A fairy-like Gloria "adopting" Claus the Doll was inspired by L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.

Tess' "wrecked" Christmas pageant was inspired by Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

The sing-along in the cafe, led by JenniAnn, was inpired by the musical RENT.

Cliff's scramble to throw together Christmas was inspired by John Grisham's Skipping Christmas, the book behind the film Christmas with the Kranks.

JenniAnn's posterboard declaration of love to Andrew was a near card-for-card parody of a scene from the film Love Actually.

Scott aka Santa was meant to be the same characters from Tim Allen's Santa Clause films.

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