Community, Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas Quotable: Dean (having been rebuked for swearing by the Pleasantville-style pagan goddess): You fudgin’ touch me again, I’ll fudgin’ kill you! 3. Add to that Dean’s desire to celebrate Christmas one last time before his impending death, and you have all the ingredients for a moving and thematically rich Christmas episode. Since our culture has developed a slightly peculiar tradition of lying to small children and telling them that a fat man in red comes down the chimney and leaves them presents every year, only to have to reveal the truth when they get old enough to realise they don’t have a chimney, Christmas is, for most of us, associated with the loss of childhood innocence with the moment we realised the world isn’t quite as magical as we hoped it was. Happy Christmas! A Christmas episode is the perfect setting to explore the moment Sam Winchester lost his childhood innocence and found out what his father was really out doing, and how his mother died. The true meaning of Christmas is… death, pain, blood, mutilation and family tragedy. But his attitude pales in comparison with the anti-Santa who comes down the chimney to murder parental figures, or the scariest character in the episode, the spectacularly creepy human Santa who should never be allowed anywhere near children, ever. Sam’s not getting into the Christmas spirit at all. They’re not Greek or Roman, I can tell you that much.Īnd there’s always a Grinch. Which Christmas is this? A festival of ‘pagan gods’ – the show is irritatingly unspecific concerning which particular group of pagans these ‘anti-Santa’ gods belong to. Supernatural, A Very Supernatural Christmas Penny: Okay, all I’m giving you is the napkin, Sheldon. Quotable: Sheldon: Do you realize what this means? All I need is a healthy ovum and I could grow my own Leonard Nimoy! It’s a sign of his character’s slow development that he realises that the hug (which also costs him more) will mean more to her than all the bath stuff. Sheldon is not a big fan of the pagan festival of Saturnalia and he’s even less keen on reciprocal gift arrangements, but when Penny gives him the DNA of Leonard Nimoy, Sheldon is so overwhelmed that he gives her half the bath shop… and he hugs her. But it’s the few minutes at the end of The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis, otherwise a relatively forgettable story about Leonard and Penny fighting over a guy, that make it so memorable and that make it a better Christmas episode. Happy Christmas! As a complete episode, season three’s Christmas instalment, The Maternal Congruence, is actually a better and more satisfying twenty minutes. The DNA of Leonard Nimoy and a whole lotta bath stuff. The true meaning of Christmas is… Presents! Really great presents. Sheldon has no interest in Christmas or presents, until he sees what Penny brought for him.
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