The Librarians: A series on TNT based on… well I will let the description from Wikipedia tell you:
The series follows four people who were chosen by Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) to become a new team of Librarians in order to solve impossible mysteries, recover powerful artifacts, and fight against supernatural threats
Before Christmas they aired an episode that was Christmas themed, it was named “And Santa’s Midnight Run”. In it they refer to the phenomena of Santa as a being that is an avatar of goodwill. Absorbing goodwill throughout the year and then Christmas night he flies around the Earth releasing all he absorbed.
“So that’s why everyone always gets cranky around the holidays, because we are running low on goodwill..”
“Oh shiny balls, yes.”
I think that might be one of the best ways to accurately describe what happens around the holidays.
Mostly because I was also running extremely low on niceness and goodwill. I blame the commercialization of the holiday as the main contributor to it… but not the only one.
Give it a watch, the series isn’t bad: And Santa’s Midnight Run
Did I mention it has Bruce Campbell as Santa??
P.S.
Shiny balls comes from the part of the episode:
Cassandra: Mrs. Clause is real?!
Jenkins: Oh, shiny balls, yes!
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