I'm a big fan of giving characters jobs--the characters can then talk about something other than the problem of the week. (In Bones, interestingly, the job of parenting and marriage become the secondary topic for Bones and Booth to discuss during cases.)
A number of shows produce working Santas. Bones, for instance, produces a Santa who may, in fact, be the REAL Kris Kringle. Bones and Booth then have to deal with other working Santas, including their bells.
Castle produces a dead Santa; he was trying to fix a past mistake that happened in a previous job.
In MASH, Hawkeye--in a Santa outfit--has to go off suddenly to the front. A soldier in a foxhole is amazed to see that Santa is...real!
And in Frasier, Roz falls for hottie Dean Cain, but only when he is working as Santa.
There are many, many more examples.
The working aspects of Santa's life can be fodder for mystery and sitcom plots as much as the lore of Santa.
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