Now that the holiday season has come and gone, it’s time to take a look back at some of the Christmas/holiday episodes of some of my favorite shows.  More often than not, they take on a similar storyline to It’s a Wonderful Life.

Here’s how things go:

• Character A has a long-standing relationship of animosity with Character B.
• Character A wishes Character B never existed.
• Through some magic, Character A sees his/her life without Character B.
• Character A realizes how much Character B means to him/her.

The problem with these episodes is that they often do not move story forward.  By the following episode, the animosity has returned.

I’ll be doing three reviews:

• I Didn’t Do It
• The Thundermans
• Girl Meets World

I give credit to GMW for some inventive storytelling that gives us some deeper understanding of the current slate of characters (except for poor Lucas).  The Thundermans gave us some key back story in their Christmas episode while I Didn’t Do It went for the standard “characters acting opposite as they usually do” route.