For one, I loved that show as a kid and even more a few years later when I rewatched the “Happy Plant” i.e. Don’t Use Drugs Episode, the explicit moral of which was “Don’t use drugs, cause Issue Episodes of sitcoms suck and if you stopped smoking weed we wouldn’t have to make episodes like this one.” Also because, while I’m not a drug user, if I ever start, the first thing I’m doing is buying Season One of Dinosaurs on DVD for $4.35 on Amazon Marketplace. Or maybe buy drugs first, like I said, I don’t really know much about that whole world.

Anyway, Refrigerator Day is the world’s weirdest metaphor for Christmas. Instead of Jesus, it’s the birthday of Refrigerated Food. For Dinosaurs. And then the Dinosaurs forget the True Meaning of Refrigerated Food. And then they learn it again. Probably, I forget. Look it up yourself, but if you can find a stranger Christmas episode, I owe you a coke. Or, I owe you coke if decided to start the drug thing.

I would be remiss if I didn’t note “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, the Simpsons special that launched the show, and made it forever impossible to say if the show began in 1989 or 1990.

I also feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t add South Park’s “Mr. Hanky The Christmas Poo”.

For this season, I think Community’s “Comparative Religion” is my favorite.

At least the episode got its props.

But, I have to pull the heartstrings a little – “So-Called Angels” (1994) from My So-Called Life is beautiful. Angela fighting with her mom, Ricky homeless, and Juliana Hatfield as the guardian angel. In fact, I think it makes me cry even more now that I identify as much with Patty as with Angela!

It was one of the episodes that really contributed to the complexity of Rickie, one of TV’s few (somewhat out) gay teenagers and the hardships he faced. Also, the ‘angel disguised as a homeless girl’ looks like Angela’s twin, and helps her realize that, despite her fights with her mom, she has a loving family (and hilarious little sister).