Meg has a surprising response after she takes Stewie to the mall to meet Santa. Meanwhile, Brian must help Stewie process the experience.
This episode contains examples of:
- As Himself: Jimmy Connors.
- Brick Joke:
- Brian-as-Santa says he got in through Stewie's window, which Stewie doesn't like one bit. In the last scene, Jimmy Connors says he did the same, much to Stewie's concern.
- A dwarf playing Santa's elf mentions that some rich guys are going to throw him into a gong later. The end of the episode shows this as a Funny Background Event.
- The Bus Came Back: The Big Fat Phony Guy came back in this episode after seeing the second fake Santa.
- Bungled Suicide: Stewie loads up with rocks and attempts to drown himself in a mall fountain. He then finds the water is only ankle deep.
- Christmas Episode: The one for Season 18. It's also the first Christmas episode of Family Guy since Disney bought the network.
- Continuity Nod: Brian brings up how the network is owned by Disney, as shown five episodes ago.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Stewie eating ice cream to get over witnessing Meg have an orgasm is treated as the G-rated equivalent of this.
- Fan Disservice:
- Meg getting an orgasm from a mall Santa, then later being determined to see him again and have another one.
- Meg having a sex dream of her and Santa making out and about to have sex, until she is woken up by Lois.
- First Appearance: Parodied in-universe. Seamus introduces his son, Woody, boasting that he'll be a new character on the show. Quagmire points out that Seamus is barely a character on the show.
- Harmful to Minors: Stewie being forced to sit on Santa's lap while Meg gets off on it.
- Hypocritical Humor: An Asian mom calls Meg out for trying to get Stewie to sit on Santa's lap saying that Meg is pressuring Stewie, the camera pans down to her toddler son who's a doctor that plays the violin and talks.
- The school couldn't call their Christmas concert a "Christmas concert" due to political correctness, but, apparently, it's okay for them to have a version of "Jingle Bells" that includes a verse about a child dying in the snow from running out on bare feet and another warning people about freeing slaves.
- Irony: Usually Meg would not spend a few minutes without her usual demands given to her to "Shut up". She finally gets her chance to say that in front of everybody, just before her peak experience on Santa's lap.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Lois gets Meg out of the house so the rest of the family can take the Christmas card photo without her. Peter ends up sending a picture of himself checking out a butt pimple because he sent the wrong one to Walgreens.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Brian's line about "being owned by Disney" as the reason why he can't explicitly explain why Meg acted weird at the mall.
- Mall Santa: Meg becomes obsessed with finding the Santa who "made her a woman," constantly searching and getting banned for assaulting one guy. Also, Peter is revealed to be one in order to make more money for Christmas. A horrified Meg asks if he was the Santa from the day before and is relieved when he says that wasn't him.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Brian dresses up as Santa to reassure Stewie that Christmas is still a magical time. It works, but then Stewie asks for a new dog.
- Parental Incest: Averted. When Meg achieves pleasure thanks to a mall Santa and then finds out Peter is in disguise as a mall Santa, she panics and asks if that mall Santa was him. Peter replies that no, he wasn't, much to Meg's relief.
- Pet the Dog:
- Neither Lois nor Peter mocks Meg for any of this. Peter, in particular, is kind and reassuring.
- The whole experience makes Stewie scared of Santa. Brian dresses up as Santa to reassure him that everything is fine.
- Political Overcorrectness: The sign outside the school reveals that their Christmas concert had to be called a "winter choral" because of "that one family".
- Pun-Based Title: The title both refers to it being a Christmas Episode, and the fact that Meg is getting off on Santa.
- Santa's Existence Clause: The Santa that Meg encountered and later talks to in the parking lot says he is the real one. Meg becomes dubious after seeing him get into a beat-up car, but viewers then see the car being pulled by flying reindeer.
- Stealth Pun: What song plays while Meg is achieving orgasm on Santa's lap? "O Come All Ye Faithful." Yup.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Stewie and Chris want a new dog, much to Brian's annoyance.
- Think of the Censors!: Brian tells Stewie he can't explicitly explain what happened to Meg because "...they're owned by Disney".
- Unusual Euphemism: When Brian realizes that he can't tell Stewie what happened explicitly because of the Disney Owns This Trope described above, he instead tells him that Santa "made [Meg's] Little Mermaid Moana."
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Stewie does this into Peter's fancy opera hat after being told what happened.
