History Recap / FuturamaS2E4XmasStory

* IncompetenceInc: The Professor mentions the Friendly Robot Company were the ones who made Robot Santa. What relation, if any, they have to Mom's Friendly Robot Company is unclear, but they've got the same success rate.

-->'''Santa''': You dare bribe Santa? I'm gonna shove coal so far up your stocking you'll be coughing up diamonds!

--->'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dear God, they'll be killed on our doorstep! And there's no trash pick-up until January 3rd.

-->'''Fry''': [[AintTooProudToBeg Please let us live!]] We'll put out milk and cookies for you!
-->'''Santa''': You ''dare'' bribe Santa?! I'm gonna [[AssShove shove coal so far up your stocking]] you'll be coughing up diamonds!

-->'''Fry''': [[AintTooProudToBeg Please let us live!]] We'll put out milk and cookies for you!
-->'''Santa''': You ''dare'' bribe Santa?! I'm gonna [[AssShove shove coal so far up your stocking]] you'll be coughing up diamonds!

-->'''Robot Santa''': My God, Bender! Framing an orphan? That's so naughty I'll have to add it to my list right now.

-->'''Robot Santa''': I'll be back, back when you least expect it... [[CaptainObvious NEXT XMAS]]!

-->'''Amy''': He knows when you are sleeping,\\
'''Farnsworth''': He knows when you're on the can,\\
'''Leela''': He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan!\\
'''Zoidberg''': Oh,\\
'''Hermes''': You better not breathe, you better not move,\\
'''Bender''': You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude,\\
'''Fry''': Santa Claus is gunning you down!\\
'''Everyone''': Yayyyyyyy!

* SpitTake: Bender when laughing about Conan O'Brian's first joke.

-->'''[[BadSanta Robot Santa]]''': Your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile!

* WaxingLyrical: "I am telling you why. [[KillerRobot Santa Clause]] is coming to town!"
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Amy is smitten with the guys with a cast.

-->'''Professor Farnsworth''': Dear God, they'll be killed on our doorstep! And there's no trash pick-up until January 3rd.

* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Ami is smitten with the guys with a cast.

-->'''Fry''': Let us live! We'll put out cookies for you!
-->'''Santa''': You dare bribe Santa? I'll shove coal so far up your stocking, you'll cough up diamonds!

** It's also the only time his trait of having overly high standards is played straight, instead of being [[Flanderization Flanderized]] into being a psychopath that sees literally everyone as naughty rather than almost everyone.

** It's also the only time his trait of having overly high standards is played straight, instead of being [[ Flanderization Flanderized]] into being a psychopath that sees literally everyone as naughty rather than almost everyone.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only episode where Robot Santa is voiced by Creator/JohnGoodman. In all subsequent appearances, he's voiced by Creator/JohnDiMaggio instead.

-->'''Robot Santa''' (''Threateningly''): You've all been very naughty VERY naughty indeed! (''Cheerfully'') Except for you, Dr. Zoidberg this is for you. (''Hands Zoidberg a pogo stick'')

* AIIsACrapshoot: Poor programming made Robot Santa [[KnightTemplar have improbably high standards of morality]].

* ExtinctInTheFuture: According to the Professor, pine trees went extinct in 2200 sp that palm trees replaced them as Christmas trees. Poodles are extinct also.

!!Tropes present:
* AIIsACrapshoot: Poor programming made Robot Santa [[KnightTemplar have improbably high standards of morality]].

* BadSanta: Santa Claus again, this time as a homicidal robot that judges everyone (except Zoidberg) as naughty because his morality standards were set too high.

* ChristmasEpisode: Xmas Episode. Fry gets depressed because old Christmas traditions changed too much and he misses his family. Leela is depressed because she never had a family. The crew celebrates Xmas together , which means they must hide from evil murderous robot Santa. They are all brought closer by their shared fear and the fact they survived Santa's rampage.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Leela and Fry are saved from Santa's TOW missile when the parrot Fry bought earlier flies into the way.

* IncompetenceInc: The Professor mentions the Friendly Robot Company were the ones who made Robot Santa. What relation, if any, they have to Mom's Friendly Robot Company is unclear, but they've got the same success rate.

* LiteralCliffhanger: Fry falls off a clocktower and hangs on for dear life. In an update of the old cliche, the clock is ''digital'' and Fry is hanging on to the actual LCD display, losing his hold as the digits change.

* FutureImperfect: Global warming was not solved, but nuclear winter cancelled it out. Palm trees have replaced pine trees, and poodles are extinct.

%% * BadSanta: Santa Claus again.
%% * BaitAndSwitch: "Did you ever stop to consider... Dr. Zoidberg's feelings?"

** Amy sells her hair to buy combs for Hermes when it's been well established that her parents are amazingly, astoundingly rich. Whether because she's TheDitz or RuleOfFunny, it's hard to say.

%% * AxCrazy: Santa Claus.

%% * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]]
%% -->'''Bender:''' Yeah? Well I don't believe in Santa Claus. Come on, everybody. If you don't believe in him, he can't hurt you. ''(Robot Santa hits Bender with his toy sack)'' [[InstantlyProvenWrong Oh, God, the pain!]]

%% * EvenEvilHasStandards: "My God, Bender! Framing an orphan? That's so naughty I'll have to add it to my list right now."

%% * GroinAttack: Inflicted on Fry by some trees.

* PlotHole: Why would Amy sell her hair to buy combs for Hermes when it's been well established that she's amazingly, astoundingly rich?

%% * YouMeanXmas: The TropeNamer.

* IShallReturn: Despite being beaten, Santa promises this.

* AlmostKiss: There's one between Fry and Leela under the mistletoe, but they're interrupted by an actual missile.
* AxCrazy: Santa Claus.
* BadSanta: Santa Claus again.
* BaitAndSwitch: "Did you ever stop to consider... Dr. Zoidberg's feelings?"
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]]
-->'''Bender:''' Yeah? Well I don't believe in Santa Claus. Come on, everybody. If you don't believe in him, he can't hurt you. ''(Robot Santa hits Bender with his toy sack)'' [[InstantlyProvenWrong Oh, God, the pain!]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only episode where Robot Santa is voiced by Creator/JohnGoodman. For those used to hearing Creator/JohnDiMaggio as Robot Santa, it's going to be a little odd (though not as odd as "When Aliens Attack" having an Earthican president other than Richard Nixon's head).

* EvenEvilHasStandards: "My God, Bender! Framing an orphan? That's so naughty I'll have to add it to my list right now."

* FutureImperfect: Palm trees have replaced pine trees, and poodles are extinct.

* GroinAttack: Inflicted on Fry by some trees.

* LonelyTogether: The episode that [[TropeNamer coined the term]].

** To ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}, when Bender crashes into the kids skating on a frozen pond.
** [[ComicStrip/LifeInHell Bongo]] is among the animals Fry considers buying Leela.

* [[ChristmasEpisode Xmas Episode]]
* YouMeanXmas: The TropeNamer.

* SongParody: At the end of the episode, of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"; a variation in that, in-universe, this may be the actual version of this song, but from a meta-standpoint, it's this.