Last Friday, FOX aired the 2018 Christmas episode for Last Man Standing’s seventh season. This had a few different storylines in it, but for the sake of keeping this review a little shorter for length, I will not cover all of them.

The theme of the episode is obviously all about Christmas and getting viewers in the mood of Christmas. I would argue that this episode did that way better than any Hallmark Channel Christmas movie.

This episode starts with Mike buying Ed a gift for Christmas. Mike gets a street named after the founder of Outdoor Man, Ed Alzate. However, it is not just any road. The road is the one that leads to the store itself, which makes sense and was a great gift for Mike to give. When Ed gets the gift, Mike gets the impression that Ed made a face that said that he did not really like the gift, even though it looked to everyone else that he did.

As it turns out, Mike was right and that Ed did not like the gift because he believes that getting a gift like that is more of a “remembrance” gift since it gives off the idea that he is going to die soon and that that gift will try to make people remember him after a road sign. It’s not an insult by all means, but I can see where he is coming from.

Mike does reveal to Ed that he is looking to hire army veterans for the nearby Outdoor Man store there in Denver, Colorado and at all of their other locations as well.

Another storyline going on is that the entire family comes over to help put up and set up the Christmas tree. Mandy is the primary one setting it up because apparently she has a reputation for making the most perfect and balanced Christmas trees. I see this more as Molly McCook, the new Mandy, putting her own spin on the character, which is honestly not bad.

Kyle does have a small storyline in the episode where he gets emotional, due to the fact that Vanessa has made him part of the family (although he is now by law since he married Mandy in season six) and that Kyle now has his own Christmas stocking at the Baxter’s house.

While they were putting up the tree, Mike mentions that he will have to put up the star since Eve was not there this year due to her being at college. Instead, Eve knocks at the door and it turns out that she made the trip back home via an Uber, to which she tells her mom and dad that they owe her $111 for the ride. Oh, Eve (lol).

At the end of the episode, they three sisters, Kristen, Mandy, and Eve, sing a song they made up called “A Baxter Christmas (We Wish You a Baxter Christmas).” I thought it was pretty good and clever, and I hope that FOX puts it on a streaming service like Apple Music and Spotify.

Overall, the episode gets 4/4 stars from me. I love Christmas episodes from this series and this one is not disappointing at all. Plus, I like that Kaitlyn Dever (Eve) came back for the Christmas episode.

Rating: 4/4 stars

Be sure to watch this episode on the FOX Now or Hulu apps since this is a good one and it will certainly get you in the Christmas spirit.

The next episode is called “Three for the Road,” which is set to air on January 4, 2019. So, for now, we will get a tiny break from the Baxters, but we will get them back again in early-2019. In the meantime, you can catch on the rest of the seventh season now and also watch the older Christmas episodes too.