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** The children's Xmas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised the year before during his rampage.

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** The children's Xmas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised victimized the year before during his rampage.



* TheChewToy:

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* TheChewToy: Bender takes a lot of comedic abuse from the citizens: he gets set on fire, repeatedly shot by the Professor, has his legs disfigured and is almost magnetized to death.

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* BaitAndSwitch: After being consistently attacked by the people he’s trying to help, Bender laments there must be an easier way to deliver presents. Cut to a charity bin...and Bender dumps everything down the sewer next to it.

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* BaitAndSwitch: After being consistently attacked by the people he’s trying to help, Bender laments there must be an easier way to deliver presents. Cut to a charity bin... and Bender dumps everything down the sewer next to it.


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* TheChewToy:

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* BlackComedy: The children's Xmas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised the year before during his rampage.

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* BlackComedy: BlackComedy:
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The children's Xmas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised the year before during his rampage.



* CallBack: Bender and magnets, once again, do not mix.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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Bender and magnets, once again, do not mix.


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* SavingChristmas: Attempted: Fry, Leela and Bender decide to stop Robot Santa's reign of terror and restore the true meaning of Christmas. It goes horribly wrong.
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''This episode performed entirely by sock puppets''
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* StrollingOnJupiter: The real life Neptune is mostly a slushy mixture of ammonia, methane, and water, nothing resembling the solid ice and Earthlike atmosphere shown here.

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* ClimateChange: The smoke from Neptune's toy factory warmed the atmosphere enough to melt the ice imprisoning Santa.



* GlobalWarming: The smoke from Neptune's toy factory warmed the atmosphere enough to melt the ice imprisoning Santa.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After being consistently attacked by the people he’s trying to help, Bender laments there must be an easier way to deliver presents. Cut to a charity bin...and Bender dumps everything down the sewer next to it.
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-->'''Leela''': Didn't you pay attention to what I just said?!
-->'''Professor''': NO!

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-->'''Leela''': Didn't Don't you pay attention to remember what I just said?!
told you?!
-->'''Professor''': NO!NO! (fires another shot at Bender)
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* ExplosiveStupidity: Subverted. While escaping from Santa, the crew is trapped in the elevator with one of his bombs. After reaching the bottom floor, they run out...with Leela ''carrying the bomb'', before realizing what she's doing and throwing it back.

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**Fry concluding that Robot Santa's rampage throughout New New York is the kind of thing that brings people together during the holidays, rather than blowing them apart. The Professor goes to object, until an explosion makes him whimper, "Hold me."



* CrapsackWorld: Neptune sucks. Robot Santa's presence has destroyed the economy, the Neptunians are underfed and poor, and liable to be killed at a moment's notice, and while they live in gingerbread houses, they can't eat them (Food or shelter, not both).

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* CrapsackWorld: Neptune sucks.'''''sucks'''''. Robot Santa's presence has destroyed the economy, the Neptunians are underfed and poor, and liable to be killed at a moment's notice, and while they live in gingerbread houses, they can't eat them (Food or shelter, not both).
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* LiteralMetaphor: One inmate tells “Santa” to tell the Devil that he (the inmate) is coming. Turns out that the Robot Devil is the neighbour of the inmate.
-->'''Bender:''' Hey, that guy says…
-->'''Robot Devil:''' I heard him.
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* TheGhost: The Chanukah Zombie, who is mentioned in a one-off remark by Kwanzaa-bot. However, he does later appear for real in ''[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]''.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Fry decides he doesn't like Christmas being a time of fear and will destroy Robot Santa to fix that, and Leela, normally the voice of reason, agrees without complaint. Later when they decide presents still need to be delivered, Bender gets the job.
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* BlackComedy: The children's X-Mas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised the year before during his rampage.

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* BlackComedy: The children's X-Mas Xmas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised the year before during his rampage.



** Walter Cronkite's X-Mas warning has clips from the last X-Mas episode depicting Robot Santa's rampage.

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** Walter Cronkite's X-Mas Xmas warning has clips from the last X-Mas Xmas episode depicting Robot Santa's rampage.



* DownerEnding: Despite the crew's attempts to make X-Mas cheerful and magical again, it ends up as worse as ever.
* DrowningMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, go home to drown themselves in rye (a type of whiskey distilled from the grain plant of the same name).

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* DownerEnding: Despite the crew's attempts to make X-Mas Xmas cheerful and magical again, it ends up as worse as ever.
* DrowningMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, Xmas, go home to drown themselves in rye (a type of whiskey distilled from the grain plant of the same name).
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Cut trope.


* WhatTheHellTownspeople: While their fear of Robot Santa is understandable, everyone in town attacked Bender before he could even explain that he was giving out toys instead of attacking. This was probably what drove Bender to join Robot Santa in his attack.
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-->'''Robot Santa''': Mobsters beating up a shopkeeper for protection money! Very naughty. Shopkeepers not paying their protection money — ''exactly'' as naughty!
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pointless quote.


-->"Mobsters beating up a shopkeeper for protection money! Very naughty. Shopkeepers not paying their protection money — exactly as naughty!"
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Rewatched the episode. Don't know what I was thinking.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Some of Neptunians constantly hold hands with their same-sex partners.. After Robot Santa's been deposed, and some global warming, they start wearing "breezy short-shorts", which they [[SureLetsGoWithThat claim are because of the increasing temperature]]. The only reason they do not all count is because it is hard to tell the sex of the older ones.
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Can't apply if both genders are present and they are.


* AmbiguouslyGay: The Neptunians, who are constantly holding hands. After Robot Santa's been deposed, and some global warming, they start wearing "breezy short-shorts", which they [[SureLetsGoWithThat claim are because of the increasing temperature]].
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: While trying to play the part of a good Santa, Bender is chased, humiliated, and attacked (even by the Professor) by everyone and was even arrested and nearly executed because everyone mistook him for Robot Santa

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: While trying to play the part of a good Santa, Bender is chased, humiliated, and attacked (even by the Professor) by everyone and was even arrested and nearly executed because everyone mistook him for Robot SantaSanta.
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-->'''Mayor:''' You not Santa! You're not even robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!

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-->'''Mayor:''' You You're not Santa! You're not even robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!



* InsaneTrollLogic: They Hyper-Chicken has a girl that has been attacked by Santa testify by merely pointing at Bender, feeling that is proof enough.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: They The Hyper-Chicken has a girl that has been attacked by Santa testify by merely pointing at Bender, feeling that is proof enough.
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* TooDumbToLive: Despite Leela having just told him that Bender was playing Robot Santa, the moment the Professor saw Bender, he wiped out a shotgun and fired at him. He even shot at him during the trial.

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* TooDumbToLive: Despite Leela having just told him that Bender was playing Robot Santa, the moment the Professor saw Bender, he wiped whipped out a shotgun and fired at him. He even shot at him during the trial.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: They Hyper-Chicken has a girl that has been attacked by Santa testify by merely pointing at Bender, feeling that is proof enough.

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* DownerEnding: Despite the crew's attempts to make X-Mas cheerful and magical again, it ends up as worse as ever.



* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"

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* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"both".
* GlobalWarming: The smoke from Neptune's toy factory warmed the atmosphere enough to melt the ice imprisoning Santa.



* LogicBomb: Leela tries to destroy Robot Santa by pointing out that he himself is naughty, and thus must destroy himself. Unfortunately, Robot Santa was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones

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* LogicBomb: Leela tries to destroy Robot Santa by pointing out that he himself is naughty, and thus must destroy himself. Unfortunately, Robot Santa was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zoneszones.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: While trying to play the part of a good Santa, Bender is chased, humiliated, and attacked (even by the Professor) by everyone and was even arrested and nearly executed because everyone mistook him for Robot Santa


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* TooDumbToLive: Despite Leela having just told him that Bender was playing Robot Santa, the moment the Professor saw Bender, he wiped out a shotgun and fired at him. He even shot at him during the trial.
-->'''Leela''': Didn't you pay attention to what I just said?!
-->'''Professor''': NO!
* WhatTheHellTownspeople: While their fear of Robot Santa is understandable, everyone in town attacked Bender before he could even explain that he was giving out toys instead of attacking. This was probably what drove Bender to join Robot Santa in his attack.
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* DrowningMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, go home to drown themselves in wine.

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* DrowningMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, go home to drown themselves in wine.rye (a type of whiskey distilled from the grain plant of the same name).
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* DrowingMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, go home to drown themselves in wine.

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* DrowingMySorrows: DrowningMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, go home to drown themselves in wine.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: The Neptunians, who are constantly holding hands. After Robot Santa's been deposed, and some global warming, they start wearing "breezy short-shorts", which they [[SureLetsGoWithThat claim are because of the increasing temperature]].
* BlackComedy: The children's X-Mas letters to Robot Santa, along with Robot Santa targeting a little girl he victimised the year before during his rampage.
* CallBack: Bender and magnets, once again, do not mix.
** Walter Cronkite's X-Mas warning has clips from the last X-Mas episode depicting Robot Santa's rampage.
* CrapsackWorld: Neptune sucks. Robot Santa's presence has destroyed the economy, the Neptunians are underfed and poor, and liable to be killed at a moment's notice, and while they live in gingerbread houses, they can't eat them (Food or shelter, not both).
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Bender is sentenced to be pulled apart by two giant magnets, which is said to be humanely. He points out it isn't, only for Mayor Poopenmeyer to state it's humane for ''the audience'', because it's not boring.
* DrowingMySorrows: The Neptunians, after building adequate toys for X-Mas, go home to drown themselves in wine.



* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"
* GotVolunteered: One of the Neptunians decides to help the Planet Express crew sneak into Santa's ice fortress, and his partner has to tag along.



-->'''Mayor:''' You aren't Santa! None of you are even robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!
* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"

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-->'''Mayor:''' You aren't not Santa! None of you are You're not even robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!
* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"ImprobableWeaponUser: Robot Santa has a bicycle gun, which he likes to use on little children.
* KillItWithFire: Petunia tries to kill Bender with a flamethrower. It doesn't take, but it definitely hurts.



* SexySantaDress: Amy wears a [[BareYourMidriff midriff baring]] Santa suit and skirt during the aforementioned IAmSpartacus scene.

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* SexySantaDress: Amy wears a [[BareYourMidriff midriff baring]] Santa suit and skirt during the aforementioned IAmSpartacus scene.scene.
* TakeThat: One aimed at Barbie, when Bender dumps the toys he was supposed to deliver into the sewer, Violet pops out and yells at him.
-->'''Violet:''' This toy creates an unrealistic standard of beauty!
* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Professor Farnsworth fortifies the Planet Express building, and exclaims Santa can't kill them, unless they were stupid enough to leave. And then he mentions that the crew needs to make a delivery...

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* LogicBomb: Leela tries to destroy Robot Santa by pointing out that he himself is naugthy, and thus must destroy himself. Unfortunately, Robot Santa was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones

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* LogicBomb: Leela tries to destroy Robot Santa by pointing out that he himself is naugthy, naughty, and thus must destroy himself. Unfortunately, Robot Santa was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zoneszones
* SexySantaDress: Amy wears a [[BareYourMidriff midriff baring]] Santa suit and skirt during the aforementioned IAmSpartacus scene.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: Robot Santa considers everyone equally as naughty, as seen in this line of dialogue:
-->"Mobsters beating up a shopkeeper for protection money! Very naughty. Shopkeepers not paying their protection money — exactly as naughty!"
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When it becomes apparent that someone has to fill in for Robot Santa, Bender points out that to deliver toys to everyone on Earth they need some sort of robot. "Oh, crap! ''I'm'' some sort of robot!"



* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"

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* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"both"
* LogicBomb: Leela tries to destroy Robot Santa by pointing out that he himself is naugthy, and thus must destroy himself. Unfortunately, Robot Santa was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones
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It's Xmas time again, and the people of Earth prepare to defend themselves from Robot Santa's yuletide rampage. While on a mission to deliver letters to his fortress on Neptune, the Planet Express crew cause Santa to be trapped in the ice, leaving Bender to deliver toys and bring back Xmas as the 20th century knew it. However, while on the job Bender is caught by a Santa-hunting task force!

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* IAmSpartacus: When Bender as Santa is about to be executed, the rest of the Planet Express company storms the execution dressed as Santa...except for Zoidberg, who goes as Jesus.
-->'''Mayor:''' You aren't Santa! None of you are even robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!
* GingerbreadHouse: The Neptunian midgets live in these, and are hungry because "It's food or shelter, not both"

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