History YMMV / MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The Martian robot in this movie is called ''Torg''; a season before the riff on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate''.
*** When Podcast/{{RiffTrax}} did a live riffing of the film in 2013, they took advantage of this with a couple of Torgo-related jokes.
** Joel's essay on office Christmas parties in TheSeventies sounds a lot like an episode of ''Series/MadMen''.
** The SOL crew would get ''lots'' more suggestive scenes of jets refueling three seasons later in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E12TheStarfighters The Starfighters]]''.
** Servo jokes that Voldar and his hench-Martians are being portrayed by American politicians... including some guy named [[UsefulNotes/JoeBiden "Joseph Biden."]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Even by the show's standards, this episode's host segments are just so sweet and adorable. As shown when Gypsy provides a Nativity Scene in her mouth to cheer the guys up from their cynical Christmas Essays, and the ending segment when Joel reads a letter, it gets the bots pretty teary-eyed.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said verbatim by Tom when the "polar bear" shows up. Crow and Joel can only laugh.

--->'''Voldar:''' "Soon all Martians will be blithering idiots!"
--->'''Servo:''' "'Soon'? What do you mean 'soon'?"

** The SOL crew would get ''lots'' more suggestive scenes of jets refueling three seasons later in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E12TheStarfighters The Starfighters]]''

** The martian robot in this movie is called ''Torg''; a season before the riff on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate''.

* FunnyMoments: "It's SANTA BEAR!"

-->'''Voldar:''' "Soon all Martians will be blithering idiots!"
-->'''Servo:''' "'Soon'? What do you mean 'soon'?"

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming / TearJerker: The letter reading at the end of the episode.

* TooSoon: Servo riffs, "You know, if they cancel Battlestar Galactica, I'm gonna kill myself." Joel quickly puts up a hand to shut him up. A 15-year-old fan, Eddie Seidel Jr., actually did commit suicide after the show was canceled.

* HarsherInHindsight: Servo riffs, "You know, if they cancel Battlestar Galactica, I'm gonna kill myself." Joel quickly puts up a hand to shut him up. A 15-year-old fan, Eddie Seidel Jr., actually did commit suicide after the show was canceled.

** The martian robot in this movie is called ''Torg''; a season before the riff on ''ManosTheHandsOfFate''.

* TheScrappy: The crew greatly despised Dropo and they do little to hide it. Near the end Servo starts explicitly hoping that he gets run over by a train.

** Joel's essay on office Christmas parties in TheSixties sounds a lot like an episode of ''Series/MadMen''.

* HilariousInHindsight: The martian robot in this movie is called ''Torg''; a season before the riff on ''ManosTheHandsOfFate''.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The show has always had charmingly cheap props and effects, but the Invention Exchange's "Wish Squisher" is hilarious. Frank makes no effort to hide that he is turning the boxes over to allow their contents to ''magically'' transform. The boxes clearly have two lids as well. But what really takes the cake is the final transformation of a box into a gift certificate; the box is still completely visible as the certificate is taken out. Of course, considering the effects of the movie they are spoofing, this is probably intentional.