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3 | ''Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen'' is a 2006 StopMotion animated Christmas special that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}. It was directed by David H. Brooks and features an AllStarCast, including Fred Savage, Creator/JohnOHurley, Music/GladysKnight, Edie [=McClurg=], Harland Williams, Creator/PaulRodriguez, Creator/BrendaSong, Creator/EmilyOsment, Creator/FredWillard, and Dylan and Cole Sprouse. |
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5 | The plot revolves around {{Literature/Rudolph|TheRedNosedReindeer}}'s brother Rusty (Savage), who's hopelessly inferior to the other reindeer and is ignored even by his own dad. He joins a support group for depressed holiday icons, such as the Easter Bunny (Knight), Cupid (Rodriguez), a Thanksgiving turkey (Williams), and two ghost girls representing Halloween: Trick (Osment) and Treat (Song). Together they search for the meaning of Christmas and help an unnamed boy (Sprouse) get on Santa's (Willard) nice list. |
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7 | The special was sponsored by Campbell's soup, UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Ask.com, and Coca-Cola, all of which were subjected to ProductPlacement in the special itself. |
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9 | Not to be confused with ''Holidaze'', a seasonal 2D animated short created by Creator/VivienneMedrano. |
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11 | !!This special contains examples of: |
12 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: The kid who knows a talking reindeer doesn't believe in Santa. |
13 | %% * ChristmasSpecial |
14 | %% * MallSanta: The special tries to explain that they're actually working for Santa himself. |
15 | %% * NoNameGiven: The boy played by both Sprouse brothers. |
16 | * ProductPlacement: |
17 | ** Most if not all of the commercial breaks from its original airing had a commercial enticing viewers to buy the DVD of the special itself at Walmart (which nowadays can be had for cheap on Amazon). |
18 | ** Near the beginning of the special Rusty runs into the Coca-Cola bears. |
19 | %% * SavingChristmas: But not in the way you'd expect. [[spoiler:The reason this Christmas "almost didn't happen" was [[TechMarchesOn because Santa had the wrong operating system running]].]] |
20 | * ShoutOut: When Trick and Treat are holding a BattleOfTheBands to decide what song is better for Rusty, the songs are judged upon by the turkey, the Easter Bunny and Cupid in the manner of ''Series/AmericanIdol''. |
21 | %% * StopMotion |
22 | * TropaholicsAnonymous: Rusty meets the other holiday icons through an "Icons Anonymous" meeting. |
23 | %% * ValleyGirl: Trick and Treat. |
24 | * WritingAroundTrademarks: Rusty is Rudolph's brother, but the latter isn't mentioned by name because he actually isn't a public domain character. |
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