History WesternAnimation / HowMurraySavedChristmas

-->'''Murray:''' On WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} and Jumbo and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line Mason and Dixon]]. On [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo and Kramer]] and [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Richard M. Nixon]].\\

-->'''Murray:''' On WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} and Jumbo and Mason and Dixon. On [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo and Kramer]] and [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Richard M. Nixon]].\\

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The April Fool literally has blue hair and the only one with an unnatural hair color.

** Among the names Murray calls the reindeer are [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo and Kramer]], [[Series/TheHoneymooners Kramden and Norton and Alice and Trixie]]. The second time he listed the reindeer, he called them WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} and Film/{{Rambo}} and [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Dopey and Doc]], [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Scotty and Sulu, Uhura and Spock]].

* XDaysSince: The sign at Santa's workshop gets reset after Santa's accident.

The story takes place in a town called Stinky Cigars which is home to many of the world's holidays both famous and obscure. Among the residents is Murray, a grumpy fellow who owns the local diner. On Christmas Eve, as most of these stories tend to take place, one of the elves named Edison accidentally knocks out Santa with his invention just as he's about to take off for his yearly round. When none of the town's residents prove capable of filling in for Santa, Murray is picked to fill in the red coat. Naturally Murray is reluctant but is eventually coax into it. Though can he overcome his grumpiness and find the holiday sp...oh who're we kidding. Of course he will, the fun of course is how he'll get it back.

-->'''Narrator''': They brought toys to the naughty, a very long list.\\

* BadBoss: Santa, much to the elves' unhappiness. One of them comments that he heard Santa was a nice guy off the clock.

* GoodNewsBadNews: Subverted when Edison Elf asks Dr. Holiday after Santa gets knocked out by the boxing glove-in-a-box and before Dr. Holiday breaks out into song about Santa's condition:
-->'''Edison''': Uh, how's it look, Doc?\\
'''Dr. Holiday''': Would you like to hear the bad news first?\\
'''Edison''': I'd rather hear the good news.\\
'''Dr. Holiday''': Oh, I didn't say there's ''good'' news.

-->'''Murray''' [''glumly'']: My life was empty and at an end, I could make a sandwich, but I couldn't make a friend,\\

'''Murray''': Now I'm happy and gay,\\
'''Edison''': When?\\
'''Murray''': On Christmas day, Yes, I'm ever so gay,\\
'''Edison''': When?\\
'''Murray''': On Christmas day; I'm incredibly gay, gay as the month of May, Gay, gay, gay, gay, I'm so gay!\\
[[{{Beat}} [''The crowd looks at Murray with astonishment''] ]]\\
'''Murray''' [''nervously resumes'']: I don't mean in that way, that way is okay, [[DontExplainTheJoke What I'm trying to say-- Oh forget it, oy vey!]]

* HolidayPersonification: Most of the residents of Stinky Cigars (outside of Santa and his elves), are personifications of holidays, big and small--there's a Baby New Year, an Easter Bunny, Lincoln and Washington for Presidents' Day, and of course Labor Day Amos. Murray sticks out as one of the few seemingly normal human residents of the town, [[spoiler: until it's revealed that he's the personification of the forgotten holiday "Milk Man Day"]].

-->'''MAN''': What was that noise?
-->'''MURRY''': Mice?
-->'''MAN''': Oh. Wait who said that?
-->'''MURRY''': Cat?
-->'''MAN''': Oh. Bettyfred, get my gun!

-->'''Dr. Holiday''': In layman's terms, Santa Claus is suffering from...\\
[''Dr. Holiday starts singing and dancing''] Superficial fractures of his little baby toeses, His ears moved south, and now his mouth is pushed up where his nose is,\\

-->'''Dr. Holiday''': Murray's got... antisocial, claustrophoic, paranoid neurosis,\\

* ItsPronouncedTroPay: Murray's last name is pronounced "''why'' -ner" with a long "I" sound, instead of "''wee'' -ner" with a long "E".

* HolidayPersonification: Most of the residents of Stinky Cigars (outside of Santa and his elves), are personifications of holidays, big and small--there's a Baby New Year, an Easter Bunny, Lincoln and Washington for Presidents' Day, and of course Labor Day Amos. Murray sticks out as one of the few seemingly normal human residents of the town, until it's revealed that he's the personification of the forgotten holiday "Milk Man Day".

''How Murray Saved Christmas'' is a 2014 ChristmasSpecial that aired on NBC written by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' producer Mike Reiss, starring Creator/JerryStiller as Murray Weiner, Creator/SeanHayes as Edison Elf, Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, Creator/JasonAlexander as Dr. Holiday, John Ratzenberger as Officer Bender, Creator/DennisHaysbert as the Baby New Year and the Narrator, with Nick Jameson, Creator/TomKenny, Creator/MauriceLaMarche, Creator/TressMacNeille, and Creator/BillyWest to round out the cast.

''How Murray Saved Christmas'' is a 2014 ChristmasSpecial that aired on NBC written by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' producer Mike Reiss, starring Jerry Stiller as Murray Weiner, Sean Hayes as Edison Elf, Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, Creator/JasonAlexander as Dr. Holiday, John Ratzenberger as Officer Bender, Creator/DennisHaysbert as the Baby New Year and the Narrator, with Nick Jameson, Creator/TomKenny, Creator/MauriceLaMarche, Creator/TressMacNeille, and Creator/BillyWest to round out the cast.

** Among the names Murray calls the reindeer are [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo and Kramer]], [[Series/TheHoneymooners Kramden and Norton and Alice and Trixie]]. The second time he listed the reindeer, he called them Disney/{{Bambi}} and Film/{{Rambo}} and [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves Dopey and Doc]], [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Scotty and Sulu, Uhura and Spock]].

** Among the names Murray calls the reindeer are [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo and Kramer]], [[Series/TheHoneymooners Kramden and Norton and Alice and Trixie]].