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After scolding him, Santa explains to Elmo that when he pulled him out of the chimney, he saved Christmas and offers him a magic snow globe which gives him three wishes (he picked it over a pink bear).
Elmo uses his last wish to make Christmas be once a year again, but breaks his snow globe before the wish is granted. Fortunately, Lightning takes him back to the Christmas Eve when he rescued Santa, and Elmo chooses the Moo-Bunny as his new gift.
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is a 1996 Christmas special based on the PBS television series Sesame Street, narrated by guest star Maya Angelou. Its plot is inspired by the short story Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells.
The special is told in flashback by Maya Angelou as she recounts the events to Telly, Zoe, Baby Bear, and some children in her apartment:
It is once again Christmas on Sesame Street. Elmo takes some cookies home for Santa Claus. Big Bird's best friend, Snuffy, is going to Cincinnati to spend Christmas with his grandmother and will return the day after. Meanwhile, Elmo plans to stay up all night on Christmas Eve to see Santa descend from his chimney. He falls asleep, until being awakened when Santa gets stuck halfway up his chimney. By freeing him, Elmo gets to choose either a pink teddy bear or a magic snow globe as a gift. When he chooses the snow globe, he is granted three wishes, wasting his first one for a glass of water because he is thirsty.
On Christmas Day, the excitement and joy delights Elmo so much that he wishes for it to be Christmas every day, so he uses that for his second wish. At first, everyone is thrilled about it being Christmas again, thanks to a news report given by Kermit the Frog. However, this proves to be a very costly mistake as Santa explains to Elmo that Christmas would no longer be special if it was every day. Lightning, a reindeer-in-training (and the reason he got stuck in Elmo's chimney), uses his super speed to take Elmo to the future to see what Christmas is like throughout the year. As the seasons change, Elmo sees everyone's Christmas spirit go downhill: Big Bird is sad because Snuffy is still spending it with his grandmother in Cincinnati, Maria and Luis become increasingly exasperated over a lack of work due to the Fix-It-Shop being closed all year, Grover struggles selling Christmas trees, which have been dwindling, and It's a Wonderful Life plays continuously on television, meaning that general unhappiness is evident. Also, Santa's elves are exasperated and fatigued at their continued work shift and slack off on the job, and the other holidays of the year (especially Easter, coincidentally the day of Jesus' resurrection, and Independence Day, a day when Christmas in July is also ironically celebrated) are overshadowed by Christmas. However, Oscar the Grouch is the only one who enjoys all the misery - the pile of broken toasters in front of the Fix-It-Shop, the mounting Christmas trash, endless repeats of It's a Wonderful Life, and the fact that everyone is as grouchy and miserable as him - declaring it as a "bah humbug Christmas every day".
By next year's Christmas, Sesame Street is shut down:
•The Count is "all Christmassed out" after counting all 365 consecutive Christmas days.
•The carolers (especially Bob) have lost their voices from singing every day.
•"It's Christmas Again"
•"Everyday Can't Be Christmas"
•"Give Your Friend an Easter Egg for Christmas"
•"All I Want for Christmas is You"
Jun 10, 2024 · Take Elmo to the day when it's really Christmas. Lightning: Okay. (scene cuts to Lightning and Elmo flying over Earth to the following December 25) Maya Angelou: And so Lightning took Elmo ahead in time to December 25, the day that we call Christmas. Elmo hoped people would be in more of a Christmas spirit on that day.
Elmo nobly pulls Santa out of the chimney, and they find the cause of the extra mass: a stowaway reindeer-in-training named Lightning. Santa rewards Elmo with a choice of two gifts: a pink bear or a magical snowglobe.
Maya Angelou tells the story of how Elmo saved Christmas to Telly, Baby Bear, and Zoe, after they wish it were Christmas every day. When Elmo saves Santa from getting stuck in a chimney, he is rewarded with a magic snowglobe that will grant three wishes.
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After scolding Lightning, Santa explains to Elmo that when he pulled him through the chimney, he saves Christmas and offers him a magic snow-globe which gives him three wishes (Elmo picked it over a pink bear). After wishing for a glass of water, Elmo wishes it would be Christmas every day.
