My favorites:
Ayn Rand’s A Selfish Christmas (1951)
In
this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands
of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the
world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his
workshop, convinces Santa to go on strike. 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. Prior to broadcast, Mutual
Broadcast System executives raised objections to the radio play, noting
that 56 minutes of the hour-long broadcast went to a philosophical
manifesto by the elf and of the four remaining minutes, three went to a
love scene between Santa and the cold, practical Mrs. Claus that was
rendered into radio through the use of grunts and the shattering of
several dozen whiskey tumblers. In later letters, Rand sneeringly
described these executives as “anti-life.”The Lost Star Trek Christmas Episode: “A Most Illogical Holiday” (1968)
Mr.
Spock, with his pointy ears, is hailed as a messiah on a wintry world
where elves toil for a mysterious master, revealed to be Santa just
prior to the first commercial break. Santa, enraged, kills Ensign Jones
and attacks the Enterprise in his sleigh. As Scotty works to
keep the power flowing to the shields, Kirk and Bones infiltrate Santa’s
headquarters. With the help of the comely and lonely Mrs. Claus, Kirk
is led to the heart of the workshop, where he learns the truth: Santa is
himself a pawn to a master computer, whose initial program is based on
an ancient book of children’s Christmas tales. Kirk engages the master
computer in a battle of wits, demanding the computer explain how it is
physically possible for Santa to deliver gifts to all the children in
the universe in a single night. The master computer, confronted with
this computational anomaly, self-destructs; Santa, freed from mental
enslavement, releases the elves and begins a new, democratic society.
Back on the ship, Bones and Spock bicker about the meaning of Christmas,
an argument which ends when Scotty appears on the bridge with egg nog
made with Romulan Ale.
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