Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23rd. It was created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld[1][2]as part of a comical storyline on the show. The holiday's celebration, as shown on "Seinfeld", includes a "Festivus pole", practices such as the "Feats of Strength" and the "Airing of Grievances", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles".

Celebrants of the holiday sometimes refer to it as "Festivus for the rest of us", a saying taken from the O'Keefe family traditions and popularized in the "Seinfeld" episode.

The holiday, as portrayed in the "Seinfeld" episode and now celebrated by many, includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday ending only if the head of the household is actually pinned. The original holiday featured far more peculiar practices, as detailed in the younger Daniel O'Keefe's book The Real Festivus, which provides a first-person account of an early version of the Festivus holiday as celebrated by the O'Keefe family, and how O'Keefe amended or replaced details of his father's invention to create the Seinfeld episode.[4]

Some people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld,[2] now celebrate the holiday in varying degrees of seriousness; the beginning of the spread of Festivus is chronicled in the book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us by Allen Salkin.[5]

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I would not have known this being I was never much of a Seinfeld fan.

Thats pretty cool. Kind of like how Kwanzaa was created to celebrate certain ideals,, festivus was born much the same. I wish I could think of a cool celebration,,,,,

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C'mon, no more Festivus people? This thread is sinking like a rock!

I got cake!!!