The Many Deaths of Hans Moleman: In this one he is presumably eaten by wolves on the snowy mountain where he is stranded.
The title is based on traditional; English Christmas carol "Deck the Halls" from the line "Tis' the season to be jolly...".
In an early scene, the device tells Homer that it is Margaret Cho's birthday. The following day, Homer wakes up and asks Lisa the date. She says December 6th. Margaret Cho's birthday is in fact December 5th, so the device was correct.
The Buddha that appears, really it's not Buddha. It's a monk called Budai, who lived around the 10th century in China. Also he's known as "Laughing Buddha" or "Fat Buddha", however, he's NOT the Buddha of the Buddhism, prince Siddhartha Gautama, who later would be Gautama Buddha or Buddha Shakyamuni. Maybe, the confusion comes, in the other factors, from the words Buddha and Budai are almost homophones (very similar sound), and that along time, became a deeper mistake hard to revert.
The trinket that Homer looks at mentions that it's Margaret Cho's birthday which is December 5. This episode did in fact air 9 days after that date. it re-ran on December 5, 2020. December 5 also happens to be Walt Disney's birthday.