christmas snowclone parodies, see Yet Another Christmas Carol, How the Character Stole Christmas, Christmas Every Day, Gift of the Magi Plot, The Parody Before Christmas, and It's a Wonderful Plot.

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On the Twelfth day of Tropemas, examples gave to me:

Twelve Advertisements,

• One of the darkest versions of this song featured a public information film which incorporated a listing of the horrible injuries that children suffered due to a Drunk Driver.
  On the twelfth day of Christmas, a drunk driver gave to me,
  Twelve months in traction
  Eleven weeks on crutches
  Ten operations
  Nine years of nightmares
  Eight open flesh wounds
  Seven spinal fractures
  Six days unconscious
  Food through a tube
  Four broken limbs
  Three heart attacks
  Two punctured lungs
  And a lifetime in a wheelchair
• A similar public information film also showcased harmful acts, but only this time as told from the prospective of a small girl who in all likeliness witnessed her mother being routinely beaten by her father, which ended with her murder around Christmastime and all the various things she also endured.
• In 1999 and 2000, Disney Channel had a Christmas week campaign called "12 Movies of Christmas", with promos singing about what those movies have.
  "In 12 Movies of Christmas, Disney gave to me... 12 hungry campers, 11 running horses, 10 bowling pins, 9 major wipeouts, 8 flying reindeer, 7 Secret Service agents, 6 super heroes, 5 babies, 4 bobsledders, 3 days of snow, 2 Andy Lawrences, and the cutest member of *NSYNC."
• A commercial for Alka-Seltzer had a guy singing a version on how he got holiday-related heartburn.
  A desk full of bills, 12 relatives, and a plop-plop and a fizz-fizz.
• One Pop-Tarts commercial sees the song get derailed on the third day, as the Crazy Good Kids represent the other gifts and, as usual, try to eat the Pop-Tart seen in the commercial. It culminates with the Pop-Tart being chased by a whole army of Crazy Good Kids dressed as the other gifts (including the five gold rings, which aren't kids at all, so how they intend to eat the Pop-Tart is anyone's guess).
• An American Girl commercial from 2015 sees every day of the song being replaced with a different gift or activity. The line "nine tasty cookies" is interrupted by someone grabbing and eating a cookie leaving the singer to mention "eight tasty cookies".
• This commercial sees various Nicktoons singing the carol and replacing the gift, culminating in "A starfish on a pine tree"- that, of course, being Patrick.
• A 2021 commercial for Rakuten features a parody of the song with everyone shopping on the app and getting "cha-ching" on lots of items, with a "cha-ching" replacing every day.
• A Pizza Hut commercial from 2020 featured a spoof of the song about Pizza Hut's $5 box and reminds you that it can happen "On any day in December".
• A 2021 commercial for Olive Garden featured a spoof of the song about the restaurant's signature dishes.

A Few Bits of Anime

• On the 2001 album Pokémon Christmas Bash the last track is a Christmas medley with every song having doctored lyrics which include Pokémon names. One of the spoofed songs is "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

Some Comic Books,

• Stan Lee produced a web video where he sings a Marvel themed parody of the song with such lyrics as "Three henchmen", which is, at first, confused with "Three Frenchmen".

And Comic Strips,

• Baby Blues had a series of strips from December 1997 parodying The Twelve Days of Christmas, with the lyrics about the antics of two bratty young children. Most lines rhyme or nearly rhyme with the original lines, e.g. eleven pipers piping -> eleven diaper wipings.

Eleven Cartoon Movies,

• A version included with the DVD release of Madagascar is based upon the short that came with the movie, with a few movie-based gifts being added in there.
• Shrek has a version of the song, with Donkey being enthusiastic about singing it, and Shrek, obviously, not being so enthusiastic himself. The lyrics are also spliced together with dialogue from the cast.
• One of the shorts (which starts at 8:00) in Bill Plympton's 12 Tiny Christmas Tales is a rendition of the "Twelve Days of Christmas", but using flamingos instead of the golden rings. But the song stops halfway through since all of the birds are driving the woman crazy, so the two cook all of the birds for Christmas dinner instead, horrifying two of the three children listening to the story. Played for Black Comedy.

Ten Live-Action Movies,

• National Geographic had their own version for a Christmas VHS tape, replacing the gifts with animals you'd commonly see in the winter.
• In Sweet November, Nelson surprises Sara by climbing through her window bearing a bag which contains "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas", all the things she's ever told him she wanted or needed. Including a dishwasher. Best not to think about it too hard.
• One song in We Wish You a Turtle Christmas is a play on the Twelve Days of Christmas, where Splinter sings about all the gifts that the turtles found for him. Among these gifts are a pizza with pepperoni, two comic books, three skateboards, and more.

Nine TV Shows,

• In the season three Christmas Episode of A Different World, the gang all gathered together and sang their own parody of the song including only five verses:
  "Five onion rings, four failing freshmen, three French kisses, two butts-a-bumpin' and my MC Hammer CD!"
• The cast of Bizaardvark performed their own version of the song in one episode.
• Married... with Children:
  • Briefly mentioned in the Christmas Episode "It's a Bundyful Life" when the family (once again) snipe at Al for the usual happenings in their lives:
  Bud: Five bowls a-flushing?
  Peg: Four 'roids a-throbbin'?
  Kelly: Three nosehairs waving?
  Bud: Two children starving?
  Peg: (singing) One untouched wife?
  • Mentioned again in the following Christmas episode, titled "Christmas", where Al learns that the family ended up contributing money by getting several jobs for him, sung in the style of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and ending with "And one job Santa-ing at the mall!"
• Big Time Rush: During "Big Time Christmas", Griffin makes the boys record a spur-of-the-moment Christmas EP and needs some original songs on it. With Snoop Dogg, they record their own "Twelve Days of Christmas" parody, which swaps out the lines for things relevant to them; for instance, "6 geese a laying" becomes "6 hockey helmets", and "A partridge in a pair tree" becomes "A song for the Christmas EP." Unfortunately, just before they finished recording, Griffin forces them to scrap it, because Justin Bieber and 50 Cent just released their own version... The Fifty Days of Christmas.
• In Living Color!: For the Christmas edition of The Dysfunctional Home Show, Grandpa Jack and his mother gather around to sing to the grandchildren/great-grandchildren his own special version of the song: "Eight restraining orders, seven pills a-poppin', six packs of beer, five dry heaves (and then does one himself!), four counts of battery, three black eyes, two-timin' wives and a can of pork and beans...PORK AND BEANS!"
• A very dark version of the tune plays in the Scrubs episode "My Own Personal Jesus" as Turk keeps being called out for emergencies as he is trying to rest on Christmas Eve. It’s worth noting that this version does not include the altered rhythm for the fifth gift onwards.
  "On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
  12 beaten children
  11 drive by shootings
  10 frozen homeless
  9 amputations
  8 burn victims
  7 strangled shoppers
  6 random knifings
  5 suicides
  4 beaten wives
  3 OD's
  2 shattered skulls
  and a drunk who drove into a tree"
• In December 2020, NBC released a version of the song on Youtube, dedicated to its most popular series - namely This Is Us, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, Superstore, The Weakest Link, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, The Office (US), America's Got Talent, The Voice, the Chicago Franchise, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, culminating in a peacock on a Christmas Tree.
• The cast of World's Dumbest... sing their own version for the "Holidays" episode. The "partridge in a pear tree" line focuses on Danny Bonaduce, aka Danny Partridge.
• In the Mythbusters episode "Boomerang Bullet" they set up an experiment...
  Adam: One bullet, three paving stones, and a cardboard Hoosier... and a cartridge in a pear tree.
• We Wish You a Turtle Christmas: Towards the end of this TV special, the four turtles and Master Splinter sing their version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" together.
• Tales from the Crypt released a Christmas album of songs sung by the Crypt Keeper with his usual barrage of puns. Naturally, he made a parody of the 12 Days called the 12 Days of Cryptmas.
• British comedian Justin Edwards performed a version of the song in character as 'Jeremy Lion', who downed a drink between each verse. The lyrics become less coherent as he goes, throwing in lines like "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" and "Twelve Angry Men".
• Chucky: The Season 2 finale, which is set on Christmas, ends with Chucky Breaking the Fourth Wall to sing a recap of his kills over the course of the season, set to the tune of the 12 Days. Granted, there were 22 kills in total…

Eight Books A-Readin',

• In the kids' book The Worst 12 Days of Christmas Ever, Joy is about to spend her first Christmas with her Annoying Younger Sibling, a baby boy named Sam. On each page, Sam breaks or dirties something (such as kissing the cookies and ripping the cards) and there's a list of his misdeeds that parodies the song and ends with "And a stinky baby messing with the tree".

Seven Songs a'Playin',

• Played with for Jeff Foxworthy, who made a version called Redneck 12 Days of Christmas. This one is not styled like the original song and has a framing device of two rednecks having a conversation, with the gifts being brought up repeatedly.
• Bob Rivers' 1987 song "The Twelve Pains of Christmas" has gained popularity over the years and on some stations is played as much as the "traditional" version. It begins with the lyric "The first thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me...is finding a Christmas tree!" and goes on to list things such as (in order): being unable to get a holiday light display to work properly, hangovers, sending Christmas cards to non-close family and friends, credit card bills, in-laws, solicitations for holiday-related charities, cranky children, no available parking at large stores, "batteries not included," holiday television specials and "singing Christmas carols." The main storyline is the one related to the Christmas lights, where a blue-collared man goes from considering the issue to be a minor inconvenience ("rigging Christmas lights") to progressively more annoyed and angered, to frustrated that he can't get the lights to work properly to causing a major power outage; he finally screams at a neighbor who knows what he's doing to rig the lights.
• Straight No Chaser has a version that starts out traditional, but soon gets the days and their orders mixed up, incorporates other Christmas songs (with the one Jewish member throwing in "The Dreidel Song"), and eventually segues into a reworked version of Toto's "Africa".
  On the twelfth day, my true love gave to me
  twelve drummers drumming like Olympus above the Serengeti
  [...]
  I had Christmas down in Africa
• In the Songdrops song "The 13 Nights of Halloween", three witches send the singer spooky gifts in a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" in the days leading up to Halloween. After the song, the singer says, "Don't tell the witches, but I have no idea where to put all this stuff."
• Frank Kelly did a version, expressed from the point of view of the poor bastard on the receiving end of twelve days worth of multiplying gifts.
  Day Seven
  Nuala,
  We are not amused by your little joke. Seven swans-a-swimming is a most romantic idea but not in the bath of a private house.
  We cannot use the bathroom now because they've gone completely savage.
• Twisted Sister did "Heavy Metal Christmas":
  On my heavy metal Christmas my true love gave to me
  12 silver crosses,
  11 black mascaras,
  10 pairs of platforms
  9 tattered t-shirts,
  8 pentagrams,
  7 leather jackets,
  6 cans of hairspray,
  5 skull earrings,
  4 quarts of Jack,
  3 studded belts
  2 pairs of spandex pants
  and a tattoo of Ozzy
• Dark Sarah's "A Grim Christmas Story" is a comedic Murder Ballad that recounts, to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", how Sarah killed her cheating husband and threw him in the sea, then the milkman when he came by to talk to hubby, then the milkman's wife, then hubby's mistress, then some random guy who wanted to see hubby, and finally two cops who came looking for the milkman and his wife.
  On the first day of Christmas, my true love said to me,
  "Oh, Sarah, my sweet pea."
  On the second day of Christmas, my true love lied to me
  Oh, what a pity, now he lies on the bottom of the sea!
• Allan Sherman, best known for "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", had a song titled "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas", with trendy but cheesy gifts of the 1960s, such as "A statue of a lady with a clock where her stomach ought to be." Often he just says "and all that other stuff" rather than repeat the list each time.
• Bob and Doug McKenzie sing a Canadian version of the 12 Days of Christmas. Beer factors in heavily.
• The 12 Days After Christmas is all about someone's negative reactions to and destruction of the various gifts (save for keeping one of the drummers).
• Afroman had "12 Js of Christmas", which doesn't even go all the way!
• In 1980 musician Mack Hayes first wrote and performed "The 12 Days of Cleveland Browns Christmas" and the song very quickly became a radio staple across Ohio.
• The Tom Kubis Big Band made a version (featuring Jack Sheldon of Schoolhouse Rock! fame) about a jazz musician's agent giving him relevant gifts ("On the first day of Christmas, my agent gave to me... A jazz gig he booked us for free!")
• The How You Doin' Boys made an Italian-themed version called "The Twelve Days of a Guido Christmas", which is notable for being banned from Canadian radio.
• Perhaps one of the earliest examples is "A Song And A Christmas Tree" by Andy Williams, where his friends give him accessories to decorate the tree with instead of the normal gifts.

A Little Bit of Rasslin',

• The Rock's version of the "12 Days of Christmas" promo lists the twelve things Test will receive when facing the Great One.
  On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see
  Twelve sharpshooters stinging,
  Eleven eyebrows raising,
  Ten spines a-busting,
  Nine noggins knocking,
  Eight kicks a-kicking,
  Seven punches punching,
  Six suplex smashing,
  Five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name!
  (fans start chanting "Rocky! Rocky!" for five seconds, he continues to sing)
  Four Rock Bottoms,
  Three People's Elbows on your
  Two buck teeth,
  And an ass kicking all over New Orleans!

Six Shows With Puppets,

• The Muppets of Sesame Street have performed the song three times.
  • The first two times have the Muppets singing about gifts that would fit their personalities. The first time had a pair of Muppets that have since been phased out of the show, so they were replaced by Elmo and Telly the second time around. The highlight comes on the twelfth day, where Snuffy can't remember what was sent to him and the other Muppets are forced to skip his turn and continue on.
  • The third time they did it, the song was primarily sung by Cookie Monster, with the gifts each replaced by different types of cookies.
  • An animated segment uses the melody to describe zoo animals; "In the first cage at the zoo, this is what you see/One elephant drinking thirstily." It only goes up to five, however.

FIVE THEATRE SHOWS!!

• The Rock-afire Explosion did a cover of the song for the 1983 Christmas showtape. Highlights include Beach Bear constantly changing the third gift, including using the original gift on the final verse, as well as coming up with an extremely long gift for the final verse, Rolfe and Earl having an argument for the eighth gift when Earl can't think of one at first, Mitzi suggesting the same gift for both of her turns, and Looney Bird admitting that he's forgotten the second gift on the final verse.
  • For Showbiz Pizza locations that replaced Rolfe and Earl with Uncle Klunk, who was retrofitted to be Santa Claus, a second version of the song was recorded with Rolfe and Earl's lines being sung by the Sun and the Moon. The two initially use the original gifts before Fatz requests that they be more creative. The Moon refuses, claiming that it’s against the copyright to change the song, and sticks to the original eighth gift, but the Sun complies and changes the seventh gift.
• Naturally, after Concept Unification, Chuck E. Cheese and his friends did a version of the song as well.
• The 2005 edition of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS's "Carols for a Cure" features the song, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Massacres the 12 Days of Christmas," which is more about their personal issues (Barfee's health issues, Panch being Rona's Abhorrent Admirer, Olive's parents ignoring her again, etc.), eventually devolving into chaos with everyone singing over each other.
  • The 1999 version also has Twelve Days of Phantom, sung by the then-Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera, with references to the show, plot points, props and roles.
• She Loves Me has Twelve Days to Christmas. It quotes the original song in full, interspersed with increasingly-frantic scenes of holiday shopping for both the customers and staff of Maraczek's Parfumerie, as well as Georg and Amalia becoming friendlier to each other.

Rides At A Theme Park,

• Played with during The Haunted Mansion Holiday, where, instead of doing her usual Spooky Séance, Madame Leota recites twelve gifts for the ghosts. She doesn’t do it in song, though.

Four Video Games,

• Deadly Rooms of Death: In December 2016, Caravel ran a contest in which contestants designed a level that had to contain an exact number of monsters: 12 roaches running, 11 goblins biting, 10 guards a-leaping and so forth. The entries were compiled into a hold that was released in December 2018.
• Kingdom of Loathing: In the 2007 Crimbo event, the "Crimborg" that had taken over Crimbo Town guarded their base, the Sinister Dodecahedron, with monsters that were dangerous mechanical versions of the presents from "The 12 Days of Christmas". New ones were added with each day of the "Twelve Days of Mayhem" event, leading to players having to fight 12 stompers stopping, 11 stranglers strangling, 10 borgs a-beeping, 9 lasers lancing, 8 blades a-spinning, 7 swarms a-swarming, 6 geese a-laying, 5 golden rings, 4 killing birds, 3 Swiss hens, 2 turtle mechs, and a death ray in a pear tree before finally facing the mastermind behind the Crimborg, a reanimated Father Crimbo who was forcing the alien cyborgs to be more festive.
• PAYDAY 2 made a version of the carol for their 2014 Christmas update. There's lots of funny moments during the song- on the final verse, Twitch crashes the escape van (again) and Wolf's screaming causes the song to skip Hoxton's final turn. (The song does have some actual real life effects — the voice actor for Wolf damaged his vocal chords during the scream and left Overkill to found his own company.)
• Skylanders produced a version of the song to coincide with the fourth game in the series, Trap Team. At the sixth day, Broccoli Guy, who's hosting the song, decides to just introduce that game's roster of Skylanders and when the song resumes, he's skipped to the final day.
• Zombies, Run! parodied the song with "12 Days of Abelmas" for December 2018, on how the people of Abel Township spent their two weeks pre-Christmas.

Nth Webcomics,

• Catbeard the Pirate^note No relation to the character from Pirate101 ran a parody over the course of twelve days, starting here.
• The xkcd strip "Buzzfeed Christmas" stars carolers singing "12 Weird Things I Actually Got for Christmas", featuring clickbaity headlines based on the items in the original carol.
• The Bedfellows has the Christmas Episode of its YouTube series "The Twelve Rapes of Christmas" and it's as full of dark comedy as the rest of the series. The short consists of Fatigue singing a parody of Twelve Days of Christmas listing presents Sheen gave Fatigue as well as acts of abuse Sheen inflicted on Fatigue.
  Fatigue: On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me eight victim dolls...
  Doctor: Alright, now show me where he touched you.
  Sheen: Right there! (pokes Fatigue's butt)
  Fatigue: Seven phallic objects, six broken noses...
  Sheen: Five skanky flings!
  Fatigue: Four ball gags, three black eyes, two hurtful words and a thong that looks so hot on me!
  Sheen: I said "No"!
• For December 2008, Two Lumps had Eben and Snooch try one-upping each other by bringing each verse of the song to "life".
• Insecticomics: Volume 7 featured "The Six Weeks of Christmas" (strips #649-660), in which Kickback gives Beast Wars-era Laserbeak the appropriate number of presents every day, starting with "A pillbug going squee squee".

Three Web Videos,

• A Youtuber named boymongoose produced a parody sung by an Indian man about gifts that Indians might get on Christmas.
• Team Four Star produced an audio-only Dragon Ball Z Abridged-style parody^note Video/visuals in linked video made by a fan of it.
• How It Should Have Ended produced one for the regulars of the Villain Pub. Each verse is sung by a different villain, with a few jokes as well (Palpatine's apprentice in his turn constantly changes to reflect the progression of his series).
• SuperMarioLogan: In "12 Days of Christmas", Toad sings about twelve things he got for Christmas, including Black Yoshi's Call of Duty. Black Yoshi shoots him for stealing it.
• Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers had one entitled "The Twelve Idiots of Christmas", which ultimately falls apart on the last one.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd centered his 2014 Christmas review around twelve bad games or consoles, culminating with him reviewing LJN's Video Art console.
• Rhett & Link sang a doctored version of this song among others in a video where they re-sang popular Christmas songs with the lyrics doctored by YouTube's less-than-accurate voice-to-text transcribing closed caption feature.
• "12 Days of Rooster Teeth." Which considering the parties involved, goes downhill quickly.
• Garfield: Before the original site went down, it used to post the "Garfield Twelve Days of Christmas" Flash video, in twelve segments, every year. It can still be found on Youtube.
• Invader Zim: A Very Tall Problem had its cast come together and record "The 12 Irks of Christmas" to celebrate Christmas 2021.
• Rooster Teeth had the RT Short "Twelve Days of Rooster Teeth", which showed off some of the stuff from the RT Store at the time while things goes completely Off the Rails including playing card papercuts, getting violently ill drinking, the Jewish Barbara Dunkleman getting agitated at doing a Christmas song and being ignored and a zombie virus spreading.
• The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of James and the Giant Peach, the Critic adds a lyric during the scene were James meets a stranger who gives him a bag of things that can make his wishes come true.
  Magic Man: One thousand long, slimy crocodile tongues, boiled in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and twenty nights. Add the fingers of a young monkey, the gizzard of a pig, the beak of a parrot and three spoonfuls of sugar.
  Critic: (singing) And a puked lunch in a pear tree!
• Sailor Moon Abridged tried their hand at this for its Christmas Special. They don’t even make it past the fifth gift before the Sailor Scouts' bickering causes Mars to call the song off.

Two Cool Cartoons,

• For the cast of VeggieTales, their version is called The 8 Polish Foods of Christmas, and centers around those dishes being served by Oscar the Polish Caterer at a party.
• The Simpsons:
  • The couch gag for one of a later Christmas episode was the family singing a parody of the song.
  • Double-subverted at the end of "The Fight Before Christmas". Mr. Burns suggests to sing a Christmas carol, and Bart hopes it's not "12 Days of Christmas". Burns reassures him that it's not. Instead, it's the "original" version of the song with 39 days.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: In "Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.", the battle between the KND and the Elfa Strike Squad has the latter unloading a barrage of attacks that are visual puns based on the song, including four "calling" birds (in phone booths) and a Partridge in a pear tree.
• The Fairly OddParents! In "Christmas Everyday!", after Timmy wishes for it to be Christmas every day, a group of carolers sing the song outside the Turners' house each morning. When Day 14 arrives, they the now-exhausted carolers stumble a bit before coming up with "fourteen ants in pants".
• Garfield and Friends: The episode "Happy Garfield Day" has Garfield celebrating his birthday by leading a sing-along of "The Twelve Courses of Dinner". Of course, for the twelve course, he says "I'd like seconds, please", and proceeds to start speeding up the song by skipping the other verses for the eight through eleventh courses and having the singers blitz through the twelfth course.
• One song from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic album It's a Pony Kind of Christmas is a spoof of "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Pinkie Pie sings about how her True Companions gave her a number of gifts, ending with "a big bowl of ravioli."
• The Magic School Bus: In "Holiday Special," the kids sing a parody of the song substituting the gifts for recyclable items as they ride to the recycling plant. It ends with "...And a whole mess of magazines!"
• The Lion Guard had The 12 Ways of Christmas.
• The Loud House: One short spoofs the song and has Lori get a phone plan for herself and Bobby, Leni get two turtlenecks that she hates, Luna get three French horns, Luan pull four pranks, Lynn score five goals in ice hockey, Lincoln get six new Ace Savvy comic books, Lucy hang out with seven bats, Lana eat eight mud pies, Lola win nine sashes at a pageant, Lisa do an experiment with ten beakers, Lynn Sr. change eleven of Lily's diapers, and finally Rita catch the twelve other Louds peeking at their gifts.
• Futurama:
  • When a group of larcenous robots, including Bender, rob Hattie MacDougal in "Xmas Story", they sing, "On the fourth day of Xmas, I stole from that lady, four family photos, three jars of pennies, two former husbands, and a slipper on a shoe tree!"
  • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" ends with Kwanzaabot rapping another parody.
  Kwanzaabot: Gimme 12 Slurms a-slurping, 11 Benders burping, 10 episodes dropping, 9 Scruffys mopping, 8 Leelas drinking, 7 Zoidbergs stinking, Chanukah and Kwanzaa share a single stanza...
  Chorus: Time-traveling chumps!
  Kwanzaabot: A 40 ounce of nog, Fry's dead dog, 2 turtle-duckens and a voiceover credit for me!
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • A version of this is performed on the holiday album Phineas and Ferb Holiday Favorites, with a different character starting off each day by telling Santa their request, and repeating their request each day after, starting with Phineas asking for a jet-powered rocket ski, then Candace asking for two busted brothers, then Isabella asking for a sash full of patches, and so on. Candace's line gets increasingly frustrated with each passing day, before saying "Ah, forget it!" on the twelfth. Dr. Doofenshmirtz takes the fifth day, initially demanding "THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA!" but his demand gets more humble as the days go on, eventually asking for just one state, then five golden rings (for the sake of being traditional) before settling for some almond brittle.
  • An abridged version of this song has aired on TV, with Doofenshmirtz interrupting the song during the third day to tell everyone to skip ahead to the twelfth day.
• DuckTales (2017): Near the end of the first Christmas Episode, Launchpad attempts to lead the family in a rendition of the song, only to completely butcher it. Apparently this is a common occurrence as the others have no problems joining in:
  Launchpad: On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, twelve days of Christmas, eleven planes of flying, ten days of Christmas, eight days of Christmas, oops, forgot the ninth day, seven samurai, six comes after seven-
  All: -Lots of Christmas days, four Christmas days, three Christmas days, two Christmas days, and a partridge of returning.
• The Rugrats had the song "Twelve Days of Rugrats" where the children spend every day watching something different on TV, including Nickelodeon, and MTV.
• In the Doug episode, "Doug's Babysitter", he and Judy receive a strict babysitter while their parents are on vacation and she begins to sing a rules song which soon evolves into a "12 Days of Christmas" tune:
  "No telephone calling
  No comic book reading
  No crazy outfits
  My late husband...
  Sunglasses are not worn inside of the house
  And a dinner made entirely of prunes!"
• The Bump in the Night Christmas special "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" has a song spoofing the Twelve Days of Christmas where everyone in the house states what they'd like for Christmas, with a reprise at the end consisting of Bumpy reflecting on learning the value of giving after his journey to the North Pole to try and take Santa's bag of presents.

Other Kind of Stuff,

• Yet Another Partridge In A Pear Tree is a comedic radio play exploring the effect on the recipient of having to deal with 12 partridges, 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, and so on. She's charmed by the first few gifts, then descends into increasingly desperate (and equally fruitless) attempts to get the young man to just stop already.
• MAD had a Deconstructive Parody where the recipient of the gifts, Ms. Carol Yule, sends a letter each day to Mr. Truelove, in response to each gift. Only problem is, Carol lives in a 1-bedroom apartment in New York City. She appreciates the partridge in a pear tree (but has to put a chair into storage to accommodate it), and sort of likes the turtle doves (new carpet is "two-toned"). But by day 4, she is known as "that crazy bird lady" throughout the building, and is quite annoyed with all the gifts. After her fingers turn green from the five "golden" rings, all subsequent letters come either from her lawyer or other sources, such as a bill for downstairs neighbor's water damage from seven swans overflowing a bathtub, a court summons for operating a cabaret with nine dancers without a license, etc. It ends with her going insane, committing suicide, and leaving Mr. Truelove all the gifts in her will, much like the above example.
• The 12 Days of Christmas (on de Bayou) is a series of letters written by the (Cajun) recipient of the twelve gifts, showing increasing levels of exasperation.
• If you’re seeing a pattern here, you’re not alone, as this version centers around letters sent by a woman who gets the gifts and gets angrier and angrier at the sender. It ends with her being institutionalized after getting twelve fiddlers fiddling (which was the final gift in the original poem), and her law firm attaches a warrant for the sender's arrest for their letter.
• Plumbing the Death Star had an episode asking if they, the hosts, could survive all those gifts. Needless to say, it turns into chaos as they resort to trying to expand their yard to plant the pear trees, which results in a visit from the local council, to which they respond by cutting down the trees and making a barbecue of as many birds as they can catch (the swans take over part of the building), which gets animal rights groups angry...
• A dark example: in the aftermath of the 1989 double murder of San Diego lawyer Dan Broderick and his wife Linda at the hands of his former wife Betty, a local radio station mocked the latter about her past behavior with their own version of the song, including lyrics of "...four obscene calls, three 'f**k yous', two extra chins, and a car driven through the front door!"

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"And an index in a pear tree!"