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Elmo Saves Christmas
Elmo Saves Christmas is a children’s home video that was ing everyone’s memories (except for Santa, Elmo, and
released in 1996. In the story, Elmo learns that Christmas Lightning). After saving Santa for the second time, Elmo
cannot occur every day. The Christmas special is the ba- chooses the pink bear, but Santa immediately offers him
sis idea from the Christmas short story, ’Christmas Every a new gift, the "Moo Bunny", a half-cow, half-rabbit
Day’ by William Dean Howells, (1892). The special was plush toy. Big Bird is reunited with Snuffy early, because
shot at Sesame Street’s usual home, the Kaufman Astoria just as he was about to leave for Cincinnati, his grand-
Studios in New York City. mother came to Sesame Street instead for Christmas. The
show closes with its final song: "Keep Christmas With
Synopsis You All Through the Year", which was also featured on
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Elmo learns though that al-
It is Christmas time on Sesame Street. Snuffy, Big Bird’s though Christmas can’t be every day, it’s important to
best friend, departs for Cincinnati to visit his grandmoth- have the spirit of Christmas every day.
er for the holiday, and promises to return the day after
Christmas. While Elmo falls asleep on Christmas Eve
watching TV, Santa Claus gets lodged halfway up his
Cast
chimney. By freeing him, Elmo is granted the privilege of Maya Angelou as Herself/Narrator
choosing a gift. When Elmo chooses a magical snow globe Emilio Delgado as Luis
instead of a pink teddy bear, he is granted three wishes. Sonia Manzano as Maria
Using the snow globe, Elmo wishes for a glass of water be- Bob McGrath as Bob
cause he is thirsty. Roscoe Orman as Gordon
Elmo’s second wish is more significant to the plot of David Langston Smyrl as Mr. Handford
the story: "Elmo wishes it was Christmas every day." Carlo Alban as Carlo
This proves to be a very costly mistake. Suddenly, Charles Durning as Santa Claus
all the businesses are permanently closed for Christmas. Harvey Fierstein as the Easter Bunny
Snuffy is gone all year, visiting his grandmother out of Carroll Spinney a Big Bird/Oscar
town, making Big Bird extremely depressed. There is Kevin Clash as Elmo
nothing playing on TV but It’s a Wonderful Life. Carolers Frank Oz as Cookie Monster/Grover/Bert
carol and children exchange gifts. At the urging of Santa Jerry Nelson as Count von Count/News Flash Announc-
Claus, Lightning, one of Santa’s reindeer-in-training, uses er/Mr. Johnson
his speed to take Elmo into the future to see what Christ- Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog/Ernie
mas is like in the spring, summer and to the following Carmen Osbahr as Rosita
December 25. The Count becomes "all Christmassed out" Martin P. Robinson as Mr. Snuffleupagus/Telly Monster
and furious at Elmo, and so does the rest of Sesame David Rudman as Baby Bear/Humphrey
Street. The carolers lose their voices from constant car- Fran Brill as Zoe
oling. Big Bird is upset, as he misses Snuffy, who has been Joey Mazzarino as Lightning
in Cincinnati for an entire year. Luis finally closes up the
Fix-It Shop for good.
After regretting his second wish, Elmo decides on his
External links
final wish (although it was originally for rollerblades), • Elmo Saves Christmas at the Internet Movie Database
shaking his snow globe rapidly: "Elmo wishes that every-
thing on Sesame Street was the way it used to be, when
Christmas was only once a year." Oscar tries to intervene,
but Maria furiously demands silence from him and pleads
for Elmo to fix the whole issue. The globe flies out of
Elmo’s hand and breaks. Luis laments, "It’s Christ-
mas...forever!", and Big Bird says, "Goodbye, Snuffy."
Elmo and Lightning go back in time to the Christmas
on which Elmo wished it was Christmas every day, eras-
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elmo Saves Christmas
Categories:
• Sesame Street features
• Children's films
• Christmas films
• Christmas television specials
• Santa Claus in film and television
• 1996 television series debuts
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