Dre forces his childhood Christmas traditions on his kids, and things go ridiculously haywire.
Christmas is the time of family, togetherness, and giving.
The setup for the episode is a good one.
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Dre begins by narrating how much he and his family love stuff at Christmas.
In fact, he likens the whole tradition of opening presents to a competitive eating contest.
(Boy, you know you love pickles!)
They decide to trick their parents and grandparents into caving and getting them more presents.
Diane convinces Jack and Zoey to be kinder, while she will be more helpful.
As for Junior, she wants him to just stay out of the way and disappear.
Less of you is more, Zoey agrees.
Dre experienced enough of that as a child.
This is what you had.
You turned out all right, Pops says.
But Dre fires back, I turned out all right in spite of all this.
Dre cant believe how ungrateful his kids are being.
Oh, and Ruby has made a cake and is singing, Happy Birthday, Black Jesus.
Seriously, Dre loves pickles).
But things dont end on a sentimental note this isBlack-ish,after all.
We leave the Johnsons as Dre attempts to skate with his new Rydells.
Things go hilariously wrong, and the kids leave him in favor of Rubys cake.
Thats the kind ofBlack-ishChristmas we expect and love.
