Writer:	Scott Williams, Elizabeth Benjamin
Director:	Jeff Woolnough
Star:	Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille "Cam" Saroyan),  Eric Millegan (Zack Addy),  Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro),  T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins),  David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth),  Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan),  John Francis Daley (Dr. Lance Sweets (Episode 53+))
Recurring Role:	Ryan O'Neal (Max Keenan),  Patricia Belcher (Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian)
Guest Star:	Bess Wohl (Amy Hollister),  Loren Dean (Russ Brennan),  Ty Panitz (Parker Booth),  Kacie Borrowman (Little Person Elf),  Robert Dahey (Chinese Waiter),  Alessandra Toreson (Teenaged Girl Elf),  David Ackert (Marty Moussa),  David Doty (Ralph Harley),  Martin Chow (Santa Chung),  Donovan Scott (Santa Larry),  Ernie Grunwald (Santa Fred Spivak),  David DeLuise (Santa Jeff Mantell),  Reginald VelJohnson (Dale Owens),  Skye Casey Arens (Hayley Hollister),  Antonia Michael Fuller (Emma Hollister)

Featured Music:
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives (when they're in Kris Kringle's appartment)
Three different versions of "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" - one by Peggy Lee, one by Michael Kisur and one by The Pointer Sisters (edit) International Air Dates:
Denmark: December 25, 2007 on TV3
Sweden: January 29, 2008 on TV3
Norway: February 14, 2008 on TV3
Spain: March 7, 2008 on FOX Tv Spain
The Netherlands: March 26, 2008 on RTL 4
Portugal: April 3, 2008 on FOX
UK: April 17, 2008 on Sky1
New Zealand: May 26, 2008 on TV3 (edit) Booth and Brennan's kiss scene was recorded on the same day that Couples Counseling Part 5 (one of a series of short Bones clips on Fox's website) was. Their clothes are a perfect match, as well as Brennan's jewelry and Booth's tie. (edit) As of this episode John Francis Daley is a show star, as this is the first time he was added to the opening credits. (edit)

Brennan: (about the Santas) We have to sniff their behinds.
Booth: We have to sniff ... (pauses, confused) You lost me there. (edit) Brennan: Look, Amy will be there, Dad will be there, the girls will be there.
Russ: And you?
Brennan: I was going to, but ... we're not the only people getting the trailer and I thought it would be in the afternoon, but now it's Christmas Eve and ... I gotta be on that plane.
Russ: To Peru?
Brennan: Yeah.
Russ: Tempy, Dad wants us all. And you're one of us. (edit) Cam: So Santa was definitely murdered. Someone didn't like their present... (edit) (Brennan, Booth, and Cam are at the murderer scene)
Booth: So what do you say we just get back to our, dead Santa here.
Brennan: He's not Santa, Booth. He's a dead man, in a costume.
Cam: Well, the beard looks real, and he's pretty fat.
Brennan: Which doesn't make him Santa.
Cam: Well, let's not jump to conclusions. (edit) Hodgins: The maggots in dead Santa's collar fed on high concentrations of non-sulfated chondroitin glycosaminoglycans and N-acetylneuramic acid.
Cam: This is why Booth hates talking to you.
Hodgins: It's the regurgitated saliva of the male Aerodramus fuciphagus. Wait, Booth hates talking to me?
Cam: Not you specifically - lab people. (edit)

After the guilty Santa is caught and the other Santas sing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" to him mockingly, the lips of the Santa's do not match the audio. (edit) Goof: When Booth is interviewing the security guard whose wallet was found in the dumpster, the guard's patch is from the Mall of America in Minnesota, which is nowhere near Washington D.C. (edit) Brennan mentions to Russ that Burma doesn't exist anymore and that it is called now Myanmar. However, neither the United States of America or the United Kingdom recognize the legitimacy of the ruling military government or its authority to rename the country in English, so in those countries, the name of the country is still officially Burma. (edit) Cam says that "the huge bacteria count and the unseasonably warm weather" explains why the rats got to the body. This breaks continuity with the rest of the episode. There is snow throughout the episode, and everyone is dressed for very cold weather. (edit) Goof: When Booth and Brennan are investigating the victim's apartment, Booth repeatedly touches several items and furniture with his bare hands. A cop would never do this in real life because it would compromise the evidence. In previous episodes, Booth used a pen to move things around and in one occasion, gloves. (edit)

Cam: This is not Miracle on 34th Street.
...and later...
Zack: Kristopher Kringle.
Cam: According to AFIS, it's his legal name.

These quotes refer to Miracle on 34th Street, a 1994 movie in which a little girl is losing faith in Santa Claus. After meeting one that might actually be the real deal, she starts reconsidering what is true and what is worth believing in. In this movie, Kris Kringle is the Santa Claus's real name. (edit) Caroline: Because you are all "Dr. Brennan" and "Special Agent Seeley Booth". It's Christmas and I have a Puckish side.

Puck is a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is a mischievous fairy charged by the king of fairies to procure a juice from a flower that when applied to a person's eyes makes that person fall in love with the first person they see. (edit) Caroline: You want me to write that letter, you kiss Booth on the lips for no less than ... one steamboat, two steamboats - five steamboats!

"One steamboat, two steamboats" is a variation on the tradition of counting by "Mississippi's". This method is used to make sure that each second counted; the time it takes to say "one steamboat" lasts as long as one second tick on a clock. (edit) Brennan: Was that enough steamboats?
Caroline: Plenty. A whole flotilla.

A flotilla is a small fleet (in this case, a small fleet of steamboats). It is an allusion to Caroline's earlier request that Bones kiss Booth for at least "five steamboats". Caroline means here that the kiss lasted sufficiently longer than the required five steamboats. (edit) Bones refers to the Dutch Santa ("Sinterklaas"), who has an assistant called Black Pete ("Zwarte Piet" - the black part is because he climbs down the chimney to deliver the presents) who punishes children with a whip.

Actually it's not a whip but a "roe", a bunch of twigs bound together. Alternatively he also carries a big jute bag to put the naughty kids in, so he can take them back with him to Spain (where Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet live) and they will never ever see their parents again. Nowadays the big jute bag and the roe are no longer used because of all the frightened kids and Zwarte Piet became a generous character. Sinterklaas is celebrated in The Netherlands on December 5th and in Belgium on December 6th. (edit)