A lot of MST3K episodes have very random Christmas moments inserted into them regardless of if the actual movie is about Christmas or not.
My personal favorite moment comes from TISCWSLABMUZ when Mike and the bots start singing Christmas carols along with the music in the first dance number.
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Moments In Non-Christmas MoviesSmoothie of Great Power says:
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I enjoy Cameron Mitchell’s elegant portrayal of Father Christmas himself in the perennial holiday classic “Space Mutiny.”
I don’t know if this helps, but “ho ho ho”
“Merry Christmas Everybody. Let’s go the Haunted House.”
“You said he could stay up till New Years and that means Christmas is over.”
Night of the Blood Beast
One of my favorite riffs is Crow’s “It’s an Aztec Family Christmas!” from The Puma Man.
Another vote for the odd inclusion of Cowboy Santa in Girl in Gold Boots.
In Secret Agent Super Dragon during the “top secret” meeting, the head honcho starts a sentence with “A little town…” but it sounds like “O little town…” so Joel and the ‘bots all say, in unison, “OF BETHLEHEM!”
Does the repeated renditions of “Wings of a Dove” in Boggy Creek II count? Maybe it was the clouds of blue smoke coming out of their boat motor that put me in a holiday mood.
In ‘Red Zone Cuba,’ when Griffin, Cook and Landis are washing up, smoking and getting prepped to mine some tungsten, the bouncy little soundtrack music suggests “Sleigh Ride” so Mike starts singing it.
In ‘Crash Of The Moons’, as John Banner, his wife and kid are leaving their home, Joel quips “But there was no room at the inn. Then Space Joseph and Mary took the infant to Space Bethlehem.”
let’s face it, ‘jack frost’ was Santa moonlighting.
Wasn’t there some mention of reindeer skat in Puma Man?
During the enthusiastic opening song in “Operation Double 007”, Joel and the ‘bots briefly sing “Hurray for Santy Claus” in time with the music.
Definitely Tom singing “Here Comes Santa Claus” during the credits of Worwilf… er, Werewolf. ;)
Also, any episode (there are a few) where a character says “Do you see what I see?”, and one of the guys sings “A Star, A Star!”.
When Ator is bombing the bad guys from his hang glider in Cave Dwellers. “Henry Kissinger says Merry Christmas”. Boom!
“It’s a very special Joe Don Baker Christmas.”
-Joel, “Mitchell”
Pumaman aliens travel in “Christmas ornaments of the gods.”
I like the “Wassailing” in the opening for “The Touch of Satan”.
“We are entitled to your credit card and pin number………”
Always puts me in the mood for Christmas…..
Hey, where’s Eric(the Grinch)J this post?
Santa is in Alphabet Antics, the short in Daddy-O
THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS/SROTACILPUD NAMUH had the spaceship that looked like a Christmas tree ornament from the 60’s
Does “I’m an icky elf” count?
“It’s Christmas on the Borg ship.” from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
It’s strange–I am watching TISCWSLABMUZ today (in the process of it) and noticed the Christmas song riffs especially.
In general, I like it when older men are compared to Santa, and the scene in Devil Doll where Mike says Sally’s line from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”: “All I want is my fair share. All I want is what’s coming to me.” His rapid, flat delivery is hilarious, and although it’s my favorite Christmas special, I didn’t recognize the quote until I looked at the references. (In fact, I actually paused TISCWSLABMUZ to go see The Peanuts Movie with my family, quite an enjoyable film.)
Dictator for Life: Santa
-Werewolf
How about Wormy in Gunslinger singing to himself “Why Am I Such a Misfit?”, and of course “she thinks I’m cuuuddeee”. Both are from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
I remember mention of Adam Chance’s swim trunks getting the privilege of “gift wrapping a beautiful package” in Agent for Heuristic Analog Rental Meat
A Visit To Uncle Jim’s Farm, Crow sings along to the music – “Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say…”
From Overdrawn at the Memory Bank – “It’s Christmas on the Borg ship.”
I really like when Christmas shows up in the movie as a surprise. I love the sad Christmas tree in Martin Balsam’s house in “Mitchell” and the scene in “Girl In Gold Boots” where Tom sings along to the weird Christmas song in that movie.
I love every Christmas/presents riff at John Saxon’s house in Mitchell.
Since EricJ has not contributed, allow me to say in his behalf: Mike Nelson is Beelzebub and all the people at Rifftrax are his soulless lackeys!
This is the one I signed in to quote. Makes me laugh every time.
Lonely Cowboy Santa and the “Christmas pageant” from Incredibly Strange Creatures are obvious choices.
One that hasn’t been mentioned yet: at the beginning of Time Chasers, Crow singing a bit of “Sleigh Ride” after Mike does the “NFL on Fox” theme. Thanks to that, it’s hard to not hear that theme without singing, “Giddy up, Giddy up, Giddy up, Let’s go.”
I know I’m a little late, but…
The ‘Little Drummer Boy’ rump-pum-pum from ‘I Was a Teenage Werewolf’.
Well…..Danzilla already beat me to the “Here Comes Santa Claus” and “Do you see what I see?” refs before I could get there, so… :-((
I’m a cantankerous old man… and I’m going to learn the true meaning of Christmas!
-Master Ninja 1
I second this. I love Mike’s delivery on that gag. I use it around the house, to my own great amusement.
Well, Merry Christmas anyway
-the very beginning of ISCWSLABMUZ
Mitchell took place at Christmas time so Christmas Mitchell comments don’t count.