But when Mary is finally ready to return to the big city, she gets a call from her boss saying that she will be passed over for an important promotion unless she stays in Springfield to help finish the film.

When Homer hears that Mary needs fake snow for her movie, he grinds up anything that is white into flaky powder to sell to her.

Soon after, Mary must use the Lettuce and Tomato festival as the set of the big finale scene in her movie, and Skinner yells at her for turning his project into a Christmas-themed party.

However, when Bart reveals Lisa's documentary footage of Mary badmouthing Springfield, the town turns on her and refuses to be extras in the movie, and the set is destroyed by a fire.

Mary confesses to Marge that she has always hated Christmas movies since her father died in the making of Jingle All the Way when she was a child.

[6] Tony Sokol of Den of Geek said that the episode was a "masterful send-up of holiday movies, demographically charged programming, and Christmas itself."