The 20 Specials of Christmas: CommunityAnd here we are at the end of my Christmas death march. I’ve watched — and rewatched — a lot of Christmas episodes this month. A […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Garfield
Splitsider just featured an article about the history of Garfield’s mediocrity. And generally, I agree. Garfield The Comic Strip has a long […]
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Star Wars
The Star Wars Holiday Special is legendary. And like most legendary things, it’s hard to praise or criticize. If I say it sucks, you already […]
The 20 Specials of Christmas: 30 Rock30 Rock has always been good at playing through old sitcom tropes and reforming them into something new. Here, of course, we have the old […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Parks and RecOn the sad side, “Christmas Scandal” is the last appearance of Louis C.K. as Leslie’s boyfriend, Dave (for this storyline, at least). Boo!
On […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Saturday Night LiveExcluding compilation episodes and DVD releases, Saturday Night Live has never done a proper just-Christmas-material special. It can’t, really; […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: The SimpsonsI already wrote about this special here. But, because it’s Christmas, why don’t I plagiarize my own ideas?
The first episode of The Simpsons […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials Of Christmas: Father Knows Best
Dad is upset that Christmas has become too commercial (in 1954), so he decides his family is going to participate in some good old-fashioned […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Moral OrelHoly Baby Jesus this Christmas special is dark.
By itself, Adult Swim’s Moral Orel was a spot-on parody of the Sunday school propaganda many […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Futurama
Any Christmas special that starts with Conan O’Brien’s head doing stand-up is going to be fine.
Even outside of its holiday trappings, “Xmas […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Mork & MindyBaby Jesus, this is a weird Christmas special.
“Mork’s First Christmas” is exactly what it sounds like. Being an alien, Robin Williams’ Mork […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: Family GuyAnother day, another Christmas special Hulu Plus has locked in its pay wall prison.
Released towards the end of the show’s original […]
ByMike Drucker
The 20 Specials of Christmas: South ParkYesterday I said that South Park often used the preaching technique invented in A Charlie Brown Christmas. This special seemed like a good […]
