Winter holiday episodes of fannish shows

[brightknightie]

What are your favorite winter holiday episodes/specials of fannish shows? Any winter holiday is eligible (Christmas, Hannukkah, New Year's, Solstice, Diwali...) and any show you consider fannish. Yet these episodes do have to come out of regular shows; my dear Rankin/Bass holiday specials universe is ineligible, as are feature films.

Bonus points for identifying the season, episode number, and title, to help folks find and enjoy the episode, whether on streaming or DVD. :-D

My own all-time favorite by total rewatches is Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a parody of Dickens' tale, which was a standalone special produced between Seasons 3 and 4 (Wikipedia entry). Runner up is the Pinky & the Brain Christmas episode, which is now found with Season 1, but was originally a prime-time special, in which the mice do what they always do, but at Christmas, with overflowing measure of Pinky's sweet heart (Wikipedia entry).

How about you? Any Buffyverse episodes? PBS/BBC Masterpiece Theater series specials? Very old shows from your childhood, very recent shows from this year...?

Thanks!

Comments

[greerwatson]

The Big Bang Theory had five Christmas episodes, each of which has classic moments. I think my favourite is probably the first of them: "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" (Season 2, Episode 11), in which Sheldon attempts to buy gifts according to a reciprocity principle that demands each person swap presents of equal value. Second is maybe "The Cooper Extraction" (Season 7, Episode 11), in which Sheldon is back in Texas because his sister is having a baby; and, in his absence, each of the others imagines how their lives would have gone if they'd never met him.

[skieswideopen]

Oh, I love "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis"! Sheldon's reaction to Penny's gift is wonderful.

[brightknightie]

Thank you! I have not seen that.

It looks like The Big Bang Theory is currently available in the US with subscriptions on HBO Max, Hulu, and YouTube Premium. I have YouTube Premium! :-)