Like the series itself, the Christmas shows got increasingly absurd and unrelateable as the premise dragged on, but season 2's «Christmas Party» was
everything that was great about the show: Steve Carell was at his
peak Michael Scott - ness while pouting about an oven mitt he'd received as a gift; the mundanity of office life getting broken up by an
even more mundane party; Jim and Pam at the height of their pre-dating romantic tension.
What we're doing here is putting the most significant actions at the
peak of your mountain first and giving
everything else a lesser priority,
even though it would seem simple to do the low - priority task because it's quick and easy.