Carol's Christmas Carol for Carol
is a CG-animated short film supposedly made entirely by bots for the Netflix By Bots series.
It later became the first of the series to receive a sequel titled "Carol's Christmas Carol for Carol, A Woman Named Carol 2: The sequel to ''Carol's Christmas Carol for Carol, A Woman Named Carol" where Carol has to rescue Santa and save Christmas. However, Carol's now-husband Human 27 is giving her a hard time due to being under a "money's curse" that turned him into a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
The short film is followed by A Love Tale of Taylors.
Contains the following tropes:
- Alliterative Name: We later find out in the sequel that Carol's full name is Carol Corporation.
- Alliterative Title: How many "C"s can you get in Carol's Christmas Carol for Carol, A Woman Named Carol. It also ventures into Department of Redundancy Department for all those "Carols".
- And the Rest: Human 27 and Carol go on 12 Dates of Christmas: Ice Cream, Ice Skate, Ice Museum, and nine others.
- Babies Ever After: Or rather, a baby and a money bag ever after.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: What Carol and Human 27 think their child would look like respectively and what it actually turns out to be.Narrator: Carol imagines happy baby inside. Human 27 imagines happy money bag. Both are correct. Christmas twins.
- Butt-Monkey: In the first movie Mrs. Claus gets cheated on and in the sequel she delivers the presents on Christmas but gets no credit.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: While Santa does have magic, the narrator assures us that his ability to throw a box containing Human 27 all the way from North Poland to Carol's House is not magic. It's the result of his milk addiction.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Human 27 becomes this in the sequel, due to "money's curse". He even sells Carol's handmade card from hand to investors, followed by selling her tears to a salt firm.
- Epic Fail: Elf 27 somehow set a toy shoe on fire with nothing but a hammer, fitting for him being "the most worst elf".
- Grin of Rage: When Human 27 decides to stay with Carol instead of going back to the North Pole as per Santa's orders, the snowman he made with her turns into Santa who is described as "Jolly with anger".
- Jerkass Realization: Human 27 after his need to make money drives Carol away and she almost leaves on the Polar Espresso Train.
- Lemony Narrator: The narration doesn't shy away from how terrible Elf 27 is at his job.
- Love at First Sight: Carol falls for Human 27 the moment he emerges from the box.
- Overly Long Name: The first movie's title is long enough but the sequel takes the cake with "Carol's Christmas Carol for Carol, A Woman Named Carol 2: First Sequel To Carol's Christmas Carol for Carol, A Woman Named Carol".
- Personal Raincloud: Ever present over the head of the Rain Deer in the sequel.
- Put on the Bus: Carol's grandma gets mentioned a couple of times but ultimately never appears in the sequel.
- Really Gets Around: Carol's grandma can be summed up in one word: Frisky. As such, she's never dateless on Christmas.[When Santa gets kidnapped]
Carol: We must save him, he dated Grandma.
Human 27: Everyone has dated Grandma. - Serious Business: In this town, Christmas is heavily enforced, to the point where people are jailed for not celebrating it. It's Yule Law.
- Status Quo Is God: The sequel has Human 27 turned back to normal from being punished and transformed into three "Ghosts of Christmas" by Santa Claus as the narration stated that he was "three ghosts, now he was one businessman because of money's curse".
- Superdickery: Santa saw that Human 27 had forgotten the meaning of Christmas, so in the sequel he sets up a ruse where he appears to be kidnapped by Yule Ghouls so he and Carol would reaffirm their love while rescuing him. The Yule Ghouls are revealed to be elves in disguise, and while alive are still very beat up from the couple's assault. Also he had Mrs. Claus deliver the presents, but all the children believe Santa did it and they still don't like her.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Human 27 as a businessman isn't very nice. He refuses to rescue Santa, sells his wife's card and tears, and sues a reindeer causing it to die. He ultimately has a My God, What Have I Done? moment after Carol leaves and he goes to apologize, bringing the reindeer back to life and going with his wife to save Santa.
- You Are Number 6: The elf that was supposed to date Carol on Christmas is named Elf 27. In disguise and for subsequent appearances, his human name is Human 27.
