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  Original Airdate:
December, 1979
Starring:

Les Lye, Ruth Buzzi, Christine McGlade, Rodney Helal, Jono Gebert, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers, Kevin Schenk.

Musical Guest:
None
 
 

Miss Take gives a present to Mr Dime from the kids at the network and at the moment Mr. Dime has a change of thought about the kids thinking they aren't so bad after all but when he opens the present it's a pie that lands in his face and then he says "They're all bad!!!"

Then Ross announces to the kids that hye has some good news and some bad news for them. The good news was that there is going to be a network Christmas party but the bad news is that there's going to be liquor served there and the kids are too young to go to the party. All are upset.

Kevin Somers and Jono discuss how to find a way to get in as they figure that there will be a naked lady jumping out of a giant cake and find a way to hide in the cake with her. They go to the studio cafeteria and ask Lois if they can see the giant cake that's being shown at the party but it's just a normal cake.

Kevin Schenk and Rodney discuss on how they can get into the party as they know about someone dressed as a Santa will be there and figure on kidnapping him in order to get in.

Eventually neither of their plans work so they ask Christine on how to get in and she tells them to disguise themselves as Christmas carolers.

Meanwhile at the network office, Mr. Dime can't afford to pay a lady to jump out of a cake as 100 dollars is in demand to do so and so he tries to get Miss Take to do so. Also, Mr. Dime practises his Santa routine but finds it difficult as he is planning on dressing as Santa for the party. When his costume arrives it's a nightgown Scrooge costume as Miss Take tells him she told the people involved with his costume that he wanted a costume that represented him the true meaning of Christmas. Eventually he gets a beard too and is told he'll be Santa Scrooge.

Vice President Technician Seth Pool is about to plug in the Christmas tree but when he does there's a fuse and the tree is burnt to a crisp.

Towards the end of the show Mr. Dime enters as Santa Scrooge while the kids sing him a carol. He tells them that he has a present for all of them for the same present he gave to him as he pies each and every one of them in the face.

Other memorable skits include Somers and Gebert singing Christmas carols at a neighborhood door to get some money. First when someone answers the door it's the drunken Lance who takes their can of money, then the next time they ask Lance they are trying to have a donation for the orphanage and instead he gives them Rodney, next time they sing terrible and Christine opens the door and pays them twice so they can stop singing. Last, they are singing and Somers is given a piece of coal cause he was singing trick or treat.

While Jono is in the dungeon he is given a present by the dungeon master Sentator Prevort which a ball and chain. Also, another skit Prevort tells Jono that the cook is on holidays so he'll be cooking a Christmas dinner for him and asks him if he wants a piece of figi pudding and Jono tells him he'll have any of it so Prevort gives him the center from it which was the decoration and puts it in his mouth.

Kevin Schenk asks his mother if there's going to be a turkey for Christmas and she says in a sense there is. She's making duck for their dinner but his father will be there as usual.

There's also a burglar who breaks into the family living room and Schenk has a shot gun in his hand but the burglar tries to tell him that he's really Santa and Schenk complains that last year he had a piano given by him from Santa that he didn't want as he has to practice it regularly.

Gebert asks Somers if he still believes in Santa and Somers tells him that he's too old for that and Santa appears with a list saying "One piece of coal for Somers" and Somers tries to convince himself that it was all just a studio effect as he's worried that it really was Santa.

This was a classic Christmas episode without a doubt and quite humorous. The burglar skit was originally used in the 1st season of the sister show You Can't Do That On Television when it only aired locally in Ottawa on CJOH-TV.
5 years later the sister show redid a couple skits for their Christmas episode like when the mother asks her family if they want a turnkey for Christmas and told them they'll have to tell the turkey itself like in this one when the cafeteria waitress Lois does the same thing or when two kids were caroling and one of them sings the wrong song and gets a lump of coal.