This seasonal episode of Married With Children feels like it is just going through the festive motions: Al and Griff lose their jobs to younger, more eager salesmen, and so they find even worse ways to make ends meet (Al gets a job as driver of a Christmas train for kids and Griff is a reindeer); Peggy has discovered a love for making gingerbread houses; and Kelly and Bud kidnap Mary and Joseph from the D'Arcys nativity display, demanding $500 for their return. There's no single, strong storyline, just a lot of unremarkable Christmas-themed shenanigans that delivers mediocre gags.
At the end of the episode, Al scares off the new salesmen by telling them that they are destined to become like him; Gary gives Al and Griff their jobs back and Al gets to take home the shop's Christmas tree. When Kelly and Bud confess that they stole Mary and Joseph and have accidentally decapitated them, Marcy is angry and forces them take the place of the broken statues; she is even more furious when first place in the Christmas decorations competition is awarded to Peggy for her gingerbread neighbourhood.
Kelly does a remarkably good impression of a '30s movie gangster (Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar?).
At the end of the episode, Al scares off the new salesmen by telling them that they are destined to become like him; Gary gives Al and Griff their jobs back and Al gets to take home the shop's Christmas tree. When Kelly and Bud confess that they stole Mary and Joseph and have accidentally decapitated them, Marcy is angry and forces them take the place of the broken statues; she is even more furious when first place in the Christmas decorations competition is awarded to Peggy for her gingerbread neighbourhood.
Kelly does a remarkably good impression of a '30s movie gangster (Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar?).