“Futurama” has the strangest approach to Christmas episodes of any sitcom, animated or otherwise.
Not only does the show stray away from the typical sappy holiday vibes, but “Futurama” establishes Santa Claus as a terrifying menace from day one and has never changed its tune since.
Santa in this universe is a robot gone bad, much like Skynet in the Terminator franchise, except he only goes on an apocalyptic rampage once a year on Christmas.”Futurama” has always toed the line between horror and humor, and Robot Santa might be the best example of this.
The idea of a mega-corporation designing its own Santa Claus, only for it to malfunction and start murdering millions of people every year with no solution in sight, should be the stuff of nightmares.
But for our main characters, it’s another mundane obstacle to work around.
They put up the security barrier around the building…
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