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'''Festivus''', a well-celebrated [[parody]], has become the [[secular]] holiday celebrated on December 23 which serves as an alternative to participating in the pressures and [[commercialism]] of the [[holiday season]].<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |first=Allen |last=Salkin |title=Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come |url=[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/fashion/19FEST.html?pagewanted=all&position= http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/fashion/19FEST.html?pagewanted=all&position=] |work=The New York Times |date=2004-12-19 |accessdate=2008-01-09 }}</ref> Originally a family tradition of a scriptwriter working on the American sitcom ''[[Seinfeld]]'', the holiday entered popular culture after it was made the focus of an 1997 episode of the program.<ref name="nytimes"/><ref name="ljworld">{{cite web | title=Festivus for the rest of us | work=LJWorld | url=[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/18/festivus_rest_us/?christmas_holidays= http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/18/festivus_rest_us/?christmas_holidays=] | accessdate = 2006-12-25}}</ref> The holiday's celebration, as it was shown on ''Seinfeld'', includes a Festivus dinner, an unadorned [[aluminum]] "Festivus pole," practices such as the "Airing of [[Grievance]]s" and "Feats of Strength," and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles."