That Christmas VIOLENCE/WORSE 2
– A young girl wanders in a blizzard; the neighborhood searches for her and when her sister finds footsteps near the ocean, she worries that the water has swept her away (the child is found unharmed). The van drives dangerously during a snowstorm, nearly crashing and narrowly avoiding several turkeys; the van lands on the side of the bridge and lands upside down leaving the passengers buckled into their seats and hanging upside down (no one is hurt) until they break free and groan in pain as they fall. A van with people in it slides onto a frozen lake; people stand on the van, the ice starts to crack and everyone screams and panics (it doesn’t fail). In several scenes, several people are trapped in a van in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard. The woman reporting the weather is blown off screen by the wind and we hear her scream.
► The boy in the play is pulled across the audience on the platform; he grabs the rope and stops, shouting, “Ouch!” and his mother gasps in the audience; later he loses his balance, slides down the track, knocks the watermelon (a prop depicting baby Jesus) out of the girl’s hands, and it hits the ground and splashes (we hear the sound of splashing and see audience members covered in watermelon goo). In several scenes, the boy runs to the door and yells, “Ouch!” and rubs his face. A pile of snow fell on the woman and she screams: “Help, I’m killed!”
► Two men are trying to climb a snowy hill; the one in front slips and hits another man, its rear end hits the other man’s face and both fall but are unhurt. The girl frees the turkeys from their cages and they rush out of the barn, knocking people over; people chase them and fall into the snow. People are seen outside during a blizzard and thunderstorm (we see heavy snow falling and hear thunder) in several scenes. Santa Claus and reindeer fly during a blizzard, crashing into some roofs and narrowly avoiding others. Santa slips on the roof and falls, screaming in pain and putting his hands over his groin; falls from the roof, but his leg is caught in a string of Christmas lights and he is hanging from the roof upside down. The reindeer shouts: “We’re going to die!” and then tells Santa, “If you take a tumble, I’ll put you in a home.”
► The wife asks if they should walk when they’re stuck in a blizzard, and her husband says no, unless he wants to lose “toes, fingers, and other soft parts to the cold,” and they talk about the danger of freezing. A few children huddle together and shout things like “I’ll get you” and “this means war”; one boy gets hit in the face by a snowball and is knocked over, and a watching parent says, “Right in the hole!” and the kids start throwing snowballs at the glass door and yelling, “parent attack”. A girl loads a blaster pistol with a kale button and shoots her friends with them; they hit the snowman. In several scenes, a woman pulls hard on her dog’s leash when it resists going inside and it squeals. The woman calls her dogs and shouts at it.
► Several scenes deal with death and refer to deceased loved ones; a woman looks at a photo album with pictures of her late husband and cries, a nurse talks about a dying patient and how “it wouldn’t be nice to die with someone you don’t love holding your hand”, and a man with flowers sits by the monument and we understand that he an elderly mother passed away.
► The girl says that if she doesn’t get the present she wants for Christmas, she’ll trap Santa in a sack and shave his beard; her sister tells her that she can’t blackmail Santa Claus. The woman says she worries about leaving several young children alone with the older girl and thinks she will get distracted and “let the kids light a fire indoors.” The boy hears that the school is closed due to snow and shouts, “Death to Trapper’s dreaded test,” referring to the test scheduled at school that day. The little girl says she and her sister will have “snow tires-ageddon.” The teacher mentions Henry VIII’s wife “who was executed.” The little girl tells her mother not to buy a turkey from a man because he is a “turkey torturer.” The poor reindeer says that Christmas night was “endless, tear off your antlers and eat them”. A woman says “beware the wrath of my rolled-up umbrella” when she suspects carolers at her door. We see a sign at a turkey farm that says, “Kill your own.”
► A little girl making gingerbread makes a monster with a big red frosting that looks like blood. A woman sits on a piano bench and we hear flatulence; she pulls the pillow out from under her and her daughter laughs. A young girl gulps down a soda bottle and then burps loudly.