Christmas Cartoon Memes For Maximum Festive Screen Time

Updated on December 14, 2025

I sat down this morning to put on “background noise” while I answered emails and somehow ended up building a full watchlist from a thread of Christmas cartoon memes instead. One Bob’s Burgers screenshot later, I’m not working—I’m ranking holiday specials and debating which episodes deserve a permanent spot in December rotation.

Pretty soon my brain was doing a full nostalgia tour. There’s a Hulu playlist that’s basically a shrine to Bob’s Burgers Christmas chaos, that cursed kid from The Polar Express reminding us why mute buttons exist, and a Heat Miser vs Snow Miser collage that feels like it crawled straight out of 70s reruns and into modern Christmas memes without losing a step.

30 Christmas Cartoon Memes For Holiday Screen Time

Once you scroll the full gallery, you realize these screenshots are basically holiday mood boards. SpongeBob hugging a deeply over-it Squidward-Santa is the exact energy of every office party where one coworker is aggressively festive and everyone else is thinking about Netflix and leftovers. Tina Belcher quietly spiraling through small talk at a crowded gathering might be the most accurate cartoon memes representation of social anxiety ever drawn.

The kid-focused bits hit just as hard. Patrick Star acting as the star on a coral Christmas tree makes me want to ditch reality and spend December in Bikini Bottom. Meanwhile, the annoying kid in The Polar Express has become a universal villain; every funny Christmas pictures compilation finds room to roast him like a chestnut. This is the internet’s one bipartisan stance: that child must be muted.

Disney+ nostalgia sneaks in through those classic Mickey, Winnie the Pooh, and Donald Duck holiday shots. One collage of vintage Disney animation can instantly transport you back to falling asleep on the couch under a too-warm blanket while some VHS recording of a Christmas special hums in the background. These Christmas cartoon memes work because they’re screenshots of a feeling, not just a show.

And of course, there’s the “too real” stuff. Mrs. Puff wearing all the gifts she “bought for other people,” dads screaming about wrapping paper cleanup like SpongeBob with the trash bag, and Beavis and Butt-Head begging Mariah Carey to shut up on behalf of retail workers everywhere. It’s chaotic, relatable, and just grounded enough in reality that you can smell the pine needles and burnt cookies.

If this gallery of Christmas cartoon memes made you want to cancel your plans and let animation carry the day, keep the festive binge rolling with 30 Christmas Office Memes For People Who Mentally Checked Out, 25 Holiday Cartoon Screenshots That Feel Weirdly Relatable, and 35 Cozy Winter Memes For People Who Just Want Pajamas.

Alex Thompson treats holiday TV like a quarterly systems audit and still measures December productivity in episodes, not emails.