The Dartmouth Police released its third blockbuster on December 20, a Christmas parody on "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."

The video — the second this year following the department's "creepy clown craze" video — starts in an interrogation room, as Detective Kyle Costa and Frank Oliveira question an unidentified suspect about framing Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.

Flashbacks show Grandma (played by dispatcher Joanne Ashworth) in a STAT ambulance with her granddaughter (played by dispatcher Maggie Rocha). Grandma recounts to Costa how she only remembers a red flash before being trampled.

Ultimately, the cops book Fireball — one of the reindeer who picked on Rudolph after discovering he had a red nose in the 1964 TV special — for attacking Grandma on Christmas Eve.

The filming of the nearly six-minute video only took about an hour, said Costa.

"We showed up and winged it. We didn't put anything down on paper. We didn't memorize any lines," he said.

The video projects rely solely on a good relationship with Dartmouth Community Television, some willing volunteers from the police department, and an idea or two from Costa, the creative mastermind behind the holiday projects. However, the department does have a history of going viral with its side projects.

The department's first video — in which the police arrested the Grinch — was picked up by CNN, an ABC affiliate in Houston, Texas, and at least one international news outlet.

The "clown craze" video — which warned residents to abide the law while in a clown costume — reached 154 countries, including Brazil, Australia, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Aruba, Japan, China, Russia, and Zimbabwe. It was also picked up by The Daily Show, Ellen DeGeneres's Ellentube, and Reddit, to name a few.

Costa said he wasn't sure if the latest video would go viral, but explained that wasn't the intention behind the filmings.

"We put them out for people's enjoyment. If it does [go viral], great. More so, we want people to have fun with it and know that we're wishing them a happy holiday," he said.