Favourite Christmas Episodes

Pigman II · 20-12-2005 3:01pm #1

Nearly every show has one. Which ones are you fond of or thought particularily good?

1. Bottom episode "Holy"
the two lads are stuck in their flat on xmas day when a baby is left outside their door.
Eddie : Gold, Frankenstein and GURR
Rick : ".... and I'm a virgin!"

2. Alan Partridge "Knowing Me Knowing Yule"
Alan spends 250k to make a set that looks exactly like his house for a Xmas special.
Alan (with his fist stuck in a turkey) "Do you want some? I'm handy!"

3. Blackadders "Christmas Carol"
An inverted take on Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol

4. Popular "Fall on your knees"
Yet another "A Christmas Carol" take that I thought was well done.

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Feel free to add more.

whiskeyman · 20-12-2005 4:19pm

The Office.

oh, and the first "last" ever episode of Only Fools and Horses... the one where they get the pocket watch and finally became millionaires.
Brilliant!

Dr. Dre · 20-12-2005 4:23pm

Pigman II wrote:

2. Alan Partridge "Knowing Me Knowing Yule"
Alan spends 250k to make a set that looks exactly like his house for a Xmas special.
Alan (with his fist stuck in a turkey) "Do you want some? I'm handy!"

...and recently, the xmas episode of the American version of The Office (Season 2).

starman100 · 20-12-2005 4:50pm

Fr. Ted episode filmed in the lingerie dept. of Dunnes Stores, Ennis.

byte · 20-12-2005 8:48pm

starman100 wrote:

Fr. Ted episode filmed in the lingerie dept. of Dunnes Stores, Ennis.

Couldn't agree more!

Also, I liked Men Behaving Badly's Xmas Special too.

parsi · 20-12-2005 8:56pm

Just watched Kilnaskully - excellent Christmas episode...

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 20-12-2005 9:02pm

definitely the Fr. Ted one. im gettin the box set for crimbo and im gonna watch that on christmas day!

Tar.Aldarion · 20-12-2005 9:05pm

playa3 wrote:

definitely the Fr. Ted one. im gettin the box set for crimbo and im gonna watch that on christmas day!

That's the one for me also....pure brilliance.

Kojak · 20-12-2005 11:32pm

Have to agree with some of the earlier posts. The best Christmas episode is the Father Ted one.

da_deadman · 22-12-2005 6:54pm

South Park - the first time Mr Hankey is there

and South Park - Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics, with a load of Christmas songs sung by the good people of South Park.

and again South Park - Woodland Critters Christmas...

In fact all their Christmas specials are great and Paramount has a load of them on tomorrow night from 9. I'll be watching.

Dinner · 22-12-2005 7:46pm

I gotta go with Fr. Ted too. I'm off to dig out the boxset and have a watch.

Atrocity · 22-12-2005 7:48pm

The Blackadder one is quality, as are the two Office episodes

Cabaal · 22-12-2005 8:15pm

starman100 wrote:

Fr. Ted episode filmed in the lingerie dept. of Dunnes Stores, Ennis.

This and the bottom ep

meldrew · 22-12-2005 9:24pm

starman100 wrote:

Fr. Ted episode filmed in the lingerie dept. of Dunnes Stores, Ennis.

Totally agree , Mrs Doyle naming off the priests is classic

Basq · 22-12-2005 11:56pm

Watched the Father Ted Christmas episode this morning while sick in bed with a flu (poor me!)!

Did anyone listen to the audio commentary? While i don't particularly love the episode nearly as much as some of the others (doesn't hold a candle to stuff like "A Song For Europe", "Flight into Terror" and "The Plague").. i was amazed to hear that Graham Linehan really hates the episode!

But my favourite Christmas episode is (and probably will always be) the finale to "The Office".