My 9 Favorite Moments From the Schitt's Creek Holiday Special, Which Is a Masterpiece

Remember when Moira uncharacteristically finds herself unwilling to hit the stage to perform during the season four episode "Asbestos Fest"? And then David suggests the two of them perform "The Number" together instead? And then Alexis mentions that they used to perform it every year at the Rose Christmas parties? Well, we get a fabulous look at Moira and David and David's flat-ironed hair belting it out in their mansion in the holiday special. It's a real treat.

Alexis remains largely in the background of the flashbacks to the fancy holiday party, but it's who she's standing next to that caught my eye: Stavros! Before she sprints off to party on his father's yacht, we all get a brief glimpse of Alexis's mysterious paramour, who's been brought up over and over again throughout the series but never seen.

Who better to play the piano while Moira and David perform "The Number" than Paul Shaffer? The Canadian musician, who's best known as David Letterman's musical director, has a fun cameo in the flashback, during which he cracks a joke about Moira having a better voice than Aretha Franklin (who's also performing at the party — naturally).

In season two, Johnny and Moira are shocked to run into their former friends Don and Bev at a restaurant in Elmdale. Long before their awkward encounter, however, they were fixtures at the Rose's Christmas Eve bash, as you can see here.

To be fair, it's not hard to spot the family's infamous family portrait, given it's massive size, but it was still a welcome little Easter egg in the background of the flashback. As you might recall, the portrait makes its first appearance in the pilot, when the distraught family sits in front of it in shock, and then pops up again for a hilarious storyline in season three.

Moira agrees to accompany Johnny to a nearby barn to purchase a tree from Ray, who happily informs them that he's charging exorbitant amounts for even the smallest, lamest of trees due to supply and demand. So the Roses end up taking home a dinky little tree that is honestly more like a loose collection of twigs. Never is that more apparent than in the scene when David, Alexis, and Moira beg Johnny to "release the tree" from its wrapping so he'll feel more in the spirit of Christmas, and it . . . completely falls apart. It also has a "charred" back, according to Ted. (This is the scene when I howled with laughter, FYI.)

I think that facial expression speaks for itself.

As someone who has a deep hatred for eggnog, the scene of Moira exclaiming, "Oh, there's no booze in that!" after tasting Johnny's drink is a personal fave. Her repeated shouts of "Eww!" afterward are a close second.

As the family cleans up, Johnny surprises everyone by letting them know he got them gifts. When they excitedly run up, however, he says he actually picked them up at the church's rummage sale that morning (David's eyebrow arch is just *chef's kiss*). Not only does Moira mistake the antique tin her husband picked out for her for "a bomb," but Alexis also thinks the pad of stamps Johnny gives her are "stickers . . . of old men?" It's her second best line of the episode, since "No one wants to go caroling in front of Mom's wig wall!" takes the cake.