Under the Mistletoe

Looks like Candace is getting her Christmas wish.^note Hang on, that's holly.

"Ho-ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see,
Somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me"

— Burl Ives, "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas", featured in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that grows on trees. In some cultures, it's traditional to hang it up somewhere at parties, with the additional custom that if two people meet under it, they ought to kiss. Naturally, this produces some good opportunities for writers. Hilarity may well ensue as the wrong people are caught under it, or as the "right" ones are maneuvered over by matchmaking friends. Some writers may indulge in a bit of Ship Tease.

Mistletoe came to people's attention because it's evergreen and produces berries in winter, and is often one of the only green things in a winter forest. It comes up a lot in mythology — Greeks liked it, the Norse god Balder was killed by it, druids regard it as a symbol of immortality, and an old Christian story holds that Christ's cross was made of mistletoe, and after the Crucifixion all the mistletoe trees shriveled up. But the tradition everyone thinks of is originally Scandanavian — if two people are under a sprig of mistletoe, they must kiss. This was first a tradition that if two armies in a forest saw mistletoe growing, they stopped fighting for a night.

Despite the prevalence of this tradition, holly is frequently mistaken for mistletoe; holly has jagged, pointy leaves and red berries, while mistletoe has rounded leaves and white berries.

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Examples

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• Nipper & Gramophone's Christmas Tales: Nipper and Gramophone are in this situation in the third teaser and seem confused as to what to do. Then again, dogs and gramophones aren't really cut out for kissing each other.

Anime & Manga

• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey: Barrel goes into a restaurant and unwittingly sits under the mistletoe. Being from Halloween Town, he is confused and horrified when the waitress kisses him, and he flees the restaurant Covered in Kisses.
• Yes! Pretty Cure 5: This is Nozomi's big dream. She even slugs Kouji/Coco away stating this when their faces get close early on.

Comic Books

• Archie Comics: Portable mistletoe and mistletoe hats are commonly seen in some stories, such as a cover where Archie got Covered in Kisses from Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl. For his part, Jughead is always trying to avoid mistletoes due to being uninterested in relationships.
• Asterix: The short story For Gaul Lang Syne, which is collected in Asterix and the Class Act, resolves around Obelix waiting at a mistletoe in hopes of getting a kiss from Panacea. But the wrong people keep passing by and thus end up kissing him, including a Roman soldier.
• Billy & Buddy:
  • One gag involved father putting one of these above the front door, after which he and Bill eagerly waited for mom and Boule to come home. Unfortunately, their cranky neighbor and her cat visited first, grossing both out when being kissed by them.
  • Another comic saw Boule bring home a girl because he wanted to kiss her under the mistletoe, inspiring Bill to do the same with a female dog.
  • In another gag, set on New Years Eve, Bill spends all day sitting in the exact same spot of the room, looking up at the ceiling. It’s not untill midnight that Boule realizes Bill has been sitting under the mistletoe, hoping for a new years kiss (or hug in this case), which he finally gives him.
• In one issue of the yearly Marvel Holiday Special, The Avengers hosted a party. There was only one sprig of mistletoe, so Hank Pym put it on a remote-control hovering device and flew it around "to stretch it". Jessica Drew was not impressed. It should be noted that at least FIVE guys were in on it (including Spider-Man, while married, and Mary Jane IN THE ROOM), and she only suspects after about 4.
• Spider-Man:
  • In Marvel Team-Up #79, Mary Jane Watson crashed the Daily Bugle Christmas party and held a sprig of holly to seriously smooch Peter Parker.
  • A Sensational Spider-Man Annual showed a flashback episode early in their relationship where MJ tried to encourage Peter to kiss her by wearing a Santa hat with mistletoe hanging off it, but he chickened out.
• Supergirl Adventures Girl Of Steel: Supergirl gives Atom Smasher a peck on the check when he walks under a branch of mistletoe during Justice League's Christmas party.
• In a Vertigo Winter's Edge special, a boy steals a kiss from a girl he's just met, then points above them and says, "Mistletoe". She responds by stamping his foot, pointing to her foot and saying, "Missile toes".
• X-Men: In Uncanny X-Men #143, Kitty Pryde held a sprig of Mistletoe over Peter Rasputin's head during a Christmas party as an excuse to kiss him (Kitty remembered this moment sadly when she returned to the mansion in Astonishing X-Men, issue #1). Just before that moment, though, Nightcrawler playfully kissed Wolverine's then-girlfriend Mariko on the cheek using the same stratagem (except that he was holding holly instead of mistletoe). Wolvie flew into a rage and went after Kurt with his Adamantium claws and had to be restrained by Colossus and the Professor.

Comic Strips

• Garfield frequently uses this trope during the December comics, leading to quite a few unwanted and embarassing kisses. Even the reader is not safe.

Fan Works

• The Advice and Trust Christmas special has Rei and Kaworu share their first kiss under the mistletoe (though she claims that it was merely meant to be platonic). He is temporarily rendered incapable of rational thought.
• In The Ariana Black Series Professor Flitwick, apparently a Dirty Old Man in this universe, hangs mistletoe above the entrance of the Great Hall and won't let people through unless they "follow tradition." This includes Ron and Ginny.
• In Avengers: Infinite Wars, after Padme organizes a Christmas celebration for the Avengers, along with some of their friends on Coruscant, Hope van Dyne arranges for Pietro Maximoff and Senator Riyo Chuchi to end up under the mistletoe.
• In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Empath And The Red-Nosed Reindeer", Smurfette purposely hangs some mistletoe over Empath's door so she could greet him with a kiss without him being aware of it.
• For the Glory of Irk: Lor attempts to pull this on Dib in Chapter 42, though the attempt is hampered by his misunderstanding of human holidays causing him to hold up a four-leaf clover instead. Dib decides to let him have this one and doesn't correct him.
• In Harry Potter fanfics (of pretty much every ship), the mistletoe is often enchanted, magically trapping whichever couple that happens to be standing under it until they kiss. Often, these are created and supplied by the Weasley twins.
  • In the fifth book, Luna notes that one should be careful around mistletoe, since "Nargles" live in them. Naturally, Nargles come up in a wide variety of stories, especially Luna pairings; often there's the idea that kissing somehow protects you from them.
• J-WITCH Series: At the end of "Not So Black and White", Jade uses the Snake Talisman's invisibility to sneak up on Will and Matt and place a mistletoe over them to help them have their first kiss.
• In Maria's First Christmas, there's a shot of Sonic holding a mistletoe so that his girlfriend Sally will kiss him.
• In My Huntsman Academia, Yang hides a sprig of mistletoe in a small present for the Solstice. As soon as its intended recipient opens the box with his eyes closed, she reaches in to grab it and hang it over their heads before leaning over for a kiss.
• Naru-Hina Chronicles Mini-sodes: This is how Naruto and Hinata end up kissing each other at the end of the 2015 Christmas Episode.
• The Holiday Special of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines features a snippet with Lorelei and her childhood friend Frey attending a Christmas party in Saffron City. After they exchange gifts, other guests point to the mistletoe above their heads, and while Frey seems a bit reluctant at first, Lorelei is more than happy to follow the tradition.
• In "Christmas in Kansas", part of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series, Diana invites Bruce to help further her education in the Christmas traditions of the world of men. Bruce points out that carrying the mistletoe in your pocket and bringing it out at an appropriate moment is not how it's supposed to work, but he still obliges.
• In Star Of Wonder Star Of Night, Hikaru introduces Lala to the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe, then the two kiss.
• This Steven Universe Christmas comic has Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl under the mistletoe.
• In Tales of Fairies Chapter 176, Mirajane sets up Mistletoes with runes to keep people from leaving until they kiss on the lips. This ends up leading to Natsu and Gray getting trapped under one... specifically the one under the guild's entrance.
• This Bites! has two gags of this in the Christmas Episode. First, the other Marines on Smoker and Tashigi's ship put mistletoe all over the ship to get a kiss from her, leading to Smoker ordering/threatening them into taking it down. Then, at Revolutionary Army HQ, Sabo is caught hanging mistletoe along Koala's route to her training ground, and gets laid out flat for his trouble.
• Winter Bells: From "Reconciliation":
  • The Cutie Mark Crusaders wanted to get the married couple of Shining Armor and Cadence to reconcile by having some mistletoe to initiate a kiss.
  • Discord references the idea of kissing under the mistletoe when Celestia talks to him about the sudden appearance of the plant:
    "Speaking of approval, I wanted to ask you about a little something involving mistletoe."
    "Really, Celestia, if you want to sneak a kiss from me all you have to do is ask." Discord flexed, his normally stringy body suddenly bulking up with muscle. "I know I'm a stud muffin."

Film — Animation

• In Mickey's Christmas Carol, Isabelle flirtatiously points out to Young Scrooge that she's standing under the mistletoe; he replies "You're also standing on my foot." During their subsequent dance, however, she maneuvers him back under the mistletoe and kisses his cheek, which leaves him in Post-Kiss Catatonia.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: "They kiss! Why, that looks so unique! Inspired!"
• The 1998 feature film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998) has moments where Rudolph and Zoey stumble upon a mistletoe and attempt to kiss each other.
  Young Zoey: Look we're under a mistletoe. Do you know what that means, you have to kiss me.
• In the original Toy Story, Woody is talking to Bo Peep toward the end of the movie, only to look up and see that her sheep are holding mistletoe. When he remarks, "Hey, is that mistletoe?" she replies "Uh-huh!" before tossing her shepherd's crook tackles him to the ground, and kissing him multiple times off-screen, resulting in Woody's face getting covered with lipstick prints.

Film — Live Action

• In Batman Returns, Batman and Catwoman have an exchange about it in battle. The Ironic Echo happens when they actually encounter mistletoe at a Christmas party as Bruce and Selina.
• The second live-action Fairly Oddparents movie, A Fairly Odd Christmas, has this with Timmy and Tootie.
• Kermit and Miss Piggy exchange rather sweet cheek kisses under the mistletoe in A Muppet Family Christmas.
• Peyton Place: Rodney Harrington leaves nothing to chance by holding mistletoe over his head while dancing with Betty.
• In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin tells Morgan Freeman's character that "many a maid has lost her virtue to me, thanks to this little plant." Interestingly, Freeman's response is, "In my country, we talk to our women. We do not drug them with plants."
• In The Santa Clause 2, Scott's last bit of magic causes the mistletoe to bloom when he kisses Carol at her school.
• In While You Were Sleeping, Lucy and Jack kiss under the mistletoe.

Literature

• Discworld:
  • In Hogfather, the wizards of Unseen University hang up a mistletoe as part of their Hogswatch celebration. Archchancellor Ridcully notices this and wonders why, since the all-male faculty dismisses the women's help before the main feast. Apparently it's symbolic; not symbolic of anything in particular, at least not that the wizards can remember, just sort of generally symbolic.
  • One of Paul Kidby's Hogswatch cards◊ shows the Librarian grinning and holding mistletoe above his head.
• A sprig of mistletoe is a central feature at the Campbell family Christmas celebrations in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins. At one point, eldest cousin Archie is so caught up in the festivities that he kisses Phebe (the maidservant) under the mistletoe, then promptly apologizes. Later, during a game of forfeits, Charlie dares Rose (the only female cousin) to take "old Mac" under the mistletoe and give him a kiss; he means their cousin, but she cleverly gets around it by bestowing the honor on their Uncle Mac instead. When cousin Mac finds out what she did, he remarks that he probably wouldn't have minded if she had done what Charlie intended. This doubles as foreshadowing for both couples, since they (Archie/Phebe and Rose/Mac) fall in love in the sequel.
• Harry Potter gets caught under the mistletoe with Luna Lovegood, and quickly jumps out from under it. Luna considers this a wise move, "it's often infested with Nargles." Harry later finally gets his first kiss with Cho Chang under the mistletoe in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In his sixth year, he's much more attractive, and so large amounts of girls wait in ambush around mistletoe, fortunately he knows the secret passageways enough to get around them without too much trouble.
• Hercule Poirot, of all people, gets caught under mistletoe in "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding," on account of being too busy exercising his little grey cells to notice where he's standing. He doesn't seem to mind the result.
• The My Weird School book "Miss Holly is Too Jolly" somewhat combines this trope with the "Take That!" Kiss. When A.J. and Andrea end up under the mistletoe, Andrea tells A.J. to kiss her. A.J denies, and then starts explaining what he'd rather do than kiss Andrea. He doesn't have time to finish, because Andrea has kissed HIM instead. A.J. hopes that his friends, Ryan and Michael, didn't see it. They did.
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens:
  From the centre of the ceiling of this kitchen, old Wardle had just suspended, with his own hands, a huge branch of mistletoe, and this same branch of mistletoe instantaneously gave rise to a scene of general and most delightful struggling and confusion; in the midst of which, Mr. Pickwick, with a gallantry that would have done honour to a descendant of Lady Tollimglower herself, took the old lady by the hand, led her beneath the mystic branch, and saluted her in all courtesy and decorum. [...] Mr. Winkle kissed the young lady with the black eyes, and Mr. Snodgrass kissed Emily; and Mr. Weller, not being particular about the form of being under the mistletoe, kissed Emma and the other female servants, just as he caught them. As to the poor relations, they kissed everybody, not even excepting the plainer portions of the young lady visitors, who, in their excessive confusion, ran right under the mistletoe, as soon as it was hung up, without knowing it!

Live-Action TV

• 3rd Rock from the Sun: Someone hangs mistletoe in the doorway of Dick and Mary's shared office. As an alien who's never experienced Christmas before Dick assumes it's a weed growing through the frame and keeps ripping it down. Mary eventually explains the tradition when they walk under it together. Knowing what it means now, Dick happily gives her a kiss.
• A Christmas episode of Austin & Ally have the titular characters kissing under the mistletoe three times...only to be interrupted all three times.
• Basil does this to Madison in one of the Christmas episodes of The Basil Brush Show. He kisses her, and gets a slap.
• Bones:
  • In the episode "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" Angela Montenegro:
    [to Booth] *You* are going to kiss me under the mistletoe. On the lips.
    [to Zack and Hodgins] I might kiss you guys under the mistletoe, too.
    (to Bones) And maybe even you. In a festive, non-lesbian manner.
  • Booth and Brennan kiss under the mistletoe, at Caroline's insistence.
• Chuck:
  • Subverted in "Chuck versus the Crown Vic" when Jeff stands in between Chuck and Sarah with a mistletoe tied to his hat telling them "You'll them thank me later", but they don't kiss and Sarah simply walks away.
  • Played straight in "Chuck vs Santa Claus" where in the ending scene Awesome holds a mistletoe on top of Ellie and they kiss.
• A running gag on the Colbert Christmas Special, was him and each guest under the mistletoe with Colbert * saying, "Well this is awkward," before being rebuffed for a kiss. He finally does kiss... a bear.
  Showed up again with an interview with the "German ambassador" Hans Beinholtz.

  Hans: Oh, look! We are under the mistletoe!

  Stephen: Yes, I see that we are.

  Hans: Its berries are a deadly poison, like hope.
• In The Flash (2014) second season Christmas Episode, Caitlin points out the mistletoe to Jay Garrick and he tells her the plant doesn't exist on Earth-2. He admits he's kidding (he previously claimed the same thing about Christmas) and adds that on his Earth there's a tradition involving it...
• In a Christmas Episode of Frasier, Bulldog wears a novelty hat with a sprig of mistletoe dangling on a wire above his head. Roz isn't greatly impressed:
  Bulldog: Hey Roz, see what's over my head?
  Roz: Almost any clever remark?
  Bulldog: What does she mean by that?
• Friends: In "The One with Phoebe's Dad", Mr. Treeger (the superintendent of Monica's building) is at Monica and Rachel's Christmas party. He happens to bump into Rachel under the mistletoe. Rachel however insists that it's basil and they don't kiss.
  Mr. Treeger: Is this mistletoe?
  Rachel: No, that... That is basil.
  Mr. Treeger: If it was mistletoe, I was gonna kiss you.
  Rachel: No, it's still basil.
• In the Haven episode "Silent Night", Duke and Nathan find themselves under one. Disgusted, they back away from each other.
• JAG: Harriet kisses Bud under a mistletoe she holds up out in the bullpen in "Jaggle Bells".
• Jessie features a Christmas Episode in which Luke tries to get Jessie to kiss him under the mistletoe. He screams for help and then says "Ha! You're under the mistletoe!" and then puckers up for a kiss. Jessie then slaps a ribbon on his mouth and says "Ha! You're under age!". Towards the end of the episode, Luke finally kisses Jessie on the cheek using the mistletoe.
• Kimberly and Tommy go through two false starts with this trope (Skull steals one kiss and Zordon unknowingly stops the second attempt to gather the team) before finally pulling it off in the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Christmas special.
• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: At the end of "Murder Under the Mistletoe", Jane starts hanging a sprig of mistletoe over various pairs, encouraging them to kiss. First is Dot and Hugh, then Aunt Prudence and Bert, and finally Phryne and Jack.
• In the Christmas episode of The Muppets (2015), Sam the Eagle tries to invoke this trope in order to get Janice, who he's developed a crush on in this series, to kiss him, and waits under the mistletoe for her to show up. It doesn't work. Chip, the IT guy, interrupts the whole thing and tries to talk to him right as Janice walks past. She kisses him later though for being nice to Chip.
• The Nanny: C.C tries to lure Maxwell into kissing her under the mistletoe, but he is too distracted working. Then, Fran suddenly shows up and kisses her on the cheek.
• NCIS: Los Angeles has Nell (dressed as an elf!) steal a kiss from Eric under some mistletoe in "Free Ride".
• In Not Going Out, Lee and Lucy kiss under the mistletoe at Christmas.
• Our Miss Brooks: In "Magic Christmas Tree", Miss Brooks hangs mistletoe all around the room to ensure a kiss from Mr. Boynton.
• Pee-wee's Playhouse: Miss Yvonne invokes this in the Christmas Special—her Christmas ensemble includes a headdress with mistletoe in it.
  Ms. Yvonne: It's mistletoe! You're always supposed to kiss somebody if they're standing underneath the mistletoe! This way, I'm assured hundreds and hundreds of kisses from everyone!
• Perfect Strangers episode "A Christmas Story".
  Larry: Mistletoe. It's an old tradition. You hang it over the door and women *have* to kiss you.
  Balki: What a gimmick! Why don't we hang it up all year long?
  Larry: Unfortunately, it only works at Christmas.
• Riverdale: In "Silent Night, Deadly Night", Veronica points out Archie is under mistletoe and kisses him. She then declares her love for him.
• Shake it Up:
  • Dina bribes Deuce with a kiss under a makeshift mistletoe (actually a piece of parsley) to join his Christmas band.
  • Lampshaded when Georgea and Jeremy get back together and kiss pretending that the crack on the ceiling is a mistletoe.
• Warehouse 13 has the original mistletoe, which magically compels those who walk beneath to kiss one-another. Myka narrowly avoided having this happen with Pete. Artie, however, was not so lucky when Claudia's brother Joshua happened to walk by.

Music

• One verse in "Christmas at Ground Zero" by "Weird Al" Yankovic says, "I'll duck for cover / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe."
• The Christmas song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is about a child who sees "Santa" (their father) kissing their mother under the mistletoe, which makes them wonder if their mother is cheating.
  I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
  Underneath the mistletoe last night
• "Merry Christmas, Baby" has "I want to kiss you, baby, underneath the mistletoe."
• Used to wonderful effect in the Pokémon: The Original Series song "Under the Mistletoe" from the album Pokémon Christmas Bash. Misty wants it to happen, but Ash doesn't. Again, Hilarity Ensues. (Suffice to say, 4Kids are Pokéshippers.)
• Sia: "Underneath the Mistletoe" and "Sing For My Life".

Professional Wrestling

• D-Generation X infamously attached mistletoe to thongs they wore into the ring, complete with "Merry D-X-mas!" written across their...assets. It wasn't called the Attitude Era for nothing!
• Mickie James once kissed Trish Stratus under the mistletoe. Trish freaks and runs off afterwards, because she is not a lesbian.
• In 2010, Santino Marella wants to kiss ex-girlfriend Beth Phoenix despite that, as she pointed out, he's seeing Tamina while Vladimir Kozlov holds up the mistletoe. As Santino attempts to, however, Beth takes advantage of his eyes being closed to place the mistletoe on top of Kozlov and kisses him instead.
• Aksana brought mistletoe into Theodore Long's office while he was general manager of Friday Night Smackdown, asking what to do with it. When told "What comes naturally" she ate it.^note Besides being parasitic, mistletoe is also toxic, don't eat it!

Video Games

• Overwatch introduced a couple of places with its Winter event. Mercy has a victory pose with her holding up a sprig of mistletoe and in a Foot Popping pose. Widowmaker has a highlight intro with her holding up a spring of mistletoe before punching the camera to the floor and stepping on it.
• Sonic Robo Blast 2 invokes this trope in Frozen Hillside Zone: at the end, Amy is waiting for you under a mistletoe to hug your character.
• This is part of the "Winter Veil" holiday in World of Warcraft.

Web Animation

• AstroLOLogy: In "Beneath the Mistletoe", Cancer tries to do this with Leo, but he keeps entering her house through places other than where she hung the mistletoe up. Hanging it from a hook on his head leads to him kissing Libra instead (offscreen).

Webcomics

• An El Goonish Shive Christmas filler features a fairy holding mistletoe over two characters.
• Forestdale: Racheal makes a failed attempt to invoke this by ambushing Jake with a bundle of mistletoe only to come face to face with her school bully instead, who she promptly decks out of frustration.
• A piece of official Christmas art for Girl Genius features Agatha, her two love interests, and propeller-equipped mobile sprig of mistletoe.
• A piece of official Gunnerkrigg Court art which doesn't seem to like being linked to, but which can still be accessed from the Art button on the main site.
• The 2013 Christmas bonus strip for Harbourmaster has Gilou notice Tal standing under the sprig. She opts to blow him a kiss to acknowledge the tradition without making him uncomfortable.
• The Prime of Ambition had the random mistletoe meeting gag in its Christmas Episode, with everyone reacting (if not interacting) in character. Was the plan, you see.
• In a non-canon/filler Christmas-themed page for Twokinds, Flora is trying to hang an enchanted sprig of Mistletoe that'll cause whoever stands under it to kiss whoever they first see, only to try and hide it behind her when several bit characters show up. Hilarity Ensues as it causes her boyfriend to give her a kiss under her tail as a result.

Web Original

• In the Christmas installation of The Awkward Compilation, Alex attempts this with Lester using mistletoe lotion. A valiant attempt, but it's a no go.
• From the guy who wrote 1/0, some useful limerick aids on the difference between holly and mistletoe.
  Traditional antidote for poison
  Though most have an allergic reaction
  The druids don't care
  They're too busy shar-
  -ing a kiss to compile reliable medical information."
• The Weather: In "Snow", Robby spends an entire skit under the mistletoe with a caller, making nothing but grunts, sighs and kissing noises, trying to get their kiss as the caller just keeps talking.

Western Animation

• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • In "Fa La La La Ed", Ed holds a sprig of mistletoe he found in a box of Christmas decorations over Edd's head and tries to kiss him.
  • In the Christmas Episode "Ed Edd 'n' Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle", Nazz holds mistletoe over her head and points out to Eddy about the tradition of people kissing under it, but he ends up spitting a mouthful of eggnog in surprise at her (which causes her to kick him out of her house).
• During the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Christmas Special, Eduardo ties a sprig of mistletoe to his horns so that he can go around kissing everyone—Bloo's not amused when Eduardo kisses him.
• In Futurama, episode "Xmas Story", Fry and Leela almost had a kiss under the mistletoe, until Robot Santa interfered.
  Robot Santa: Your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile!
• House of Mouse:
  • In "Clarabelle's Christmas List", Mortimer Mouse tries to hit on Minnie by holding up mistletoe, but then finds out it's actually poison oak. He later tries it again, only instead of mistletoe, it's Mr. Toad.
  • In "Pete's Christmas Caper", Mortimer tries this on Minnie once again. This time, Pete intercepts for her.
• In the Christmas Special of Jackie Chan Adventures, Uncle points out that the villain Dolong Wong is standing under mistletoe. Wong looks up, sees it, and freaks; allowing Uncle to knock him out. The trope is played straight later with Jackie and Viper.
• During Christmas, Kim Possible kisses her sidekick Ron on the cheek under a makeshift mistletoe (it was a piece of parsley Ron found that Dr. Drakken tied a red ribbon around).
• In one episode of King of the Hill, Hank says there won't be any mistletoe at his family's Christmas party due to last year's unfortunate incident. Bill tries to justify himself by saying that "Peppermint Schnapps makes him sloppy."
• The Loud House, In "11 Louds A Leapin", Clyde has a mistletoe attached to his hat and hopes to trick Lori into giving him a kiss with it. He ultimately receives one from Lori on the cheek when he stands under the mistletoe in the Grouse house.
• In Milo Murphy's Law, at the Bureau of Time Travel's Christmas party, a tiny flying robot holds a mistletoe above Brick and Savannah, only for both of them to disintegrate it with lasers watches in annoyance. No Sparks indeed.
• Jenny holds up a mistletoe over Sheldon's head on My Life as a Teenage Robot in the Christmas special in order to give him his Christmas gift.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "A Hearth's Warming Tale", Lemon Hearts is shown kissing a stallion on the cheek under mistletoe.
• In Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!!, Baljeet says that all he wants for Christmas is a pretty girl to kiss him under the mistletoe. Later on, Wendy Stinglehopper gives him his wish.
  • The above picture of Candace and Jeremy comes from the music video for the series' version of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
  • In the second Christmas Special, Perry the Platypus bursts into Dr. Doofenshmirtz's lair, only to find himself standing under the mistletoe. He very quickly and deliberately removes himself from the vicinity before anyone notices.
• Mentioned in Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice, as Wayne yells at his brother Noel for always showing him up.
  Noel: Hey, if this is about Dolores, I told you I never saw the mistletoe!
• In the infamous Ren & Stimpy episode "Son of Stimpy (Stimpy's First Fart)," Ren tries to cheer up a depressed Stimpy on Christmas. He points to the mistletoe over the doorway and makes goo-goo eyes at Stimpy, in the single biggest Ho Yay moment of the original series.
• Smurfette gets a few kisses from her fellow Smurfs under the mistletoe in The Smurfs episode "Baby's First Christmas" and the cartoon special "'Tis The Season To Be Smurfy".
  • And in The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol, Smurfette sees a line of Smurfs waiting to be kissed under the mistletoe.
• SpongeBob SquarePants at Christmas eve points out to Patrick that Squidward is under the mistletoe, at which point he looks at the time and flees the scene.
• In Taz-Mania's Christmas episode, 'No Time for Christmas', there is a mistletoe scene between Bushwacker Bob and Constance Koala. Same for Mr. Thickley the Kangaroo.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Casey Jones tries to get a kiss from April O'Neil by having Raph and Angel (a human teenaged-friend of the turtles) put mistletoe up on a pulley and line so it would follow them across the room. During Casey's first attempt, April slapped him across the face with the mistletoe, but at the end of the episode, when Casey was standing under one at an orphanage he and the others were at, April walks up to him and casually plants a kiss on his cheek.
• In one of the earliest episodes of Tom and Jerry, which was of course a Christmas one, Jerry stops Tom from chasing him by holding up a mistletoe and making a cute smoochy face at him. Tom then blushes and turns away shyly, only to have Jerry kick him in the rear.
• In the Venture Brothers Christmas episode, Pete White wears a sprig of mistletoe on a headband while putting the moves on Triana. She's not going for it at all, then her father magically incinerates it and runs Pete off with a warning glare.
• Cindy was less than thrilled at being woken up in Yogi Bear's First Christmas special until she learned about the "catch a guy under mistletoe and he HAS to kiss you" tradition. Hilarity Ensues.

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