- I'm Talbot - And I'm Vanessa.
- And today we're gonna be telling you a holiday story.
What story are we telling again today?
- The first snowy day in South Africa.
(Christmas jingle)
A true classic Christmas tale.
- [Talbot] Alright boys and girls.
- [Vanessa] Once upon a time, in the middle of South Africa.
- [Talbot] There was a house in a deep thicket.
- [Vanessa] There is no snow because it's South Africa.
- [Talbot] In fact in the southern hemisphere,
Christmas is in the middle of the summer.
Merry Christmas!
So in this cabin in the deep-wooded thicket,
there are two little boys named Timmy and Johnny.
- Uh can there be a girl?
- [Talbot] Yeah the girl is very smart,
she has good grades in school.
All of them have one wish: just to
see the north pole and to see Santa.
And the kids wished and wished and one day
a smiling elf knocked on their door.
Ding dong the elf is here! (clapping)
- [Vanessa] And like he was smiling like,
hi children santa can't visit your house today
so we're just coming here and you all have one wish.
And this little one was like I wish
that there was snow. (jingle bells shake)
And he was like: well we can't really
make that happen, but we'll try. (laughing)
Another one was like: I wish there was snow
and gave him the same response.
And the third one said.
- [Talbot] Please elf will you give us snow?
- [Vanessa] I can't.
- [Talbot] Why can't you please, Santa?
- [Vanessa] I'm not Santa, I'm an elf and I'm a woman elf.
- [Talbot] Please woman elf, give us Christmas.
- I will try child, but I cannot promise anything.
- Thank you Santa.
- I'm not Santa!
(laughter)
- [Talbot] After a while the elf said,
I can take you to snow but you will have to trust me.
So the elf got the magical flying saucers
and his alien friends and all
the little children climbed aboard
and they reached Santa and they were enthralled.
(laughing) Merry Christmas children!
You will get your wish of snow.
- [Vanessa] But I don't want snow, I want rain.
- [Talbot] You don't get any rain, you only get snow!
And so Santa led them inside to his magical toy workshop.
Inside there is a strange looking device
that Santa and the aliens cooperated to build.
- [Vanessa] The device lets you change
the weather patterns of any hemisphere
so they could make Africa snowy.
- [Talbot] And so.
- [Vanessa] The children decided to steal it.
- [Talbot] The kids stayed in
the five-star North Pole Marriott built by Santa.
As they were sitting over hot chocolate
by the fire that night, they discussed their
plan to bring snow to South Africa.
Okay we gotta focus here guys. - Yes.
- We have gotta get snow and we just gotta
point this thing at the sky. - Oh.
- The children snuck out of the hotel, one by one.
- Do, do, do, do, do.
But they encountered the nutcracker guard.
Children give me nut or no pass.
No nut, no pass.
- [Vanessa] The child quickly grabbed a walnut from a bowl
and gave it to the nutcracker guard. (hissing impact)
- [Talbot] Oh yeah, you may pass!
This nut is delicious.
The children quickly crept outside and discovering
nobody was there, aimed the device at the sky.
Here goes! (vocalizing energy waves together)
Suddenly they were standing in the middle of a desert.
Vultures circled over head and snow was nowhere to be found.
(gasp) Screamed Santa who had run out in his PJs
and an elf scientist quickly stepped out of the workshop.
Sir our sensors appear that there have been
massive amounts of snowfall in South Africa.
We got our snow, said the children.
And they quickly hopped on the UFOs.
No! - Ho ho!
- [Talbot] Santa said as he shook his fist at them.
As you know Santa can get a bit porky at times.
Oh, oh I need a protein bar. - Honey, said Mrs. Claus.
You really do need to slim down.
- [Talbot] Get my sleigh!
Santa hopped on to his sleigh which had
sleigh-bearing reindeer.
There eyes were red as fire and their hooves
were made of molten go.
The chase was quite intense.
The aliens fired their blasters but the reindeer
(vocalized laser) incinerated them
with lasers from their eyes.
The UFOs were nearly shot down but then
the magical exploding candy cane appeared
out of thin air from which
the children had summoned it before.
The candy cane - How did the kids do that?
- They were South African magicians.
(mimicking explosion) The candy cane exploded
as Santa's sleigh went right by it
and Santa's sleigh crashed into the ocean.
(mimicking crash) Oh said Santa as he
swam back to the North Pole.
When they got back to South Africa the land was covered
with snow, the lions were making little snow lions.
- Lions can't make snow lions.
- Yes they can and the children were jumping with joy.
Finally they had a snowy Christmas in South Africa.
The snow never went away.
After several Christmases without Santa,
the children regretted their decision and eventually
brought Santa back as the matriarch of presents.
Santa was a woman all along,
Mrs. Claus was secretly running the show.
- [Vanessa] The end, merry Christmas
happy Hannukah, happy Kwanza. - Merry Christmas!
We hope you liked our. - Very complicated story.
- [Talbot] Thank you for watching.