A Whiteboard Wonderland: a TGSW Holiday Special

A Whiteboard Wonderland: a TGSW Holiday Special is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the eighth installment in the Whiteboard Saga, and the second and last of two holiday-themed spinoffs.

## Plot

On Christmas Eve, Kramps (short for Krampus) and his henchman Nick, both residing in the South Pole, contemplate sabotaging Christmas, but are far too short in resources. In Black and Pink's house in America, the stick figures decorate for the holidays, preparing for Santa Claus to arrive that night. At midnight on Christmas Day, Black and his friends wake up to the sound of a crash, which they find is Santa, who had apparently crashed his sleigh and lost his reindeer across the globe. Santa denies the stick figures' offer to help at first, but later accepts. Splitting into two teams of seven, Black, Orange, Maroon, Yellow, Blue, Lime, and Dark Brown volunteer to help Santa find his reindeer, while Pink, Green, Red, Purple, Light Blue, Light Brown, and Teal warp to the North Pole using a snow globe to monitor the toy factory.

Black, Santa, and the others locate the reindeer with a tracker, sending them looking all over the world. They find all eight reindeer (Dash, Dance, Prancine, Vixie, Comm, Cupe, Donnie, and Blitz) before coming across the sleigh; during that time, Orange loses one of Santa's snow globes, accidentally sending it to the South Pole and into Kramps' clutches. In the North Pole, Pink and her group are welcomed by Santa's wife Nora Claus and their son Rudy and daughter Holly. While passing the time, Red learns from Rudy and Holly about them trying to chart their own path despite having to keep the Claus legacy a secret. Kramps and Nick arrive at the North Pole with their snow globe and quickly assume control over the factory, holding the stick figures, the elves, and the Claus family hostage.

While finishing Santa's nightly delivery run, Black and Santa are informed of Kramps' hostile takeover, and they return to the North Pole to save them while the rest finish delivering the presents. Santa takes on Kramps firsthand while Black rigs the factory with traps for both Kramps and Nick. In the aftermath, Santa frees the prisoners. Once Orange and the rest of the stick figures arrive after their present run, Kramps (and an assembly of recalled toys which he had activated) engage in pursuit of Santa and the other heroes in the sleigh. After colliding with the Seattle Space Needle and crashing into the Himalayas, Kramps nearly sends Holly off a cliff, but she is saved by Nick, who had developed a change of heart and defects from Kramps' side. Kramps proceeds to battle the stick figures and the Clauses and steal the last undelivered present, but is sent into a ravine when he creates an ice sword and loses it to Black. Santa reveals that he had addressed the last present to Kramps in hopes that they would both reconcile, and he drops the present down the ravine.

The Claus family returns to the North Pole, including Nick, now one of Santa's new "little helpers," and Santa allows Rudy and Holly to set out on their own upon consulting with Red. Santa uses his snow globe to send the stick figures back to Black's house. The other nine stick figures, who had apparently slept through the previous events, join them in finding the giant Christmas tree and assorted gifts Santa had left behind for them. That night, the stick figures are asleep, holding their gifts, except Black, who considers this Christmas to be the best he's ever had. Meanwhile, Santa flies through the night sky in a new sleigh, saying "merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

In a post-credits scene, Kramps' present lands next to him, and he opens it to find an ugly sweater, which Kramps adores.

## Cast (via archival voice-over audio)

* Faizon Love, Finn Wolfhard, Mark Fischbach @markiplier, Macaulay Culkin, Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Tom Hanks as Black

* Annie Potts as Pink

* Will Ferrell, Daniel Stern, and Charlie Tay as Orange

* Scarlett Johannson as Maroon

* Joseph Quinn, Tim Allen, Chris Sarandon, Ed Asner, and Todd Grabner as Santa Claus

* Jim Carrey, Chevy Chase, Wade Rininger, Ken Page, and Daniel Stern as Kramps

* Joe Pesci as Nick

* Gaten Matarazzo as Light Brown

* Frank Welker as Comm

* Catherine O'Hara as Nora Claus

* Gary Sinise as Lime

Wade Rininger provides brief narration of the story, changing his occasional role from the “Animator” to the “Narrator” solely for this story.

## Trivia

Audio from "Santa Tell Me" by Ariana Grade, "Jingle Bells" by Frank Sinatra, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elf, "Here Comes Santa Claus" by Elvis Presley, "the Attack On the House" by John Williams, an episode of Stranger Things, "a Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives, "Kid On Christmas" by Pentatonix feat. Meghan Trainor, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, "Sleigh Ride" by the Ronettes, Marvel Studios' Avengers: Age of Ultron, "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" by Tyler, The Creator, the Santa Clause 2, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, "Seeing Is Believing" by Alan Silvestri, "Baby Please Come Home" by Ethan Nestor & Andrew Jaymes, "Setting the Trap" by John Williams, the Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone, "Carol of the Bells" by Samuel Kim, Forrest Gump, "Imperial March x Carol of the Bells" by Samuel Kim, "Snowman" by Sia, "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms, "Here It Is Christmastime" by Kevin Back & Old 97's, Toy Story, "Merry Christmas" by Ed Sheeran and Elton John, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Andy Williams, and Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness were uses for several scenes in the series.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer appears in the series as Comm and Blitz's son. In the GoodTimes retelling of Rudolph's story, a male Blitzen is his father, whereas Comet has no known relations to him outside of “a Whiteboard Wonderland.” For the holiday special, Blitzen was gender-bent and depicted as Rudolph’s mother.

Several references to other versions of Santa Claus and other Christmas movies are included, such as Santa’s snow globes referencing Santa Claus from Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians, voiced by Alec Baldwin, and the North Pole’s beverage menu reading “syrup and coffee” as a reference to Elf.