The Christmas Movie/Transcript

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== Part 1: Christmas in New York City/'Twas the Night Before Christmas ==
* (Netflix logo is shown)
* (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo is shown)
* (Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song starts to play as the black screen fades into the snowing night sky and then slowly zooms down to New York City)
* (Netflix presents)
* (A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presentation)
* (A production of the SPA STUDIOS)
* (The Christmas Movie)
* ♪ Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ♪
* ♪ Jack Frost nipping at your nose ♪
* ♪ Yuletide carols being sung by a choir ♪
* ♪ And folks dressed up like Eskimos ♪
* ♪ Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe ♪
* ♪ Help to make the season bright ♪
* ♪ Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow ♪
* ♪ Will find it hard to sleep tonight ♪
* ♪ They know that Santa's on his way ♪
* ♪ He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh ♪
* ♪ And every mother's child is gonna spy ♪
* ♪ To see if reindeers really know how to fly ♪
* ♪ And so I'm offering this simple phrase ♪
* ♪ To kids from one to ninety-two ♪
* ♪ Although it's been said many times, many ways ♪
* ♪ Merry Christmas to you ♪
* (The song ends)
* Narrator: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
* (Cuts to a mouse sleeping in a hole)
* Narrator: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that jolly old St. Nicholas soon would be there. Welcome to a place I call New York City, where the lights and streets are so pretty. It's bitter and freezing in the dead of December, but there's reason for joy, if you can remember. For it's this time of year that our story unfolds, when our hearts are the warmest, despite all the cold. Yes, it is Christmas, just two days before, and all through the town, none can wait anymore...For the timely arrival of one certain fat guy...Who brings us all goodies from out of the sky.
* (A mailman walks to the Hopefuls' house)
* Narrator: Every year, children would mail their letter, for a toy or better;
* (Mailman takes a letter out of their mailbox and then gets in his truck and drives off.)
* (Drives to a plane and hands a sack of mail to a pilot and engineer.)
* (Plane flies off)
* Narrator: Where are all these letters going to? Well, I'd say it's a wonderful place from a point of view;
== Part 2: The North Pole/A Letter to Santa ==
* (A plane drives through a stormy blizzard.)
* C-130 Pilot: I'm gettin' somethin' on the sonar!
* Engineer: What is it?
* C-130 Pilot: Strong reading from underneath the cap rock, sir!
* Engineer: Possible oil flow?
* C-130 Pilot: Still analyzing.
* (Electronic Warbling)
* C-130 Pilot: It's uh...Sounds like...Tiny hammers.
* (Plane flies over as the screen zooms down to Santa's village and workshop at the North Pole.)
* Narrator: Welcome to the North Pole, where the snow falls. A blanket of white, transforming the land to a winter delight. The elves are busy at the shop making toys, for the good little girls and the good little boys.
* (Elves making toys as Santa walks into the factory.)
* Narrator: And there's the big boss of the North Pole, Santa Claus always has things under control. He has his list that he always checks twice, to make sure who is naughty or who is nice;
* (Santa takes a look at the letters the kids sent.)
* Santa Claus: Okay, all right. Here's what we need. Get one more bolt on that flange, and it's ready for Christmas. Good work, guys. Perfect job on suspension, you guys. Thinkin' outside the box. I love it.
* Sarah the Elf: Do you want a cookie, Santa?
* Santa: Do I want a cookie? Yes! What's fresh? (sniffs cookie) Ooh! Sweet, just like you.
* (An Elf tries to make a toy kangaroo hop, but it couldn't.)
* Santa: Tim, let's think. Take the hat off.
* (Tim takes off hat and the toy kangaroo hops.)
* Santa: Too much counterweight.
* Tim: Thanks, Santa. You're the man.
* Santa: That's why they give me the big belly, so I don't fall over! (laughs)
* (Santa goes to his office and sees a letter and reads it.)
* Santa: "Dear Santa, my brother thinks you're not real. He always questions on how do something that is impossible. I still believe in you and I always wanted to be like you. So I was wondering, why do older kids stop believing in you? - Ben Hopeful"
* (Santa grabs a paper and pencil and writes down a letter.)
* Santa: (While writing down) Well, it just happens. Sometimes other kids tell them and sometimes they figure it out on there own. When a child is satisfied with this, even if they start to have doubts, they may not be ready to stop believing. But eventually, they will learn that Christmas is about helping others, giving selflessly and being thankful for what you do have and not what you don't.
* (Zooms out of Santa's workshop)
== Part 3: The Big Snowbrawl ==
* (Cuts to a school and children running out.)
* Kid (offscreen): School's out!
* (Ben walks out)
* Miss Clark: No running! Feet are for walking! Merry Christmas, everybody! See you next year!
* Student (offscreen): Merry Christmas, Miss Clark!
* Kid: Hey, Ben!
* Ben Hopeful: Hey.
* Other kid: Have a great vacation, Ben.
* Narrator: Yup, that's me over there. The name's Ben Hopeful. If there's any person who enjoys Christmas the most. Easter was good and Halloween was fun, but Christmas for me, is the one. Anything Christmas related is a delight, what I like to do fun is a....
* Kid: Snowball fight!
* (Ben runs to the playground where the kids are having a snowball fight)
* Dougie: Ben!
* Tuck: All right, The brain's here.
* Ben: What's going on?
* Holly Coleman: The seventh graders have us pinned down.
* Dougie: And now they've pulled out the heavy artillery.
* Ben: Come on, man. How bad could it be?
* Seventh graders: ...2, 3! Launch! (launched a big snowball with slingshot)
* Ben, Holly, Dougie, Tuck: (Got hit with the snowball) Unh!
* Seventh graders: Yeah! Whoo!
* (The kids get back up)
* Ben: What was that?
* Seventh grader (offscreen): Bull's-eye!
* Dougie: We tried to tell you!
* Ben: Troy Burnes.
* Holly: Alexander!
* (Alexander is hiding behind snow fort while the older kids are trying to throw snowballs at him.)
* Alexander: Unh!
* Holly: Ben! Ben! You got to help him!
* Alexander: Holly! Help!
* Troy Burnes: Heh heh! Eat snow, you little wieners.
* Seventh graders: Yeah!
* (Seventh graders launch another snowball and the kids get hit)
* Ben: All right. Huddle up. Come on. Remember what we learned in history class, right?
* Holly: Yeah. (looks at Dougie and Dennis)
* Dougie: No.
* Tuck: Not really.
* Ben: Ugh! If you want to stop an army, stop the general.
* Dougie: You're gonna take on Troy Burnes?
* Ben: Trust me, Dougie, all right? You draw their fire.
* Dougie: Yeah. OK.
* Holly: Be careful out there.
* Tuck: Good luck, man.
* (Seventh graders keep launching and throwing snowballs.)
* Troy: Fire!
* (Ben hops on his sled as he rides down and then crawls quickly into a crawl tunnel.)
* Troy: Get him!
* (Dougie runs to the middle of the field.)
* Dougie: Hey! I dare you to hit me!
* (Seventh graders throw snowballs at Dougie.)
* Dougie: (As he gets hit) Ow! Ooh! Aah!
* Troy: Load me up!
* (Ben runs to the snowford where Alexander is.)
* Ben: You all right?
* Alexander: No.
* (Dougie taunts the seventh graders as they keep throwing snowballs at him.)
* Dougie: Come on! Give me your best shot! You can do better than that, can't you?
* (A snowball hits him so hard.)
* Dougie: Oh! (falls on a whirl spinner) Okay. That was a good one.
* Ben: Go, go, go! Run!
* (Alexander runs while Ben stays behind.)
* Seventh grader: Wait! (accidently knocking a kid over)
* Other seventh grader: Whoa! (trips on slingshot making it miss it's target)
* Holly: Come on, Alexander!
* Troy: What'd you do that for, butthead?
* Seventh grader: Look. That little twerp is getting away.
* Tuck: Run like the wind, Alexander!
* (Alexander makes it to safety)
* Holly: Are you Okay?
* (Troy adjust his snowboard)
* Troy: I'll take care of this one myself.
* (Ben sees Troy shredding down to him)
* Kid (offscreen): Hold your fire!
* (Everyone stops)
* Other kid (offscreen): Troy is ticked!
* Troy: Well, well, well... little Ben Hopeful. Hanging with the second graders now? (grabs Ben by the scarf)
* Ben: Get off, Troy.
* Troy: I got a present for you. (grabs a pile of snow to make a snowball)
* Boy: Nail him, Troy!
* Ben: Good, I like presents. (Holding a snowball behind his back)
* Troy: Can you say brain freeze?
* (Ben hits Troy with a snowball)
* Troy: Oh!
* Ben: Brain freeze.
* Tuck: Way to go, buddy!
* Dougie: All right, Ben!
* Troy: This isn't the end of it, Hopeful! (slips and falls) Whoa!
* (Kids all start to laugh)
* Holly: Oh, yeah! Way to go!
* (Kids continue laughing)
* Troy: SHUT UP!
* (Everyone stops laughing)
* Ben: Hey, you OK?
* Alexander: Yeah.
* Ben: Good man.
* Holly: Thanks, Charlie. You're the best.
* Ben: No problem.
* (Bobby Helms' Jingle Bell Rock begins to play)
* Holly: See you next year, Ben.
* Ben: See you, Holly.
* Boy: Good job, dude.
* Other boy: See you later!
* ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock ♪
* ♪ Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring ♪
* ♪ Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun ♪
* ♪ Now the jingle hop has begun ♪
* ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock ♪
* ♪ Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time ♪
* ♪ Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square ♪
* Ben: Hey, Nick.
* ♪ In the frosty air ♪
* Ben: Come on, boy, we gotta go pick up Patrick from school.
* ♪ What a bright time, it's the right time ♪
* ♪ To rock the night away ♪
* ♪ Jingle bell time is a swell time ♪
* ♪ To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh ♪
* ♪ Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet ♪
* ♪ Jingle around the clock ♪
* ♪ Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet ♪
* ♪ That's the jingle bell ♪
* ♪ That's the jingle bell ♪
* ♪ That's the jingle bell rock ♪
* (Cuts to Patrick's school as the song ends)
== Part 4: Basking in the Warmth/No Such Thing as Santa ==
* Cal: Okay, for my Christmas Show and Tell, I brought something that's truly full of magic and wonder.
* (In close-up, he rises a dirty bag into view.)
* Miss Ford: How lovely, Cad. You've brought a bag of... (Moans while lifting up her glasses) What is it?!
* Cal: Okay, well, last Christmas Eve, I put out a plate of Cheese Nips for Santa, right? (snorts, reaching into bag) And then next morning, this was all that was left!
* (On "this", he produces an orange, square-shaped treat wafting with green smoke. Cut to a close-up of it, chunks of junk spread across.)
* Cal: Behold, the magic of Santa!
* (This only gets him a round of disgusted responses from the students as the scene cuts to behind his head and they react – from all but Patrick, who raises his hand. This shot exposes garland strands on the bulletin boards, and several paper snowflakes and candy canes are spread out on the side wall.)
* Patrick Hopeful: Uh, excuse me, Cal, but um...how do you know your parents didn't eat the Cheese Nips?
* Cal: (chuckles, snorts) My parents' on a high fiber, low Cheese Nip diet.
* Patrick: Miss Ford, can we have some clarity on this very nebulous and highly speculative issue of Santa Claus?
* Miss Ford: Patrick, stop being such a Mr. Logic Head and learn to enjoy Christmas. Maybe I can teach you how using the magic of song.
* Patrick: (nervously) Uh, that's okay. You don't have to...
* (She holds out a pitch pipe on the end of this, and blows into it as a musical note comes out and floats toward the screen, spinning slowly. One round end gets close enough to change the scene to black, after which walls and a Christmas tree come in. Pan over to a decked out fireplace as the fire is lit; Miss Fowl slides in, sitting in an armchair as a mug falls into her hands and she squawks happily.)
* Miss Ford:                        ♪ There's a glow by the fire ♪
*                                             ♪ As I sit and perspire ♪
*                                             ♪ I'm cozy and snug ♪
*                                             ♪ I sip from my mug ♪
*                                             ♪ Basking in the warmth ♪
*                                             ♪ Of Christmas Day ♪
* (Another squawk; at the same time, fire blazes upward, dissolving to Cindy and Libby in the former's bedroom.)
* Clara, Lexi:                      ♪ We get gifts from relation checks ♪
*                                             ♪ And big denominations ♪
* Clara:                                  ♪ Laptops and things ♪
* Lexi:                                  ♪ Gadgets that ping ♪
* Clara, Lexi:                    ♪ Basking in the warmth ♪
*                                               ♪ Of Christmas Day ♪
* (Cut to Patrick in the classroom leaning against his desk; the lights are off, save for one spotlight shining on him.)
* Patrick:                                ♪ These feelings that you speak of are subjective ♪
*                                             ♪ All I want is something that is real ♪
* (Pan quickly to Cal sitting on his desk, two other kids dance nearby, and he holds a folded chain.)
* Cal:                                 ♪ Christmas joy should be your one objective ♪
* (He unfolds it to reveal a chain of paper llamas; Gene pops into view and shows an eel biting his right wrist.)
* Gene:                                ♪ Last summer I was bitten by an eel ♪
* (Cut to the students, who get a big scare.)
* Students: Huh?!
* (Back to Gene; he grabs the edge of the screen and pulls it, wiping to an ice cream in the ice cream bar. He holds a carton of ice cream and tosses one scoop to each kid, one hits a girl in the head.)
* Ice cream man:                                  ♪ Kids eat treats in profusion ♪
*                                             ♪ They need treats for their choosing' ♪
* (In town, a police officer and his assistant catch a boy spraying the wall with green spray paint.)
* Police officer:                     ♪ The punks spraying' walls ♪
* Other Police officer:         ♪ Their hearts all aglow ♪
* Both:                                ♪ Basking in the warmth ♪
* (Close-up of the boy, he sprays the screen.)
*                                             Of Christmas Day
* (At the same time, wipe to Patrick standing on a chair in front of the chalkboard, which bears several holiday-themed equations and a crudely drawn picture of Santa trying to squeeze himself into the chimney.)
* Patrick:                               ♪ Your answer's more elusive than it should be ♪
*                                            ♪ I run into this problem every time ♪
*                                            ♪ How could a guy that fat fit down a chimney? ♪
*                              (spoken) How could he survive the arctic climb?
* (He folds his arms on the end of this, and the scene zooms out as the chalkboard rises like a curtain, revealing a snowy stage backdrop. Cal and Gene spin Patrick's chair around and guide him out of frame, and the other students dance past. The snowman decoration slides forward and poses; snow falls, transitioning the scene to outside the school, where Miss Ford and a few students dance a bit. Behind them, a wreath hangs on one window.)
* Miss Ford, Students:       ♪ Happiness is the reason ♪
*                                            ♪ We delight in the season ♪
* (A disbelieving Patrick folds his arms as the students dance around him; a decked out tree stands in the background behind him.)
*                                            ♪ Logic is fine ♪
*                              (spoken) But don't waste our time
*                             ♪ (singing) We're basking in the warmth ♪
* Patrick: I can't concur!
* (Cut to Miss ford and a few students sitting on a snowy ground, the first on her knees, the rest on their backs; zoom out in two dissolves to reveal the students are lying on the ground, shaping a Christmas tree. Lexi and Clara girl lie on either corner, making snow angels.)
* Miss Ford, Students:        ♪ Basking in the warmth ♪
* Patrick: (offscreen) But where's your proof?!
* Miss Ford, Students:       ♪ Basking in the warmth ♪
*                                            ♪ Of Christmas Day ♪
* Song ends (Miss Ford squawks at the same time.)
* (Back to the classroom, the lights are back on; the students are back in their seats, and Gene returns to his.)
* Gene: That was fun! (He reaches under his chair and gets out a pair of maracas.) Now, let's do a hot salsa number about Arbor Day!
* (He shakes them a bit)
* Patrick: Excuse me, but you guys still haven't answered my questions. (He walks over to Cal.) Cal, think about this logically. How can a man with a 50 inch waist length fit down a standard 20 inch chimney?
* Cal: Well, uh...
* Patrick: How could Santa have survived for over 500 years, in an environment of -20° Celsius?
* Cal: Um...uh...
* Patrick: I submit to you that there's one thing you should know, I just think there's no such thing as Santa Claus?
* Cal: (The ending of his question throws a huge amount of shock into his face.) N-n-n-n-no Santa? (lets out a dismayed scream and then hops out of his desk and runs off) (Offscreen The next two lines overlap each other.)
* Student 1: Patrick, what is your problem?
* Student 2: What'd you do that for?
* Lexi: Nice going, Patrick!
* Clara: You always ruin everything.
* Patrick: Don't tell me you all believe in Santa.
* Lexi: That's not the point! You didn't have to hurt Cal's feelings!
* Patrick: Well, I – I didn't mean to, I'm just looking for some straight answers here! I...I guess I'll just have to look somewhere else.
* (Cuts to the kids running out of the school with the bell ringing as Patrick runs to Ben and their dog, Nick.)
* Nick: (Barking)
* Ben: Hi, Patrick.
* Patrick: Hey Little bro. hey Nick.
* Ben: Only two days until Christmas. Are you gonna ask Santa what you want for Christmas.
* Patrick: Ben, I don't think...(pauses thinking about what happened with Cal.) I asked Santa for anything yet.
* Ben: So, later?
* Patrick: Maybe.
== Part 5: The Hopefuls ==
* (Matthew West's Come On, Christmas begins to play as Ben, Patrick, and Nick walk home.)
* It's almost Christmas time, everybody
* And I can't wait
* (Cuts to Ben and Patrick's parents and older sister, Lisa preparing for Christmas.)
* ♪ I left the lights up all year 'round ♪
* ♪ I just couldn't bear the thought of takin' 'em down ♪
* ♪ I've been singing "Jingle Bell Rock" since July ♪
* ♪ All the neighbors look at me like ♪
* ♪ I'm crazy but I ♪
* ♪ I, got a feeling that I just can't shake ♪
* ♪ You see it's lasted three hundred sixty four days ♪
* ♪ And now I'm too excited, I can't sleep a wink and ♪
* ♪ I stare at the snow outside my window just thinkin' ♪
* ♪ Come on, Christmas ♪
* ♪ I don't know why you're taking so long, Christmas ♪
* ♪ Well, I've been waiting all year for you to get here ♪
* ♪ And I can't take another second, can't you hear me beggin' ♪
* ♪ Hurry up, Santa Claus ♪
* ♪ Here's my number just in case your reindeer get lost ♪
* I sure wouldn't mind, if you're early this time ♪
* ♪ So, come on, come on, come on, Christmas ♪
* (Song ends)
* (Ben, Patrick, and Nick come home to see their their family (their mom, Liz is on the phone taking out decorations and grocery for Christmas, their dad, Clark watches a NHL game with the Pittsburgh Penguins playing against the St.Louis Blues, and their older sister Lisa is on her laptop.)
* Liz Hopeful: No, I don't care how much it costs. You're gonna have to overnight them for Saturday delivery. Look, I don't care how much it costs, I need them! This is important! Ok bye.
* Reporter (on TV): "St. Louis Blues are beating the Penguins with a score of 3 to 0!"
* Clark Hopeful: "You can do this...."
* (The St. Louis Blues score a goal)
* Clark: "Oh! So close!"
* Narrator: We were an average family. We're not a perfect one. But whenever Christmas comes around, we always manage to everything together weather it's decorating, baking treats, shopping, watching movies, or watching hockey games. This is one of the main reasons why we enjoy this festive time.
* Patrick: Hey, mom. Hey, dad.
* Ben: We're home.
* Liz: Hey, boys. (gives them both a hug and kiss)
* Ben: So is everything ready?
* Liz: Sure is. I got the food for me to cook, all the decorations for the house.
* Clark: That's great honey. You kids excited.
* Ben: I am.
* Patrick: me too.
* Lisa Hopeful: Same here.
* Patrick: Hey Lisa, me and Ben were wondering. Is Santa real?
* Ben: Yeah, is he? I believe in Santa.
* Patrick: And I don't.
* Lisa: (to Patrick) Dude, aren't you a little too old to believe in Santa?
* Patrick: That doesn't count. I'm trying to make this proof logical sense.
* Lisa: Everything trying to do make no sense.
* Clark: Ah, you boys sound like me and mom when we were your ages. We use to bicker on weather or not Santa was real. Your mother believed in him and I didn't. I thought it was just nonsense and I would make fun of her.
* Liz: But as time went by, your father and I resolve their differences. (to Patrick) Patrick, honey, Santa's not something you can prove with logic, he does exist because he's real in our hearts.
* Clark: And he has pixie dust, and he can fly.
== Part 6: The Moores Move to New York ==
* (Cuts to suitcases packed up in a car, while Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You plays on the radio. It pans down to Teddy Moore watching at the windows. She then texts. on her phone.)
* Jess: So, did the movers already deliver the furniture?
* (It then pan to Teddy's mother, Katherine driving while talking to Jess.)
* Katherine Moore: (sighs) Yesterday. All Teddy and I need to do now is move in.
* Jess: And in a year, I'm sure you'll be packing up and moving out.
* Katherine: Hey. It's different this time. I have a new job, new house...we're both really excited.
* Jess: That's what you say every time.
* Katherine: Oh, really? When have I ever been excited for a move?
* Jess: There was Denver, Madison, now New England. Where to next?
* Katherine: All right, you sound like Mom.
* Jess: Katherine, I know you miss your husband and it's your first Christmas without him, but you can't keep moving Teddy around the country like that.
* (Katherine looks at a picture of her with Teddy and her late husband, Robert.)
* Katherine: I know.
* Jess: You two need to settle into a place. Why don't you throw down some roots?
* Katherine: Maybe give Teddy a chance to make a real friend and have life. What do you think? Oh, does she still have that pink streak in her hair?
* Katherine: Yes. She was trying to fit in with friends. I gotta pick my battles. You know, it's actually kind of growing on me.
* (Chloe texts "change hair color". as Lindsey Stirling and Becky G's Christmas C’mon begins to play.)
* ♪ Counting the days, waited all year ♪
* ♪ Sit back and celebrate when Christmastime is near ♪
* ♪ Once, too soon, I bought your gift in May ♪
* ♪ Can't believe you're here on my favorite holiday ♪
* ♪ There's been times before, you wish for so much more ♪
* ♪ When I was down and filled with doubt, I had you ♪
* ♪ And we made it through the year, it's so good to be here ♪
* ♪ So we put it in a song, dance the way we want, turn the fire on ♪
* ♪ Baby, we can happen up together, give to one another ♪
* ♪ Snuggle through the weather ♪
* ♪ Baby, Christmas, c'mon ♪
* ♪ Baby, Christmas, c'mon ♪
* (Song ends as the car stops at a house next to a house next the Hopeful house and Newman house.)
* Katherine: This is it, Ted. Our new house. [She notices Teddy on her phone.] Ted? Ted.
* (Teddy then gets her mother's attention. The scene pans up to their new home.)
* Katherine: I know it doesn't look like much. But, it's got good bones.
* Teddy Moore: Yep. I'm pretty sure there's actual bones in there, too, Mom.
* (The two look at each other nervously.)
* (Cuts to Katherine entering their new home as Teddy follows while on her phone. The two look around the house.)
* (She switches lights)
* Teddy: This place is wired for electricity, right, Mom?
* Katherine: Of course... I think.
* Teddy: (To her phone) Phone, remind us to buy light bulbs.
* Phone: I'll set the reminder.
* Teddy: Where's the wi-fi in this place?
* Katherine: They're installing it this afternoon.
* Teddy: What?! I'm almost out of data.
* Katherine: It's okay, Teddy.
* Teddy: My Combat Captain hangout is starting now, and it's an extremely important...
* (phone beeps)
* Teddy: Ooh, the neighbor's wi-fi's unlocked. Thank you, Hopeful family wi-fi 5G.
* Phone: Combat Captain Raid starting in one minute.
* (Teddy searches around the house for wi-fi to no avail.)
* Teddy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not signed in.
* Phone: Raid starting in five, four,
* Teddy: Come on. No! Sign in!
* Phone: three... Combat Captain Raid has begun.
* Teddy: No! (kicks the wall) Ugh! I hate this house!
* (Teddy sees a scary toy teddy bear on the floor and picks it up. She then sees five more scary toys consisting of: a clown, three gingerbread men and an angel.)
* Teddy: What's with all the weird looking toys.
* Katherine: Oh, look at these little guys. You can keep them if you want. They maybe a little scary though.
* Teddy: A little?
* Katherine: Did you see the piano downstairs? The last owners must have left it. New house, new-ish piano. Oh, when you can, could you be Mommy's little helper and help me with the tree.
* Teddy: Sure, Mom.
== Part 7: Ben and Patrick meet Teddy ==
* (Cuts to Teddy going outside to get rid of the scary toys and ends up bumping into Patrick.)
* Patrick: Oh, hey. Didn't see you there. You just moved here.
* Teddy: Uh? yeah.
* Patrick: Um, You're probably wondering what I'm doing here. Nothing really, just trying to get a gift for my little sister.
* (Teddy looks at him strangely.)
* Patrick: Never mind that. So, are these toys you have for sale? I'm sure Shane would like them. You don't talk that much.
* Teddy: And you talk a lot.
* Patrick: I do, do I? My mom says I talk too much.
* Teddy: Yeah.
* Patrick: Is it okay if I can give one of these to my sister?
* Teddy: (as she hands him the scary toys) No Problem. And, please, take as many of those weird dolls as you want. They creep me out. I'm Teddy.
* Patrick: Patrick.
* Ben: (appears next to Patrick with hockey stick.) Hey, Patrick. Who's the new kid?
* Patrick: (sigh) And this is my little brother, Ben. Ben, this is Teddy. She just moved here.
* Ben: Hello. Patrick, can we show her around the town?
* Patrick: Well, I'm not sure if she...
* Teddy: Sure. (to Ben) Aren't you quite the little gentleman. Maybe there's a store where I can find my mom a gift. But first, I gotta help her with the tree.
* Patrick: (Patrick gives a surprised and confused look on his face.) Uh, I knew she would say yes said.
* (Teddy goes back inside to help her mom with the Christmas tree.)
* Katherine: This place is finally coming together, huh? How was that Combat Captain? Did you capture all the borks and glorks?
* Teddy: Mom, borks and glorks? Not a thing. Plus, my team moved on without me anyway.
* (phone buzzes)
* Katherine: Oh, it's work. I'll take it later.
* Teddy: You know, it would be better if Dad was still alive right now. Even Christmas.
* Katherine: (sadly) Yeah. Who were those two boy you were talking to outside?
* Teddy: What?! Ew! Those guys were the worst.
* Katherine: Oh, I thought they were kind of cute.
* Teddy: Mom!
* Katherine: You're going to make new friends here.
* Teddy: It doesn't matter. We're just gonna move again, and then my new friends will forget about me, too.
* Katherine: But you're sending them texts all the time.
* Teddy: Yeah, sending, but not receiving.
* Katherine: I know it's been hard moving around so much and you miss your father. I miss him too. But that's what this house is for. A place to settle down.
* Teddy: (sadly) I know. I'll be fine. I'm just trying to get through the holidays.
* Katherine: I'm trying, Teddy. I really am. I want to give you a home.
* Teddy: I know, it's okay. I'm fine.
== Part 8: Tour around the Town/The BTS ==
* (Cuts to a store and then pans to Ben, Patrick and Teddy entering the store door as Andy Williams' It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year begins to play)
* ♪ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♪
* ♪With the kids jingle belling ♪
* ♪ And everyone telling you be of good cheer ♪
* ♪ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♪
* Ben: (To Teddy) You're gonna love it here. You're gonna see what New York has in store. Christmas is the best way to celebrate Christmas. (As he, Patrick and Teddy search for a gift.)
* Teddy: (while looking around the aisles.) You guys see anything decent?
* Patrick: Nope. Nothing yet. So, I know this might a bad time to point that out, but uhhh... Do you think Santa Claus is even real? Because I keep telling Ben that. I even told Cal that he doesn't exist, but he ended up getting upset.
* Teddy: Well, that wasn't very nice of what you said to them.
* (door slams open and Bethany, Taylor, and Skylar (The BTS) enter the store.)
* Teddy: Who are they?
* Patrick: These are the popular girls from my school: Bethany, Taylor, and Skylar. Otherwise known as the BTS.
* Teddy: The BTS?
* Patrick: They are the power trifecta. If they don't think it's cool, it didn't even happen. It's like they breathe a special kind of air that gets you in all the best parties and makes you instant friends with everyone.
* Teddy: Sounds pretty great.
* Ben: I don't know guys. I don't think I can't trust them.
* Bethany: Yo! New Girl! Come here, we wanna talk to you.
* Patrick: Just be careful Teddy. You don't know how they will behave. Good luck.
* (Teddy walks to Bethany and her friends)
* Bethany: So, you're the New Girl.
* Teddy: Yeah. I'm Teddy.
* Bethany: That's my cat's name.
* Teddy: (hangs her head down) Oh.
* Bethany: I'm Bethany. And these are my BFFs, Taylor and Skylar.
* Skylar: OMG, B, so true. We're such great BFFs.
* Bethany: Skylar.
* Skylar: Sorry.
* Bethany: So, check this, New Girl.
* Teddy: It's Teddy.
* Bethany: Whatever. (She sees Teddy's necklace she got for Christmas last year.) Girl, I can't with that necklace. Tell me where you bought it.
* Teddy: Oh, this? I got it for Christmas last year.
* Bethany: I just had the best idea ever. Why don't you come to the Christmas party with me, Taylor, and Skylar?
* (Skylar blows her gum and pops.)
* Teddy: Yeah, totally.
* Bethany: But on one condition. You let me borrow that necklace.
* Teddy: Okay, yeah, sure.
* Bethany: Yay! So excited.
* (Teddy hands over her necklace to Bethany.)
* Bethany: And give me your number so we can text. We really need to talk about what you're gonna wear, 'cause I have some thoughts. Later, New Girl. (She walks away and Taylor and Skylar follow.)
* Patrick: (he and Ben walk up to Teddy.) So, how'd it go.
* Teddy: I think I just made some new friends.
* Ben: Well, guess they need time to get to know you. Wonder if they'll get to know both of us.
* Teddy: (checking Bethany's text message on her phone.) "Thanks again for the necklace, New Girl. Smiley face." Oh, my... She send me a smiley face! See ya, guys and Merry Christmas.
* Patrick: Later.
* Ben: Merry Christmas. (to Patrick) Well, we better get home too.
* (The two brothers leave the store.)
* Narrator: Now, it was tough for Teddy to spend Christmas without her father. So she decided to make friends a little too soon, but I won't bother.
== Part 9: The Story of Krampus ==
* (Cuts to Ben and Patrick helping out with the house with decorations)
* Clark: Hey, you kids heard about the new neighbors who just moved here?
* Ben: Yeah, we just met her.
* (Liz shows up with Patrick's machine blaster toy that shoots out Christmas lights.)
* Patrick: Uh, mom, is that my machine blaster?
* Liz: What? Can't moms have fun with toys too? (Blasting Christmas lights at the house.)
* (Shane sees the scary teddy bear and tries to touch it.)
* Patrick: No, Shane. This is for Christmas day. You'll get it tomorrow.
* Liz: (to Patrick) So, who's that girl you and Ben were with?
* Patrick: What?! No one! We're just friends!
* Liz: I thought she was kind of pretty.
* Patrick: (embarrassed) Ok, Mom. Please stop.
* Ben: Lisa. What happens to kids who don't believe in Santa?
* Lisa: The same that happens to naughty children. They get a visit from Krampus.
* Patrick: Krampus? No one even talks about him in years. Do they even see him at all?
* Lisa: That was years ago. Whenever there was a Santa, there was a Krampus.
* (dissolves to cartoony 2D-Animation of a town)
* Lisa: (voiceover) It started with the wind, on a cold night, much like this. It was almost Christmas, but this Christmas was darker, less cheerful. But kids still believed in Santa, in magic and miracles, and the hope that we could find joy again. But some had given up on believing, and on each other. They had forgotten the spirit of Christmas, the sacrifice of giving, and their niceness.
* (Images of disbelieving kids losing Christmas spirit and doing naughty things.)
* And that night, in the darkness of a howling blizzard... They knew Santa was not coming this year. Instead, it was a much darker, more ancient spirit. The shadow of Santa Claus. It was... Krampus: The Demon Goat of Christmas. And as he had for thousands of years, Krampus came not to reward, but to punish, not to give, but to take with the help of and his helpers. Unlike our friendly bearded friend who discourages naughtiest by leaving coal instead of presents, Krampus punishes bad children by beating them down with rute sticks and dragging them into the underworld and eats them.
* (Krampus beats a child with a rute and drags him to the underworld.)
* (dissolves back to normal 2D Animation present day.)
* Patrick: So, let me get something straight. The good kids gets gifts from Santa and the bad kids gets taken away?
* Ben: But, don't the kids who been bad come back?
* Lisa: No one knows. All I know is that when years ago, a kid who causes trouble in school has disappeared last night on Christmas Eve, along with other bad kids. I tried making sense of it until years later it just stopped. (as he walks away and continues with decorating the house.)
* Ben: Patrick, you don't think Krampus will return?
* Patrick: Of course not. Those are just coincidences or conspiracy theories.
== Part 10: Why Patrick Doesn't Believe? ==
* (Cuts to Patrick watching in his room.)
* Linus Van Pelt: Charlie Brown, you're the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy's right. Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest.
* Ben: (knocks on Patrick's door and then enters bringing Cal and Gene with him.) Hey, Patrick. We have company.
* Patrick: Oh, hey guys. Thanks for coming over.
* Gene: Say, Patrick, you're not gonna stomp on Ben's dreams like you did with Cal in class, are you?
* Ben: Don't start, Gene.
* Cal: Oh, that's okay, Ben. Now that I've had some of your mom's hot chocolate, I feel much better.
* Ben: You do look better. Mom does makes the best hot cocoa.
* Patrick: I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, Cal. I just didn't want you or Ben to be disappointed by impossible wishes like, uh...well, like I was.
* Cal: What do you mean?
* Patrick: Well, five years ago, I wrote Santa asking for a red RN-9-64 Sled.
* (On the end of this, the view dissolves to the living room, just near the tree. The excited young Hopeful kids run into view, wearing Santa hats on their heads.)
* Young Lisa: Come on, guys. Let's go see what Santa got us.
* Young Patrick: (giggling) I'm excited right now. I know exactly what I wanted.
* (They approaches the tree; cut to behind his head as he brings out a present.)
* Patrick: (voiceover) That sled was so expensive. I wanted it more than anything ever.
* (Close-up of him as he opens the box. But every year, he did not receive it as it cuts to the same year as he ages up.)
* (Cuts to his near current age (13) he opens the box and still there was no sled.)
* Patrick: (voiceover) But when every time I opened my presents on Christmas morning each year... (Excitement fades into sadness.) No red sled.
* (Dissolve back to him in the present day on the end of this.)
* Patrick: That was the saddest day of my life.
* (Gene starts laughing)
* Patrick: Gene, what's so funny?
* Gene: Isn't it obvious, Patrick? You were just naughty that year!
* Patrick: What are you talking about?
* Gene: Wasn't that the year you broke your bat on Johnny's head?
* Patrick: Hey, that was just an accident. Somebody snitched on me.
* Gene: Patrick was naughty! Patrick was naughty!
* (Ben glares at Gene for making fun of Patrick.)
* Gene: Ok, I'll stop.
* Patrick: Look, I didn't want to do this, but you've placed me in a scientifically untenable position. This animatronic model exactly parallels the aerodynamic potential of the average reindeer. Observe. Unable to fulfill the requirements of Bernoulli's Principle, it quickly plummets to the Earth-- as would Santa.
* Ben: But Santa's reindeer are magic.
* Gene: Yeah, he feeds them special kibble laced with jet fuel.
* Patrick: (groans) Look, guys, I've run the numbers. There is no Santa.
* Gene: Well, if it's written on the blackboard, I guess it must be true.
* Patrick: I'm sorry, Cal.
* Cal: Oh, that's okay, Patrick. (sniffling) At least now I won't be hurt like you were. (leaves the house)
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== Part 15 ==
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