History Main / ChristmasInJuly

* The 2020 coronavirus pandemic led to several people turning to Christmas movies/music as a source of comfort. Some went so far as to put up their Christmas decorations in March.

* The coronavirus outbreak of early 2020 prompted many people to put up their Christmas decorations in March in an effort to boost people's spirits.

* In a later episode of ''Series/TheAvengers'' (with Tara King), John Steed walks into a hostage situation because he is celebrating Christmas in the summer. It turns out he and his friend (whose house the killers have taken over) were in a POW camp in Asia and lost track of the date. Only later did they find out they had celebrated Christmas in summer and decided to make it an annual thing.

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*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which airs them for the entire ''month'' of July and has paired it with ChristmasCreep by: (1) Making it as much a phenomenon as their actual Christmastime marathon, including specifically filming movies for this event (in 2017, several movies has a 2017 date, indicating this), (2) Including promos for "Countdown To Christmas" (the actual Christmastime marathon), (3) As of 2018, pushing the start date back to the last few days of June, and (4) Airing a Christmas movie every Thursday and Friday of 2019 to celebrate the Christmastime marathon's upcoming 10th anniversary.

* The 1940 film... [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July_(film) Christmas In July.]] Oddly, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday.

Not to be confused with GreenChristmas. Or with the Creator/PrestonSturges film ''Christmas in July.'' Compare ChristmasCreep, another trope about getting into the holiday spirit early.

* The second ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' movie, ''Daughter of Darkness'', has the crew celebrating Mayuka's first Christmas in the summer at they very end of the movie. This was mostly because the Juraian equivalent, Starica, happened at that time. [[spoiler: It was also because Mayuka had been reborn after her death at the end.]]

Not to be confused with GreenChristmas. Or with the Creator/PrestonSturges film ''Christmas in July.''

*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which airs them for the entire ''month'' of July and has paired it with ChristmasCreep by: (1) Making it as much a phenomenon as their actual Christmastime marathon, including specifically filming movies for this event (in 2017, several movies has a 2017 date, indicating this), (2) Including promos "Countdown To Christmas" (the actual Christmastime marathon), (3) As of 2018, pushing the start date back to the last week of June, and (4) Airing a Christmas movie every Thursday and Friday of 2019 to celebrate the Christmastime marathon's 10th anniversary.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' episode "Christmas Times the Max" sees Dez grant a wish for exactly this trope. However, Santa Claus isn't willing to do his duties in the middle of summer (he says he can't stand heat very well), so he leaves the responsibility to delivering presents around the city to Dez and his friends.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "Happy King Julien Day!", Julien proclaims that the zoo will celebrate the biggest holiday of the year. Marlene assumes for a moment that it's Christmas in July, only to remember that it's neither Christmas nor July.

*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which airs them for the entire ''month'' of July and has paired it with ChristmasCreep by: (1) Not only re-airing movies from previous Christmases, but in 2017, including some that were clearly filmed to be shown in time for this event, as indicated by their 2017 release date, (2) Including promos for their actual Christmastime movie marathon, "Countdown To Christmas" (3) As of 2018, pushing the start date back to the last week of June, and (4) Airing a Christmas movie every Thursday and Friday of 2019 to celebrate the marathon's 10th anniversary.

There is some TruthInTelevision, as mentioned by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July That Other Wiki]]. Most holiday TV specials and movies are filmed during the summer season (so you're sweating like a pig...), and some stores do offer Christmas In July sales to get rid of all their old Christmas stock. The crafting community especially embraces Christmas in July, making all their wreaths, decorations and other Christmas crafts in July to either keep for themselves or sell at craft sales in November.

* The British comic ''{{Strangehaven}}'' is about a QuirkyTown with weird characters and traditions, such as celebrating Christmas in August. The legend is that the dying wish of a little child was to live to see Christmas, so they moved it up to August.

* The 1940 film. . .[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July_(film) Christmas In July]]. Oddly, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday.

*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which airs them for the entire ''month'' of July and has paired it with ChristmasCreep by: (1) Not only re-airing movies from previous Christmases, but in 2017, including some that were clearly filmed to be shown in time for this event, as indicated by their 2017 release date, (2) Including promos for their actual Christmastime movie marathon, "Countdown To Christmas" (3) As of 2018, pushing the start date back to the last week of June, and (4) Airing a Christmas movie every Friday of 2019 to celebrate the marathon's 10th anniversary.

*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which airs them for the entire ''month'' of July and has paired it with ChristmasCreep by: (1) Not only re-airing movies from previous Christmases, but in 2017, including some that were clearly filmed to be shown in time for this event, as indicated by their 2017 release date, (2) Including promos for their actual Christmastime movie marathon, and (3) As of 2018, pushing the start date back to the last week of June.

* You will be forgiven for thinking ''{{Disney/Frozen}}'' is a Christmas movie until you do research and find out the story takes place in the middle of July and that the snow is all because of Elsa's powers. The 2017 featurette ''Disney/OlafsFrozenAdventure'' is a proper ChristmasSpecial that does take place during the holidays, however.

*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which has paired it with ChristmasCreep by: (1) Not only re-airing movies from previous Christmases, but in 2017, including some that were clearly filmed to be shown in time for this event, as indicated by their 2017 release date, (2) Including promos for their actual Christmastime movie marathon, and (3) As of 2018, pushing the start date back to the last week of June.

** This tends to happen year-round with seasonal merchandise in retail stores like UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Family Dollar, Dollar General et al., with Valentine's Day merchandise in January, St. Patrick's Day decorations in February, Easter decorations in March or late February, Fourth of July merch in June, back-to-school sales in July, Halloween decorations in September, Thanksgiving stuff in October, and Christmas decorations in November.

Of course, in the southern hemisphere, Christmas really ''does'' fall in midsummer, so UsefulNotes/ChristmasInAustralia is closely related. Some parts of the world, such as Australia but also places such as New Zealand, South Africa, the Falklands and parts of America really do hold Christmass in July celebrations; The first four do so because the weather around July is in midwinter, around the time when the weather is more fitting to the ideas of what a traditional Christmas is in the Northern Hemisphere.

Not to be confused with GreenChristmas. Or with the Creator/PrestonSturges film ''Christmas in July''.

*** This was then taken up by The Hallmark Channel which has paired it with ChristmasCreep by expanding to the entire month of July. Additionally, for 2017, they are not just re-airing movies from previous Christmases, they have included some that were clearly filmed to be shown in time for this special, as indicated by their 2017 release date, and they are ''already'' playing promos for their actual Christmastime movie marathon.