15 Christmas and New Year episodes from your favorite TV series

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The Simpsons, Friends and Sherlock celebrated the holidays.

1. Black mirror

• USA, 2014.
• Drama, fantasy, thriller.
• Season 2, Episode 4, "White Christmas".
• IMDb: 9, 2.

The Black Mirror Christmas Special marked the return of the series after a long hiatus. Two people work at a small station somewhere in the snowy desert. Five years later, they tell each other about the reasons that brought them there.

Separate stories about the world where a person can be "blocked" in real life or move his consciousness into an electronic chip are gradually combined into one eerie plot.

2. South Park

• USA, 2004.
• Satire, comedy.
• Season 8, Episode 14, "Christmas in the Wildlife".
• IMDb: 9, 1.

Really legendary and yet one of the blackest episodes of South Park. Stan meets forest animals that await the arrival of the Savior. True, then it turns out that this is actually the Antichrist, who then must move into Kyle. A bloody orgy, an abortion of a hedgehog and other madness is attached. Moreover, the voice-over text in verse.

3. Office

• USA, 2005.
• Sitcom.
• Season 2, Episode 10, Christmas Party.
• IMDb: 8, 8.

Perhaps this is the best corporate event episode. It all starts with the fact that the tyrant boss brought such a big Christmas tree into the office that it is impossible to put it up. And then the secret Santa game began. True, everyone wanted an iPod, but the boss was very offended by the donated mitten. It all ends, of course, with the purchase of a huge amount of vodka.

4. Community

• USA, 2010.
• Sitcom.
• Season 2, Episode 11, Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas.
• IMDb: 8, 8.

The authors of the series approached the Christmas episodes as unconventionally as possible. For example, in the second season, Abed, one of the heroes, begins to see the whole world as a puppet animation. He sees it as a sign that it's time to rediscover the true meaning of Christmas. True, the rest think that he is just going crazy.

5. The Big Bang Theory

• USA, 2010.
• Sitcom.
• Season 4, Episode 11, Justice League Recombination.
• IMDb: 8, 8.

There were many funny holiday episodes in The Big Bang Theory. In the sixth season, Sheldon expressed his grievances against Santa Claus, and in the seventh season, all the heroes realized that they had made friends thanks to Sheldon. But you can start with the fourth season, where the whole company gathered for a New Year's party in a comic book store in the form of characters from the Justice League.

6. Friends

• USA, 2000.
• Sitcom.
• Season 7, Episode 10, "The Episode with the Christmas Battleship."
• IMDb: 8, 6.

From the variety of Christmas episodes of "Friends" it is even difficult to choose. For example, in the sixth season, Ross and Monica danced on the set of a TV show, trying with all their might to attract the attention of the operators. But still, it was the Christmas episode from the seventh season that became a legend, because it was there that Ross could not get a Santa costume and therefore dressed up as a "festive" battleship.

7. Doctor Who

• UK, 2010.
• Science fiction, adventure.
• Season 6, Episode 0, A Christmas Carol.
• IMDb: 8, 6.

Doctor Who, even in regular episodes, often combines the atmosphere of fantasy with a real fairy tale. And in Christmas episodes, authors often simply retell classic stories, adding aliens and time travel to them.

So, for example, they remembered the famous "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, only the Doctor himself acted in the role of the Christmas spirits showing the hero the past and the future. And also a real opera singer starred there.

8. Dr. House

• USA, 2008.
• Drama, detective, medical.
• Season 4, Episode 10, "It's a Beautiful Lie."
• IMDb: 8, 5.

The main plot of this episode fits well within the framework of a typical episode of "House Doctor": the patient's organs for some unknown reason fail one after another. Only everything happens on the eve of the holiday, and therefore the doctors arrange a game of secret Santa, Wilson wears a hat with horns, and House himself first meets people who do not lie to each other.

9. X-Files

• USA, 1998.
• Science fiction, mysticism.
• Season 6, Episode 6, "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas."
• IMDb: 8, 4.

The X-Files didn't go without mysticism even at Christmas. Mulder and Scully are locked in a haunted house. Ghosts advise them to kill each other, either throwing them into parallel realities, or simply playing with their minds. Almost the entire episode was filmed in the same room, but that only adds to the atmosphere. In addition, the harpsichord plays in the background.

10. How I Met Your Mother

• USA, 2005.
• Sitcom.
• Season 1, Episode 11, Limousine.
• IMDb: 8, 4.

All the main characters of the series decided to attend five cool parties at once on New Year's Eve. Ted rented a limousine, Barney put down a CD with groovy music. But of course it all went wrong.

The heroes ran away, then gathered again, Barney brought in a vulgar girl, and then they picked up either Moby, or a person very similar to him. Almost all the action takes place in a limousine, but this does not harm comic situations at all.

11. Futurama

• USA, 1999.
• Science fiction, comedy.
• Season 2, Episode 8, A Christmas Carol.
• IMDb: 8, 3.

One day the pizza delivery guy Fry got into a cryo chamber and woke up after a thousand years. By the second season, he still has not figured out all the rules of the new time and cannot understand why everyone is afraid of the robot Santa. And the best part of this episode is the skiing of all the characters.

12. Sherlock

• USA, 2016.
• Detective drama.
• Season 4, Episode 0, The Ugly Bride.
• IMDb: 8, 2.

The creators of the modernized version of Sherlock Holmes decided to delight fans of the classics and show how the heroes would look in a 19th century entourage. Of course, all this is the imagination of a detective who mentally tries to figure out an unsolved case. But for the most part, Ugly Bride is the most "classic" Sherlock series, albeit grotesque.

13. Detective agency "Moonlight"

• USA, 1985.
• Comedy, detective, drama.
• Season 2, Episode 10, "The Christmas Eve Series."
• IMDb: 7, 6.

The legendary comedy from the eighties also did not go without the spirit of Christmas. Willis's hero decided to open a Santa telephone service at the agency. Ostensibly to maintain the spirit of the holiday, but in reality, just to earn extra money.

Meanwhile, a baby is thrown into the office, after which criminals are hunting. To the usual jokes and skirmishes, they added an excellent fight with armed bandits, in which the heroes threw balls, frisbees and toys. And in the finale, everyone sings.

14. The Simpsons

• USA, 1997.
• Satire, comedy.
• Season 9, Episode 10, "Miracle in the evergreen alley."
• IMDb: 7, 5.

As you know, for thirty years in "The Simpsons" was almost everything. And of course, every season brought joy with Christmas episodes. For example, one day Bart decided to get up early to catch Santa Claus, and accidentally burned a decorated Christmas tree along with gifts. Then he decided to lie to everyone that their house was robbed.

15. Losers

• USA, 2011.
• Musical, drama.
• Season 3, Episode 9, Unbelievably Happy Christmas.
• IMDb: 7, 5.

The most musical of all television series also did not pass by a bright holiday. Almost all of the Christmas episodes are simple and talk about love and friendship. But the main thing in them is a huge number of songs. There are classics like Jingle Bells and modern hits that are perfect for Christmas and New Years.