A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol is a direct-to-video Sesame Street special, scheduled for release to home video on November 14, 2006. Oscar the Grouch stars in the Ebenezer Scrooge role for a Sesame Street version of the classic novel by Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol was previously adapted by the Muppets in the 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol, and has been spoofed in Muppet Magazine, a Sesame Street calendar, and the 1978 TV special, A Special Sesame Street Christmas, as well as other books and albums.

The special will be broadcast on Sprout On Demand from November 17th through the 23rd. [1]

Plot Summary

It special starts with a narration about Sesame Street and what a wonderful place it is at Christmas time. As the narrator talks, clips from past Sesame Street Christmas specials are shown (The opening from Elmo's World: Happy Holidays, and a scene from Elmo Saves Christmas).

The special opens on a quiet snow-covered evening on Sesame Street. Joe Marley comes down the street to deliver junk mail to Oscar. The junk is an old can of baked beans in which Rhubarb, the Grouch ghost of Christmas past, inhabbits. Rhubarb shows Oscar some old home movies of Christmas pasts. The first is Gift of the Magi starring Bert and Ernie (showing the two's subplot from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street). The next home movie features Big Bird from Elmo Saves Christmas singing "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

Oscar soon finds himself vised by Christmas Carole, a very perky CGI Christmas Tree and ghost of Christmast present. She shows Oscar the glory of the Christmas in the now and that Christmas is more than just decorations and Christmas trees. She shows four clip, all Elmo-based, representing the present. The clips include Elmo and Santa Claus from Elmo's World: Happy Holidays; Elmo, along with Lightning the Reindeer, singing Everyday Can't Be Christmas from Elmo Saves Christmas; Elmo talking with kids about how they celebrate Hannukah and Kwanza afrom Elmo's World: Happy Holidays; and Keep Christmas With You from Elmo Saves Christmas. But binally, Christmas Carole must leave because she left Christmas dinner cooking in her oven.

The next ghost to arrive is the ghost of Christmas Future in the form of a futuristic robot named Sam. He shows an new animated film showing what Christmas will be like in the future -- including houses that decorate themselves and weightless Christmas dinners in the form of tablets.

Credits

Writer: Rickey Boyd

Tim Curry as Narratior

Caroll Spinney as Oscar the Grouch

? as Joe Marley, the junk-mailman

? as Rhubarb, a Grouch ghost of (Christmas past)

Kristin Chenowith as Christmas Carole, a Christmas tree ghost (Christmas present)

Kevin Clash as Sam, a robotic ghost (Christmas future)

? as young boy