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It's that time of year again. Christmas time. Time to take a few days off for the holidays, and spend them with your loving family. Eat fruit cake, egg nog, way too many sweets, dry turkey, candy canes, and all sorts of other items you either shouldn't or wouldn't want to eat the rest of the calendar year.

You know, maybe you should just ignore the calamity that is Christmas (at least in the real world), with the hectic trips to the overstuffed local mall, complete with screaming children lining up for a photo with a beleaguered department store Santa, and watch some TV.

In which case, you could do worse than a little Simpsons Christmas marathon.

The Simpsons has a full fifteen Christmas themed episodes in their Holiday arsenal (though they play fast and loose with the seasonal theme, and a few extra episodes that were added to their Christmas box sets have been discounted for having nothing to do with the holiday), and some of them are surprisingly good.

Some even qualify as true Simpsons classics - and they're not always the ones that you think!

So, grab a warm mug of cocoa, a couple of treats, and lets look at every single Simpsons Christmas episode ever - ranked!