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"But Joel, you have to give him [Packie] a present! You entered the Secret Santa program!"
―Jose to Joel Gonzales

A Christmas Story is a Sibling Rivalries comic from Season 5.

This comic is a Christmas special, taking place from about a week before Christmas to Christmas Day (December 25). This is also the last comic to be fully written in 2015.

Plot[]

It is a few days before Christmas 2015, and the Wisconsin Elementary School students decide to participate in a Secret Santa program. Packie and Joel participate, but they are shocked when they find out that they are eachother's Secret Santas.

Character Appearances[]

♥ = character's debut
♠ = character does not speak throughout comic
♣ = character is mentioned only
♦ = character appears in a speaking/non-speaking cameo only

McReary-Wilson Family[]

McReary Siblings' Friends[]

Antagonists[]

Others[]

Trivia[]

  • A Christmas special was planned for the series in both 2013 and 2014, but they never happened. The series would not have another Christmas special for five years, until "Maureen Be Not Proud" in Season 10.
  • Steve Madison reappears in this comic, after being absent since the 2014 comic "Patrick McReary: School President".
  • This is the first time after "Like Father, Like Sons (And Daughter)" that Joel appears without James (although he mentions him and Giovanni Ancelotti, Marco, and Trevor Johnson. In fact, Joel hardly plays a villain role in this comic, despite shoving Armando Vasquez twice.
  • This is the first holiday-themed comic to actually be completed before the holiday that it surrounds.
  • It was never revealed who Francis, Gerry, Derrick, and Kate were the Secret Santas of.
  • Joel's liking for the British-Irish band One Direction is shown again in this comic, for the first time since the Season 1 comic "Frightful Football Reunions" (which was Joel's debut appearance in the series back in 2013).
  • These are the Christmas gifts that the McReary siblings like the most:
    • Kate likes the framed picture of Mark Sanders that he gave her.
    • Gerry likes his new football cards, telling the other siblings that he is going to restart his collection.
    • Derrick likes his new math workbook, commenting that it is challenging, "just the way he likes it".
    • Packie and Francis like their new PlayStation 4, saying that they can't wait to set it up and start playing.
    • According to Packie, Aiden's favorite gift is his new xylophone.
  • This is the second time Joel and Jose's room is seen ("The Amnesia Act of 2015"). This is also the first comic to show the entire exterior of the Gonzales house.
  • This is the first comic of the series where snow appears.
  • This is the last comic until "Great Balls of Paint" where Joel has long hair; starting with "Best Frenemies" his hair was changed so it no longer looks exactly like Maureen's hair. However, when Joel's original hairstyle returned, it became more clear how his hair differed from Maureen.
  • This and "Uncle Cameron Moves In" are the only Season 5 comics that Adrian and Troy Wilson are absent in.

References[]

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