| Animal House |    | Brian says, "can I buy some pot from you" much like when Larry and the teacher were smoking pot in the movie Animal House. |
| Asia | | |
| Bob Hope | | Brian watches Bob Hope's Christmas with the troops whilst the family are out Christmas shopping. |
| FBI | | See "Monday Night Football / ABC / NFL" reference. |
| Frosty the Snowman | | Lois loses her temper with Frosty the Snowman and melts him. |
| Gingerbread Men | | |
| It`s a Wonderful Life | | Lois, whilst on her rampage through Quahog, pushes George Bailey (from the 1946 movie ``It`s a Wonderful Life``) off a bridge just after he has said that he no longer wants to kill himself. |
| Jeffrey Hunter | | Stewie mentions Jeffrey Hunter, Captain Pike from Star Trek, in his Christmas speech. |
| Jesus | | Stewie plays the baby Jesus in the nativity play. |
| Jingle Bells | | Lois says "you can all ride a one horse open sleigh to hell" when she has finally lost it. The line "one horse open sleigh" features in the Christmas song Jingle Bells. |
| Kiss | | Peter wants to watch the Kiss Christmas special on TV. |
| Miracle on 34th Street | | Stewie refers to Santa Claus as "Really Real" at the end of the episode. |
| Mommie Dearest | | Lois screams ``No More paper towels`` making reference to the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest in which Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway`s character) screams to the lack of wire hangers. |
| Monday Night Football / ABC / NFL | | The FBI destroy Peter's VCR as he attempts to record Monday Night Football despite not having written permission from both ABC and the NFL. |
| Nativity Plays | | Stewie and Bonnie are in a Nativity play. |
| Santa Claus | | |
| Sony | | One of the two guys fighting over the VCR, their sex box, mentions having called "her" Sony. |
| Star Trek | | See "Jeffrey Hunter" reference. |
| Star Wars | | In Stewie's dream Santa absorbs the shots from Stewie's laser gun in the same way Darth Vader does to Han Solo's shots, he also appears to use the Force to remove the gun from Stewie's hands. |
| Star Wars | | Another Star Wars reference, this one is when Peter tells Lois that if she strikes him down he will become more powerful than she could possibly imagine, just as Obi-Wan Kenobi warned Darth Vader in Star Wars. |
| Three Wise Men | | In a cut scene we see the three Wise men discussing what they have bought as gifts for the baby Jesus. |
| Virgin Mary | | Bonnie plays the part of the virgin Mary in the nativity play. |
| William Shatner | | Stewie mentions William Shatner in his Christmas speech. |
