Zanta Claws III

Zanta Claws III is an animation by Edd Gould. It was uploaded on December 22, 2010. It is the third and last installment in the Zanta Claws series. It features Edd, Matt, Santa and Zanta Claws saving Christmas from Tom, who's out to destroy the holiday. This is also the final episode (excluding Christmas Eddventure) to feature Zanta Claws.
==Plot==
Edd and Matt are decorating their Christmas tree, with Matt gratuitously biting into an ornament, when they hear a gunshot. They go outside to find a drunken Tom armed with a sniper rifle. Edd and Matt tell him that they're tired of Tom doing this every year; he retaliates, only to lose balance and fall from the roof. He, somehow having recovered from his injuries, walks away from the house calling everything stupid under his breath. He runs into Zanta, who greets him while leaning by his sleigh.
Zanta takes Tom for a ride on his sleigh. He notices Tom's hatred for Christmas and proposes an anti-Christmas alliance. Tom, however, drops Zanta from his sleigh, right before he finishes his sentence, and takes over the sleigh. Meanwhile, Edd and Matt wrap their Christmas tree with fireproof tinsel when a blazing log burns the tree. Edd and Matt run into Zanta eating a bystander's brains (Mike) and blame him for the attack. Zanta proves them otherwise by pointing out the destruction afar, courtesy of Tom. Tom proceeds to wreck a family's house.
Edd, Matt, and Zanta Claws are spending time together while trying to figure out how to save Christmas. Edd deduces that this is time where Santa usually steps in, while Tom shoots down Santa; Santa joins the gang afterwards. When Edd asks him how they could save Christmas, Santa doesn't have any good ideas. Zanta decides to call the Evil Director, who drops a huge crate. The crate opens up to reveal a van. The team steps in, and the van transforms into a Boxmas Bot. The team fights Tom while they sing along to a rap. As the fight drags on, culminating with Zanta and Tom engaging in a guitar duel and getting physical, Santa gets impatient and orders Matt and Edd to shoot them both.
After the fight, Tom gets put in a corner, while in a full-body cast. Meanwhile, Zanta reveals that he hated Christmas since he died and Santa took his place, thus explaining his prior destruction. He decides to be dead again and buries himself in Edd's house. The episode ends with everyone laughing at Edd's pun while an angry Tom screams at them from underneath his cast.
==Trivia==
*This was the second out of three of Edd's animations co-written by Tom Bown, the other two being Hammer & Fail Parts 1 and 2.
*Some segments in this episode were animated by Paul ter Voorde. These segments including:
**Tom jumping on the tree, throwing socks into the fireplace, kicking gifts, and walking out shutting the door behind him.
**All the lip-syncing in the "Christmas Demolition" sequence (except Santa's, which was done by Edd).
**Zanta going back into his grave.
*When Matt points out that Tom's "hating Christmas" stick is getting old, the second-floor window on the roof is gone.
*When the flaming log rolls in through the window of Edd's house, despite having a branch sticking out, it does not stop rolling.
*There are two Tomee Bears: a giant one in the family's house wearing a Santa suit and hat and a Tomee Bear next to the couch at the end.
*On the TV in the family's house, it says "The Queen's Speech, sponsored by Uncle Susan's Adult Diapers."
*The stockings on the fireplace say Girl, Boy, Mum and Dad.
*While Edd and the gang are thinking of a way to save Christmas, Zanta is wearing a red hoodie. This might be a reference to how Zanta wanted to take Tord's place in Zanta Claws II.
**Also, at the start of the scene Matt has his overcoat off. But when he goes to look out the window, his overcoat is back on.
*The box Bing delivered says "TOP SECRET DO NOT TOUCH, especially you John."
*When everyone goes inside the van, Edd can be heard shouting "Broccoli!". This is a reference to the eddisode Hello Hellhole where Edd would randomly shout "Broccoli!" every time he entered/exited the Hellavator.
*The button inside the Boxmas Bot says Weapon Z, a possible reference to the Z gear from Zanta Claws II.
*The mug Matt holds at the end says "Don't Mug Me", just like the mug Shoe had in MovieMakers.
*The ending marks the second time Tom is seen in a full-bodied cast and wheelchair. The first was in a comic when Matt had run over him in his car.
*Matt makes a Chris Crocker reference in this by saying leave Christmas alone in Chris Crocker's style.
*This makes Edd's statement from Zanta Claws("Didn't the real Santa die centuries ago?") true, as Zanta is the "real" Santa Claus who had died centuries ago.
*When Tom gets punched by Zanta, he has his blue hoodie on instead of the Santa suit.
*Whenever a scene shows Zanta's sleigh, the objects and weaponry in the back of the sleigh seem to change position.
*After Zanta falls off the sleigh and Edd and Matt are talking to him, his clothes are no longer ripped.
*When Edd asks Santa for how to save Christmas and he answers "Festive Spirit?", one of his black gloves appears to be brown.
*During the fight between Zanta and Tom, you can hear the words "Christmas Demolition" being sung, which is referenced as the title of Tom's video "Christmas Demolition".
*The guitar battle between Zanta Claws and Tom is a reference to Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock, when you take on several well-known guitarists.
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==References==
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