History Main / ChristmasInJuly

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves Halloween so much they celebrate it twice via Summerween. It's the same holiday, but with watermelons standing in for pumpkins (most likely because pumpkins aren't in season during the summertime).

* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'': a quest, "Frostval in July!", released in July of 2008 that shows what the villains of the Frostval quest are up to. The player gets to see Zorbak's FreudianExcuse why he hates Frostval and Khandie Khain's identity before she was 'adopted' by the Nightmare Queen.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture TheAnimatedSeries'', the Brown family and Marty decided to visit late 1800s London during Christmas to beat the heat of the present time.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves Halloween so much they celebrate it twice via Summerween. It's the same holiday, but with watermelons standing in for pumpkins.

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* Variant: in ''Film/AlmostFamous'', one of the complaints William's sister raises before leaving home is that their mother celebrates Christmas in September to avoid consumerism.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': No, not "[[ChristmasSpecial Jingle Jingle Jangle]]", but "Fa La La La Ed", in which Ed gets it in his mind that it's Christmas, although it's July. Of course, the idea spreads to the rest of the kids.

* In the "WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS4E16AngelicaOrdersOutLetItSnow Let it Snow]]", The Pickles family decide to set up a picture for their Christmas Card in August, which leads the babies to believe that Christmas is coming early. Throughout the episode, [[LetThereBeSnow the babies try to make it snow]]. It eventually does end up "snowing" due to Stu's box of laundry soap getting caught in the air conditioner.

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.

* ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'' has the two protagonists, Skid and Pump, celebrate the titular Spooky Month even if it isn't close to Halloween time yet. One short has them celebrate the holiday in the middle of June.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'', Texas is mentioned to have its own version of Christmas during the summer (called "Tex-Mas"), which involves Santa wearing a cowboy hat, riding bison, and fighting robots. Going off of comments by the characters, this is somehow descended from the nuclear near-holocaust brought about by a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] a few generations before the story's present.
** We get to see this in detail in Chapter 67 when Dib and the others are in Houston on the day of Texmas Eve, and witness a parade which culminates in the guy playing Cowboy Santa throwing "rations and weapons" (actually candy and toys) to the crowd before launching his sleigh at the moon. The last bit is because of a conspiracy theory that the aforementioned rogue AI fled there after being defeated.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'', Texas is mentioned to have its own version of Christmas during the summer (called "Tex-Mas"), which involves Santa wearing a cowboy hat, riding bison, and fighting robots. Going off of comments by the characters, it's implied this is somehow descended from the nuclear near-holocaust brought about by a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] a few generations before the story's present.

* The 1990's ''Series/SesameStreet'' ChristmasSpecial ''Film/ElmoSavesChristmas'' had Elmo wish it was Christmas every day. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor When he gets his wish]], this trope occurs.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture TheAnimatedSeries'', the Brown family and Marty decided to visit late 1800's London during Christmas to beat the heat of the present time.

** Creator/CartoonNetwork did Christmas in July marathons back in the 90's where they'd air a bunch of animated Christmas specials in July. They started doing so again starting in TheNewTens.

Of course, in July, less time remains before the next Christmas than how much has passed since the last one.

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 the Americas really do hold Christmas 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.

Compare ChristmasCreep, another trope about getting into the holiday spirit early.

* The story "Christmas in July" from the horror anthology ''[=NightThirst=]'' has [[BadSanta a homicidal Santa]] who is inexplicably going about his business in the middle of summer.

* The 1940 film Film/ChristmasInJuly. Oddly, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday or the phenomenon, though it's arguably the TropeNamer.

Or with the Creator/PrestonSturges film ''Christmas in July.'' Compare ChristmasCreep, another trope about getting into the holiday spirit early.

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 Christmas 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.

* There are several cases of TV networks running marathons of Christmas specials in July (which is one of the four UsefulNotes/{{Sweeps}} months and thus makes for better ratings). It isn't uncommon for viewers in [[ChristmasInAmerica the USA]] and [[UsefulNotes/AVeryBritishChristmas the UK]] to find Christmas specials and Christmas movies dominating certain TV Channels for part of the week in the height of midsummer:

* One ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' episode saw the kids set up an off-season Christmas in order to get Lola a toy stethoscope she needed in order to play doctor.