Kids who haven't been seen in god knows how long suddenly appear out of the woodwork

Indeed
I can't blame Moira for being upset though, and I usually like Emma

Surely EE is going with either of these for Christmas day

"Phil, it's the hospital .... They have a donor. ... duff duff
Or
"It's Phil, he's gone ..... duff duff

It's been a tradition for somebody to drop dead on Christmas day on a soap opera these days.

River City:

Caitlin defrosting the turkey with a hair dryer.

Someone will give birth on Christmas day, or during a nativity play (Denise, I'm looking at you)

Christmas Day in Corrie featuring David & Sophie. It is quite surprising that the producers gave Brooke (Sophie) time off at this time of year.

Just threw up in my mouth at the opening of Coronation Street.

Random choir singing a perfectly harmonious version of 'Last Christmas' holding traditional lanterns as miserable residents walk around the street.

Complete and utter sickening garbage!

BIB I hope you have brushed your teeth, I haven't had my xmas kiss yet

Adam and David have the right response to Peter and Nick fighting in the street - laughter.

The Emmerdale village covered in snow.

Also in Emmerdale one Christmas dinner was ruined so they all gatecrashed someone else's dinner.

The snow could have been real. It would have been about the time they filmed the Christmas episode that we got snow in November up north. When we saw it actually snowing it looked real.

Very surprised we didn't get any snow in corrie tonight, made a nice change.

I agree it did look real so it was a happy coincidence

Weirdly at the end of last nights Corrie episode it was snowing when Maria looked out of her prison cell window but there was no sign of any snow in today's ep

Sure I remember an article saying it had snowed at Harewood at the exact same time that Emmerdale were filming their Christmas episodes?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't some big fluffy snowflakes fall outside Maria's prison cell, as she gazed out with big, sad, perfectly made up eyes?

Some of the ones below have already been mentioned, and many haven't happened in this year's soapfests but:

On the rare occasions where residents have done some Christmas shopping, they always come home in a taxi with at least half of the gifts already wrapped (the previously-mentioned boxes with separate lids).

Someone will always forget to defrost the turkey, or it'll be too big for the oven/number of people invited and someone will have the brilliant idea of cutting it up with an inappropriate power tool.

Burnt item is always burned to a black crisp and is smoking, but nobody smelled anything at all.

The character leaving that year will suddenly decide during Christmas morning that they're going to Australia or America and by teatime their belongings are packed into an overnight bag, and the taxi is there waiting with the engine running (for at least half an hour while goodbyes ad explanations occur), and the whole street/square is packed with well-wishers to wave them off for a flight leaving that night, which requires no passport, visa or ticket, with no delays because of the snow which mysteriously fell to a depth of at least six inches while everyone was having their lunch.