The holidays are a time for love, joy, heartwarming moments, and getting together with your crazy family to enjoy each other's company...and, for some people, also to remind yourself why you don't do this more than a couple of times a year.

As much as we love our families, getting everyone together for the holidays can be insane - but at least it's probably not SITCOM levels of insane. Specifically, these sitcom episodes. When your fam starts driving you bonkers, just throw one of these on and remind yourself: It could always be worse.

(Then go back and join the fun, because that's what Christmas is all about.)

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas, S6E13

The single Christmas Special made for the insanity that is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (until yesterday, that is!) didn't air when it was originally made, as it was originally a dvd extra - it's technically the last episode of season 5, but it first aired on television after the finale of Season 6 in 2019.

In it, Mac and Charlie accidentally ruin each other's childhood Christmases, and Frank continues a very upsetting Christmas tradition in which he gets Dennis and Dee their dream presents, only to destroy them. They then plot to try to trap Frank in the plot of A Christmas Carol, which, while it doesn't quite go as planned, does still help him see the light.

The Office: Moroccan Christmas, S5E11

Everyone is in peak form for this Christmas party, especially Meredith, who gets so drunk she catches fire, and Dwight, who is scalping Unicorn-Barbie hybrid dolls to desperate parents. Plus, Phyllis tells everyone Angela is cheating on Andy, and Michael attempts to kidnap Meredith and take her to rehab.

None of this makes any sense, but it REALLY makes no sense in a workplace. But somehow the episode still manages to be sweet.

Everybody Hates Chris: Kwanzaa, S3E10

In this episode, Julius decides the family is not going to celebrate Christmas this year, but Kwanzaa - but only because it's cheaper. At the very least, there is a sweet plotline where Chris, assigned to do a good deed over the Christmas break, decides to help Kill Moves find his mom.

It's very sweet and VERY Christmas in the 90s.

Community: Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, S2E11

Talk about crazy - Abed has an actual mental break in this episode, and his friends stage a disguised therapy session for him to try to pull him out of it. The twist? We see everything from his perspective, and ABED is seeing everyone as stop-motion animated, just like the classic Christmas claymation movies.

It's funny, heartwarming, nostalgic, and insane, all at once - which, to be fair, IS what Community does best.

New Girl: The 23rd, S1E9

New Girl has a great Christmas episode practically every season, but the first one takes the cake in our opinion: Between the insanity of the gang going to Schmidt's office party (with his honestly terrifying coworkers), Winston befriending the boss's son, Nick trying not to miss his flight for the fifth year in a row, and Jess realizing she doesn't love her boyfriend, it's the perfect combo of festivity and tension for the holiday.

It also ends on a sweet note, with Nick deciding once again to put Jess' and his friends' happiness first and opting to miss his flight to run down the street yelling with them.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Deck The Halls, S1E15

There's a little extra crazy in any Christmas where two very different sides of your family come together, and that's exactly what happened in the first Fresh Prince Christmas special, when Will tries to do Christmas in Bel-Air the same way he used to do it back home in Philly.

Needless to say, the neighborhood did not respond as he expected.

It'll be interesting to see if they plan to take this discussion anywhere in the new Fresh Prince remake, Bel-Air, that they're planning for Peacock.

Bob's Burgers: Christmas in the Car, S4E8

Bob's Burgers does Christmas insanity literally every year, but the mild horror movie element of the family slowly becoming convinced that they're being run down by a candy cane truck as they try to get their Christmas tree home before the next day is a work of art. Plus, it's got a heartwarming ending, AND a dutch baby.

The joke about the tree dying before Christmas because they put it up the day after Halloween is also perfect.

Friends: The One With The Holiday Armadillo, S7E10

Friends has surprisingly few holiday episodes, be they Christmas or Thanksgiving, so picking this as the best one is kind of easy.

We don't feel like we really need to explain why this one is crazy. Ross is dressed as an armadillo trying to explain Hannukkah to his son Ben (because they were out of Santa suits). Oh, also, Joey is Superman, and Monica is revealed to have a thing for Santa Claus.

Seinfeld: The Strike, S9E10

The Seinfeld writers later wished they had called this one 'Festivus' for all its fame, because that IS the bit that stuck around.

This isn't technically a Christmas episode, but an episode about George's childhood celebration, Festivus, a holiday invented by his father, in which everyone stands around a metal pole, airs their grievances with each other, and then they wrestle.

The First Episode of The Simpsons

This is not only a crazy Christmas episode, but also the very episode that introduced us to the Simpsons we all know and love - it was the very first episode of the show to air.

In it, Homer becomes a mall Santa to try to make enough money to buy his family Christmas presents, because their cat had just been hit by a garbage truck on Christmas Eve. He fails to do that, then tries to make the money by betting it at a racetrack.

He loses that too, but he gets something better: Their dog, Santa's Little Helper. Homer adopts him after he sees his owner berating him for not winning the race (it was a GREYHOUND racetrack), calling him a loser - but Homer takes one look at his sad little face and says, "He's a SImpson," and decides to take HIM home for Christmas.

Heartwarming AND crazy.

Black-Ish: Just Christmas, Baby!, S10E3

Every family has that one Christmas where it either feels like their parents relax about it, or it feels like they snap. In this episode of Black-ish, when Dre and Bow go absolutely nuts over Christmas after realizing it's their last one before Zoey heads to college. Add a newborn baby to the mix, and you've got a recipe for a Very Specific To Family Kind of crazy.

Also, Tyra Banks is there.

Ted Lasso: Carol of the Bells, S2E4

This one is crazy AND sweet, as we get a glimpse into the team's varying Christmas plans, which include Roy and Keeley having their "sexy Christmas" interrupted by a sad student with terrible breath, and Ted, also sad, opens presents over Facetime with his son in his first Christmas alone since the divorce. It's not long, however, before Rebecca shows up to make things brighter by turning him into a Santa Claus himself.

Everyone eventually comes together, and it ends in a song.