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{{title|image=Extraordinary_Merry_Christmas.jpg|director={{WikipediaLink|Matthew Morrison}}|writer={{WikipediaLink|Marti Noxon}}|release=December 13, 2011|runtime=|rating=|available=}}
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{{title|image=Extraordinary_Merry_Christmas.jpg|director={{WikipediaLink|Matthew Morrison}}|writer={{WikipediaLink|Marti Noxon}}|release=December 13, 2011|runtime=|rating=|available=DVD<br/>Blu-Ray}}"'''Extraordinary Merry Christmas'''" is the second [[Christmas]]-themed episode of the [[:Category:20th Century Fox|20th Century Fox]] television series ''[[wikipedia:Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'', aired as the ninth episode of the show's third season.
"'''Extraordinary Merry Christmas'''" is the second [[Christmas]]-themed episode of the [[:Category:20th Century Fox|20th Century Fox]] television series ''[[wikipedia:Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'', aired as the ninth episode of the show's third season.
 
   
 
==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
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[[File:Glee_Kurt_and_Blaine_Welcome.png|thumb|250px]]
 
[[File:Glee_Kurt_and_Blaine_Welcome.png|thumb|250px]]
Kurt and Blaine lead off the ''Glee'' Holiday Spectacular by performing Let It Snow, Rachel and Mercedes arrive and sing "My Favorite Things" with their hosts, Finn and Puck show up as not-quite-real ''Star Wars'' characters and perform "[[Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (song)|Santa Claus Is Coming to Town]]", and "Christmas Wrapping" is sung by Brittany, with back-up by Santana, Tina, Mike and several other Cheerios. When Rory as Itchy arrives, the others are dismayed when he says that he will not be reading "Frosty the Snowman"; he instead reads the biblical nativity story from the Gospel according to Luke.
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Kurt and Blaine lead off the ''Glee'' Holiday Spectacular by performing Let It Snow, Rachel and Mercedes arrive and sing "My Favorite Things" with their hosts, Finn and Puck show up as not-quite-real ''Star Wars'' characters and perform "[[Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (song)|Santa Claus Is Coming to Town]]", and "Christmas Wrapping" is sung by [[Brittany Pierce|Brittany]], with back-up by Santana, Tina, Mike and several other Cheerios. When Rory as Itchy arrives, the others are dismayed when he says that he will not be reading "Frosty the Snowman"; he instead reads the biblical nativity story from the Gospel according to Luke.
   
 
Quinn and Sam are at the homeless shelter with Sue, helping to serve the rapidly disappearing meal, when the New Directions arrive, late, with more food and presents. They sing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for them. Back at McKinley, Rachel has a change of heart and names Finn's gift sow "Barbra." Finn does give her the earrings she wanted, but she ultimately returns them and the iPod she gave him: they instead donate them to the Salvation Army kettle manned by Sam and Rory, and stay to help.
 
Quinn and Sam are at the homeless shelter with Sue, helping to serve the rapidly disappearing meal, when the New Directions arrive, late, with more food and presents. They sing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for them. Back at McKinley, Rachel has a change of heart and names Finn's gift sow "Barbra." Finn does give her the earrings she wanted, but she ultimately returns them and the iPod she gave him: they instead donate them to the Salvation Army kettle manned by Sam and Rory, and stay to help.
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==Availability==
 
==Availability==
 
The episode is included on ''Glee: The Complete Third Season'' DVD and Blu-Ray sets, released August 14, 2012.
 
The episode is included on ''Glee: The Complete Third Season'' DVD and Blu-Ray sets, released August 14, 2012.
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==Videos==
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[[File:GLEE "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (Full Performance) From "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"|300px|left]]
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[[File:GLEE "Blue Christmas" (Full Performance) From "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"|300px|right]]
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[[File:GLEE "River" (Full Performance) From "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"|300px|left]]
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[[File:Glee - Extraordinary Merry Christmas (Full Performance) 3x10|300px|right]]
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[[File:GLEE "Let It Snow" (Full Performance) From "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"|300px|left]]
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[[File:GLEE - My Favorite Things (Full Performance) HD|300px|right]]
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[[File:Glee santa claus is coming to town (S03E09)|300px|left]]
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[[File:GLEE "Christmas Wrapping" (Full Performance) From "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"|300px|right]]
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[[File:GLEE "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Full Performance) From "Extraordinary Merry Christmas"|300px|left]]
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[[File:Glee - Santa Baby Scene (3x09 Extraordinary Merry Christmas).avi|300px|right]]
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==See also==
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*[[A Very Glee Christmas]]
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*[[Glee, Actually]]
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*[[Previously Unaired Christmas]]
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*''[[Glee: The Music, the Christmas Album Volume 2]]''
   
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
* [[w:c:glee:Extraordinary Merry Christmas (Episode)|Glee Wiki: Extraordinary Merry Christmas]]
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*[[w:c:glee:Extraordinary Merry Christmas (Episode)|Glee Wiki: Extraordinary Merry Christmas]]
   
 
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"Extraordinary Merry Christmas" is the second Christmas-themed episode of the 20th Century Fox television series Glee, aired as the ninth episode of the show's third season.

Synopsis

Glee All I Want For Christmas Is You

Mercedes performing "All I Want For Christmas is You".

The episode opens with New Directions singing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" whilst decorating the choir room, with Mercedes singing the lead. Sue recruits the glee club to sing at a homeless shelter where she will be volunteering to distract her from the first Christmas without her sister Jean, who died earlier that year. Rachel gives Finn a long list of Christmas present suggestions. Finn is appalled by how much Rachel wants, although she tells him five items are plenty. When she later hints that an early gift would not be amiss, he surprises her with the donation of a sow in her name to needy Africans. Rachel is unhappy, reminds Finn that she is a vegan, and recommends that he sticks to her list to avoid embarrassment, while pointedly mentioning earrings.

Glee Blue Christmas

Rory performing "Blue Christmas".

Rory dedicates the song Blue Christmas to his family, whom he misses, as this is his first Christmas without them. Sam offers to take Rory home with him to show him a true American Christmas. Will Schuester announces that New Directions has been asked to create a holiday special for the local PBS station, with Artie as the director. The station manager agrees to Artie's concept — a black-and-white homage to both The Star Wars Holiday Special and The Judy Garland Christmas Show, featuring hosts Kurt and Blaine welcoming their friends for suave banter and happy, cheerful songs. Rory will play Itchy the Elf and recite "Frosty the Snowman." Sam points out that Frosty does not have a happy ending, and that a little sadness is also a part of Christmas. But Artie only wants to present the "merry" part and will be rewriting Frosty to fit, so Sam decides not to participate.

Glee Extraordinary Merry Christmas Song

Rachel and Blaine performing "Extraordinary Merry Christmas".

Blaine and Rachel perform "Extraordinary Merry Christmas", wanting to impress Artie so she can get a big part in the show. When they finish Sue walks in believing that they are rehearsing for the homeless shelter performance, which they have all forgotten about. She feels disappointed in them, she can't believe that they are going to walk away from people who have nothing, asking the group that they all agree that they won't help and then leaves, leaving Quinn unsettled with them ignoring their other choice.

Glee Kurt and Blaine Welcome

Kurt and Blaine lead off the Glee Holiday Spectacular by performing Let It Snow, Rachel and Mercedes arrive and sing "My Favorite Things" with their hosts, Finn and Puck show up as not-quite-real Star Wars characters and perform "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", and "Christmas Wrapping" is sung by Brittany, with back-up by Santana, Tina, Mike and several other Cheerios. When Rory as Itchy arrives, the others are dismayed when he says that he will not be reading "Frosty the Snowman"; he instead reads the biblical nativity story from the Gospel according to Luke.

Quinn and Sam are at the homeless shelter with Sue, helping to serve the rapidly disappearing meal, when the New Directions arrive, late, with more food and presents. They sing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for them. Back at McKinley, Rachel has a change of heart and names Finn's gift sow "Barbra." Finn does give her the earrings she wanted, but she ultimately returns them and the iPod she gave him: they instead donate them to the Salvation Army kettle manned by Sam and Rory, and stay to help.

Songs

Availability

The episode is included on Glee: The Complete Third Season DVD and Blu-Ray sets, released August 14, 2012.

Videos

See also

External links

20th Century
Movies
Miracle on 34th Street (1955 remake) (1973 remake) (1994 remake) • Die HardDie Hard 2Home AloneHome Alone 2: Lost in New YorkGeorge Balanchine's The NutcrackerTrapped in ParadiseJingle All the WayHome Alone 4The Family StoneDeck the Halls12 Men of ChristmasHome Alone: The Holiday HeistJingle All the Way 2Home Sweet Home Alone
Television episodes and specials
20th Television
M*A*S*H "Dear Dad" • "Dear Sis" • "Death Takes a Holiday" • "All About Christmas Eve"
Tracey Ullman "Santa Baby" • "Kay's Gift" • "Merry Catnip"
The X Files "Christmas Carol" • "Emily" • "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
Malcolm in the Middle "Christmas" • "Christmas Trees" • "Pearl Harbor" • "Hal's Christmas Gift
Bones "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" • "The Santa in the Slush" • "The Goop on the Girl"
How I Met Your Mother "How Lily Stole Christmas" • "Little Minnesota" • "False Positive" • "Symphony of Illumination" • "The Over-Correction" • "The Final Page, Part 1" • "The Final Page, Part 2"
Glee "A Very Glee Christmas" • "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" • "Glee, Actually" • "Previously Unaired Christmas"
New Girl "The 23rd" • "Santa" • "LAXmas" • "Christmas Eve Eve"
The Mindy Project "Josh and Mindy's Christmas Party" • "Christmas Party Sex Trap" • "Christmas" • "When Mindy Met Danny"
Last Man Standing "Last Christmas Standing" • "Putting a Hit on Christmas" • "Elfie" • "Wedding Planning" • "Gift of the Wise Man"
Other shows "Christmas Story" • "The Worst Noel" • "Haus Arrest" • "Amends" • "Blue Christmas" • "A Christmas Story" • "Cookies for Santa" • "In God We Trust" • "Road to Tradition" • "Afternoon Delight" • "Christmas" • "The Glitch That Stole Christmas" • "Secret Santa"
20th Television Animation
The Simpsons "Simpson Christmas" • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" • "Marge Be Not Proud" • "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" • "Grift of the Magi" • "Skinner's Sense of Snow" • "She of Little Faith" • "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" • "Simpson Christmas Stories" • "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" • "The Fight Before Christmas" • "Holidays of Future Passed" • "White Christmas Blues" • "I Won't Be Home for Christmas • "The Nightmare After Krustmas" • "'Tis the 30th Season" • "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" • "The Way of The Dog" • "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" • "Manger Things" • Feliz Navidad
King of the Hill "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" • "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" • "Hillennium" • "'Twas the Nut Before Christmas" • "The Father, the Son, and J.C." • "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane" • "Ms. Wakefield"
Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Story Never" • "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" • "Rapture's Delight" • "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" • "Road to the North Pole" • "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" • "Murray Christmas" • "Season's Beatings" • "Die Semi-Hard" • "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" • "'Tis the Cleveland To Be Sorry" • "Minstrel Krampus" • "Christmas Guy" • "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" • "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin" • "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" • "Ninety North, Zero West" • "Gifted Me Liberty" • "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas" • "Santa, Schmanta" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Yule. Tide. Repeat." • "The First No L" • "Christmas Crime" • "The Return of the King (of Queens)"
Futurama "Xmas Story" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas"
Bob's Burgers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins" • "Christmas in the Car" • "Father of the Bob" • "Nice-Capades" • "The Last Gingerbread House on the Left" • "The Bleakening" • "Better Off Sled" • "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas" • "Yachty or Nice" • "Gene's Christmas Break" • "The Plight Before Christmas" • "The Nightmare 2 Days Before Christmas"
Other cartoons "Hook's Christmas" • "A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman" • Olive, the Other ReindeerIce Age: A Mammoth Christmas • "The War on Grafelnik" • "Miracle on Culpepper Slims Boulevard" • "A Very Solar Holiday Opposites Special" • "Dip the Halls Adventure" • "Xmas with The Skanks Adventure"