Snowflake Day is an annual winter holiday that is celebrated in December, where everybody celebrates snowflakes and awaits the arrival of Snowflake Jake, a pirate captain who comes to people homes and gives them spices. It is an all-inclusive, non-religiously specific holiday that serves as a stand in for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, so that everybody can be involved. Although the holiday is usually overshadowed by the glitz and glamour of media and material objects, the true meaning of Snowflake Day is about spending time with your friends and family. It appeared in "Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Special".
Biography[]
Snowflake Day was first established in 2001, when the United Nations abolished all religiously specific holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa for the sake of making everybody feel included. The second annual Snowflake Day of 2002 took place in "Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Special".
Observances and Traditions[]
Decorations[]
- Public Snowflake Day decorations usually includes a giant snowflake in the middle of town square, which was decorated with a bunch of snowflake ornaments.
- The former Christmas tree lighting is replaced by the all-inclusive lighting of a giant snowman.
- People's homes are decorated with snowflakes hanging on the walls instead of hanging up Christmas Wreaths or Stars of David.
- In Cleo's House, there was a snowflake-shaped menorah sitting on top of the TV.
Music and Carols[]
Snowflake Day has taken the tunes of existing Christmas and Hannukah songs and rewritten them to have secular snowflake and spice related lyrics. A commonplace dance for Snowflake Day is the cabbage patch dance.
- A group of carolers were seen at the start of the episode, singing some kind of angelic chorus.
- JFK released an album called "JFK Sings the Er-Uh Snowflake Day Hits", where he sang various Snowflake Day songs to the tune of famous Christmas and Hanukkah songs. (i.e. "You're a Mean One, Mrs. Wench", "Snowflake Jake is Cumin to Town", "Cayenne the Red-Ground Pepper", and "Away in a Taco No Spice For My Lamb")
- Gandhi had to do a "Snowflake Sombrero Dance", while working at T.G.I. Chili's, where he wore a Snowflake-themed sombrero that Abe lit on fire and danced the Mexican hat dance.
Food and Cuisines[]
The most prominent food of Snowflake Day is spices, like cumin, cayenne, ground pepper, which is said to be brought to people's homes by Snowflake Jake in place of actual presents.
- Lamb Tacos are a hallmark of Snowflake Day.
- Cleo needed Joan to serve crackers at her snowflake party.
- Pigs-in-Blankets were also being served at the snowflake party, which Joan stuffed with razor blades.
Cards[]
- As Joan pointed out, Snowflake Day is a meaningless holiday like Valentine's Day and Easter, which was invented by the Greeting Card Industry to sell more greeting cards. This nearly got her assassinated by agents who worked for the Greeting Card Industry.
Gift Giving[]
Gift giving is a very big part of Snowflake Day.
- Parties generally involve the exchange of Snowflake Care Satchels.
Media[]
- "Snowflake Jake Saves Snowflake Day" is a classic snowflake day movie that gets replayed every year around Snowflake Day. It is a stop-motion movie, reminiscent of the Rankin-Bass Christmas movies, wherein Snowflake Jake teaches the misinformed religiously-specific holiday figures Santa Claus, Dreidelstein, and King Kwanzaa all about how celebrating their religions is oppressive. The overall moral of the movie is "Specificity be the enemy of unity."
Trivia[]
- Although the exact date of Snowflake Day is unknown, it is established to take place in late December, likely around December 25th-January 1st, the same timespan of Christmas and Kwanzaa.
- In "Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Special", Principal Scudworth wrote that it had been a year since the United Nations banished religious holidays and replaced them with Snowflake Day. Given that this episode took place in the latter half of 2002, it can be assessed that the first ever Snowflake Day was celebrated in December of 2001.
- Snowflake Day being a non-religiously specific holiday being forced onto the country by the government is a satire on the ongoing War on Christmas and how corporations like the ACLU try to forbid schools, companies, and public parks from exhibiting public displays of things like Christmas trees and Santa Claus decorations, whereas not to offend any non-Christian people.
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