History Recap / FamilyGuyS3E16AVerySpecialFamilyGuyFreakinChristmas

* RantInducingSlight: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No. Paper. TOWELS?!]]"

* DistractedByAnalogy: Peter denounces his drunken friends revelry as being as funny as Sinbad, not the comedian but the sailor, who he then concedes wasn't really meant to be funny anyway.

* DisrractedByAnalogy: Peter denounces his drunken friends revelry as being as funny as Sinbad, not the comedian but the sailor, who he then concedes wasn't really meant to be funny anyway.

** As a result of her rampage, the police hit Lois with enough tranquilliser to stun a elephant, allowing the rest of the family to enjoy their Christmas without any more of her fussing.

* ControlFreak: Lois goes through excessive demands for the holidays from Peter and the rest of the family, laying it on thick whenever they complain. It seems to be subverted since Lois perseveres when her plans start to go genuinely wrong, [[SanitySlippage then they run out of paper towels...]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Because Peter was the designated driver, he doesn't have a hangover the next morning.

'''Peter''': Shouldn't you have your sweater on?

* YellowSnow: Peter notes that he doesn't want another "lemon snowcone" since the last one didn't taste like lemon at all.
* YesVirginia: Stewie immediately believes what he hears about Santa, only to lose faith when he doesn't get the gift he wanted (plutonium) despite being nice. When he finds the plutonium in a remaining box, he realizes Santa is truly real.

* UnintentionalPeriodPeice: A Chritmas special with no mention of Iphones must be pre-2004 (it was made in 199)

* BoozeFlamethrower: This is how an enraged Lois reacts to Frosty the Snowman wishing her a merry Christmas.

* IdiotPlot: The plot kicks off when Peter confuses "for" with "from" and donates all the gifts bought for the family to charity. Lampshaded when he sincerely asks when the two words changed meaning and Brian attempts to humor him by doing a bit before giving up and just calling him an idiot.

* RageBreakingPoint: This is Lois' response to there being no paper towels.

-->'''Lois''': 'Wish'? It's easy to wish, but does anyone take responsibility and make it happen? No, you all expect someone else to do it for you, like Santy Claus or mommy.

* ChristmasEpisode: A LighterAndSofter example compared to [[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole the next one]] (though "Don't Be a Dickens on Christmas"[[note]]the one where Peter is visited by Patrick Swayze's ghost in a send-up of ''A Christmas Carol''[[/note]] and "Christmas is Coming"[[note]]the one where Meg has a crush on Santa Claus due to an accidental sexual encounter and Stewie becomes traumatized over it[[/note]] do go back to being LighterAndSofter with the usual ''Family Guy'' humor mixed in).

* ChristmasEpisode: A LighterAndSofter example compared to [[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole the next one]].

* IdiotPlot: The plot kicks off when Peter confuses "for" with "from" and donates all the gifts bought for the family to charity. Lampshaded when he sincerely asks when the two words changed meaning and Brian attempts to humor him by doing a bit before giving up and just calling him stupid.

* JerkassHasAPoint: During Lois's rampage, she gets confronted by Frosty the Snowman (whom she just punched his head off). But what she said at that moment about people being too dependent on others to fulfill their desires is actually true.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Lois was actually right about people being too dependent on other people to fulfill their desires.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Lois was actually right about people only wishing for desires but being too dependent on other people to fulfill them.

* YellowSnow: Peter notes that he doesn't want another "lemon snowcone" since the last one didn't taste like lemon at all.