How Murray Saved Christmas Page #3

Synopsis: One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa's shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.
Director(s): Peter Avanzino
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
TV-G
Year:
2014
42 min
505 Views


There were even a few

who weren't so famous,

like Arbor Day Aardvark

and Labor Day Amos.

You all saved my life.

Thanks goodness you came!

But something bad happened,

and I am to blame.

For those who don't know me,

I'm Edison Elf.

And I'm afraid Santa is

not quite himself.

- Hello!

- I'm Queen Hanna of Bananaland.

Bananas for you and you

and especially you.

Yes, your majesty.

Let's get back to the castle.

- Gently, sir.

- Bananas bruise easily.

I'm afraid it's my fault

that he's under the weather.

And there won't be a Christmas

unless we pull together.

It's gonna be tough,

and it's gonna be tricky.

So let us unite and win

one for St. Nicky!

Got lots and lots of problems

and the time is tight.

Got to hand out all those presents

by the end of the night.

We got a whole lot that we

got to achieve.

But you got to believe

on Christmas Eve.

- Oh, you got to believe.

- When?

- On Christmas Eve.

- Exactly.

- Oh, you got to believe.

- What day was that again?

On Christmas Eve.

Well, aren't you guys smart.

Oh, come on.

It's impossible.

When they told the Easter Bunny

that he had to bring those eggs,

he said, "I cannot do it

with my tiny, little legs."

They said, "if you don't do this

then the kids are gonna grieve."

and he said...

"Oh, oh!

I got to believe."

- Oh, you got to believe.

- When?

- On Christmas Eve.

That's right.

- Oh, you got to believe.

- I can't hear you!

- On Christmas Eve.

- I'm still not convinced.

No one believed Columbus

when he said the world was round,

but he went on his great voyage

and America was found.

Whoo!

Now everyone in Texas,

Taiwan, and Tel Aviv, they say

"oh, oh! We got

to believe."

- Tel Aviv?

- It rhymes.

Got to wrap those presents,

got to fix those toys.

Got to make a merry Christmas

for the world's good girls and boys.

It's better to give now

than to receive.

- Oh, you got to believe on Christmas Eve.

- Yeah!

Oh, you got to believe.

You got to believe.

On Christmas Eve,

got to believe.

Yeah, you got to believe.

you gotta, gotta, gotta, ah, gotta,

gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta

on Christmas Eve.

Oh, yeah!

Oh, you got

to believe.

When?

- On Christmas Eve.

- Exactly.

- Oh, you got to believe.

What day was that again?

On Christmas Eve.

Everyone pitched in,

except Murray Weiner,

who stood all alone in

the Holiday Diner.

Why was he grouchy?

What was his history?

What was his problem?

The man was a mystery.

Murray's got antisocial,

claustrophobic paranoid neurosis.

Narcissistic, germophobic,

borderline psychosis.

He is in The Guinness Book

for longest diagnosis.

Antisocial, claustrophobic

paranoid neurosis.

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Mike Reiss

Michael L. Reiss (born September 15, 1959) is an American television comedy writer and author. He served as a show-runner, writer and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic. He created and wrote the webtoon Queer Duck and has also worked on screenplays including: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Simpsons Movie and My Life in Ruins. more…

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