The WORST episodes of The Great Christmas Light Fight

#1 - Episode 4

Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/12/2024

The holly jolly celebration continues as the Richards, Kraklow, Clark, and Bell families face off in competition for the most spectacular holiday displays in hopes of earning the $50,000 grand prize and Light Fight trophy, as Carter Oosterhouse judges.

#2 - Episode 4

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/15/2014

Everything is bigger and quirkier in Dallas, TX, where Liz Simmons’ “Electric Lizzy Land” is chock-full of festive critters and homemade crafts; three generations of the Ludy family in Columbus, GA, show their originality with one-of-a-kind wire frames that create an animated wonderland; the Huffty family of Jacksonville, FL, welcome onlookers with a life-size animatronic snowman named Sunny; and Vallejo, CA’s Taylor family enlists their local fire department, and aluminum foil to blind the competition with their eye-popping display. See what happens when the fire department is called after a display suffers a blackout during judging.

#3 - Episode 6

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/23/2020

The Farmer family uses blow molds and inflatables, featuring a roof with more decorations than most family's entire display in Alexandria, Virginia; the Pennington family show a high-tech and jaw-dropping display in Corriganville, Maryland; the Padilla family has an interactive display reminiscent of a mini-Disneyland in Burbank, California; and the Register family uses exhaust pipes and other recycled goodies for a full throttle masterpiece in Surf City, North Carolina. Carter Oosterhouse picks the final winner of the season.

#4 - Episode 3

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2020

The Storybook Land team is brimming with nostalgia and a million lights, as this family-owned amusement park continues to go all out for the holiday season in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey; the Luminaria team's 55-acre botanical garden is one of the largest pixel fields in the world in Lehi, Utah; Folepi's Winter Wonderland creates an awe-inspiring parade of a million lights, featuring mammoth-sized floats in East Peoria, Illinois; and the World of Illumination creates an all-inclusive display, featuring over a million lights and boasts the world's largest RGB snowman, standing 36 feet tall in Glendale, Arizona. Judge Carter Oosterhouse picks the winner.

#5 - Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/2013

#6 - Episode 5

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/23/2020

The Seddio family has one of the oldest displays in New York City, featuring Santa's workshop filled with charming animatronics, a singing Christmas tree, a blimp, and even stars from Disney on Ice in Brooklyn, New York; the Priem family creates a megawatt synchronized light show incorporating larger-than-life presents, Christmas ornaments, and a mega tree in Atlanta, Georgia; the Koors family fills every acre of their property with lights and simulated snow in Independence, Kentucky; and the Bigda family uses hand-drawn cutouts depicting every Disney character imaginable, crafted by everyday items in Winter Haven, Florida. Taniya Nayak decides the winner.

#7 - Episode 3

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2013

#8 - Episode 1: All-Stars 2

Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/26/2023

Take a look back at some of the most iconic light displays from previous seasons in our All-Stars premiere episode.

#9 - Episode 3

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/2015

The featured neighborhoods include Lights on Jeter Bend in Celebration, FL; Waikele Christmas Lights in Waipahu, HI; and Christmas on Comstock in Gilbert, AZ.

#10 - Episode 4

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/14/2015

The festivities continue featuring families from Pleasanton, CA, Hillsboro, TN, St. George, UT and Duluth, MN.

#11 - Episode 3

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/2021

The Sablich family creates a North Pole experience featuring Santa's Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; the McGonigle family spaces light strings exactly three inches apart, plus a gingerbread house and 102 dalmatians in Plantation, Florida; the Fester family displays 750,000 lights, 99 Christmas trees, and more exciting surprises in Panama City Beach, Florida; and the Alred family displays light strands 75 feet high in Jacksonville, Florida. Judge Taniya Nayak decides the winner.

#12 - Episode 3

Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/12/2024

The tree-mendous Christmas decor competition heats up as the Laakso, McCarty-Williams, Hetherington, and Kittell families put their creative skills to the test to win the $50,000 grand prize and Light Fight trophy, with Taniya Nayak judging.

#13 - Episode 3

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/15/2014

See the Lashbrook family from Owensboro, KY, whose display is a nostalgic wonderland with real pine trees planted specifically for Christmas decorating; the BetGeorge family from Newark, CA, have a musical extravaganza with live performances that they hope will earn them more than a standing ovation; down in San Antonio, TX, the Johnson family’s synchronized light show is “not your Grandma’s Christmas display,” complete with a neighborhood dance party and dubstep soundtrack – this family’s enthusiasm will be tough to beat; and, the Alexander family who live on Christmas Tree Lane in Fresno, CA, have been topping themselves and their like-minded neighbors for 24 years with innovations such as their light mural.

#14 - Episode 1

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/9/2013

#15 - Episode 4

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/12/2016

The magic continues with the Shaw family's display featuring more lights on its Christmas tree than the famed tree at Rockefeller Center in Cranbury, NJ; the Kasper-Cook family, who built their home to showcase a light show after being inspired by season one in Minnetrista, MN; the De Sario family, whose passion has helped them raise almost $150,000 for the Hospital for Sick Kids, in Toronto, Canada; and the Thompson family's husband-wife duo with an all-handmade holiday display in Glen Allen, VA. Judge Taniya Nayak awards $50,000 and the coveted Light Fight trophy.

#16 - Episode 1

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/8/2014

See the Weaver family’s 58’ castle in their Winter Wonderland replete with hand-painted Disney cutouts in Rohnert Park, California; the Barnard family’s live animal Nativity with 2 million lights sprawling across 8 acres in Lebanon, Tennessee; the Bagwell family’s impeccably synchronized musical masterpiece in Springfield, Missouri; a “talking house” you have to see (and hear!) to believe at the home of the Belcher family in Rowlett, Texas who make a high-tech house party with projected images that make their house seem to come alive. Judge Sabrina Soto awards the $50,000 and the coveted Christmas Light trophy.

#17 - Episode 2

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/16/2013

#18 - Episode 4

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/2020

The Mattos family displays a vibrant, fully custom light show in their Apricot orchard, incorporating original music and homemade yet high tech digital artwork in San Jose, California; the Martel family decks out their front and back yard with shimmering lights, a high speed Ferris wheel, little houses with hidden elf scenes, and more for their 33rd year in Hamilton, New Jersey; the Irizarry-Serrano family displays a mystical “City of Lights” with breath-taking DIY elements in Lake Mary, Florida; and the Doody family transforms their home into the Vegas strip, featuring a custom Las Vegas sign, a massive fountain, and a light show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Judge Taniya Nayak makes the decision.

#19 - Episode 3

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/9/2019

The heavyweights division has the Bentley family with “Bentleyville,” a 22-acre decorated city park with 5 million lights, over 200 wireframes and the tallest man-made mega tree in the country in Duluth, Minnesota; the Winter family with “Cambria Christmas Market,” a Germany-meets-California display, filled with gift shops and food stalls, plus an enchanted forest spread over 25 acres in Cambria, California; the An family with “Magical Winter Lights,” combining the traditional American Christmas with the ancient Chinese light festival, made entirely of delicate, intricately designed Chinese lanterns in Houston, Texas; and Kenny Irwin with “Robolights,” an industrial Christmas land made out of robots built from recycled materials, including a candy cane palace, a tower of gifts, amusement park rides, a 10,000 watt robot sculpture, and a Santa ditching his sleigh for a spicy masala chuck wagon stagecoach in Palm Springs, California. Judge Taniya Nayak make the decision.

#20 - Episode 1

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/26/2018

See the Richardson family with their extensive collection of 300 inflatables that come to life in Southern style in Madison, Mississippi; the Vaughan family with their whimsical wire frame forest, complete with flying birds, leaping deer, jumping fish and shooting stars in Alexandria, Virginia; the Salveson-Sangalli family with their holiday display, including 72 themed Christmas trees filling the inside of their home from floor to ceiling in Port St. Lucie, Florida; and the Hanley family with their larger-than-life ranch display, including Big Red – a 26-foot tall reindeer in Cleveland, Texas. Judge Taniya Nayak chooses the winner.

#21 - Episode 4

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/2021

The Relvas family creates a Swiss Alps Christmas town with over 400 figurines in Ladera Ranch, California; the Christensen family showcases their "Frozen" inspired holiday display and waterfall of lights in Citrus Heights, California; the Clark family presents a display of seven themed areas from LED palm trees to a whimsical forest in Clarksburg, California; and the Berndt family puts on an interactive display featuring a working train, penguin slide, and giant claw lift that distributes presents to the children in Santa Rosa, California. Judge Carter Oosterhouse make the decision.

#22 - Episode 5

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/21/2015

Four festive families from across the country showcase their spectacular displays of Christmas magic, including the Nelson family's specially converted RGB "star flakes," hand-built plasma icicles and thousands of lights that illuminate the sky in Elk Grove, CA; the Mish family's giant 15x15 Seahawks logo and innovative interior water and ice features in Kirkland, WA; the Hoag family's 30-foot platform of shooting stars and snowflakes and homemade carousel and Ferris wheel in Strongsville, OH; and the Finney family's star and angel, 50 feet in the air, four eight-foot Bibles, a 14-foot merry-go-round, two snow globes and a 16-foot snow slide in Crossett, AR.

#23 - Episode 1

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/28/2021

The Ford Family presents a Nightmare Before Christmas display with a scary toy factory and more in Mission Viejo, CA; the Quintero Family presents a whimsical Christmas meadow with flowers radiating Zen and peace in Atwater, CA; the Aromin family puts on a synchronized light show with a 12-foot replica of the Mickey Ferris Wheel in Fairfield, CA; and the Levy family displays their symmetrical diamond-shaped lights in Sacramento, CA. Judge Carter Oosterhouse chooses the winner.

#24 - Episode 6

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/2015

The festivities conclude with the final episode of the season. Meet the Ziemkowski family, whose handmade animatronics and "Pix-Z-Tree" - a tree that features pixels and handmade craftsmanship - plus thousands of lights and music with synced video in Sherman Oaks, CA; the Koosman family, whose synchronized fire works show set to music and 450,000 LED strobe lights draw thousands of visitors to their home in Willmar, MN; the Sokol family, whose display includes a "Slammin' Santa" - Santa simulating a power dunk, and a jumping dolphin display with 2 projectors that simulate shimmering water and over 125,000 lights in Orlando, FL; and the Davis family of Longview, TX, whose display features over 1 million lights, a laser show, six dancing mega trees that are 45-feet high, and a handmade pond and river of blue lights.

#25 - Episode 2

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/7/2015

See the Phipps family, who incorporate music and original displays, including a 22’ mega tree made out of PVC and aircraft cables in Livermore, CA; the Bartlett family’s unique and entirely homemade displays in Ellicott City, MD; the Drelick family’s Christmas snowflake set 52-feet high in the sky in Harleysville, PA, which can be seen half a mile away from the New Jersey turnpike; and the Hunt family, whose 20-foot Santa, 30,000 ice lights, 80,000 single strand bulbs and 10,000 feet of cable make this Ocala, FL family’s display not to be missed. Judge Taniya Nayak awards $50,000 and the coveted Christmas Light trophy.