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It’s the Christmas holiday season but the Spies do not get a vacation. Their latest mission is to investigate an Unidentified Flying Object, right above Beverly Hills! After the Spies finish investigating, Beverly Hills gets a strange weather twist in the form of a blizzard. While everyone is snowed in, the Spies race to find the culprit and stop the snow before the town is completely buried!

Tropes:

  • All Take and No Give: Mandy rigs the Secret Santa service so that everyone gifts her heartfelt gifts, with the intent to give them crap in return.
  • Braving the Blizzard: When Evil Santa unleashes a snow storm on SoCal, the unprepared Mali-U students are forced to take shelter while the Spies fight through the snow to track down the criminal and put a stop to his winter wonderland.
  • Brick Joke: Alex gets a designer “BHCA” pen from her Secret Santa, which Clover tries to use to write down a boy’s number and finds out that it can project satellite TV and has a built-in computer but can’t write. Later, Jerry gives them the Pocket Pen Projectile which fires a net out of the tip and Clover asks in frustration, “Doesn’t anyone make a pen that writes anymore?!”
  • Christmas Episode: The Spies are excited to celebrate Christmas, but when SoCal gets hit by an unexpected blizzard they’re back to work as usual.
  • Commercialized Christmas: Evil Santa’s rage is caused by people only focusing on the materialistic side of Christmas.
  • Convenience Store Gift Shopping: Jerry clearly forgot to get the girls anything for Christmas, as when they ask him for their gifts he digs around in his desk and hands out binder clip “earrings” for Sam, sticky note “earmuffs” for Alex, and a paperclip “necklace” for Clover.
    Jerry: Wrong size?
    Clover: Wrong everything!
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set: Evil Santa takes over all the TV channels in order to share his diabolical plan with the residents of Beverly Hills.
    Evil Santa: Don’t bother trying to fix your reception!
  • Dreaming of a White Christmas: Not even a show set in California is safe from this trope.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Despite having established earlier in the episode that it took Alex over three times to pass her driving test, she ends up being the one to drive the girls to WOOHP through a blizzard as Sam and Clover hold on for dear life.
    Sam: I think she actually drives better in the snow!
    Clover: Yeah, she’s almost staying in her own lane for once!
  • Full Moon Silhouette: At the end of the episode, Jerry flies past a full moon on his gravity-defying snow mobile and waves at Santa who's flying by in his sleigh.
  • Furniture Blockade: Jerry has the Mali-U students create one to barricade the windows in order to keep the mountains of snow from breaking them.
  • Helium Speech: When Sam uses her osmosis suit to get inside the weather balloon, the helium gives her a high-pitched squeaky voice.
  • Hypocrite: Clover goes OFF on Evil Santa for being hypocritical when he says none of them know the spirit of the holidays.
    Clover: We don’t know the spirit of the holiday? Hellooo?! Who just wreaked havoc all over SoCal, Mr. Holiday Spirit? At least I bought my arch-rival an awesome gift, so don’t talk to me about holiday spirit!
  • Insult to Rocks: When Mandy gives Clover a box of coal as a Secret Santa present, Clover’s about to throw a piece at her but Alex stops her, saying “Don’t waste a perfectly good rock on Mandy!”
  • Jerkass Has a Point: While he went about things the wrong way, Evil Santa wasn’t wrong to accuse the residents of Beverly Hills of being materialistic. Everyone really does seem to only care about Christmas shopping and getting gifts; and despite Clover’s "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he’s not actually proven wrong by the end of the episode.
  • Jet Pack: The Spies use their heart-shaped jet packs to chase after Evil Santa in his weather balloon.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Mandy’s ill-gotten gifts are destroyed when the fake snow melts.
  • Oh, No... Not Again!: The girls say this when the snow causes the WOOHP headquarters’ roof to cave in for the second time.
  • Repeat Cut: The girls driving head-on into a huge pile of snow is shown multiple times from different angles.
  • Mall Santa: Evil Santa worked as a Santa at the mall before he was fired and went on a villainous rampage.
    Clover: That’s the craziest mall Santa I’ve ever seen!
  • Secret Santa: The episode begins after the Cold Open with the girls opening their Secret Santa gifts at the Mali-U Christmas party. They soon find out that Mandy rigged it so that everyone got her as a Secret Santa and amassed a huge pile of presents.
  • Skewed Priorities:: Clover seems to have more important things to worry about when the girls’ helicopter gets shot out of the sky by a souped up weather balloon and the perpetrator gets away.
    Sam: This mission is a bust!
    Clover: Totally! Like, how am I supposed to borrow the Pinky Chopper for my date on Friday now?
  • Snowed-In: Evil Santa’s plan is to cause everyone to be snowed-in by a blizzard so that they can’t go out shopping and are forced to appreciate the non-materialistic side of the holidays.
  • True Meaning of Christmas: Evil Santa thinks that Christmas is about more than just gifts, and while he may be correct, Clover points out that the gift-giving part isn’t all bad as it’s a way to show people how much you care about them.
  • Wingding Eyes: Clover’s eyes turn into big pink hearts when a cute guy at the party gives her his number.

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