- This episode was released on select platforms, including Hulu+ and the TBS app, a week before its expected broadcast premier.
- Stan's father only gave him a single gift: a VHS copy of Death Wish 3 only sold at Exxon stations for one week in 1985. It was the only one sold and the remainder were used as security tapes. Steve later tracks down this video for Stan's gift.
- Jack Smith later traded it for the family's first VCR.
- In reality, Death Wish 3 was released in November 1985, and available on VHS in 1986.[1]
- Roger isn't giving gifts because he's Wiccan for this year.
- Stan states that Hayley's 19, Steve 14, Francine 39, Klaus 58, Roger 1600.
- Francine had been 40 since "Tears of a Clooney", Roger was 1601 as of "Great Space Roaster".
- Instead of buying gifts, Klaus provides the family with eggnog in booze, weed, and 5 Hour Energy flavors.
- Due to his lactose intolerance, Jeff refers to Stan as "Fart Simpson" and uses Bart's catchphrase of "Don't have a cow."
- Stan's petname for Hayley is "Hayles Bells".
- Hayley was looking forward to clubbing again.
- Stan isn't sure, but he thinks they've been to the zoo before and Francine agrees they might have been there.
- Stan had his legs eaten by a polar bear at the zoo while both Roger and Andy Dick tried to rescue him in "You Debt Your Life". Stan also spent time with the family at the zoo in "Gorillas in the Mist".
- Deandre Ayton is Hayley's favorite basketball player. Steve gives her a video message from him.
- Steve's gift to Francine is a snippet of "This Christmas", a song he wrote and sings to the tune of "Last Christmas" by Wham!
- Roger uses a thermal imager that he installed for sex in the living room to judge the family's reactions to the gifts, rating Steve's highly.
- Stan gives Steve a Patrick Mahomes jersey. Steve mispronounces the 'Chiefs' as "Chefs". Stan thinks it'll help him fit in and not get beat up.
- Roger tries to get Steve's goggles on Amazon, only for them to be bought before he can complete the transaction.
- Roger had a huge jug of soy sauce in his cart, which he wasn't sure if he'd already purchased or not. When he gets beat out for the goggles, he finds he has two more jugs of soy sauce.
- When Roger proposes dealing with their biggest enemy, Stan initially thinks that he's actually referring to a shuttle driver at the limo that made up a song about him during a fight with Francine.
- Roger leaves Klaus in his place while Rogu poses as Stan. Both think they'd be better in the opposite roles.
- Rogu refers to Stan as "loud man".
- Arriving at the North Pole, Roger spots the elf that choked him in "Ninety North, Zero West" and hooks up for a three-way that doesn't go well.
- Santa finds himself falling behind in the presents game to the likes of the internet and Amazon, blaming the Millennials for his problems.
- He invents the JollyGoggles and the Jingleverse to compete. With virtual gifts, he'll never have to make another real gift again.
- Both Santa and Stan love a baggy crotch in their pants, showing derision for skinny jeans.
- Stan thinks the ideal pants are those worn in the middle East like in Aladdin. Santa loves his pair he identifies as harem pants.
- Enrique Iglesias gets Francine hot.
- Part of Santa's problem with the JollyGoggles testing is the elves only use it to watch Christmas porn.
- Klaus is irritated at being left behind when Santa's elves take the family, protesting that he and Rogu are major family members as well.
- Steve compares 90s coded GeoCities sites favorably to the Jingleverse.
- Francine accuses Santa of leaving a diaper full of shit under their tree, which he denies as he shits coal.
- Despite the imprisonment, Steve is impressed that Stan went to the North Pole to get his gift.
- Jeff thinks that Jingleverse Santa looks like Macklemore; Steve claims he looks more like he ate Macklemore.
- Steve also refers to him as Ho Ho Ho-st Malone, after rapper Post Malone.
- In getting the snowcat, Roger had taught Rogu how to persuade people, suggesting sexual favors.
- As they had actually found each other of a like mind, Santa proposes Stan join him as roommates and leave the family behind.
- Part of Stan's appeal to the elves is to free the other elves that Santa has imprisoned.
- Santa compares what he has done to the CIA putting people in cages as well.
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