christmas eve 2002
fredericksburg, va
it's the annual dinner at renato's and everyone enjoys a relaxing dinner in the spacious back room.
after dinner, the party moves to mike and sandy's house where mike steps behind the bar to fix drinks and turn on the stereo.
paul explains the intricacies of the new cowan boulevard extension.
james enjoys a miller high life while wondering what sort of holiday celebration he's gotten himself into by becoming engaged to katie.
as sandy starts assembling the gifts, paul pulls out the holiday shopping jokes.
mike welcomes everyone into his home and then turns the proceedings over to erica who explains the rules of the white elephant gift exchange.
as dennis looks on, james pulls a number from the glass.
the unwrapping of gifts is fast and furious!
the fondue set turns out to be a hot item - and, remarkably (for a group of ten people), two different lava lamps are presented as gifts.
moments after kathy laughs at her husband's shock at finding a simpsons watch, katie steals the popular fondue set from her mother.
rosemary tries to talk sandy into taking a gift that isn't the fondue set (that, through a complicated exhange of items, returned to her possession).
paul stalks the living room, in search of the perfect gift.
cathy steals the perfect pancake making set and then dennis opens the final gift of the night, finally ending the game which involved steal after steal after steal..
before the night can conclude, sandy frees the "who let the dogs out" dog from his packaging. this dog sings. and sandy dances. (click here to download the video).
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