You arrive at home early Christmas morning. As you shed your hat and coat in the living room, your partner notes that you look very different from when you left a week ago. What’s with the long… fake white beard and the big… fake belly? You explain that the belly’s permanent, the beard is fashionable, and what you’re about to do is so real it’s surreal, so get the kids in here. And start recording. When the kids enter, you use your time control powers to put your whole family on pause, then you zip around to the attic and find props. When you snap time back, your partner is wearing a beer helmet and a foam finger, your kids are in fancy top hats and monocles, and the pets are covered in Christmas ornaments. (Which they hate.)

Your family is amazed and proud of you. They’d be even happier if Christmas wasn’t officially canceled, but it’s still an amazing display.

THE END