Depth Takes a Holiday

Can you say “Nightmare Before Christmas”? God! The title should’ve been a clue, but we just had to watch it anyway.

When Halloween, Christmas, and Guy Fawkes Day (what?) decide that they are too good for Holiday High, they go through a wormhole behind some Chinese restaurant, and end up in Lawndale. (Major improvement, huh?) Valentine’s Day and Saint Patrick’s Day have to go after them to drag them back to Holiday Land.

So, V-Day and St. Patty meet up with Daria while looking for the missing holidays. She, being a reasonable human being, doesn’t believe their story until V-Day makes her parents fall head over heels in love (the shocking of Jake and Helen and V-Day’s music were quite funny.) They try to enlist her help in getting the other holidays back.

Quinn decides that the cause of her parents’ new-found love is that they want to have another baby, so she follows them around everywhere to stop it. She obviously thought that competing with a baby for attention would be a little too much.

The missing holidays are found with Trent, with whom they have started a band. Daria agrees to let them stay at her house, as her parents are now completely oblivious to anything going on that doesn’t involve them behaving amorously towards each other.

In Holiday Town, President’s Day – both Abe and George – take over the school, but V-Day and St. Patty finally manage to get the other three holidays to return by getting their band a gig at Holiday High’s prom. Finally, the stupid holidays get back, everything is fine and good, and this episode is over.

Even with a plot this idiotic, they still could have managed to pull it off if they focused on Daria and Jane. Instead, this episode was mainly about the holidays, who weren’t even very funny. The story strayed way too much from making fun of everyday life, which is what normally makes the show so hilarious.