Whatever: The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time

Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951)

In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his workshop, convinces Santa to go on strike. The special ends with the entropic collapse of the civilization of takers and the spectacle of children trudging across the bitterly cold, dark tundra to offer Santa cash for his services, acknowledging at last that his genius makes the gifts--and therefore Christmas--possible. ...

Yeah, that sounds pretty bad, but, I like the idea of an Algonquin Round Table Christmas (1927). It reminds me of home (drunken back-biting: ah, good times, good times).