In fact, the episode, "The Proposal," begins with Raul trimming the tree and getting the garage decked out. This goes a long way towards creating that Christmas cheer I love in TV episodes. Only we soon find out Raul is starting early; it's not even Thanksgiving.
Ed is in a grouchy mood, though, so everyone rolls with it and decides to hold a holiday party to cheer him up. Ed takes a bottle of tequila and spikes Della's punch, and then Raul gets the same idea and spikes it himself (He uses Ed's bottle, not his own, and to his credit, he declines Della's invite to try the punch).
After the opening scene, this is not so much a Christmas episode as a "Drunk Bit" episode. Ed gets blotto, Della gets hammered, and he proposes to her for some reason, and she actually accepts. They then spend valuable network airtime going through the motions prepping for a wedding even though neither one of them wants to do it.
if you enjoy seeing pros do drunk bits, you will like this, though a little goes a long way. The real highlight is seeing Jack Albertson do a Hangover Bit. Even then, it's not so much the groaning and shuffling as the spectacular delayed spit take he does when he finds out about the proposal.
Della Reese's character wouldn't be around much longer; it's as if when Charo came in, they figured the garage wasn't big enough for both of them. They didn't really tease much of anything between Ed and Della "Rogers," but there are a few glimpses that they might have actually been crazy enough to go that direction at some point.
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