O C'mon All Ye Faithful
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"O C'mon All Ye Faithful"
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Episode Information
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"O C'mon All Ye Faithful" is the tenth and eleventh episodes of season 36 of The Simpsons and the seven-hundred and seventy-eighth and seven-hundred and seventy-ninth episode overall. It was released on Disney+ on December 17, 2024. The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and directed by Debbie Mahan and Matthew Faughnan. It guest stars Derren Brown as himself, Pentatonix as themselves, and Patti LaBelle as herself.
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Synopsis
- "Famed British mentalist, Derren Brown, comes to Springfield and uses psychological tricks and showmanship to raise the town's Christmas spirit. When Homer gets hypnotized and mistakenly believes he is Santa Claus, it sets off a cheery chain-reaction and causes everyone to question what they believe and to explore the meaning of "miracle"."
In this Disney+ exclusive double-episode, the residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.
Plot
It's Christmas, and Derren Brown is doing an experiment of hypnosis and psychology to change the festive temperament of the town, arriving in town with his accomplices posing as a film crew "Hark Media", to film a documentary on the award the city just won, the Christmasest town in America, Interviewing Quimby over the fake award, making him uneasy, other than the usual affair with Miss Springfield. This way, Quimby agreed to let the crew place cameras everywhere to film.
They start by cheering and making Gil strong, to find the courage to call his family, by simulating him saving a baby from a carriage running down a hill. Other stories were observed, till they got to Homer, which was forced to do shopping, which he sucked at, by Marge to buy her a present. When Homer continued doubting himself, Derren enlists Marge for help, which signs a contract for him to hypnotize Homer.
They modify the Power Plant vending machine so it takes him into a basement, where Derren awaits him. But something in the hypnosis goes wrong and Homer starts thinking he's Santa Claus. The next day, he requests Smithers a new company ID for Santa, but also gives him a thimble. When Mr. Burns gets into the room, he thinks that the thimble is a gift from Smithers to him, growing his little heart three times, causing him however to get taken to the emergency room for surgery.
Other people started believing in his new found "powers", giving him lots of present requests, but Ralph decided to join him as an elf and soon everyone believed, appearing on Channel 6's Smartline too. The Christmas spirit was at an all time high, with Homer becoming a celebrity, but there was one person not sure about it, Ned Flanders, while Marge is concerned that he belongs to the world now, making Maggie jealous of other kids sitting on his lap, and Bart is concerned. Derren had created a Santa cult and he wants to come clean.
At the Jubilee, he admits what he has done, and that Marge needs him back, and everyone do too, but people don't agree on that. While Derren was explaining it, Ned suddenly gets the realization that it's not just Santa that doesn't exists, but it's possible that his whole credo too is a myth. To calm Ned down, Marge takes him to the roof of City Hall, though Ned explains to her how recently his views have changed.
He used to leave messages for Maude on the bathroom mirror, and send text to Edna on his phone, till recently where he got an answer, thinking it was her from paradise, but it was Nelson who got her number now, and that morning he didn't put the Post-it on the mirror. Marge suggests him to take a rest, that tomorrow he'll feel better, but the next morning Ned starts removing all his religious stuff from the house. Marge suggests to Bart and Lisa to play with Rod and Todd and cheer Ned up reminding him that God exists, but Bart tells Lisa that he's not feeling the Christmas cheer this year, thinking he's outgrowing Christmas, and Lisa tells him that as he grows older Christmas changes from getting stuff to giving stuff. Since he doesn't have any money, she suggests him to do what he does best, but for other people, first by going to Rod and Todd.
Ralph comes to the house, and Homer still believes he can be Santa for Springfield, at least for the people he knows, if Ralph can help him as his elf. Meanwhile, at lunch, Ned doesn't say his prayers before eating, concerning Rod and Todd, and Bart and Lisa ask them what they want for Christmas from Santa, but they tell them they don't get toys as they give them to the needy, but Ned tells them this Christmas they're changing it this year as they're the unfortunate as they don't have a God, so Bart gives them the toy catalogue and they start picking and fighting over them.
Marge goes back to Derren in search of a way to get Ned to believe in God again, with the help of charlatans, but Derren refuses, and hypnotize her just to make her wake up on a bench with his book in hand, meanwhile Homer and Ralph have fun building toys and a sled out of the car, just to slam it on Moe's. Meanwhile, Ned asks the kids if they built a Snowman as there's one in the garden but they deny, so he tells them they can do something now since they're skipping church and they decide to watch tv instead. When it's time to go to bed they notice a shadow at the window, the snowman moved and a weird voice starts to sing Santa Claus Is Coming to Town in a scary voice.
Marge rings their bell and they all reenter the home, seeing more shadows inside, with another shadow starting to sing Jingle Bells, but she soon finds out it was Bart doing the voices behind a curtain, trying to do the Bartman. Marge invites them to have eggnog at their house, while she cleans this house. Bart tells her that he did it for her, as a way to try to get him to believe in God again, which he couldn't with Derren. Marge asks him why he had to do it so scary, but he thought it wasn't, while the girl from The Ring come out from the TV behind them, just to reveal it was Milhouse.
Meanwhile, Homer and Ralph start to distribute the gifts, starting from Rainier Wolfcastle, but the security system triggers, and Ralph starts the car without him, while the cops taser him. At home, Ned wonders if Lisa missed miracles when she went to Buddhism, and she tells him they believe in miracles too, and start telling the story of the blind turtle and the golden yoke. When Marge then doesn't like the credo where there's no afterlife but the existence is what we're living right now, they get in an argument and Ned flees the house.
At the Police Station, Homer has been arrested, and is insistent in requesting cocoa and marshmallows so he's hit by Mace by Lou, but when the cops leave, Ralph comes to the bars, and frees him, and Homer decides that he's gonna be Santa just for his family, and tells Ralph to be the elf just for his. Meanwhile, Ned is taking a walk and arrives at the church where the Christmas Eve Service was starting and ignores it. Arriving at Springfield Squidport, he is barely missed by Professor Frink's wrench, to which Frink tells him someone must be looking out for him and Ned starts telling him how he's feeling, so Frink asks him to join him in a dive in a submarine, exploring the depths.
After some more talk about science and God and looking out at the wonderful creatures in the depths, Ned starts realizing how deep they're and tells Frink to go back up, but the pressure is compromising the structure of the submarine. They manage to go above the pressure zone but with the damage taken, the submarine breaks apart. They manage to resurface but Frink notices that Ned is holding to a plow yoke, and Ned shouts it's a miracle and starts believing in God again. They arrive back at the port where they meet the Simpsons and tell them what happened.
When Ned goes back home, Derren appears from the water and reveals it was all his work, as the whole dive was staged, thanks to Frink's help. Since he's on the nice list, Homer gives him a present, a bowtie, and Derren realizes its his missing one from when he was a ventriloquist, and thinks that Homer's Santa for knowing that, then leaves. The real reason for it, is that it was Maggie's present. Back home, Ned is building back the nativity scene on the roof, Darren prepares some biscuit and a Duff Beer for Santa while placing the bowtie on his doll, while the Marge and Homer open her gift and the one for Maggie, with Bart and Lisa watching and laughing from the stairs.
Gallery
A Derren Brown Christmas Title screen
Promo videos
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