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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street is a Sesame Street Christmas Special that first aired on PBS in 1978 and was consistently rerun throughout The '80s and around early parts of The '90s.There are three main plots during its one-hour run time: Oscar the Grouch tells Big Bird that if he can't figure out how Santa gets down people's tiny chimneys, people won't get presents for Christmas. Big Bird becomes obsessed with finding the answer. Bert & Ernie enter a Gift of the Magi Plot, buying gifts for each other. Cookie Monster attempts to contact Santa Claus so he can ask for cookies, but he keeps eating his writing instruments.Compare A Special Sesame Street Christmas, which was filmed at the same time and aired on CBS that same year. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite all the teasing Oscar puts Big Bird through during the show, he has a Heel Realization after Maria calls him out on it, and finally confesses he's glad Big Bird is safe back home at the end... even if it is just so he can tease him some more. | |
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Creator Cameo: Director/co-writer/executive producer Jon Stone provided the voice of Santa on the phone that Cookie Monster ends up eating. | |
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Meat-O-Vision | |
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Meat-O-Vision: Cookie Monster gets distracted while trying to write his letter to Santa, as the various writing implements keep reminding him of cookies, driving him to devour them. And after he dials Santa's number and is waiting for him to answer, the two ends of the telephone receiver remind him of chocolate cupcakes, leading him to eat the receiver just before Santa does pick up. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Mr. Hooper, when he gives Bert and Ernie back their paper clip collection and rubber duckie, respectively—and then tells them that they shouldn't feel bad for not getting him a gift, since they gave him the gift of letting him see them be happy. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Mr. Hooper has apparently read "The Gift of the Magi," as he immediately recognizes that Ernie and Bert have traded their priceless items in exchange for gifts for one another. It helps that they traded them to him, as he's the only general store in town. This allows him to redeliver those items as presents of his own. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Cookie Monster can't get his letter to Santa written because everything keeps reminding him of cookies, causing him to eat them. Gordon assures him that Santa knows him well enough to bring him what he wants, but it would be nice if Cookie Monster left Santa a gift as well. The traditional gift? Cookies. Cookie Monster's face promptly freezes in an Oh, Crap! expression. | |
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Sound-to-Screen Adaptation | |
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Sound-to-Screen Adaptation: At least partly one from the 1975 album Merry Christmas from Sesame Street, which included the original Bert/Ernie/Mr. Hooper storyline as a sketch, and two of the special's three songs. It became a Recursive Adaptation when Christmas Eve on Sesame Street got turned into an album. | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes: In a twist on the traditional Gift of the Magi Plot, Ernie and Bert's story ends this way: though they do give up their most prized possessions to get each other gifts, Mr. Hooper is so touched by their generosity to each other that he wraps them up and delivers them as presents himself. So Ernie and Bert get their new gifts, their old treasures, and the knowledge that they were willing to give up everything they had to make one another happy. | |
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Gift of the Magi Plot | |
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Gift of the Magi Plot: Ernie and Bert go through this, involving their rubber duckie and paper clip collection, respectively. The scenes of this subplot have been collected here. Mr. Hooper realized what was going on and gave them back their items as Christmas presents. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: ...he does realize the error of his ways and decides to help search for Big Bird when he actually goes missing. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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"Just Joking" Justification: When Maria takes Oscar to task for worrying Big Bird about Santa not being able to get down chimneys, the grouch tries to defend himself by saying "I was only teasin' him!" Maria isn't having it (see "The Reason You Suck" Speech below). | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: Cookie Monster eats the needles off Gordon's Christmas tree. | |
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Third Line, Some Waiting | |
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Third Line, Some Waiting: Cookie Monster is the "C" plot. | |
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Signs of Disrepair | |
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Signs of Disrepair: As Oscar sings "I Hate Christmas", Mr. Hooper hangs up a banner that says "NOEL" in his store. Oscar then takes the E and the L from the banner, resulting in it saying "NO". | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Big Bird's gone." Said by Patty to Gordon after she goes to check on him in his nest and finds it empty. | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: When Kermit returns from conducting his survey asking neighborhood kids how they believe Santa gets down tiny chimneys. | |
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Logo Joke | |
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Logo Joke: Of a sort; the Children's Television Workshop logo sequence introduced the year this special was made replaces the standard spacey electronic music with a much more festive-sounding Christmas bells tune. Too bad it was only seen on older PBS airings and the original 1987 VHS release. | |
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Staircase Tumble | |
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Staircase Tumble: How Oscar (and his trash can) leave the skating rink in the opening; the use of different shots from different camera angles crank it up to eleven, making it look as if Oscar crashes through multiple rooms. | |
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Sound Effects Bleep: Happens after the gang returns from the skating party and leave the subway. Just as Big Bird gives another idea a subway train passes by as Oscar berates him, drowning out what he says. | |
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Long List | |
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Long List: Kermit rattles off various explanations given by children as to how Santa gets into houses. Highlights include a child who believes "Santa goes on a crash diet on Christmas Eve and loses two hundred pounds" and "Santa sneaks in with the other relatives on Thanksgiving and hides in the laundry room until Christmas." | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: After Big Bird is safe and sound, Gordon sings a single chorus of "True Blue Miracle" to emphasize the True Meaning of Christmas (see below). | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
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Extreme Omnivore: No surprise from Cookie Monster here, as he eats each of his methods of contacting Santa because his insatiable appetite gets the better of him, consuming his pencil, his typewriter, and his telephone (and just as Santa actually answers). At the end, during The Stinger, he has also eaten the needles and most of the ornaments from Susan & Gordon's Christmas tree. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: Oscar follows his "apology" (it's more a begrudging "Glad you're back") to Big Bird with a question about how the Easter Bunny hides all those eggs in one night. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: When the adults discover that Big Bird is missing, they spread out all over town to look for him—but no one thinks to check the roofs, even though they're all fully aware that he's upset about Santa Claus getting down chimneys. You'd think at least one person would make the connection between "Big Bird wanted to find out how Santa gets in" and "Hey, there's a chimney on the roof." | |
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Jerkass Ball | |
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Jerkass Ball: Oscar, traditionally more of a cranky grump than a real "villain," acts a lot nastier than usual in this special. He first tells Big Bird and Patty that it's impossible for Santa to get down any chimneys, and then implies that if they don't figure out how he does it, no one will get any presents. Big Bird is promptly sent into a crisis of faith, but Oscar continues to trolls and insult him, which makes things worse. However... | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Maria really rips Oscar a new one when Big Bird goes missing: | |
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Large Ham: Not surprisingly, Frank Oz hams it up with Grover and Cookie Monster, particularly the latter (including a memorable subplot where he tries to get a message to Santa Claus to send him cookies for Christmas; worth of note is when eating the typewriter, at one point he cries out "Cowabunga!" and karate-chops the typewriter!) | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: After returning from the skating party, both the Count and David disappear for the rest of the special, though David suddenly reappears during the closing reprise of "Keep Christmas With You (All Through the Year)," as if he too had been searching for Big Bird all that time. | |
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Everyone Is Christian at Christmas | |
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Everyone Is Christian at Christmas: The only character explicitly non-Christian is Mr. Hooper, who still joins in the festivities by decorating his store with a wreath that says "Noel", and getting characters Christmas presents. However he is visibly touched and responds with a warm smile when Bob wishes him a Happy Hanukkah. Doubles as an Actor Allusion, since Will Lee was in fact Jewish. | |
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One-Shot Character | |
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One-Shot Character: For this special, Patty, a little girl who hangs with Big Bird on Christmas Eve. She also tries to help him figure out how Santa gets down tiny chimneys, and gradually becomes concerned about Big Bird's well-being as he grows more and more depressed as the special progresses, telling the adults when he goes missing. Her actress however, Debbie Chen, still did appearances for Sesame Street before this special. | |
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How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys? | |
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How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?: The central point of Big Bird's plot is him trying to find this out for himself. In the end he falls asleep before he can find out but comes back inside only to find that Santa somehow did it. | |
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Follow the Bouncing Ball | |
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Follow the Bouncing Ball: Not literally, but the graphics showing the lyrics of "Keep Christmas With You (All Through the Year)" at the end of the show are in this vein. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Oscar's sent flying during a game of Snap the Whip on the skating rink and promptly crashes through both a brick and a wooden wall, careens down at least two flights of stairs, and tumbles out into the street. His only response? "Let's go back and do it again!" | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Oscar actually experiences this when Maria gives him something of a "reason he sucks" speech when it's believed that Big Bird ran away over Oscar teasing him that Santa won't bring anybody presents because he can't get down a tiny chimney. | |
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Improv | |
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Improv: The segments in which Kermit and Grover interview small children to get their ideas on how Santa delivers presents are obviously unscripted. After one little girl enthusiastically delivers an elaborate nonsensical explanation about how Santa apparently opens up the chimney by pushing some kind of elevator button, Grover turns to the viewer and deadpans, "And there you have it!" Fridge Brilliance or Hilarious in Hindsight when you realize that little girl is giving a kid-garbled description of how you buzz into an apartment building. That's how everyone gets in, so why wouldn't Santa do it, too? | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The special pulls this off expertly—the more poignant moments are followed by comic ones to provide levity and keep the plot moving at a good clip. It's most apparent when Ernie and Bert's Gift of the Magi Plot is resolved with their quiet, tender rendition of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," and the next scene is Cookie Monster devouring a telephone receiver and inadvertently putting Santa on hold. | |
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Ernie plays quite a few pranks on Bert during the opening scene at the skating party. First, he steals Bert's shoe to use as the puck in a hockey game. Then he only lifts one leg to "jump" over the barrels that Bert has set up. But the third trick is the most devious—he "sits" on the side of a large barrel that Cookie Monster and Count von Count push around, and Bert chases after him to tell him it's dangerous. Then Bert crashes into a wall...at which point Ernie reveals that he was standing the whole time, as the legs hanging off the side of the barrel are fake. Bert's barely conscious as Ernie lets out his trademark giggle while climbing out of the barrel. | |
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Anti-Christmas Song | |
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Anti-Christmas Song: Oscar's "I Hate Christmas". | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Gordon suggests Cookie Monster leave something out to show appreciation to Santa. He agrees, only to look quite shocked when told that Santa loves cookies. Bert and Ernie go through this when they open their presents from each other and discover that they've traded away the precious object (Bert's paper clip collection and Ernie's rubber duckie) intended for it. The music provides an appropriate chord when they realize what's happened. | |
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Fridge Brilliance | |
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Fridge Brilliance or Hilarious in Hindsight when you realize that little girl is giving a kid-garbled description of how you buzz into an apartment building. That's how everyone gets in, so why wouldn't Santa do it, too? | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Ernie discovers one of Bert's precious paper clips sitting on the floor and decides to buy him a cigar box as a present so he can store them—"they'll never be lost again!" He then throws the inspirational paper clip over his shoulder without a second thought, making it even more lost. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: After Cookie Monster tries unsuccessfully to tell Santa that he wants cookies for Christmas, he explains his plight to Gordon, who tells him that Santa knows him and will bring him some cookies, but it might be a good idea to give him something in return. Cookie considers giving Santa a necktie and shaving cream, which Gordon does find good ideas, but tells Cookie that most people leave Santa cookies. | |
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Failures on Ice | |
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Failures on Ice: Subverted. The special begins with the gang at an ice rink. A few minutes in, Big Bird is seen holding onto the wall while slipping and sliding on his skates. But after a little girl shows him how, within minutes he's skating with her like a pro to José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad." | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: Mr. Hooper is seen putting up a Menorah in the background of one scene, and Bob wishes him a Happy Hanukkah, at which he is visibly touched. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: When Big Bird goes missing, Maria reaches into Oscar's trashcan and angrily pulls him out, then gives him The Reason You Suck speech for upsetting Big Bird so much. | |
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Crowd Song | |
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Crowd Song: "True Blue Miracle", sung by most of the human characters on the way back from the skating party. As well as the ending song "Keep Christmas with You (All Through the Year)", presented in a sing-along format at the end of the special. | |
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True Meaning of Christmas | |
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True Meaning of Christmas: Big Bird insists that finding out how Santa gets down tiny chimneys is important, but Gordon tells him otherwise. Mr. Hooper offers a different version when he gives Ernie and Bert back their rubber duckie and paper clip collection, respectively, after they traded them to him to get gifts for one another. When they realize that they didn't get Mr. Hooper a gift himself, he gently corrects them and says that they did—namely, both the ability to give them a meaningful present and the knowledge that they love each other so much that they were willing to give up their most prized possessions to make sure they'd be happy. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: A mournful instrumental version of "True Blue Miracle" can be heard during the scene where Big Bird falls into an utter depression over not figuring out how Santa gets into chimneys. | |
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Santa's Existence Clause | |
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Santa's Existence Clause: Oscar sparks a crisis when he trolls Big Bird by asking how Santa gets down tiny chimneys. Santa's existence is not in doubt as such, but Big Bird reasons that if he doesn't know how Santa can get down the chimney, no one will get any presents. In the end, Big Bird never does find out how Santa does it, but everyone gets their presents delivered anyway. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: Santa himself does show up (in shadow) while Big Bird is sleeping on the roof, though the question of how he gets down chimneys is never answered. | |
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