SevenSeals: Seeing the majority of the examples are subversions, I'd say this is well on its way of becoming a DiscreditedTrope (it's not quite there yet, as some of the more cheesy shows still use it straight occasionally).

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{{Eran of Arcadia}}: I removed the sentence that no one mentions "an afterlife of any kind" in ''Harry Potter'', as the afterlife is a huge part of the plot throughout the series.

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Danel: What, actually, is this trope? I mean, it contains the HarryPotter example which is just a series that features Christmas. So what is this trope about? It seems to have a meaning, but then it just devolves into mentions of Christmas.

{{Rebochan}}: Seconded - I read the introduction and I *still* don't know what this trope is.

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Prfnoff: This is clever, but not really an example of the trope. And the quote is not technically from the song, but from Lehrer's spoken introduction:
-->That Christmas, with its spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in.

-->I refer of course, to money.
-->- '''Tom Lehrer''', ''A Christmas Carol''

* The song ''A Christmas Carol'' by Tom Lehrer, as partially quoted above.

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[=BritBllt=]: Okay, I organized the page into folders, removed some natter and cleaned up the entries. But looking over the result, I'm likewise baffled by what this trope actually is. At first I figured it's a ChristmasEpisode, but that's already a trope, so this seems like a snarky, StatusQuoIsGod take on it. I don't know if that really counts as its own trope, but we'll see...