- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- [Santa plays mini golf; two elfs burst into his office]
- Elf: Santa!
- Elf: Hey, Santa!
- Elf: Yo, Santa!
- Santa Claus: What's going on?
- Elf: Oh, Santa! Santa, it's Christmas *again*!
- Santa Claus: It *can't* be!
- Elf: It *is*! Did you give someone three wishes *again*?
- Santa Claus: A little red monster on Sesame Street, Elmo. I gotta go talk to him.
- 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.