Christmas Shenanigans

Title Card

**Christmas Shenanigans** is the eighth episode of *Mike & Friends*. In this episode, Mike and the gang say that Santa Claus isn’t real, upsetting an ecstatic Connor.

#### Characters

* Mike Mormon
* Connor Wettermenn
* Kyle Anderson
* Missy Shellbee
* Mark Mormon
* Mary Mormon (2 cameos)
* Seth
* Santa Claus (mentioned/portrayed by Kyle)
* Guy in Line (debut)
* Guy in Line's son (debut)
* Mr. Wettermenn
* People at mall (debut)
* Keith Roger (cameo)
* TV Narrator (heard)
* Narrator (heard)
* Pineapple Bob (mentioned)
* Missy's parents (mentioned)

## Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, Mike sits on the couch watching a Christmas special, until the doorbell rings. He opens it to find Connor, excited for Christmas. He enters the house, along with Kyle. Mark tells them that they’re going to the mall. There, Mark and Mary leave Mike in charge of them both, and go shopping together. Connor wants to go in line to see Santa Claus. Mike refuses because of the long line, but Connor doesn’t care.

They stand in line, annoying Mike. Missy shows up and joins them in line, cutting in line supposedly. Connor is excited that they’re going to see Santa with them, but none of them want to see him but Connor. After a while of waiting, Connor finally jumps on Santa’s lap. He tells him what he wants for Christmas and goes away, happy that he met him.

Connor then has to go to the bathroom. While in there, Mike tells the others about Connor’s belief that Santa is real and says that Santa isn’t real. Connor overhears this conversation and runs over to Santa Meet & Greet area and notices that Seth was in disguise as a mall Santa all along. This gets Connor to cry. Mike and Kyle encounter him, and Connor tells them what they did, says that he’ll never celebrate Christmas again, and runs out of the mall, crying.

Sometime later, Mike goes to Connor’s house. He encounters Connor’s father at the door, who reluctantly lets him anyway. Mike walks into Connor’s room and apologizes for saying that Santa isn’t real. Suddenly, they hear someone laughing like Santa Claus. This gets Connor excited and goes downstairs to find Santa Claus (which he doesn’t know it’s really Kyle in disguise). Connor is happy to see him and hugs him. After a conversation, ‘Santa’ leaves the house.

Connor tells Mike that he met Santa Claus. Mike is glad that he met him and leaves the house. The next day, on Christmas morning, everyone is gathered at Mike’s house, Connor is still happy that he met ‘Santa’ (and Kyle still has the Santa suit he wore in his back pocket). Mike finally gets a kiss from Missy under the mistletoe. The episode ends with the narrator wishing us a very merry Christmas.

## Production Music

* Jingle Bells (b) - Sammy Burdson (intro/title card/beginning/at the mall)
* Dramatic Impact 3 - Ivor Slaney (“Noooo!”)
* Fates - Gregor Narholz (Connor crying)
* Heavy Affliction - Cedric Palmer (Mike enters Connor’s room)
* Award Winners (a) - Otto Sieben (Connor finally meets ‘Santa Claus’)
* Joy to the World (30) - Richard Harvey (“And that’s the story!”/Christmas morning at Mike’s house/ending)
* Jingle Bells (b) - Sammy Burdson (end credits)

## Trivia/Goofs

* This is the last episode to be produced and uploaded in 2019, and in the 2010's decade.
* This is the first episode to have a special variation of the intro, with the characters in their Christmas attire.
* This is also the first episode where the narrator is actually narrating outside of time cards.
* M-Pack is mentioned in the beginning of this episode as "M-Pack TV".
* Connor is shown to have a belief in the Christmas icon, Santa Claus.
* This is the first episode to have an eleven-minute runtime, like most animated shows have.
* Mike and Missy kiss for the first time in this episode.
* **Fourth wall break:** The narrator was about to end the episode, but Mike stops him and reminds him that the episode's not over yet.
* This episode is similar to the *SuperMarioLogan* video "Bowser's Christmas Problem". When Bowser Junior starts annoying his father while he is watching Charleyyy and Friends, Bowser tells his son that Santa does not exist. Bowser Junior starts crying and Bowser has to try to figure out a way to make his son feel better. It's the same thing in this episode, but it's about Mike and the gang saying that Santa isn't real, not Bowser.
* This episode was reuploaded on November 8, 2020, on YouTube, due to a few parts being out-of-sync, in which Pakenham had to edit.
* When this episode was originally uploaded, the camera zoomed in when Connor was tearfully explaining that all these years he thought Santa Claus was real. When it was reuploaded in 2020, the zoom-in was not applied.
* This is the last episode where Kyle's glasses are colored light blue. Starting with his next appearance, "Missy's Dream", his glasses would be colored white instead.

## Full Episode

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