The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree (1979 TV Movie)
Ron McLarty: Papa Bear, Narrator
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Quotes
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Papa Bear : [chanting] Chocolate covered snails!
Brother Bear , Sister Bear : Chocolate-covered snails? Yuck!
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Papa Bear : No matter what, no matter where, if it means going down to the Panama isthmus, if it means climbing up to the top of Pike's Peak, I'll find the right tree, if it takes us a *week*!
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Papa Bear : [after he, Brother, and Sister escape from the second tree they see] No, that tree back there wasn't quite it. Its green was - *too* green. Yeah, and it leaned a bit.
[prying his axe from the stump that the eagle threw it into, and collapsing to the ground]
Papa Bear : It wasn't quite what I had in mind. Come, we *still* have a tree to find.
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Sister Bear : [as she, Brother, and Papa see the second tree they come across] What a tree!
Brother Bear : Yeah, it's really a beauty.
Papa Bear : Axe...
Narrator : Papa said...
Papa Bear : [chuckles] Do your duty.
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Narrator : But when they got back to the Christmas tree lot, the lot was there - but the trees - were not. Only a sign saying: "Sorry, sold out", and some tired old needles lying about.
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Papa Bear : This is the time... to be thinking of others. Mamas, papas, sisters, brothers. Fellow creatures great and small, fellow creatures one and all.
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Papa Bear : A magnificent tree. A tree full and fat, with oodles of needles and crannies and nooks. Get out the tree things. Where are the hooks?
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Narrator : And now it was time for the most fun of all... getting the tree. A tree full and fat, straight, green, and tall... for the Christmas delight of the bears, one and all.
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Papa Bear : What an array; what a display! What a grand and glorious sight it will be when we hang all this stuff on our Christmas tree! Why, bears will come from near and far to see how Christmasy we are!
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Narrator : Now, Brother and Sister usually did what Mom said, but not Papa. Pop did whatever came into his head. And a fine, fat tree is what came into his head that particular Christmas.
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Narrator : But Pop was forgetting something that day. Christmas is more than show and display. It's more than just tinsel, and pink plastic stars, and stuffing yourself with sugar nut bars. There was something important that Pop was forgetting. Christmas is for giving; it isn't for getting. This was a time to be thinking of others: mamas, papas, sisters, brothers, a time to think of each neighbor and friend. But all that was forgotten as they rounded a bend. As they rounded that bend, what did they see? Papa's--perfect--Christmas tree! What a tree! What a tree! This surely was it! Its green was so green, its tall didn't quit, its nooks all had crannies, its crannies had nooks. One question was, would they have enough hooks?
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Papa Bear : Up the mountain, follow me! I'll find one soon, you'll see! You'll see I'll find the perfect Christmas tree!
Brother Bear : I hope so, Dad! The snow's getting pretty deep!
Sister Bear : And the mountain is getting pretty steep!
Papa Bear : Full and fat, tall and green! The finest tree you've ever seen!
[seeing the third tree perched atop a cliff]
Papa Bear : Now *that*... is the kind of tree I mean!
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Sister Bear : [as Papa prepares to carve the Christmas salmon; last lines] Pop, on that thinking of others thing, how about the salmon? How about it?
Papa Bear : Your remark shows wit and perception. But in the case of the salmon...
[chuckles briefly]
Papa Bear : we'll make an exception.
