Off the bat another Christmas episode I'll be rewatching every year as long as Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas a classic Community episode, as well as Christmas Who? Which is the first sponge bob Christmas episode. Pretty much every South Park Christmas episode season in the first 8 years especially Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo and the Woodland Critters episode which might be my two favorite Christmas episodes (besides this one of course)
Just everything from comedy and Christmas feel is matched perfectly and then of course has that special "sunny ending" that no other show could physically pull off. Some of my all time favorite and iconic moments of the show is from this episode including the Santa brawl at the mall, Frank coming out of the couch naked and the animation or puppet scene with Frank and the song is a classic. Very similar style to Rudolph the red nose reindeer and I just got to appreciate how much work that must had to have been especially with all the ways Frank's puppet gets mutilated and they really knocked it out the park using advantage for the time it's not live action. Mac and charlies traditions are some of the funniest things ever put into a Christmas episode. Mac and his family going into strangers houses and stealing their presents. The reveal of the family at the top of the stairs and young Mac kills me everytime still so much like his adult counterpart. Charlie explaining how all the Santa's would come over and cheer up his mom and his breakdown. The scene of the gang caroling and getting booed and bottles chucked at them gets me every time. Another one of my favorite scenes is Mac apologizing for stealing a robot and not even returning it just for the apology from a kid name Ricky. It's comedy gold. Especially the line "Some people can't be helped". The music throughout the episode is perfect. Also the rock throwing tradition is just the icing on the cake. Charlie and Mac are prolly my favorite parts of the epsiode, but the stuff with Frank, Dennis, Dee, and Frank's old associate is also great, and the ending makes it so much better, with the iconic snow blowing scene right after "Frank has a change of heart" shortly after his close death encounter. If I could rate it an 11 I would I have no negatives. Last thing I want to mention is Frank faking his death just to get the gang down to the hospital is so funny to me and the "yo" when they walk in god this show. There is many top tier episodes but not as many I would rate 11. Really there is no down point all throughout the epsiode and it's longer being a special at about 44 minutes. If you want a happy ending for a Christmas special you are not getting that, but if your a sunny fan its a fantastic ending. 11/10. I don't think there is another episode of the show with so many iconic moments as a fan this is one I throw on all year long.
*Edit- this is also a great Charlie and Mac episode. I miss these two paired up like in "Mac and Charlie White Trash", "Mac and Charlie die", and this episode. There's others but it's all mostly in the earlier seasons.
Just everything from comedy and Christmas feel is matched perfectly and then of course has that special "sunny ending" that no other show could physically pull off. Some of my all time favorite and iconic moments of the show is from this episode including the Santa brawl at the mall, Frank coming out of the couch naked and the animation or puppet scene with Frank and the song is a classic. Very similar style to Rudolph the red nose reindeer and I just got to appreciate how much work that must had to have been especially with all the ways Frank's puppet gets mutilated and they really knocked it out the park using advantage for the time it's not live action. Mac and charlies traditions are some of the funniest things ever put into a Christmas episode. Mac and his family going into strangers houses and stealing their presents. The reveal of the family at the top of the stairs and young Mac kills me everytime still so much like his adult counterpart. Charlie explaining how all the Santa's would come over and cheer up his mom and his breakdown. The scene of the gang caroling and getting booed and bottles chucked at them gets me every time. Another one of my favorite scenes is Mac apologizing for stealing a robot and not even returning it just for the apology from a kid name Ricky. It's comedy gold. Especially the line "Some people can't be helped". The music throughout the episode is perfect. Also the rock throwing tradition is just the icing on the cake. Charlie and Mac are prolly my favorite parts of the epsiode, but the stuff with Frank, Dennis, Dee, and Frank's old associate is also great, and the ending makes it so much better, with the iconic snow blowing scene right after "Frank has a change of heart" shortly after his close death encounter. If I could rate it an 11 I would I have no negatives. Last thing I want to mention is Frank faking his death just to get the gang down to the hospital is so funny to me and the "yo" when they walk in god this show. There is many top tier episodes but not as many I would rate 11. Really there is no down point all throughout the epsiode and it's longer being a special at about 44 minutes. If you want a happy ending for a Christmas special you are not getting that, but if your a sunny fan its a fantastic ending. 11/10. I don't think there is another episode of the show with so many iconic moments as a fan this is one I throw on all year long.
*Edit- this is also a great Charlie and Mac episode. I miss these two paired up like in "Mac and Charlie White Trash", "Mac and Charlie die", and this episode. There's others but it's all mostly in the earlier seasons.