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Merry Christmas, everyone!  This is a special section about the Christmas episodes on the Simpsons, with a summary for each one.  I know there are more on the Simpsons Christmas DVD, but I've chosen to only talk about the episodes that actually revolve around Christmas, rather than any episode where Christmas is mentioned

My family tried to trick me into celebrating Christmas!

Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
For once the family actually has money to spend on Christmas, so they go to the mall to prepare and get gifts.  Bart, who wants a tattoo, gets a heart that's supposed to say 'mother', thinking that Marge would like it.  She doesn't, and she immediately drags it to a doctor who can remove the tattoo, but spends all the Christmas money on it.  She thinks it'll be alright as Homer still has his bonus coming, but then mr. Burns announces that there will be no bonus.  Not willing to admit this to Marge, Homer gets a christmas tree from the side of the road, and accepts a job as Santa at the mall to be able to earn some money to buy presents with.  Bart finds him out, but is moved by homer's gesture, and together they go pick up the paycheck, which is a lot smaller than Homer had thought.  On a tip from Barney they go to the dog race track, where Homer decides to bet on Santa's Little Helper, sure that with a name like that he can't lose on Christmas Eve.  Santa's little Helper comes in last, and Homer loses all the money, but then the dog's owner chases him off, and the dog flees to Bart and Homer for safety.  They take him home, and the family thinks it's the best christmas present ever.

Marge Be Not Proud
Bonestorm, the coolest video game ever, is out, but Bart isn't allowed to get it.  Milhouse has it but won't let him play.  He notices other kids shoplifting and decides to try it himself, but gets caught by the store detective.  He may never set foot in the store again, but as bad luck would have it, Marge wants to have a family picture taken in that very store.  While the picture is taken, Bart is pulled away by the detective, and thus the whole story comes out, which leaves Marge very disappointed in Bart, which is actually worse to him than any type of punishment she could have given him.  To make up for it, he gives Marge her Christmas present early, a framed picture of himself with the ticket as proof that he paid attached to it, which she thinks is the best present ever, so she gives him his present early as well, a golf video game

Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
Bart gets up bright and early so he can already start unpacking his Christmas gifts.  He gets a fire truck that squirts real water, and plays with it, and sprays water on an electric socket, causing a shortcut that sets the tree on fire, and as it is plastic, makes it melt.  He buries the tree in de front yard under the white pure snow, and cooks up a story of a man coming in to steal the tree and all the presents.  All of Springfield rally to their aid, and they give money to the Simpsons, with which they by a new car, which they accidentally drive into a pond.  Bart confesses o his family that it was all a lie, but because of general appearance, when Kent Brockman comes for an interview, they keep up pretence, until the lamps melt the snow, and Santa's Little Helper exposes the melted tree.  All of Springfield hates them, until they decide to take whatever they can out of the Simpsons home with the same value as what they gave them, and everything returns back to normal

Grift of the Magi
The school owes a lot of money to Fat Tony's company, so it's being taken over by another company, that provides a whole new program for the kids in school.  Lisa and Bart soon discover that in fact, they are turning the children into a research group, to make a new toy, Funzo.  Nothing wrong with that it seems, until it turns out that the new toy is designed to destroy all other toys.  Lisa and Bart manage to convince Homer to go around and steal all the Funzo's and then burn them.  They are stopped by Gary Coleman, but Lisa manages to convince him that they are doing a good thing, so Gary lets them burn the Funzo's and then ends up having Christmas dinner with the Simpsons

’Tis The Fifteenth Season
Christmas is approaching, and Homer gets a great gift from Carl, his secret santa, but gives Lenny just some candy.  As christmas bonus, he gets a Joe Dimaggio rookie card from Mr. Burns, who doesn't realise what it is worth.  He sells it for a lot of money and the family goes to buy presents, but spends most of it on a present for himself, which means that they can't afford a tree.  Marge send him to sleep on the couch, which leads to him watching a version of A Christmas Carol, and see the error of his ways.  As a result, he decides to do only nice things, and lose his selfish ways.  He outdoes Ned Flanders on the niceness, who then decides to buy everyone in town a christmas present.  Lisa tells Homer that as a buddhist she doesn't care much for presents, and Homer gets the idea to steal all the presents, believing it'll make the people of Springfield happy.  Of course it doesn't and they set off to beat him with snowballs, but Ned comes to his rescue.  They give back all the presents and all of the town starts singing.

Simpsons Christmas Stories
-The First Christmas
Homer and a pregnant Marge are travelling and come at an inn, held by Moe.  When Moe finds out Marge is going to give labour he sends them to stay in the barn, where little Bart is born.  A lot of people come to have a look at Bart, and Chief Wiggum and his soldiers then come to kill him, but they can be fought off and all end up hanging in a huge pine tree, adorned with their torches as lights
-Abe's meeting with Santa Clause
A long time ago during the war, Abe lost his brother (who will never be mentioned after this) in an air-fight, and in the same fight ends up trapped on a desert island with Mr. Burns.  When they see something fly by they shoot their flair gun, and it turns out they hit Santa Clause's slay.  They help Santa Clause get on his way, and as a reward, Abe would be reunited with his brother.  Years later, in the present, Santa Clause comes to get Abe and they all spend Christmas on a nice warm island, Abe, his brother, and Santa.
-A Simpsons version of the Nutcracker
When Homer and Marge want to exchange their gifts, Homer finds that he has forgotten to buy Marge something so he goes running around town to get a last minute present.  However, all the stores are already closed and he couldn't find anything, so he goes home, very saddened.  There Marge gives him her present, which is in fact a present for Homer to give to Marge, as she knew he would forget.

Kill Gill Volumes I and II
The Family enjoys Krusty's Kristmas on ice, until a fight breaks out when the basketball court is being laid out when the show is still running.  Afterwards they go to the mall, where Gil is playing Santa.  Lisa sits on his lap and asks for a Malibu Stacy doll set, which is all sold out.  Gil has seen an extra set lying in the back room and sells it to Marge, however it turns out that the set was put aside by the owner of the store for his little girl.  Gill can't take it back from Lisa as it would break her heart, so he gets fired.  Marge feels sorry for them and invites him over to celebrate Christmas with them.  They all have a wonderful time, in fact Gill had such a good time that he decides to move his stuff in from the bus station.  Marge wants him out, and so does Homer, but she finds she can't tell him so, as he's such a sad person, and has no where else to go.  After 11 months (and numerous holidays ruined by Gil), Marge finally gets the nerve to tell him to go when Ned shows her a Christmas card with Gill in the front and the family in the back.  She marches in the house only to find that Gil has found a job and left.  However because all of her life she's had trouble saying no (because of her sisters pushing her into a doll house when she said no to them once), she needs to tell Gill she has had enough of him.  They all go to Gil's new work place, a realtor office, so that Marge can tell him to go away.  After Marge tells him her thoughts in plain view of the entire staff, Gil cowers in front of her, leading to the manager firing him.  To make up for it, the Simpsons buy a house of him, and they all celebrate christmas together