ELMO: OK, let's see how much email.
Ah, it's from Elmo's friend Prairie Dawn.
PRAIRIE DAWN: Hello, Elmo, and merry Christmas!
Places, everyone, places.
Places!
I've written a very special Christmas pageant, Elmo.
It's called The First Christmas.
All right, it's show time, people!
Oh welcome, oh welcome to our little play, play, where we
will tell you all of that Christmas day.
Away in a manger a long time ago, this
is how it all started.
Now, on with the show.
Curtain, open the curtain.
ROSITA: We're Mary.
BERT: And Joseph.
ROSITA: We've no place to stay.
BERT: That's why we're out here with the animals and hay.
Hay?
Oh no.
Achoo!
My hay fever!
PRAIRIE DAWN: B-B-Bert!
Are you all right?
BERT: Oh, just a little sinus trouble.
Ignore it.
Now, uh, where were we?
PRAIRIE DAWN: But something has happened.
BERT: Oh, right, right, right.
[CLEARS THROAT]
But something has ha- ha- ha--
achoo!--
happened that's filled us with joy.
ROSITA: We've just been blessed with a
special baby boy.
BERT: What?
ROSITA: Ay, caramba.
PRAIRIE DAWN: Oh no.
BERT: Where'd she go?
PRAIRIE DAWN: Where's the baby Jesus?
Has anyone seen Natasha?
BERT: Achoo!
ROSITA: Natasha, where are you, Natasha?
Natasha!
PRAIRIE DAWN: Please put her back in the cradle.
BERT: Oh, my sinuses.
Does anyone have a hanky?
ROSITA: There you go, baby.
All right, Prairie, we ready to go.
BERT: Oh, that's better.
Sorry.
Go on, go on.
PRAIRIE DAWN: (SIGHING) OK.
BERT AND ROSITA: This son we named Jesus, so special was he
that a star shine above him for all to see.
PRAIRIE DAWN: Turn on the star.
BARN ANIMALS: Wise men from the east saw the star and they
knew it would point to the baby.
So they went there, too.
PRAIRIE DAWN: Wise men, you're on.
THREE WISE MEN: Oh, we are three wise men.
We followed that star.
It led us to this baby.
We've traveled so far.
This child is special.
So these gifts we bring--
gold, frankincense, and cookies--
all fit for a king.
PRAIRIE DAWN: Wait a minute.
Cookies?
Cookie Monster, you were supposed to bring myrrh.
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, well, uh, then me guess
you don't need these.
PRAIRIE DAWN: I'm getting a migraine.
All right, all right, everyone.
It's time for the finale.
ANGEL: This little special baby would grow up to be a
great teacher to many.
So now you can see--
TOGETHER: Why each year we now celebrate Christmas Day to
honor that baby on his birthday.
BERT: What?
ROSITA: Oh no.
BERT: Oh no.
ROSITA: Natasha!
BERT: Achoo!
ROSITA: Where is Natasha?
BARN ANIMALS: Baby gone.
ROSITA: Natasha?
PRAIRIE DAWN: Oh, jeepers.
Natasha?
Where is she?
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ELMO: So Christmas presents are kind of
like birthday presents.
Elmo never thought of that.
Oh, thank you, computer.
Oh, computer?
Merry Christmas.