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| Ten straight sequences of 24 'movies' worth of references. It hurt to watch. |
Its Christmas time, however it plans to be one of the hottest in record across the entire country: not even Alaska is slated to get any snow. Despite that, the following morning Springfield does get some snow, if only because its a byproduct of fumes from the nuclear plant and fumes from the tire fire. Still, Springfield becomes the only place in America to feature snow and, thus, becomes a major tourist attraction, giving every vendor and businessman in Springfield to massive raise prices to gouge those tourists.
The gouging is too much for Marge to handle, unable to afford most Christmas things this year as a result. Bummed, Marge is met by a family of tourists who need a place to stay with the hotels fully booked. Needing the money, Marge decides to let them and a few other families stay for the holiday season. While courteous at first, Marge becomes more and more incensed by the guest's constant complaints and their singing of songs past the first verse, eventually going off on them.
Meanwhile, Lisa gets inspired by an well thought out sermon from Reverend Lovejoy and decides to buy Bart a thoughtful present for Christmas, opting not to go to any store featuring items Bart would like, but some other store. On Christmas morning, Bart was able to get Lisa the perfect gift, but is upset when he learns Lisa gave him a book for Christmas. That night, Bart starts to burn the book outside, stunning Lisa until Bart tells her she only got him that book to make herself feel better.
The following day, Lisa realizes Bart was right, and bought him a new present: an e-reader that can also use apps, and the two make up. The guests are getting ready to leave as well, but Marge apologizes for her earlier behavior, though she still can't stand their off-verse singing.
Quick Review
This Christmas episode starts off decently enough but once the tourists start pouring in the episode's plot starts to get rather disjointed and the comedy suffers as a result. Lisa's side story really didn't have much going for it at all, and Marge's story was only marginally better. The episode peaked early on and struggled to stay afloat afterwards. Also, there was a sequence in the middle of the episode which was nothing but bad movie references for a good fifteen seconds, that was just awful, easily the worst part of the episode.
Final Score: 7.1
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