History WesternAnimation / ItsASpongeBobChristmas

* ImageSong: Averted, the DVD includes UsefulNotes/{{MP3}}s for "Santa Has His Eye on Me" and "Hot Fruitcake". Sadly, these songs can't be ripped (through methods such as iTunes).

** Patchy gets put on the naughty list for impersonating the mailman and stealing his truck.

--->'''Patrick:''' (singing) I will trap Santa [[BoobyTrap in my box]], locked up like Fort Knox, and make him [[TimeMaster stop the clocks]]. A-a-and we'll have Chrismas all... year... Lo-o-o-o-o-ong!

* ExhaustedEyeBags: One of the end results of a victim of Jerktonium.

* PoeticJustice:
** Plankton gets an entire bag of coal dumped on him.
** Patchy gets put on the naughty list for impersonating the mailman and stealing his truck.

* ExcitedShowTitle

''It's a [=SpongeBob=] Christmas!'' is the second ChristmasEpisode from Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. It was released DirectToVideo on October 30, 2012, and made its television premiere on Creator/{{CBS}} on November 23rd, before its Nickelodeon debut on December 6th, where, in a rare achievement for cable television, it ''outrated'' the CBS airing. Unlike its predecessor, "WesternAnimation/ChristmasWho", this one was animated in stop-motion animation in the spirit of many of the Creator/{{Rankin Bass|Productions}} holiday specials.

* InkSuitActor: Tom Kenny (in his Patchy the Pirate guise).

* ShoutOut: The whole Tom Kenny FramingDevice is basically a Shout Out to Fred Astaire's narrator in ''WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown''.

* WackySoundEffect: Check above

** Santa fails to realize that Plankton created [=ToyBob=] in the first place, or that [=ToyBob=] and [=SpongeBob=] were separate entities.

** [=SpongeBob=] and Plankton singing Santa has his eyes on me is reminiscent of "Santa Claus is coming to town."

* FramingDevice: During the story, we also see a storyline in which Patchy steals a mail truck in an attempt to bring his own letter to Santa. (These scenes were [[DeletedScene cut from the CBS telecast.]])

* KarmaHoudini: Potty The Parrot is the biggest one, he knew about and was involved with Patchy The Pirate's plot to kidnap the mailman & steal his mail truck, and nothing happened to him. He even has a laugh with Santa himself at Patchy's expense while Patchy is being chased by a hungry and ferocious polar bear.

* MusicalNod: Patrick does a WithLyrics for "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" in a part of "Santa Has His Eye on Me"
-->Patrick: (singing) I Will trap Santa [[BoobyTrap in my box]], locked up like Fort Knox, and make him [[TimeMaster stop the clocks]]. A-a-and we'll have Chrismas all... year... Lo-o-o-o-o-ong!
** Also [=SpongeBob=] and Plankton singing Santa has his eyes on me is reminiscent of "Santa Claus is coming to town."

* PoeticJustice: Plankton gets an entire bag of coal dumped on him.
** Also, Patchy being put on the naughty list for impersonating the mailman and stealing his truck.

* VillainBall: When Plankton finds out that [=SpongeBob=] is immune to The Jerktonium, instead of being content that pretty much everyone in Bikini Bottom has become a jerk, he decides to send out a robotic version of [=SpongeBob=] on a rampage of destruction to ruin the real [=SpongeBob=]'s good name. This comes back to bite him in the butt, when after Santa Claus gives him The Krabby Patty Formula, [=ToyBob=] shows up to try and kill Santa. After [=SpongeBob=] defeats his evil robotic counterpart, Santa's elves find [=ToyBob=]'s windup key which says "If found please return to The Chum Bucket" This is what seals Plankton's doom.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when The Last [=SpongeBob=] Christmas Special WesternAnimation/ChristmasWho Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* MeaningfulEcho: "Hot from the oven, full of lovin'!" Said first by Plankton when he gives [=SpongeBob=] the fruitcake filled with jerktonium, and said next by Spongebob when he destroys the killer robot with fruitcake.

* PaperThinDisguise: The [=ToyBob=] that Plankton unleashes to frame Spongebob. It looks nothing like the real deal but everyone, ''including Santa'', falls for it anyway.

* RobotMe: Plankton builds an evil robot Spongebob after the real Spongebob proves immune to jerktonium.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when The Last [=SpongeBob=] Christmas Special WesternAnimation/ChristmasWho? Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when The Last [=SpongeBob=] Christmas Special "WesternAnimation/ChristmasWho?". Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when The Last [=SpongeBob=] Christmas Special "WesternAnimation/Christmas Who?". Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when The Last [=SpongeBob=] Christmas Special "Western Animation/Christmas Who?". Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when [[The Last [=SpongeBob=] Christmas Special Western Animation/Christmas Who?]]. Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when {{The Last SpongeBob Christmas Special Western Animation/Christmas Who?}} Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.

* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Completely Averted. Everybody in this special loves Fruit Cake. Plankton who is usually depicted as being a LethalChef makes absolutely delicious fruitcake. Lacing the fruit cake with Jerktonium apparently didn't alter it's taste at all. It's made even more humorous when [[The Last SpongeBob Christmas Special Western Animation/Christmas Who?]] Went out of its way to show off how everybody does hate Fruitcake. In one scene SpongeBob tells Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs that "Everyone pretends to like The Fruitcake!" And in another a garbage can is full of them. Mr Krabs even gives one to Plankton as a gift and Plankton blatantly throws it away right afterwards.