History Film / AMuppetsChristmasLettersToSanta

* JustForPun: All over the place. Possibly the most memorable is when they fly to the North Pole by clinging to the wing of an airplane, prompting Fozzie to declare that they're "winging it!"

* [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Everything's Better With Penguins]]

* NoNameGiven[=/=]UnnamedParent: Claire's mother's name is never mentioned. The Muppets all refer to and address her simply as "Claire's Mom."

* JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf: It wouldn't be a Muppets special if they weren't heckling ''somebody''.

Notable as the first Christmas production for The Muppets after Disney bought the franchise, though it premiered on NBC rather than ABC. Followed by the 2011 feature film ''Film/TheMuppets'', and in a holiday context, by 2013's ''Music/LadyGaga & The Muppets Holiday Spectacular''.

* InformedJudaism: Zoot, the saxophonist for the Electric Mayhem, shows up for the Christmas Eve celebration with a menorah, prompting guitarist Floyd to comment that he never knew Zoot was Jewish.

Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie and the gang are all living in a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity brownstone (for reasons not really explained), where the only human tenants are their adorable neighbor Claire (Madison Pettin, ''Film/TheGamePlan'') and her mom (Jane Krakowski, ''Series/AllyMcBeal''). It's Christmas Eve, there's no snow on the ground, and for the first time ever, the Muppets aren't planning to spend Christmas together. Kermit and Miss Piggy are headed for the Caribbean, Gonzo is going to Hawaii, and Fozzie is heading out on a comedy tour. Before they go, however, they make a last-minute trip to the post office to mail their cards; Gonzo also promises to mail Claire's letter to SantaClaus.

* TheOtherDarrin: Five of Jerry Nelson's characters and three of Richard Hunt's characters are recast starting with this special. Scooter and Janice were recast to David Rudman (who continues performing them to this day); Robin, Floyd Pepper, Camilla, Lew Zealand and Crazy Harry were given to Matt Vogel (the latter four still performed by Vogel today, and Robin until 2017), and Sweetums was performed by [[Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse Noel]] [[Series/EureekasCastle [=MacNeal=]]] (he'd be recast to Vogel the following year).

* ThoseTwoGuys: Alongside the usual Statler and Waldorf, Rizzo and Pepe fall under this.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Alongside the usual Statler and Waldorf, Rizzo and Pepe fall under this.
* YesVirginia: Most of the Muppets don't express an outright belief or disbelief in Santa, but Gonzo definitely believes, and Rizzo and Pepe claim they definitely don't. They only go along with the whole trip to the North Pole because, as Rizzo puts it, "We can't miss this train wreck!"
** As it happens, in the special Gonzo turns out to be right, as Santa shows up claiming that such a "pure Christmas wish"[[note]](Gonzo's desire to see to it that Claire and the other unnamed writers' letters to Santa got through to him so they could have their holiday wishes, solely because he wanted to keep his promise to Claire that he would send her letter to Santa, and he refused to leave anyone else's letters to the Jolly One behind either)[[/note]] deserved to be granted. This turns Rizzo and Pepe into believers when they meet the man himself; they weren't FlatEarthAtheist types, just skeptical when there wasn't any evidence.

* AsHimself: New York City's then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg

* ChristmasElves: Just one, played by Music/PaulWilliams himself, who answers the door when the Muppets finally reach the North Pole. Beyond his long-standing association with Franchise/TheMuppets, especially their Christmas-related productions, this is an ActorAllusion to his playing an elf in the 1984 TV movie ''The Night They Saved Christmas''. Interestingly, that film featured Creator/ArtCarney as Santa Claus; Carney had previously appeared in the early Muppet production ''The Great Santa Claus Switch'' (which aired as a special episode of ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'').

* ChristmasElves: Just one, played by Music/PaulWilliams himself, who answers the door when the Muppets finally reach the North Pole. Beyond his long-standing association with Franchise/TheMuppets, especially their Christmas-related productions, this is an ActorAllusion to his playing an elf in the 1984 TV movie ''The Night They Saved Christmas''.

* ChristmasElves: Just one, played by Music/PaulWilliams himself, who answers the door when the Muppets finally reach the North Pole. (Beyond his long-standing association with Franchise/TheMuppets, this is also an ActorAllusion to his playing an elf in the 1984 TV movie ''The Night They Saved Christmas''.)

* ChristmasElves: Just one, played by Music/PaulWilliams himself, who answers the door when the Muppets finally reach the North Pole.

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* AsHimself: New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg

* SeriesResemblance: Just a little bit. The brownstone in which the Muppets are living is very similar to the one located at 123 Series/SesameStreet.

** As it happens, in the special Gonzo turns out to be right, as Santa shows up claiming that such a "pure Christmas wish"[[note]](Gonzo's desire to see to it that Claire and the other unnamed writers' letters to Santa got through to him so they could have their holiday wishes, solely because he wanted to keep his promise to Claire that he would send her letter to Santa, and he refused to leave anyone else's letters to the Jolly One behind either)[[/note]] deserved to be granted. This turns Rizzo and Pepe into believers when they meet the man himself; they weren't FlatEarthAtheist types, just skeptical when there wasn't any evidence.
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* SeriesResemblance: Just a little bit. The brownstone in which the Muppets are living is very similar to the one located at 123 Series/SesameStreet.

* ChristmasElves: Just one, played by PaulWilliams himself, who answers the door when the Muppets finally reach the North Pole.

** As it happens, in the special Gonzo turns out to be right, as Santa shows up claiming that such a "pure Christmas wish"[[note]](Gonzo's desire to see to it that Claire and the other unnamed writers' letters to Santa got through to him so they could have their holiday wishes, solely because he wanted to keep his promise to Claire that he would send her letter to Santa, and he refused to leave anyone else's letters to the Jolly One behind either[[/note]] deserved to be granted. This turns Rizzo and Pepe into believers when they meet the man himself; they weren't FlatEarthAtheist types, just skeptical when there wasn't any evidence.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The brownstone in which the Muppets are living is very similar to the one located at 123 Series/SesameStreet.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Miss Piggy, unsurprisingly, harbors deep resentment that Kermit is setting aside their vacation plans in favor of making sure that Santa receives the stray letters. She practically invokes the trope by name when he appeals to her better nature and she replies, "What about ME?" She gets over herself in the end...as much as a diva ever gets over herself, anyway.

** As it happens, in the special Gonzo turns out to be right, as Santa shows up claiming that such a "pure Christmas wish" (Gonzo's desire to see to it that Claire and the other unnamed writers' letters to Santa got through to him so they could have their holiday wishes solely because he wanted to keep his promise to Claire that he would send her letter to Santa and refused to leave anyone else's letters to the Jolly One behind either) deserved to be granted. This turns Rizzo and Pepe into believers when they meet the man himself (they weren't FlatEarthAtheist types, just skeptical when there wasn't any evidence).

* StatlerAndWaldorf: It wouldn't be a Muppets special if they weren't heckling ''somebody''.

A 2008 ChristmasSpecial starring TheMuppets.

Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie and the gang are all living in a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity brownstone (for reasons not really explained), where the only human tenants are their adorable neighbor Claire (Madison Pettin, ''TheGamePlan'') and her mom (Jane Krakowski, ''AllyMcBeal''). It's Christmas Eve, there's no snow on the ground, and for the first time ever, the Muppets aren't planning to spend Christmas together. Kermit and Miss Piggy are headed for the Caribbean, Gonzo is going to Hawaii, and Fozzie is heading out on a comedy tour. Before they go, however, they make a last-minute trip to the post office to mail their cards; Gonzo also promises to mail Claire's letter to SantaClaus.

* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Fozzie wears one his mom gave him, and presents Claire and her mother with identical sweaters. One of the extras on the DVD has him explaining to an interviewer that his mother made the exact same sweater for everyone in the cast. (In Fozzie's mom's defense, they're not ''that'' bad...relatively speaking.)

Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie and the gang are all living in a NewYorkCity brownstone (for reasons not really explained), where the only human tenants are their adorable neighbor Claire (Madison Pettin, ''TheGamePlan'') and her mom (Jane Krakowski, ''AllyMcBeal''). It's Christmas Eve, there's no snow on the ground, and for the first time ever, the Muppets aren't planning to spend Christmas together. Kermit and Miss Piggy are headed for the Caribbean, Gonzo is going to Hawaii, and Fozzie is heading out on a comedy tour. Before they go, however, they make a last-minute trip to the post office to mail their cards; Gonzo also promises to mail Claire's letter to SantaClaus.