From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   I might actually have preferred to watch 21 and a half minutes of Baby Shark   
   to this episode. What was it about? I'm not a huge fan of "Sideshow Bob is   
   good" episodes even when they present an actual mystery, but this one didn't   
   even do that. Burns can    
   be an unsympathetic figure easily, but with everything crammed into three   
   minutes, how can his story approach compelling? This is just a series of   
   things happening, then other things happening long after the dramatic climax,   
   a cheap saccharine ending,    
   then yet other things happening, like a minute of Steve Ballmer filler.   
   Episode title's playing out in the coda is not a great excuse. Ho ho ho, see   
   you in 2020.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...United Parcel Service actually is what UPS stands for?   
   ...not only is the December 1935 calendar correct, but it's the same as   
   December 2019 (the difference between years is a multiple of 28)?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   9F22: (cropped, or if you watch FXX or Disney+, totally normal) clips appear   
   early on, and Bob receives a rake for Christmas   
   2F16/2F20: the perpetrator of a crime only identified by initials, etc.   
   7G08: Homer refers to Bob as "a fellow Santa", reminding us of his mall Santa   
   days   
      
   Meta   
   Burns seems to notice the dramatic push-in on him before his tale of woe, and   
   tells the "camera" not to go further   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)