The Christmas episode and a lost opportunity for greatness

In the classic Christmas episode , the one from the first season, when Mary has to work on Christmas eve, in the empty newsroom, of the empty building-even the cleaning staff are off. She is watching a Christmas special on the newsroom television set. The nutcracker comes on and she gets ready to dance, she is wearing purple dress, with a belt across the waist, fashionable as ever, she outstretches her arms and begins to twirl to the music, something wonderful is about to happen Mary is about to dance, alone, to cheer herself up, to take herself out of herself and her loneness, she begins to twirl--and then, the moment is broken. interrupted for some cheap laughs, the guy at the transmitter is calling in, the guy at the transmitter, Mary is just happy to hear another live human voice, but it turns to nothing, Mary thinks she has found another lonely person, a disembodied voice somewhere out there, she wants the guy to keep talking, but he says something like-i have to go home to my wife and kids they are waiting for me, big family , something like that, its just another reason to feel bad, the happy throwing cold water on the unhappy with casual cruelty..
In light of what has happened, i wish more than anything, that Mary had danced that dance, i think it would have been exquisite, a rare moment of beauty, that would have lasted forever, timeless and one of kind, Mary at the height of her other-worldy beauty, mixed with vulnerability formed out of loneliness, dancing by herself in the empty newsroom. An Iconic moment that never was.