“The best presents aren’t even wrapped up”
Bob and Linda face a nightmarish dilemma when all three kids have holiday recitals at the same time. Things get even more dire when Tina realizes that Louise is secretly sad about not having her family in the audience—especially since she’s written an uncharacteristically sincere poem about them. Though the constraints of time and space mean not everyone gets to witness everyone else’s performance, the power of Christmas spirit means all the characters, and the audience too, achieve some major emotional uplift by the end of the episode. (Season 13, episode 10, “The Plight Before Christmas”)
