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It's Christmas time... in Summer!

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Episode Details

• Air Date: 9/20/26
• Written by: James Siciliano & Danielle Uhlarik
• Directed by: Eric Meister & Mollie Helms
• Guest Stars: Jim O'heir as Santa

Official Synopsis: With Christmas spirit at an all-time low, Curtis attempts to find a fix by deploying a group of synthetic beings, custom-designed to spread cheer. 

Our Synopsis: What do a greeting card company and Skynet have in common? Tune in to find out!

• Themes
• Christmas Spirit
• Once we drop below 10% Spiritonium saturation, Christmas is over
• Christmas Spirit is a limited resource
• Plan to use synthetic super soldiers to spread Christmas Spirit 
• Use Hallmark to access the Christmas Spirit Algorythm 
• Turns the synths into walking Hallmark Movie tropes
• Sending the Christmas Synths to Canada
• “It’s like sending a dragon back to dinosaur times, they don’t really belong, but the dinosaurs don’t notice.”
• Why does he say this like he has had experience with this? 
• Huge Fight with Santa
• Synths are now out in the general population
• Favorite Bits
• The Humbuggler not knowing who the Hamburgler is
• 11 second countdown
• Banks being really into Christmas
• And O’Doyle hating it
• Finch always has a dick-bomb gun handy
• Ed Carol being offended when Banks tells him he looks like Santa
• And then being shamed for it
• The Chrismanthium Core (lava lamp noodles)
• The un-stainable yellow shirts bit
• 6 News live with Step Sisters Mika & Carolyn
• The synths all having a positive reaction to dying
• Janice singing public domain songs
• All my tech is set to spring forward, cuz Finch don’t fall back!
• Finch really hating Daylight Savings Time
• Santa calling everyone by their first name
• Santa’s ice powers
• The Reindemons 
• Carrot Tipped Rounds
• Chekhov's Carrot
• Santa’s tear turning to ice
• Banks implanting a dick-bomb in Santa’s spine 
• Curse these hoods and their blind spots
• What warlocks can regrow heads? Better check with your DM
• O’Doyle having an alarm set for when it is Christmas (its a phone alarm and the sound is like a watch alarm)
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• Best/Worst Parts
• O’Doyle just criticizing everything the e