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Mr. C has decided to grace us with 30 festive frames per second of animated (and puppetized) Christmas cheer.

You better watch out

You better not cry

You better not pout

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town 

Sometimes children are naughty; sometimes they are nice.

Sometimes Santa is naughty, too. In the far future, Santa has been replaced (secretly defeated??!) by a HIDEOUS ROBOT OF DOOM, RAINING DEATH ON ALL IN ITS PATH!!!

The final result of our capitalist domination of a religious tradition: “moral” behavior rewarded by mystically-granted materialism. Wait, haven’t we heard this before? (Wait, I’m confused.) Eventually, technology enforces this structure, resulting in out unforgiving robot Santa overlord. No one is good enough.

In Futurama, Xmas (pronounced “Ecks-mass”) is dominated by a Santa whose programming, too strict to reasonably judge the “naughty/nice” dichotomy, kills everyone in range on Christmas Day.

“You’ve been NAUGHTY!”

Invader ZIM’s robot Santa is more abstractly menacing: once it overtakes its creator, ZIM, it assimilates all Christmas knowledge into its jolly arsenal.

“Put him in the actually STRONG Jingle Jail!”

An honorable mention goes to “The Tick Loves Santa”‘s Multiple Santa, as he’s human, but electric. And there’s a disembodied animatronic Santa head.

“I may never sleep again.”

Santa’s reign of technological terror is incomplete without his robot minions: hideous laughing animatronic reindeer! This one, from MST3K’s treatment of the terrible Mexican Santa Claus film. This robot reindeer was created by none other than Merlin to aid Santa in delivering toys to deserving children and dispatching the devil Pitch. Sure. Why not.

… there are no words.

The focus on actual robots is a bit simplistic, however. Remember the network built to surveil you and all you love, every waking moment, every financial transaction, every B and every T. Sam?

“Don’t fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.”

Remember,

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake!

He knows. HE KNOWS!

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