Comfort and Joy

Season 2, Episode 23, Aired
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In this one-part episode, the Justice Leaguers go their separate ways to celebrate the holiday season. After saving a distant planet, the League returns in time for Christmas. Clark and J'onn visit Smallville for a Kent family Christmas, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl have a snowball fight and visit an alien bar while comparing holiday traditions, and the Flash and Ultra-Humanite have a season's fight and are forced to ally together to save orphans' toys.moreless
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  • GL and Hawkgirl become closer, while Clark visits his parents and Martian Manhunter struggles to learn the meaning of Christmas. Things aren't so easy for the Flash when he has to try and find the most popular toy for the kids and it's all sold out.moreless

    10
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    By GameraTrekkie, May 02, 2008 Report Abuse
    This is just a great episode and definitely one of my favorites from the TV series. I'd go as far as to say that this is probably the best superhero related Christmas episode I have ever seen. It has just the right mix of the Christmas spirit that you can't help but to get that warm fuzzy feeling on the inside after you see it. I can tell that I will be watching this episode over and over again. I already plan to watch it again later today, after I just watched it this morning. It's classic Christmas and classic Justice League.moreless

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  • Justice League comes home for Christmas

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    By fforrresstt, Jan 21, 2007 Report Abuse
    The christmas episode starts off with the league putting together a gravitational device together so a planet will not collide with another planet. The league puts it together and decide to go back to Earth. Green Lantern and Hawkgirl stay on the snowy planet to have a snowball fight afterward Hawkgirl takes him to a alien bar for her holiday where they get into a friendly bar fight. Clark and Jonn arrive at the Kents for Christmas. Clark and Jonn are welcome in the Kent house where they celebrate Chrismas with Clark's parents. Flash goes to the orphanage to find out what the kids want for chrismas. So Flash zips to each store in town to try to find a DJ Rubba Ducky but all of them are unfortunately sold out. So Flash runs to the producing plant of DJ Rubba Ducky so he can get one. Flash running to the orphanage finds the UltraHumanoid breaking an Art Museum. As Flash fights him he falls on the DJ Rubba Ducky breaking it. After Flash wakes up from a hit on his head the UltraHumanoid is working on the DJ Rubba Ducky fixing and improving it. Later, they both bring it to the orphanage where it tells Christmas Stories. Flash then takes him to jail where Flash puts an alluminum Christmas tree in UltraHumanoid's cell and he seems kind of happy. Batman doesn't appear in this episode he was on watchtower duty.moreless

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  • Christmas episode...

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    By green_arrow92, Dec 11, 2006 Report Abuse
    I don't know what it is I just might be in the Christmas mood because this is my third review for a christmas episode today. We get to see how the Justice league spends their Christmas. J'onn spends his with superman at the farm. green lantern and hawk girl go to some space bar and have a great big bar brawl. The flash encounters the Ultra Humanite and he gives some kids at an orphanage a present. I would have really liked to see batman and Wonder Woman in this episode Especially batman. All in all this was a very great episode and the very first one parter of the series. later...moreless

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  • Christmas episode!

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    By AznSoul4Life, May 29, 2006 Report Abuse
    Summary: The Justice Leaguers go their separate ways to celebrate the holiday season. After saving a distant planet, the League returns in time for Christmas. Clark and J'onn visit Smallville for a Kent family Christmas, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl have a snowball fight and visit an alien bar while comparing holiday traditions, and the Flash and Ultra-Humanite have a season's fight and are forced to ally together to save orphans' toys.


    Thoughts: I'm such a sucker for these special holiday type episodes for every show. And that's the reason why I love this episode. Each Justice League member (besides Wonder Woman and Batman) do different things in the holiday season. My favorite part of this episode is what is included with J'onn in it. He lost his family, and his planet, and has nothing really to celebrate. And seeing him see what customs humans do was touching.

    The thing that really gets to me, is how we don't get to see Wonder Woman and Batman do anything. I mean the other Leaguers did fine in this episode, but this should've been a whole team episode.

    Either way, this goes down as one of the best holiday episodes ever seen on TV.moreless

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  • Paul Dini's return to the DCAU world!!!!

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    By JLUmember1, Nov 14, 2005 Report Abuse
    This episode was a great episode and it was really nice to have it in the series.

    Paul Dini is Mr. Christmas, he came up with a great storyline and awesome dialouge, I don't think Dwayne Mcduffie could pull it off better than Paul did.

    The episode had some nice humor in it and it brought a smile to everyone's face.

    Christmas isn't just another day for anyone in the League... exept Batman.

    We learn how the superheroes spend their holidays and it really remined themselves that they are human (Emotionally), and they do spend time with their families (Most of them) For the holidays.

    Good work paul!moreless

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    • When Hawkgirl and Green Lantern are playing in the snow, Hawkgirl's hair is noticeably lighter. Edit
    • How does Hawkgirl know about the planet with the bar? It can't be from when she was on Thanagar - they've established it's too far away for GL to fly to. Between when she arrived on Earth and joined the League, she didn't have a spaceship. And since then...the League only has one spaceship as far as they've ever said. Did she just take it out for a spin looking for bars on alien planets? What if they needed it for a mission while she was gone? (Notice that GL had to fly her there.) Edit
    • When Hawkgirl asks for two drinks, she first grabs the one to the bartender's left. However, when we switch "cameras," it is the right one she grabbed, and the overflowing foam has mysteriously shifted. Edit

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    • This episode was nominated for a Annie Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production. Edit
    • First shown in New Zealand (on free-to-air TV) on December 25th as a single episode. Edit
    • Character bios: Ultra-Humanite Edit

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    • Pa Kent: We used to wrap his presents in lead foil so he couldn't peak. Superman: You mean Santa wrapped them. Ma Kent: Oh, of course, dear. Edit
    • Flash: I made Gorilla Grodd cry uncle – I'm sure Rubber Ducky won't be a problem. Edit
    • Ultra-Humanite: I'm improving (the toy). Flash: It's not going to blow up or anything, is it? Ultra-Humanite: Flash . . . it is Christmas. Edit

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    • That Darn Cat! The cat that visits J'onn (presumably Kara's) looks suspiciously like Streaky the Supercat, a beloved (??) pre-Crisis part of the Superman mythos. It looks a bit more mangled and scrawny then Streaky ever did - in fact, it looks a bit like the cat that Power Girl (originally a Earth-2 version of Supergirl) has as a pet in the current post-Crisis DC universe. Edit
    • J'onn's Christmas Gift The sweater that the Kent's give J'onn for Christmas has a single horizontal zig-zag stripe pattern on it - seemingly a reference to Charlie Brown, another character who is also searching for the "true" meaning of Christmas in the animated classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Based on Charles Shultz's Peanuts comic strip, the popular holiday cartoon has been shown on television every year during the Christmas holidays since 1965 and aired on CBS the same night this episode premiered. Edit
    • Saunders Family Connection? In DC Comics, Kendra Saunders is the name of the current Hawkgirl, Shayera Hol's successor (sort of - it's a loonnngg story). The name of the orphanage lady is also "Saunders" - probably an in-joke gag. Edit

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