Caroll Spinney credited as playing...
Big Bird • Oscar the Grouch
- 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.