The art of cinema has gifted us with myriad Christmas classics: Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas...
But after constant replay every year, watching those delightful classics is like looking at old family photographs – after one fond sigh of nostalgia, you're bored and just looking at people who are dead now.
On the other hand, every latchkey '90s kid can tell you that Christmas means sitting in front of the TV all day, watching the sitcom families that practically raised us experience holiday mayhem and mischief.
In the age of streaming (and of Hulu acquiring our childhood in a deal with ABC), we can watch all the Christmas specials of '90s sitcoms in a nonstop throwback. Step back in time to the days of dial up, call waiting, and a sore lack of diversity on TV that we'll ignore for the sake of nostalgia!
(All of these can be found in full on Hulu, with the exception of Boy Meets World, which is on YouTube, and Friends, which remains Netflix's b*tch).
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Boy Meets World: "A Very Topanga Christmas"
Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence were a match made in hell. They were the mismatched Ron and Hermione before Ron and Hermione (and before J. K. Rowling got a Twitter account). They 100% would have ended up in a divorce–but as Disney's spin-off/sequel Girl Meets World revealed, they clearly stayed together for their kid. This episode shows Topanga experiencing her first ever "Matthews Christmas" and the foundation of what was sure to be a lifetime of resentment.
*Recently, Boy Meets World was sadly transferred to Disney+, but the episode in full still exists in the ether of the Internet.
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