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Power Grid

10 Made-Up Holidays That Are Totally Not Christmas

by The Mary Sue Staff | 12:28 pm, December 27th, 2011


Allow Us To Explain

Allow Us To Explain

So the network says you have to have a Christmas special, even though your characters live in a science fiction universe where Christianity has never existed. Or they’re living in a year with A.D. in front of it. Or they’re rabbits.

What to do? Why, make up a completely Not-Christmas Yuletide holiday, and tell your viewers to say the Mantra.

This Power Grid originally ran last year on Geekosystem, and now it’s contributing to us having a happy holiday!


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  • Francesca M

    OMFG!!!!!! CLONE HIGH!!!!!! Seriously I thought I was the only one who even remembered that existing!!!!!! I love you guys.

  • Matt Peters

    Yak Shaving Day. Classic stuff.

  • Daniel Dellinger

    This is the best listmas ever

  • Anonymous

    Remember–specificity be the enemy of unity.

  • Anonymous

    You missed Time Day! ;-)

  • Megan Danger

    We celebrate Festivus at my college. They put a pole in the library along with a giant whiteboard for the airing of grievances :D

  • http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

    IMHO, a head of household who was a proper host would throw the match once the beer runs low.

  • Anonymous

    “On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, “Well done. Well done, everyone! We’re halfway out of the dark.”
    – Doctor Who, A Christmas Carol

  • Anonymous

    LOL.  As though Christmas itself isn’t a totally made-up holiday.

  • Frodo Baggins

    Robanukah or Robonica? Make up your mind! Great article, though. 

    Not even Snowflake Day can compare to the non-denominational idiocy that is “Secret Snowflake,” an ersatz Secret Santa. Do snowflakes give people gifts? No? THEN IT MAKES NO GODDAMN SENSE.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QZTQORZOGI4B6DQOTEJPF6RROE K@

    Winter-een-mas from ctrl alt del!!! :D

  • http://www.wulfmojo.com Wulfy

    Seconded. Clone High was the besterest thing ever!

  • http://twitter.com/johnnykaje K. Johnston

    As are all holidays.

  • http://thelxl.com Theresa

    Hogswatch is loosely based on Hogmanay as well, I thought?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LFHOEUG3QJAEWPNI2CFIOYD6EM Katie

    I’m totally not guilty of running to Eversong to kill Dragonhawks for an hour just to get eggs to sell for Winterveil… And I totally didn’t make a bunch of gold from it ^_~

  • http://www.facebook.com/MutantSentry Joseph Charneskie

    I’m partial to Festival of the Bells from Fraggel Rock… Webba Webba!

  • Matthew Lane

    Halfway out of the dark… Half way home.

    Great episode of Doctor Who… This years christmas special was a little bit shit though.

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