The Santa Clause/YMMV


 * Cool and Unusual Punishment: What they did to Toy Santa after shrinking him. The only problem is he tries to teach the other Toy santas to dance properly.
 * Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The adults all remember the toys they really wanted for Christmas, and the ones who were disappointed ceased believing in Santa and subsequently have no sense of magic or wonder in their lives.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: the Charlie Sheen quote from the second movie, where Scott believes that he "straightened out". Can be weird to watch knowing what Sheen has been up to as of late.
 * Replacement Scrappy: Curtis in The Santa Clause 3. Not exactly hated, but the general feeling is that he's no Bernard.
 * Sequelitis: This one hit the reindeer the hardest. Tim, too; his heart obviously isn't into it come 3, and he's upstaged completely by Martin Short.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The third movie's sequence where Scott never became Santa takes up far less screentime than one would think. Details over how things are worse for his family (such as Neil and Laura's break-up) are glossed over. Charlie and Carol don't even appear during this sequence.