NBC has released and animated Christmas-themed Community trailer to hold us over until January 2.

As if returning to the airwaves on January 2 weren’t enough, Community has provided us with an animated trailer as a little pre-Christmas stocking stuffer. “The Chang Who Stole Christmas” would have been a fine choice, but it looks like they decided to go with “Miracle on Jeff’s Street.”

None of this will appear in the show nor do we know of any plans for another animated episode in season 5 but seeing the characters (sans Pierce, of course) is still entertaining.

Even though it’s not canon, necessarily, it looks like Jeff is still a lawyer around Christmastime and hasn’t yet joined the Greendale staff as we know he will in season 5.

Of course in Dean Pelton’s unconscious mind, he would be a beard-less Santa and bring Jeff Christmas cheer with his reindeer, Chang. Not that the reality of Chang breaking into his home to crawl into bed is any less weird.

The ad finds creative ways to work around both Pierce and Donald Glover’s absence. Pierce suffocates at the bottom of a bag (wonder if Dan Harmon got a kick out of writing that) and Troy, while present, doesn’t actually say anything until he begins to violently vomit gifts. Maybe that’s why Troy has to eventually leave the study group. That’s a pretty awful affliction to live with.