If anything, glees christmas program is more glee than glee most of the timemore tinsel, more songs, more colors, more. Please only list the title here, as summaries would be more useful on the recap page themselves or on the works page. Extraordinary merry christmas episode christmas specials. I know, i know giants commentepisode are 2 yrs old but, i felt the need to comment in case future community watchers were interested. Dec 01, 2011 its a celebration of, well, the idea of christmas and the television christmas special. Dec, 2011 extraordinary merry christmas is the second christmas themed episode of the 20th century fox television series glee, aired as the ninth episode of the shows third season. Instead of the title card being black, in honor of the christmas theme of the episode, it is green. We can reveal that the handful of songs performed during communitys christmas special will be 100 percent original.
Previously unaired christmas christmas specials wiki. Dec 09, 2011 on last nights episode of community, the gang of pop culture experts engaged in a vicious and very funny glee parody of course, this isnt the first time the nbc comedy has. Sho is the fifteenth episode of kamen rider fourze. Creator dan harmon is known to dislike glee and the series has satirized aspects of the musical tv series.
And the same can be said for the meta wag and wit of communitymore caricature, more spoof, more squibmore, more, more. In the season two episode a very glee christmas, members of the faculty discover that sue has rigged the secret santa. Once again, i wanted to upload a video with the whole song and just the song. The album was released on november 9, 2010 and accompanies the season two christmas episode a very glee christmas, aired december 7, 2010. The glee club is a musical elective at greendale community college. The 22episode season was produced by 20th century fox television and ryan murphy television, with executive producers dante di loreto and series cocreators ryan murphy and brad falchuk, with the other series cocreator, ian brennan, as. The second season of the musical comedydrama television series glee originally aired between september 21, 2010 and may 24, 2011 on fox in the united states. Community christmas special troy, abed and pierce santa baby. Dante di loreto and brad falchuk serve as the albums executive producers. Glee is an american musical comedydrama television series that aired on fox. Troy raps like childish gambino, donald glovers rap stage name.
The episode is the shows fourth christmas special, but due to season five being set in the same calendar year as season four, it is a noncanonical episode which purports to be the original season four christmas special, suppressed by fox. Dec 14, 2011 glee may not have aired its annual christmas special until tuesday night, but the show already got scrooged last week. During communitys first season, the christmas episode saw shirley, the shrill christian woman, trying to foist her beliefs on the others, only to come up short against the frustrating array of. Meanwhile, sue attempts to recruit homeless shelter. From season 3, episode 10 regional holiday music i own. Sometimes the christmas episode will be shown in two or three parts over consecutive nights, typically in the buildup to christmas day. In this interview, the writer of the episode megan ganz explained. The christmasthemed episode is a musical featuring original songs performed by cast members. Im not saying that it was necessarily bad, as such, but it was a little bizarre. Save for maybe the rumor has itsomeone like you mashup, which i admittedly played on repeat for a week. Fallon said regional holiday music relentlessly exposed glee s most repetitive cliches and couldnt have invented better illustrations of glee s cringeinducing, everyoneislovedaslongastheysingasong motif.
Unlike glee, community embraces irony, rather than just mere snark. Jul 11, 2016 this episode of community is one of the best christmas episodes. The glee club celebrates christmas, will saying that trees and gifts is not the true meaning of christmas. Glee, most likely, will hit these same notes in puppet master, its own imaginatively named puppet episode. Its by far one of the wittier episodes of season 3 and i dont recommend skipping this one because beside the underlying glee insults, the songs and jokes make this a gem. This very special christmas edition starts when jane lynch addresses the audience to explain that the original 2012 christmas episode of glee. Community christmas special shirley and kids jesus cake.
Extraordinary merry christmas episode glee tv show wiki. Or to put it in christmas terms, making out with sexy santa is a lot more thematically onpoint than feeling sorry for grinches. Sometimes the christmas episode will be shown in two or three parts over consecutive nights. Only the most popular shows get shown on christmas day. Season 3, episode 10 christmas special holiday regional music. But how will the show compare to the fauxmuppet stories that have come before. Only the best christmas rap ever, from community s03e10. After five seasons on nbc, community moved to yahoo. With dianna agron, chris colfer, jessalyn gilsig, jane lynch.
Emma and jannie eat and cook healthy food and fried chicken funny food toys video for kids duration. Previously unaired christmas is the eighth episode and fall finale of the fifth season of the american musical television series glee, and the ninetysixth episode overall. Community celebrates christmas by ripping into glee. What is your favourite community christmas episode. It was the final episode before the midseason break.
Last years community christmas special was done mostly in claymation, with the characters going on a somewhatinsane imaginary journey inside the mind of a member of their study group. Finn tries to get everyone at mckinley high into the holiday spirit. It was created by ryan murphy, brad falchuk, and ian brennan. The community episode regional holiday music provides examples of. When jeff gets the glee club shut down, dean pelton needs the group to step in and save the christmas pageant. Abed brings up the christmas pageant to troy says he would like to help, but he.
It is the second christmas episode on glee, the first being a very glee christmas, the tenth episode of season two. Fox initially ordered thirteen episodes of glee, picking the show up for a full season on september 21, 2009, ordering nine more episodes. Community s 3 e 10 regional holiday music recap tv tropes. Considering how many glee jabs community has thrown in over the years, its equally heartbreaking and ironic that the final episode before its. Schuesters former high school nemesis, bryan ryan, causes trouble for glee club. Extraordinary merry christmas is the ninth episode of glee s third season and the fiftythird episode overall. The episode was chock full of clever jokes, hilarious, silly musical numbers and, yes, glee bashing. Glee is a musical comedy about a group of ambitious and talented young adults in search of strength, acceptance and, u. Sue recruits the glee club to sing at a homeless shelter where she will be. Yuuki is invited to join the glee club for a performance for the kindergarten class, however, her singing disrupts a. Abeds uncontrollable christmas is fantastic, but there are few things i love more than how much dan harmon hates glee. The song teach me how to understand christmas is a satire of similar holiday classics with lyrics that reflect the criticisms of those type of songs. Yes, regional holiday music was, as is reliably the case with community, a sharp, funny episode, while glees extraordinary merry christmas. When the greendale glee club is unexpectedly sidelined, the schools effervescent choir director cory radison sets about recruiting the study group members to fill in.
Voted 5th best new reddit community of 2010 and 2nd. Welcome to a community of community fans, and the subreddit thats streets ahead. Extraordinary merry christmas episode glee tv show. But, just as scrooge, with his perfunctory bah humbugs. Community is an american comedy television series which premiered on september 17, 2009, on nbc. The song pierce uses to convince shirley join the glee club. That song too was supposed to be a satire of the way that those santa baby songs infantilize womens sexuality. Nbcs community abeds uncontrollable christmas on vimeo.
It premiered in 2009 and features covers of popular songs often set to extravagant choreography. Known in britain as a christmas special but that means something different on this website, the christmas episode is a oneoff seasonal episode of an ongoing series, typically a comedy or comedy drama. Thats what sue referred to the kids in the glee club in the first episode. The enthusiastic performances often annoyed everyone around them. Its a celebration of, well, the idea of christmas and the television christmas special. The series follows a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of greendale, colorado. This episode of community is one of the best christmas episodes. They prepare a plan to help out homeless children and raise money. What is surprising is that one of the best numbers from the episode a very glee christmas failed to make the album cut. The muppet glee club, which consists of frogs, chickens, and pigs, and is conducted by kermit the frog, made its only appearance in episode 101 of the muppet show. The series heavily uses metahumor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television cliches and tropes. When abed says this, hes been brainwashed by the glee virus that, through him and his weakness, sweeps through the rest of the study group, forcing them to behave in ways they dont. A holidaythemed parody of glee in which abed tries to persuade each. Humorous fannies what made early 21st century romanticism a great, gimmickfree episode of community.
Earlier in the episode, sue sylvester offers kurt the following nicknames to pick from. With all of the spirited musical numbers, christmas trappings, and gleebashing, of course i was going to like this episode, and of course i was. Community makes fun of glee for christmas slate magazine. Teach me how to understand christmas community wiki fandom. And what a great depiction of what christmastide is for peopleany people. While the first christmas episode satirized the ideas around what christmas means in a modern secular world, this second episode gets to the real meaning of christmas the intensely personal experiences and traditions that make christmas so special to you. After sectionals, the troubletones are part of the new directions again. Extraordinary merry christmas is the ninth episode of glees third season and the fiftythird episode overall. What is your favourite community christmas episode, and. That was when community aired its own holiday musical episode, regional. Sue paints herself up as the grinch to steal back presents. Twenty seconds into last nights episode of community, i realized that i was already enjoying it one billion times more than im enjoyed anything glee has done this season. A community experiences miraculous events and frightening omens after a.
Dec 09, 2011 community s passionate, if not entirely large, battalion of fans is still smarting over nbcs decision to take the highlypraised comedy off its midseason lineup. The pilot episode of the show was broadcast on may 19, 2009, and the rest of the season began on september 9, 2009. Just had to do it for fun since im pumped for the new season. It was directed by wendey stanzler and written by ross maxwell, and it aired on fox in the united states on december 5, 20. Glee may not have aired its annual christmas special until tuesday night, but the show already got scrooged last week.
The glee club gathers to sing the episode s closing number but has difficulty getting started. The episode opens with new directions singing all i want for christmas is you whilst decorating the choir room, with mercedes singing the lead. On last nights episode of community, the gang of pop culture experts engaged in a vicious and very funny glee parody of course, this isnt the first time the nbc comedy has. The entire episode is a send up of the show glee but with original music. In last nights previously unaired christmas episode, we were treated to becky sexually harassing others, an intense christmas tree contest, a hot klepto santa, and. The remainder of my song will be like the christmas almond at the center. Glee is a fox television series about a high school glee club. In short, previously unaired christmas reinforces the obvious. The atlantic s kevin fallon compared regional holiday music to glee s own 2011 christmas episode extraordinary merry christmas which aired on december. Community regional holiday music tv episode 2011 imdb. Yes, regional holiday music was, as is reliably the case with community, a sharp, funny episode, while glee s extraordinary merry christmas was, as is reliably the case with that show, a wildly uneven mix of creative highs and lows. If puck, rachel, kurt and finn were in a polyamorous relationship, the ship name would be huckleberry finn. The first time kermit cues them to begin, all eleven members stand silently watching his fancy stick waving.
Rad admitting that he killed the previous glee club is a classic type 1. Community, glee, and the reason for the season hey, im just doing my part to keep the internet buzz about community high enough that they wont cancel the show. Teach me how to understand christmas community wiki. Here is where we list the painfully obvious themes, motifs, and aesops of every episode because we have nothing better to do. Students who took this class would perform stylized renditions of classic songs and current hits publicly on campus. The music, the christmas album is the fourth soundtrack album by the cast of the american musical television series glee. Community season 3 plans a christmasthemed musical episode. Regional holiday music is the tenth episode of the third season of the american television series community, and. Dec 07, 2010 a very glee christmas is the tenth episode of glee s second season and the thirtysecond episode overall. It was originally broadcast on december 8, 2011 on nbc and is the final episode before the show went on hiatus during the 201112 midseason. Me so christmas community gets around to that glee spoof.
Community season 3 plans a christmasthemed musical. Skeptical at first, they eventually fall under his hypnotic spell onebyone singing and dancing their way to the annual christmas pageant. Dec 08, 2011 i know, i know giants comment episode are 2 yrs old but, i felt the need to comment in case future community watchers were interested. There seems to be an odd scatological theme as well, if you pay attention. In an episode directed by emmy award winner joss whedon, mr. Communitys passionate, if not entirely large, battalion of fans is still smarting over nbcs decision to take the highlypraised comedy off its midseason lineup. Regional holiday music is the tenth episode of the third season of the american television series community, and 59th overall episode of the series. This weeks christmas episode of glee was one of the oddest ive ever seen. Previously unaired christmas is the fourth and last christmas episode of fox musical series glee. Almost every episode in glee has a theme and the show isnt shy about beating you over the head with it. This was the last episode of community for god knows how long, it was a christmas episode, and it was glorious. Lostassisted revelation in last years christmas episode, regional holiday music was ultimately in favor of moderating holiday expectations.