The severely hung-over Yogi must not only cope with his rambunctious children, but both his own relatives and his wife's, who do not get along with each other but nevertheless both visit the house for Christmas dinner.
The in-laws quickly get drawn into an argument that soon escalates into violence; as Gabriel Heatter's voice is heard reciting the annunciation to the shepherds preaching peace and good will, "just at that moment, someone slugs Uncle Ben."
[1] Farm broadcaster Orion Samuelson, himself of Norwegian descent, covered the song in the late 1960s with backing by the Uff Da Band.
Other than some minor tweaks (a lower key and replacing Gabriel Heatter with Perry Como) it was almost identical to the original.
This version replaces Heatter with Walter Cronkite and is more loose with the narration, with Setterberg slipping in retorts at certain points to Boreson's story.