25 Best Christmas-Themed Episodes On Netflix

One of my favorite parts of the holidays is curling up on the couch and watching all the classic Christmas movies and TV episodes that air. Thanks to Netflix, we don't have to wait for all of them to air. We can pick and choose when we want to watch which classic Christmas episode we want. I've gone ahead and ranked the 25 best Christmas-themed TV episodes available on Netflix for you.

25. Mad Men: "Christmas Comes But Once A Year (Season 4, Episode 2)

Not exactly a sitcom classic, but nothing makes you feel more classy and traditionally Christmas than by spending it with Don Draper in the 1960s. In this episode, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce hosts an office Christmas party for one of their biggest clients. However, things don't go according to plan, as they end up hosting an unexpected visitor.

24. 30 Rock: "Ludachristmas" (Season 2, Episode 9)

In one of my favorite 30 Rock episodes, Liz's parents come for a visit, and Jack instantly feels a bond with them. Meanwhile, the office gets ready for another racy Christmas party, that of course does not go according to plan.

23. The Office: "Christmas Wishes" (Season 8, Episode 10)

Admittedly, this was probably the worst season of The Office, but they really know how to do Christmas episodes right. Throwing his first Christmas party as office manager, Andy sets out to make everyone in the office's Christmas wishes come true. Robert California visits, and gets a little creepy with Erin, much to Andy's dismay.

22. Futurama: "Xmas Story" (Season 2, Episode 8)

There are a couple good Christmas-themed Futurama episodes. This one sticks out because it's the first time Fry (and us as well) learn how Christmas has changed over the past thousands years, and he gets nostalgic for the 20th-century Christmas traditions. Meanwhile, a giant robot Santa voiced by John Goodman attacks New York.

21. That '70s Show: "Christmas" (Season 6, Episode 7)

When Jackie gets kicked off the cheerleading team, she brings Hyde and the gang to the high school Christmas party to show off her older boyfriend and friends. For some reason, Eric is all of a sudden really popular with the high school girls, and Fez hides from the football team.

20. How I Met Your Mother: "Symphony of Illumination" (Season 7, Episode 12)

While kind of a darker episode, this Christmas-themed HIMYM episode still gets you in the holiday spirit. We follow Robin's narration as she tells her hypothetical kids how she met their father. The great thing about this episode is how Ted is determined to keep her in the holiday spirit.

19. The West Wing: "In Excelsis Deo" (Season 1, Episode 10)

After the tragic death of a US veteran with no close family or friends in the National Mall, Toby sets out to make sure he gets a proper funeral. As it turned out, the homeless man was wearing a coat that Toby had donated to Goodwill, making him the man's only known connection. Meanwhile, Josh and Donna argue about what they're getting each other for Christmas.

18. New Girl: "The 23rd" (Season 1, Episode 9)

In the first Christmas episode of the series, the gang attends Schmidt's office Christmas party before all going home for the holidays. At the party, the ladies of the office turn Schmidt into a sexy Santa. Meanwhile, Jess and Paul exchange gifts, and Paul drops the L bomb, leaving her speechless. Schmidt tries to get CeCe a romantic gift and Winston gets bummed about being unemployed. The gang goes caroling, and Christmas wishes come true.

17. That '70s Show: "Hyde's Christmas Rager" (Season 2, Episode 9)

After Hyde moves out of the Foreman's and in with his dad, he decides to throw a Christmas party. Wanting to seem like the "cool dad", his dad allows it, and Eric gets wasted. Meanwhile, Jackie and Donna go on a double date with older guys, only to discover they have something (or someone) in common with them.

16. The Office: "Benihana" (Season 3, Episode 10)

In the second Christmas episode of The Office, the Stamford branch and the Scranton branch try to bond while planning a Christmas party. Angela's dictatorship causes Karen and Pam to plan a separate Christmas party. Meanwhile, Michael (drunk and brokenhearted) brings two Asian waitresses back to the party, but has trouble telling them apart. One of my favorite episodes ever.

15. Everybody Loves Raymond: "All I Want For Christmas" (Season 2, Episode 12)

Raymond is feeling romantic as the holidays roll around, and for a strange turn of events, so is Debra. Not surprisingly, at every turn they make to have sex, Ray's family ruins the moment. When Ray hints that they need some alone time, the family won't let him live it down.

14. Frasier: "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz" (Season 6, Episode 10)

While out doing his Christmas shopping and minding his own business, a Jewish woman approaches Frasier and begs him to take her daughter on a blind date. After reluctantly accepting, Frasier is pleasantly surprised at how charming the woman actually is. However, when they come visit him on Christmas Eve, Frasier has his family pretend to be Jewish to win over her family.

13. That '70s Show: "The Best Christmas Ever" (Season 1, Episode 12)

Tired of attending his family's boring Christmas party year after year, Eric asks Red for permission and money to throw his own in the basement. Red gives him money to go buy a tree, saying the rest can be used for his party. Instead, the gang steals a tree and keeps all the money. Annoyed Eric got his way, sister Laurie spikes his party's punch. Meanwhile, Hyde tries to figure out how to get Donna a romantic gift on a low budget.

12. How I Met Your Mother: "How Lily Stole Christmas" (Season 2, Episode 11)

During their first Christmas back together, Lily excitedly decorates the apartment as a treat for Marshall after his finals. While in the process, she finds an old voicemail from Ted to Marshall, in which Ted calls her a "grinch", and she freaks out.

11. The Office: "Moroccan Christmas" (Season 5, Episode 11)

Phyllis is finally head of the Party Planning Committee, much to Angela's dismay. She plans a Moroccan-themed party, but things go sour when Meredith's drinking problem causes a fire. On her head. The office tries to figure out how to confront her about her problems, while Dwight hustles Christmas toys and Phyllis blackmails Angela.

10. Futurama: "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" (Season 6, Episode 13)

What I like most about this episode is the way it's split in three different segments, so as to hit three different holidays. We first cover "Xmas" (the 31st-century version of Christmas), then "Robanukah" (Bender's version of Hannukah to avoid doing work) and lastly Kwanzaa, when the gang searches for beeswax to make traditional beeswax candles.

9. Family Guy: "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" (Season 3, Episode 16)

After hours of Christmas shopping, Peter manages to accidentally give away all the family's gifts to charity. While out trying to replace them all on Christmas Eve, Brian is left at home and accidentally sets fire to the house. All of these mishaps cause Lois to freak out and wreak havoc on the town Christmas tree.

8. Scrubs: "My Own Personal Jesus" (Season 1, Episode 11)

Just as JD is getting ready to tell a family that their son isn't going to make it, the son makes an unexpected recovery. Turk is convinced it's a miracle, and tries to get JD and Carla in the Christmas spirit. But after spending Christmas Eve performing one tragic surgery after another, Turk begins to question his faith. 

7. Arrested Development: "Afternoon Delight" (Season 2, Episode 6)

The Bluth Company hosts its annual Christmas Party, where roasting the boss has been known to get you fired. With GOB in command, the employees are even more afraid, especially after he warns them to stay away from Lindsey. Meanwhile, Michael tries to bond with Maeby, but things take an awkward turn when they sing a song with sexual connotations.

6. How I Met Your Mother: "False Positive" (Season 6, Episode 12)

After Marshall and Lily receive a positive pregnancy test, the rest of the gang starts to evaluate where they are in their lives and start to make big life decisions. After realizing that Marshall and Lily aren't actually pregnant, they don't feel as bad about what they're doing with their lives.

5. That '70s Show: "An Eric Forman Christmas" (Season 4, Episode 12)

Bummed that Christmas isn't fun anymore, Eric doesn't mind when his mom signs him and the gang up to put on a Christmas play at the church, as he thinks it'll get him in the spirit. When the gang isn't interested, Eric is discouraged by the lack of Christmas spirit in his friends and family.

4. Malcolm In The Middle: "Christmas" (Season 3, Episode 7)

Malcolm, Reese and Dewey misbehave one too many times, so fed-up Lois moves all the decorations and presents to the garage to hold them hostage. Francis gets shipped off to his grandmother's for Christmas, who's cranky and out of booze.

3. That '70s Show: "Winter" (Season 7, Episode 11)

When Kelso accidentally takes all the Christmas gifts that the police department collected for needy children over to Eric's basement, the gang ends up opening and playing with almost everything.

2. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "A Very Sunny Christmas" (Season 6, Episode 13)

 Every Christmas, Frank has bought Dennis and Dee's dream gifts for that year, and kept them for himself. This year, it was a lamborghini and designer purse. Pissed that he's taken it too far, they enlist the help of Frank's old business partner to set him up in a Scrooge-type scenario to look at his life. Meanwhile, Mac and Charlie learn some disturbing truths about their beloved childhood Christmas memories.

1. The Office: "Christmas Party" (Season 2, Episode 10)

The office hosts their first Christmas party (that we've seen), and Michael, excited about the huge bonus he made from letting someone go, buys an iPod for secret santa. When he's given a homemade oven mitt, he throws a tantrum and turns secret santa into yankee swap. This upsets everyone, so Michael solves the holidays in the best way possible: with alcohol. This episode is one of the all-time classics of the series, and my favorite Christmas episode ever.

Shawn Hunter Is Back! 'Girl Meets World' Reunites Cory and Shawn

 If you spent any time watching TV in the ‘90s, you were without a doubt a fan of the hit show, Boy Meets World. If not a “fan”, you at least knew it existed. This ‘90s staple engaged kids and young adults of many different ages and helped them relate to the world. This summer, its protégé Girl Meets World (also created by Boy’s Michael Jacobs) premiered, now following the lives of Cory and Topanga’s 13-year old daughter, Riley (Rowan Blanchard) and best friend Maya (Sabrina Carpenter). While it was great news for BMW fans that the hit series was being re-launched in some way, the first season has been almost impossible to stay connected to now that we’ve grown up.

This hasn’t necessarily been a bad thing. The show is meant to relate to kids of the new generation, which it certainly does. It handles modern-day struggles that kids are now dealing with, which is a testament to Jacobs’ societal observations. However, die-hard Boy Meets World fans like myself have still stayed tuned in, mostly for the hopes of seeing our old favorite characters being revisited, and learning where everyone ended up.  So far, we’ve only really gotten to see what’s been going on with Cory, Topanga (Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel) and Mr. Feeny (William Daniels). Kind of. It was a little dark, and left us wondering if Feeny’s even still alive…

While that’s been great and all, I think we’ve all been waiting to hear from the rest of the Boy Meets World crew, Not taking anything away from Cory and Topanga, the couple that made us all believe in love in the corniest way possible, but the excitement of Girl Meets World for me was the idea of seeing Shawn and Eric again. Tonight, our dream partially came true!

In tonight's episode of Girl Meets World, "Girl Meets Home For The Holidays",  the Matthews family hosts a Christmas dinner. Its guests? The original Mr. and Mrs. Matthews (Amy and Alan), their youngest son Joshua, and the one and only SHAWN HUNTER. Alas, no return of the legendary Eric Matthews (Will Friedle) just yet. But have no fear...

As far as expectations go, I tried not to keep mine too high with this episode. I knew there were a lot of familiar faces coming up, but didn't want to get too excited in case it was a just a 5-second cameo return (like Steve Carell in The Office or Chad Michael Murray in One Tree Hill). Luckily, it was awesome. It was everything our inner-90s kids could have hoped for with this particular bunch.

Aside from the sometimes over-the-top mannerisms Cory seems to have developed as an adult, (seriously, Disney, calm down on him. Cory was never that insane) this episode was quite clearly a nice tribute to us die-hard fans that have been sticking with this story for this long. It was awesome to see Cory's parents and Joshua, and learn how their relationships have developed with Cory and Topanga as they became adults. We were given a nice look at the relationship that Topanga and Amy have developed, a somewhat relief after how pissed Amy got when Topanga and Cory first got engaged back in Boy Meets World.

The great connection made in this episode to help new fans understand why all these weird older people are so into this show was the friendships between Riley and Maya and Cory and Shawn. As clearly pointed out, Riley and Maya are "the new Cory and Shawn". While it was cute how they made it seem that Riley and Maya have a stronger connection, let's be honest. There are no better friends than Cory Matthews and Shawn Hunter.

Of course, we can't have Shawn Hunter without a little drama. Right off the bat, we can see a little bit of reservation between Maya and Shawn. I secretly always hoped there was going to be a twist where we learned that Maya was actually Shawn's daughter, but unfortunately, no go. Besides, if GMW will be anything like BMW, the soap-opera type drama like that won't start until season 5. Anybody who's seen GMW can tell that Maya is clearly based off of Shawn. From the parental abandonment to the rebel without a cause attitude, the two are one in the same. That's what made their talk in this episode that much greater, because it allowed Shawn to sort of become Maya's mentor in a way that he never had growing up. Hopefully this means Maya doesn't make as many ridiculous decisions as we've seen Shawn make.

All in all, the episode was really a great callback to Boy Meets World fans everywhere. Even if you've never seen the new series, if you liked Boy Meets World at all, this episode was worth checking out. The writers did a great job of bringing back classic BMW jokes, and it made me hopeful for the future of the new series. Luckily, this isn't the only chance we'll have to visit old characters. Will Friedle is set to return next season as well, and by the looks of Ben Savage's Instagram, Mr. Feeny as well! HE LIVES! (Though they are digging holes, so hopefully it's not his grave)