I was so gleeful(heh) when Sue and Becky suited up but the actual song fell flat for me. I loved Baby It's Cold Outside even though I do usually fall into the "put on your coat and get out of there!" camp when I hear it . It is a little awkward getting Kurt into every episode now that he's at a different school but as he's my favorite character I'll deal and I'm used to the awkward way songs have been shoehorned in all along.

Re: The Office- I spaced who said upthread they missed the point of the episode. Did you see the very end, with Dwight talking about compassion? Besides that- how awesome was the TP deplyer?

Love the Artie/Brittany, they shouldn't work, but they do. They have the healthiest relationship of any on the show, even with Artie being so massively overprotective.

Emmett is shipping Artie and Brittany so hard. I must say it's a more interesting, more comic and more touching relationship than he had with Tina.

Now that I think about it, Brittany's had way more story time this year than Tina.

I think the whole point of BICO is that they are both pretending. Him, that he wants her to stay for her health, and her that she doesn't want to go. The subtext is that they both want the same thing, some action.

I think the whole point of BICO is that they are both pretending. Him, that he wants her to stay for her health, and her that she doesn't want to go. The subtext is that they both want the same thing, some action.

Yes! This is what I was trying to say, but Scrappy said it better.

Love the Artie/Brittany, they shouldn't work, but they do. They have the healthiest relationship of any on the show, even with Artie being so massively overprotective.

I ♥ Coach Beiste with a heart that grows three sizes too big every episode.

So much this!

Many of them celebrate it to some extent, and even those that don't are clearly kind of open to the idea as a secular holiday - like me, they mostly think of it as an extension of Thanksgiving.

I hear you, Gris. Christmas is a secular holiday in our household at this point, so I feel much the same way. I didn't mind the fact that R and P participated or even enjoyed it--I think it was mainly the fact that there wasn't even a mention of the fact until a good fifteen minutes into the episode--I just wanted some brief mention up front along the lines of "no, I don't celebrate Christmas but it's fun and the songs rock" from the Jewish students before they got all into saving Christmas and singing about how it's the most wonderful fay of the year. But eh, I'm probably overreacting.

Did either Rachel or Puck even refer to Hanukkah at all? I think that's what bugs me more than the emphasis on Christmas, it's the lack of acknowledgement of other holiday traditions.

IIRC Rachel specifically addressed it as in "I'm Jewish but holiday spirit..." Puck may have also said something

Dawn, she did, but not until a fair amount after the show started, which was what bothered me. Sail, no mention of Hanukkah, although since it's not a major holiday that didn't bother me as much.

Rachel's winter wonderland was blue & white, does that count for anything?

Ha! Sorry--not trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. It just struck me as odd.

I just have to turn off that nitpicky part of my brain or I can't enjoy the show. I'm so glad about the Postsecret card. Remembering that is going to get me past a lot of sloppy writing.