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** Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a Halloween one]]. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.

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** Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a Halloween one]].one. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.
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* HelpfulHallucination: Adam has a stress-induced hallucination of his sushi turning Coach Gills. She gives him some advice that the real Coach Gills learned, during her story. [[AccidentallyAccurate Stuff that Adam would have no way of knowing]].

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* HelpfulHallucination: Adam has a stress-induced hallucination of his sushi turning to Coach Gills. She gives him some advice that the real Coach Gills learned, during her story. [[AccidentallyAccurate [[AccidentalTruth Stuff that Adam would have no way of knowing]].

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* ShoutOut: Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a Halloween one]]. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.

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Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a Halloween one]]. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.



* StaticCharacter: Jake, while prominent, and strongly featured, didn't learn anything or do anything important in this episode.
-->'''Jake''': I got nothing.
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* ItsPronouncedTroPay: Mr. Mandrill pronounces "Bologna" phonetically.
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* DelayedReaction: When Adam meets a talking tumbleweed, he stands and listens to what it has to say, and only after it finishes speaking does she shout "A TALKING TUMBLEWEED!"
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* ItsAllMyFault: Adam believes himself to be fully responsible for ruining Animas.

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* ItsAllMyFault: Adam believes himself to be fully responsible feels terrible for unintentionally ruining Animas.
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** Coach Gills learns that Animas is about spending time with friends.
** Windsor learns that Animas is about buying material objects from commercialized corporations.
** Lupe learns that the greatest gift of all is giving. [[IgnoredAesop But she ignored this]].
** Jake learns nothing.
** Adam learns about trusting his instincts, to help him get through every Animas season.
-->'''Adam''': My instincts tell me next year, to stay home.


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* VacuumMouth: Windsor vacuums some flies into his mouth.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Inverted, when Adam meets a humanized version of Jake.



* CoconutMeetsCranium: An Animas tradition is for people to wear periwinkle on the first day of Animas. If you fail to do that, you'll get hit on the head with a coconut. This happens to Adam. This is a parody on the St. Patrick's Day tradition, where you have to wear green, or else you'll get pinched.



* EarlyBirdCameo: Jake's mom's voice is heard, calling out to him, at the beginning of the episode. This was before her official debut in "Meet the Spidermonkeys".



* HealingFactor: Windsor screams so loud, he causes Ingrid's [[YourHeadASplode head to explode]]. She instantly grows another one.
* HelpfulHallucination: Adam has a stress-induced hallucination of his sushi turning Coach Gills. She gives him some advice that the real Coach Gills learned, during her story. [[AccidentallyAccurate Stuff that Adam would have no way of knowing]].
-->'''Adam''': Coach Gills?
-->'''Coach Gills''': Well, actually I'm a stress-induced hallucination of Coach Gills, but never mind that.
* IgnoredAesop: Lupe doesn't learn a thing at the end of the episode.
-->'''Lupe''': I've learned from Adam, that the greatest gift of all, if the gift of really expensive jewelry.



* ItsAllMyFault: Adam believes himself to be fully responsible for ruining Animas.



* JourneyToFindOneself: Adam heads to the outskirts of Glendale, to find out where he belongs.
* LimitedWardrobe: For the first time, characters wear different colored clothing, for the holiday. Their clothing looks almost exactly like their old clothes, only it's periwinkle.



* MelancholyMusicalNumber: Adam's song, "Where Do I Belong?", is about him struggling to fit in with the animals on this holiday.



* NiceGuy: Ingrid is the ideal person on Animas.
-->'''Ingrid''': I just love giving gifts and making everyone happy.



* StaticCharacter: Jake, while prominent, and strongly featured, didn't learn anything or do anything important in this episode.
-->'''Jake''': I got nothing.



* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Coach Gills is visited by three ghosts at night, which are actually Mrs. Warthog, Mr. Mandrill, and Principal Pixiefrog.

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* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Coach Gills is visited by three ghosts at night, which are actually Mrs. Warthog, Mr. Mandrill, and Principal Pixiefrog.Pixiefrog.
* YourHeadASplode: Ingrid suffers from a gag head explosion for two seconds, before growing another head.

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* FireBreathingDiner: Adam eats wasabi, which causes him to breathe fire from his nose. This actually clears his sinuses and makes him able to sniff out the Animas rock.



* ItsPronouncedTroPay: Mr. Mandrill's pronounced "Balonga" phonetically.

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* ItsPronouncedTroPay: Mr. Mandrill's pronounced "Balonga" Mandrill pronounces "Bologna" phonetically.



** Also, the scene where Adam went to a Chinese restaurant was probably a reference to ''[[Film/AChristmasStory A Christmas Story]]''.

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** Also, the scene where Adam went to a Chinese restaurant was probably a reference to ''[[Film/AChristmasStory A Christmas Story]]''. The chef there is an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack.
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* CrappyHolidays: The holiday season goes pretty horrible for Coach Gills, Adam, and Windsor this year.
* ExtraLongEpisode: First 22 minute episode, since the season 1 finale.


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* TheGrinch: Coach Gills.
* InteractiveNarrator: Horace annoyed Coach Gills, by playing a radio, which narrated everything ... [[RhymesOnADime in rhymes]]!


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* NewSuperPower: At the end of the episode, Adam obtains animal instincts, which he uses to sniff out the Animas Rock.
* PekingDuckChristmas: Adam gets Chinese food at Samurai Quan's Sushi Bar.
* SavingChristmas: Adam has to do this after ruining Animas.


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** Also, the scene where Adam went to a Chinese restaurant was probably a reference to ''[[Film/AChristmasStory A Christmas Story]]''.
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* ForeignQueaseine: Slips enjoys the festive Animas food, regurgitated fish paste.

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* ForeignQueaseine: ForeignQueasine: Slips enjoys the festive Animas food, regurgitated fish paste.



* ShoutOut: Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOther and a Halloween one]]. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.

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* ShoutOut: Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOther [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a Halloween one]]. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.
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In a ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' Christmas special, the animal holiday of Animas comes along, and everybody except Adam is aboard the bandwagon.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Coach Gills is afraid of pigeons.
* AesopAmnesia: Adam considers going back to Chester Arthur Middle School, despite remembering how much he really hated it there in "The Times, They Are Exchangin'".
* AnAesop: Adam, Windsor, Lupe, Jake, and Coach Gills all learn one at the end of the episode.
* ChristmasEpisode: Or at least, it resembles one. This is actually about "Animas" and it takes place in the month of Juberary, but it parodies a lot of Christmas and Hanukkah customs.
* FictionalHoliday: Animas, the parodic holiday of Christmas and Hanukkah, celebrated by animals.
* ForeignQueaseine: Slips enjoys the festive Animas food, regurgitated fish paste.
* GivenNameReveal: Coach Gills' first name is "Tiffany".
* ItsPronouncedTroPay: Mr. Mandrill's pronounced "Balonga" phonetically.
* LoserLeavesTown: Adam leaves Glendale, [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield or is is Birmingham]], after he grasps the fact that he can't fit in with the Animas hype.
* ShoutOut: Coach Gills' side plot had parodies of other Christmas specials [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOther and a Halloween one]]. These included ''[[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.
* TrueMeaningOfChristmas: Lupe's side plot is about her learning how Animas is about the family and togetherness and not about the presents. Meanwhile, Windsor's side plot is about him understanding how everybody has been forgetting this and trying to remind people of what the holiday really means.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Coach Gills is visited by three ghosts at night, which are actually Mrs. Warthog, Mr. Mandrill, and Principal Pixiefrog.

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