Line #122 Main/ChristmasInJuly


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2	[[caption-width-right:258:"Sun, Surf and Santa" by Tom Browning]]
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4	->''But I'll take the sun and I'll take my kite,\
5	Christmas on the beach, Christmas in July.''
6	-->-- '''Music/SufjanStevens''', "Christmas in July"
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8	We all know when Christmas is, right? Late in December, just after the beginning of winter, when it's always [[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas covered in snow]], right? Wrong! Christmas happens in the summer, too. It's true, some people just can't wait to get into the [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas Christmas Spirit]]. [[ChristmasCreep So they decide to celebrate Christmas right there in the middle of July.]] Great concept, no?
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10	This will often serve as the premise for {{Christmas Episode}}s in which the show takes place primarily in the summer. All the same plots, motifs, and messages of all other Christmas Episodes will still be present. In fact, expect all the characters to completely forget that it isn't actually Christmas at all.
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12	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. And media producers like to use July to present and make money from their Christmas specials that would otherwise be mothballed for the other 11 months of the year ([[ChristmasCreep or 9 months, really]]).
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14	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. Although if you go far south enough, like in the Falklands and southern Argentina, you can sometimes [[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas have a White Christmas on actual Christmas]], as it's cold enough to snow in the summer sometimes.
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16	Compare ChristmasCreep, another trope about getting into the holiday spirit early (the two have overlapped more and more in recent decades).
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18	!!Examples:
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23	* Advertising/{{Hhgregg}} did a Christmas in July commercial where their mascot, hh, sung the store's latest deals to the tune of "Deck the Halls" while mentioning it's Christmas in July. Based on the end of the commercial, nobody else is celebrating it with him.
24	* The Czech online store Alza had an advertising campaign called "Summer Christmas", urging people to buy Christmas presents for your loved ones supposedly for lowered prices.
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28	* Invoked in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' by Koro-sensei. No one in the class came by to visit or assassinate him during winter break [[spoiler:after they learned about his past]], so he decides to make up for lost time by having the class celebrate both Christmas and New Year's Day with him in February.
29	* ''Anime/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Finland got his version of the Hatafutte Parade at the end of June.
30	* The second ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' movie, ''Daughter of Darkness'', has the crew celebrating Mayuka's first Christmas in the summer at the 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.]]
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34	* One ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'' comic story, entitled "Real Cool" involves Dennis and his parents pretending it's Christmas to keep their mind off the HeatWave. When Mr. Wilson sees this, he tells his wife, who doesn't believe him, as she thinks the heat is making him hallucinate. Mrs. Wilson then calls Dr. Turner about the situation, and by the time he shows up at the Mitchells' house, Dennis and his parents have already put away their Christmas decorations, leading him to also believe that Mr. Wilson hallucinated the whole thing.
35	* The British comic ''ComicBook/{{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.
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39	* 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. It's shown 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.
40	* ''Fanfic/ItsAlwaysSpookyMonth'': Like in ''Spooky Month'', Skid and Pump celebrate Spooky Month even when it's not October.
41	-->"IT'S SPOOKY MONTH!" Skid and Pump yelled, leaping into the room and launching into their signature spooky dance.\
42	After recovering from a minor heart attack, the Monster removed his reading glasses and glanced at the calendar. "No, it's still April."
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46	* 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.
47	* ''Film/BushChristmas'': Set in Australia, so it's basically this trope by default. The story involves kids out horseback riding, who wind up chasing some horse thieves in order to retrieve their father's stolen mare.
48	* The story "Christmas in July" from the horror anthology ''Film/NightThirst'' involves a BadSanta who is inexplicably going about his business in the middle of summer.
49	* Near the end of ''Film/MumAndDad'', the psychopathic family randomly begins celebrating Christmas several months prior to December.
50	* The 1990s ''Series/SesameStreet'' ChristmasSpecial ''Film/ElmoSavesChristmas'' had Elmo wish it was Christmas every day. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor When he gets his wish]], this trope occurs.
51	* The 1940 film ''Film/ChristmasInJuly''. Oddly, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday or the phenomenon, though it's arguably the TropeNamer.
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55	* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': In the subplot of "Farewell, Dawn," James Hobart breaks his leg, so the BSC puts together a "Christmas in summer" celebration to cheer him up. Since James and his family are Australian and used to celebrate Christmas in the summer back home, it's especially fitting.
56	* ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': "The Long Winter" ends with the Ingalls family having a "Christmas in May" celebration, after seven months of blizzards finally come to an end, and a Christmas barrel from Reverend Alden that contains presents and a frozen turkey finally arrives after having been delayed in December.
57	* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “Stop Wasting Water, Roys Bedoys!”, this is downplayed when the class is asked to paint a tree for an art project, and Roys paints a Christmas tree even though it isn’t Christmas.
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61	* In a later episode of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' (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.
62	* An episode of ''Series/TheBasilBrushShow'' has Basil make everyone throw a Christmas party for Molly to cheer her up even though it is the middle of summer. As luck would have it, Santa Claus is staying in the same apartment block Basil lives in.
63	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': In "[[Recap/CheersS5E25AHouseIsNotAHome A House Is Not a Home]]", Diane and Sam buy a house. Diane insists on throwing a Christmas-in-May party for the elderly couple they bought it from, much to Sam's irritation.
64	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]], a resident of the planet Trenzalore tells the Doctor it's Christmas. The Doctor tells him "it's July", but both were correct. The town was named Christmas, and it was also July. While visiting, Clara was also in the middle of Christmas celebrations at home. She was literally celebrating Christmas ''in'' July.
65	* A partial example in ''Series/FamilyAffair'': In the [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special]] ChristmasEpisode "Christmas Came a Little Early," Uncle Bill and the family have a Christmas party in autumn, ostensibly because Bill might have to go on a business trip over Christmas... but really for the sake of Buffy's [[LittlestCancerPatient terminally ill]] friend Eve, who isn't expected to live to see Christmas.
66	* ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'': Aaron Carter makes an appearance to shoot a Christmas themed music video in Lizzie's hometown. The Christmas theme is everywhere, even though it is nowhere near Christmas.
67	* ''Series/TheMagicians'': In "Fillory and Further", Santa sets up a tree and presents for everyone. Alice briefly questions it, but just rolls with it.
68	* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'':
69	** In the episode "A Dry Scalp is Better Than None", Mrs. Davis' hypochondriac sister Angela pretends to be dying. Miss Brooks, Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton throw her an early Christmas, Angela's favorite holiday.
70	** In the radio episode "The Telegram", Mrs. Davis' Uncle Corky sends a telegram giving notice that he'll be visiting for a week. A series of missteps leads to the telegram being partially burned, and interpreted as Uncle Corky saying he has a week to live. Miss Brooks, Mrs. Davis, the Conklins and Walter Denton throw Uncle Corky a Christmas party in July.
71	* Played for laughs in ''Series/ThePacific'', when Leckie returns from the hospital with presents for his friends.
72	-->'''Leckie:''' Tell Santa whether you've been naughty or nice.
73	-->'''Runner:''' The ''naughtiest.''
74	* An episode of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' has Harold trying to set one up in Possum Lake. Red objects at first, but gets into the act by dressing as Santa and threatening to put Harold on the "naughty" list.
75	* In ''Series/TheStoryOfTracyBeaker'', the kids throw a Christmas party for Lol and Bouncer, believing that they are leaving the Dumping Ground, even though it's still summer.
76	* A literal case happened with ''Series/TheTwoRonnies Christmas Sketchbook''. The special was taped in July 2005 because of Ronnie Barker's declining health (he would pass away in October, two months before the special aired).
77	* On ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'' the guys celebrate Half Christmas in June, which upsets and annoys everybody around them.
78	* There is no shortage of instances in any ''Series/MockTheWeek'' ChristmasEpisode where the panelists will [[LampshadeHanging riff off the fact]] that they are filming it way earlier than seasonally-appropriate (most of the taping for the show happens in the middle of the year, while the Christmas episode being primarily a bunch of HilariousOuttakes, cut content and tacked-on Christmas-themed games).
79	* ''Series/GeneralHospital''. As Stone Cates was dying of AIDS, his friends brought him a beach party in his hospital room, knowing he was too ill to actually go, and in his final days, arranged a premature Christmas celebration for him (in November, however), as it was very likely that he'd die before the actual day (and indeed he did).
80	* On ''Series/{{Haven}}'', a little girl's [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Trouble]] makes everyone think it's Christmas, though it's the middle of July. [[AntiMagic Audrey]] is the only who knows it's not, and is accused of being a Scrooge.
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84	* The majority of Christmas albums are released in the fall, which often means they're being recorded in the spring or summer. This can sometimes make it tricky for the recording artist to get into the "holiday spirit".
85	** When Music/ElvisPresley recorded ''Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas'' in May 1971, they decorated the recording studio with trees, ornaments and wrapped boxes.
86	* "Christmas in July" by Music/SufjanStevens.
87	* "The Christmas Song" (often mistakenly called "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") got its start on a blisteringly hot day in Los Angeles as an exercise in beating the heat. Lyricist Bob Wells wrote down a list of images associated with Christmas in an effort to imagine it was cold outside for a change, which ultimately became the first verse of the song.
88	* The trope is discussed in the Music/{{AJR}} song "Christmas in June", where the singer suggests celebrating the holidays with his lover in June in case he ends up having to tour during the ''actual'' holiday season.
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92	* Creator/DrDemento has a regular "Christmas in July" episode, where he plays novelty [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Christmas songs in July]].
93	* In Maryland in the summer 2012, radio station 102.7 Jack FM played Christmas music for a week straight.
94	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "The Telegram", Mrs. Davis' Uncle Corky sends a telegram giving notice that he'll be visiting for a week. A series of missteps leads to the telegram being partially burned, and interpreted as Uncle Corky saying he has a week to live. Miss Brooks, Mrs. Davis, the Conklins and Walter Denton throw Uncle Corky a Christmas party in July.
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98	* Creator/DaneCook once did a sketch about being late for work, which included not having enough time to shower, so it became necessary to wear "that fat sweater that holds your stink in," with the excuse, "Hey! This is my [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell Christmas sweater]] in July!"
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102	* ''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.
103	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Sigrid uses her [[RealityWarper abilities]] to wish for Santa to give her a gift, which inexplicably makes "Santa" appear and presents her with a teddy bear. This leads to a silly mishap as Holtz Flores pulls out a shotgun and takes the man for a thief.
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107	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has [[Recap/HomestarRunnerDecemberweenInJuly Decemberween in July]], a series of holiday shorts released in July of 2004. These include a ChristmasEpisode of ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'', Strong Bad defacing a cheesy children's book about [[YouMeanXmas Decemberween]], and Marzipan singing a song about "Seasonal Sweaters".
108	* In ''WebAnimation/TheKirlianFrequency'' the Host decides to celebrate Christmas in April [[spoiler:because the town won't get to May. There is a comet that will come in two weeks and destroy the city along with everyone else.]]
109	* As an example with another holiday, ''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.
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113	* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': In "A Very Nerdy Non-Canonical Captain S Christmas" crossover between James and [[WebVideo/TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS Captain S]], this takes place on Christmas in July, in which the UsefulNotes/GameGenie manages to capture Santa Claus.
114	* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Parodied in "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedM3 Lord Slug]]" when Goku convinces himself that the state of the frozen planet makes it the Christmas season, and that Slug's invasion is targeting Christmas itself. It doesn't last long when Slug points out that it's actually July.
115	* ''WebVideo/MusicalHell'': Donna forces Diva to review a Christmas film due to not doing a ChristmasEpisode in December, but Diva retorts that it's July, and it's so hot on the surface that it makes Hell look "positively balmy." Donna proposes that Diva review ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'', much to Diva's displeasure.
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119	* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In the episode "T-Shirt", Meatwad uses a magic shirt to summon Santa Claus and asks for gifts, only for Santa to angrily tell him off for waking him up in the middle of July.
120	* 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.
121	* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeries'', the Brown family and Marty decided to visit late 1800s London during Christmas to beat the heat of the present time.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode "Money" has a scene where the boys are spending their concert take at Coney Island, and Ringo mistakes a mechanical funhouse clown as Santa.
123	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' had a Christmas episode ''in the middle of summer vacation''. It involves the family discovering a portal to some Christmas world and the elves wanting Grandpa Max to be their new Santa.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': In the "Sick, Sad World" segment, a mall owner does this in an attempt to drive up profits.
125	* ''Westernanimation/DeadEndParanormalPark'': Phoenix Parks has its own holiday called "Christmas in July", and Barney, despite being Jewish and not normally celebrating Christmas, decides to give presents to his friends. On the same day, Courtney finds that her application to take part in a game show in the Lower Planes was accepted, only for her to still be unable to visit there, so Barney, Norma, and Pugsley go in her place in order to win a prize for her.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The episode "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.
127	* In ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} pretends it's Christmas at the height of summer to take his mind off the sweltering heat. Jon and Odie join the spirit and decorate the house, confusing the neighbors, who then take it on. This snowballs until almost the entire city falls under the impression that it really is Christmas before City Hall makes an official declaration to the contrary.
128	* The residents of the titular ''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).
129	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Daffy Duck Hunt", after Porky and Dawg corner Daffy, he suddenly pops out dressed as Santa Claus and starts singing Jingle Bells. Both Porky and Dawg start singing along, until Porky notices his calendar showing it's springtime.
130	* 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.
131	* The second ChristmasSpecial of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has the boys [[LetsPutOnAShow decide to put on a traditional Family Christmas Special]] in the middle of summer.
132	* The animated ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster'' series had an episode called "Christmas In July". Glomer, claiming to know Santa personally, takes Punky and her pals to the North Pole workshop in July only to find Santa's on vacation. The kids manage to flummox Santa's toy-making assembly line, prompting him to return early to set things right.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'' featured Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer teaming up with Frosty the Snowman to save a struggling circus, and getting tangled up in an evil wizard's scheme to take over the North Pole.
134	* In the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' 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.
135	* In one episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Super Mario World\|1991}}'' cartoon, Mario and Luigi introduce Christmas to the cave people to stop them from quarreling, despite it being the middle of August. Mario justifies it by saying the cave people don't know any better. Within hours, everyone's adopted 'Cave Christmas', even Bowser and his kids, who attempt a HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas on the heroes, forcing Mario and Yoshi to retake the gifts from the Disco Palace.
136	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' episode "Christmas Times the Max" sees Dez grant a wish for exactly this (they even specifically call it "Christmas in July"). 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 of [[SubbingForSanta organizing Christmas and doing all of Santa's duties]] to Dez and his friends.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'' has a variant: in "Summerweenie Halloweenie," the wombats celebrate Halloween in summer. In fact, this episode is a shoutout to the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode about Summerween -- they even carve jack-o-melons!
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141	* RealLife: in the southern hemisphere, the actual Christmas is in the summer.
142	** Australian ex-pats living in the Northern Hemisphere will do this. One newspaper report had one of them commenting that "December doesn't feel like Christmas at all. It's too cold and snowy."
143	** Likewise, in the commonwealth countries of the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas in July has been adopted as a way to craft a Christmas celebration in weather conditions similar to those of the Northern Hemisphere's winter.
144	** Countries such as Brazil at times emphasize how Santa impersonators struggle to wear the hot costume (it's something to use while venturing in the snow, after all) - even a MallSanta, who is frequently under air conditioning.
145	** Even warm climates that happen to be in the Northern Hemisphere will do this; even though it's technically winter, it might feel like summer or at least not be all that cold.
146	* 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 [[UsefulNotes/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:
147	** Creator/CartoonNetwork did Christmas in July marathons back in the 90s where they'd air a bunch of animated Christmas specials in July. They started doing so again starting in TheNewTens.
148	** Creator/ToonDisney did it as well.
149	** Canadian channel YTV had a Christmas in July event around 2010.
150	** [=TV1=] at one point did a marathon of Christmas episodes from ''Series/{{Amen}}'', ''Series/GoodTimes'', ''Series/TheJeffersons'', ''Series/ADifferentWorld'', and ''Series/LivingSingle''.
151	** Creator/{{Lifetime}} used to commemorate the 4th of July with a marathon of Christmas movies, eventually expanding it to the entire first week of July.
152	*** 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) Ever since 2019, airing a Christmas movie every Thursday and Friday. First to celebrate the Christmastime marathon's 10th anniversary and afterwards, because the stunt proved to be a ratings hit.
153	*** The coronavirus outbreak of early 2020 prompted the channel to run a marathon of movies in mid-March in an effort to boost people's spirits.
154	*** And in a literal example of this, the network typically films its Christmas movies during the summer.
155	** All of the "Shop at Home" channels in the US (QVC, Home Shopping Network) air Christmas in July specials each year. It used to serve a more pragmatic and strategic purpose though. Many companies had long processing and delivery times ("Please allow six to eight weeks for delivery" was their mantra.) Usually when something was ordered in July, it would arrive in September or October, right about the time that Christmas shopping would start to trickle into people's minds.
156	** British TV tends not to take note of when the Christmas episodes fall in imported American series. So you end up with little inconsistencies like the Christmas episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' airing in April, or the Barone family in ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' celebrating their Christmas in July. This is so that the networks always have plenty of under-watched episodes to put on re-runs, so that the series remains "fresh".
157	* The [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic 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, and Nickelodeon ran their first ever Christmas in July marathon that year.
158	* The Creator/{{AMC}} network has a variation on this, with a " Halfway To Halloween" marathon, airing the Franchise/{{Halloween}} movies for several days in April since mid-spring 2021.
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