"The Part-time Job Before Christmas" (パートタイムジョブ・ビフォア・クリスマス Pātotaimujobu bifoa kurisumasu) is the twenty-seventh episode of New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT and the fifty-fifth overall episode of the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt series. It first aired on September 24, 2025.
Synopsis[]
Kneesocks is forced to take Santa Claus' job on Christmas.
Plot[]
On the night of Christmas Eve, Kneesocks writes about the various plans her roommates are looking to complete for Christmas in her diary. Stocking is falling in love with a barber who has scissors for hands, Garterbelt is protecting the church from robbers, Scanty is plagued with numerous one-eyed creatures, Panty is busy having sex with a bearded man, and Brief uses two robots that he made to determine if Panty loves him.
Brief celebrating his small chances.
Gunsmith Bitch suddenly appears in the living room, much to Brief's embarrassment, and reveals that if Brief professes his love to Panty at that moment, his chance of success would be 0%; however, if Brief professed his love to Panty on the top of a Ferris wheel at Lingerie Land, his chance of success improves to 0.00000001%.
Even though it was impossible to retain a ticket to the amusement park, Brief frantically scours the Internet to find a cheap ticket. He finally discovers a deal to buy two tickets to the park at Daten City Shopping Mall.
Back in the Daemon sisters' bedroom, Kneesocks begins watching a movie, but she is distracted by Panty's moans. As she enters the room to tell Panty to quiet down, she finds an injured Santa Claus laying on the ground. Santa mishears Kneesocks and assumes she wants to temporarily undertake his job of giving presents to good children, which he gladly lets her do. Kneesocks is reluctant but goes through with it to maintain her solitude.
The chaos-filled Christmas dinner.
After a long night of delivering presents, Kneesocks returns to the church and sees her roommates preparing a large feast because their respective plans had all prematurely concluded. Santa enters the church and thanks Kneesocks for delivering the presents; as an act of appreciation, he hands Kneesocks a gift before leaving.
As the residents of the church begin their feast, Brief sulks over missing out on buying the tickets when Chuck opens Kneesocks' gift, which happens to be several family tickets for Lingerie Land's New Years Countdown.
Brief rejoices and the others anticipate their trip to the park, quickly devolving the feast into chaos. Kneesocks decides that not all Christmas holidays need to be celebrated in solitude.
Features[]
Characters[]
- Daemon Sisters
- Brief
- Gunsmith Bitch
- Anarchy Sisters (cameo)
- Garterbelt (cameo)
- Chuck (cameo)
- Fastener (cameo)
- Super Guy Jin (cameo)
- Santa Claus (debut; cameo)
Locations[]
- Daten City
- Cemetery Hills Church
- Pants Dimension (portal only)
- Lingerie Land (mentioned)
Objects[]
Music[]
- ''Sub Title'' - Episode sub title
- "Silhouette" [Nash Music Library][1] - Kneesocks writes in her journal.
- ''Theme for Scanty & Kneesocks''
- ''S-Trip'' - Santa begs Kneesocks do his job
Trivia[]
- The Santa Claus seen in this episode is different from the one seen in the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt in Manga Strip chapter "It's a Wonderful Lay".
- This is the first holiday-themed episode of the series.
- This is the first episode to utilize stock music, with the music playing at the beginning of the episode belonging to Nash Music Library.
- Several tidbits were revealed during the Neverending Streaming episode covering this episode and the three-part "Heaven Wars" special:
- The season ends with Christmas/New Years to make it up to all the fans who jokingly stated Gainax "ruined Christmas" with "Bitch Girls: 2 Bitch" fifteen years prior. Unfortunately, they had no control over what part of the year the season would premiere in so it ended up being a holiday special in September.
- The staff wanted to make the episode longer, but couldn't as they had to fit too much related to the "Heaven Wars" three-parter into the twelfth episode. A proposed subplot involved Stocking, Garterbelt, and Brief at the mall racing to get LingerieLand tickets while fighting scalper ghosts.
- Brief is a masochist, as he willingly strips to his underwear and lets the robots wear his clothing.
- They also reveal that Super Guy Jin is in his early 20s.
- They reveal that the reason Gunsmith Bitch was eager to help Brief get with Panty was because she compared the two's relationship akin to that from a romance-action movie.
Cultural references[]
- This episode's title is a reference to the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Additionally, the episode's title card is a reference to the film's theatrical poster.
- The barber whom Stocking had a crush on is a reference to Edward Scissorhands, who originates from the eponymous 1990 film.
- Garterbelt catching two burglars is a reference to the 1990 film, Home Alone.
- The creatures that enveloped Scanty resembled Gremlins from the eponymous franchise.
- Gunsmith Bitch compares her calculations of Panty's chances of loving Brief to the voices in the cornfields from the 1989 film Field of Dreams.
- LingereLand is a parody of the American theme park Disneyland, complete with the logo's font resembling that of the real world park's.
- The way Santa Claus injured himself - piercing his feet with glass shards - is a reference to the 1988 film, Die Hard.