The Simpsons - All 15 Christmas Episodes Ranked
11. White Christmas Blues
A more recent Christmas outing, White Christmas Blues sees Springfield become a winter tourist hotspot after a heatwave ends and the town gets a good winter blast. Actually, more accurately, an accident at the nuclear plant causes snow to fall for the first time in a good long while.
And right off the bat, we have a bit of a plot hole: Springfield has always been portrayed as having a pretty healthy winter, so why only now is it suddenly a winter tourist destination? Forget the continuity issues, however, as the show has always played fast and loose with those (a show with 15 Christmas episodes and other winter-themed shows does -not- have a snow problem however). What this episode is really about is Christmas consumerism and price gouging, and in that, it's not a bad critique on how overly commercial the season has become.
It is, however, vaguely repetitive when you remember that Springfield did that exact same thing when the Radioactive Man filmmakers came to town.