The problem: Misuse. The trope has 72 wicks, I checked them all and only 7 are correct. Most likely reason is the name: it's non-descriptive and confusing, especially since the Trope Namer is not an example. But even when used correctly this trope is simply Status Quo Is God meets Christmas Episode. If Status Quo Is God is already established, applying it specifically to Christmas doesn't seem to warrant a separate trope.

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Possible solution:

• Honestly, I don't think it's salvageable. Euthanize it.
• However, there might be some potential, if we rename it and restrict to examples, where characters reverting to being jerks after the "Christmas effect" is gone, is commented in-universe or is clearly depicted as a plot point. Not sure if it wouldn't still be just a variation of Status Quo Is God.

• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: XR learns to be more selfless and caring in the Christmas Episode "Holiday Time", but after that he's back to being his self-centered self
• Recap.The Fairly Odd Parents S 1 E 13 Christmas Every Day - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: At the beginning, a mailman and an angry dog make peace on Christmas. At the end, they're happy to go back to being enemies. Subverted with Vicky, who's as rotten as ever.
• Recap.Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia S 06 E 13 A Very Sunny Christmas - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Although much of the episode's humor is very dark, it still contains a good deal more heartwarming moments than a typical Sunny episode, and is one of the few in the series' run that ends on a fairly positive note with the gang being brought closer together. - Possible example, since it doesn't specify that all newfound appreciation is forgotten, but it's still implied that the Status Quo remains.
• The Stories of John Cheever - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: In "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor" Charlie the elevator operator grouses about how he lives in a single-room apartment and has to work an elevator on Christmas Day for the rich folks. He gets a bunch of food and presents from the uncommonly generous rich folks in the apartment building, which leads him to bring home a big bunch of stuff for the landlady of his apartment building and her kids—but the landlady's kids have plenty of presents so she rushes out to give the stuff to someone else.
  "...she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for a single day, and that day was nearly over."
• The Famous Five - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: In Five Go Adventuring Again, the Five are spending Christmas at Kirrin Cottage. George spends most of the book sulking because nobody will share her intense dislike for their tutor Mr Roland. She has never had a Christmas tree before, and looks forward to it, but it is spoilt for her because Mr Roland buys all the things that make it look beautiful. The others plead with her not to spoil Christmas; she compromises by being civil on the day itself, and stiffly thanks Mr Roland for his present to her, before reverting to her stubborn self the following day.
• All for Nothing - The Do They Know It's Christmas Time? episode of Degrassi Junior High is about Arthur and Yick learning to stay friends even though Arthur is richer and Yick is more rebellious. The lesson sticks for the whole series. But in Degrassi High, they almost stop being friends completely for those same reasons. - Aversion? Subversion? Double Subversion?
• Heartwarming.Peanuts - "Snoopy's Christmas". The Red Baron considers pulling the trigger on Snoopy but is moved to kindness when he hears church bells ringing. He orders Snoopy to land his plane in the Rhineland and greets him with "Merry Christmas, my friend!" They have a toast together and then go their separate ways.

• The Pretender - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: "Not Even A Mouse"
• Dani's House - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Scrooge Tube.
• Millennium (1996) - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: "Midnight of the Century" and "Omerta".
• Banjo the Woodpile Cat - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: At one point, this short film was to be a Christmas Special. Some Christmassy things are still visible in the film, such as Crazy Legs' Santa Claus costume.
• Better with You - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Oddly enough, there's a Christmas episode in October. Joel takes the annual Christmas card very seriously. They have odd themes, and Maddie, Mia, Vicky, and Joel all think they're amazing. Ben is confused because they're stupid.
• My So-Called Life - Call-Back: Sometimes for dramatic purposes, sometimes comic. An example of the latter: in the episode Betrayal, Rayanne snarks about the play "Our Town" — before auditioning for the part of Emily — "It's just a stupid play. Dead people come back and visit. Like that's really gonna happen." This is two episodes after So-Called Angels.
• A Tale of Two Cities - Do They Know It's Christmas Time? On Christmas Eve, Lucie Manette invites the drunken Sydney Carton away from the taverns and into attending Christmas Mass with her. At the Mass, he falls in love with her and decides to change his wastrel life. The carol "Adeste Fideles" becomes his Redemption Theme, played in his key moments in the film.
• OurMissBrooks.Tropes A To I - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Our Miss Brooks had several Christmas episodes, although religion was rarely mentioned at other times (the program also had two Easter episodes and two Thanksgiving episodes):
  • "The Magic Christmas Tree" sees Miss Brooks prepared to spend Christmas Eve alone with Mrs. Davis' pet cat Minerva. Hilarity Ensues.
  • "Christmas Show" features the frantic exchanging of Christmas gifts . . . before Christmas.
  • "Department Store Contest" sees Miss Brooks' childhood letter to Santa Claus inadvertently entered into the titular contest.
  • "Christmas Gift Returns" sees more trouble from the exchanging of Christmas gifts.
  • "Music Box Revue" sees Miss Brooks buy a magic music box that she'll only hear play if she's in the proper Christmas spirit.
  • "A Dry Scalp is Better Than None" and "The Telegram" see Miss Brooks and company throw Christmas in July parties for Mrs. Davis' sister Angela and Uncle Corky respectively.
• Tokyo Mew Mew - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: The anime had a Christmas episode with all the usual trappings — snow, giant Christmas trees, squealing over date plans, and someone almost dying only to be saved by a Christmas miracle.
• GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse.Tropes A To H - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: The story in which Bungie and Ultra-Man brow-beat the normally aloof Achilles, who's never really experienced a real Christmas himself, into dressing up as Santa Claus for a local orphanage and handing out presents. It ends with Achilles discovering a gift-wrapped present on his bunk in Guardians headquarters. We never find out who sent it, or what was in it, but it is implied that the gift came from his father.
• It's Always Spring - Do They Know It's Christmas Time? episodes almost invariably shift the setting to winter. - Part of the trope description
• Delayed Seasons - In Southern California locations, it ends up with perpetual spring, except when the production crew realize it's time for the Christmas Special Episode. - Part of the trope description
• Tokyo Godfathers - Three homeless people — Gin (an alcoholic), Hana (a transgender woman) and Miyuki (a teenage runaway) — find an abandoned baby while digging through trash and spend Christmas Eve looking for its missing parents. - Part of the work description
  • Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: The film opens with two of the main characters attending Mass and watching a Nativity scene, and there is a surprising number of allegories to the birth of Christ in itself — the most obvious being the Three Magi.
• Last Holiday - Subverted. For the title being Last Holiday, the setting near Christmas, and Georgia praying frequently, there is surprisingly little reference to Christmas.

• Recap.The Magic School Bus S 3 E 13 Family Holiday Special - Do They Know Its Christmastime: A holiday special. The word "Christmas" is only ever mentioned at the end, when the whole class cheers "Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa!!" and Hanukkah gets a few passing mentions, but the only celebration that's brought up is a long school break, something a child of any faith can enjoy.
• PlayingWith.The Grinch - Subverted: Bob doesn't hate Christmas, he hates how commercialized it's gotten. He remembers when Christmas shopping season started the day after Thanksgiving, and the radio stations didn't play Christmas songs until then. Now, it starts as early as October.
• PlayingWith.Christmas Creep - Enforced: "We need to do a commentary on the commercialization of Christmas and have our characters learn the True Meaning of Christmas."
• OlderThanTheyThink.Other Media - The traditional concern about Christmas becoming too "commercialized" is as old as the modern conception of the holiday itself. For instance, Harriet Beecher Stowe complained about as much in her 1850 book, The First Christmas in New England.
• Informed Judaism - This will in fact be the only mention of religion throughout the episode (if not the series), as Christmas itself (assuming the name is used at all) will not be depicted as having any religious significance, but rather just be a "Warm, Feel Good Time", thus making this revelation of a major character feel shoehorned in. - Part of the trope description
• Surprise Santa Encounter - The Japanese adore the secular parts of Christmas. They're also rather fond of Santa Claus. - Part of the trope description

• Babe - Some of the Hoggett flock is stolen on Christmas Day.

• FriendlyEnemy.Western Animation - Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird could also be this. In the "Holly-Daze" Christmas CD recorded by Mel Blanc, Bugs is surprised to catch them going Christmas shopping together, although they're plotting to buy each other presents that will sabotage their respective plans.

  Bugs: Dat's friendship if I ever heard it!

• Happy Marriage Charade - Maybe one of them is a Gold Digger and knows that if they get divorced, the ride on the gravy train is over. Maybe it's the holiday season, and they don't want to ruin Christmas (or whatever they celebrate) by dropping the D-bomb, or face the criticism from all the relatives that have come to visit. - Part of the trope description
• The Ref - Subverted throughout the movie, then played almost straight at the end.
  • Lampshaded and Defied in an exchange between Connie and her daughter, Mary, about the "criminal on the loose":
    Mary: Maybe they'll catch him and let him go in the spirit of Christmas.
    Connie: That is not the spirit of Christmas. The spirit of Christmas is either you're good or you're punished and you burn in hell.
• Batman Returns - Played with in a number of ways.
  • The Mayor is saddened by the Red Triangle Gang's urban destruction and consoles the crowd by saying that the community should come together during Christmas, no matter how clichéd that sounds. ("I don't care what the cynics say.")
  • You could argue that much of the plot hinges on this trope. The Gothamites (well, most of them) show unusual tolerance and understanding toward the Penguin...even though, deformity notwithstanding, he gives them plenty of reasons not to. This might just be because they all have the warm fuzzies due to what time of year it is. (A deleted line even has one Gothamite remarking that "He helps you remember the true meaning of the holiday.")
  • I wish I could hand out world peace and unconditional love wrapped in a big bow."
  • Subverted by Bruce when he sees Selina on the street and notices how sad she is. He guesses that she must have "the holiday blues," probably because it takes one to know one.

• TearJerker.Legends Of Tomorrow - And even after Sara is brought back and goes to stop Jax, he's still too far gone to let Rip live; he has to be talked down (by being reminded of what day it is).
• Dreaming of a White Christmas - Why, it's almost like Mother Nature herself knows it's Christmas time and has decided to act accordingly. - Part of the trope description
• Funny.Quantum Leap - When Sam voices his surprise that Blake would be so willing to throw people out of the mission when it's the day before Christmas, Al cracks that he's just a Scrooge, causing Sam to come up with a plan. And it's implied that Sam actually had to hear Al repeat that before doing so:

  Sam: I mean, can you believe it's Christmas time? And I don't think he's got a second thought about throwing those people out on the streets.

  Al: Well, he's a real Scrooge.

  Sam: (begins putting the box away) Yeah. Yeah, well, you can say that again.

  Al: Scrooge.

  Sam: (turns to Al) Al! Al, you're a genius!

• PlayingWith.Saving Christmas - Inverted: Bob loses his Christmas spirit and Santa Claus visits to tell him what the holiday is all about.
• Clone High - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Spoofed with Snowflake Day:
  "She's lost her Snowflake Day spirit. Sure as shootin', she's lost it."
• The Spectacular Spider-Man - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Spidey tries appealing to seasonal spirit to stop the new Sinister Six. No such luck.

• Website.The Onion - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: "Important Christmas Lessons Already Forgotten".
• Recap.The Pretender S 1 E 08 Not Even A Mouse - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Pretty much all the main characters.
• Recap.Mystery Science Theater 3000 S 03 E 21 Santa Claus Conquers The Martians - The '70s: Joel's essay on the Christmas office party of that decade.
  Joel: Back when a fully stocked bar was considered standard office furniture, and office parties were like something out of a Playboy cartoon. The desks would be overflowing with every kind of hard liquor, why there were gallons of scotch, bourbon, vodka, gin, not to mention Galliano, Amaretto, Midori, rye, German crockpot gin, you name it, and sexism was blatant. Boy oh boy, you'd find salesmen groping secretaries in the mailroom, keys would be exchanged, and although this was Christmas, Jesus was nowhere to be seen.
  Servo: ...Jeez, Joel, and you thought I was bad!
• Recap.Supernatural S 03 E 08 A Very Supernatural Christmas - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Justified in that it's to be Dean's last Christmas, and he wants to make the most of it. - What exactly is justified?.
• Recap.Community S 1 E 12 Comparative Religion - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?/You Mean "Xmas": Subverted, averted, and played straight all throughout.
• Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch - ZCE
• Saving Christmas - Rather than the typical Do They Know It's Christmas Time? sort of Christmas Special or Christmas Episode, many series (primarily action cartoons) feature some sort of plot in which the protagonists must "save" Christmas (or their local equivalent) in some manner. - Part of the trope description
• Sacred First Kiss - Nozomi in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 likes to go on at length about how she envisions hers, usually involving snow and a Christmas tree.
• BerserkButton.Live Action TV - Odd Squad: If you know what's good for you, then you won't touch any single portion of Oprah's juice stash. And if you do touch it...well, just hope it's on a good day where you'll get off with an Implied Death Threat and no injuries.
• Vandread - With the Captain Magno even dressing up as Santa
• JustForFun.How To Survive A War Movie - If I'm a British soldier in a WWI movie, I'll keep my ears open for caroling around Christmas time. Nothing like a football game to lighten the tone of the movie, thus making it less likely to end in a Kill Em All situation.

• Time Immemorial Index - Index
• Trope Namers/Music
• Do They Know Its Christmas Time
• Christmas Creep - "See also" link in the description
• Christmas Tropes - Index page
• Did I Mention It's Christmas? - "Contrast" link in the description
• Everyone Is Christian at Christmas - Compare and contrast Do They Know It's Christmas Time?, in which the characters learn the True Meaning of Christmas (which may or not be the religious one, depending on the work) only for it to become a Forgotten Aesop in the next episode. - Part of the trope description
• Gift of the Magi Plot - "Compare" link in the description
• Plots - Index page
• Santa Clausmas - "Contrast" link in the description
• Status Quo Is God - Listed as a subtrope
• This Index Is Not an Example - One of the listed tropes
• Twisted Christmas - "See also" link in the description
• GetAStupidAnswer.Tropes
• Laconic.Do They Know Its Christmas Time
• D to F - Do They Know It's Christmas Time? isn't what someone might ask if they observe some people wondering why everyone's singing, hanging decorations and talking about peace and goodwill, nor is it what someone asks if they see someone who they know celebrates Christmas not celebrating it, even though it's Christmas.
• Acceptable Religious Targets - In more positive depictions, such characters often reverse or at least re-examine these views after something good happens to them (often in a Very Special Episode or a Do They Know It's Christmas Time?), even if nothing in the episode suggested a supernatural influence (and especially if there is supernatural influence). - Part of a description of the trope.
• QuoteSource.William Shakespeare - Quote source
• WarpThatAesop.Tropes - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: The only time people should be nice to each other is during Christmas.

• SouthPark.Tropes A To D - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?:
  • Subverted in "Red Sleigh Down"; Santa Claus is taken prisoner in Baghdad and Jesus leads a commando mission to rescue him. Santa makes it out alive, but Jesus is shot and killed during the escape, which prompts Santa to give a conclusory speech about how Jesus died for him and decrees that every Christmas they remember Jesus and the sacrifice he made.
  • Also parodied in the first Halloween episode. At the end of said episode, Stan says he learned that, "Halloween isn't about costumes, or candy. It's about being good to one another, and giving and loving." He is then told by Kyle that it actually applies to Christmas and that Halloween is about, in fact, costumes and candy.
  • Going even further back, "The Spirit of Christmas," the original South Park short, concludes with "Christmas is about presents."
• WebOriginal.Dirty Laundry An Alternate1980s - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: invoked Andrew has gone on record and stated that the charity supergroup phenomenon of the 1980s has been butterflied. Since Band Aid falls into the category, the trope-naming song goes out the window.
• Dora the Explorer - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: Boots wonders out loud whether Swiper would swipe on Christmas, and Dora doesn't put it past him.
• Goof Troop - Do They Know It's Christmas Time?: "A Goof Troop Christmas" is one of the only times in the entire series any religion is mentioned at all, although there's a line in "Max-Imum Insecurity" and one in "Fool's Gold" that suggest the characters are monotheistic.