Original air date: 12/9/2001
Episode number: 7
Timmy loves Christmas so much that he wishes every day could be Christmas, which lands him in a heap of trouble after the other holiday mascots try to take their revenge.
Received a novelization in a picture book of the same name.
This episode contains examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Timmy's parents accidentally call him "Noggy".
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: During the battle between Santa and the Lesser Holiday Mascots, Baby New Year uses Cosmo and Wanda as sponges to absorb Santa's magic. He then uses their magic to make the Easter Bunny gigantic so he can destroy Santa with a Grade AA explosive egg. When the Easter Bunny apologizes to Santa for trying to destroy him and gives him his magic back, he shrinks back to his normal size.
- Badass Santa: He might've lost, but Santa still held his own against the other holidays.
- Big Damn Heroes: Just as Santa is about to be blown to February 33rd, all the kids of the world whom Timmy encountered show up to save the day.
- Big "WHAT?!": When Timmy sings about how the other holidays can't compare to Christmas.Timmy: [singing] Valentine's Day always makes me sad!
Mr. Turner: [popping up] 'Cause Timmy just can't get a girlfriend!
Timmy: WHAT?! - Borrowed Catchphrase: The April Fool's catchphrase is "What's up with that?". After the web-enabled kids foil the Lesser Holiday Mascots' plan to destroy Santa, the Lesser Holiday Mascots reveal that they only wanted Santa out of the way so they could entertain the children so they'd love them. When Timmy tells the Lesser Holiday Mascots that he and the other children of the world do love them, the Easter Bunny says "What's up with that?", which annoys the April Fool.
- Catch-22 Dilemma: Fairies lend their magic to Santa every December 25th so he has the power to deliver presents to the kids around the world, and receive their magic back on December 26th. However, since Timmy wished that it was always Christmas, thus always December 25th, the Fairies never get their magic back, and therefore cannot undo the wish. By the end, Timmy figures out how to solve the dilemma by having all the kids in the world write letters to Santa asking him to undo the "year-round Christmas" wish, giving him the ability to do so by obliging their request as if it were a Christmas gift.
- Chekhov's Gag: When Timmy arrives in Quebec, he runs out of food. The web-enabled kids there got his message to help him, and bring him baguettes and snails, the former he accepts, but the latter he tells them they can keep. One of the snails is later used to knock away the Grade AA explosive egg that the Easter Bunny tried to use on Santa Claus.
- Christmas Carolers: Carolers show up singing "12 Days of Christmas". When Timmy makes it Christmas Every Day, they show up singing the second day. By day 15, they're exhausted and struggling to come up with lyrics.Carolers: (singing) It's the fifteenth day of Christmas and my true love gave to me...
One Caroler: Pants?
Other Carolers: Uh, yeah, pants. Okay. - Christmas Elves: Naturally, Santa's workshop is full of them. When we see them, they're on strike from being overworked.
- Christmas Episode
- Christmas Every Day: Naturally. And by the end of it, everyone is so sick of it, they all want to kill Santa Claus.
- Compressed Vice: Mr. Turner is obsessed with eggnog during Christmas time, and it's all he drinks. While everyone else wants the stores and jobs open for food and money, Mr. Turner just wants those things for more eggnog. Unlike most instances, this becomes a recurring element of his character for the remainder of the series.
- Contrived Coincidence: Just when Timmy is wondering aloud how is he ever gonna make it to the North Pole, Mr. Turner conveniently lists a series of items in their house that would allow even a kid like Timmy to make the trip there... before desperately asking where's the eggnog.
- Dreaming of a White Christmas: Dimmsdale is located in California, yet they manage to get lots of snow at Christmastime. With Christmas happening every day, the snow piles up. It all melts away by December 26th, and does not snow again for the rest of the winter; except in the town's ski resort, It's Always Spring in Dimmsdale.
- Easter Bunny: Leads the Lesser Holidays in defeating Santa.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Just after Santa is saved by all the children of the world, Timmy realizes Santa is magical and grants any Christmas wish desired; this causes him to realize how to undo the wish and asks the children to write a letter to Santa saying they're sorry and they wish it's the day after Christmas.
- Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: Vicky forces Timmy to wrap fruit cake. Not because she's gifting them, she just wants to force Timmy to work.
- Foreshadowing:
- Right before Cosmo and Wanda grant Timmy's wish, there's a shot of Timmy's digital clock changing to signify it's the next day. Later on, it's revealed all the fairies lend their magic to Santa every December 25th and get it back the next day, essentially making them powerless on Christmas. There's also the uneasiness between the two before they grant said wish.
- One of Cosmo's and Wanda's lines from the song in the beginning is, "Santa grants wishes while we relax" While this initially seems like an odd way to describe Santa delivering toys, it becomes clear later in the episode that Santa does in fact quite literally grant kids' wishes on Christmas Day, with the help of the other fairies lending him their magic, hence Cosmo and Wanda saying they get to relax on Christmas.
- Gay Paree: Quebec is portrayed like this, despite being in Canada. Quebec (especially northern Quebec) is renowned as the most Francophone-dominated province in the country, but the degree it resembles a stereotypical image of France is driven by pure Rule of Funny.
- Harmless Freezing: A flashback shows Vicky freezing Timmy, Chester, and AJ and selling them as ice sculptures.
- Mailman vs. Dog: A mailman and a dog make peace on Christmas, then go back to being enemies when it's over.
- Misplaced Wildlife: When all the kids of the world arrive at the North Pole, an Australian kid rides on an ostrich. Ostriches live in Africa. Perhaps the writing staff confused ostriches with emus, a similar large flightless bird that actually is native to Australia.
- Misplaced Retribution: All the Lesser Holidays go on the warpath against Santa due to believing him responsible for Christmas suddenly becoming year-round (thus preventing their holidays from being celebrated or appreciated), when it was actually Timmy who wished for Christmas to occur every day in the first place.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: A weird subversion; when Timmy arrives in Quebec on his journey to the North Pole, it's essentially a clone of Paris, France, complete with kids dressed in stereotypical Frenchmen outfits and Snails and So On.
- Near-Villain Victory: The holidays are close to sending Santa to February 33rd, but then all the children in the world Timmy encountered show up last-minute to save everything.
- Non-Indicative Name: "Greenland. It's not green, and there's no land. What's up with that?"
- Obvious Rule Patch: At the end, a new rule is added to DA Rules book preventing another Christmas every day wish. Cosmo notes that they only do that when a godkid screws up big time with one of their wishes. Why no one considered the possibility of a kid wishing for Christmas every day before is a mystery for the ages.
- Over The Top Christmas Decorations: Timmy's parents decorate the whole house, inner and outer, for the holiday.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Timmy disguises himself as "Birthday Boy" by simply replacing his pink hat with a candle.
- Place Beyond Time: The Holidays try to banish Santa to February 33rd, which doesn't exist.
- Running Gag: Mr. Turner's obsession with eggnog.
- Rule of Three: The Easter Bunny hides eggs three times. The first time, he hides one under a can in an alley when he says that thanks to Timmy's wish, it will always be Christmas and he and the other Lesser Holiday Mascots won't be able to celebrate their holidays. The second time, he hides one under one of Cosmo and Wanda's crowns after discovering that they were used to flatten the tires of the April Fool's bus. The third time, he, enlarged from Santa's magic, hides a giant egg under an elephant when he says that the only reason he and the other Lesser Holiday Mascots tried to get rid of Santa was so that they could celebrate their own holidays and the children of the world would love them.
- Saint-Bernard Rescue: One rescues Mr. Turner from the snow. His flask contains eggnog.
- Santa Claus: Makes his debut in the show proper.
- Saving Christmas: A bit inverted, as Timmy's quest involves letting Christmas end, but it still involves saving Santa.
- Stock "Yuck!": When the web-enabled kids of Quebec give Timmy baguettes and snails to sustain him, Timmy accepts the former, but tells the kids they can keep the latter. Considering what the Easter Bunny tries to do to Santa when Cosmo and Wanda's magic makes him bigger, it's a good thing they did.
- Subbing for Santa: At the end, Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, and the Holidays end up taking over for Santa the next year to make up for what happened.
- Tempting Fate: When Timmy arrives at Greenland, he says that nothing bad happened. Just then, a shark pops out of the ice and eats his snowmobile.Timmy: Well, that's inconvenient.
- This Is Gonna Suck: At the conclusion of the song, Cosmo and Wanda discuss how Timmy wished Christmas was every day and how they wish he hadn't said that.
- Toilet Humor: After Timmy flattens The April Fool's bus's tires with Cosmo and Wanda's crowns, he takes Baby New Year's diaper and sleds in it to Santa's workshop. Timmy notes that it's stinky, and when he arrives at Santa's workshop, Santa asks him "Who are you, and why do you smell like a dirty diaper?"
- Track Trouble: At the end of the second Christmas, Timmy's toy train runs off the tracks that end on the edge of Timmy's bed and crashes.
- Troll: Cosmo deviates from the song to tease Timmy for not having a girlfriend.Cosmo: (singing) And Timmy still can't get a girlfriend.
Timmy: (annoyed) Stop that! - True Meaning of Christmas: Played With. Timmy already appreciated Christmas because he got to spend it with his family, but he learns that Christmas is only truly special if it happens only once per year.
- Under the Mistletoe: The holidays don't kiss, instead they briefly shake hands before continuing their pursuit of Timmy.
- Use Your Head: During a news report on the 15th day of Christmas, the citizens of Dimmsdale use Mr. Turner as a battering ram in an unsuccessful attempt to break into a closed grocery store to buy food.
- Usurping Santa: The Holidays were hoping to do this. Notably, their aim wasn't outright conquest, but because Timmy's wish caused all other holidays to be bumped off the calendar, and they mistakenly believed Santa was to blame for it.
- Visual Pun: Back at the house, one of the Easter Bunny's eggs falls out of Timmy's hat.Mr. Turner: Hey, an egg fell out of Timmy's noggin.
Mrs. Turner: Egg. Noggin.
Mr. Turner: Mine! (tackles Timmy)
