Of the original SuperTed cartoons, by far the darkest is SuperTed Meets Father Christmas. There are three reasons:
1. Near the beginning, Texas Pete is robbing a house dressed as Father Christmas. A little boy comes downstairs and mistakes him for the real Father Christmas. Irritated by the intrusion, Tex picks the boy up and throws him down on the floor. The boy goes back upstairs in tears. This is the only time that Texas Pete attacks a child.
2. When SuperTed and Spotty investigate, they end up mistaking the real Father Christmas for the false present-stealing one. SuperTed upbraids and tussles with him, and attempts to pull off what he believes is a fake beard. He rips hair right out of Father Christmas' face, leaving him a quaking old man, begging this psychotic teddy bear to leave him alone. SuperTed does not apologise.
3. SuperTed ends up fighting Texas Pete on a moving sleigh. At one point, Texas Pete tries to dislodge SuperTed by whipping him across the paws. He cries out in pain.
All this is slightly compensated for by the moment when Skeleton climbs down a chimney: his body falls, leaving his skull hanging in mid-air saying, "Alas, poor Yorick..."
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