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==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
[[File:AngelicaVisitsSanta.jpg|thumb|250px|Angelica visiting the department store Santa.]]
[[File:AngelicaVisitsSanta.jpg|thumb|250px|Angelica visiting the department store Santa.]]
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The episode opens at a department store in the city, where [[Angelica Pickles|Angelica]] goes to see the store's [[Santa Claus|Santa]] and tells him what she wants for Christmas, the most important item on her list this year being a Deluxe Cynthia Beach House. When the mall Santa expresses some doubt that he can bring her all that stuff, she figures out she isn't talking to the ''real'' Santa and furiously tears off his beard to expose him as a phony. To shut her up on the matter, the manager presents her with a big box of toys. Meanwhile, [[Chuckie Finster|Chuckie]] is explaining to [[Tommy Pickles|Tommy]] that he greatly fears the Christmas season because he thinks Santa Claus is scary, alluding to the discussion they had earlier at the mall. Tommy finds that idea ridiculous and offers to catch Santa when he shows up on Christmas Eve so he can show Chuckie that he is not scary.
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The episode opens at a department store in the city, where [[Angelica Pickles|Angelica]] goes to see the store's [[Santa Claus|Santa]] and tells him what she wants for Christmas, the most important item on her list this year being a Deluxe Cynthia Beach House. When he expresses some doubt that he can bring her all that stuff, she figures out she isn't talking to the ''real'' Santa and furiously tears off his beard to expose him as a phony. To shut her up on the matter, the manager presents her with a big box of toys. Meanwhile, [[Chuckie Finster|Chuckie]] is explaining to [[Tommy Pickles|Tommy]] that he greatly fears the Christmas season because he thinks Santa Claus is scary, alluding to the discussion they had earlier at the store. Tommy finds that idea ridiculous and offers to catch Santa when he shows up on [[Christmas Eve]] so he can show Chuckie that he is not scary.
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Angelica's father Drew is upset over the fact that she seems to have lost her faith in Santa, and Chuckie's dad, Chas, who always had rather disappointing Christmases in his youth, doesn't want Chuckie to suffer the same disappointment. The grown-ups decide to rent a cabin in the mountains and spend Christmas there. Chas then decides that he'll dress up as Santa for the kids, but Drew thinks they should just hire a professional to do that job. Chas, however, explains that he got a leading role in a school play.
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Angelica's father, Drew, is upset over the fact that she seems to have lost her faith in Santa, and Chuckie's dad, Chas, who always had rather disappointing Christmases in his youth, doesn't want Chuckie to suffer the same disappointment. The adults decide to rent a cabin in the mountains and spend Christmas there. Chas then decides that he'll dress up as Santa for the kids, but Drew thinks they should just hire a professional to do that job. Chas, however, explains that he got a leading role in a school play.
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Angelica, meanwhile, is disappointed that the department store's gift box does not contain anything she wants. When [[Phil and Lil DeVille|Phil]] tells her that he's trying to find a good gift for [[Phil and Lil DeVille|Lil]], she offers to give him a box of crayons she found in there for Lil's coloring book, but she makes him hand over his Reptar doll in exchange. Then, when Lil expresses to her that she needs a gift for Phil, she gives her a Reptar space helmet in exchange for her coloring book. Angelica at first finds delight in the fact that their gifts for each other are useless due to her now having Phil's Reptar doll and Lil's coloring book. But when Grandpa tells the kids a story about Santa and how he punishes bad kids with coal, she begins to worry about the consequences of her plan. She tries to reason to herself that there is no way Santa knows of what she did, but she then has a nightmare about him leaving boxes of coal under her Christmas tree and realizes she has to trade Phil and Lil's presents back before her nightmare can become reality.
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Angelica, meanwhile, is disappointed that the department store's gift box doesn't contain anything she wants. When [[Phil and Lil DeVille|Phil]] tells her that he's trying to find a good gift for [[Phil and Lil DeVille|Lil]], she offers to give him a box of crayons she found in there for Lil's coloring book, but she makes him hand over his Reptar doll in exchange. Then, when Lil expresses to her that she needs a gift for Phil, she gives her a Reptar space helmet in exchange for her coloring book. Angelica at first finds delight in the fact that their gifts for each other are useless due to her now having Phil's Reptar doll and Lil's coloring book. But when Grandpa tells the kids a story about Santa and how he punishes bad kids with coal, she begins to worry about the consequences of her plan. She tries to reason to herself that there is no way Santa knows of what she did, but she then has a nightmare about him leaving boxes of coal under her Christmas tree and realizes she has to trade Phil and Lil's presents back before her nightmare can become reality.
Later, after the families arrive at the mountain cabin on Christmas Eve, Tommy and Chuckie start making plans for their Santa traps with all the different entryways in the cabin, except for the chimney, ironically. Angelica tries to talk with Phil and Lil long enough to return the things she took from them, but fails at every turn. Later that night, after the other kids have gone to bed, she tries calling a holiday help hotline to ask Santa if she's on his good list or bad list, though she ends up calling the wrong number and the man on the other line says she's on the bad list, much to her dismay.
Later, after the families arrive at the mountain cabin on Christmas Eve, Tommy and Chuckie start making plans for their Santa traps with all the different entryways in the cabin, except for the chimney, ironically. Angelica tries to talk with Phil and Lil long enough to return the things she took from them, but fails at every turn. Later that night, after the other kids have gone to bed, she tries calling a holiday help hotline to ask Santa if she's on his good list or bad list, though she ends up calling the wrong number and the man on the other line says she's on the bad list, much to her dismay.
[[File:RugratsChristmasGroupShot.jpg|thumb|250px]]
[[File:RugratsChristmasGroupShot.jpg|thumb|250px]]
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Chas, dressed as Santa, goes up on the roof to come down the chimney, just as Tommy's dad, Stu, accidentally triggers one of Tommy and Chuckie's traps, waking the kids up. When they get out of bed and find that it was only Stu who triggered the trap, they suddenly see Chas come down the chimney and are scared by his appearance until he removes his fake beard and hat. The kids are all relieved by this, especially Angelica, who thinks she doesn't have to worry about Santa punishing her anymore, but then suddenly a more professional-looking Santa Claus appears at the door. He hands out presents to all the kids, including Angelica, who is relieved when she finds that her gift is the Deluxe Cynthia Beach House that she wanted, with Santa explaining to her that her trying her best to return Phil and Lil's things was just as nice as actually doing a good deed. After he leaves, Phil and Lil exchange their gifts for each other, after which Angelica finally succeeds in giving back his Reptar doll and her coloring book, while Chuckie tells Tommy that he doesn't find Santa scary anymore. Chas thanks Drew for hiring the professional Santa, but when Drew calls the man he hired (actor Bernard Stevenson of ''The Santa Experience''), he finds out he got stuck in traffic and decided to just stay home instead, thus revealing that they were in fact visited by the real Santa Claus. The special ends on Angelica finding a small lump of coal in place of a toy car in the Deluxe Cynthia Beach House's attached garage.
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Chas, dressed as Santa, goes up on the roof to come down the chimney, just as Tommy's dad, Stu, accidentally triggers one of Tommy and Chuckie's traps, waking the kids up. When they get out of bed and find that it was only Stu who triggered the trap, they suddenly see Chas come down the chimney and are scared by his appearance until he removes his fake beard and hat. The kids are all relieved by this, especially Angelica, who thinks she doesn't have to worry about Santa punishing her anymore, but then suddenly a more professional-looking Santa Claus appears at the door. He hands out presents to all the kids, including Angelica, who is relieved when she finds that her gift is the Deluxe Cynthia Beach House that she wanted, with Santa explaining to her that her trying her best to return Phil and Lil's things was just as nice as actually doing a good deed. After he leaves, Phil and Lil exchange their gifts for each other, after which Angelica finally succeeds in giving back his Reptar doll and her coloring book, while Chuckie tells Tommy that he doesn't find Santa scary anymore. Chas thanks Drew for hiring the professional Santa, but when Drew calls the man he hired (actor Barney Stevenson of ''The Santa Experience''), he finds out he got stuck in traffic and decided to just stay home instead, thus revealing that they were in fact visited by the real Santa Claus. The special ends on Angelica finding a small lump of coal in place of a toy car in the Deluxe Cynthia Beach House's attached garage.
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