REVIEW: THE ANNOYING ORANGE “ORANGE CAROL”

It’s Christmas Eve, and Orange’s annoying antics are spoiling everyone’s holiday cheer. Later, a visit from three ghosts occurs, and they try to make Orange learn about the holiday spirit.

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It’s Christmas time for the fruit and despite Nerville’s best efforts to ruin it, everyone else is trying their best to nail down the Christmas carols, but Orange keeps messing it up as he really doesn’t care about Christmas. As a result, Nerville kicks Orange’s ass out of rehearsal in which case the jokester falls asleep only to start dreaming about a ghost apple that takes him to  a recent past where as expected Orange is annoying. After totally not learning his lesson about keeping with the holiday spirit, the ghost of past leaves and in comes the ghost pear of the present. The Pear ghost shows Orange that without him caroling, Passion is kinda depressed because she really wanted to spend some time with him. That said, its still completely obvious that Orange really doesn’t care about Christmas and just likes being annoying.  Finally, we get the Marshmallow ghost of the future of  whom takes Orange to a time where if he doesn’t change EVERYONE leaves the store including Passion of whom now has a broken heart. Orange finally learns his lesson that he shouldn’t be so annoying and as a result rejoins the rest of the gang on their caroling and the fruit go on spreading holiday cheer.

When you compare this episode to the train-wreck that was last week, you basically get the Mona Lisa. Yep, Annoying Orange put on a decent holiday special. Granted it was inspired by Christmas Carol of which that premise has only been 10 million times, but I felt that Orange’s jokes were funny enough to keep it light-hearted and different that I didn’t mind much. On top of that, this is the first episode of Orange that had some sort of positive morale in the end, but with what looks to be another terrible Christmas special with Maria Menounos on the horizon, one can help but be glad we got this episode when we did.

(8.0 out of 10)