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The Trolls and the Christmas Express

(1980)

I swear, Santa's village is worse than Poland- it must get invaded like twice a year. This time some trolls infiltrate the place disguised as elves* so they can sabotage everything. First they try to mess up all the toys on the assembly line, but Santa's quality control is too good so the trolls go to Plan B- they keep the reindeer up all night partying just before Christmas and on Christmas Eve they pass out in mid-air and Santa crashes. It looks like the trolls have pulled it off, but then Santa just takes a train to deliver the presents, even though that means he'd have to build train tracks over the ocean. Logic be damned, you just can't beat Santa Claus. The trolls manage to ruin this plan too, but then they blow their cover so Santa and the elves use spurious logic and homonyms to get them to switch sides. It's probably the first time Christmas has ever been saved by a homonym, and hopefully the last; next time shit like this goes down I wanna see Santa break out the heavy artillery.

*I know this is politically incorrect to admit, but I could never tell the difference between the two anyway.