Elmo Saves Christmas is a children's home video that was released in 1996. In the story, Elmo learns that Christmas cannot occur every day. The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... For other uses, see Elmo (disambiguation). ... Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

Synopsis

It is Christmastime on Sesame Street. Luis is closing the Fix-It Shop. Snuffy departs for Cincinnati to visit his grandmother for the holiday. Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ... Nickname: The Queen City Location in Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio County Hamilton Founded 1788 Incorporated 1819 Mayor Mark L. Mallory (D) Area    - City 206. ...

Elmo chooses a snow globe instead of a pink teddy bear. This snow globe allows Elmo to have three wishes. Using the snow globe, Elmo wishes for a glass of water because he is thirsty. Elmo says, "I wish it was Christmas every day." This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... The original Teddy bear (circa 1903). ...

Suddenly, all the businesses are permanently closed for Christmas. Snuffy is gone all year. There is nothing playing on TV but It's A Wonderful Life. Big Bird sings "All I Want For Christmas Is You". A snuffleupagus is a fictional species, native to Hawaii, that exists within the Sesame Street universe. ... Its a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Frank Capra film, produced by his own Liberty Films and released originally by RKO Radio Pictures. ... Big Bird finds Ernie in a game of Journey to Ernie. ... All I Want for Christmas Is You is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Careys fifth album Merry Christmas (1994). ...

Lightning, one of Santa's reindeer-in-training, uses his speed to take Elmo into the future to see what Christmas is like in the spring and in summer and to the day when it really is Christmas. The Count is "all Christmassed out". The carolers lose their voices from constant caroling. Big Bird is crying; he misses Snuffy. He cannot see Snuffy anymore because Snuffy remains in Cincinnati. Oscar the Grouch wants Elmo to wish for roller blades. Elmo says, "I wish everything on Sesame Street was the way it used to be—Christmas only once a year." He shakes the snow globe—and it breaks. His wish does not work. Luis laments, "Now, It's Christmas forever." The Count in public. ... A carol is a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with church worship, and often with a dance-like or popular character. ... An Oscar the Grouch puppet, at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Oscar the Grouch, peering out of his can Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character on the television program Sesame Street. ... Roller skating girl in Rome, Italy (soul grind) Roller skating is travelling on smooth terrain with roller skates. ...

Elmo knows what Christmas is like on the Fourth of July. He tells Santa Claus, "If you eat too many cookies you could get fat." Christmas trees become an endangered species. The Easter Bunny becomes the Christmas Bunny. The elves are angry for having their vacation spoiled. The elves made a mistake. Elmo sings "Every Day Can't Be Christmas". Elmo and Lightning go back in time to the Christmas before Elmo wished it was Christmas every day. Then, Elmo chooses the pink bear and Santa also had the Moo Bunny. Elmo chose the Moo Bunny. The show's last song is "Keep Christmas With You All Through the Year". These fireworks over the Washington Monument are typical of Fourth of July celebrations In the United States, Independence Day, also called the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. ... Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and mammals, is increased to a point where it is a risk factor for certain health conditions or increased mortality. ... A Christmas tree in a German home One of the most popular traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas, the Christmas tree is normally an evergreen conifer tree that is brought in the house or used in the open, and is decorated with Christmas lights and colourful ornaments during the... The endangered Sea Otter An endangered species is a population of organisms (usually a taxonomic species), which because it is either (a) few in number or (b) threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters, it is at risk of becoming extinct. ... A small forest elf (älva) rescuing an egg, from Solägget (1932), by Elsa Beskow An elf is a mythical creature of Germanic mythology/paganism which still survives in northern European folklore. ...

Cast

• Kevin Clash as Elmo
• Charles Durning as Santa Claus
• Harvey Fierstein as Easter Bunny
• Carroll Spinney as Big Bird/Oscar
• Carlo Alban as Carlo
• Maya Angelou as Narrator
• Alison Bartlett as Gina
• Emilio Delgado as Luis
• Sonia Manzano as Maria
• Bob McGrath as Bob
• Jerry Nelson as Count von Count
• Roscoe Orman as Gordon
• Frank Oz as Cookie Monster/Grover
• Martin P. Robinson as Snuffleupagus
• David Langston Smyrl as Mr. Handford
• Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog

Kevin Clash (born September 17, 1960, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA[1]) is a puppeteer best known for his portrayal of the character Elmo on the childrens television show Sesame Street. ... Charles Durning Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923 in Highland Falls, New York) is an American actor of stage and screen, born to an impoverished Irish American Catholic family, which he left as soon as possible to ease the financial pressure on his mother. ... Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, author, and singer. ... Caroll Spinney, sometimes credited as Carroll Spinney and Ed Spinney (born December 26, 1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) is a puppeteer most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the childrens television show Sesame Street. ... Carlo Alban (born October 3, 1979) is an Ecuadorian actor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Alison Bartlett-OReilly (credited as Alison Bartlett) has portrayed Gina Jefferson on Sesame Street since 1987. ... Emilio Delgado is best known for his continuing role as Luis on Sesame Street. ... Sonia Manzano (born 1950) is an actress who is most famous for her role of Maria Figueroa Rodriguez on Sesame Street. ... Bob McGrath was a singer who worked with Mitch Miller then went on to play the human character Bob on Sesame Street. ... Jerry Nelson (born July 10, 1934) is a Muppet puppeteer. ... Roscoe Orman (b. ... Richard Frank Oznowicz (born May 25, 1944), better known as Frank Oz, is an English film director, actor and puppeteer. ... Martin P. Robinson was a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company. ... Steve Whitmire (born September 24, 1910) is a puppet with the Jim Henson Company. ...

External links

• Elmo Saves Christmas at the Internet Movie Database