"White Christmas Blues" | |
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The Simpsons episode | |
Episode no. | Season 25 Episode 8 |
Directed by | Steven Dean Moore |
Written by | Don Payne |
Production code | SABF01 |
Original air date | December 15, 2013 |
Episode features | |
Chalkboard gag | "I will not call my teacher "Prancer" and "Vixen"" |
Couch gag | Christmas version of the regular opening, this time, as a retelling of The Night Before Christmas. |
"White Christmas Blues" is the eighth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 538th episode of the series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 15, 2013. The episode was the last written by Don Payne and was directed by Steven Dean Moore.[1] It was the first Christmas episode since "Holidays of Future Passed" and the twelfth Christmas episode of the show.
In the episode, Springfield becomes a tourist hotspot after an accident involving the nuclear plant and the Springfield tire fire causes Springfield to be the only place in the country with snow at Christmas—and when Springfield's stores raise their prices, Marge turns their house into a bed and breakfast for the out-of-towners. The episode received negative reviews.