![]() Perusing similar Christmas episode ranking posts around the internet, I feel that this one – Michael’s penultimate Christmas at Dunder Mifflin – doesn’t really get the love it deserves. His plotline, which involves taking care of Erin after she gets too drunk and tells Andy that he wished his new girlfriend was “in a graveyard,” shows that he’s not a complete and total lost cause of a human being.ģ.) “Secret Santa” – S6, Ep13. Also of note is the involvement of Robert California, played ever-so-expertly by James Spader, who I think is one of the series’ more underrated characters. One of the two Michael-less episodes on this list, Christmas Wishes gets high marks primarily for the Jim and Dwight reverse prank battle that takes place with their Christmas bonuses on the line, which includes Dwight sending Pam a $200 bouquet of flowers from Jim using his stolen credit card information and Dwight trying to frame Jim using a porcupine named Henrietta. We also find Dwight capitalizing on the commercialization of Christmas by selling the year’s hottest toy to desperate parents (including Darryl and, comically, Toby) at a huge upcharge, and Phyllis deals Angela a crushing blow in the latest battle in the continuing PPC saga.Ĥ.) “Christmas Wishes” – S8, Ep10. His dragging her into a rehab clinic to “make a deposit” is hilarious, as is Andy’s outrageously annoying insistence on playing the sitar nonstop while everyone else is trying to enjoy the party. The comedic meat of this episode is probably found in Michael Scott, the world’s least qualified person to lead an intervention with an alcoholic, leading an intervention after Meredith sets her hair on fire while belly-dancing. I’ll take an eggnog, shaken, not stirred.ĥ.) “Moroccan Christmas” – S5, Ep11. Not a whole lot else to report, though good on Jim (Bear-man’s alter-ego) for shelling out for some nice-looking jewelry for Pam.īond – Santa Bond. It has a few things going for it – the return of Holly (a Christmas-themed name, as it were) is enough to get the audience’s attention, and the diabolical, continually escalating snowball fight between Jim and Dwight that starts with a harmless offhand remark is funny, especially at the end, but the Andy-Darryl-Pam-Jada subplot falls completely flat and has a goofy ending if you ask me. ![]() One of the two two-parters on this list, Classy Christmas is the one that I really, really want to like more than I do. It also suffers from the late-season issue of featuring absolutely no Michael Scott – though it admittedly benefits from the late-game Jim-and-Dwight relationship, which I absolutely love.Ħ.) “Classy Christmas” – S7, Ep11-12. It’s mired in Season 9’s worthwhile but often hard-to-watch sports marketing strife subplot, with Jim and Pam struggling to adapt to time apart and Darryl getting wasted in a way that’s also due to it, and it also features a heavy dose of the microwaved Pete and Erin romance that’s trying desperately to be a flash-fried version of the Jim and Pam love story but winds up undercooked. While I do love the punny title, and of course enjoy a classic Pennsylvania Dutch game of “Impish or Admirable,” this episode just isn’t doing it for me, especially relative to the others on this list. ![]() Starting with the worst…ħ.) “Dwight Christmas” – S9, Ep9. I myself did exactly that this past weekend, going through all of the beloved series’ gift exchanges and other corporate mishaps to determine which of Dunder Mifflin’s merry exploits was the best and worst, and all in between, and I can’t wait for you all to disagree with me. We all know The Office: it’s that show you put on on Netflix for the thousandth time instead of watching something new, and here in December you can do that in a somewhat less guilty way by telling yourself it’s to watch the Christmas episodes and get into a yuletide mood. In what is without a doubt the longest-titled Tuesdays with Cory post in the blog’s short existence, I’m continuing last year’s “extravaganza” – which at the time apparently only amounted to one festive post – by spreading some holiday cheer in the form of good-old-fashioned Buzzfeed clickbait ranking fodder.
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