Elmo Got His Wish Its Going to Be Christmas Again

Didn't Elmo e'er tell yous near how he saved Christmas then almost lost it?

Elmo Saves Christmas is a Sesame Street Christmas special, premiering on PBS in 1996. Maya Angelou tells the story of how Elmo saved Christmas to Tv and Zoe, afterward they wish it were Christmas every day.

When Elmo saves Santa from getting stuck in a chimney, he is rewarded with a magic snowglobe that will grant three wishes. Elmo decides to wish it were Christmas Every Solar day, because What Could Possibly Go Incorrect? Santa, chagrined at seeing the magic wasted, sends Elmo on a fourth dimension-traveling reindeer named Lightning to see how his wish would play out over a year. It goes From Bad to Worse from there. Luckily, this is Sesame Street, so everything works out in the finish.

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Tropes for this special include:

• Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin: When Elmo tries to employ his third wish to disengage the 2d, he shakes information technology so difficult the snowglobe slips out of his hands and smashes into grit. Fortunately, Elmo remembers Lightning's time travel powers and uses that to undo the wish instead.
• Adaptational Alternate Ending: This volume adaptation changes the whole ending where Elmo actually succeeds in undoing the wish with the snowglobe, instead of the real ending where he accidentally breaks it and Lightning takes him back in time.
• An Aesop: Making Christmas happen every 24-hour interval makes the holiday no longer special, only you can continue the Christmas spirit with you lot through the year.
  • More universally, "also much of a good thing makes it go a bad thing".
• The Anti-Grinch: Elmo wishes that it was Christmas every 24-hour interval. Cut to a year later and everyone is broke because they take to purchase Christmas presents every day, the Fix-Information technology store is out of business because they tin't be open on Christmas, carolers accept lost their voices, Big Bird is despondent because Snuffy is away for the holiday (forever!), and the Count is tired of counting Christmases. Fifty-fifty Santa himself is a wreck, deciding to shut downwardly his workshop and movement to Florida. Elmo gets a chance to press the Reset Button, therefore saving Christmas - when he was the one who ruined it.
• Aside Glance:
  • Santa winks to the audition when he reminds Elmo of his third wish, to undo the second 1.
  • Ernie and Bert also do this during the It's a Wonderful Life Shout-Out mentioned below.
• Bad Future: Christmas exactly one year later, with everyone having crossed the Despair Event Horizon. Some examples:
  • The Set up-It Shop is closed down because it can't be open on Christmas, and Luis and Maria haven't worked at all. "Goodbye, Fix-It Shop" indeed.
  • Large Bird is in tears over missing Snuffy.
  • The Count has go tired of counting, because there accept been too many Christmases.
  • The carolers have lost their voices from singing too much.
  • Christmas trees accept become an endangered species.
  • People are running out of souvenir ideas, leading to a priceless scene in which a Muppet mugs Kermit for his microphone during a news report.
• Exist Careful What Y'all Wish For: The whole point of the special. "Every day can't be Christmas" indeed.
• Big "SHUT Upward!": Maria gives Oscar a polite one ("Quiet, Oscar!") after the latter encourages Elmo to use his third wish on rollerblades instead of undoing the second wish
• Break the Cutie: What makes the special somewhat hard to picket is seeing the countless Christmas slowly breaking down our beloved characters, Muppet and human.
  • Big Bird can't see Snuffy because Snuffy went away for Christmas. He leaves a message on Snuffy's answering car, and writes letters that can't exist posted considering in that location's no mail on Christmas.
  • The Count gets tired of counting Christmases and stops counting.
  • Elmo and Lightning get this when they reprise "Every 24-hour interval Can't Be Christmas".
  • Gabi, Maria and Luis's daughter, is among the carolers that accept lost their voices.
• Calling the Old Human Out: The elves do this to Santa subsequently finding out he gave the magic snowglobe to Elmo.
• The Cameo: Kermit the Frog gives a Sesame Street News report on Christmas everyday. A random passerby then tries to have his microphone, to requite to his child for Christmas.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Elmo happily tells Gordon and Carlo, 1 1990s Sesame Street cast member, virtually seeing Santa and receiving the magic snowglobe. They don't seem to believe him. Subverted when Elmo confesses about his second wish in the Bad Hereafter; Maria believes him and tells Elmo to wish for Christmas to happen once a yr.
  • Elmo doesn't believe Santa at offset when Santa sings nigh how having Christmas every day is a bad idea, especially since if people don't piece of work they "won't make the things we need" and if children tin't go to school they won't learn. Santa anticipates this response, and sends Elmo with Lightning to the future, to run into the realities of permanent holidays.
• Celebrity Cameo:
  • Maya Angelou is the narrator.
  • Charles Durning (who had previously played Dr. Hopper in The Muppet Movie) is Santa Claus (Durning portrayed Santa on four other occasions).
  • Harvey Fierstein is the Easter Bunny (he even gets his ain song about trying to laissez passer off Easter eggs as Christmas presents).
  • 14 Karat Soul are the Christmas carolers in the spring.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • The Moo Bunny, a soft toy cross betwixt a cow and a bunny (Santa initially refers to it, rather disparagingly, as a "cabbit") becomes Elmo's new gift after he and Lightning successfully Set up Right What In one case Went Incorrect.
  • The snowglobe as well serves equally this, although Elmo breaks information technology before he can use his third wish to undo the second one.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Lightning, the reindeer-in-grooming who stowed away in Santa'southward sack. Santa mobilizes him considering he's the only reindeer who can fly fast and isn't exhausted. He orders Lightning to wing Elmo into the future, and they then fly back to undo Elmo'southward second wish.
• Chekhov's Skill: Lightning's ability to travel through fourth dimension. Afterward Elmo breaks the snowglobe, they go back in time to Christmas Eve and then that Elmo never receives the snowglobe.
• Christmas Every Day: Elmo wishes for it to exist Christmas every day using a snowglobe. This causes things to get From Bad to Worse.
• Coincidental Broadcast: Later Kermit'due south news report that Christmas will occur again the station rejoins It's a Wonderful Life in progress right on the line where George says "This is a very interesting situation!".
• "Could Take Avoided This!" Plot: Many characters, including Elmo and the elves, point out the following: if Santa had let Elmo choose the Pink Deport instead of telling him near the snowglobe, then Elmo wouldn't have made that wish. Fifty-fifty Santa lampshades it. This is why Elmo goes dorsum in time with Lightning, and so that he can choose another present. It'due south egregious on Santa'southward function since he's given the snowglobe before, and the elves aren't happy about it.
• Crapsack World: Sesame Street, ane of the cheeriest places on perhaps all of television, is in complete ruin later one year of non-stop Christmas.
• Nighttime Reprise: The "Every Twenty-four hours Tin can't Be Christmas" reprise, big time.
  • After ane year, the Carolers accept lost their vox leading to a dark version of "It'southward Christmas Once again!"
  • Heck, the Sesame Street theme itself is given a darker instrumental treatment at one indicate in the special, being worked into the melancholy score for the future where Christmas takes place every day and all the shops on the street have been shut downwardly.
• Darker and Edgier: To a relatively modest degree for a Christmas special, and for the bear witness itself.
• Deconstructed Trope: Meet Christmas Every 24-hour interval. Santa did warn Elmo what would happen — adults won't be able to go to work, and kids can't acquire at schoolhouse— but Elmo had to see the Bad Futurity to realize what was happening. Maria fifty-fifty laments that she's months out of practice of repairing toasters due to spending all their time handling presents and cooking turkey.
  • Big Bird writes messages to Snuffy every day that it is Christmas. He lampshades that no i picks upwards the post on Christmas, then Snuffy volition never go his letters.
• Despair Event Horizon: Sesame Street has fallen into sorry ruin after a full year of Christmas celebration. The just character non in despair, obviously, is Oscar.
• Deus ex Machina: When Elmo attempts to employ the snowglobe to undo his wish, shakes the snowglobe so much, it flies out of his hands and breaks earlier he tin can finish making his wish, which means it will be Christmas forever now. All looks lost, until Elmo remembers Lightning's fourth dimension travel powers and realizes not but he tin can travel to the future, but to the past as well; so Lightning uses said power to accept Elmo all the way back to the final Christmas Eve before he saved Santa from the chimney so he doesn't get the snowglobe.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Santa offering a magical snowglobe as a special favor to certain people on Christmas. The elves mention that he's given it before, with consequences as bad as the "Christmas every day" wish. Given Santa's Oh, Crap! expression when Elmo uses his offset wish to summon a glass of water, he regrets giving such power.
  • Likewise, Elmo doesn't recollect through the consequences of wishing for Christmas every twenty-four hour period. This is justified in that he'due south a child, and he couldn't exactly foresee what Santa tells him: that when people don't work they tin can't brand the things we need and kids can't go to school to larn.
  • Elmo actually tells everyone on Sesame Street what he did, and how the endless Christmases were his error instead of but using the snowglobe to disengage everything. When he breaks it from shaking information technology besides difficult in his eagerness to disengage the wish, everybody is now mad at him and justifiably so.
• Dramatic Shattering: Washed when Elmo tries to utilize his tertiary and final wish on the magic snowglobe to undo his Christmas Every 24-hour interval wish. He shakes the snowglobe so hard it flies out of his easily and dramatically smashes into grit on the pavement, and everyone gasps in daze every bit Elmo cries out "Blitzen, Blitzen, Blitzen!" as a drastic concluding resort to endeavour and get what'south left of the snowglobe to work (every bit maxim "Blitzen!" subsequently shaking it is the fundamental to go wishes granted.)
• "Eureka!" Moment: When the snowglobe breaks and Elmo thinks he lost hope, he remembers Lightning'southward time-traveling powers and gets him to become back in time to the year before and then he doesn't get the snowglobe.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Maya Angelou asks Telly and Zoe if Elmo ever told them about the time he saved Christmas and "about lost it". As information technology turns out, due to Timey-Wimey Brawl, Elmo travels back in time to when he got the snowglobe to choose another present, thus undoing the Bad Hereafter. Could likewise be a case of Unreliable Narrator if Angelou made up the story, given she remembers.
  • Santa points out that with Christmas every twenty-four hours that if people don't work, then they "won't make the things we need". With each Christmas, Maria and Luis are upset that they haven't been fixing items for their customers like waffle irons and toasters. Maria fifty-fifty forgets how to make repairs, existence months out of do.
• Framing Device: The story is framed by Maya Angelou telling the events to Zoe, Television receiver, Baby Comport and some children in her flat.
• From Bad to Worse: Each successive Christmas. Anybody is happy during the spring, they're dragging their feet in July, and by next Christmas, no one has money for presents or decorations.
• The Glomp: Rosita's Christmas gift to Elmo is a big hug.
• Gone to the Future: Defied by Santa; he tells Elmo that he tin can't get with him and Lightning because he needs to become down chimneys every dark. If he vanishes, then Christmas will exist even worse.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Averted; but because information technology's Christmas every day doesn't mean that the same day repeats itself.
• The Grinch: Oscar the Grouch is the only Muppet happy in the Bad Time to come, not just because everyone else's misery, but likewise considering people are throwing out piles of wrapping paper and garbage from presents. He'due south the only one to protest when Elmo says he can fix things with the third wish.
• Hope Spot: Elmo'south third wish.
• Hurrying Dwelling house for the Holidays: Subverted; Snuffy goes to Cincinnati to visit his grandmother for Christmas, but promises Big Bird that he volition come up back to Sesame Street the mean solar day after Christmas. When Elmo wishes for it to be Christmas Every Day, this results in Snuffy existence stuck in Cincinnati and can't return to Sesame Street, which makes Big Bird upset. At the end of the special, after Elmo goes back in time and stops himself from taking the magical snowglobe that granted his wish in the first place, Snuffy reveals to Big Bird that his grandmother decided to visit him for Christmas this year.
• "I Want" Song: "All I Want For Christmas is Y'all" is a song that Big Bird sings when he misses Snuffy, who has been celebrating Christmas with his grandmother in Cincinnati for at least six months, and in this song, Big Bird expresses how he'd much rather have Snuffy come back to play with him than all the new toys he got Christmas later on Christmas.
• Idiot Brawl:
  • Santa offering the snowglobe to Elmo, and extolling its benefits when Elmo asks for the Pink Bear. The elves even call out Santa for this when the toy machines first up, as they're packing for vacation.
  • Likewise, Elmo before making his third wish telling everyone that he'due south going to wish for things to go dorsum to normal, creating a Hope Spot.
• If I Were a Rich Human being: When Maya Angelou briefly stops the story to remind Tv, Zoe and the kids listening that Elmo still has 2 more than wishes, they all talk about what they would wish for.
• It's a Wonderful Plot: An odd variant on the usual trope. Instead of Elmo wishing he weren't born, he wishes it were Christmas Every Day and assumes anybody will exist happy.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Downplayed, but Elmo and Lightning are forced to concede that Santa was correct almost the consequences of his wish. Santa uses more Brutal Honesty when telling Elmo off for how he used the snowglobe.
  • Oscar in the summer months is happy about how miserable everyone is on Christmas, and how much trash is piling up. Elmo tells him off, simply is forced to swallow his words when he and Lightning go far in the Bad Future and see that anybody is miserable.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Lightning was the one who got Santa stuck in the chimney, which leads to Elmo rescuing Santa and the balance of the plot. Santa thus assigns him to take Elmo to the future to see the consequences of his wish. When Lightning rises to the job and and then undoes the Bad Future, Santa promotes him to being a regular fellow member of the squad.
  • Santa offered three wishes to Elmo, as a reward for saving him and Christmas. When Elmo wishes for Christmas Every Solar day, it means that Santa has to deliver presents every dark. The elves do point out that if Santa hadn't given the snowglobe in the first place, then they wouldn't exist in this mess. Santa is forced to concord. It'due south also implied that, unlike everyone else, he remembers how that entire yr went after Lightning and Elmo undo it, given he delivers the Moo Bunny to Elmo.
• Literal Genie: The snowglobe. It grants Elmo exactly what he asks, thus why Christmas every day has the same routines, sales and shows, regardless of the season.
• Loophole Corruption: When Elmo accidentally breaks the snowglobe right before he wishes everything to become back to normal, it seems all hope is lost, but and so Lightning remembers his time-traveling abilities and uses such to take Elmo back to Christmas Eve the year earlier then he doesn't become the snowglobe.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • The elves when their toymaking machines get-go upwardly while they're packing for vacation. They immediately realize that Santa has given the wish snow world to someone else and call him out for it.
  • Anybody on Sesame Street when Elmo breaks the snowglobe before he can brand his third wish.
• Mundane Wish: Elmo's first wish is for a glass of h2o, all because he'southward thirsty. If it hadn't been for the Bad Future, he would've spent his tertiary wish on a pair of rollerblades.
• My God, What Take I Washed?: Elmo says something like this twice on the last Christmas: once after seeing a desolate Sesame Street, and over again subsequently he breaks the snowglobe.
• Never My Mistake: Averted. Fifty-fifty though Elmo is the i who wished for information technology to exist Christmas everyday, Santa takes partial responsibility for his part in the whole mess, as he was the one who gave Elmo the snowfall globe in the first identify.
• Nice Task Breaking It, Hero: Literally! When Elmo tries to use his third wish to undo the second, he shakes it and then much that it flies out of his hands and smashes to the ground into dust. Not to mention the Bad Future happens because of Elmo'due south wish.
• Noodle Incident: Manifestly Santa has offered the snow earth before, and the elves remember.
• No Plans, No Epitome, No Backup: Zig-Zagged. Santa has fabricated multiple snowfall globes with the same Reality Warper powers, which means there must be blueprints or a fail safe to replicate it. When Elmo makes his foolish wish, nevertheless, which leads to the Bad Time to come, the elves and Santa are unable to make or use some other snow globe that could undo it. Fortunately, Elmo manages to undo the wish thanks to Lightning's time traveling.
• Office Golf: Santa is playing golf in his office when the Elves inform him that toy production has begun again to due to it being Christmas again tomorrow.
• The Only One: Santa wants to mobilize a reindeer to go to Sesame Street and find Elmo later the 2nd wish takes place. The elves tell him that all the regular reindeer are exhausted, after traveling the world all night. Santa goes with Lightning, who is fast, and the but reindeer who wasn't working.
• Just Ane Finds It Fun: Oscar is the simply 1 who loves it existence Christmas every twenty-four hour period, not only because of everyone else'southward misery, but besides because he is getting tons of garbage in the form of wrapping paper and used Christmas trees. In fact, when Elmo announces that he is going to use his final wish to plough everything dorsum to normal, Oscar protests and tells Elmo to utilise his last wish to get some new roller skates, since that was what Elmo'south original program was.
• OOC Is Serious Business concern:
  • The audience knows something is up when Grover and Mr. Johnson concur on something afterward their comedy bit, namely that they wish that Christmas Every Day would cease and give them both a break.
  • Elmo is horrified when the Count says that he is tired of counting Christmases. Every bit Elmo puts it, the Count loves to count.
  • Bob normally loves singing, but in the Bad Time to come he hoarsely says that he and the carolers have lost their voices from doing their holiday task every day.
• Or Was It a Dream?: Afterward Elmo makes his second wish, the overworked elves in the Bad Time to come make a Moo Bunny doll, a cross between a cow and a bunny. When Elmo returns to Christmas Eve with Lightning, undoing the Christmas every 24-hour interval wish, Santa reveals he has the Moo Bunny and gives it to Elmo. Let the Mind Spiral ensue.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Santa makes Reality Warper snowfall globes that he only gives to special children and recipients. In this case, he offers it to Elmo for pulling him out of the chimney and "saving Christmas". Somehow the elves and he cannot employ another snow globe to undo Elmo's wish, even though they are fabricated before. Not to mention that the snowfall globe tin exercise anything, like create world peace.
• Reset Push button: Which too doubles as a Have a Tertiary Option. After he shakes the snowglobe so much that it flies out of his hands and smashes to the ground, all looks lost since the wish can't be undone. Until Elmo and Lighting realize they can become forward and backward in time. They quickly jump on the sled and become back in fourth dimension to when Elmo saves Santa. This time with Elmo picking the doll instead of the snowglobe, preventing the wish from occurring.
• Ripple-Proof Memory: After they disengage the Bad Hereafter, Lightning and Elmo call up what happened. Santa may remember, given he offers the Moo Bunny to Elmo as a replacement souvenir.
• Running Gag: As per Sesame Street custom, Grover sells Christmas copse to Mr. Johnson with hilarious results.
• Saving Christmas: Double Subverted; Santa claims that Elmo saved Christmas by rescuing him from the chimney, but Maya Angelou assures Zoe and Telly that it's just the beginning of the story. Elmo has to salvage Christmas after his second wish, "Christmas every mean solar day," makes things difficult for the citizens of the Street.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Santa in the Bad Future, deciding to retire to Florida.
• Gear up Correct What Once Went Incorrect: After breaking the snowglobe, Elmo & Lightning go back in time to stop him from getting the snowglobe thus erasing the bad future.
• Shout-Out: The movie has a brilliant nod to the urban legend that Bert and Ernie were named later on the characters from Information technology's a Wonderful Life, which, in the Bad Hereafter, is playing endlessly on every channel. In one scene, the two walk by a TV playing the scene where George confronts his empty habitation in his own Bad Future. As George exclaims "Bert! Ernie!" the two turn to each other (and the camera) in astonishment.
• Spiritual Successor: Elmo's Christmas Inaugural (2007) as well has a glory narrator (Ben Stiller in Muppet grade), a Saving Christmas-blazon plot, a magical Christmas-related device, and a celebrity Santa (Kevin James).
• Spoiler Title: What does Elmo do in the end, everyone?
• The Stinger: After the credits we hear the line "Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings" from It'southward a Wonderful Life playing on TV. The channel then changes to Elmo who wishes the viewer a happy vacation. Later "The Finish" appears on screen and the Television switches off.
• Accept a Third Pick:
  • Elmo was going to utilise his last wish for a pair of roller skates, but instead decides to use it to undo his Christmas Every 24-hour interval wish, but his magical snow globe breaks it earlier he tin can. So he realizes Lightning'southward time traveling powers, discovering Lightning can get forrad and astern in time, which he uses to go all the way back to Christmas Eve the twelvemonth before then he does not get the snowglobe, thus undoing the wish without any wishing.
  • And afterwards the wish was undone, Elmo can choose either the snowglobe or the pink teddy bear; after the Bad Future is undone, Elmo decides to take the teddy comport, but then Santa refers to a Moo Bunny in his sack and Elmo chooses that.
• Tempting Fate: Big Bird is pitiful that Snuffy is going to his Granny in Cincinnati to spend Christmas. Snuffy, however, reassures Large Bird that it'southward only for i day; he'll exist back on Battle Day (which is the mean solar day afterwards Christmas). This thanks them both up. Thank you to Elmo'due south wish, Snuffy doesn't come dwelling for a year until Elmo presses the Reset Push.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Yous have to wonder how Maya Angelou knows the story when Elmo erased the bad timeline. Notwithstanding, it's possible Elmo told her.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Lightning becomes this when he accidentally gets Santa stuck in the chimney, due to stowing away in the sack. If he hadn't washed that, so Santa wouldn't have offered the wishing snowglobe in the first place.
• Wasteful Wishing: Once Elmo gets the snowglobe, his first wish is for a glass of water cause he's thirsty. Santa tells him to be careful with his futurity ones.
• We Interrupt This Program: Subsequently Elmo makes his Christmas Every Day wish, he sees the Tv set in Hooper'southward Store playing It'southward a Wonderful Life all of a sudden exist interrupted past a news wink (complete with the classic "Sesame Street News" theme music) with Kermit the Frog reporting that information technology'll be Christmas again the post-obit day, and people are rushing to purchase more than presents.
• Wham Line:
  • Luis utters "Information technology'due south Christmas... forever" after Elmo breaks the snowglobe before making his third wish.
  • And seconds subsequently, Lightning utters the following line which gives Elmo another idea:

    Lightning: All I know how to do is pull a sleigh.

• Wham Shot:
  • Christmas 1 year later on Sesame Street, showing all the stores boarded up.
  • Elmo accidentally breaking the snowglobe likewise qualifies.
• Writers Cannot Practise Math: When Elmo and Lightning get to meet Christmas in spring, and Christmas carolers sing well-nigh it being "very warm for May", the Count has but counted 124 Christmases by at present, so it would have only been April 27th (or 28th in leap years). Even though Easter unremarkably falls in April (or occasionally March), depending on the year, the creators decided to brand writing the song easier on themselves.
  • This book accommodation, all the same, shows that the Count has counted 96 Christmases to make information technology more accurate with the Easter date.
  • Likewise, when Elmo and Lightning too taken to run into Christmas on the fourth of July, Luis says Christmas has been historic not-stop for half-dozen months. It could be argued that he's not really off, since people are more given to rounding when using larger measures of time, but the engagement 6 months before July quaternary is Jan 4th, again depending on the twelvemonth, so by this signal in that detail year (presumably 1997), Christmas would have been going on for half-dozen months and 10 days, or half dozen months and 11 days if information technology was a leap year.
    • Or if Maria and Luis meant Christmas has been historic not-stop for six months if you were starting with December 25, June 25th, again depending on the yr, would be exactly six months later on that twenty-four hours.
    • To go an thought of just how ludicrous this may've get, if Maria and Luis merely work on weekdays (except for major and federal holidays) like nearly people, they would've meant they hadn't worked for half dozen months just with 128 workdays.
  • Similarly, for science, when Grover mentioned that Christmas trees are an endangered species, he says "all gone, kaput, used them all, good day-good day Christmas Trees, adios Christmas Trees". This could exist an error since endangered species are species that are non completely extinct, only will eventually become extinct in the near future. Extinction of a specific animal or plant species occurs when the species has completely died out. Grover could've meant "Christmas trees were endangered in the summer and fall (non shown), and so EXTINCT past Dec 25". Or he could've idea the Christmas Trees were critically endangered or extinct in the wild.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Played With. Santa does phone call out Elmo for making such a wish, but acknowledges that it was his fault for giving the snowglobe in the first place, as the elves pointed out to him. Elmo is a child, and he couldn't take foreseen the long-term consequences. Information technology's why Santa makes a personal visit to Sesame Street cloak-and-dagger as a Salvation Army Santa, and when Elmo refuses to believe him lends him Lightning to run into his wish play out in a shorter amount of time.
• Whole Plot Reference: The last Christmas in the Bad Future plays out like It'south a Wonderful Life: Elmo sees a agglomeration of ruined businesses, with the Count showing him around like Clarence the angel and explaining how miserable all of his friends are. Oscar takes the role of Mr. Potter, reveling the misery. Information technology's even lampshaded when the movie plays as Ernie and Bert are walking past.

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