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A Sesame Street Christmas Carol is a direct-to-video Sesame Street special, released 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 received its broadcast premiere on Sprout On Demand from November 17th through the 23rd. [1]
Plot Summary
The special starts with voice-over 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 which Rhubarb, the Grouch ghost of Christmas past, inhabits. Rhubarb shows Oscar some old home movies of Christmases past. The first is The Gift of the Magi starring Bert and Ernie (showing the pair'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 visited by Christmas Carole, a perky Christmas tree ghost of Christmas present. She shows Oscar the glory of Christmas in the now and that Christmas is more than just decorations and Christmas trees. She shows four clips representing the present, including Elmo and Santa Claus from Elmo's World: Happy Holidays; Elmo and Lightning singing "Everyday Can't Be Christmas" from Elmo Saves Christmas; Elmo talking with kids about how they celebrate Chanukah and Kwanza from Elmo's World: Happy Holidays; and "Keep Christmas With You" from Elmo Saves Christmas.
The final ghost to arrive is the ghost of Christmas Future in the form of a futuristic robot named Sam. He shows a new animated film showing what Christmas will be like in the future -- including houses that decorate themselves and weightless Christmas dinners in pill form.
Features
- Includes A Sesame Street Christmas Carol CD Sampler sold exclusively at Toys R Us stores.
Credits
- Writer: Rickey Boyd
- Tim Curry as Narrator
- Caroll Spinney as Oscar the Grouch
- Joey Mazzarino as Joe Marley, the junk-mailman
- Rickey Boyd as Rhubarb, a Grouch ghost (Christmas past)
- Kristin Chenoweth as Christmas Carole, a Christmas tree ghost (Christmas present)
- Kevin Clash as Sam the Super Automated Ghost of Christmas Future