When Stan gives him a gun for Christmas, Steve accidentally shoots the real Santa, leading to an intense battle for the family's lives.
Tropes:
- Arch-Enemy: Santa is firmly cemented as the Smith family's by the end of the episode.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Once the North Pole army withdraws, Bob Todd offers to serve up one of Santa's reindeer for dinner, right after making love to its corpse.
- Cigar Chomper: Santa lands during the battle and uses Rudolph's nose to light a cigar as he inspects the carnage.
- Comically Missing the Point: Stan thinks a pair of safety goggles will keep Steve safe even after he fired wildly.
- Crazy-Prepared: Bob Todd has an impressive arsenal for a hillbilly, which is barely enough for the Smith family to ward off the attack.
- Exact Words: Stan promises Francine that he won't give Steve a gun for Christmas. The scene then cuts to Stan giving him a gun while saying "Happy Wednesday!"
- Face Death with Dignity: After Stan and Jeff make amends while the family is hopelessly outnumbered, he asks his son-in-law if he'd like to go out and die as a family.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: Santa tempts Jeff to come to his side because he's a good boy, even offering the polar bear helmet from The Golden Compass that he wanted. Jeff initially seems to take him up on it, then uses the helmet to stab Santa in the side.
- Infinite Ammo: Subverted. Despite the Smiths firing off hundreds of rounds, they do eventually run out of ammo and have to resort to hand-to-hand combat.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Deconstructed; Santa has every right to be mad at Steve and Stan for killing him. However, not only was it was an accident, but Steve is a minor. He wants to slaughter the rest of the Smiths too just for helping hide his body. He also could have just gone to the police instead of seeking brutal vigilante; he willingly sacrifices many of his elves and reindeer for his own personal vendetta.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Francine tries to reassure Hayley that Stan will eventually get used to Jeff because it took a while for him to get used to Roger, and "the other guy." It then cuts to Klaus at home, alone, with an annoyed expression that the family has forgotten him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The family goes to hide at Bob Todd's mountain cabin, but Jeff writes a letter to the North Pole telling Santa where to deliver their presents. This allows Santa to descend on the Smiths with a large army.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Subverted. Bob Todd immediately sees Roger as an alien in a wig.
- Raging Stiffie: Both Stan and Steve get one while fighting the elves.Steve: (shoots his gun) Is it weird that I have a boner?Stan: It'd be weird if you didn't!
- Real After All: Stan and Steve initially believe he shot a Mall Santa, but are puzzled to find no matches in the CIA's database. As it turns out, it was the real Santa.
- Shout-Out:
- When he fires the gun for the first time, Steve's glasses are blown off by a ricocheting bullet. He then says he nearly shot his eye out.
- Santa is shown recuperating in a Bacta tank.
- Storming the Beaches: While the elves and reindeer perform an aerial attack, the battle has many characteristics of an amphibious assault, such as large sleighs serving as landing craft for an entire squad of troops.
