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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Mr Whipple claims to be a good lawyer, but his lawyer skills basically have no bearing on the plot or its resolution. He does exactly one lawyer-like thing in the entire movie: delivering an impassioned opening statement... to Santa and his elves. Aside from this he never acts like a lawyer at all. He doesn't even bill his clients who owe him money.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Mr Whipple claims to be a good lawyer, but his lawyer skills basically have no bearing on the plot or its resolution. He does exactly one lawyer-like thing in the entire movie: delivering an impassioned opening statement... to Santa and his elves. Aside from this -- and one occasion when he points out that Mr. Prune still has to pay him and Santa their wages from the department store even if he fires them, which in fairness is something Santa may not have known -- he never acts like a lawyer at all.all. On the one occasion when you might expect his lawyering skills to be deployed, namely to find a loophole in Santa's tenancy agreement during the scene where he first confronts Prune, all he does is goad and insult Prune. He doesn't even bill his clients who owe him money.
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* RhymesOnADime: A rare instance of this trope that overlaps with PainfulRhyme. The rhymes during the song "The Name of the Song is Prune," are all fairly natural, but have ''nothing'' to do with Prune himself and [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong exist solely to fill out the melody]].
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* RhymesOnADime: A rare instance of this trope that overlaps with PainfulRhyme. The rhymes during the song "The Name of the Song is Prune," are all fairly natural, but have ''nothing'' to do with Prune himself and [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong exist solely to fill out the melody]]. This is directly noted in the chorus.
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* SpoiledSweet: {{Invoked|Trope}} as Santa states his goal is to induce this in children, and is why he gives presents.
-->'''Santa:''' So that someday, Mr. Prune, they can learn to give too.
-->'''Santa:''' So that someday, Mr. Prune, they can learn to give too.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: Prune somehow makes his way ''to the North Pole'', ''every night'', just to demand the rent money from the Clauses. (The movie implies that he simply walks there!) He even times his visits to coincide with their supperertime, [[ForTheEvulz just so he can spoil their dinner]].
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* VillainSong: "The Name of the Song is Prune"...in theory, anyway. It doesn't actually say anything about Prune himself and is just a melody that arbitrarily spouts off words that rhyme with prune.
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* BigFancyHouse: Prune's would be one, if it were in better upkeep. And, after the cleanup at the end, it is one again.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: At one point Mrs. Claus implores Prune to ThinkOfTheChildren and abandon his evil plot. She has apparently forgotten that, not sixty seconds earlier, Prune had stated in no uncertain terms that he is a ChildHater whose explicit goal is to make the children of the world unhappy.
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** Generally, owning a piece of property does not grant a person any rights over the possessions that a tenant living in that property might bring there. A landlord evicting a renter who fails to pay the rent can lay claim to any items left behind after the leave-by date, or possibly make an arrangement to claim some of the renter's possessions in lieu of cash, but cannot arbitrarily seize the personal possessions of the people being evicted. As such, Mr. Prune might have a claim to evict Santa if he can get through the other legal points, he would not have the right to take away the reindeer, sleigh, and whatever items Santa could load into it when moving out. On top of that, Prune exerts his questionable authority on what Santa can do with his own belongings BEFORE the rent is due.
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** Generally, owning a piece of property does not grant a person any rights over the possessions that a tenant living in that property might bring there. A landlord evicting a renter who fails to pay the rent can lay claim to any items left behind after the leave-by date, or possibly make an arrangement to claim some of the renter's possessions in lieu of cash, but cannot arbitrarily seize the personal possessions of the people being evicted. As such, Mr. Prune might have a claim to evict Santa if he can get through the other legal points, but he would not have the right to take away the reindeer, sleigh, and whatever items Santa could load into it when moving out. out.
** On top of that, Prune exerts his questionable authority on what Santa can do with his own belongings BEFORE the rent isdue.due. In many jurisdictions this is tantamount to Breach Of Contract and Prune would have thus voided his own (already tenuous) landlord rights.
** On top of that, Prune exerts his questionable authority on what Santa can do with his own belongings BEFORE the rent is
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Mr Whipple claims to be a good lawyer, but his lawyer skills basically have no bearing on the plot or its resolution. He does exactly one lawyer-like thing in the entire movie: delivering an impassioned opening statement... to Santa and his elves. Aside from this he never acts like a lawyer at all. He doesn't even bill his clients who owe him money.
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo:]]''' A lawyer who doesn't bill his clients? Okay, [[ArbitrarySkepticism this movie just became unbelievable]].
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo:]]''' A lawyer who doesn't bill his clients? Okay, [[ArbitrarySkepticism this movie just became unbelievable]].
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* SpaceCompression: Could be just a matter of editing, but Mr. Whipple's office seems to be just across the street from Prune's BigFancyHouse.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Near the end when Santa finally turns in the rent money, Prune is so beside himself, he can't even bring himself to stop Santa, Mrs. Santa and the elves from loading the sleigh up (or to take the money with him, for that matter)! The fact that Santa paid him in coins didn't help.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Near the end when Santa finally turns in the rent money, Prune is so beside himself, he can't even bring himself to stop Santa, Mrs. Santa and the elves from loading the sleigh up (or to take the money with him, for that matter)! The Of course, the fact that Santa paid him in coins didn't help.help, plus he did say that he didn't actually care about the money.
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* SpoiledSweet: {{Invoked|Trope}} as Santa states his goal is to induce this in children, and is why he gives presents.
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-->'''Santa:''' So that someday, Mr. Prune, they can learn to give too.
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* TheKenBurnsEffect: The montage of Santa delivering toys is accomplished by panning and zooming over still shots.
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* HeroicBystander: When Prune tries to blow Santa up with a stick of dynamite, a random boy in a tweed coat stops him before he can light the fuse.
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* ShoutOut: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line in the department store, Mr. Prim makes a comment about "Mr. Macy" - a reference to Macy's Department Store and likely to ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'', which also happens to involve Santa working at a department store and getting into legal trouble.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line in the department store, Mr. Prim makes a comment about "Mr. Macy" - a reference to Macy's Department Store and likely to ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'', which also happens to involve Santa working at a department store and getting into legaltrouble.trouble.
** When Santa and crew show up in Prune's house and accidentally wake him up, his first reaction is to scream that [[Literature/AChristmasCarol three ghosts have come to haunt him]].
** In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line in the department store, Mr. Prim makes a comment about "Mr. Macy" - a reference to Macy's Department Store and likely to ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'', which also happens to involve Santa working at a department store and getting into legal
** When Santa and crew show up in Prune's house and accidentally wake him up, his first reaction is to scream that [[Literature/AChristmasCarol three ghosts have come to haunt him]].
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* VillainousBreakdown: Near the end when Santa finally turns in the rent money, Prune is so beside himself, he can't even bring himself to stop Santa, Mrs. Santa and the elves from loading the sleigh up (or to take the money with him, for that matter)!
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* VillainousBreakdown: Near the end when Santa finally turns in the rent money, Prune is so beside himself, he can't even bring himself to stop Santa, Mrs. Santa and the elves from loading the sleigh up (or to take the money with him, for that matter)!matter)! The fact that Santa paid him in coins didn't help.
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* HollywoodLaw: Under international law, no nation owns the North Pole, so Mr. Whipple could have made a valid case that whoever Mr. Prune bought the North Pole from didn't have it to sell in the first place, making his status as Santa's landlord legally void.
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* HollywoodLaw: HollywoodLaw:
** Under international law, no nation owns the NorthPole, Pole (several nations have claimed it for themselves, but these claims are not legally recognized by the international community) so Mr. Whipple could have made a valid case that whoever Mr. Prune bought the North Pole from didn't have it to sell in the first place, making his status as Santa's landlord legally void.
** Under international law, no nation owns the North
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* InformedAbility: Mr Whipple claims to be a good lawyer, but the resolution of the story has nothing to do with his alleged legal skills, despite the fact that the HollywoodLaw examples above would at least buy Santa enough time to have one more Christmas before he needs to find a new workshop.
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* ManChild: Prune exhibits this, even before rediscovering his forgotten childhood. He's extremely petty in his actions and outlook, even breaking toys and blaming it on Santa so the rent money all goes to repairs, and fusses like a little boy when Blossom tries to give him his "soothing tonic".
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** Prune exhibits this, even before rediscovering his forgotten childhood. He's extremely petty in his actions and outlook, even breaking toys and blaming it on Santa so the rent money all goes to repairs, and fusses like a little boy when Blossom tries to give him his "soothing tonic".
** Though he's at least more emotionally mature than Prune, Sam Whipple is still quite childish, still believes in Santa even as an adult, and gets really into playing with the toys at Prim's department store.
** Prune exhibits this, even before rediscovering his forgotten childhood. He's extremely petty in his actions and outlook, even breaking toys and blaming it on Santa so the rent money all goes to repairs, and fusses like a little boy when Blossom tries to give him his "soothing tonic".
** Though he's at least more emotionally mature than Prune, Sam Whipple is still quite childish, still believes in Santa even as an adult, and gets really into playing with the toys at Prim's department store.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Mr Whipple claims to be a good lawyer, but his lawyer skills basically have no bearing on the plot or its resolution. He does exactly one lawyer-like thing in the entire movie: delivering an impassioned opening statement... to Santa and his elves. Aside from this he never acts like a lawyer at all.
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* ShoutOut: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line in the department store, Mr. Prim makes a comment about "Mr. Macy" - a reference to Macy's Department Store and likely to ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'', which also happens to involve Santa working at a department store and getting into legal trouble.
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* FollowTheLeader: We've got a Santa who needs help from a lawyer. And [[MiracleOn34thStreet moonlights as a department store Santa to boot.]] Then we have the resolution, where all the kids [[ItsAWonderfulLife pool their money to help Santa out of his financial trouble.]]
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*HaveAGayOldTime: One song wonders 'why can't every day be gay?'
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* VoodooShark: Whipple doesn't just pay the bill himself because he's behind on sending bills to his clients and so has little cash in hand. He then spends a month working in a toyshop instead of just mailing those bills.
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* VoodooShark: Whipple doesn't just pay the bill rent himself because he's behind on sending bills to his clients and so has little cash in hand. He then spends a month working in a toyshop instead of just mailing those bills.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Near the end when Santa finally turns in the rent money, Prune is so beside himself, he can't even bring himself to stop Santa, Mrs. Santa and the elves from loading the sleigh up (or to take the money with him, for that matter)!
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* VillainousBreakdown: Near the end when Santa finally turns in the rent money, Prune is so beside himself, he can't even bring himself to stop Santa, Mrs. Santa and the elves from loading the sleigh up (or to take the money with him, for that matter)!matter)!
* VoodooShark: Whipple doesn't just pay the bill himself because he's behind on sending bills to his clients and so has little cash in hand. He then spends a month working in a toyshop instead of just mailing those bills.
* VoodooShark: Whipple doesn't just pay the bill himself because he's behind on sending bills to his clients and so has little cash in hand. He then spends a month working in a toyshop instead of just mailing those bills.
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* RhymesOnADime: A rare instance of this trope that overlaps with PainfulRhyme. The rhymes during the song "The Name of the Song is Prune," are all fairly natural, but have ''nothing'' to do with Prune himself and [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong exist solely to fill out the melody]].
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* FollowTheLeader: We've got a Santa who needs help from a lawyer. And [[MiracleOn34thStreet moonlights as a department store Santa to boot.]] Then we have the resolution, where all the kids [[ItsAWonderfulLife pool their money to help Santa out of his financial trouble.]]
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* NothingPersonal: Prune has nothing against Santa-it's the children that he hates.
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* NothingPersonal: Prune has nothing against Santa-it's Santa--it's the children that he hates.
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* HollywoodLaw: Under international law, no nation owns the North Pole, so Mr Whipple could have made a valid case that whoever Mr Prune bought the North Pole from didn't have it to sell in the first place, making his status as Santa's landlord legally void.
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* HollywoodLaw: Under international law, no nation owns the North Pole, so Mr Mr. Whipple could have made a valid case that whoever Mr Mr. Prune bought the North Pole from didn't have it to sell in the first place, making his status as Santa's landlord legally void.
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* NothingPersonal: Prune has nothing against Santa-it's the children that he hates.
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* SycophanticServant: Blossom again, who's way into Prune's plans to stop Christmas.
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* SycophanticServant: Blossom again, who's way into Prune's plans to stop Christmas. The only reason he begins showing kindness to everyone at the end seems to be because of his boss's sudden change of heart.
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* FreudianExcuse: Prune never got the sailboat he asked for as a kid[[note]]Because his letter to Santa was accidentally misplaced and never processed[[/note]], and so decided to forget he ever was one.
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* FreudianExcuse: Prune never got the sailboat he asked for as a kid[[note]]Because Because his letter to Santa was accidentally misplaced and never processed[[/note]], processed, Prune never got the sailboat he asked for as a kid, and so decided to forget he ever was one.one (a kid, that is, not a sailboat).
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* ManChild: Prune exhibits this, even before rediscovering his forgotten childhood. He's extremely petty in his actions and outlook, even breaking toys and blaming it on Santa so the rent money all goes to repairs.
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Though initially released to theaters in 1966, it enjoyed a run on Creator/{{HBO}} in the 70s and early 80s. It made a return as one of the films riffed on in the Creator/{{Netflix}} revival of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. For more information on that episode, click [[/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E13TheChristmasthatAlmostWasnt here]].
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Though initially released to theaters in 1966, it enjoyed a run on Creator/{{HBO}} in the 70s and early 80s. It In 2017, it made a return as one of the films riffed on in the Creator/{{Netflix}} revival of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. For more information on that episode, click [[/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E13TheChristmasthatAlmostWasnt [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E13TheChristmasthatAlmostWasnt here]].
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Though initially released to theaters in 1966, it enjoyed a run on Creator/{{HBO}} in the 70s and early 80s. It made a return as one of the films riffed on in the Creator/{{Netflix}} revival of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
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Though initially released to theaters in 1966, it enjoyed a run on Creator/{{HBO}} in the 70s and early 80s. It made a return as one of the films riffed on in the Creator/{{Netflix}} revival of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. For more information on that episode, click [[/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E13TheChristmasthatAlmostWasnt here]].
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''Il natale che quasi non fu'' (aka ''The Christmas That Almost Wasn't'') (1966) is a fairly low-budget Italian-made Christmas special, directed by and co-stsrring Creator/RossanoBrazzi.
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''Il natale che quasi non fu'' (aka ''The Christmas That Almost Wasn't'') (1966) is a fairly low-budget Italian-made Christmas special, directed by and co-stsrring co-starring Creator/RossanoBrazzi.
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''Il natale che quasi non fu'' (aka ''The Christmas That Almost Wasn't'') (1966) is a fairly low-budget Italian-made Christmas special, directed by Creator/RossanoBrazzi.
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''Il natale che quasi non fu'' (aka ''The Christmas That Almost Wasn't'') (1966) is a fairly low-budget Italian-made Christmas special, directed by and co-stsrring Creator/RossanoBrazzi.
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Though initially released to theaters in 1966, it enjoyed a run on HBO Creator/{{HBO}} in the 70s and early 80s. It made a return as one of the films riffed on in the Netflix Creator/{{Netflix}} revival of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
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