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Oscar the Grouch /
Big Bird
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Joey Mazzarino | ... |
Joe Marley /
Joey Dickens /
Lightning
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Jim Martin | ... | |
| Tim Curry | ... |
Narrator
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Rickey Boyd | ... |
Rhubarb the Grouch
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| Kevin Clash | ... | ||
| Jim Henson | ... |
Ernie
(voice) (archive footage)
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| Frank Oz | ... |
Bert
(voice) (archive footage)
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Pam Arciero | ... |
(voice) (archive footage)
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Fran Brill | ... |
(voice) (archive footage)
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Alice Dinnean | ... |
(voice) (archive footage)
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| Eric Jacobson | ... |
(voice) (archive footage)
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| Peter Linz | ... |
(voice) (archive footage)
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Noel MacNeal | ... |
(voice) (archive footage)
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Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
A bit of harmless Sesame Street fun. Clearly lacks the creativity that Jim Henson used to bring such projects. The Muppets did this story so well. Here it's mostly a way to recycle some old clips. I never like this approach. Clip shows have always been one of those things I detested. The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future are all CGI and mostly annoying. The CGI treatment is a bizarre and jarring choice. The beauty of Sesame Street has always been the puppets. Creating CGI characters is like using stop-motion in a Pixar movie. I'm not sure if Oscar actually learns a lesson by the end of this. At least we get Tim Curry as a narrator. Only for the younglings.