Don't Shoot Me Santa

Music video

The music video was directed, edited, and co-produced by Matthew Gray Gubler, a Las Vegas native who also works as an actor, director, model, and visual artist. It opens in a desert with puppet versions of Flowers and Santa inside a puppet theater in Santa's trailer. Santa appears and says, I've got a bullet in my gun! Flowers is shown tied up in a chair with Christmas tree trimmings while Santa runs around him.

Later, Flowers is tied up in Santa's car as Santa drives. The scene returns to the trailer, where Flowers watches Santa dig his own grave. The band emerges from behind three small trees, breaks the trimmings, and escapes in Santa's car, towing Santa behind. Santa covers Flowers's puppet and approaches the band in puppet form holding a sign that reads Merry Christmas from The Killers.

Did You Know?

• The role of Santa in the music video was performed by Ryan Pardey, who also sang the part.
• Ryan Pardey performed the song live with the band at KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in December 2007.
• The Killers wrote a song about Ryan Pardey called Questions With the Captain, which appears as a hidden track on physical releases of their B-sides album Sawdust.