Little House on the Prairie

We learn green is Pa's favorite color (from the knitted scarf Laura made him), green was also Michael Landon's favorite color.

In this episode, 3-year-old Carrie has two significant one-on-one scenes with Charles; first when she asks Charles what Christmas is, and again when she and Charles are talking about Santa in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. We don't see Carrie interact this much with her father again until Season 6's The Godsister.

In this episode, Laura gives her prized pony to Nellie in exchange for a stove. The thing is, though, Laura knew that Nellie wasn't nice to animals, as evidenced by Laura's decision not to give Nellie one of her puppies in Season 2's Remember Me. It's obvious that Laura loved her mother so much that she was willing to sacrifice the animal she loved so much, but it's a bit of a stretch for us to expect that Laura would do it if she knew in her heart that Nellie would most likely not treat him right. Of course, at this point Laura has only known Nellie a few months, and it would probably be after this - checking up on her beloved horse - that she would discover Nellie isn't that nice to animals.

When Laura gives her pony away to Nellie, Nellie's word-to-word assurance to Laura is "I'll be good to him, I promise." This is a promise that Nellie quickly broke, as evident by her behavior at the beginning of Season 3.

While begging her parents to let her work with Mrs. Whipple, Mary is talking so quickly that she accidentally says "And I sewed her how I could show! I mean, I showed her how I could sew." This was an actual goof-up that Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary) made during filming, as she discussed in a later interview, but she and the other actors did a great job at continuing the scene despite it.

A real sign of the times is evident when Caroline looks with longing at a brand-new stove in the mercantile, only to turn away when she sees that it costs seven dollars and some odd cents--way beyond what families like hers could afford at the time, yet it's a price that thousands of people wouldn't think twice of in today's world. Additionally, Mr. Oleson offers Laura a "whopping" five dollars for her horse, which was obviously a huge deal back then, but not so much today.