Decider’s Sitcom Advent Calendar Day 10: Oscar Goes Full Scrooge In A Dickensian ‘Odd Couple’

The Christmas season is here and that means one major thing for TV devotees: re-watching all of your favorite festive sitcom episodes! In celebration of the season and the tradition of TV comedies getting all holly jolly for one episode a year, Decider presents our very first Sitcom Advent Calendar. Every day leading up to Christmas, Decider’s resident sitcom elf Brett White will share one holiday-themed sitcom episode for you to stream to make your days merry and bright.

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Decider’s Sitcom Advent Calendar Day 10

The Odd Couple, “Scrooge Gets an Oscar”

Season 1, Episode 12
Original Airdate: December 17, 1970
Written By: Ron Friedman
Directed By: George Tyne

With a curmudgeon like Oscar Madison as co-lead, obviously The Odd Couple had to do a riff on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. The holiday season isn’t complete until you’ve seen a ghost draped in chains teach a grouch a thing or two about giving!

Christmas Trope Count: 7 (All About Christmas, Perfect Gift, Cops & Crime, Play/Pageant, Someone’s A Grinch, “A Christmas Carol,” Carols)

The Christmas season also means that characters, even fussy Felix’s macho schlub buds in The Odd Couple, get roped into a play or pageant of some sort. You gotta love seeing grown men act as mature as the Peanuts gang when placed on even the smallest of stages.

Christmas Carol Count: 5 (“Jingle Bells,” “Deck the Halls,” “Joy to the World,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”)

A Second Helping: A Different World, “For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls” (Season 3, Episode 10)

Day 1: Full House, “A Very Tanner Christmas”
Day 2: How I Met Your Mother, “How Lily Stole Christmas”
Day 3: The Golden Girls, “‘Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas”
Day 4: Black-ish, “Black Santa/White Christmas”
Day 5: Step By Step, “Christmas Story”
Day 6: Home Improvement, “Yule Better Watch Out”
Day 7: Fresh Off the Boat, “The Real Santa”
Day 8: Cheers, “Christmas Cheers”
Day 9: Family Matters, “Have Yourself A Merry Winslow Christmas”

Watch The Odd Couple's "Scrooge Gets An Oscar" on Hulu