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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser.
• During the title screen gag and couch gag, "Deck the Halls" plays.
• During the Created By and Developed By credits, "Once in Royal David's City" by Cecil Frances Alexander plays.
• "Carol of the Bells" by Mykola Leontovych plays several times in the episode.
• The United Parcel Service (UPS) delivers parcels in Springfield.
• Sideshow Bob sings a parody of the Christmas carol "Ding Dong Merrily on High".
• Homer suggests that he and Marge can watch the 2018 film Roma, which he thinks is about the restaurant chain Tony Roma's.
• The Simpson family sings the children's song "Baby Shark" in the car.
• The Gnome-in-the-Home Dome is a parody of the ride It's a Small World.
  • The song "It's a Scary Place" is a parody of the song from the ride.
• Sideshow Bob says he's a trained method actor, like Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread and Mike Myers in The Love Guru.
• In the Fox News Yule Log:
  • A picture of John F. Kennedy
  • The Bill of Rights
  • The Constitution of the United States
  • It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
  • Emily Post's Book of Etiquette by Emily Post
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • The song "Silent Night" plays during the Yule Log.
• The Channel 6 News headline is "The Ghost of Christmas Presents", a reference to the Ghost of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol.
• Scott Bakula mentions NCIS: New Orleans to Wiggum, and Wiggum mentions Quantum Leap to him, two shows Scott starred in.
• Sandra Bullock puts on a blindfold, a reference to her film Bird Box.
• Gimbels, a department store chain that is now defunct, is shown and mentioned in a flashback from Mr. Burns's childhood.

Continuity

• The scenes with Sideshow Bob bench pressing weights showing his tattoos and him trying to kill Bart with a machete are shown. ("Cape Feare")
• Scenes of Bob getting his face removed are shown when Bob remembers his dark secrets. ("The Bob Next Door")
• Sideshow Bob is still housed at the lighthouse. ("Gone Boy")
• Hug-A-Bull is seen at Santa's Village. ("'Tis the 30th Season")
• Maggie is seen to be scared of the Gnome in Your Home again. ("The Nightmare After Krustmas")
• The family takes a christmas picture saying "Merry Christmas from The Simpsons!". ("Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire")

Goofs

• The website that Lenny uses to buy his Christmas gifts doesn't have a top-level domain in its URL.
• Homer's address on his Kris Kringle Union card lists him as living at Springfield Beach, the same place Sideshow Bob's card says.