#mega blissmas

Just fyi, I’m NOT going to talk about the obvious...*ahem* Jewish elephant in the room. I’m as disappointed about that as y’all are, but I’m not gonna let it ruin the whole special.

-I’m also a little disappointed that Melvin’s bday wasn’t mentioned, but I’m not mad about it.

-EDITH ACTUALLY APPEARS. She only does so once or twice as a caroler and has no actual dialogue, but you can CLEARLY tell it’s her.

-At the beginning of the special, when George, Harold, and their parents were all at George’s house, did Grace just leave her daughter at home? I mean, even if she got a babysitter or something, she and her son seem to be celebrating Christmas without her.

I’m honestly starting to think that this is a timeline where either a) Heidi was never born, b) she’s dead (I really hope not), c) she was forced to go with her and Harold’s dad when he left (I also really hope not), or d) she’s living with some other relative for some reason.

-Staying on the topic of the boys’ parents, I’m really happy we got to see them again. I wish we could’ve seen more of Melvin’s parents, tho. And George’s dad is absolutely hilarious.

-George, you broke your dad’s present, how could you.

-I also love how we got to see some of the other kids’ Christmases. And Bo’s parents! I find it so cool that they’re fucking huge, and hilarious that all we know of Bo’s mom is the color magenta.

-It was also revealed in the special that Stanley has two older siblings. That’s one of my favorite parts.

-Ms. Hurd is dead? Damn, I never thought they’d do something like that. I wonder what happened to her...

-I’m very curious about one part of the Christmas pageant scene.

Why is Jessica standing like that? Has she gotten the hots for Bo? That’s what it looks like to me. Also why is she such a small bean compared to him? Is he THAT big?

-Hulk Hogan!Santa is one of the best things this show has given us. He reminds me so much of Mr. Ree’s brother.

-Melvin and his hamnog is hilarious. It also made for a really sweet ending and really touching moment when the boys gave him his head mug.

I love how when he tells them to drink some with him, Harold tries to let him down easy and George is just like “Yeah, no.”

-R.I.P. Doopity. Melvin dumped him for hamnog. *Titanic music plays*

-I very much enjoyed the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer reference, but I wish that one of the reindeer actually had a red nose instead of giving it to Cap.

-How was there exactly NO snow until the end? Shouldn’t they have gotten lots of snow since they live in Ohio?

-Why was Krupp spending the holidays with the bandit cowboy dude? Where’s his family? Bernice not being there is understandable, but what about Kipper and Jasper and the sister?

-I swear the TETOCU team is trying to make Mr. Meaner and Harold’s mom a couple. The way she looked at him when he got hit on the head with a present in the arena; and the fact that it was HER that looked at him like that...