8 Holiday Specials That Ruined Christmas in the ’80s

It’s the most wonderful time of year, right? Not if you happened to be watching TV during Christmas in the 80s. Sure, the holidays are stressful for everyone, but some mysterious melancholy made otherwise rational and talented TV writers go absolutely insane back in the day.

Pop a candy cane and a Xanax, and recover some repressed memories of the most traumatic holiday specials you wish you never saw.