Tales of a Shrink

I laughed so hard I peed a little when I read this fictional list of the the 10 least successful Christmas specials, written by By John Scalzi.

A Preview:

The Mercury Theater of the Air Presents the Assassination of Saint Nicholas (1939)

...tens of thousands of New York City children mobbed the Macy's Department Store on 34th, long presumed to be Santa's New York embassy, and sang Christmas carols in wee, sobbing tones.

Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951)

The special ends with the entropic collapse of the civilization of takers and the spectacle of children trudging across the bitterly cold, dark tundra to offer Santa cash for his services, acknowledging at last that his genius makes the gifts -- and therefore Christmas -- possible.

A Muppet Christmas with Zbigniew Brzezinski (1978)

...the scenes where the NSA head explains the true meaning of Christmas to an assemblage of Muppets dressed as Afghan mujahideen was incongruous and disturbing even then.

Noam Chomsky: Deconstructing Christmas (1998)

This PBS/WGBH special featured linguist and social commentator Chomsky sitting at a desk, explaining how the development of the commercial Christmas season directly relates to the loss of individual freedoms in the United States and the subjugation of indigenous people in southeast Asia.