Yes, Mickey, Santa Does Shave

A few days before Christmas, Harry is getting ready to plow the snow, however, to his displeasure, snow is not shown on the ground, and the students are treating the weather like it is summer time. The younger kids on the playground are treating it like winter, however, such as building snowmen out of sand, making snow angels in the mud and sledding on the grass. Vince brings up the fact that how when he and the rest of the gang were little kids, they would get excited for the Christmas season, too. The gang all discuss what's on their Christmas lists, and see Mikey over by Queen Barb's jungle gym, writing a letter for Santa Claus, until the bell rings, where he went to go see the tryouts for the Christmas play.

In the auditorium, the kindergartners, Upside-Down Girl, Scammer Kid, Rachel, the Megans and the Aubrees are all on stage for tryouts. Mr. Boyd calls them hooligans and tells them to pipe down, or that they will be in detention until Christmas yet to come. At the same time, Principal Prickly is showing television producer Mr. Ginn the school, to see if he would use it for his Christmas special. Right as Mr. Ginn tells Prickly that the school was like every other school he is been to, Mickey arrives. Originally not wanting to try out and just trying to get into the spirit, Mr. Ginn wants him to be the Santa Claus in the play. Mickey auditions under expectations, until Prickly reminds him of how he sang for the middle school music teacher, Mrs Solomoney. He then belts out a "Ho ho ho!" in his singing voice, and is chosen to play Santa.

After auditioning, the gang are sitting on the school jungle gym when Mickey decides to invite Santa to the play. Rachel hears this and taunts Mickey for still believing in Santa. C.J. tells Mickey that there are kids who do not believe in Santa, though Mickey doesn't understand this. Greta tries to explain that an overweight man in a red suit delivering millions of presents in one night is very unlikely, and he still does not believe her.

Back in the auditorium, Miss Ropey is choreographing the play, and instructing the Aubrees' dance routine as the reindeer in the play. Also, Mr. Ginn is on the phone explaining the Christmas pageant to the television station owner. The gang are sitting in the audience when Mickey brings a stack of encyclopedias to show the gang that Santa is real. Vance reads about Saint Nicholas, and brings up the fact that he died years ago. Mickey still does not believe them, and runs out.

Later that day, the gang are at the mall in line for meeting Santa with Mickey. Mickey runs up the the mall Santa and sits on his lap, and asks him to do a few things for the gang to show them that he is the real Santa. However, the mall Santa cannot take Mickey's weight on his legs, and pushes him off. He asks Christina, his assistant, to get his replacement, which she cannot because he is on break. The gang get their Christmas photo taken- with the mall Santa ripping his beard off.

The gang walk down the street, and Mickey explains that "he was just an imposter", and that the real Santa was going to be in the town's Christmas parade. The gang arrive at the parade, and see Santa Claus in the parade. "Santa" talks to the kids and offers them gifts, making Mickey excited, and Gus even thinking that Santa really does exist. However, when he's getting the kids candy from the back of his sleigh, his beard comes off, and it is revealed that he is actually Mayor Frisbee just trying to get more votes.

After the parade, Mickey hears Santa on the radio, and runs down to the station, K-XMS. He asks the receptionist where Santa is, and she tells him Santa's not there. He runs into the recording station, and sees DJ Rodney MacCormick just doing the voice of Santa for his radio show. Crushed, Mickey leaves in tears, and decides not to appear in the play.

That night, back at the school, Harry is still looking for signs of snow. People begin to arrive for the Christmas pageant, and the gang decide to tell Prickly that Mickey decided not to come. Before they can, Rachel tells Mr Boyd, who tells Prickly. They decide to cast Rachel as Santa.

As Mickey walked down the street alone, he sits at a curb and rips his letter to Santa. An old man at the retirement home on the same street noticed Mickey, and Mickey told the man about how his friends don't believe in Santa. The man tells him that it doesn't matter if you can see him or not, if he believes he is real, he is real.

The Christmas play starts, and each of the kids go up and say something about what they represent. Aside from the Aubrees as reindeer,

Rigalli and Greta come up dressed as Druids for Winter Solstice, Rus as an elf, Vance as "Good King Kwanzaa", C.J. as "Harvey Hanukkah", and finally, Rachel as Santa. Unfortunately, Rachel gets stage fright when it's his turn to come up. All of a sudden, Mickey arrives as Santa, on a sleigh pulled by the kindergartners dressed as elves. He and the gang begin to sing "White Christmas", as it starts snowing outside. After the show ends, Harry throws the doors open and exclaims that it's snowing.

Everyone goes outside and notices the snow, and the kids begin playing in it. The old man whom Mickey met earlier tells Mickey that he did a good job, to which Mickey thanks him for helping him regain his Christmas spirit. As the old man leaves, Mickey asks how he knew about the show, to which he replied Mickey invited him, much to Mickey's confusion. As the old man disappears around the corner, a slip of paper falls out of his pocket. Upon noticing it, Mickey and the others realize it was Mickey's letter to Santa...except he had torn it up and let it blow into the wind.

Racing around the school, the kids look up into sky to see something while the old man is crying "Ho! Ho! Ho!". The kids are dumbfounded, Greta saying "But that means...", while Mickey says "Yeah...Santa shaves".

Mayor Billy Frisbie is Mayor Fitzhugh's counterpart.

Is C.J. playing Harvey Hanukkah or playing a female character?