I love you, America, but...

[lizbee]

...the general puzzlement and confusion because the last-minute hiatus means that all the holiday episodes are out of sync with actual holidays is a bit hilarious to me. Because it's always like that in Australia.

I mean, in the last couple of years our networks have started "fast-tracking", which means airing stuff within a few weeks of the US (or, in the case of Doctor Who, the UK). And it's not like we have a Thanksgiving to sync up to. Or a 4th of July. But delays of months or years are more common -- the first few Doctor Who Christmas specials aired in June!

(And the Christmas/summer period doesn't count towards ratings in Australia, so no local shows bother with such things.)

It wasn't until I got the internet that I realised holiday episodes were even meant to sync up with holidays!

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[innerbrat]

My honest-to-goodness first thought:

"But that's good, because in Australia they have Christmas in June."


...



I'm sorry.


Anyway, in Community it totally makes sense because no matter when it's airing, it's still supposed to be following an academic school year.

[lizbee]

We do have restaurants who do Christmas in July events, for the experience of eating heavy, stodgy food on a cold day instead of a stinking hot one. So I recognise your train of thought.

[innerbrat]

I think that if you think my train of thought can be followed, you're doing my brain too big of a favor.

[lizbee]

Surely it was Christmas -> winter -> winter in Australia is June -> THEREFORE CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA IS JUNE!

????

[innerbrat]

Actually it was "Christmas in Australia is in summer -> June is in summer -> THEREFORE CHRISTMAS IS IN JUNE."

But I guess it's not that hard to follow, just embarrassing as heck.

Note to self: The clock has timezones, the calendar does not.

[lizbee]

Ah, yeah, okay, I wouldn't have followed you down that path!

[philippos42]

Hm. Christmas in June. If it's a wintry story, I guess it makes sense?

[capri0mni]

Note to self: The clock has timezones, the calendar does not

Unless you happen to be Neo-Pagan... those folks (regardless of which hemisphere they're in) make it a tenet of the faith that the holidays are meant to sync up with the natural cycles of the seasons.

So Australian Christian Christmas is in December, but Australian Pagan Yule is in June...

/former self identified Neo-Pagan (now a pagan-leaning atheist)

[weaver]

I love you the most.