In the mid-1970s, the narrator worked as a projectionist at a rundown movie theater in downtown Los Angeles. After being told he would be laid off Christmas week and still owed six weeks' wages, he decided to retaliate. On his last day, before a children's Christmas matinee, he secretly added an unexpected film to the program called "Satan Claus." He left immediately after the film ended, but the theater owner had to refund the entire day's box office earnings. Several parents subsequently sued the theater.