The problem with Christmas parody...

...is that Christmas traditions are already a bit too long already to sit
through half-thought out puns on top is excruciating. The epitome of
this travesty is any parody of "12 days of Christmas" Especially odious are ones which change the lyrics. Your funniest joke in this milieu is always "and a
cartridge for the Atari" and that joke ain't funny 12 times in a row. And though the
original song is timeless the parody that you came up with in 1981 is not.

I'm using the 2nd person again. That's because I am talking to you, NBC writers! You had a whole season to be on strike, you could have used that time to think up thinking funny.

But Christmas is a time of love. So here's the teachable moment:

What would be much better is aphoristic use of parody for Christmas traditions. For example like:

"Merry Christmas to mall and to mall a good night"

There that's adequate. No need to belabor it with a:

"twas the night before Christmas,
and all through the mall,
not a vendor was idle,
not even a stall..."

yada yada yada