Elmo Saves Christmas (1996 Video)

Kevin Clash: Elmo, Benny Rabbit, Baby Natasha

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Quotes 

• Santa Claus : You wished for a glass of water?

  Elmo : Uh huh.

  Lightning : Why?

  Elmo : 'Cause Elmo was thirsty.

  Lightning : But you could've had anything!

  Elmo : A diet soda?

• Elmo : [Cookie Monster pretends to be Santa Claus to get Elmo's cookies]  Ha ha ha! You're not Santa Claus, you're Cookie Monster!

  [walks away] 

  Cookie Monster : Oh well, what the hey? Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

• Elmo : Elmo won't fall asleep, no no no, not like last year.

• Elmo : How come Maria and Luis aren't fixing the toasters?

  Luis : Oh, we're too busy celebratin' Christmas.

  Maria : Yeah! Wrapping presents, unwrapping presents.

  Luis : Cooking turkeys!

  Maria : Eating turkeys! It's a full-time job! Who has time to work?

• Big Bird : Oh, Snuffy's been spending Christmas Day at Granny's for a whole year. Every night, I hope that Christmas will end and he'll come back but every morning, I wake up and it's still Christmas.

  Maria : I know how you feel, Big Bird.

  Big Bird : Now I'm beginning to believe I'll never see him again, Never!

  [sobbing] 

  Elmo : What's wrong with Big Bird?

  Big Bird : Oh, nothing. I'm just never gonna see my best friend again. That's all.

  [sobbing] 

  Elmo : What's that? What's Luis doing?

  Maria : He's closing up the Fix-it-Shop for good.

  Elmo : No! You don't want to close the Fix-it-Shop. Elmo didn't want that.

  Maria : [sobbing]  Well, we can't work on Christmas and since it's Christmas everyday, we can't work at all.

  Lightning : But, what will you do?

  Maria : That's a very good question.

  Luis : Well, that's that. Goodbye, Fix-it-Shop.

  Maria : [sobbing]  Come up to our place for a cup of birdseed, Big Bird and we'll talk some more.

  Elmo : [to Lightning as Luis takes the crying Big Bird and Maria inside]  Elmo thought Christmas everyday would make people happy, Lightning. But it's making them sad. The Fix-it-Shop is closed. Big Bird is crying. Nobody is celebrating. And the Count says that Christmas isn't special anymore because it's everyday. Maybe Santa's right.

• Elmo : Christmas every day makes everyone happy!

  Santa Claus : Not *quite* everyone.

  Elmo : Oh! It's Santa Claus!

  Santa Claus : Shh!

  [looks left and right; glares down at Elmo] 

  Santa Claus : Elmo, what have you done?

  Elmo : Elmo wished to have Christmas every day! Yay!

  Santa Claus : You *can't* have Christmas every day!

  Elmo : Yes, you *can*!

  Santa Claus : No!

  Elmo : Yes! It's easy! You have Christmas today, then you have Christmas tomorrow, and then the day after that...

  Santa Claus : Elmo.

  Elmo : ...and then the day after that.

  Santa Claus : Elmo.

  Elmo : Christmas, Christmas, Christmas every day! And nobody has to work or go to school...

  Santa Claus : *Elmo*!

  Elmo : *What, Santa*?

  Santa Claus : If people don't work, who makes things we need? And if kids don't go to school, how do they learn the alphabet? Christmas every day is a bad idea, Elmo. Forget about it.

  Elmo : But why?

  Santa Claus : Because it's better to wait for Christmas and have it once a year, and live a life in between. Christmas is fun, but Christmas every day is too much.

• Luis : You know, I remember it before it was always Christmas. We opened up the shop in the morning, and we wave hi to everybody going by.

  Maria : Yeah, they bring us stuff to fix, and we fixed it! We worked!

  Elmo : But Maria, Christmas is fun.

  Maria : [starting to get angry]  I'm sick of having fun, Elmo! I want to fix toasters! I'm going to fix one, right now.

  [grabbing a waffle iron] 

  Luis : It's a waffle iron.

  Maria : I know that!

  Elmo : Lightning, maybe Christmas everyday doesn't make people as happy as Elmo thought.

  Lightning : You said it. I didn't.

  Maria : This is a toaster!

  [all the broken toasters came falling down as Maria angrily grabbed one of them] 

  Maria : We'll never catch up.