For the film
- Alternative Character Interpretation: The Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast played Whipple as being someone with Paraphilic infantilism/adult baby syndrome, who wants to be treated as a little baby by Santa.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Rossano Brazzi actually died of a neural virus in 1994 on Christmas Eve.
- The elves' working song includes the phrase "Helter skelter," a few years before it was co-opted by Charles Manson.
- Ho Yay: Prune and his butler Blossom can get very... intimate with one another.
