Basic Trope: A character leaves a snack for Santa Claus.
- Straight: Little Alice leaves some milk and cookies for Santa.
- Exaggerated: Alice cooks Santa an entire three-course meal and leaves nine carrots, one for each reindeer, as well.
- Downplayed: Alice eats half a cookie and leaves the other half for Santa.
- Justified: Alice is young enough to believe in Santa, and it's traditional.
- Inverted:
- Alice leaves food for the Krampus.
- Santa leaves cookies for Alice.
- Subverted: Alice is about to leave the milk and cookies for Santa, but gets distracted and eats and drinks them herself.
- Double Subverted: She then gets some more milk and cookies to leave for Santa.
- Parodied:
- Santa gets indigestion from trying to eat a cookie and bend over to get a present at the same time.
- Santa falls asleep from eating too much.
- Alice leaves alcohol, which gets Santa drunk.
- Santa has to pee after drinking all the drinks left out for him.
- Zigzagged: Alice can't decide whether to bother leaving the food out.
- Averted: Nobody leaves food for Santa.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "I wonder if Santa prefers the chocolate chip cookies or the Oreos?"
- Invoked: Alice's parents tell her to leave the food out lest she end up on the "Naughty" list.
- Exploited:
- Defied: Alice refuses to give up any of her cookies.
- Discussed: "Who's leaving out the milk and cookies this year?"
- Conversed: "So, next week's episode is a Christmas Episode? I wonder if Alice will leave some cookies for Santa."
- Implied: A plate of cookies and a glass of milk are seen by the fireplace with stockings hanging up.
- Deconstructed: Santa ends up getting diabetes from eating too many cookies.
- Reconstructed: Santa's magic makes him immune to diabetes.
- Played for Laughs: Santa complains that the cookies are stale.
- Played for Drama: Some villain gave Santa poisoned cookies, and Alice needs to Find the Cure! and save Christmas.
- Played for Horror: Santa is a Bad Santa, and the food is left out as a sacrifice.
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