The Christmas Hoax

The Christmas Hoax (Originally Christmas is Here) is the 13th episode of The Chong Family

## Plot

Cricket becomes the most hated person in Big City after the Mall Santa incident. The only way to stop the harassment in Louis helping Cricket to make an Apology letter

## Synopsis

### Act I

The special starts with a christmas-like claymation sequence that Says DISNEY CHANNEL AND M6 PRESENT and the next one says A XILAM ANIMATION PRODUCTION and it shows the Chong Family logo, and the next sign says THE CHRISTMAS HOAX and the stop motion sequence ends with The Snowman going to the moon, Tilly informs Cricket that he might be on the naughty list due to his numerous misdeeds. He panics at the thought of not getting his Christmas presents this year, but Tilly tells him he stills has good in him that they will simply go out and perform good deeds before the day is done. Meanwhile, Bill has big plans for how he wants to celebrate Christmas Eve before the big day, but when he mentions how the family will give each other gifts, Carl says to them Merry Christmas because it's Christmas Eve

Cricket and Tilly perform numerous good deeds, but Cricket gets tired and decides to simply go to the mall to see Santa. After sneaking past Gloria, who is working as a mall elf, Cricket tries to speak to him, but is outed and accidentally depants Santa who tells him that he is definitely naughty. The crowd quickly boo at Cricket and throws tomatoes at him. Keys offers him a ride to safety, to his house. Everyone (except for Remy) throw tomatoes at him and said Cricket's a dumb doodle baby and CRICKET THE TURD and Cricket tells the townsfolk that he decides to simply pull pranks non-stop, much to the Townsfolk's horror. back at home. Mr Lopez made a terrible gift to Bill which is a low budget star. Meanwhile Cricket's humiliation goes on as Pauk and Rob tell everyone on the radio, and The Cyberknights sing a song about it called Cricket Stinks, while the townspeople (except for Remy) continue to mock and boo Cricket. Tilly tries to cheer him up by taking him to a Renaissance Fair. Cricket says the hate this place and makes everybody in the building boo him, driving him to tears and making Tilly shocked about Grigorian's hypocrisy.

### Act II

The next morning Tilly awakes to find someone has spray-painted "I HATE CRICKET GREEN" all over the town, she assumes the culprit is someone who hates Cricket the most out of everyone, only the Greens, Bob and Brett find Cricket. But then The Greens Bob and Brett see the Cyberknights attempting to push Cricket in the Christmas tree. Bob saves him but it's too late. Everyone went to the Big City Hospital and Louis tells Cricket your in the hospital, But then, Grigorian Rallys up all the Big City townsfolk holding durians. Bob shows the townsfolk a PSA about hatred and makes the townsfolk apologize to Cricket. that night Cricket sadly wanders through the snow before being approached by another Santa, whom Cricket thinks is the same one from the mall, but is clearly different. Cricket admits that he was wrong and should not have done what he did. Santa offers Cricket a present that can be anything he wants, but Cricket decides that he just wants his sister on the nice list and Santa leaves. Cricket is found by Bill who also got Tilly. The entire family returns home in silence. The next morning, Cricket and Tilly are shocked that they got all their presents - even Cricket because of the selfless act he performed - and Bill finds the terrible figure from Nancy and Alice and happily thanks them for it. The entire family sings again before the sun suddenly jump scares with Cricket's face on shouting "Merry Christmas!"

## Cast

* Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
* Marieve Herington as Tilly Green
* Bob Joles as Bill Green
* Artemis Pebdani as Alice Green
* Wendi McLendon-Covey as Nancy Green
* Kaycie Chase as Pom-Pom the Turtle
* Kevin Hart as Louis
* Jordan Kleeper as Bob
* Colton Dunn as Brett
* Zeno Robinson as Remy
* Grey Griffin as Old Woman
* Haley Tju as Teenage Girl
* Alex Cazares as Carl

## Songs

* If I Can't Have Christmas
* No Christmas At All

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to focues on the greens
* This is the first episode where Louis Appears without Cedrick
* The Stop Motion Opening Sequence was animated by Aardman in 2019
* This is the last episode to air in 2021
* When Cricket looks at his list of bad deeds, clips from Sorcerer For A Day, Grub Snub, Carmageddon, and The New Girl are shown

## Errors

* Remy has betrayed Cricket in a few episodes like Remy Goes on Strike and March 27
* When the snowman is jumping a little rig was shown, Aardman fixed the error