8.6/10. Another hilarious episode! The whole non-denominational holiday celebration bit feels a little superseded by Community (which, come to think of it, shares a certain comedic sensibility with Clone High) but I still loved the traditions of "Snowflake Day," from the lamb taco, to Snowflake Jake the spice pirate, to the ceremonial cabbage patch. (And hooray for Dreidelstein, who I can only assume is the distant cousin of Futurama's Chanukah Zombie!) The show got a lot of comedic mileage out of spoofing the claymation films, mall visits, and of course the "important holiday lesson" episodes.
But the part that tickled my funny bone the most was Abe and Ganndhi trying to get a job, inventing the increasingly cumbersome and dangerous knork, and then trying to sell it. It was a procession of pitch-perfect absurdity and irreverence that had me chuckling from the "T.G.I. Chili's" to the in unison suggestions on how to improve the prototype knork, to the carnival barker sales pitch gone awry. Throw in Scudworth writing the most amusingly banal Christmas card letter ever and JFK's meat-focused, secular snowflake album, and you have yourself a very funny episode.
Joan's part of the story was probably the weakest, just because the riffs on teenagers always learning lessons in holiday episodes is almost too exaggerated already to really parody, but the idea that the homeless Mandy Moore's whole lesson was just a ruse to rob Joan's house was a great way to end it.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-11-02T06:56:52Z
8.6/10. Another hilarious episode! The whole non-denominational holiday celebration bit feels a little superseded by Community (which, come to think of it, shares a certain comedic sensibility with Clone High) but I still loved the traditions of "Snowflake Day," from the lamb taco, to Snowflake Jake the spice pirate, to the ceremonial cabbage patch. (And hooray for Dreidelstein, who I can only assume is the distant cousin of Futurama's Chanukah Zombie!) The show got a lot of comedic mileage out of spoofing the claymation films, mall visits, and of course the "important holiday lesson" episodes.
But the part that tickled my funny bone the most was Abe and Ganndhi trying to get a job, inventing the increasingly cumbersome and dangerous knork, and then trying to sell it. It was a procession of pitch-perfect absurdity and irreverence that had me chuckling from the "T.G.I. Chili's" to the in unison suggestions on how to improve the prototype knork, to the carnival barker sales pitch gone awry. Throw in Scudworth writing the most amusingly banal Christmas card letter ever and JFK's meat-focused, secular snowflake album, and you have yourself a very funny episode.
Joan's part of the story was probably the weakest, just because the riffs on teenagers always learning lessons in holiday episodes is almost too exaggerated already to really parody, but the idea that the homeless Mandy Moore's whole lesson was just a ruse to rob Joan's house was a great way to end it.
Overall, a superb spate of holiday-themed laughs.