Are you one of the people who hates UPN's "Everybody Hates Chris" for having the nerve to, as one of my colleagues put it this morning, "kill Santa Claus"?

"Chris" co-creator Ali LeRoi thinks it's time the grownups grew up, telling reporters:

"First of all, my own six-year-old boy happened to be watching that show when we said, you know, Santa Claus isn't real. The show is told from the perspective of a 13-year-old boy, and that boy would not believe in Santa Claus. So that's in the landscape of our writing...It's not the Disney Channel. It's not 'Raven.' You know, it's just not that.

"But then from the standpoint of how is the audience supposed to deal with that
particular type of storytelling, well, my wife was sitting there with my son when they saw that show. And he was a little upset that there was no Santa Claus, and she told him that it's just a TV show. You know, that's what good parenting is. Parents tell their children how they're supposed to interpret things. So if a grown person freaks out when they're watching a TV show because somebody said Santa Claus doesn't exist, what's their kid supposed to believe?

"You're supposed to guide your children. We're entertainment. I'm not saying there's no responsibility for things, but we're not telling people to do responsible things. It's storytelling. And if you're sitting is there with your parent, tell the kid what he's supposed to believe. My kid went upstairs and said, "Hey, it's fine, it's cool."