My Top 15 Holiday Specials

By Natasha Arya

As we near the end of a very strange year, let’s sit back, relax, and grab a cup of cocoa as USWIB lines up the best holiday sitcom episodes on TV.

1. Friends, "The One with the Holiday Armadillo" (season 7, episode 10): Ross dresses up as an armadillo to teach his son Ben about Hanukkah but Chandler tries to one up him by dressing up as Santa. Who’ll win? Find out on this classic Friends episode.

2. Mad Men, "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" (season 4, episode 2): Don’t miss the office dressing up for the Christmas party of the year.

3. The Office, "Christmas Party" (season 2, episode 10): Dunder Mifflin had its fair share of memorable Christmases but nothing tops this Secret Santa gone awry.

4. How I Met Your Mother, "How Lily Stole Christmas" (season 2, episode 11): Ted calls Lily a Grinch. How could this possibly go wrong?

5. Gilmore Girls, "The Bracebridge Dinner" (season 2, episode 10): Settle in for some drama in snowy Connecticut.

6. Doctor Who, "A Christmas Carol" (2010): The ultimate Dickens x Doctor Who crossover you didn’t know you needed until now.

7. New Girl, "The 23rd" (season 1, episode 9): Sexy Santa Schmidt? Count us in.

8. Boy Meets World, "A Very Topanga Christmas" (season 5, episode 11): Ft. Mr. Feeny as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.

9. Black Mirror, "White Christmas" (2014): In the mood for something scary? Black Mirror never fails to disappoint. This time with a Christmas theme!

10. Glee, "A Very Glee Christmas" (season 2, episode 10): Get ready to sing along!

11. The Mindy Project, "Christmas Party Sex Trap" (season 2, episode 11): Mindy throws a Christmas party and it goes exactly how you can imagine.

12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Amends" (season 3, episode 10): Kind of sad. Kind of dramatic. But a classic Christmas episode.

13. Downton Abbey, "Christmas at Downton Abbey" (2011): A perfectly elegant Christmas special with a perfectly romantic proposal to top it off.

14. The O.C., "The Best Chrismukkah Ever" (season 1, episode 13): Seth Cohen’s favorite holiday!

15. Black-ish, "Black Santa/White Christmas" (season 1, episode 10): Dre insists that his office Christmas party needs a Black Santa. Specifically him.