How No-Life Stole Christmas

How No-Life Stole Christmas is the third No-Life special and the last video of Spyman's Cosmos Thin Years Era. It was uploaded as The Philmer's late Christmas special on December 29, 2019. The special is based and inspired by How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss. In the video, No-Life goes mad and decides to ruin Christmas for everyone in his town. Along many things, he's driven by rage towards Lenny, Caddict and Charles, who pulled a prank on him, that led him into trouble.
== Synopsis ==
In his third Christmas special, No-Life gets annoyed more than usual and he finally snaps, when three certain friends prank him. No-Life decides to ruin Christmas for everyone, to show how it is to have a hard life. The only people that can stop him are the ones who made him cause the havoc.
== Plot ==
The video starts with No-Life playing on computer, when he is interrupted by something hitting his window. He looks out and realizes it was a snowball, thrown by Otillie and her friends, who want him to come out and join the fun with them. No-Life rudely refuses, but mid-sentence another snowball lands in his mouth. One of the kids takes a picture of him, which enrages the boy even more. He jumps out of the window to attack the kid, but is stopped by a storm of snowballs. Eventually, he punches the kid, but exactly at that time his mom looks out of the window. She tells him to apologize, but No-Life refuses. Then, she screams at him even more, because she forgot about the cake she had in the oven. 
No-Life is sent to his room. He realizes though, that they didn't take his computer from him, so he can still play, when someone knocks on the door. Being already very angry, No-Life jumps at the intruder with his keyboard. The visitor is revealed to be his dad, who also screams on him and shows disappointment, mentioning how No-Life suddenly became nice during Christmas two years earlier, but now he's back on being the same. He then tells his son to clean the house, while the family is gone to help in Stool Annual Christmas Fair.
No-Life actually starts sweeping the floor in the living room, but gets tired after five minutes. He then notices a bunch of presents under the Christmas Tree and can't believe that his family bought them before Christmas Eve for once. He procceeds to open one box and is surprised by a green slime explosion. Then, a black figure phases through the wall in front of him and materializes, revealing itself to be Charles. He puts his hand inside the Tree and grabs a camera, to escape shortly. Charles arrives behind a decorative bush next to No-Life's house and meets with Lenny Jester and Caddict. 
He feels a little bad for entering No-Life's house, a private place, and recording there. However, the three decides to not care and watches the video. Soon, they are found by No-Life and have to escape. The boy, however, is quickly stopped by his parents, who came back, because they forgot to take something. After entering the house and seeing the mess, seemingly made by No-Life, they ground him once again. No-Life is then seen lying on his bed, recollecting how much of a fiasco the past year has been. Thinking that all of his friends and family count on having a cheerful Christmas time, he decides to ruin it for them and everyone else in the city.
Next day, it is Christmas Eve and No-Life stops by a random house, telling the old woman, who opened the door that he's homeless and hungry. She invites him inside, thinking he's the lost wandererLost Wanderer is a Christmas tradition in Poland. Basically, during the Christmas Eve Supper, people usually leave one plate empty, in case a lost man shows up at the house and demands something to eat.. To her surprise, No-Life jumps onto the table and consumes everything in a matter of second. Next, he puts on a mask of a creepy elf and leaves the house to terrorize rest of the city. After destroying a few things, he arrives at the Christmas Fair, causing even more havoc. However he is noticed by Lenny, Caddict and Charles, who decide to stop him. 
Meanwhile, at Phil's Mansion, Phil is spending holidays alone, eating nachos and crying over a picture of him, OkiWan, Dr Saturn and Spy, also thinking of the broken Spyman's Cosmos. Ultimately he decides to eat the Eve supper alone, when No-Life enters the house by the garage and destroys the Christmas Tree, as well as clears Phil's nachos supplies. The chaos causes Phil to break down even more. On the other side of the city, Policeman Henry is listening to the music in radio, when he hears news about a mysterious streak destroying Christmas decorations. At the same time, No-Life is finally stopped by Lenny, Charles and Caddict. They unmask him and are surprised to see him, thinking that even he loves Christmas. 
However, No-Life explains why he's doing all of this and mentioning their earlier prank as one of the reasons, he builds the guilt in them and escapes, when they're not watching. He soon meets another person though - Policeman Henry, who expresses his disappointment in him, remembering how he caught the two robbers last year. Up to this moment, he saw him as a good person. However No-Life escapes him too. Finally, he encounters the pranking trio again and has a long talk with them. They find out that No-Life is doing all this not only because of he events in the past year, but also his entire life. He says how people have always laughed from him, making him humiliated. Seeing the grudge as pointless, the trio tells No-Life to get over it and maybe even finally grow up. Surprisingly, No-Life agrees and goes with them.
The trio goes back at the Fair, after Lenny came up with a certain plan. Right when they arrive, The Host is about to present the queen of this year's edition. Lenny leads No-Life onto the stage and they pass Otillie, who was supposed to be named that title. She tries to intervene, but can't, as she's glued to the ground by Charles. The Host is surprised to see No-Life, but Lenny quickly explains the plan to him and he doesn't mind, presenting No-Life to the huge audience. The boy gives a long speech and apology for all his action, revealing to all the people there that he was the mysterious streak, who ruined Christmas for everyone. Surprisingly, the people react with an ovation, forgiving No-Life his sins. He then adds that he will still be more or less the same person after holidays are over. 
Later, he hosts a Christmas Eve supper for the Fair attendants, as the King of the Fair. There, Lenny and Caddict have a talk, in which the first one explains his plan. However he adds, that all of the humiliation No-Life's ever been through was always caused by his behaviour, meaning it started after he became addicted to computer. Thus, the boy can't complain about it, as it's his own fault. Despite that, Caddict congratulates his friend that he managed to convice everyone to clap after No-Life's speech. Lenny however says that he didn't, which reveals that people can still see the good in No-Life.
== Cast ==
Character(s) 	Voice actor
No-Life 	The voice of Angry German Kid
No-Life's parents	Oddcast text-to-speech voices
Lenny Jester,
Caddict,
Charles,
additional voices	The Philmer
Policeman Henry,
booth owner	Dr Saturn
The narrator 	wp.drive
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* No-Life
=== Secondary ===
* Lenny Jester (debut)
* Caddict
* Charles
*No-Life's Dad
* No-Life's Mom
* Otillie (debut)
=== Episodic ===
* James
* Alex (debut)
* Henry
* Rose (debut)
* The Host (debut)
* Phil
* Policeman Henry
* Jack Jester (indirectly mentioned)
* Spymankiller (cameo on a picture)
* Dr Saturn (cameo on a picture)
* OkiWan (cameo on a picture)
* Tobias Sanders (mentioned)
* Larry Mealey (mentioned)
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Though not the first video to feature voice acting, it's the first one with multiple voice actors.
* Many plotpoints of this video were inspired or even taken from No-Life's Tales - a cancelled No-Life spin-off series, that was supposed to premiere in 2019.
** For example: Lenny, Caddict and Charles having a role.
** The first sequence with No-Life - him clicking the keyboard and computer mouse, as well as his first line were actually supposed to be the opening sequence of No-Life's Tales #1.
* The first special to officially be rooted in Spyman's Cosmos.
* There was an idea to feature a mayor of Stool character, as there was a mayor character in the original Grinch story. He would potentially be a parody of politicians. However, it was scrapped, as there was no idea on how to use him.
* In the first version of the script, the scene on Christmas Fair was supposed to be first and it would be there where No-Life's madness started. There was also supposed to be a physical fight between No-Life and the trio.
* First script also featured a guest role of Ghosts of the Christmas Past, Present and Future.
* The special featured a number of jokes based on the comedy rule of three, which The Philmer wanted to test. A few examples are:
**No-Life not watching TV - In the previous specials, the main character always went to watch something in television at one point. Here, in the third special, he didn't and commented that almost nobody watches TV nowadays.
**"I don't know what I would do if it all got shattered" - The line is said three times by three characters, holding or owning something very easy to break. In the first two cases - man with a mirror and the booth owner - No-Life breaks the mirror or the glass decorations in one way or another. In third case - a man, who made an ice scuplture - No-Life just passes in the background. However, this doesn't work that well, as booth owner's line was accidentally cut during the editing.
* Most of Charles's lines are random things said by The Philmer, edited to sound like a demon.
*Phil's Mansion is already foreshadowed in the opening sequence, when a bus stop called "Forest Mansion" is visible for a second, as well as the driveway leading towards the mansion.
* The fact that Stool is called "a small town of Stool" by the narrator is ironic, as it's actually a metropolis in the Spyman's Cosmos universe. However, it also comes from the fact, that at the first stage of writing the script, The Philmer wanted to keep Stool just like it is in reality - a small town with less than 200 people. After making it into a big city, he decided to leave this line for the joke, but also because he didn't want to change the rhymes.
* The kid that takes a picture of No-Life with snowball in his mouth has a Panik phone.
* Originally, The Philmer actually wanted No-Life to watch TV, but realized that he himself hasn't watched television for more than half an hour since a few years.
* The works on the script started in August 2019 and the line about YouTube Rewind was added already then. The Philmer was sure that the annual YouTube Rewind won't be good and wanted to do a crazy prediction, which came out to be true.
=== Continuity ===
*No-Life's Dad references his son suddenly turning good two years prior, as well as causing a huge mess in the house a year later. No-Life also assures his dad that it was because he was facing robbers, which is what happened, but he doesn't believe the boy.
* The Spyman's Cosmos, as well as BSoD's Gang, disbandment is referenced by Lenny and also mentioned for the first time.
* The picture Phil looks at is a direct shot from Collision Course 2/4.
* No-Life mentions Tobias and Larry to distract Policeman Henry.
=== References ===
*During the opening sequence, there are many easter-eggs. Most notably: Finledge, which is the first Spyman's Cosmos element in the video. The other one is the slightly differently coloured area on the Baltic Sea. This is a reference to The Philmer's cancelled series Spongebob: Invasion from the Land, or rather its trailer. Basically, the series' premise was the U.S army wanting to exterminate Spongebob and his friends, as they were revealed to be radioactive mutants, based on a popular theory on Spongebob. Living in water, they would accidentally spread the radation over many of the Earth's seas, which was showcased in the trailer.
*"This idiot Phillet cancelled my own series" is a reference to The Philmer cancelling No-Life's Tales.
* Two men holding a mirror are nods to and are even dressed similarily to Pat and Mat - characters from a popular Czech stop-motion animated series A je to!, which is quite known and loved in Poland.
* Phil crying over Spyman's Cosmos was inspired by Yellow Guy from Don't Hug Me .I'm Scared crying over his friends in DHMIS 6.
* Policeman Henry is listening to Peterflies - a parody song by Dr Saturn. This is a meta joke, as the character is voiced by Dr Saturn himself.
* The end credits were inspired by Milo Murphy's Law - one of The Philmer's favourite animated series, which has end credits in a nearly identical style.
== Footnotes ==
Category:Spyman's Cosmos series
Category:No-Life specials
Category:Specials
Category:Episodes
Category:Thin Years