YMMV / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S05 E21: Santa Claus

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Pitch, who also appeared in Devil Doll selling Crow a line of devil dolls and teaching him how to remove Tom Servo's soul and place it in a toaster strudel.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Sure, Lupita got her doll, but her dad still hasn't found work and her family is still dirt poor.
• Funny Moments:
  Crow: (As letters rain down onto Santa) There's a dollar in every one! My chain letter scam worked!
  • Another example:
  Santa: (reading a child's letter) "Dear Santa, please send me a little brother."
  Crow: "Oh, ho ho ho! Can do! Can do!"
  • When Pitch gets hit with a dart, Tom's line pushes it from worthy of a chuckle to this trope:
  Tom Servo: This is funny, I don't care what anyone says.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Merry Christmas... If That's Okay. Though it's about Political Overcorrectness, the message about getting along at Christmastime is very sweet.
  • Mike and the Bots going out to play in the snow at the end of the episode.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Mike and the Bots' proto-"War on Christmas" song becomes more ironic to hear, given that 20 years later, Mike and Kevin mock the anti-WOC crowd (particularly Bill O'Reilly) in the Rifftrax version of I Believe in Santa Claus.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Trope Namer. An animatronic Santa at a department store inspires Crow T. Robot to quip "That's some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel." invoked
• Unintentional Period Piece: One riff is "the ghost of Ross Perot." The third party U.S. presidential candidate in the '90s died on 7/9/2019.

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