While Clone High never went out of its way to come up with inventive story lines, it found its magic in being able to apply a mix of historical comedy and quirky personality to the high school tropes we’d become so associated with in the first half-century of television. Like most episodes, this is what ‘Snowflake Day’ is going for; unfortunately, it only find the easiest, most derivative holiday jokes it can find, never really finding anything to support its emotional swing in the final few minutes.
What’s frustrating is how the episode is so quick to point out the most obvious flaws with the holidays it’s making fun of: the ever-present theme of holiday consumerism seems to infect the entire town. Snowflake Day (the neutered winter holiday of Clone High) is a time where people get greedy for spices, and people try to come up with “unique” gifts for two purposes: getting laid (Abe) or to make a shitload of quick money (JFK, Abe and Ghandi). But there’s no edge to the holiday caricature, nothing to tether its commentary to except a whiny Joan, who mopes around mad about the holiday until a homeless version of Mandy Moore (voiced by Mandy Moore) shows her the beauty of the holidays: being together.
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