Best Christmas/Hannukah/December holiday ep of a TV show.

Was watching just now (it’s my fav) and my 18 yr old walks by and I said remember this? And he responds “of course we watched it SO many times”; so I did something right as a father

 

The M*A*S*H episode in which Charles anonymously gifts candy on to have it sold while BJ is feverishly and futilely working to keep an injured soldier from dying on Christmas.

 

And then Hawkeye moves the clock ahead so the family doesn't have to think of Christmas as the day their loved one died - classic.

 

“Look. He made it.”

I can still picture the look on Alda’s face as he said it and I haven’t seen that one in years.

 

Louie when he ends up going to the Yangtze River in China.

Artistry of the highest order.

The episode starts like this ...

 

I have spent the last few days rewatching The Office Christmas episodes on Comedy Central. Dwight Christmas is a classic. Nothing like a vintage Schrute Christmas for some laughs.

 

Whichever episode of South Park it was when Kyle sings "Lonely Jew on Christmas." No song has ever better captured the emotion of being the only Jewish kid in town on that particular day and the feeling of otherness you'd always feel (and still feel as an adult) with Christmas in your face constantly.

 

Absolutely agree on the West Wing episodes. Especially the first.

Big fan of “Ludachristmas” on 30 Rock.

And SNL has some Christmas gems. Right up to this week with Eddie. Dick in a Box, Homelessville (both with Timberlake) Schweady Balls... some great SNL Christmas stuff.

The “Twin Bed” digital short from a few years ago is a classic.

 

And jeez, I forgot Steve Martin’s holiday wish.

 

The SCTV Christmas specials.

 

Twilight Zone episode "The Night of the Meek," where a depressed, drunken Santa (because he sees so many poor kids and can do nothing to help) becomes the real Saint Nick.