- 6/4/2025
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00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:30Ah, shut up!
00:46Merry Christmas, kitties, ho, ho, ho!
00:51Merry Christmas, kid!
00:53Christmas, kid!
00:55Christmas, kid!
00:56Mommy, I can't!
00:58Oh!
01:00Quick, shover!
01:01Quick, push in!
01:02Quick, stop the logmite!
01:03Quick!
01:04Quick!
01:05Quick!
01:06Don't!
01:07Don't turn!
01:08Wrong way!
01:16Don't park!
01:17Don't go!
01:18Ho, ho, ho!
01:19Merry Christmas!
01:21Christmas!
01:22Christmas, kitties!
01:25And a fifty-foot King Kong doll!
01:27And a cookie!
01:28Gimme!
01:29Gimme!
01:30Gimme!
01:31Merry Christmas, kitties!
01:33Merry, merry, kitties!
01:36Kitties!
01:37Merry, kitties!
01:39Ho, ho, ho!
01:43Merry voices and light-hearted laughter rang out.
01:48Christmas was close at hand in all its love and hearty honesty.
01:55It was the season of hospitality, merriment and open-heartedness.
02:00Gay and merry was the time.
02:03And gay and merry were the numerous hearts that were gladdened by its coming.
02:09Happy, happy Christmas.
02:12I heard the bells on Christmas day, their old familiar carols play.
02:19And wild and sweet, the words repeat of peace on earth, good will to men.
02:27Peace on earth?
02:28Good will to men?
02:30With all that going on out there?
02:32Hmph!
02:33You know, Tucker, I'm afraid you have a point there.
02:37Why don't you see if you can find something more appropriate?
02:40Well, one thing's for sure, Harry.
02:42Nothing in this book's gonna be less appropriate.
02:45Read on, Macduff.
02:47A visit from Saint Nicholas.
02:51Who he?
02:52By Clement C. Moore.
02:54Also who he?
02:56Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...
03:00Marvelous opening.
03:02Not a creature was stirring.
03:04Not even a mouse.
03:05Not even a what?
03:07Why a mouse, may I to inquire?
03:10Why do people always pick on mice not to stir?
03:14Take it easy, Tucker.
03:16Humans aren't out to be mean to mice.
03:19Why not?
03:20They're mean to each other, aren't they?
03:22And every Christmas they get meaner.
03:27Harry.
03:30Harry.
03:31What if humans were more like mice, hm?
03:36Friendly and gentle.
03:38Basically nice.
03:41Or what if humans were more like a cat?
03:44Dignified.
03:45Dignified.
03:47Noble.
03:49More like that.
03:51Right on.
03:53They don't really hate children.
03:55But it doesn't seem right to sing...
03:58Joy to the world.
04:00And then pick a fight.
04:02Right on.
04:04Why must they grouch and quarrel and fuss?
04:06I mean, why can't humans be more like us?
04:09I guess that people aren't really so wicked.
04:15But why can't they behave more like a, a, a, a cricket?
04:20Chester.
04:22Harry.
04:23That's it.
04:24Chester.
04:25We gotta have Chester again.
04:27Chester.
04:28Chester C. Cricket.
04:29He's just what we need to straighten out this Christmas mess.
04:33You remember how it was, Harry?
04:35How old Chester got trapped in a picnic basket in Connecticut
04:38on account of an almost fatal weakness for Liverwurst?
04:42Yes.
04:44And then he was carried here to Times Square subway station,
04:47where Mario the Newsboy found him.
04:58Why, it's a cricket.
05:01A real live cricket.
05:04Remember, too,
05:05when he discovered his remarkable talent for music?
05:09Yeah.
05:10If he heard any music at all,
05:12and only just once,
05:13he could play it right back.
05:15Fantastic.
05:17I thought crickets only went chirp.
05:30Me, too.
05:38Yes.
05:40And remember when he played in public,
05:42and the people of New York actually stopped to listen?
05:47Yes.
05:57For the first time in their lives, perhaps,
06:00people stopped honking horns?
06:06And yelling and pushing and being mean?
06:08And suddenly,
06:09everyone found something to like me in one another.
06:11And suddenly, everyone found something to like me in one another.
06:15It was a miracle. A miracle on 42nd Street.
06:16We cured the people in New York once, Harry.
06:17And we can do it again.
06:18It was a miracle. A miracle on 42nd Street.
06:27We cured the people in New York once, Harry.
06:30And we can do it again.
06:31Sunny Slope, Connecticut. Here we come.
06:32Ah, yes. Of course I remember.
06:33Chester spends his summers in a beautiful meadow near Headley, Connecticut.
06:43And in the winter, he moves to the nearest music store at Sunny Slope.
06:46Yeah, yeah. Chester told me that's where he lives. Sunny Slope, Connecticut.
06:51And as you can see, it's no distance at all. Just four paces straight ahead, two paces over.
06:56And there we are. Sunny Slope. And you will note that Connecticut is all warm and yellow.
07:15Not icy blue like New York or brown and gunky like Massachusetts.
07:22gunky like massachusetts very interesting theory about maps tucker come on come on it's gonna
07:29take us at least a half hour to hike up there well just to be safe tucker maybe we better take the
07:36trade well you're right about one thing tucker the sign is yellow sunny slope frozen slope would be
08:03more like it who names places anyway like new york it's old york if it's anything how about mean york
08:10and nasty york sunny slop
08:13well this is the place all right right frozen slop connecticut home of chester the world famous
08:26musical cricket now all they have to do is find out where he lives right tucker
08:32tucker tucker tucker tucker
08:39pardon me sir would you direct me to the home of the world famous cricket
08:51excuse me friend i shouldn't have been talking with my mouth full
09:01and i've never been so insulted in all my life now then uh about our cricket
09:08it's uh just about three blocks down the in all my life i'll sue so help me
09:15it's uh difficult to talk without using your paws uh allow me
09:19why uh thank you i'll sue now then uh go straight ahead three blocks turn left at rosco's drugstore
09:27one block to frogly's music emporium our cricket lives in a hi-fi set in the back room thank you
09:35glad to be service now i must hurry on home we're having roast mouse with yorkshire pudding tonight
09:44the missus will be expecting me
09:52how can you have roast mouse with yorkshire pudding without the roast mouse
09:58roast mouse that's disgusting well i certainly can't imagine you with an apple in your mouth
10:06don't try to wait for any way thanks be always to celebrate pinkioes in a well it smells accessible
10:13and it doesn't matter until reall
10:16exactly the only way
10:17i'll um
10:18it may welcome you
10:20Tucker!
10:47Harry!
10:48Harry. Chester. Oh, it's so great to see you. Harry. Good old Harry. Oh. Oh, it's just like a Christmas present having you here. But why didn't you write and tell me you were coming? I could have prepared some liverwurst with Yorkshire pudding.
11:10Yes, well, it's a long story, Chester. You see, things haven't been going at all well in New York. People seem to be changing for the worse. And we thought that if you wouldn't, Mark...
11:23So you see, Chester, we need you. The whole city needs you. Because they've all forgotten what Christmas is really all about.
11:34Yes, I can certainly see the problem. But do you think my playing could change all that? After all, I'm just one little old Scrabbly Cricket.
11:48Scrabbly Cricket? Why, Chester, baby, you're the most famous cricket in the world. Why, you made New Yorkers stop yelling and start listening for the first time in their Scrabbly lives. And you can do it again.
12:00Right. We did it before. And we can do it again.
12:04Hey, wait. Purr me a few bars. Delighted.
12:09Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, ow.
12:11We did it before and we can do it again
12:31And we will do it again
12:34They hold it quiet and just a place
12:36The women and children and men
12:38They listen before, they listen again
12:41We did it before and we can do it again
12:48And we will do it again
12:50We're one for all and we're all for one
12:52They'll get beyond here before we're done
12:54Millions of people will listen
12:57Listen to our Christmas song
13:02We did it before and we can do it again
13:06And we will do it again
13:08They hold it quiet and just a place
13:10The women and children and men
13:12They listen before, they listen again
13:15Good heavens
13:32Harry, are you all right, Harry?
13:37I guess so
13:40But if I hang here long
13:44I'll freeze to death
13:46And if I don't
13:47I'll get chewed up by that dog
13:50Don't worry
13:51Stay right where you are
13:53I'll get rid of the dog
13:54But I've got to catch Tucker first
13:56Well, first things first
14:09You never saw such a dish in your life
14:30As three fat, juicy, tasty, spicy, mouth-watering, huge, prime ribby, fantastically tasty mice
14:40With Yorkshire pudding
14:42I can't stand it
14:45Three fat mice
14:47Where are they?
14:48I've got to have them
14:50Down by the old mill stream
14:58That's where those fat mice are
15:00Hmm
15:02You
15:03It is to laughter
15:04You wouldn't even make a decent dog pick
15:07Down by the old mill stream
15:12Where I first met mice
15:14And they tasted nice
15:16Wow
15:17Three fat mice
15:19Yee-hoo
15:19Scrawny
15:22Wouldn't make a decent dog pick
15:24Come on, come on
15:25Now we've got to rescue Harry
15:26I've been insulted again
15:28Harry
15:29Rescue Harry
15:31Let him out of my sight for two minutes
15:33We get some
15:34Oh
15:34Oh
15:35Oh
15:36Oh
15:38Oh
15:40Oh
15:42Oh
15:43Oh
15:44Oh
15:45Oh
15:46Oh
15:46Oh
15:46Oh
15:46Oh
16:16Okay, Harry, let her go
16:16Why, Harry
16:17Why, Harry, you're gorgeous
16:18In fact, you're beautiful
16:20Hilarious
16:23I still can't understand
16:39Why we couldn't take the train at Sunny Slop
16:42Because there aren't any
16:44Because there aren't any
16:44That would get us to New York on time
16:47So we had to try to catch the early train at Baines Crossing
16:51Well, it looks to me like we're too late
16:56We'll never get down there in time
16:58Oh, yes, we will
16:59Everyone aboard
17:02Everyone aboard
17:03Everyone aboard
17:03Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one cat open sleigh
17:15Dashing through the snow in a one-can-open sleigh
17:19All the fields will grow, hurry going away
17:22Wings that pickets play, make your spirits bright
17:26Oh, what fun it is to sing a swaying song tonight
17:29Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
17:32Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-can-open sleigh
17:36Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
17:39Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-can-open sleigh
17:45Walking in a winter wonderland
18:11Walking in a winter wonderland
18:14Walking in a winter wonderland
18:18Walking in a winter wonderland
18:55Now, uh, I think you should start off with, uh, Silent Night.
19:08Then, uh, something really jumpin' and happy-like, uh, tis the season could be jolly.
19:16Then finish with joy and joy.
19:25Quiet, that? Impossible!
19:33It's, uh, a snap.
19:35And, uh, we know they're, uh, they're, uh, patsy's, uh, the music.
19:40We've come so far, Chester.
19:43Please try.
19:45Okay, sir. I'll give it my very best.
19:48Shh!
20:01Oh, shh, huh?
20:03Well, then, Chester, play!
20:07What?
20:08Play!
20:09Oh, shh!
20:10Oh, my God.
20:40Oh, my God.
21:10I don't get it. People just don't care. You couldn't even hear just a play.
21:18Well, it is asking a great deal of people to stop and listen to one scrabbly little...
21:25Listen, if I told you once, I told you a thousand times you're not scrabbly.
21:29It's just that miracles just don't seem to happen twice in the same...
21:35Wait.
21:35Well, I'll be a scrabbly...
21:53Chester, it's a power failure again. They've overloaded. They've hogged the electricity.
22:03It's a power failure. Now's our chance. Come on. Come on.
22:07Go, go, go, go.
23:10To the earth to touch their harps of gold.
23:17Peace on earth, goodwill to win from hymns of gracious King.
23:27The world in silence still the sleigh to hear the angels sing.
23:39Joy to the world, the Lord is come.
23:46Let earth be seen with kings.
23:51Let every heart and head in blue.
23:56And heaven and nature sing.
23:58And heaven and nature sing.
24:00And heaven and nature sing.
24:05And heaven and nature sing.
24:11And nature sing.
24:17One and nature sing.
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