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Christmas Movie Trope Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. Unorganized Santa
  2. Decorations you’d have to leave up all your because of how much work it would be to take them back down
  3. Parent death
  4. Inconsistent or illogical Christmas magic
  5. Gift of the Magi plot line
  6. “Family won’t be home for Christmas” threat
  7. Occasionally a musical
  8. Being divorced makes you unable to make a good meal
  9. Green Christmas threat
  10. Small child sees the magic and everyone around them dismisses them only to be proven wrong
  11. Unrealistically mature child
  12. Over ambitious elves
  13. Very busy on Christmas Eve (parties etc)
  14. Wise adult tells children a story
  15. Unreasonably mean older sibling
  16. Being surprised by it snowing
  17. Using holly as mistletoe
  18. Emotionally unavailable parent
  19. “It’s a Christmas miracle”
  20. Weird implication that there are no non-Christmas holidays
  21. Winter activities (ice skating, snow angels, etc.)
  22. “What Christmas is ACTUALLY about” speech
  23. Morally questionable character becomes a better person because of Christmas
  24. Helping Santa deliver presents
  25. Children not believing in Santa despite having undeniable proof he exists
  26. Christmas deadline
  27. Scroogelike character
  28. Destroyed Christmas tree
  29. Breaking and entering is okay because it’s questionable
  30. Jesus play
  31. Christmas carol playing over unrelated scene
  32. *Minor inconvenience* “CHRISTMAS IS RUINED”
  33. Incredibly annoying family member
  34. Characters with Christmas pun names
  35. Last minute Christmas preparations
  36. “Smart kid” who doesn’t believe in Santa because they “looked at it logically” and didn’t factor in magic
  37. Easily avoidable conflict
  38. Modernization of a Christmas carol/a new Christmas carol written for the movie
  39. Parents not believing in Santa and not questioning presents appearing on Christmas
  40. Awful parent
  41. Santa disguised as a civilian