(bouncy music)
- Thanks for helping Elmo decorate
this Christmas tree, Abby.
- You're welcome! (chuckles)
Do you have any wishes this Christmas, Elmo?
- Yeah!
Elmo wishes everyone was here to celebrate.
♪ We have one wish at Christmas time ♪
♪ That makes us so happy ♪
♪ It's not a toy, it's not a bike ♪
♪ It's not a trampoline ♪
♪ All we want this holiday ♪
♪ Is friends and family ♪
♪ To celebrate and be a part ♪
♪ Of Elmo's Christmas dream ♪
Look Abby, we're in Elmo's Christmas dream!
- Wow!
- And everybody's here!
♪ There's Big Bird and Dorothy ♪
♪ And Oscar the Grouch ♪
- [Abby] Bert and Ernie, Grover and The Count
♪ There's a monster called Cookie ♪
And Snuffleupagus!
- [Both] We're all here together, one big family!
- Welcome, everyone!
- Elmo's so glad you made it!
- [Both] Merry Christmas!
♪ All we want this holiday ♪
♪ Is friends and family ♪
♪ To celebrate and be a part ♪
♪ Of Elmo's Christmas dream ♪
Yay!
- Merry Christmas, Abby!
- Merry Christmas, Elmo.
(Tune of "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas")
♪ I want a Snuffleupagus for Christmas ♪
♪ Only a Snuffleupagus will do ♪
♪ Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy ♪
♪ I want a Snuffleupagus to play with and enjoy ♪
- That is so weird, Big Bird, 'cause I want the same thing.
- No! - [Anne] Yes!
♪ I want a Snuffleupagus for Christmas ♪
♪ I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you ♪
- No.
♪ Won't have to use a dirty chimney flue ♪
♪ Just bring him through the front door ♪
♪ That's the easy thing to do ♪
♪ I can see us now on Christmas morning ♪
♪ Creeping down the stairs ♪
♪ What a joy and what surprise when we open up our eyes ♪
♪ To see a Snuffle hero standing there ♪
- A Snuffleupagus, just what we always wanted!
- [Snuffleupagus] Hey!
♪ Oh, I want a Snuffleupagus for Christmas ♪
Yep!
♪ Only a Snuffleupagus will do ♪
All right!
♪ No crocodiles ♪
♪ No rhinoceroses ♪
Uh-uh.
♪ We only like Snuffleupaguses. ♪
♪ Snuffleupaguses like you. ♪
♪ Like us ♪
♪ Like us, too ♪
Merry Christmas, you guys.
(cheerful winter music)
♪ Do do do doo doo ♪
♪ Doo do doo do doo ♪
♪ There's a special kind of feeling ♪
♪ Elmo feels it on the street ♪
♪ You can see it in the smiles ♪
♪ Of the people that you meet ♪
♪ What is this special something that I see here on display ♪
- Display!
♪ It's almost time for Christmas ♪
♪ Yes, it's almost Christmas day ♪
♪ It's almost Christmas ♪
It's almost Christmas!
♪ It's almost Christmas ♪
♪ It's almost Christmas day ♪
♪ Elmo loves the taste of Christmas ♪
♪ And the frosty cold snowflake ♪
Uh-huh!
♪ Or a minty candy cane ♪
♪ Or a three-week-old fruit cake ♪
♪ So deck the halls with holly ♪
♪ And watch for Santa's sleigh ♪
♪ 'Cause it's almost time for Christmas ♪
♪ 'Cause it's almost Christmas day ♪
♪ It's almost Christmas ♪
It's almost Christmas!
♪ It's almost Christmas ♪
♪ Almost Christmas day ♪
Merry Christmas! (chuckles)
- Bye, everybody!
- Bye!
- Have a great Christmas, Elmo.
- Oh, you too, Miss Sheryl.
(ringback tone)
- [Snuffleupagus] Hello, we're not here right now.
Please leave a message after the beep.
- Oh rats, it's the answering machine.
(beep)
Hi, Snuffy, it's me, your old pal Big Bird.
I sure wish I could talk to you in person,
but I guess I'll have to leave you a little message.
I sure do miss you, Snuffy.
I wish Christmas would end.
See, I've gotten lots of presents,
but not the one I want most.
♪ I don't want anything that you pull on a string ♪
♪ All I want for Christmas is you ♪
♪ Some jacks and a ball wouldn't please me at all ♪
♪ All I want for Christmas is you ♪
♪ I don't need some crayons or an automobile ♪
♪ Just a shaggy person who can feel what I feel ♪
♪ A necktie is neat, and shoes are a treat ♪
♪ But they can't make me smile when I'm blue ♪
♪ Don't get me a picture book to color and trace ♪
♪ Don't buy me a rocket ship that goes into space ♪
♪ All I need's a buddy with a smile on his face ♪
♪ All I want for Christmas is you ♪
Uh, you can't see it Snuffy, but I'm doing a little dance,
'cause I'm happy I'm talking to you!
And I've never danced on the telephone before.
Now I'm dancing in a little circle.
Now I'm doing a little soft tune.
♪ A necktie is neat, and shoes are a treat ♪
♪ But they can't make me smile when I'm blue ♪
♪ I don't need a hula hoop, a top, or a ball ♪
♪ Don't get me a cuckoo clock to hang on the wall ♪
♪ All I want is Snuffy, who's my best friend of all ♪
♪ All I want for Christmas is you ♪
♪ All I want for Christmas ♪
♪ Is you ♪
("Carol of the Bells")
♪ Aah, Ooh ♪
♪ Ding dong, ding dong, that is the song ♪
♪ With cheerful ring, all caroling ♪
♪ One seems to hear words of good cheer ♪
♪ From everywhere, filling the air ♪
♪ Oh, how they pound, raising the sound ♪
♪ O'er hill and dale, telling their tale ♪
♪ Gaily they ring, while people sing ♪
♪ Songs of good cheer, Christmas is here ♪
♪ Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas ♪
♪ Ding dong, ding dong ♪
- Shh...
Listen.
♪ Ding dong, ding dong ♪
♪ Dong, ding, dong, ding, dong, ding dong ♪
♪ Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells ♪
♪ All seem to say throw cares away ♪
♪ Christmas is here, bringing good cheer ♪
♪ To young and old, meek and the bold ♪
♪ Ding, dong, ding, dong ♪
♪ Oh how they pound, raising the sound ♪
♪ O'er hill and dale, telling their tale ♪
♪ Gaily they ring while people sing ♪
♪ Songs of good cheer, Christmas is here ♪
♪ Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas ♪
♪ Ooh, ding dong, ding dong ♪
♪ Ding dong, ding dong ♪
- Oh, Mister Hooper?
- Yes?
- Happy Hanukkah.
- Thank you, Bob.
And a merry Christmas to you.
- Merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
(scoffs) I hope their Christmas trees get termites!
♪ I can't think of anything that's dumber ♪
♪ To a grouch, Christmas is a bummer ♪
♪ Beaming faces everywhere ♪
♪ Happiness is in the air ♪
♪ I'm telling you, it isn't fair ♪
♪ I hate Christmas ♪
♪ People loaded with good will ♪
♪ Giving presents, what a thrill ♪
♪ That slushy nonsense makes me ill ♪
♪ I hate Christmas ♪
♪ I'd rather have a holiday like normal grouches do ♪
♪ Instead of getting presents ♪
♪ They take presents back from you ♪
Heh heh.
♪ Here comes Santa, girls and boys ♪
♪ So, who needs that big red noise ♪
♪ I'll tell him where to put his toys ♪
♪ I hate Christmas ♪
And if you want the truth, I ain't so crazy
about Thanksgiving or Labor Day, either!
♪ Christmas carols to be sung ♪
♪ Decorations to be hung ♪
♪ Oh yeah, well I stick out my tongue ♪
♪ I hate Christmas ♪
("Joy To The World")
♪ Christmas bells play loud and strong ♪
♪ Hurts my ears, all that ding dong ♪
♪ Besides it goes on much too long ♪
♪ I hate Christmas ♪
♪ I'd rather have a holiday with a lot less joy and flash ♪
♪ With a lot less cheerful smiling ♪
♪ And a lot more dirty trash, yeah ♪
♪ Christmas day is almost here ♪
♪ When it's over, then I cheer ♪
♪ I'm glad it's only once a year ♪
♪ I hate Christmas ♪
♪ Dashing through the snow ♪
♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪
♪ Over the fields we go ♪
♪ Laughing all the way ♪
♪ Bells on bobtail ring ♪
♪ Making spirits bright ♪
♪ What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight ♪
♪ Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells ♪
♪ Jingle all the way ♪
♪ Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh ♪
- Hey!
♪ Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way ♪
♪ Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh ♪
(guitar solo)
♪ Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way ♪
(guitar solo)
♪ Five golden rings ♪
Hey!
(guitar solo)
♪ Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh ♪
(characters vocalize)
Oh, that was wonderful!
♪ We have one wish at Christmas time ♪
♪ That makes us so happy ♪
♪ It's not a toy, it's not a bike ♪
♪ It's not a trampoline ♪