Sitcom · 2000s

The Office (US)

Christmas Party

Twenty dollars, one iPod and a Yankee Swap that wrecks the festive mood.

American

Content note: Office humour with drinking and some innuendo

NBC

2005

First shown 6 Dec 2005

First shown: 6 December 2005
Channel: NBC
Runtime: 22 mins
Genre: Sitcom

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Dunder Mifflin's Secret Santa has a twenty dollar limit, which Michael Scott treats as a gentle suggestion. He turns up with a video iPod, takes against a handmade oven glove, and declares a Yankee Swap, which is Secret Santa with the gloves off. Cue a room full of grown adults squabbling over presents while Jim quietly tries to give Pam something rather lovelier than a gadget. It is awkward, funny and sweetly sad in places, and it has the office party feel we all know: bad gifts, worse decisions and somebody regretting the vodka. Put the kettle on, find a seat at the back and thank your lucky stars it is not your workplace.

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