Nickelodeon Delivers Cheer this December with Five Never-Before-Seen Holiday Themed Episodes and Marathons of Seasonal Favorites

Nickelodeon Delivers Cheer this December with Five Never-Before-Seen Holiday Themed Episodes and Marathons of Seasonal Favorites

Nick Jr.'s "Frosty Fridays" Treats Tots to New Holiday Premieres of Hit Series Yo Gabba Gabba!, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and Max & Ruby

Nickelodeon's "Ha-Ha Holidays" includes the Premiere of a New Holiday Episode of Wayside

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon unwraps presents for kids of all ages weekdays this December as the network delivers its annual lineup of holiday programming, featuring five never-before-seen episodes of Nick Jr.'s Max & Ruby, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Yo Gabba Gabba! and Nickelodeon's Wayside.

Nick Jr. celebrates the holidays with "Frosty Fridays" throughout December as the network treat tots to mini-marathons and brand-new holiday episodes every Friday from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET/PT. As part of "Frosty Fridays," preschoolers can enjoy new episodes every Friday at 1:30 p.m. of their favorite shows, including Max & Ruby (Dec. 7 and Dec. 28), Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (Dec. 14) and Yo Gabba Gabba! (Dec. 21). The marathons will also include seasonal episodes of Nick Jr.'s hit series The Backyardigans, Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Blue's Clues and The Wonder Pets!.

Beginning Monday, Dec. 3 through Friday, Dec. 21, Nickelodeon's "Ha-Ha Holidays" celebration will gift kids with holiday-themed episodes weekdays at 4:00 p.m. (ET/PT) of popular Nicktoons, including SpongeBob SqaurePants, Rugrats and Danny Phantom, among others. In addition, Nickelodeon will premiere a brand-new seasonal episode of Wayside on Friday, Dec. 14 (4:00 p.m., ET/PT). Nickelodeon will present holiday programming on Tuesday, Dec. 25 from 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Following is a rundown of "Frosty Fridays" and "Ha-Ha Holidays" (all times are ET/PT):

   NICK JR: "FROSTY FRIDAYS"    December 7  (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)   12:00 p.m.  The Backyardigans "Secret of Snow"   12:30 p.m.  Go, Diego, Go! "Diego Saves Christmas"   1:00 p.m.   Dora the Explorer "A Present for Santa"   1:30 p.m.   Max & Ruby "Max & Ruby's Christmas Tree/Grandma's Present/               Max & Ruby's Snow Plow" (PREMIERE)               It's time to trim the Christmas tree and Ruby wants to               decorate it with all of her favorite ornaments but Max thinks               his snakes and bugs and other toys are beautiful enough for               the tree.  When Ruby discovers they forgot to put on the star               tree topper, Max puts his pinwheel on top. In the second               story, Grandma, Max and Ruby go to the department store to               finish their Christmas shopping.  Ruby tells Max to keep               Grandma busy while she looks for the perfect Christmas present               for her -- a boa!  Max and Grandma play with cowboy toys while               Ruby discovers that someone else has bought the boa.  In the               final story, there's been a huge snowfall and Ruby decides to               surprise Grandma by shoveling the walk to their house.  Max               would rather play with his pedal car which proves useful when               the shoveling job looks too big to finish.    December 14  (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)   12:00 p.m.   The Wonder Pets!  "Save the Reindeer"   12:30 p.m.   Blue's Clues "Blue's First Holiday"   1:00 p.m.    Go, Diego, Diego!  "Diego Saves Christmas"   1:30 p.m.    Wow Wow Wubbzy!  "O Figgity-Fig Tree/Snow Day" (PREMIERE)                The winter holidays are here, and the kids are building a                winter festival, Madame Zabinga is rehearsing the                Nutty-Nutcracker, and Walden is waiting for the arrival of                blue snow.  Best of all is the lighting of the Figgity-Fig                Tree, and this year Wubbzy wants to make it the best tree                ever!  But as usual, he overdoes it by adding too many lights                and blows out the generator.  Without any lights, the                Wuzzleburg townspeople must come up with novel ways of                decorating the tree.  In "Snow Day," Wubbzy goes sledding and                Widget brings out his snow-shoveling machine.  Walden begins                building a snow sculpture of a Woly-Polar Bear, but soon                Wubbzy sleds right into it, knocks it down and buries                Widget's machine in the snow.  Now Wubbzy and Widget scramble                frantically to fix the sculpture before Walden finds out.    December 21  (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)   12:00 p.m.   Dora the Explorer "A Present for Santa"   12:30 p.m.   Blue's Room "Holiday Wishes"   1:00 p.m.    The Wonder Pets! "Save the Reindeer"   1:30 p.m.    Yo Gabba Gabba "Christmas" (PREMIERE)                So much of Christmas is about receiving, but in this episode                the Gabba gang learns about giving through the songs "Making                Presents" and "For Me For You."  They celebrate winter and                the holiday season in the songs "I Love Winter" and "Decorate                the Tree."  Featured Guest Star:  Mark Mothersbaugh in a                "Mark's Magic Pictures" segment.    December 28  (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)   12:00 p.m.   Miss Spider's SunnyPatch Friends "Hum-Bug/Dashing Through the                Snow"   12:30 p.m.   The Backyardigans "Secret of Snow"   1:00 p.m.    Dora the Explorer "South Pole"   1:30 p.m.    Max & Ruby "Max's Mix-Up/Max's Snow Bunny" (PREMIERE)                On the sledding hill, Ruby is getting cold and wants to go                inside.  Louise and Morris arrive and Morris' winter snowsuit                is identical to Max's, but their hats, mitts and scarves are                different colors.  Max manages to switch his accessories with                Morris so that he can stay out and continue sledding with                Louise. It's not until Ruby gets home that she realizes                there's been a mix-up.  In the second story, Max and Ruby are                entranced by "The Abominable Snow Bunny" radio show and when                they go outside Max is determined to find the creature.  Ruby                reminds him that there's no such thing, but she soon starts                to wonder if there really is a Snow Bunny!  In the final                story, Max wants to play outside even though it's snowing and                blowing.  Ruby tries to engage him in all kinds of inside                activities.  Max gets finger paints and macrame all over the                house and creates chaos with Ruby's dolly tea party.  When                the snow stops and Ruby says they can play outside, Max is                pleased with the havoc he's created and decides to stay                inside.    Holiday-themed episodes will air weekdays at 4:00 p.m. (ET/PT)  

Monday, December 3 - SpongeBob SqaurePants "Patchy the Pirate Presents the SpongeBob SqaurePants Christmas Special"

Nobody in Bikini Bottom has ever heard of Christmas or Santa Claus until Sandy lets them in on this surface tradition. SpongeBob wants to bring Christmas to Bikini Bottom this year and his enthusiasm is infectious. Everyone gets into the picture, waiting for Santa to arrive on the big day. Everyone except Squidward has scoffed at SpongeBob the whole while. When Santa is a no show on Christmas morning, everyone blames SpongeBob for getting their hopes up. But in a surprise ending, SpongeBob is proven right, and Christmas does end up coming after all.

Tuesday, December 4 - Rugrats "The Santa Experience"

The families escape to a mountain cabin in search of "the perfect Christmas." Things get a little crazy when Tommy and Chuckie lay traps for Santa and Chuckie's dad dresses up as Santa and tries to squeeze his way down the chimney.

Wednesday, December 5 - Jimmy Neutron "Holly Jolly Jimmy"

Jimmy is convinced that Santa Claus does not exist. To prove his theory, he travels to the North Pole with Carl and Sheen where they discover a remote toy factory. When Jimmy's homing device malfunctions, it emits a blast of energy that hits the source of the signal -- Santa Claus. With the big guy's atoms temporarily scrambled, who can deliver the presents? Jimmy must now put his doubts aside, load up the hypercube, and try to save Christmas before the people of Retroville have to settle for a new holiday -- "Pule Day". Featured Guest Star: Mel Brooks as Santa.

Thursday, December 6 - Hey, Arnold!

Arnold and Gerald catch a suspicious man on film and they follow him clue-to-clue.

In an effort to win a class poetry contest, Phoebe copies a poem from a book. Thereafter she is haunted by her guilty conscience and the imagined voice of her trophy. Featured Guest Stars: Carol Kane, Jean Smart, George Takei.

Friday, December 7 - Fairly OddParents "Christmas Every Day"

Everyone loves Christmas. Who wouldn't want to celebrate it every day? Apparently the whole world, that's who. The globe is put into gridlock after Timmy wishes for 365 days of Christmas a year. Santa's overworked, Mom and Dad can't work and the other holidays are furious that jolly old Saint Nick is getting all the attention, not to mention all the holiday magic. The other holidays set out to take Santa down for good. Since Wanda and Cosmo are magically-depleted during this Season, Timmy must go it alone to the North Pole in order to save Santa and put the calendar back on schedule.

Monday, December 10 - Rugrats: Chanukah

Tommy leads the babies into another adventure to save Grandpa Boris from the "Meany of Chanukah" - Grandpa's childhood rival, Schlomo. While the Rugrats learn about Chanukah from the Seniors' play entitled "The Meaning of Chanukah," Angelica is determined to find a TV to watch the "Cynthia Christmas Special."

Tuesday, December 11 - Danny Phantom "The Fright Before Christmas"

Danny Fenton hates Christmas. When he accidentally destroys the only copy of a ghostly Christmas story, the book's author, Ghostwriter, makes Danny hate the holiday even more by turning him into the main character of a brand new Yuletide tale. Danny is now trapped in a scenario where everyone talks in rhyme! With his magical Quantum Keyboard, Ghostwriter creates a series of catastrophes that threaten to ruin Christmas for all of Amity Park and pins the blame on Danny. When Danny goes into the Ghost Zone to confront Ghostwriter, he is surprised to find his old ghostly enemies in a giving mood. Danny enlists them to help him defeat the Ghostwriter and restore the spirit of Christmas to Amity Park and, perhaps, to his own heart. Featured Guest Star: Brendan Fraser as Ghostwriter.

Wednesday, December 12 - All Grown Up "The Finster Who Stole Christmas"

As the holiday season approaches, Chuckie is dreading another forgettable Christmas. In order to liven things up, he mistakenly steals a great tree, to replace the lame one Chas has picked out. When he discovers that the whole community is after the thief, he hatches a plan to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, Kira and Kimi are having their own battles with various airline employees in their quest to make it home in time for Christmas, and Tommy and Dil strive to write a memorable Chanukah song.

   Thursday, December 13 - SpongeBob SqaurePants  *See above description    Friday, December 14 - Wayside "Sideways Christmas" (PREMIERE)   "Extra-Curricular Ridicular"  

All the kids are forming bizarre after-school clubs, except for Todd, who creates a plain old "Science Club." Myron laughs at him, believing his club will be better, until he sees Todd's club has managed to build a functioning rocket. Jealous Myron tries to form a "Science Club" and build a rocket of his own.

"Sideways Christmas" - A series of haphazard events confuse Myron into thinking he's actually stuck in his own version of "The Christmas Carol." The other kids are baffled as he mistakes them for Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and in the end, Myron learns his lesson.

   Sunday, December 16 - Holiday-Themed Marathon (2-4 p.m.)   2:00 p.m.       Jimmy Neutron  "Holly Jolly Jimmy"   2:30 p.m.       Fairly Odd Parents  "Christmas Every Day"   3:00 p.m.       Danny Phantom   "The Fright Before Christmas"   3:30 p.m.       SpongeBob SqaurePants "Patchy the Pirate Presents the                   SpongeBob SqaurePants Christmas Special"    Monday, December 17 -    Rugrats: Chanukah   Tuesday, December 18 -   Jimmy Neutron "Holly Jolly Jimmy"   Wednesday, December 19 - Fairly OddParents "Christmas Every Day"   Thursday, December 20 -  Danny Phantom "The Fright Before Christmas"   Friday, December 21 -    SpongeBob SqaurePants "Patchy the Pirate Presents                            the SpongeBob SqaurePants Christmas Special"    Tuesday, December 25 - Holiday Programming   8:30 a.m.   SpongeBob SqaurePants "Patchy the Pirate Presents the               SpongeBob SqaurePants Christmas Special"   9:00 a.m.   The Backyardigans "Secret of Snow"   9:30 a.m.   Go, Diego, Go! "Diego Saves Christmas"   10:00 a.m.  Dora the Explorer "A Present for Santa"   10:30 a.m.  The Wonder Pets!  "Save the Reindeer"   11:00 a.m.  Yo Gabba Gabba "Christmas"   11:30 a.m.  Max & Ruby "Max & Ruby's Christmas Tree/Grandma's Present/Max               & Ruby's Snow Plow"   12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.   Rugrats "Babies in Toyland" (One-hour)   4:00 p.m.              SpongeBob SqaurePants "Patchy the Pirate Presents                          the SpongeBob SqaurePants Christmas Special"   4:30 p.m.              Jimmy Neutron "Holly Jolly Jimmy"   5:00 p.m.              Danny Phantom "The Fright Before Christmas"   5:30 p.m.              Fairly OddParents "Christmas Every Day"    *** See above for descriptions   (**screeners and art available upon request)  

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