Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics is an episode of the animated comedy television series, South Park (episode 46), and a CD collection of comic holiday songs featuring the characters from that show.

Synopsis
The episode starts with a cheery song about Mr. Hankey, sung by "Mailman Timmy", and a chorus of South Park residents. Then it pans to Mr. Hankey sitting in an armchair by the fire in his sewer home. He tells the audience all about what's coming up in the episode, and explains that this is going to be a collection of songs dedicated to Christmas and other winter holidays.

We then go through several holiday songs, starting with "The Dreidel Song", sung by Kyle Broflovski.

Kyle is trying to teach Ike how to play with a dreidel, and starts singing the traditional song. Stan and Cartman come along, and Stan starts playing with it, singing his own variant of the song. Cartman makes up his own, insulting, version as well. Sheila then comes along, and starts singing about "Now if you can learn, To make the dreidel spin, Then you'll know why, Us Jews, we always win!". Gerald then arrives, and asks to join in, but he sings a disturbing song about his love for Courtney Cox. What follows is a chorus-medley, as everyone sings their song variants in time to each other.

After that's over, Mr. Hankey says the next song occurs in Hell.

Adolph Hitler is seen kneeling beside an empty tree support. He is singing "Oh Tannenbaum", and crying, as he remembers all his years with Christmas trees. Satan happens by, and, realizing that Hitler's sad because there's no tree, starts up a song about Christmastime in Hell, and, among the dancing and singing that ensues, gives Hitler the tree he wanted.

After this, we see Mr. Mackey, dressed as a bell, singing the "Carol of the Bells".

Then we go back to Mr. Hankey, who says that since many carols are about Jesus Christ, that is what the next song will be about.

We then see Cartman, dressed in formal wear, in the town of Bethelhem. He then sings about how, thanks to Jesus's birth, nowadays people get Christmas presents, and have huge celebrations, and how grateful he is for that.

Then we go back to Mr. Hankey, who says that the next song will be sung by Mr. Garrison.

Mr. Garrison is seen in class, teaching the kids about the countries in which they don't celebrate Christmas, and how he goes into these countries every year, and forces them into celebrating.

We then go to Shelley, singing "I Saw Three Ships", while Stan and Kyle laugh at poke fun at her behind her back. She keeps warning them, and telling them to shut up, but they persist, and she finally takes the piano she was playing, and squishes them both with it.

Mr. Hankey then says that we will next be hearing from the two most important people of Christmastime.

Sant and Jesus are then seen on a stage, singing. Jesus wants to sing carols about himself, while Santa also wants to sing songs about himself. They finally get into a medley of songs, each competing with the other over the song topics.

We then end with Mr. Hankey, and the entire "cast" of the episode singing "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas". The last thing we see is the anchorman fighting with a frizzy monster.

Trivia

 * Though listed separately, O Tannenbaum and Christmas Time in Hell are basically two parts of one song.


 * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is the only un-altered song, and is sung by the entire "cast" in tribute to Mary Kay Bergman. During the lyric "Faithful friends who are dear to us," clips of most of the characters that Bergman voiced (Stan's sister Shelley, Mrs. Crabtree, Liane Cartman, and Mayor McDaniels) are shown in a white haze.


 * Although Hooked on Monkey Phonics was the last episode to feature new recorded lines from Mary Kay Bergman, this episode is the last to feature her voice being that the album the songs in this episode come from was recorded well before Bergman's death.


 * Before and after every commercial break, a live action segment featuring a news anchor is shown, saying "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven." This is a reference to a bootleg tape of The Star Wars Holiday Special which is the source for most of the bootlegs currently available online. The original tape featured a brief clip at the end from WCBS-TV featuring a newscaster informing viewers, "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven." As a novelty, those who reproduce the tape for others have customarily left this unusual clip intact, rather than editing it out. However, while the original news ad was apparently referring to "frizzy" hair, the ending credits of this episode of South Park features the news anchor boxing a man in a giant fuzzy suit.


 * After seeing this episode, Courteney Cox Arquette thanked them for "mentioning her in that episode" (referring to Mr. Broflovski's line in "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") at a dinner of a mutual friend.


 * While most of the songs are featured on the CD, the only song not featured on the CD but on the episode is the duet between Jesus and Santa, which was going to be on the CD, but some of the songs couldn't be legally cleared in time.


 * Although this episode isn't considered canon, Stan and Kyle are both killed with a piano set by Shelley.