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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|Television producer [[Mary Tannenbaum]] comes to [[Springfield]] to help with the film [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas]], which is being filmed there. While there, she meets [[Seymour Skinner]], and the two start falling for each other. Mary sets to work finishing the film and sorting out her love life.}}
+{{Synopsis|Television producer [[Mary Tannenbaum]] comes to [[Springfield]] to help with the film [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas]], which is being filmed there. While there, she meets [[Seymour Skinner]], and the two start falling for each other. Mary sets to work finishing the film and sorting out her love life.}}
 == Plot ==

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-'''"A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"''' is the tenth episode of [[season 32]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six-hundred and ninety-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on December 13, [[2020]]. The episode was written by [[Jessica Conrad]] and directed by [[Timothy Bailey]]. It guest stars [[Ellie Kemper]] as [[Mary Tannenbaum]], [[Richard Kind]] as the [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas director]], and [[Chris Parnell]] as the [[surgeon fiancé]].
+'''"A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"''' is the tenth episode of [[Season 32|broadcast season 32]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six-hundred and ninety-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on December 13, [[2020]]. The episode was written by [[Jessica Conrad]] and directed by [[Timothy Bailey]]. It guest stars [[Ellie Kemper]] as [[Mary Tannenbaum]], [[Richard Kind]] as the [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas director]], and [[Chris Parnell]] as the [[surgeon fiancé]].
 == Synopsis ==

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 |airdate= December 13, [[2020]]
 |guests= [[Ellie Kemper]] as [[Mary Tannenbaum]]<br>[[Richard Kind]] as the [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas director]]<br>[[Chris Parnell]] as the [[surgeon fiancé]]
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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|A [[Heartmark Channel|cable channel]] films a [[Christmas]] movie in Springfield and [[Skinner]] falls in love.}}
+{{Desc|Television producer [[Mary Tannenbaum]] comes to [[Springfield]] to help with the film [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas]], which is being filmed there. While there, she meets [[Seymour Skinner]], and the two start falling for each other. Mary sets to work finishing the film and sorting out her love life.}}
 == Plot ==
-At [[Heartmark Channel]] studios, [[Mary Tannenbaum]] is praised for her work on the mysteries division, and she gets offered to become president of the Homemaker Mysteries division, however to do so, she needs to help with the movie [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas]], and she gets sent to [[Springfield]], where she is picked up by [[Moe]] and taken to the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpson Home]].
+At [[Heartmark Channel]] studios, [[Mary Tannenbaum]] is praised for her work in the mysteries division and gets offered the role of president of the Homemaker Mysteries division. However, to secure the promotion, she must help with the movie ''[[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas]]'', and is sent to [[Springfield]], where [[Moe]] picks her up and takes her to the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpson home]].
-She's greeted by [[Marge]], as the house has been adapted as a airbnb, and she'd sleep in [[Bart]]'s room. Mary tells Marge of her hate for Christmas movies, while Marge is trying to tell her how much she loves them. The next morning, she tries to offer her brunch, but she refuses and goes to [[Skip's Diner]], where people, including [[Skinner]] make fun of her requests for breakfast at [[Lunchlady Dora]] being too fancy for a small town diner, her being used to the ones in the big city.
+She is greeted by [[Marge]], as the house has been adapted as an Airbnb, and she is set to sleep in [[Bart]]'s room. Mary tells Marge about her dislike of Christmas movies, while Marge tries to express how much she loves them. The next morning, Marge offers her brunch, but Mary declines and heads to [[Skip's Diner]], where people—including Skinner—mock her fancy breakfast requests at [[Lunchlady Dora]]'s counter, noting she's used to big city diners.
-At the center of town, the movie scene is being prepared, and there're many problems, including building gazebos and a person interfering, which she finds out is Skinner. He offers to help with the carpentry if she helps with the promotion of his Lettuce and tomato festival he's trying to promote in town.
+In the town center, the movie set is under preparation, but problems arise, including gazebo construction and someone interfering—whom Mary discovers is Skinner. He offers to help with the carpentry if she assists in promoting his lettuce and tomato festival.
-She reports the success on fixing the movie scene to the boss but he informed her that she has to stay till the end of the production or she won't get the promotion, while Homer finds the perfect opportunity to help in the production by collecting fake snow material around town, and Bart is sulking over having no place to sleep.
+Mary reports the progress to her boss, but he informs her she must stay until the end of production or she will lose the promotion. Meanwhile, [[Homer]] sees an opportunity to help by gathering fake snow materials from around town, while [[Bart]] sulks over losing his room.
-Mary invites Skinner on a break on his work and points out how he's great with his talent, but while his [[Surgeon fiancé|fiancé]] calls to check on her, she finds herself falling in love with him. That night, Bart finds himself having to sleep with his sisters, [[Snowball II|Snowball]] and [[Santa's Little Helper]] on one bed, trapped in the middle of them, but when he goes to Homer and Marge's room to sleep with them, he finds two crew members sleeping on the bed, and he has had enough.
+Mary invites Skinner to take a break and compliments his talent, but when her [[Surgeon fiancé|fiancé]] calls to check in, she realizes she is starting to fall for Skinner. That night, Bart ends up sleeping in the same bed as his sisters, [[Snowball II|Snowball]] and [[Santa's Little Helper]], trapped between them. When he tries to sleep in Homer and Marge's room, he finds two crew members in their bed and becomes fed up.
-The next day, Mary points out to Marge how they've problems programming Christmas look in town, but she gets an idea on how to fix it, by using the festival and transforming the town center into it using the vegetables, inviting people of the town in.
+The next day, Mary tells Marge the town's Christmas aesthetic is lacking, but she comes up with an idea: transforming the town center into a Christmas-themed lettuce and tomato festival and inviting the townspeople to join.
-Skinner gets angry at how the festival was changed for the movie, but people seems happy, till Bart arrives to ruin it, changing the flow of fake snow blower from flurries to blizzard speed, ruining the set and trapping Skinner and Mary in the gazebo with no way out of the snow made out of weird materials Homer used.
+Skinner becomes angry that the festival is altered for the movie, but the townspeople appear happy—until Bart sabotages it by turning the fake snow blower from flurries to blizzard mode, ruining the set and trapping Mary and Skinner in the gazebo amid the bizarre materials Homer collected.
-During the evening they get closer and slept together till morning when Skinner brought her coffee the way she likes from the big city, but then her fiancé arrives at the scene, dividing them and having her escape, just to be met by Bart, showing off to the people of Springfield what she thought of them.
+That evening, the two grow closer and spend the night together. In the morning, Skinner brings her coffee the way she likes it—just like in the big city—but her fiancé arrives and causes a rift between them. Mary flees, only to run into Bart, who shows the town what she really thinks of them.
-The people left the scene and the movie was ruined, even more when the two crew members from before set the set on fire. At home, Mary explains to Marge how she hates Christmas movies because his father was trampled to death while screening a scene for one, and how she really felt after living in the town.
+The townspeople abandon the set, and the situation worsens when the same two crew members accidentally set the set on fire. Back at the house, Mary tells Marge she hates Christmas movies because her father was trampled to death during a scene for one, and she explains how her perspective has changed after her time in Springfield.
-Unknown to her, Lisa and Bart were filming the scene, and when Moe was taking her to the airport in the taxi, he took her to the film set where the people were rebuilding it after seeing the video. Her fiancé showed up and told her to choose between him and Skinner.
+Unbeknownst to her, Lisa and Bart film the moment. When Moe drives her to the airport, he instead takes her to the film set, which the townspeople are rebuilding after seeing the video. Her fiancé shows up and demands she choose between him and Skinner.
-When Mary chooses Skinner, he refused because of her poor decision-making for choosing so quickly, so they go back together, with her fiancé saying it's the second time it happened. That night, the [[Simpson family|family]] are on the couch watching the finished movie, and Marge is the only one enjoying it so the whole family leaves her alone to watch more Christmas movies, while sipping wine.
+When Mary chooses Skinner, he rejects her for making such a quick decision. They reunite anyway, with her fiancé remarking it's the second time this has happened. That night, the [[Simpson family|family]] sits on the couch watching the completed movie, but only Marge enjoys it—so the rest of the family leaves her alone to watch more Christmas films while she sips wine.
 == Production ==
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 [[Category:Christmas episodes]]
-[[Category:Principal Skinner episodes]]
+[[Category:Media-themed episodes]]
 [[Category:WGA Award nominated episodes]]
 [[Category:Episodes written by Jessica Conrad]]
 [[Category:Episodes directed by Timothy Bailey]]

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 |guests= [[Ellie Kemper]] as [[Mary Tannenbaum]]<br>[[Richard Kind]] as the [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas director]]<br>[[Chris Parnell]] as the [[surgeon fiancé]]
 |showrunner1= Matt Selman
 |writer= [[Jessica Conrad]]
 |director=[[Timothy Bailey]]

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 |airdate= December 13, [[2020]]
 |guests= [[Ellie Kemper]] as [[Mary Tannenbaum]]<br>[[Richard Kind]] as the [[A Christmas Ornament for Christmas director]]<br>[[Chris Parnell]] as the [[surgeon fiancé]]
-|showrunner= [[Matt Selman]]<br>[[Al Jean]]
+|showrunner1= Matt Selman
 |writer= [[Jessica Conrad]]
 |director=[[Timothy Bailey]]

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 == Reception ==
-"A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" was nominated for a [[2021]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation, but it lost to "Xerox of a Xerox" from ''{{W|BoJack Horseman}}''.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2021-wga-writers-guild-awards-winners-list-4154000/ The Hollywood Reporter - "WGA Awards: ‘Promising Young Woman’ Wins Original Screenplay, ‘Borat 2’ Takes Adapted Prize"]</ref>
+"A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" was nominated for a [[2021]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation, but it lost to "Xerox of a Xerox" from ''{{W|BoJack Horseman}}''.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2021-wga-writers-guild-awards-winners-list-4154000/ The Hollywood Reporter - "WGA Awards: 'Promising Young Woman' Wins Original Screenplay, 'Borat 2' Takes Adapted Prize"]</ref>
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