10 Best Episodes That Make Bad TV Seasons Worth Watching

10. Dwight Christmas - The Office (Season 9)

The Office Season Nine really has four great episodes, but seeing as the final three are all really one big finale, Dwight Christmas is the one true standout of the standalones.

Shows typically bring (or try to bring) their A-game to finales, so this list largely steers clear of them. There is one which just couldn’t be missed out, but The Office doesn’t need cheap nostalgia in Season Nine to show that even when it’s bad, it can still pull off one last trick.

Dwight Christmas, as the name suggests, is the season’s Christmas episode, and, um, centres around Dwight.

Season Two’s Christmas episode, Christmas Party, is considered one of the most important to The Office’s popularity and success, so these seasonal episodes typically hold a dear place in fans’ hearts. It’s probably not as good as Christmas Party, nor Classy Christmas or Secret Santa, but it’s still head and shoulders above the rest of Season Nine.

Dwight is the office’s Santa, except he’s actually Belsnickel, a German Christmas character who hits naughty people with a stick. Or rather, impish people, as Belsnickel checks who’s impish or admirable, rather than naughty or nice.