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When the gang finds out Jane lied about being born on Christmas Day and never got her own celebration, they throw a Christmas-free birthday party for her.

When Jane's ID is discovered fake, she admits pretending to have her birthday in July instead of Christmas, impending, to break the trauma of having it overshadowed and getting stuck with 'combo gifts', like a toy plus separate batteries. The others decide to celebrate her and thereto postpone Christmas, even after the surprise is so great she instinctively welcomes' them with pepper-spray. As predicted, Christmas keeps tempting everyone, Max can't resist stocking up eggnog, only to have his backpack container pierced, Brad is caught dancing with his hip)hop Santa. Disappointed, Jane walks off into town and accidentally finds a birthday party for Christmas babies but soon realizes not to actually hate Christmas, let alone the gang, and returns to call for a Christmas party. *Dave proves himself as 'gift whisperer' for Penny, yet Pete, now accepted in the gang, is right to politely turn down his suggestion, being romantically inspired himself.—KGF Vissers

Jane (Eliza Coupe) and Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) were hosting Christmas, mainly because Jane's parents were going to sex camp. (ewww...well, half-ewww, Julie Hagerty still looks pretty good) Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) is certainly happy about that since she gets to open presents, and everybody would be together, and she'd get to open presents and...well, she'd get to open presents. (It's a fetish.) Just as Max (Adam Pally) was ready to throw down versions of eggnog I've never heard of (and never want to again), everybody gets carded. Jane, surprisingly, has a fake ID. Jane has been claiming her birthday is July 16th instead of the actual date: Christmas itself. It turns out, her parents combined the two events. For example, one year she got an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas, and she got the batteries for her birthday gift. Feeling bad for her, everybody sneaks into her condo to wish her Happy Birthday on Christmas. And gets a double-barrel of pepper spray in the eyes for their efforts. (Actually, Jane might have acquired mace.)

As the gang recovered, they agreed to not have ANYTHING Christmas-related anywhere near Jane. They would celebrate Jane-mas. (they did the jazz hands, right?) No evidence of Christmas would be found around her. That meant Penny (Casey Wilson) had to go home and change out of her Santa socks and Dave (Zachary Knighton) had to get rid of his Jingle Bells ringtone. (And blaming it on Jurassic Park (1993) really doesn't help.) But Dave had no problem with that: he could help Penny find a better present for Pete (Nick Zano). Of course, everything is closed on Christmas. (PENNY: What is open? Gas stations? Drugstores? Israel?) Dave considered himself the Present Whisperer, and he actually did quite well by organizing a scavenger hunt for Pete that ended with Arcade Fire tickets. Penny would wait to open Pete's gift. (ALEX: Just open the f'ing gift, Penny!) Pete's present for Penny? A big-ass candle. Dave tries to explain that the idea is lame, but Pete went through with it, and Penny loved it. And she wasn't faking it, either. It turns out Pete and Penny watched Contagion (2011) and Pete vowed not to make her suffer like Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie. He would put a bullet in her head and then light the biggest candle he could find to match her big heart.

PENNY: (emotional) No guy's ever offered to kill me. Well, there was one time, but that was during sex so I don't think that counts.

Brad ridded the apartment of anything Christmas-related, although he did cave in to doing one pop-and-lock with Hip Hop Santa. (Well who wouldn't?) Max, however, had an even bigger problem. He was trying to deny himself eggnog for the day, and being an eggnostic was not easy. One little drop from a spilled sample at the store, and he was chugging that stuff like Gatorade. (MAX: I didn't vote for Obama! I couldn't respect his March Madness bracket!) Thankfully, by the time the party was ready to go, he was OK. If you can call hiding a hydro-bladder full of eggnog under his jacket being OK. But things were fine. That is, until Alex started getting out of control with the present opening (in fairness, she had to get rid of her gingerbread Love Actually - L'amore davvero (2003) display) and accidentally knocked Jane's present opener into Max, puncturing the eggnog bladder and spraying it all over the apartment.

Jane was upset because she knew the gang couldn't eliminate Christmas entirely and went for a walk. She came upon a bar where everyone was singing Happy Birthday. It turns out the bar held a party every year only for those people who were born on Christmas. Jane was ecstatic and heard stories of people getting bicycles for Christmas and the air to fill the tires for their birthday. Jane felt right at home until everybody in the bar prepared to head out into the streets and destroy all the Christmas decorations they could find. Jane wasn't so much for that, but thankfully Brad found her and brought her some of her favorite caramel corn. Well, sort of. Brad was still determined to make up for all the years Jane had to suffer, but she was at peace with it. She took control of her own destiny.

JANE: I changed my birthday. I am Queen's Boulevard. (Nice Entourage (2004) reference!)

So they went home (since the riots were starting) and celebrated Jane-mas. By breakdancing with Hip Hop Santa!