{"id":8205,"date":"2015-12-10T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2015-12-11T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T06:02:08","slug":"25-days-of-christmas-episodes-ludachristmas-30-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/10\/25-days-of-christmas-episodes-ludachristmas-30-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of Christmas Episodes: Ludachristmas (30 Rock)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re counting down the days until Christmas by looking back at Christmas episodes from a variety of TV shows. Tonight we\u2019re talking about \u201cLudachristmas\u201d from<i>\u00a030 Rock.\u00a0<\/i>What Christmas episode tropes did this episode use? Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basic Info<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by: Don Scardino<\/p>\n<p>Written by: Tami Sagher<\/p>\n<p>Episode Number: Season 2, Episode 9<\/p>\n<p>Where to Watch It: Netflix<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad Santa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the TGS staff talks about their upcoming &#8220;Ludachristmas&#8221; party, Cerie asks Frank if he&#8217;s going to do Horny Santa again and ask her to sit on his lap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Songs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the episode, we hear a bizarre Christmas song sung by Tracy Jordan with the lyrics, &#8220;Imagine Christmas wishes shooting out of your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jenna coyly says that she hopes she doesn&#8217;t end up getting drunk and singing Christmas songs, but then we see her coordinate with a piano player to plan her performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The True Meaning of Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When everyone is only concerned with debauchery, Kenneth decides to trick them into sitting down with a priest who&#8217;ll teach them the true meaning of Christmas. Frank asks, &#8220;Who cares about the true meaning of Christmas? It\u2019s about getting drunk and eating too much\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Kenneth shows them a video of poor children who are grateful to get blocks of wood for Christmas, they feel guilty for how materialistic they&#8217;ve been. Tracy convinces everyone to chop down the big Christmas tree outside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sober Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tracy gets a court order not to drink. He laments, &#8220;The holidays without drinkin&#8217; is rough. Turns out football is boring, my wife&#8217;s sister ain&#8217;t as cute as I though she was and I cannot play the guitar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth suggests that instead of going to the Ludachristmas party, they have real Christmas fun by playing party games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jack&#8217;s mom visits, causing him to be extremely stressed out. He&#8217;s perplexed when he meets Liz&#8217;s family and they give her nothing but encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re counting down the days until Christmas by looking back at Christmas episodes from a variety of TV shows. Tonight we\u2019re talking about \u201cLudachristmas\u201d from\u00a030 Rock.\u00a0What Christmas episode tropes did this episode use? Let\u2019s take a look. Basic Info Directed by: Don Scardino Written by: Tami Sagher Episode Number: Season 2, Episode 9 Where to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/10\/25-days-of-christmas-episodes-ludachristmas-30-rock\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":8206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2848,2964,2849],"class_list":{"0":"post-8205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-television","8":"tag-25-days-of-christmas-episodes","9":"tag-30-rock","10":"tag-christmas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}