History YMMV / OneMagicChristmas

* GeniusBonus: This movie takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. Small clues about it are sprinkled throughout, largely a side effect of it being filmed there. A bad economy serves as the story's backdrop, with Jack being unemployed and many other characters being shown as financially struggling - while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMqic2IcWA&ab_channel=New-YorkHistoricalSociety it was "Morning in America"]] in 1985, Canada's economy was still pretty flaccid. While at work at the grocery store Ginny announces a sale on Nabisco Shreddies, the name which Nabisco markets their shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Canada. Many characters have noticeable Canadian accents and one wears a Toronto Blue Jays shirt. Plus, it prominently shows a group of kids playing a street hockey game.

* GeniusBonus: This movie takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. Small clues about it are sprinkled throughout, largely a side effect of it being filmed there. A bad economy serves as the story's backdrop, with Jack being unemployed and many other characters being shown as financially struggling - while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMqic2IcWA&ab_channel=New-YorkHistoricalSociety it was "Morning in America"]] in 1985, Canada's economy was still pretty flaccid. While at work at the grocery store Ginny announces a sale on Nabisco Shreddies, the name which Nabisco markets their shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Canada. Many characters have noticeable Canadian accents and one is wears a Toronto Blue Jays shirt. Plus, it prominently shows a group of kids playing a street hockey game.

* GeniusBonus: This movie takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. Small clues about it are sprinkled throughout, largely a side effect of it being filmed there. A bad economy serves as the story's backdrop, with Jack being unemployed and many other characters being shown as financially struggling - while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMqic2IcWA&ab_channel=New-YorkHistoricalSociety it was "Morning in America"]] in 1985, Canada's economy was still pretty flaccid. While at work at the grocery store Ginny announces a sale on Nabisco Shreddies, the name which Nabisco markets their shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Canada. Many characters have noticeable Canadian accents. Plus, it prominently shows a group of kids playing a street hockey game.

* HilariousInHindsight: Ginny Granger is a favored name for [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ginny Weasley/Hermione Granger]] [[LesYay shippers]].

* UnfortunateImplications: Gideon the Christmas Angel acts quite a lot like how you'd expect the neighborhood kidnapper to act.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Here we see Creator/SarahPolley as a child in her first acting role.

* GeniusBonus: This movie takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. Small clues about it are sprinkled throughout, largely a side effect of it being filmed there. A bad economy serves as the story's backdrop, with Jack being unemployed and many of the other main characters being shown as financially struggling - while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMqic2IcWA&ab_channel=New-YorkHistoricalSociety it was "Morning in America"]] in 1985, Canada's economy was still pretty flaccid. While at work at the grocery store Ginny announces a sale on Nabisco Shreddies, the name which Nabisco markets their shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Canada. Many characters have noticeable Canadian accents. Plus, it prominently shows a group of kids playing a street hockey game.

* GeniusBonus: This movie is set in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. Small clues about it are sprinkled throughout, largely a side effect of it being filmed there. A bad economy serves as the story's backdrop, with Jack being unemployed and many of the other main characters being shown as financially struggling - while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMqic2IcWA&ab_channel=New-YorkHistoricalSociety it was "Morning in America"]] in 1985, Canada's economy was still pretty flaccid. While at work at the grocery store Ginny announces a sale on Nabisco Shreddies, the name which Nabisco markets their shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Canada. Many characters have noticeable Canadian accents. Plus, it prominently shows a group of kids playing a street hockey game.

* GeniusBonus: This movie is set in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. Small clues about it are sprinkled throughout, largely a side effect of it being filmed there. A bad economy serves as the story's backdrop, with Jack being unemployed and many of the other main characters being shown as financially struggling - while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMqic2IcWA&ab_channel=New-YorkHistoricalSociety it was "Morning in America"]] in 1985, Canada's economy was still pretty flaccid. While at work at the grocery store Ginny announces a sale on Nabisco Shreddies, the name which Nabisco markets their shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Canada. Many minor characters (such as the gas station attendant) have noticeable Canadian accents. Plus, it prominently shows a group of kids playing a street hockey game.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: With her husband out of work and out of money, the landlord about to evict them from their home, all the other stressful experiences in her life, is it really fair to blame Ginny for being less than excited about celebrating Christmas?

* EsotericHappyEnding: Yay, everyone's all right! Um, except the parents are still unemployed and soon to be evicted, and the mother just blew the last of her savings on the father's ''very'' risky start-up. Also, you might have very reasonable doubts about showing this movie to impressionable young children, since [[BrokenAesop it might make them think that faith in Santa Claus can bring their loved ones back from the dead]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: With her husband out of work and out of money, the landlord about to evict them from their home, all the other stressful experiences in her life, is it really fair to blame Ginny for being less than excited about celebrating Christmas?

* HilariousInHindsight: Ginny Granger is a favored name for [[HarryPotter Ginny Weasley/Hermione Granger]] [[LesYay shippers]].

* [[GodIsEvil Santa Claus Is Evil]]: Some of the audience of this show, most notably Patton Oswalt, believe this of the "god" who would put the heroine through all that suffering, just to teach her the meaning of Christmas.

* HilariousInHindsight: Ginny Granger is a favored name for [[HarryPotter Ginny Weasley/Hermione Granger]] [[LesYay shippers]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Ginny Granger is a favored name for [[HarryPotter Ginny Weasley/Hermione Granger]] [[LesYay shippers]].