Headscratchers / Prep & Landing

• How does a standard half-hour one-shot Christmas special get a full, red-carpet premiere!?

• The special claims that the Prep & Landing unit explains how Santa can visit all the children in the world in one night. Umm, no it doesn't. The preparations themselves take so much time that it makes you wonder how much Santa has to wait for them. Not that it really matters (it's a Santa Claus story after all) but the basic premise doesn't work very well.
  • There could be a magical time-stretch, as explained in The Santa Clause. However, they should've at least mentioned that if it were true.
  • There may be other Prep elves aside from the focus characters. If that's the case, then it's not explained very well.
    • When Lanny and Wayne first take off with Thrasher, you can see a bunch of other elves with them, one of whom turns on her goggles (as seen in the first sequence). (That was the girl to whom Wayne'd bragged about being the Director of the Naughty List. Guess she just figured it was a pick-up line before.)
  • The Law of Conservation of Detail. At some point, if they kept explaining everything, it'd go down the rabbit hole and end up being Discovery Channel: Santa Special as opposed to a fun little holiday-themed short.
    • It's clearly stated Thrasher is the Last Transport out; this implies other Transports and other teams.

• So the special shows that the elves check the milk and cookies left for Santa in America, but what about the Brits that leave him sherry and mince pies? Surely a Disney Santa doesn't drink alcohol.
  • They probably carry detectors for that too. But since they don't need to detect those in the specials, we don't see them.
• What Marvel Universe did the Mansion: Impossible comic happen in?
  • Earth 616
  • Earth-12041 (Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.) is known to be home to a version of the Jessie cast, and the versions of Spidey and the Avengers who appear in Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel also appear to be from that world, so I'm reasonably comfortable in claiming it as the "Disney Crossoververse" in general.
• Why is there not a system in place to make sure that children are only being put on the Naughty List for things that are their own doing? The entire organization at the North Pole nearly collapsed because a child was punished for her baby brother's actions, which logically shouldn't have counted because they weren't her fault and he's too little to know better.
  • There is: the coal elves. The beginning of Naughty vs. Nice shows a pair of them infiltrating the Goodwin home to check that actual malfeasance has been committed and deliver coal on confirmation, in particular for the graffiti on the house walls and food left in the sofa. That's the great irony of Grace's character — she was so afraid she was actually on the naughty list that she went and earned the status trying to get off.
• What about the houses without chimneys? How can the Prep and Landing elves and the Coal Elf Brigade get into those?
  • Christmas Magic