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Kevin Clash in Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)

Charles Durning: Santa Claus

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

Charles Durning credited as playing...

Santa Claus

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  • Santa Claus: [to Elmo] You got 2 more wishes, son. Don't waste them.
  • Santa Claus: You wished for a glass of water?
  • Elmo: Uh huh.
  • Lightning: Why?
  • Elmo: 'Cause Elmo was thirsty.
  • Lightning: But you could've had anything!
  • Elmo: A diet soda?
  • 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.
  • Santa Claus: Christmas every day. Why didn't I give him the pink bear?
  • [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.

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