Say what you will about NBC‘s struggling Sophomore comedy, but you’ve got to hand it to Dan Harmon and crew for coming up with new ideas. As previously reported, Community will be doing a Christmas episode. What we didn’t know is it’ll feature stop motion clay animation!

From EW, “When Community ingénue Alison Brie (Annie) says, “It’s going to be a very special Christmas episode,” she means it. The sophomore comedy is officially going through with plans to produce a holiday eppy in stop-motion animation like the old Rankin/Bass classics.”

“It is so hard for me not to tell everybody I know about it,” exclaims Danny Pudi (Aped). “The minute we read that script, I was over-the-moon excited. It’s like that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special that you see every Christmas. But in true Community fashion, it’s also a little subversive and a little dark.”

The buzz about this episode is growing louder by the minute. The cast and crew even go as far as saying this might top Modern Warfare or the recent Halloween episode. Just looking at the first preview for the episode, we can’t say we object!