For Christmas at Hollywood Arts, Sikowitz makes the team participate in the Secret Santa program. Tori is assigned to get a gift from Andre, but is stuck on what to give him.
Tropes
- Christmas Carolers: Or Christmas Yodelers, in Sikowitz's case.
- Christmas Episode: The first and only Holiday Episode for the show.
- Crappy Homemade Gift: Tori pulls Andre's name for Secret Santa and is having trouble finding a gift. She tries to make him a tiny, clay guitar, and though it actually turns out pretty good, Trina discourages her from giving it to him, claiming that the gifts need to be really creative and special. Tori's still confident about the guitar until she sees the awesome gift Robbie got Cat, which is a week of being followed by a man with a cotton-candy cart, and has second thoughts.
- Encouraged Regifting: Jade's present to Tori is a plan to bump up the grade of her Secret Santa, Andre.
- Irony: Anyone who gives the worst gift has to go Christmas Yodeling with Sikowitz; in the end, it's Sikowitz himself who gives the worst gift, a used cricket, thus he goes himself with total strangers.
- Jerkass Ball: When Andre is angry over getting a D on his Christmas song, he pushes Robbie's seat (against Tori's objections), so he falls on the floor.
- Not So Stoic: Beck, in a rare instance, is a comic relief for the episode; he's kept awake by a relentless cricket in his RV, and the coffee he obsessively drinks makes him bouncy and jittery.
- Pet the Dog: Robbie, who has endless bad luck, gets a kiss on the cheek from Cat when he gives her a cotton candy machine as his Secret Santa gift.
- Running Gag: Cat offering Christmas beef.
- Secret Santa: The primary plot; the gang have to give wonderful, creative surprise gifts to one another.
- Beck to Robbie: Finding the girl that used to bully Robbie, so he can tell her off for her torment. Though it turns into a potential date.
- Robbie to Cat: A cotton candy machine with a man to operate it for her.
- Cat to Jade: The scissors prop from Jade's favorite movie, "The Scissoring".
- Jade to Tori: The idea of performing Andre's Christmas song, convincing his teacher into changing the grade to an A.
- Tori to Andre: A performance of his song, thus getting his grade improved to an A, thanks to Jade providing the idea.
- Andre to Beck: Catching the cricket in his RV.
- Sikowitz to Courtney Van Cleef: The cricket from Beck's RV.
- Selfless Wish: Jade's gift to Tori is basically the idea of what to give Andre for his gift.
- Shout-Out:
- The title itself is one to A Christmas Story.
- Trina wears a The Rolling Stones t-shirt at one point.
