Road to the North Pole comedy films which were released from 1940 to 1962, starring actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and actress Dorothy Lamour. The opening credits show images with Brian and Stewie referencing other Christmas specials such as "The Nutcracker", "A Christmas Carol", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Frosty the Snowman" and "Home Alone". The credits also show Brian and Stewie performing winter activities, such as snowball fights, making snow angels and putting coal in the (Meg's) Christmas socks instead of gifts. Ron MacFarlane, who narrated part of the episode, mentioned that Kenny Rogers was supposed to be there. The episode opens with a
For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls references. The title of the episode "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" is a parody of the novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Metallica song inspired by the novel. The action sequence and bloody themes were slightly modeled after the film "300". When Bob Todd is teaching Roger moonshining, Roger jumps over barrels of moonshine, similar to the "Donkey Kong" video games. Frosty the Snowman appears in Santa's army, which is a reference to the cave-troll scene in Moria from . The elves are wrangling Frosty in with a collar and chains almost exactly like the scene from