Best Christmas episodes?

Moonlighting did a fair one. It involves an abandoned baby on Miss Dippytoe’s doorstep. Soon the case involves parents Mary and Joseph, three men named King, and baby…Andrew? And bonus Richard Belzer! At the end, the entire cast and crew break the fourth wall and sing a carol.

It would have been perfect, if they could have left DiPesto out…

The West Wing had a lovely, touching Christmas episode “In Excelsis Deo” where staffer Toby discovers that a homeless man who died nearby was a Korean War veteran, and uses his influence (inappropriately) to get the man a military funeral. Has some wonderful writing, but then it’s Aaron Sorkin of course.

President Bartlett, disciplining Toby: “You don’t suppose that if this gets out, every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?”

Toby: “We can only hope.”

Futurama: Xmas Story, where they have to fight off a murderous robot Santa.

Amy Wong: He knows when you are sleeping.
Professor Farnsworth: He knows when you’re on the can.
Leela: He’ll hunt you down and blast your ass / From here to Pakistan.
Dr. Zoidberg: Oh…
Hermes: You better not breathe / You better not move
Bender: You’re better off dead, / I’m tellin’ you, dude.
Fry: Santa Claus is gunning you down!