It's approaching Christmastime for us, so it's easy for us to avoid looking at Christmas for the answer. But this was filmed months ago. Ken knows that they like to do things that have relationships to the viewing season, and he figured out that it was going to be shown near Christmas, give or take. So he probably was thinking Christmas the whole way.

That's just my guess. Or he could have thrown it. He just crossed $2.5M. Maybe he decided that he was done.
_________________________
Bitt Faulk