10 Little Known Facts About Your Favourite Christmas Films
7. A Throwaway Joke Sent Kids To A Sex Line - The Santa Clause
Thanks to a smart usage of the definite article, The Santa Clause feels like more of a Christmas essential than it actually is. A Tim Allen vehicle to capitalise on the popularity of Home Improvement, its a whimsical tale of Santas murderer taking over the job, slotting between Jingle All The Way and Home Alone on the quality scale. Being a Disney film, you expect a story of inadvertent sexual references to crop up and the one for The Santa Clause is a doozy. Early on in the film Scott gets given a phone number and jokes its actually 1-800-SPANK-ME. Thrown in for parents a la every kids movie ever, the implication is obvious. It clearly went over some peoples heads though - clueless parents and curious children rang the number, which in the least shocking development on this list turned out to be a sex chat line. Disney cut the line, but not before they received numerous complaints. Oddly enough people seemed more concerned with the high cost of the line - not only does that raise the balance of priorities, you have to wonder how long they stayed on the phone for.
