Here we are at the final one of these for the year, and unfortunately the final one of these to include Community for the foreseeable future. Cheer up, though, it's Christmastime! We get three yuletide flavored episodes this evening, and 30 Rock will be returning in the new year.
Community - "Regional Holiday Music"
This show has yet to go wrong with it's Christmas episodes, and it was the perfect reason for them to do a musical episode. In true Community fashion, it was a subtle mockery of Glee, while still be fun in it's own right. Saturday Night Live's Tarran Killam stopped by to be the glee teacher, Mr. Rad. He fit in well to the world of Greendale, especially at the end when it was revealed he caused the bus crash that killed the previous glee club. The real stand out of the episode, though, were the songs. Great songs all around, Abed's duet with Mr. Rad, Troy's Christmas rap (Donald Glover is a successful rap artist), Annie's increasingly infantile flirty song, and Shirley's uncontrollable urge to sing to the children about Jesus. My favorite was Troy and Abed singing to Pierce about how great baby boomers are by musically making their way from the 40's to today. The conclusion using Britta's super power to ruin things totally made up for the fact that she didn't get a song.
Parks and Recreation - "Citizen Knope"
Blah blah blah, great episode, blah blah blah. I'm a broken record at this point, but seriously, it was a great episode. Leslie can't work and the campaign is at a stand still so there is no where to put her manic energy. Instead it gets put into trying to get things changed as a concerned citizen, and she uses all her inside knowledge to get it done. Leslie being on the outside was a nice turn for her and paralleled nicely with Ben trying to find a new job. Running into Jean-Ralphio is always a plus. His tag at the end had me rolling. Seeing Ron out of his element and struggling to build the gingerbread office replica was a nice touch. It was strange, yet funny, to see Ron not super great at something, especially building. The greatest part was the ending where everyone comes together to become Leslie's new campaign staff. Just a wonderful heartwarming moment that this show does so well because we love theses characters so much.
The Office - "Christmas Wishes"
Ugh. Are we suppose to care about Andy and Erin? There was a time that I did, but that time has long past. I liked them together, but after the break up and her dating Gabe, I was done with them. It seemed the show was done with them, too. Now it's back and it keeps rearing it's ugly head. I'm much more interested in the Darryl-Val budding relationship. I really hope they don't bring Gabe back into that one, that guy ruins everything. Darryl going home to get a tux so he could be just as dressed up as Val was touching and one of the few things I liked about the episode. The others being the Mannheim Steamroller rock out and Dwight trying to get Jim to prank him. Everything with Andy and Erin, though, just no. After finding a good story for Andy last week I know the writers are capable of giving him good material, even if it mostly comes off as Michael-lite.
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