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Looking back at Chicago Fire’s Christmas episodes

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CHICAGO FIRE -- Season: Pilot -- Pictured: (l-r) Teri Reeves as Hallie, David Eigenberg as Christopher Hermann, Charlie Barnett as Peter Mills, Lauren German as Leslie Shay, Monica Raymund as Gabriella Dawson, Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Eamonn Walker as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden -- (Photo by: Sandro/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE -- Season: Pilot -- Pictured: (l-r) Teri Reeves as Hallie, David Eigenberg as Christopher Hermann, Charlie Barnett as Peter Mills, Lauren German as Leslie Shay, Monica Raymund as Gabriella Dawson, Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Eamonn Walker as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden -- (Photo by: Sandro/NBC) /
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Christmas might be a few months away, but we here at FanSided Entertainment are getting into the holiday spirit early with our 12 Days of Christmas in July celebration! Today is all about One Chicago and what better time to take a trip down memory lane by breaking out the Chicago Fire Christmas episodes!

In both Chicago Fire season 1, and Chicago Fire season 3, there was a Christmas-themed episode, though neither of them were anything like what you’d expect from holiday TV.

In the first season, it was a bit of a given that our then-freshman series would do a holiday episode, since it was scheduled to air on Dec. 19—less than a week before Christmas. But things weren’t going to be very merry for Firehouse 51.

Has Chicago Fire done a Christmas episode?

“Merry Christmas, Etc.” involved our heroes rushing to put out a fire at an expensive townhouse, only to be accused of theft by the people whose kitchen they’d just saved!

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While that’s something we’ve seen on TV before, that’s not something our crew would ever even think of. So a large part of the episode was the team defending themselves over these false allegations and trying to figure out what actually happened.

Leave it to Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) to expose the truth: the homeowners were trying to pull off an insurance scam! Not on our watch.

Speaking of Casey, “Merry Christmas, Etc.” will also always be remembered for the awkward scene in which he accepted an invitation to a Christmas party from Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund). Though both had other love interests at this point in the season, that didn’t stop Dawson from making a move on her future husband Casey, and it didn’t go well:

What happened in Chicago Fire Santa Bites?

Okay, so that wasn’t exactly the Christmas episode anyone was expecting. But surely Fire would do something a little happier by the time the third season came around, right? Nope.

When an episode is called “Santa Bites,” you know it’s not going to be peace on Earth and goodwill toward men. There was another house fire, this one without the criminal element. And though by this point in the show Casey and Dawson had gotten together, Chicago Fire decided this would be a fine episode to start pushing them apart, while they tried to balance their work lives with their relationship off the clock.

At least there was the Chicago Holiday Fest to give the episode some kind of a Christmas element.

But when it comes to holidays (whether it’s Christmas or Thanksgiving) our franchise has never done things the traditional way. There’s always been a tongue-in-cheek spin, and these first two holiday episodes were the best examples of that. Who needs Christmas carols and egg nog when you have Dawsey drama and insurance fraud?

If you’re wanting to put a One Chicago spin on your Christmas celebration, they’ll definitely do the trick!

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