![]() Other than a tree-lighting ceremony, the episode can basically take place anywhere in the season. We chose this one, however, because of it shows little sign of holiday tropes. ![]() Parks and Recreation does have other holiday episodes like “Citizen Knope” where the Parks crew tries to find Leslie the perfect gift. Read more: 17 Movies Secretly About Christmas You Need to Watch It’s like doing the network a favor by including a holiday episode, but then bypassing any resemblance to any sort of holiday essence. Other than that it shows no sign of classic holiday tropes. It’s Christmas time in Pawnee and Leslie gets herself accidentally involved in a political sex scandal. This episode involves a tree-lighting ceremony. Allow me to clarify, imagine singing the tune to Holy Night-probably the most traditional Christmas song-but with the lyrics to “Red Solo Cup.” Parks and Recreation “Christmas Scandal” In the sphere of holiday episodes “A Very Sunny Christmas” takes the cake for being the most holiday un-holiday episode. This is the only Christmas episode in the Sunny series probably because there’s really nowhere to go from here. What else would you expect from the gang on Christmas? Frank is in town to make sure Dennis and Dee have a terrible Christmas while Charlie and Mac, who love the holidays, find out some disturbing news that ruins their cheer. “Merry Christmas, Bitches!” Everyone’s Christmas is ruined in this holiday episode. What says holiday cheer better than pot brownies, men in banana suits, sexual harassment, and incest? Bah humbug! It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia “A Very Sunny Christmas” Not to worry the episode comes full circle when Lindsey and George Michael make the same incestual mistake with some “Afternoon Delight” at a second Bluth Company Christmas party. ![]() Lucille and George get a little “afternoon delight” of their own… in the form of some high-grade cannabis. ![]() Meanwhile Baby Buster is earning awards from “Army” and Gob is presidential in his three-thousand-dollar suit. Lindsey is at the party too trying to score a date. It’s hard to convince anyone of how un-Christmas this episode is, other than to just explain what happens. Read more: 100 Best Christmas TV Episodes of All Time Michael instead takes Maeby to the party and the two find themselves in an awkward situation while singing karaoke to “Afternoon Delight” not realizing, until it’s a little too late, that the catchy tune is really very dirty. It’s time for the annual Bluth Company Christmas party and this year George Michael decides to spend it with Egg…we mean Ann, disappointing his father. Surely there are better episodes of Asylum, but sadly they don’t contain Ian McShane in a shabby red suit. McShane, who is so unhinged and vile yet capable of lighting up the screen like a Christmas tree, delivers most of the episode’s highlights, but Lily Rabe, who plays possessed nun Sister Mary Eunice, seems to be having a ball, manipulating an equally game James Cromwell and tormenting a distraught, back-against-the-wall Jessica Lange. Read more: 20 Christmas Movies for Badasses It wasn’t until its beautiful and surprisingly emotional season 1 Christmas episode, however, that it was clear the show was something special. Nickelodeon’s animated classic Hey Arnold got off to a hot start from moment one. Still at the height of X-Files mania following the 1998 release of The X-Files feature film Fight The Future, the episode was a yuletide frightfest that capped off an ambitious run of early season six episodes. While it’s not Chris Carter’s best work, Tomlin and Asner make it a holiday trick-or-treat worth revisiting. Joining David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the ghosts were played by comedy TV legends Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner. The ambitious bottle episode used only four actors (the series’ lowest total) and one set. Like most X-Files, it was an ambiguous ending that didn’t solve much, but through the ghosts of Christmas-past, the episode examines both Mulder and Scully’s motives and relationship. As the story goes, a murder-suicide supposedly took place inside the mansion in 1917 and the young couple has haunted the house every Christmas since.
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