Cliche No. 9: Presents

It wouldn't be so funny if it weren't 100% true. Toy stores are battlefields at Christmastime. Our dad once had to kill an old lady for a Cabbage Patch Doll. We enjoyed <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEFCC000038" title="Homer Simpson (fictional character)" href="/topic/entertainment/homer-simpson-%28fictional-character%29-PEFCC000038.topic">Homer Simpson</a> trying to gamble his way to buying presents on the very first episode of <b>"The Simpsons"</b> and Dwight's Princess Unicorn monopoly on <b>"The Office."</b><br> <br> <b>Other offenders:</b> "Family Matters," "Frasier," "The King of Queens," "Murphy Brown," "Ozzie & Harriet," "Ren & Stimpy," "Wonder Woman"

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It wouldn't be so funny if it weren't 100% true. Toy stores are battlefields at Christmastime. Our dad once had to kill an old lady for a Cabbage Patch Doll. We enjoyed Homer Simpson trying to gamble his way to buying presents on the very first episode of "The Simpsons" and Dwight's Princess Unicorn monopoly on "The Office."

Other offenders: "Family Matters," "Frasier," "The King of Queens," "Murphy Brown," "Ozzie & Harriet," "Ren & Stimpy," "Wonder Woman"

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