The Simpsons - All 15 Christmas Episodes Ranked

8. The Fight Before Christmas

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A Martha Stewart Christmas, really?

Yet The Fight Before Christmas is an episode that works better than it should. It's an anthology episode, like Simpsons Christmas Stories, only better executed, and with four segments instead of three. It starts out with Bart plotting to kill Santa for not bringing the gift he really wanted, switches to Lisa imaging Marge as a WWII soldier at Christmas time (she later kills Hitler), and has Marge herself bringing in Martha Stewart for the holidays.

The last segment? Muppet Simpsons, one of the best "gimmicks" since the show went "3D" for Treehouse of Horror. Katy Perry's live action cameo even works way better than it should, complete with Mr. Burns saying "I kissed a girl, and I liked it!" and Moe as her boyfriend.

Ironically, the final bit of this season 22 episode was a parody of Katy Perry's appearance on Sesame Street - which actually never aired, being deemed too "controversial" for a kids show.

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