It is definitely a memorable episode, to say least. Simpson Christmas (Tracy Ullman show The Simpsons Short) Simpson’s roasting on an open fire (Season 1 episode 1) Marge be not proud (Season 7 episode 11) Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (Season 9 episode 10) Grift of the Magi (Season 11 episode 9) Skinner’s sense of snow (Season 12 episode 8) Bob Mackey is Games Editor at Fandom. This meant that there was a lot of slogging later period Simpsons. In an attempt to get the jump on Christmas presents, Bart wakes up before the rest of the family and digs into his bounty. However, over the show's current 32 season span, it has had 15 Christmas episodes, with a new one set to be released 13th December. 13. While most year-long TV series typically produce an annual holiday episode, The Simpsons tends to be much choosier when it comes to Christmas content. That’s fine, though, since this darkly comic Christmas adventure does a much better job of introducing the core cast than the true first episode where Bart squares off against his one-time enemy, The Babysitter Bandit. All in all, “Marge Be Not Proud” makes for a fantastic Simpsons episode that doesn’t let its heartfelt moments get in the way of telling great jokes. The final segment purports to be a take on The Nutcracker, but you can literally feel the writers shrugging their shoulders and giving up a few minutes in, and they start doing an extended vignette of Moe trying to kill himself for some reason. When Marge refuses to buy him such an expensive, violent gift, Bart shoplifts a copy from the Try-N-Save, setting up some of the more heart-wrenching moments ever seen on The Simpsons. That’s not to say that this is only worth watching a history piece. And despite being a possible series finale, this episode doesn’t focus on The Simpsons we know and love. So, while the first Simpsons Christmas special might exist as the first true episode the world has ever seen, it’s actually the eighth episode produced. So, while the first Simpsons Christmas special might exist as the first true episode the world has ever seen, it’s actually the eighth episode produced. Unless you caught Fox’s famous cartoon family in their interstitial The Tracey Ullman Show shorts, they first entered your life in the form of a Christmas special. Plus it gave us everyone's favourite adorable runt, Santa’s Little Helper. It also became apparent that the show didn't actually do many holiday episodes during its so-called 'golden-era' - seasons two to about nine, give or take. A high-profile episode, featuring Lisa converting to Buddhism and Richard Gere doing a guest spot, the satire of religious corporatisation, culminating at Christmas, is well-held. She of Little Faith. Every minor character eventually ends up moving in with the Simpsons at some point – it is practically Springfield by-law by now. The Christmas-to-Christmas year-long time frame is nice, but this is standard stuff. At its best, The Simpsons is probably the greatest and most important TV show of all time, but its fall from grace in the post-1990s era has been well documented. The Simpsons have always loved to feature episodes in which they tell various stories within one episode.The Treehouse of Horror specials famously do this and in their 17th season, they attempted to recreate it with a Christmas episode. 1 Synopsis 2 Full Story 3 Broadcast History 3.1 United States 4 References After a failed Black Friday shopping spree, Marge is determined to fix Christmas. Even though “Holidays of Future Passed” contains plenty of Futurama-style jokes about things to come, the pure emotionality shines through and gives the series a nice sense of closure. The Simpsons Christmas episodes Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (Season 1, Episode 1) This episode also happens to be the very first episode of this show which set the tone for the massive numbers of episodes that would follow. For the latest festive episode, the Simpsons head to Florida, for... reasons? Best bit: the murderous Grinch parody 'The Grumple', who would continue to appear in future holiday specials. And it is... not good. In the 30 years of hilarity that followed, the holiday season has served … starts with three minutes of Homer trying to write a new Christmas carol, before flipping to a completely un-festive episode about the family moving to holiday ranch and guesting starring Talking Head's David Byrne. Ergo, bottom of the list. In the third segment, US domestic goddess and white collar felony Martha Stewart guests, and show strips over itself to make lame sycophantic jokes. Or "Colonel Homer'. ‘Lisa’s Wedding’ still remains the show’s best glimpse into what’s to come, this is easily one of the funniest Simpsons of the twenty-first century. There are tons of Homer and Bart episodes, but this is one of the rare stories to nail Marge's relationship with her special little guy. If there's an easy joke, the episode goes for it every time. Here are all the 10 best Christmas episodes of The Simpsons, ranked. The scene where he asks Milhouse’s mother if they can hang out and “do mom stuff” literally kills me every time. Follow him on Twitter @bobservo. The best – and complete – list of Simpsons Christmas Episodes was shared by the official Simpsons license-holding promo group. Katy Perry turns up in a vinyl dress I can't believe got past Fox's standards and practices, and the episode ends with the Moe puppet appearing to perform cunnilingus on Perry. The Simpsons have pumped out many a Christmas episode – but what is the best? The Simpsons saved three Christmases, ruined eight, and two were kind of a draw. Technically this episode only becomes a Christmas show in its final act, when Mr Burns, who has been paying Homer to be his ‘prank moneky’, gets him to dress up as Santa and throw fish guts at kids (well, technically, this is during the Thanksgiving parade, but Santa = Christmas episode as far as I’m concerned). After that though, the floodgates opened, and they show has generally done one every other year or so. A delightfully boring man that's the perfect vehicle for John Weinstein and Bill Oakley's love of the mundane, yet also with enough depth to provoke genuine emotion in the episodes that dive into his painfully bleak home life. We decided to eschew ones that just feature snow (sorry, 'Mr Plow' and 'Homer The Heteric'), but any episode that featured a significant segment set during Christmas was included. Check out the special version of The Simpsons opening credits made for the December 15th episode, "White Christmas Blues." In particular, the tight plotting - one of the show's least-sung but most important qualities - has been replaced by outlandish storylines that come out of nowhere - in this case, evil Furbys are coming alive and destroying other toys. The first Simpsons episode Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire is… Homer’s plan backfires, though, when he misinterprets some Buddhist advice from Lisa and steals the townspeople’s gifts with the intent of burning them in the town square. They’ve only done 13 Christmas episodes. It's basically just a half-arsed collection of story ideas the writers threw at a dartboard. I expected this DVD to be more like a Christmas version of their "Treehouse of Horrors" Halloween discs. Which was strange, as even though it is my favourite TV show of all time, like many people I haven't kept up with the newer series. To put it more precisely, it's not addressing boilerplate, generalized themes about family or togetherness. Best Christmas episodes from The Simpsons on Disney+ . Two brand new Mrs. Brown’s Boys Christmas specials are coming to your TV this Christmas. Weaving in a great parody of 1950s sci-fi movies, some wonderful animation of Bart’s hamster astronaut, and Milhouse’s eyebrows being blown off, the whole sequence is a reminder that The Simpsons could still be great in the early 2000s. 'Dude, Where's My Ranch?' Tis the 30th Season "Tis the 30th Season" is the tenth episode of Season 30. Then the finale goes completely nuts, in an elaborate Muppet Show riff, made with real live action and slightly terrifying puppets. The first holiday episode since the pilot, ‘Marge Be Not Proud’ is the one where is caught stealing a video game from the mall, and Marge finds herself unsure how to react. No one needs an Xmas special where Krusty converts to Christianity. Menu. As such, we’re about to get in the holiday mood, Disney+ style. Lovejoy has a crisis of faith. 10) The Fight Before Christmas (Season 22, Episode … Principal Skinner is one of The Simpsons' most wonderful characters. Gimmick episodes really tend to kick modern Simpsons out its rut, and the inventive character redesigns and backgrounds easily make up for any dud jokes here. Expect him to move in with the Simpsons for an episode around season 36. Having run for over 30 years and 649 episodes, The Simpsons has had its fair share of Christmas specials. Irish ban on travel from United Kingdom likely to be extended this week, Matt Hancock criticises "totally irresponsible behaviour" of people fleeing London for Christmas. Episodes like this are proof it hasn't. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and 27, 2007 and grossed US$526.2 million worldwide. “Bart ruins Christmas” seems to be a common thread throughout these holiday Simpsons episodes. This well-stuffed stocking of Simpsons Holiday Treats includes classic tales of the season, from Simpsons seasons one through seventeen. It opens with an uninspired retelling of the birth of Jesus ("Shalom, Dr Nick" is pretty funny, I guess), then a dopey story about Grandpa and Mr Burns getting stuck on a desert island during World War II. And then, the episode itself has nothing to do with Christmas, being a Sideshow Bob story with Bart trapped down a well (didn’t they already do that?). After watching “Mr. Anyway, this one is blander late-period filler, but it gets bonus points for using a Family Guy-style cutaway to shit on Family Guy, and finally addressing why the family still have rabbit ears on their TV. He confesses to the family, who then has to share some of the guilt, and ultimately gets found out as a fraud when Kent Brockman’s crew uncovers the frozen Christmas blob where Bart buried it under snow. This one of the Christmas themed Simpsons episodes that revolves around Lisa, and in this notable instance she decides to become a Buddhist after realizing how commercialized Christmas has become. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 18, 2005. Only someone who truly loves you can get you a gift so, so close to what you want that also misses the mark so spectacularly. Before The Simpsons was a show, it was a series of animated bumpers and skits on late-1980s variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. And then it gets weird. Nothing says the mid-teen seasons of The Simpsons like going through the motions, and damn, if 'Tis the Fifteenth Season’ isn't just lumbering through those motions. Let it snow in Springfield, and enjoy the best The Simpsons Christmas episodes. “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” isn’t just the first Simpsons episode to air; it also helped save the show. If an episode even mentioned Christmas it was thrown on this DVD. It's nice that they're trying to do something more grounded and character-based, but in terms of Homer-Marge marital strife episodes, it is no 'Secrets of a Successful Marriage'. Marge Be Not Proud. The Simpsons are renowned for their annual Halloween episode, which usually ends up being the best moment from recent seasons. Yup, really. The Simpsons Christmas is available for streaming on FOX, both individual episodes … "Simpsons Christmas Stories" tells three separate holiday stories. "Simpsons Christmas Stories" is the ninth episode of The Simpsons' seventeenth season. “Roasting on an Open Fire” doesn’t quite have the same energy as the more quoted episodes, but as an introduction to 30 years of The Simpsons, it certainly does a great job. I Won't Be Home for Christmas (The Simpsons) Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. Posted: 17 December 2020 6:23 pm. She Of Little Faith Season 13's She Of Little Faith is almost more of a Lisa episode than a Christmas episode, and is known as the episode in which Lisa converts to Buddhism. Though launching with a Christmas special seems ingenious in retrospect, Fox originally planned to premiere the first season in the fall of 1989. On The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 10, a cable channel films a Christmas movie in Springfield, and Skinner falls in love in the holiday-themed episode. Episodes of The Simpsons have won dozens of awards, including 31 Emmys (ten for Outstanding Animated Program), 30 Annies, and a Peabody. This episode was famously written as a potential finale for the show – though, of course, we all know now The Simpsons will never, never end. Plot The First D'oh-El. Yes, when you go back at watch first seasons episodes of The Simpsons, the animation is all wonky and Homer voice sounds wrong and it all just feels a bit, well, ewwwww. Bart cooks up a story about burglars taking the gifts—and the tree for some reason—but soon caves when he can’t take the guilt of seeing the citizens of Springfield open their hearts and wallets for The Simpsons. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon … The Simpsons obviously continued after 2011, but “Holidays of Future Passed’s” status as a possible series finale definitely gives it more emotional oomph. A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas. Christmas-themed Simpsons Episodes. So gather round children, and with joy in our heart, let’s rate the festive adventures of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart. Stream full episodes online & watch live Sundays at 8/7c! And when Bart and Milhouse's magic stopwatch breaks, they are the only ones left in real time. The Simpsons is an Emmy Award-, Annie Award- and Peabody Award-winning animated comedy. That’s fine, though, since this darkly comic Christmas adventure does a much better job of introducing the core cast than the true first episode where Bart squares off against his one-time enemy, The Babysitter Bandit. If you loved video games in the mid-’90s, “Marge Be Not Proud” definitely spoke to you with its pitch-perfect parodies when it aired in 1995. Instead, it jumps 30 years into the future for a glimpse at where Marge and Homer’s parenting have brought Lisa, Bart, and Maggie. Movies. S32, Ep5 But truth be told, there aren't that many Simpson Christmas episodes. 'Tis the Fifteenth Season. Ironically, the top-ranking Simpsons holiday episode isn't really about Christmas. The main plot, about Homer and Ned trying to out-good-deed each other, doesn’t really kick in until the last ten minutes, and it’s mostly just a rag-tag collection of festive jokes and skits. While the very first episode was a holiday story, it took them six years to do another one. Simpson Christmas Stories (Season 17 episode 9) Kill Gil, Volumes I & II (Season 18 episode 9) The Burns and the bees (Season 20 episode 8)* The fight before Christmas (Season 22 episode … I've watched the Simpsons on and off since they first aired when I was in 3rd grade. However, the best stuff in this episode is easily the hilarious opening acting, which is virtually unrelated to the main plot. In fact, the first-ever episode of The Simpsons to air was a Christmas special. And instead of clever jokes, we get Gary Coleman shouting. The Simpsons Halloween episodes are obviously beloved, allowing the show to do anything from CGI animation to elaborate parodies of The Shining. If things hadn’t worked out in The Simpsons’ favor, the show would span 22 seasons, neatly bookended by two Christmas episodes. BBC Radio 1 says it won’t play original version of Fairytale of New York this Christmas. It’s still a wonderful episode, a classic Homer and Bart story, which delivers jokes and pathos effortlessly, and established the Simpsons as working-class family, never more than one crisis away from money troubles – an important element of the show sorely missing in modern Simpsons. For this particular Christmas, Bart has his eyes set on Bonestorm: An uber-violent take on Mortal Kombat that honestly doesn’t feel that ridiculous 20 years later. ‘Miracle on Evergreen Terrace’ comes at the tail end of it, a tad below the show’s very best moments, but still very solid. Since its official debut on December 17, 1989, The Simpsons has been synonymous with the holiday season. The true series finale—whenever that happens—will have to work pretty hard to beat this one. Go watch that King of the Hill Christmas special where Bill ends up wearing his ex-wife's dress instead. Regardless of holiday-content levels, ‘Homer Vs. Dignity’ is largely remembered for being one of the worst Simpsons episodes of all time – mostly for its mean-spirited main story, rehashing of overused set-up, and the infamous scene where Homer appears to be molested by a panda. It was kind of like hanging around with someone you were best mates with in year seven, but now they are weird and really into World of Warcraft and samurai swords, and it's just not the same. It just so happens that Springfield has its own Buddhist temple, and there she meets Carl, Lenny, and Richard Gere. The hit ratio of the gags is pretty solid though, and it’s improved by the addition of two short stop-motion animation sequences. This episode had such a big impact and was so well crafted that it was nomi… Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Or 'A Milhouse Divided'. You how every so often, someone will tell you The Simpsons has gotten good again in recent years? Skinner's Sense of … Oh, and Rev. But a mishap with a remote control fire truck soon turns the tree and the gifts beneath into a congealed mass of melted plastic. After a misunderstanding, Marge kicks Homer out on Christmas Eve. 'Grift of the Magi' basically comes at the ur-point when The Simpsons went bad. Or... well, you see where I'm going with this. It’s a great punchline, but it is also so perfect. The final scene of the family being genuinely happy without any mortal good is also genuinely sweet - even if it one of those lazy conclusions that leaves the status quo irrevocably shattered, only to be reset next episode without explanation, that later seasons are so guilty of. It ends on a shamelessly tear-jerking, heart-warming moment – but what Bart goes through in the lead up in excruciating. Hilariously, Gere teaches her about being Buddhist while Marge works on bribing her back into celebrating Christmas. It is hard to overstate how revolutionary this first episode would have felt, with its elaborate tattoo removal lasers and parade of deadbeat Santas. After receiving a financial windfall from an unwitting Mr. Burns, the family heads out to buy some pricey Christmas presents at the Springfield Heights Promenade. Miracle on Evergreen Terrace. Still, it remains a perennial favourite across generations and an agreeable schedule filler for Channel 4, so what with it being the season and all, we thought we should produce a definitive ranking of every Christmas-themed Simpsons episode. News. Ultimately, “‘Tis the Fifteenth Season” acts as a tribute to Christmas specials of the past, which inspire Homer to change his greedy ways. At its best, The Simpsons is probably the greatest and most important TV show of all time, but its fall from grace in the post-1990s era has been well documented. And, more importantly, this episode introduces Santa’s Little Helper, whose name acts as an underlying reference to the Simpsons’ Christmas originals. That's great. Urgh. But instead of spending their newfound cash on gifts and a tree, Homer sneaks away to buy him a pricey talking astrolabe—one that later tests its smoke alarm for a full three hours. The three-story format has since been adopted for other other non-Halloween editions, like this Christmas special. Where do I stream The Simpsons Christmas online? Simply put, we’d never seen anything like it before—and didn’t realize we’d be seeing it for the next 30 years. Damn, modern Simpsons can be lazy. It is exactly the sort of terrible game your mum would get you. If you’re looking to watch some holiday appropriate Simpsons episodes in this, the season of nog, you can’t go wrong with our top five. (Though Lisa deserves better than to just end up with Milhouse). When rocky contract negotiations made it seem as if the 495th episode would serve as The Simpsons’ last, the team decided it would only be fitting to go out with a Christmas episode. Series 15 Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror XIV Homer kills the Grim Reaper then takes his job. Over the last 30 seasons, The Simpsons has seen many holiday specials and in this list, I’ll give you a rundown, in no particular order, of the top 10 episodes available on Disney+ right now to get you in the Christmas spirit. “‘Tis the Fifteenth Season” may not hit the same heights as other Christmas Simpsons, but its dark ending—where Springfieldians mistake a rescue flare shot by a dying Hans Moleman for a vision of god—ties an appropriately cynical bow on this holiday episode. The 31st annual Simpsons Halloween special includes a frightening look at the 2020 election, parodies of Pixar and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a ninth birthday Lisa just can't get over. In fact, the first full-length episode of “The Simpsons”- “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” – was a Christmas episode. The first two instalments are pretty great - first, Bart goes to a trippy Santa's Workshop, and then Marge stars in an Inglourious Basterds parody. 11 Simpsons Christmas Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best ... 11 Simpsons Christmas Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best ...Dec 13, 2011 ... On Sunday night, there was a new Simpsons Christmas episode. Or 'The Mysterious Voyage of Homer'. After Thanksgiving Dinner, Bart and Lisa are excited for Christmas. It might not hit the heights the show would in the years to come, but it remains a reassuring warm blanket of an episode, filled with fond memories, and that’s what a Christmas special should be. Gone Boy. 10 The Fight Before Christmas (Season 22, Episode 8) "The Flight Before Christmas" takes a page from the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes by telling three separate Christmas stories. Springfield becomes a tourist spot after its the only town in America, so the Simpsons' open up their house to annoying Canadians and Lisa frets about the true meaning of buying presents. Since The Simpsons’ immediate rise to fame shortly after its premiere, the show’s producers have played their Christmas cards carefully. But you’ve got to put yourself in the headspace of what it was like watching the show’s first episode back in 1989. A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas. Even though Bart’s ready to take his medicine, the punishment he receives is far worse than anything he anticipated: complete emotional detachment from Marge. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. The idea that his life is so empty that he's genuinely excited to spend Christmas trapped at work is perfectly true to the character, even if the episode itself doesn't get all the nuance. Or 'A Streetcar Named Marge'. 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