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Everyone loves the holidays! They're all so cheerful and fun! Everyone loves giving gifts on Christmas, hunting for eggs on Easter, going trick-or-treating on Halloween, and everything in between.
Wouldn't it be great if these very special days, full of fun and purposefully bringing the world together, were combined to make one day of very special events in one way or another, even just for a day?
A Holiday Mashup is when two or more holidays are mashed with each other. This may or may not be due to the fact that Special Occasions Are Magic and can be done in two specifically well-known ways:
- Two or more holidays are combined to make one (e.g. Christmas and Easter being mashed together to create "Chris-ster", a day the characters celebrate by giving each other gifts and looking for several colored eggs).
- The faces of the holidays meeting up with each other (e.g., Santa Claus meeting the Easter Bunny and going on an adventure to save their holidays from being canceled).
- Sometimes, this can even be done by having both happen. To give an idea of how this may happen, the Easter Bunny may grow tired of doing nothing but hiding eggs for children to find every single Easter, so he calls Santa Claus to help him create "Chris-ster" and spread joy to the world on this new day.
- The minimum point of this trope may occur when another holiday is mentioned in an episode meant to be for another holiday, such as when a character makes a brief mention of Christmas in a Halloween Episode.
A Super-Trope to Monster Mash, wherein several famous fictional monsters (often associated with Halloween) crossover. A Sub-Trope of Massive Multiplayer Crossover. Compare Fairy Tale Free-for-All. Related to Interfaith Smoothie, when this happens by combining elements of various religions (and can easily overlap if, say, Santa Claus is lighting the Hanukkah candles). Contrast Everyone Is Christian at Christmas, when other holidays get overlooked for the big one.
May be the subject of a Holiday Episode.
See also Christmas Enthusiast, Halloween Enthusiast, and Holiday Aficionado.
Examples:
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Advertising
- One Nickelodeon Station Ident had a jack-o'-lantern turn into a pumpkin pie, signifying the transition from Halloween to Thanksgiving.
- Combined with Christmas Creep, in 2012, coupon aggregate site RetailMeNot launched the OctoNovemCember shopping campaign, and with it came its own mascot, Pumpkin-Headed Turkey Claus, who, as the story goes, was created when a turkey feather landed in Santa's pumpkin patch. Yes, this was real
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- Virgin Mobile did a holiday commercial in 2004 that popularized the term "Christmahanukwanzaa", combining the three major December holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, emphasizing an interfaith celebration. The company later gave Christmahanukwanzaa an official date of December 13.
"It's okay if you're a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew... Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah to you."
Anime & Manga
- Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: The First Kiss Never Ends arc reveals that Fujiwara's family traditionally mashes up Christmas with Shinto New Year's practices, dating back to an incident several years prior where her older sister decided to recycle their Christmas tree as a kadomatsu.
Comic Books
- The Long Halloween: While the story kicks off during the Halloween season, each successive murder committed by Holiday takes place on subsequent holidays.
Fan Works
- "Chanukmas", a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic, has Buffy and Willow, who are an established couple in this story, invent a Christmas/Chanukah hybrid holiday to celebrate together.
- For the Glory of Irk: At several points Lor, and to a lesser extent the other Syndicate members, show a total inability to fully grasp Earth holidays, and keep getting them mixed up. In the first Halloween Episode, Lor thinks that they need to put up a Christmas tree (or a "Halloween tree" as he calls it) to place Easter eggs under. And in the first Christmas Episode, when pulling Dib aside for an Under the Mistletoe moment, he pulls out a four-leaf clover instead.
- The Xavier Winter Holiday Rules mentions a Noodle Incident where a few students tried to combine several winter holidays into one big celebration. The resulting "Christmakkuhkwanzaa Extravaganza" was considered a disaster by everyone in attendance, with contributing factors being Pam Greer having a role in the Nativity play and a collective effort to have a shirtless St. Ewan McGregor instead of St. Nick (with someone attempting to start a petition to get a shirtless St. Bea Arthur).
Film — Animated
- The Nightmare Before Christmas is the Trope Codifier. Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, stumbles upon Christmas Town and is inspired to make his own twisted version of Christmas, having Santa kidnapped so he can deliver the presents instead. This all goes horribly wrong when the children hate their scary presents, and Jack has to save Santa before agreeing to stay in his lane. The film ends with Santa bringing some snow to Halloween Town so they can experience a taste of Christmas after speeding off to correct Jack's mistake. There is also a grove with doorways to other holiday-themed lands, such as Easter and Thanksgiving.
- Rise of the Guardians: Nick St. North (aka Santa Claus) and E. Aster Bunnymund (aka the Easter Bunny) work together alongside Jack Frost, the Tooth Fairy and Sandman as the Guardians of Childhood. The film takes place around Easter, but shows the characters at the North Pole as well as Bunnymund's Warren on Easter Island.
Film — Live-Action
- The Santa Clause: The Council of Legendary Figures, guardians of holidays and children all around the world, includes Santa, Cupid, and the Easter Bunny.
Literature
- Holiday Heroes: The eponymous Holiday Heroes are a group of holiday-themed superheroes who are considered the In-Universe embodiments or personifications of their respective holidays. Their members are Baby New Year (New Year's Eve/New Year's Day), Miss Cupid (Valentine's Day), Halloween Man (Halloween), La Calavera (Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos), and Christmas Girl (Christmas).
- In Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg, after the titular character conquers a season-cancelling blizzard, he holds a festival for the settlers to celebrate all of the holidays that had been missed. The accompanying illustration depicts children dressed in Halloween costumes dancing around a Christmas tree while a Thanksgiving feast is laid out, along with a massive cake to celebrate everyone's birthday.
Live-Action TV
- 30 Rock: In "The Return of Avery Jessup" Jack throws Avery a party combining all the holidays she missed during her year in North Korea.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: "Valloweaster", the annual Halloween Heist ends up spanning three holidays (Halloween, Valentine's Day, and Easter) due to the MacGuffin getting swallowed twice, leading to no immediate winner. As a result, the characters wear Halloween costumes, use Valentine's flowers as a decoy, and dress up as Easter bunnies all in one episode. Invoked by Rosa Diaz, who made sure the heist lasted so long so that she could claim not one, but three victories in one fell swoop because she was sick of hearing Jake, Holt and Amy argue which one of them was the only two-time Halloween Heist winner.
- The Eric Andre Show: "The Eric Andre New Year's Eve Spooktacular" is largely a New Year's Eve special with some extra Halloween theming, and it also throws in Rosh Hashanah and the Superbowl into the mix.
- Family Feud: One question was about who would deliver presents if Santa got sick on Christmas. One contestant said "The Easter Bunny". It was on the board.
- The O.C.: Seth Cohen explains that his household celebrates "Chrismukkah", a term he made up due to growing up with a Jewish father and Protestant mother. According to Word of God, it both celebrates and underlines Seth's outsider status in predominantly-Christian Newport.
- "Studio C": Mallory tests new husband Matt with this in a Season 1 sketch.
- Sesame Street:
- In this News Flash segment, Kermit is preparing to hold an interview with Santa Claus, only for the Easter Bunny to show up instead, with a sack of Halloween stuff to give to the kids, followed by a witch with a basket of eggs claiming to be the "Easter Witch". While Kermit tries to explain that they're getting their holidays mixed up, Santa does arrive... only for him to think that Kermit is him!
- In Elmo Saves Christmas, to convince Elmo on why having Christmas Every Day is a bad idea, Santa sends him on a journey through the year ahead to see how the world will be affected, during which Elmo experiences Christmas at Easter (complete with the Easter Bunny trying to hand out "Christmas Eggs") and the Fourth of July.
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Music
- The blink-182 song "I Miss You", being lyrically inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas, has the lyric "We'll have Halloween on Christmas".
- Blues Traveler: "Christmas" (from A Very Special Christmas 3) references other December holidays in the chorus:
If it’s Chanukah or Kwanza,
Solstice, Harvest, or December 25th,
Peace on Earth to everyone
And abundance to everyone you’re with. - Squirrel Nut Zippers: "Mardi Gras for Christmas" is about wanting to celebrate Mardi Gras in December:
I'll hang my stocking on the balcony,
Gold and purple tinsel on the evergreen. - Songdrops: "The 13 Nights of Halloween" is a spoof of "The 12 Days of Christmas" about witches sending the singer stuff on the nights leading up to Halloween.
Radio
- Car Talk: One 1998 broadcast used the term "Hanumas" to combine Hanukkah and Christmas.
Theatre
- Disney on Ice: Let's Celebrate centers on Mickey and friends celebrating various holidays at once, with focus given to Halloween, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, and Christmas. Notably, the show marks Jack Skellington's only appearance in a Disney On Ice production to date.
Theme Parks
- Doubling as a Crossover with The Nightmare Before Christmas, the main conceit of The Haunted Mansion Holiday seasonal overlay at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland is that Jack has arrived to deck out the gloomy estate for Christmas as only he can, complete with jack-o'-lanterns, a macabre gingerbread house, a dead tree with spider ornaments, scary toys, and the mansion cemetery covered with snow.
- Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana is based around this, with its lands themed to Christmas, Halloween, the Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving.
Video Games
- The Battle Cats: Certain event stages (primarily million downloads celebration, Tower and Total War stages) bring together enemies from many different monthly or seasonal events. For example, Event All-Stars Grand Jubilee! - Megaton Blast contains Summer Festival, Cultural Festival, Christmas and Winter event enemies.
- Date Everything!: Holly is the personification of the concept of holidays, so her design incorporates visual nods to many holidays: a skeleton around her neck that is indicative of Halloween (or Día de Los Muertos), a red Chinese lantern and fireworks as two earrings (for the Chinese New Year), a bunny hat (for Easter), some four-leaf-clovers and Christmas lights as hair decorations (for St. Patrick's Day and Christmas), and a pink dress with pink hearts on it (for Valentine's Day)
- Kingdom of Loathing has its own internal calendar for determining in-universe holidays, but celebrates real-life ones as well when they happen IRL. So what happens when The Feast of Boris (in-universe Thanksgiving due to Archetypical Hero Boris' massive appetite) falls on St. Patrick's Day, or St.* Sneaky Pete's Day (in-universe St. Patrick's Day due to Archetypical Hero St. Sneaky Pete's love of cocktails, and possible enduring practical joke of forcing everyone to choke down foul-tasting green beer in his memory) falls on Thanksgiving? Drunksgiving, where everyone fights and kills and then subsequently devours the corpses of alcohol-infused food golems.
- Final Fantasy XIV: Due to production issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, some holiday events were merged together into single events. In 2021, Valentine's and Little Ladies (an analogue to Children's Day, which is unique to Japan) temporarily became one event and it helped that they were already close to each other.
- Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished has the Trope Namer, the Holiday Mashup world, which incorporates elements from various holidays, events, and seasons: Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Lunar New Year, Super Bowl Sunday, Christmas, birthdays, summer, and spring. This extends to the music, which uses bells and piano for Christmas, theremin and harpsichord for Halloween, bagpipes for St. Patrick's Day, and rock guitar for summer, among other instruments.
Web Animation
- Blockhead: Blockhead has a holiday he made up which he celebrates on a random day which he refers to as "Ghostmas". While primarily based on Halloween, his talk about it in his song for it makes it clear it also has elements of Christmas (caroling) and Valentine's (love).
- The premise of Holidaze revolves around a mashup of Halloween and Christmas, albeit limited to two characters who invoke it rather than a widespread celebration. After experiencing misery during his latest Halloween and seeing that he has no chance to remedy his experience with the shift to Christmas, the Halloween spirit Jangle tries to hang out with the Christmas spirit Jingle over their respective holidays' shared involvement of candy, and the two end up becoming life partners fairly quickly, progressively dressing in the style of each other's holidays as the short film progresses, and eventually setting up a tree with both Christmas and Halloween decors at the end of the short to consolidate a Holiday Mashup.
- Pencilmation: For the most part, "Tricky Treat" is a Halloween Special, involving the hijinks that ensue between a witch, a Wolfman, Frankenstein's Monster, a vampire, and a man with a pumpkin for a head. But the short ends on a note more akin to Thanksgiving, with the Wolfman and pumpkin-head landing in the witch's cauldron, resulting in an explosion that turns the witch and the vampire into pilgrims, Frankenstein's monster into an Indian, and the Wolfman and pumpkin-head into a roast turkey and a pumpkin pie.
Webcomics
- Boyfriends.: In one episode, the Goths decorate the Boyfriends' Christmas tree with skulls, pumpkins, bats and other "goth" decorations, whilst also propping up a toy skeleton. When Jock, Nerd and Prep come home and see the end result, their first thought is "Did we go back to Halloween?"
- Full Frontal Nerdity: The guys once created a holiday called Thanksmasoween. Not because they love holidays so much (though they're quite enthusiastic about Halloween and Christmas) but because they're annoyed over the way stores were mashing all three of the Holidays together with their advertising.
Web Video
- Sanders Sides:
- "EMBARRASSING PHASES: The Nightmare Instead of Christmas", released on Christmas Eve, starts with Thomas celebrating Christmas before Virgil protests, since they've had a Christmas episode before but never had a Halloween one. Virgil wants to take the opportunity to feel like his old scary self again, and the other sides take the opportunity to dress in scary costumes (except for Patton, who thought "Wolfman" said "Woofman").
- In "The Nightmare Before SPIRIT CHRISTMAS", released in the lead-up to Halloween 2024, Roman gets word that Spirit Halloween would soon produce Spirit Christmas stores. Virgil comments that it's the same plot as The Nightmare Before Christmas, causing Roman to imagine the Sides singing a parody of "Making Christmas", mashing up Halloween and Christmas.
Western Animation
- The Amazing World of Gumball: The episode "The Lie" has Gumball so depressed by the fact that it’s January and that all of the holidays are over, he creates a new Grindcore-Metal-Christmas-like holiday for everyone to celebrate called Suzzle Tag, which is so captivating that the entire town gets in on it; Putting barbed wire on the toilet seats for Sluzzle Dude and his vicious Dobermans arrival, feasting on the greasiest Sluzzlewursts imaginable at seasonal holiday prices, and enjoying the Sluzzle Tag animated special before waking to the presence of last December’s thrown-away gifts next to the toilet seats.
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The episode "T-Shirt of the Living Dead" features both the Easter Bunny (along with his twin brother and several other duplicates) and Santa Claus, who are summoned by Meatwad with an ancient T-shirt that Shake stole from a museum.
- Arthur: In "The Long, Dull Winter", the gang tries to beat the winter doldrums by inventing a new holiday. Buster proposes "Give-Me-Candy Day" in which Trick-or-Treaters bring bags of candy to him, and after he’s eaten his fill, he gives the rest away to children à la the Easter Bunny.
- Carol & the End of the World: The episode "Holidays" has people celebrating Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving at the same time, and unseasonably early too, because the Earth is going to be destroyed before any of those holidays would happen.
- ChalkZone: In the Christmas Episode "When Santas Collide", it’s revealed that the residents of ChalkZone celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, and Diwali on one day known as "Chris-Hanukkah-Mas". In the same episode, Rudy's dad accidentally receives an Easter Bunny costume in the mail instead of a Santa Claus suit.
- Clone High: Slight inversion. In the holiday special, "Snowflake Day A Very Special Holiday Episode", it’s revealed that in the Clone High universe, all religious holidays, such as Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, have been banned in favor of the non-denominational Snowflake Day. Traditions include lamb tacos, cabbage patch dances and the holiday's figurehead, a pirate named Snowflake Jake, who brings children spices upon spices if they threaten him just right.
- Daria: "Depth Takes A Holiday" sees the Anthropomorphic Personifications of several Holidays manifesting in Lawndale. The oversized cherub, Cupid (Valentine's Day), joined by the personifications of Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, and "some British Guy'' (representing the obscure, to Americans, Guy Fawkes' Day) getting together to form a band — only to argue and break up owing to "artistic differences".
- Dilbert: Invoked with Dogbert Day, as it's literally a replacement for all other holidays. So it takes the veneration of a beloved figurehead and their Great Works, both religious (Christmas, Easter, St. Valentine's Day) and secular (Veteran's/Rememberance Day, President's Day), plus NYC's annual Thanksgiving Day parade, Christmas's gift exchange, and Labour Day's legally-enforced extra day off work, chucks them all in a blender, and sprinkles it with Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter's enforced spending time with relatives you'd sooner see dead and traditional menu. The key difference is that it's all about venerating some nobody computer engineer's megalomaniacal talking dog (yes, really).
- Doug: The Disney episode "Doug's Secret Christmas" reveals that Yakestonian foreign exchange student Fentruck celebrates Christmas more akin to Halloween in Yakestonia. Roger Klotz repeatedly tries to correct him on his holidays, insisting that what he is celebrating is Halloween. Fentruck refutes this by clarifying that Halloween in Yakestonia is basically Easter.
- DuckTales (2017): Downplayed. In "Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!", one scene has Della try to make up for missing 10 years' worth of birthdays, holidays, and milestones by making three different cakes for her sons that try to encompass all of them.
Della: Congratulations Birthday Valentine, Merry Flag Day Just Because, Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Arrrr-bor Day!
- The Fairly OddParents!: In "Christmas Every Day", Timmy wishes it was Christmas Every Day, which (besides the usual unintended consequences) draws the ire of the other holidays' mascots — Cupid, the April Fool, the Easter Bunny (and his pet dog, the Hallo-Weiner), and Baby New Year. Believing Santa to be responsible, they team up to kill him in the hope it will end the "Groundhog Day" Loop and so they can create a new "super holiday" in Christmas' place called Hallneweasterweenentine Day.
- Futurama: At the climax of "Bender's Big Score", Robot Santa, Kwanzaa-Bot, and the Chanukah Zombie team up to create an arsenal of weapons to help the ragtag human resistance take on the scammers' fleet of solid gold Death Stars.
- Gravity Falls: In the eponymous, "Summerween" episode, Grunkle Stan reveals that the town of Gravity Falls, OR loved celebrating Halloween so much that they created a second Halloween-like holiday in the middle of summer break to celebrate it all over again. Melon-o-lanterns and candy galore for all who dare to trick-or-treat on Summerween night.
- Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen has Rusty the Reindeer, brother of Rudolph, meet a support group for depressed holiday characters consisting of the Easter Bunny, Cupid, a pair of Halloween ghosts, and a Thanksgiving turkey.
- How Murray Saved Christmas: The story takes place in a town called "Stinky Cigars" in which basically any and every holiday mascot that existed lives and interacts with each other (the name was picked as a way to ward off any human who'd come across it). In fact it acts as a bit of a plot point concerning the main character, Murray, who seems a bit odd being the only normal one among the holidays that run the local cafe. It's revealed he was a mascot to a holiday called "Milkman Day" back in the past until it fell into obscurity, leaving him purposeless for a while.
- Invader Zim: In the climax of "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever" Zim dressed up as The Easter Platypus and convinces the human race that Dib was the one who killed Santa Claus.
- Milo Murphy's Law: In "Milo Murphy’s Halloween Scream-a-Torium!", Cavendish and Dakota celebrate Halloween for the first time, but not having an idea on how to celebrate, Dakota researches how to trick or treat on the internet and they arrive to their first house with turkey, toilet paper pranks, a candy apple with birthday candles and eggs to hide.
- The Pogo Special Birthday Special has all the animal characters celebrating their favorite holiday on the same day.
- Although Rankin/Bass Productions are most famous for their Christmas specials, they also have several specials for other holiday that still use their Christmas characters.
- Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The special is primarily focused on Easter, with main character Peter oversleeping a competition that would have decided the next Easter Bunny, and is given a time machine to try to redo it. Instead, he keeps landing on other holidays (the 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine's Day) trying to give themed eggs on each holiday until finally succeeding on St. Patrick's Day. Most notably, his trip to Christmas features an appearance from Santa (using the same model from Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and voice actor from Frosty the Snowman).
- Rudolph's Shiny New Year is a New Year's special where the Baby New Year (who will help bring in the next year) is kidnapped. With a dangerous blizzard also taking place, Santa sends Rudolph and his shiny red nose to take the responsibility.
- Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July acts as the Grand Finale for the Rankin/Bass universe, featuring Rudolph and Frosty going to a 4th of July circus performance and helping to perform. It also, surprisingly, adds quite a bit of lore to Rudolph's first adventure and features plenty of callbacks to the team's other Christmas specials.
- The First Easter Rabbit details the origin story of the Easter Bunny, describing how he was brought to life from a stuffed rabbit that was given as a Christmas present, brought to a magically warm and sunny area of the North Pole known as Easter Valley, and is rescued by Santa after the valley is hit with a blizzard.
- Robot Chicken: The "Lots of Holidays (But Don't Worry Christmas is Still in There Too So Pull the Stick Out of Your Ass Fox News) Special" features sketches centered on a specific holiday such as three sketches focusing on Baby New Year killing anyone who fails to hold up their New Year's Resolution, a Jewish boy rapping about Hanukkah gelt, a Memorial Day themed Smurfs sketch, Alvin and the Chipmunks trying out songs for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and St. Patricks Day, and two Christmas sketches focused on Santa Claus.
- The Simpsons: The opening scene of "White Christmas Blues" sees Homer not wanting to take down the Halloween decorations and just repurposing them as Christmas ones instead, such as stacking jack-o'-lanterns into a snowman shape and arranging monster figures into a Nativity scene.
Homer: Well, I say "Boo Humbug"!
- South Park: The subplot of "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" involves Cartman being excited for Christmas despite it being Halloween, ordering Christmas presents from a catalogue and singing Christmas carols.
- Teen Titans Go! has done this in several episodes, usually involving Santa trying to conquer the other holidays:
- In "The Teen Titans Go Easter Holiday Classic", after the Easter Bunny goes missing, Santa offers to deliver the eggs. However, this turns out to be a smokescreen so that Santa can take over Easter and it's revealed that he’s behind the Easter Bunny's disappearance, and has also kidnapped Cupid, the St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun, the Thanksgiving Turkey, and George Washington (representing Presidents' Day).
- In "Halloween vs. Christmas", after Santa steals all the Halloween decorations and candy, the Titans summon the Great Halloween Spirit, and enlist the aid of Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman to square off against Santa and his helpers.
- In "A Holiday Story", Santa is punished for his repeated attempts to overthrow the other holidays by being kicked out of “The Holiday Mob”, led by the Baby New Year. In addition to the previously-mentioned holiday figureheads (except for the Halloween Spirit), a Groundhog's Day groundhog is also a member.
- Wander Over Yonder: "The Gift" and "The Gift 2: The Giftening" are a downplayed example, as neither holiday is mentioned by name, but because of the Two Shorts format of the show, the Halloween Episode and the Christmas Episode are paired together, and they also take place at the same time. "The Gift" (which aired second, in December) has Wander giving everyone they met over "this season... of our lives" a gift, and this includes Lord Hater and his watchdogs, but Hater reacts to this generosity with fear. "The Gift 2: The Giftening" (which aired first, in October) is this episode from Hater's perspective, with him dealing with a Zombie Apocalypse-like scenario because Wander's gifts have sent his minions into a zombie-like state of "the happies".
Real Life
- Can happen in real life with holidays on different calendars. For example, Christmas can come before, after, or at the same time as Hanukkah. It's also possible, should Hanukkah fall in the right place, for it to overlap with Kwanzaa, leading to a real-life "Christmahanukwanza."
- There's also stock photos of people celebrating Jewish holidays, where it's clear they don't know anything about them, since they have a menorah, matzah, and a shofar on the same table (or some other combination).
- In Muslim-majority countries that also celebrate non-Muslim holidays, some holidays (especially those based on the lunar calendar), can cross over. An example would be in Malaysia, where the Muslim holiday of Eid (Eid-Il-Fitr, Aidilfitri and other variants depending on the country) that signifies the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadhan can cross over with the Chinese New Year. In such cases it is typical to see red decorations representing Chinese New Year up alongside green ones representing Eid.
- Halloween and Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) often overlap with each other due to the latter taking place directly after (or in some cases, during) the former, especially after Halloween started to gain mainstream popularity in Mexico. This has led to many painting their faces like calaveras during Halloween.
- 2013 saw the first ever Thanksgivukkah, wherein American Thanksgiving and Hannukkah fell during the same period; specifically, the first day and second night of Hannukkah occurred on November 28th, 2013. This is a rare occasion; the last time this could have occurred was in 1918, and the next time it will occur is in 2070.
- Easter Sunday in 2018 ended up falling on April 1 aka April Fools' Day, leading some people to dub it "Easter Fools' Day" that year.
- German and Austrian Jews have used the term "Weihnukka", a combination of the words "Weihnachten" (Christmas) and "Hanukkah", since the 1800s-early 1900s to celebrate both December holidays.
