Round 1
Real plot or humbug?
Ten plot summaries to judge. Six come from real Christmas films and four are borrowed from other stories or made up.
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Christmas plot or not?
Ten film plots, and players vote on whether each one is a real Christmas movie or just a bunch of humbug. The reveal names the film or show it really comes from.
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Round 1: Real plot or humbug?10 questions
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Two swindlers dress as Santa and an elf to scam money from department stores over Christmas. The conman Santa gets depressed and becomes an alcoholic, until he meets a kid who helps him change his bad ways.
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Answer:
That's a Christmas plot
Fun fact: This is the plot of Bad Santa (2003), with Billy Bob Thornton as the thieving department-store Santa. It is not the 2016 sequel, Bad Santa 2, which is a charity-heist story.
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A candy cane house hidden in a German forest lets visitors travel back to past Christmases. A group of schoolkids discover it and decide to change their past for the better.
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Answer:
It's totally not
Fun fact: Made up for this quiz. Time travel through a house in a German forest is borrowed from the series Dark, which is not a Christmas story.
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Two neighbours battle it out for the best Christmas decorations in the street. Eventually they become friends and combine to decorate a house with lights so bright they can be seen from space.
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Answer:
That's a Christmas plot
Fun fact: This is Deck the Halls (2006), with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick as the rival neighbours.
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On the eve of his brother's wedding, a young and free bachelor is visited by the ghosts of his ex-lovers. They take him on a journey of his failed relationships to show him how he can change his ways.
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Answer:
That's a Christmas plot
Fun fact: This is Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), a romantic comedy loosely based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Most of it is set around a wedding weekend rather than Christmas itself.
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Under the order of a Mexican cartel, a family move to an idyllic winterland for Christmas and are forced to launder money made from various illegal gift swap businesses.
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Answer:
It's totally not
Fun fact: Made up for this quiz. A family laundering money for a Mexican cartel is the setup of the series Ozark, which is set around a lake in Missouri, not at Christmas.
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A mockumentary in Santa's North Pole workshop, where Santa is revealed as largely incompetent and his head PR elf, an angry bully, calls most of the shots.
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Answer:
It's totally not
Fun fact: Made up for this quiz. It reworks the setup of the BBC political satire The Thick of It, where a foul-mouthed communications chief runs a government department.
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In a world governed by social standing, Santa has to keep his 5 star reviews up or get replaced. When his standards start to slip, his reviews start to plummet and he's banished to other rejected Santas of the past, who form a union and rise up.
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Answer:
It's totally not
Fun fact: Made up for this quiz. A society run on star ratings is the premise of the Black Mirror episode Nosedive.
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A skeleton man, who usually plies his trade during Halloween, discovers Christmas and tries to take it, and Santa, under his control. He fails, so tries to return Christmas to how it was before.
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Answer:
That's a Christmas plot
Fun fact: This is Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), in which Jack Skellington of Halloween Town tries to take over Christmas.
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Hulk Hogan, a bodybuilding supplement salesman, gets chased by the police and bangs his head, making him think he's Santa Claus. He later saves an orphanage from an evil scientist trying to harvest magical crystals.
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Answer:
That's a Christmas plot
Fun fact: This is Santa with Muscles (1996), starring wrestler Hulk Hogan.
Question 10 路 Pick answer
In an effort to bring more fun to the children of Mars at Christmas, the Martian leaders kidnap Santa and force him to build and deliver toys on the Red Planet.
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Answer:
That's a Christmas plot
Fun fact: This is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), often ranked among the worst films ever made.
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