This is the transcript for Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.
Scene 1: Prologue[]
(A bird's eye view over the clouds. The North Pole and Santa's castle are shown underneath. Down below, Rudolph flies down from the sky.)
Rudolph: Hey, Frosty!
(Frosty is with some woodland animals. A squirrel gets Frosty's attention, and gets him to turn around.)
Frosty: Hey, Rudolph!
(Frosty leaves behind his broomstick. Rudolph and Frosty come up to each other, and shake hands.)
Rudolph: What a great June day!
Frosty: Positively balmy! Only 10 below! Rudolph, can the kids watch your jumping practice?
Rudolph: Sure!
Frosty: (whistles) Milly! Chilly!
(On the top of a hill, Frosty's twin children, Milly and Chilly stand.)
Milly: Okay, daddy!
Chilly: Here we go!
(Milly and Chilly slide down the hill to Rudolph and Frosty.)
Chilly: Would you light your nose for us, Uncle Rudolph?
Milly: Pretty please?
Rudolph: Okay. Just this once.
(Rudolph starts lighting his nose, but it starts flickering.)
Frosty: Uh, Rudolph...
Milly: What's the matter with your nose?
Rudolph: I... I don't know. It... it's going out!
(A blizzard blows. Rudolph sadly hangs his head while Frosty huddles with Milly and Chilly. The title sequence starts.)
An Arthur Rankin, Jr. & Jules Bass Film
Rudolph and Frosty
(The storm subsides. The clouds part, revealing the sun. Snow melts off an ice block, revealing the second half of the title.)
Christmas in July
(In the woods, the animals are decorating the pine trees with ornaments. Two squirrels brush a patch of snow on a tree with their tail.)
Starring (in alphabetical order) Red Buttons
(A bird flies up to a tree, carrying an ornament, but drops it. The ornament bounces off the tree, knocking some snow off.)
Ethel Merman
(Two rabbits sweep through the snow with their brooms.)
Mickey Rooney
(One of the rabbits goes over to sweep another part of the snow, but the wind blows it away.)
Alan Sues
(Three birds hang ornaments on a tree, showing more names.)
Jackie Vernon
Shelley Winters
Featuring the talents of Paul Frees
And Billie Richards, Hal Peary, Shelby Flint, Don Messick
(A group of woodland animals play soccer with a snowball. One of them, a rabbit kicks the snowball up to a row of pine trees.)
Music & Lyrics by Johnny Marks
The Song Frosty the Snowman by Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins © 1951 Hill & Range Songs
"Rudolph" Character/Song by Johnny Marks & Story by Robert L. May © St. Nicholas Music, Inc.
(Three rabbits slide through the snow.)
Production designed by Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Screenplay by Romeo Muller
Produced & Directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr. & Jules Bass
Scene 2: Santa's story[]
(Santa Claus walks outside his castle.)
Santa: Yes, sir. Believe it or not, Rudolph's nose went out. And all because of something that started years and years ago. And I mean years. Long before I came to the North Pole, all this territory was ruled over by... (flashback: the North Pole is dark and stormy) ...a powerful, magic king of the North Pole named... Winterbolt.
(Inside Winterbolt's cave, his pets, two giant snow dragons, are roaring ferociously. Winterbolt stands overhead of them.)
Santa: (narrating) And this terrible tyrant's power came from a scepter of solid ice.
(Winterbolt fires a magic ray out of his scepter, knocking over a group of elves and woodland creatures. A snow dragon blows icy smoke at the elves and woodland creatures.)
Santa: (narrating) And all the woodland creatures who dared defied his wickedness were destroyed, or driven away from their Northland home.
Winterbolt: (cackles)
Santa: (narrating) Old Winterbolt's tyranny lasted for ages. But one day...
(A bright light shines in Winterbolt's lair. Winterbolt cries out with surprise and looks up.)
Santa: (narrating) There came a being who was more than his match. Lady Boreal, the queen of the Northern Lights, who took on human form in order to defy Winterbolt, and defend the oppressed and innocent.
(A light emerges from the northern lights and turns itself into a human queen.)
Lady Boreal: King Winterbolt! For years, I have seen your malevolent cruelty. And now, I take human form to command thee, stop this tyranny at once. You've cause enough pain and unhappiness.
Winterbolt: You don't frighten me. (lifts his scepter) Begone!
(Winterbolt fires his scepter at Lady Boreal, but Lady Boreal deflects his rays. Winterbolt is stunned.)
Lady Boreal: You've had your chance, cruel monarch of the north, and now I must silence you.
Winterbolt: Forever?
Lady Boreal: Alas. Nothing is forever. But you will fall into a deep, deep sleep. And so you shall remain as long as my magic burns bright.
(Lady Boralis fires her magic rays at Winterbolt. The wizard staggers around weakly.)
Winterbolt: (groans) Too... powerful for me! (drops his scepter) Your force... overwhelms... me!
(Winterbolt is lying in his bed, asleep.)
Santa: (narrating) And he fell into a profound sleep of many, many winters.
(The snow dragons fall asleep.)
Santa: (narrating) And eventually, Winterbolt and all his evil were forgotten. The good, and gentle creatures returned to the North. First, the animals. And then, the little ones, the Kringle elves. (the Borealis light shines above) And I supposed it was Lady Boreal's good grace which led me and my young bride to these Northlands.
(A younger Santa, Kris, arrives at the North Pole with his wife, Jessica or Mrs. Claus, and his elves.)
Kris: The perfect place for me to build my toy factory, and carry out my life's mission, far away from all who would stop me.
(Fade to later in the future. Santa's Castle is built. Inside the workshop, the elves are building toys, assisted by Santa and Mrs. Claus.)
Santa: (narrating) The passing years were good to all of us, but Lady Boreal's monumental efforts had drained her of most of her magic, and all of her strength. (the light shines in through the workshop window.) She knew her days as a human were numbered.
Lady Boreal: Alas. Nothing is forever. But in Santa, the Northlands have a kind and true leader. And I may rest with ease. (fades away)
Santa: (narrating) And she became again the magic glow of the Aurora Borealis.
(Inside Winterbolt's lair, an icy tomb, which had froze over Winterbolt in his bed during his slumber, started to crack. Winterbolt's eyes open from underneath the ice. Winterbolt groans as he emerges from the ice.)
Winterbolt: I am awake! I live again! (cackles) Winterbolt lives! I can't wait to see what's been going on while I've been resting! (cackles)
(Winterbolt sits down on his throne, and looks into his Magic Eye of Snow. The magic ball shows Santa laughing cheerfully while giving his elves a toy wagon.)
Winterbolt: Who is this my Magic Eye of Snow shows? He looks to be a king. But there can be no king of the north, save me! (gets up from his throne) I must rid my Northlands of this "ho-ho-ho"-ing creature, and his flock of interlopers. (an ice door slides open as Winterbolt enters a chamber) But how? Tell me, oh, Genie of the Ice Scepter.
(Winterbolt fires a ray into the wall, summoning the Genie of the Ice Scepter, a monstrous blue icy face with glowing eyes and large jagged teeth.)
Genie: His power comes from the love he receives from children all over the world.
Winterbolt: Is he as powerful as me?
Genie: At the moment, far more powerful.
Winterbolt: Then I shall make the world's children love me instead of him. Tell me. How does he please these children?
Genie: Each Christmas Eve, he sets forth in his sleigh, and leaves every child a toy before dawn.
Winterbolt: (laughs) Is that all? Genie, tell me how I might stop him from going forth.
Genie: Next Christmas Eve, have the snow dragons breathe a storm of ice and fog the likes of which the North has never seen. Santa will become hopelessly lost, and the toys will never be delivered.
Winterbolt: Bravo, excellent! Then I shall set forth with my own supply of toys in my own sleigh! (chuckles) Why, I could be greater than Santa! I'd give the little brats twice as many toys, and they would love me more. They'd become lazy and dependent on me, and I would rule them all! And when they grow up, why, the whole world would be my own personal snowball!
(Fade to Lady Boreal.)
Lady Boreal: How little Winterbolt knows of the ways of Santa and children. There's more than just giving toys. There is kindness and the loving warmth of a family on Christmas morn. These things cannot die. I will not let them. Oh... But I am so old and weak. Ice and fog on Christmas Eve to hinder Santa's sleigh? I must leave him something... small, I fear, to guide him on his way.
(Fade to a cave in the North Pole. Mrs. Donner is nursing her newborn baby reindeer, Rudolph.)
Santa: (narrating) And a later that day, a tiny reindeer was born.
Mrs. Donner: Oh... Have no fear, my little one. Soon your father will be home. (yawns) And I must rest for the moment.
(As soon as Mrs. Donner falls asleep, Lady Boreal appears before baby Rudolph.)
Rudolph: (giggles)
Lady Boreal: Little one, I have so little magic left to leave thee. Use it wisely and well. (holds Rudolph's hoof) On this small hoof, a magic mark I make, the Christmas star cradled by a snowflake. (prints the mark on the bottom of Rudolph's hoof) And with this secret mark, the magic of the Northern Lights lives in thee. How, you ask? Think good thoughts, and you will see.
(Rudolph shuts his eyes, and his red nose lights.)
Rudolph: Oh!
Lady Boreal: Will the magic last forever, you wonder? Nothing is forever, as I have often said. But this magic is strong, and your nose will glow, so long as you use it for good. If you are tempted, even once to use it for an evil purpose, it will be extinguished forever. Do you understand?
Rudolph: (nods) Uh-huh.
Lady Boreal: And will you never use it for evil?
Rudolph: (nods, catches his mistake, then shakes his head) Uh-uh.
Lady Boreal: (chuckles) And now, I leave you, little babe, to your mother's love. Use your secret magic well.
(Lady Boreal vanishes. Mrs. Donner wakes up.)
Mrs. Donner: What was that? Was someone there?
Rudolph: (nods) Mm-hm. (shakes his head) Mm-mm. (nods) Mm-hm.
Mrs. Donner: (laughs) Can't you make up your mind, my little one?
Donner: (offscreen) Hey! Where's my boy?
(Donner runs into the cave, followed by a couple of Santa's other reindeer.)
Mrs. Donner: Here, my darling.
Donner: Flew 300 miles, and only 15 leaps, when I heard the news, and... Aww, will you just look at him? Ha-ha. My little buck. We'll name him... Rudolph.
(Rudolph's nose glows, surprising both his parents.)
Chorus:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
(Donner digs up some mud and covers Rudolph's glowing nose with it.)
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
(The scene changes to Rudolph at the reindeer games, meeting Clarice for the first time. Clarice nuzzles Rudolph, only to accidentally wipe the mud off his nose, and reveal his glowing, red nose. Rudolph leaves in embarrassment, while Clarice tries to follow him.)
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games
(The scene fades to the fateful blizzard blowing outside Santa's castle.)
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
(Santa is in the reindeer stable, visiting Rudolph.)
"Rudolph, with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
(Santa's sleigh takes off in the sky, with Rudolph leading the way.)
And how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You'll go down in history!
Scene 3: Winterbolt's plot[]
(Winterbolt watches Rudolph leading Santa's sleigh in his Eye of Snow.)
Winterbolt: Oh, Eye of Snow, what's this you show? A red-nosed reindeer? So, that's how Santa defeated my snow dragons. (chuckles) It will be a different story next Christmas Eve. A red-nosed reindeer is no match for King Winterbolt!
(Winterbolt fires his scepter. The scene ripples back to where the story left off, as Rudolph's nose continues to flicker.)
Rudolph: Hey! It's really going out!
Chilly: What's happening, Uncle Rudolph?
Milly: What's with your nose?
(Winterbolt stands on a ledge over Rudolph, Frosty, Milly, and Chilly.)
Winterbolt: Dimmer, darker, darker, dimmer, Rudolph's magic shall not glimmer. Dark and dim, dim and dark, now extinguish magic spark!
(Winterbolt fires a bolt from his scepter past Rudolph. Rudolph is briefly stunned by Winterbolt's power.)
Frosty: Rudolph!
Rudolph: It's all over, Frosty. My nose is... going. I feel... awful. (whines)
Frosty: Aw, Rudolph. Your nose just can't go out. Santa depends on it.
Rudolph: Yeah, but--
Frosty: There's little kids all over the world who'd never get any Christmas presents if you didn't light the way.
Rudolph: You're right, Frosty. I can't lose my nose. Unless... Unless...
Frosty: What are you trying to say?
Rudolph: Can't remember exactly. Something a pretty lady once whispered to me. I... I dunno. But my nose just can't go out. (gets back to his feet) Don't worry.
(Rudolph strains and his nose lights up again.)
Milly and Chilly: Yay! Yay!
Rudolph: I'm okay now!
Milly: Good old Uncle Rudolph!
Winterbolt: It's impossible that his power is greater than mine! There must be a reason!
(Winterbolt consults the Genie.)
Genie: He has the wonder of the Aurora Borealis within him, a power far greater than thine. So long as he uses the nose for good, it can never go out.
Winterbolt: Then I shall see that he uses it for evil.
Genie: Not in these northern lands, oh, master. The memory of Lady Boreal still glows here, and protects him.
Winterbolt: He must be made to leave the North Pole!
Genie: He sets forth but once a year, Christmas Eve.
Winterbolt: I cannot wait! There must be a way to make him leave now! Help me, oh, Genie of the Ice Scepter!
Genie: Look into thy Magic Eye of Snow. There you will find the answer.
(Winterbolt's Eye of Snow shows a hot air balloon floating through the air.)
Winterbolt: What's this? A balloon? How can a hot air balloon help me lure Rudolph away? Hmm. Ah. (chuckles) I wonder...
Scene 4: Join the Circus[]
(The hot air balloon flies over the North Pole. A cheerful man in a uniform calls down from the basket.)
Milton: Rudolph! Hey, Rudolph!
Rudolph: Hey! It's Milton!
Frosty: Who?
Rudolph: The flying ice cream man!
(Milton's balloon descends near a icy hill, where a freezer full of ice cream is built within.)
Rudolph: He keeps his stock up here, where it won't melt, and this time, every year, he picks up a big load to take down to the seashore for the 4th of July weekend. Wait 'til you meet him! A million laughs!
(Frosty, Milly, and Chilly begin to follow Rudolph, but Frosty stops when he hears his wife Crystal calling to them.)
Crystal: Frosty! Milly! Chilly! Dinner's ready, sweethearts!
Frosty: Sorry, Crystal. I gotta meet somebody. Rudolph says he's a million laughs.
Crystal: But I've got dinner on the table. It'll get all warm.
Frosty: You could always cool it up in the ice stove. Come on! A million laughs!
Milly and Chilly: Come on! Come on!
(Rudolph comes up to Milton. Milton is sitting by his balloon, depressed.)
Rudolph: How are ya doin', Milton?
Milton: Awful. (sobs)
Rudolph: What's wrong, Milton?
Milton: I'm in love.
Rudolph: With who?
(Milton unfolds a circus poster. A woman standing on the high wire is in the center of the poster. Frosty's family arrives.)
Rudolph: You're in love with a whole circus?
Crystal: I'd call a guy like that fickle.
Milton: No. Just with her. Lanie Loraine.
(The image of Lanie on the poster fades to a flashback of her, dressed in bridal attire on the high wire. She waves down to her fiancée Milton dressed in a tuxedo. The circus owner and Lanie's mother, Lilly Loraine, and a preacher stand next to Milton.)
Milton: (v.o.) Her mother owns the circus. We were gonna be married, right on the high wire. I had a preacher, and a net, and everything.
Rudolph: (v.o.) Well, what happened?
Milton: (v.o.) Oh, the circus is going broke. And another showman, a crook named Sam Spangles, is ready to pay off the back taxes and take over the show.
(Sam is joined by a police officer, Officer Kelly, who sticks foreclosure notices all over the circus, even on the rear of an elephant. Lilly is helping Milton climb up to the high wire, when Sam and Officer Kelly catch her attention. Lilly is so shocked upon seeing the foreclosure notices Officer Kelly is holding, she lets go of Milton, and he falls to the floor.)
Sam: Okay, pack it up over here!
(Officer Kelly sticks a foreclosure notice on Milton's face. Lanie, sad that the wedding is called off, turns away from the view below, and holds up her umbrella, which also has a foreclosure notice stuck to it. The scene fades back to Lanie on the poster, back at the North Pole.)
Milton: So, you see, Lanie can't even think about romance, and if her mom's show doesn't get a big audience on the 4th, it'll be sold to Sam Spangles on July 5th. Lanie will have to go on the road, and we'll never get together.
(Winterbolt watches through his Eye of Snow.)
Winterbolt: (laughs) What luck! Thank you, Eye of Snow! Rudolph will never suspect a thing! (he scoops up a handful of snow) First, however, I shall put a little idea into Milton's empty head.
(Winterbolt whispers a chant into the pile of snow and blows it, transforming it into snowflakes that sprinkle into the Eye of Snow.)
Milton: I don't know what to do.
(Winterbolt's idea floats into Milton's head.)
Milton: Hey! I just got a great idea! There's only one guy who could draw the kind of crowds the Circus by the Sea needs! (thinks for a while, and another idea from Winterbolt fills his head) And that's you, Rudolph!
Rudolph: Me?
Milton: Why, the kids would just pack that tent to see you and your nose in person!
Chilly: Oh, wow!
Milly: Uncle Rudolph in the circus?
Rudolph: Hey, wait a minute!
Frosty: Rudolph, you just gotta go!
Rudolph: Well, if you say so, pal. Okay. (his nose glows)
Crystal: It would be wonderful if we could go with him, Frosty. I sure would like the twins to see a real circus.
(Another idea floats into Milton's head.)
Milton: Wow! If you'd appear too, Frosty, we have to get a bigger tent!
Chilly: Oh, daddy!
Milly: Can we?
Chilly: Please?
Milly: We'd be good!
Frosty: No way. The seashore on the 4th of July? We'd be real misfits. We'd melt in 10 seconds flat.
Milly and Chilly: Aww.
Frosty: Being snowpeople has its drawbacks. Sometimes, I feel like a real misfit.
Crystal: Aw, Frosty. I just forgot for a minute. I'm sorry. Why, I wouldn't have us any other way.
Everything I've always wanted
You are everything I've always wanted
And I'll never let you go
(A flashback sequence. The children build Crystal for Frosty. Frosty kisses the snow-woman on the cheek and she comes to life.)
I will take deserted byways
Dusty roads or cement highways
Follow you for rain, or sleet, or snow
(Frosty and Crystal belly-whop down a snowy slope.)
In my wildest dreams, I never dreamed I'd find somebody
I would love much more than I could ever show
(The scene changes to Frosty and Crystal getting married by the Snow Parson. Once they're married, Frosty kisses Crystal.)
You are everything I've always wanted more than anything
And if there's any doubt, well, now you know
(Newlyweds Frosty and Crystal ice skate to their new house. Late on, Frosty and Crystal sit by an icy fireplace. Their twin children, Milly and Chilly, join them. Milly stands by Crystal while Chilly builds a tower with ice cubes.)
You are everything I've always wanted more than anything
And if there's any doubt, well, now you know
(The flashback sequence ends and fades to Crystal singing to Frosty in the present.)
And if there's any doubt, well, now you know
Rudolph: That melting business is a nuisance, but it doesn't make you all misfits, Frosty. Take it from another misfit. (winks) If only there was someway to make you un-meltable.
(A gust of snow swirls, and Winterbolt appears before Rudolph and the Snowman family.)
Milly and Chilly: Wow!
Milly: Like a fairy godfather.
Winterbolt: Oh-ho-ho. Just say, I'm an old, old magical friend, who wishes to help. (pats Chilly, then Milly on the head; chuckles) Children should see a circus at least once in their lives, so I will... help.
(Winterbolt laughs with Milly and Chilly. Milton joins Rudolph and the Snowman family.)
Rudolph: But what can you do, sir, to stop Frosty and his family from melting?
Winterbolt: Observe. (presents sparkling devices in his hand) Magic amulets. If Frosty, Crystal, Milly, and Chilly wear them about their necks, they cannot melt. Even though the temperature be hot enough to melt steel, still, they will remain cool and icy.
Frosty: Wow! Our troubles are over forever!
Winterbolt: No. Not forever. See? On each is a design, the letter "F" four times entwined.
(The snowflakes in the amulets form four letter "F"s.)
Frosty: Yeah. "F", "F", "F", "F". What's that stand for?
Winterbolt: That means the amulet's magic only lasts until the "Final Firework Fades on the Fourth". You must return here before the fireworks finish, or you will melt in the heat of the summer eve. (gives Frosty the amulets)
Frosty: But until then?
Winterbolt: Why, you will be safe.
Milly and Chilly: Wow! The circus!
(Winterbolt disappears with another strong gust of wind, which blows back Rudolph, the Snowman family, and Milton.)
Milton: Wow! He certainly does blow in and blow out!
Milly and Chilly: (laughing)
Scene 5: Going to the circus[]
(Rudolph, Frosty, and Milton meet Santa in his office.)
Santa: Well, I'm delighted you're all going for a summer holiday, but... I never heard of any icy fairy godfather.
Rudolph: You should've seen him, sir.
Santa: I wish I had. Who could he be? Hmm. Well, I guess I'm... just being overcautious. (laughs) You all go and have a wonderful time!
Rudolph, Frosty, and Milton: (cheering)
Frosty: Just one thing.
Milton: What's wrong, Frosty?
Frosty: It's too bad the kids will have to miss the 4th of July fireworks. But half a vacation is better than none, I guess.
Santa: No, you're right. Children should see fireworks. Let me think.
Winterbolt: (watching from his lair) And now to entwine them just a bit more into a morass from which they will never escape. (chuckles)
(Winterbolt scoops a handful of snow, whispers into it, and blows it into his Eye of Snow. The snow falls into Santa's head.)
Santa: Say, I just got a wonderful idea! Mama and I will fly our sleigh down for the 4th! We'll pick up Frosty and family just before the fireworks finish, and whisk 'em back up to the North Pole by the time the last one fades!
Rudolph: Wonderful!
Frosty: What a neat idea!
Milton: I can't believe it! Rudolph, Frosty, and now, Santa! Why, this... this really will be the greatest show in... in the universe!
(Rudolph, Frosty, and Santa all laugh.)
Santa: Yes, it will!
(Milton looks at the poster of Lanie as he sings a reprise of Crystal's song.)
Milton:
Everything I've always wanted
You are everything I've always wanted
And I'll never let you go
(Rudolph, the Frosty family, and Milton board the hot air balloon. The balloon floats away as Santa, Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the woodland creatures wave goodbye.)
I will take deserted byways
Dusty roads or cement highways
Follow you through rain, or sleet, or snow
In my wildest dreams, I never dreamed I'd find somebody
I would love much more than I could ever show
Santa: See you in a few days!
Milton:
You are everything I've always wanted more than anything
And if there's any doubt, well, now you know
Scene 6: Meeting Lilly[]
(Milton's balloon flies over the warmer country. After flying over a forest and town, the balloon nears the Circus by the Sea, located at the beach, near the ocean.)
Crystal: Oh, Frosty, it's lovely!
Chilly: Oh! Look over there! It's the circus!
Milton: Yup. They're starting to set up their tents.
(The circus tent is being set up by the circus animals and performers.)
Lilly: Come on, you guys, let's get this tent up!
Lanie: Oh, Mama, look, it's Milton!
Circus performers: Yaaay!
Milton: Hi, Lanie! Hi, Miss Loraine!
Lanie: Oh, Mama, isn't he wonderful? He's the greatest ice cream man in the world.
Lilly: Oh, forget him, honey. If there's one thing life taught me, you can't live on banana splits.
(Milton's balloon lands on the circus lot. Milton jumps to the ground.)
Milton: Lanie, look who I've got for the show! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman!
(The door to the balloon basket drops, revealing Rudolph, Frosty, and his family.)
Rudolph and Frosty: In person!
Lilly: Well, I'll be! (fires one of her pistols into the sky) Yahoo!
Lanie: Oh, Mama! We'll be a hit! What do you think of Milton now?
Lilly: Maybe I was wrong. Milton's like the butter pecan he sells. A little nuts, but mighty yummy! (shoots her other pistol into the sky) Wahoo!
Lanie: Oh, Milton.
(Lanie and Milton run to each other and hug.)
Milton: Oh, Lanie. Now everything will turn out alright.
Lanie: Rudolph and Frosty? I can't believe it!
Milton: And Santa Claus, too!
Lilly: Santa, too? What an idea for a closing act! (fires both her pistols into the sky) Print more tickets!
Lanie: Why, it's just like Christmas is coming early this year. Oh, Milton. Everything is just perfect now.
(Milton and Lanie go into kiss, but they are blocked from view by Lilly's cowboy hat. Fade to the roustabouts still pulling up the tent.)
Lilly: Now, we got something to work for! Come on with that tent! Heave, ho-ho-ho! Heave, ho-ho-ho!
Tall Clown: What's with the "ho-ho-ho"?
Lilly: Well, it is Christmas, isn't it?
Christmas in July seems early
(Milton and Lanie hold hands over a "L & M" heart sign etched into a tree trunk.)
For a holly holiday
In this world of hurly-burly
We need it every day
Remember you should have the Christmas spirit
(Lilly lifts up Milly and Chilly, spins them around, and gives them to Frosty and Crystal.)
Only for the whole year through
Every day is just like Christmas
As long as I'm with you...
Scene 7: Scratcher and the Snow Dragons[]
(Winterbolt watches through his Eye of Snow.)
Winterbolt: And I suppose they believe everyone will live happily ever after. (stands up from his throne) Never! And now for the snow dragons. Make yourselves ready, my pretties!
Snow Dragons: (roaring)
Winterbolt: Build fury in your hearts! Soon, I will have a very special job for you! (cackles)
Snow Dragons: (roaring)
(Winterbolt consults the Genie.)
Genie: What is thy will, oh, master?
Winterbolt: Genie of the Ice Scepter, find me a reindeer as mean as Rudolph is kind, as cunning as Rudolph is guileless, as selfish as Rudolph is giving. A corrupt, cunning knave of a creature with ambition to equal my own.
Genie: But why, oh, master?
Winterbolt: All part of my plan, good Genie. All part of my plan. Find me such a reindeer!
Genie: Beyond the Forest of the Burned Christmas Trees and the Hill of the Broken Baubles, there, you will find the Caves of Lost Rejections. Ask the keeper for...
(Fade to the Caves of Lost Rejections. Winterbolt is consulting the keeper.)
Keeper: He's in Cave Number 13.
Winterbolt: I wish to see him.
Keeper: You ain't the only one. I've been tryin' to throw him out all week! Behind on his rent, he is, but he's mean, and I don't fancy risking my neck.
Winterbolt: 13, you say?
Keeper: That's right this way.
(Winterbolt passes the caves of the inmates, including a scrawny wolf looking into a mirror, a bat wearing a top hat, and a walrus wearing an eyepatch playing with a yo-yo. Eventually, Winterbolt reaches the end of the cave, at Cave Number 13.)
Winterbolt: Scratcher!
Scratcher: (from inside the cave) Whatcha want?
Winterbolt: Come forth!
Scratcher: Heh, heh, heh, make me.
Winterbolt: Very well.
(Winterbolt points his scepter into Scratcher's cave, and fires a ray, pulling Scratcher to him.)
Scratcher: Hey! What's happening?!
(Once out of the cave, Winterbolt drops Scratcher to the floor)
Scratcher: Alright! Alright! For cryin' out loud! I'll pay the rent!
Winterbolt: (picks up Scratcher) I don't want the rent! I want Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and you will help me.
Scratcher: Rudolph? (folds his hooves) Don't mention that name. I was all set to be one of Santa's reindeer when he came along.
Winterbolt: Indeed. Santa fired you to make room for Rudolph?
Scratcher: Well, I also stole some toys and ate a whole new batch of candy canes.
Winterbolt: Candy-- Excellent! (laughs, putting down Scratcher)
Scratcher: It was all downhill from there, 'til I finally ended up in this joint.
Winterbolt: Good. How would you like to work for me?
Scratcher: Hmm, doing what?
Winterbolt: Destroying Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Scratcher: Sounds like a good job to me. (chuckles) What do I gotta do?
Winterbolt: Oh, nothing much. Spend a few luxurious days at the seashore, get to know Rudolph, lead him astray, as it were.
Scratcher: Gee, it sounds like a pretty good idea! (laughs)
Winterbolt: Now, go at once, and find a man named Sam Spangles, and then...
Scene 8: The day of the show[]
(At the Circus by the Sea, Rudolph is walking with Lilly outside the front of the tent.)
Rudolph: Well, Miss Loraine, we're finally ready to open.
Lilly: We worked night and day, kid, but we made it.
Rudolph: Boy, running a circus is no easy job.
Lilly: Well, I tell ya, Blinky, it's got its ups and its downs. Life with a circus is like life with a guy. Sometimes you're low, and sometimes you're high.
Chicken today and feathers tomorrow
One day is good, and the next day, there's sorrow
I don't care what, long as I got my guy
Chicken today and feathers tomorrow
One day, I lend, and the next day, I borrow
I don't care what, long as I got my guy
I'm like a river, rolling along
A carefree river, singing a song
And where my hat is, that is where I belong
Chicken today, and feathers tomorrow
Life is that way, there's some joy and some sorrow
I don't care what, long as I got my guy
I'm like a river, rolling along
A carefree river, singing a song
And where my hat is, that is where I belong
Chicken today, and feathers tomorrow
Life is that way, there's some joy and some sorrow
I don't care what, long as I got my guy
I don't care what, long as I got my guy
Scene 9: Scratcher's opportunity[]
(In Winterbolt's lair...)
Winterbolt: Now, have you memorized your instructions?
Scratcher: Don't worry. Me and Sam Spangles will take care of everything.
Winterbolt: Good. (pats Scratcher's back) Here, nibble on these. These are Santa's magic feed corn.
Scratcher: Hey! That means I'll be able to fly like Donner, and Blitzen, and... all those other goody-goods! (eats the corn in Winterbolt's hand)
(Winterbolt leads Scratcher out the entrance of his lair, where his snow dragons are.)
Winterbolt: Now, fly forth and do my bidding.
Scratcher: What's the hurry?
Winterbolt: Soon, my pets here will blow up the worst snowstorm of the century.
Scratcher: Well, what if I get lost? I mean, I don't have a red nose, you know.
Winterbolt: You'll be well out of these parts before the storm hits!
Scratcher: But... I think...
Winterbolt: Will you go forth, forthwith?!
(Winterbolt fires his scepter down at Scratcher's feet, sending him flying into the sky.)
Scratcher: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh...!!!
Winterbolt: (to his snow dragons) Oh, soon. Soon, my little pets. We mustn't be hasty. Ha-ha-ha. Timing is everything, if my intricate plan is to succeed.
Scene 10: Santa gets lost[]
(In Santa's castle, Mrs. Claus is packing for the trip to the seashore. She strains as she sets down a big trunk, then shuts it by sitting on it.)
Santa: You really are looking forward to this trip, aren't you?
Mrs. Claus: Papa, I haven't had a summer vacation since... Can't remember when.
Santa: We worked too hard, Mama. (sits down on the trunk with Mrs. Claus) Oh, though, I guess I'm not the easiest man in the world to live with, though.
Mrs. Claus: (chuckles) Well, only when it gets close to Christmas Eve.
Santa: (laughs) Ah, we have had lots and lots of Christmas Eves, Mama.
Mrs. Claus: They were good times, Papa.
Santa: And I still love you, just as much as the first day I saw you.
Mrs. Claus: Instead of talking, you gave me a lovely china doll.
Santa: Well, giving toys is my way of saying "hello", and showing my love.
Mrs. Claus: I know that, Papa.
(Santa kisses Mrs. Claus on the cheek, and they both laugh.)
Santa: Mama.
(Santa's cuckoo clock chimes, and a tiny gnome comes out through the doors.)
Gnome: Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!
Mrs. Claus: Eleven o'clock, Papa.
Santa: Huh?
Mrs. Claus: The circus parade's at 12:00.
Santa: Oh.
Mrs. Claus: Hurry, or we'll miss it.
Santa: Huh.
(Santa stands up, accidentally causing the trunk to open, spilling the clothes. Santa and Mrs. Claus laugh at this, while Winterbolt watches them.)
Winterbolt: Go on, laugh, you old fools, while you may. (cackles)
(Santa and Mrs. Claus, dressed in summer clothes, board the sleigh with help from their elves.)
Santa: Thank you, little Kringles! We'll be back! Late tonight!
Mrs. Claus: Don't wait up! (waves to the elves)
(Santa pulls the reins, and his reindeer pull the sleigh up into the sky as the elves wave goodbye.)
Santa: Away! Away! Dash away, all!
(Fade to Winterbolt, commanding his snow dragons.)
Winterbolt: Use fog to blind, and snow to bury, wind to tear the heart that's merry. Ice and gale, and sleet and hail, Santa must, in his mission fail!
(The snow dragons roar as they breath ice and fog. Santa and Mrs. Claus fly in the sleigh, on their way to the seashore. Mrs. Claus feels a chill.)
Mrs. Claus: Oh, brrr. Oh, that's an angry wind for this time of year.
Santa: Yes. I, I don't like it at all.
Mrs. Claus: (scared) Oh! Papa!
Santa: Huh?
Mrs. Claus: (points) Look!
(Santa sees a giant swirling tornado close to where he's flying.)
Santa: (gasps) My goodness! We've got to get back!
(Santa tries pulling the reins back as the beach umbrella in the back of the sleigh is blown away.)
Santa: Back! Dasher! Dancer! Comet!
Mrs. Claus: It's too late, Papa! It's got us!
Santa: Hold on, Mama!
(The sleigh is pulled into the tornado as more storm clouds appear.)
Santa: Oh, if only Rudolph were here!
Scene 11: The storm[]
(Meanwhile, back in the warm country, the clock tower in town strikes twelve. The Circus by the Sea parade has started, with Lilly at the front of the parade, riding a giraffe, and a big band following behind. Behind them are Rudolph, Frosty, Crystal, Milly, and Chilly, all riding a float shaped like a sled with a Christmas tree at the back. Over the scene of the parade, a faded vision of Winterbolt cackling appears. Back in the tornado, Santa is flying his sleigh from within.)
Santa: Well, we're safe here in the storm's eye, Mama. But I'm afraid it's only for a little while.
Mrs. Claus: Papa, do you think we'll ever get out?
Santa: Storms are strange things, dear. I mean...
Mrs. Claus: Are you frightened? Of what may happen?
Santa: No, my dear. Not at all. Even with this storm.
I see rainbows
When I look at you
And the rain goes
As the sun comes through
All things wonderful
Are what you are
You shine brighter
Than the brightest star
I see roses growing
In the snow
Roses growing
Everywhere you go
(A flashback sequence shows Kris and Jessica getting married.)
I see rainbows
When I look at you
Rain or shine
All because you're mine
(Fade back to the present.)
Mrs. Claus: (gives Santa a scarf) Papa, we've gotten out of worse situations than this.
Santa: Yes.
Mrs. Claus: I say the best thing to do would be to get down from these stormy skies and continue on the ground.
Santa: Alright, Mama, we'll try it. Hang on.
(Santa flies his sleigh down the spiraling tornado.)
Scene 12: The parade[]
(The scene fades to the circus parade going down the street.)
Lilly:
Don't let the parade pass you by
Live livin' it up, 'til you die
Always be hep, and keep in step
With the times a-changing, change your life when it needs re-arranging
You gotta believe in your gut
You'll never get caught in a rut
Don't be afraid, you've got it made
If you don't let the parade, don't let the parade pass you by
(As the parade keeps going down the street, Milton is selling his ice cream to the children.)
Lilly:
With the times a-changing, change your life when it needs re-arranging
You gotta believe in your gut
You'll never get caught in a rut
(Lanie and Milton wave at each other.)
Don't be afraid, you've got it made
If you don't let the parade, don't let the parade pass you by...!
Crystal: Smile, Frosty. Lilly says that in showbusiness, you gotta keep smiling.
Frosty: But I'm kinda worried Santa won't be here on time.
Milly: Daddy, the show must go on.
Chilly: That's what Aunt Lilly says.
Frosty: Well, okay. But I got a feeling tonight, there's gonna be a real wet act. And it won't be the seals.
(Scratcher watches from the crowd. He goes into the alley, where he meets Sam.)
Scratcher: Are you Sam, the circus man?
Sam: How can I be a circus man when I don't have a circus?
Scratcher: I think I might have an interesting proposition.
(Scratcher and Sam snicker.)
Scene 13: Rudolph meets Scratcher[]
(Later that evening, Rudolph is with Lilly in the circus lot.)
Lilly: Just do your act like you did in rehearsal, Blinky, and we're bound to be a hit.
Rudolph: I'll try, Miss Loraine. I sure will try.
Lilly: Well, I gotta give a pep talk to the clowns. Hang in there, Blinky.
(As Lilly leaves, Scratcher shows up from behind a wagon.)
Scratcher: Hey, Rudolph.
Rudolph: (gasps) Scratcher?
Scratcher: Oh, the big star remembers his old buddy!
Rudolph: We were never buddies.
Scratcher: Let bygones be bygones. (coughs)
Rudolph: What's the matter?
Scratcher: Boy, am I really down and out. Haven't had a bite to eat in three days. Think you could get me a job with the show?
Rudolph: I guess we could always use another roustabout to help with the tents.
Scratcher: You're a prince, Rudolph! A prince!
Rudolph: I'll speak to Miss Loraine. (walks away)
Scratcher: Yeah, you do that, Rudolph. You just do that. (laughs) Sucker.
(Cut to Winterbolt in his lair.)
Winterbolt: Perfect, perfect! Everything going according to schedule. Now to tighten the net. (cackles)
(Winterbolt walks up to an sleigh made from an icy throne, pulled by four large, ice-blue snakes.)
Snakes: (hissing)
Winterbolt: Ah, what a magnificent sleigh and team the Snow Genie has created for me! Instead of reindeer, I have rein-snakes! (cackles; sits down in his sleigh) To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now, slink away, slink away, slink away, all.
(Winterbolt cracks a whip at the snakes, and they take off into the blowing blizzard, pulling Winterbolt's sleigh.)
Winterbolt: (cackles; cracks his whip) Onward! Onward!
Scene 14: Circus by the Sea[]
(That night, inside the Circus by the Sea tent, the circus band plays a fanfare, starting the show. A large crowd cheers. A spotlight shines on Lilly standing in the ring.)
Lilly: Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the new edition of Lilly Loraine's Circus by the Sea! Bring on the clowns!
(The clowns come out from backstage, and begin to perform. Rudolph peeks from behind the backstage curtains. Scratcher shows up to Rudolph, pulling a wagon loaded with props.)
Scratcher: (groans with effort) Boy, this is a great job you got me, Rudolph!
Rudolph: Well, just do it well, and I'm sure you'll get a promotion.
Scratcher: (laughs) I ain't complaining, old buddy! Oh, uh, you know, Mrs. Loraine wants me to get something out of the office wagon, but it's all dark in there. I think a fuse blew. Will you come in with me, and give me some light?
Rudolph: But I've gotta do my act!
Scratcher: (laughs) It won't take a minute. Let me finish hauling this thing, and I'll meet you over by the wagon.
Rudolph: Well, okay.
Scratcher: Oh, you really are a buddy, old buddy! (groans as he continues to pull the wagon) This is hard.
(In the forest, away from the circus, Santa's sleigh team of reindeer is pulling the sleigh across the road as the snowstorm continues.)
Santa: Oh... It's so late, Mama. Poor Frosty.
Mrs. Claus: We're doing everything we can, Papa.
Santa: Look up there, Mama. Black as pitch. Not a star in the sky.
(Over the snowstorm, Winterbolt flies in his sleigh.)
Winterbolt: Onward! Onward! We don't want to miss the fireworks do we? (cackles)
(Back in the tent, Lanie is doing her high wire act. Suddenly, she starts losing balance. The crowd gasps.)
Lanie: Oh! I forgot my parasol!
(Lilly shows up on the high wire, giving Lanie her parasol.)
Lilly: How many times have I gotta tell you? Make notes for yourself! (leaves)
Lanie: Yes, Mama.
(Lanie gets her balance back, and walks across the tightrope as the crowd cheers. Below, Frosty and his family enter the ring, each riding on an elephant.)
Lilly: And now, presenting one of our star attractions, Frosty the Snowman and family in a sensational spell-binding exhibition of world championship belly-whopping!
(Frosty and his family stand over a tall slide.)
Frosty: Now, meet the folks. Like I always say, the family that slides together, abides together.
Crystal: You don't always say that, Frosty.
Chilly: Stick to the script, Daddy.
Frosty: If Santa don't get here soon, we'll be sticking to everything. Come on!
(Frosty belly-whops down the slide, followed by Crystal, Chilly, and Milly. They fly off the slide. Frosty lands on top of a stool, Crystal lands on Frosty, and Chilly and Milly land on Crystal, all balancing on one another. Outside, in the circus lot, Rudolph and Scratcher meet up.)
Scratcher: Hey, I've been waiting for you over by the office wagon! Come on, Rudolph!
(Before Rudolph could follow Scratcher, he hears a fanfare based on the tune of his signature song.)
Rudolph: That's my warning cue! Look, as soon as I'm done, I'll meet you by the wagon. I promise.
(Rudolph runs into the tent as Scratcher smiles sinisterly.)
Scratcher: That's my buddy. (snickers)
(Inside the tent...)
Lilly: Lights, please!
(The band behind Lilly plays as the lights dim, a spotlight shining on Lilly.)
Lilly: Bring out the fog machine, boys!
(A fog machine on wheels, piloted by two clowns and a monkey, comes out onto the ring. One of the clowns activates the fog machine. Fog sprays out from the nozzle, bathing Rudolph in fog.)
Lilly: Are you ready, Rudolph?
Rudolph: I am ready!
Lilly: Then lights on, Rudolph!
Rudolph: Lights on!
(The glow from Rudolph's nose appears from behind the fog. The glow shines so bright, the fog disappears.)
Lilly: He's burned off the fog! Let's hear it for Rudolph!
(The crowd cheers. Rudolph flies out of the tent.)
Lilly: He'll be back, folks! He'll be back!
Scene 15: Rudolph gets tricked[]
(In the circus lot, Scratcher is with Sam, who is dressing himself up in a policeman outfit.)
Scratcher: His act is over! Quick! Here's the rest of the disguise!
Sam: (puts on the policeman helmet) Just think. Me, Sam Spangles, a policeman. (snickers)
Scratcher: Here he comes. Hide.
(Sam runs and hides behind the wagons as Rudolph descends from the sky and lands on the lot.)
Scratcher: Good ol' buddy. Now, turn it on.
(Rudolph turns on his nose glow, and opens the door to the office wagon, illuminating the dark interior.)
Scratcher: She said it's under the table here.
Rudolph: What are you looking for?
Scratcher: Uh, she said it was a little leather suitcase. Oh, there it is! Gee, thanks, old buddy.
(Scratcher falls to the floor, and pretends to be hurt.)
Scratcher: Oh! Oh! Oh, I hurt myself!
Rudolph: Just taking a little fall like that?
Scratcher: I twisted my nose! My neck, or something. Now, I can't pick up that suitcase. But would you do it for me?
Rudolph: Well, sure! All this fuss over a little suitcase. What's inside?
Scratcher: She didn't say. Just pick it up and give it to the cop waiting on the corner.
Rudolph: Okay, but...
(Rudolph opens the suitcase and is surprised when he sees what's inside.)
Rudolph: Hey! This bag is filled with money! The night's receipts!
Scratcher: Oh. That's why she wants to give it to the cop. So he can take it to the bank and make a night deposit.
Rudolph: Well... Okay.
(Rudolph picks up the suitcase and heads to the wagon door.)
Scene 16: Christmas in July finale[]
Back in the circus ring, the crowd is cheering.)
Lilly: And now, for our grand Christmas in July finale!
(The spotlight on Lilly dims. A platform lowers down, carrying a choir of circus performers and Milly and Chilly, each holding a candle.)
Choir:
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play
And wild and sweet, the words repeat
Of peace on Earth, goodwill to men
(The platform rises back up, and the spotlight shines again on Lilly.)
Lilly: Whether July or December, Christmas lives in our hearts. But it's up at the North Pole, remember, where Christmas always starts.
(A "North Pole" sign rises up to the ring. Milton, dressed up as Santa, comes out on stage, carrying a sack, and ringing a bell.)
Milton: Ho-ho. Ho-ho. Ho-ho. Hee-hee. Ha-ha. Hoo-hoo. Ho-ho. Ho-ho. Where are my elves! Oh, hark! (the stage starts shaking) Here they come now!
(Two baby elephants come on stage, dressed as elves.)
Lilly: Elephants?! (to the clown chef) I thought the midgets were gonna play the elves!
Clown Chef: Nah, they wanna play the polar bears.
Lilly: (exasperated) Actors.
Milton: Very good, elves. But I have an idea of what will bring us lots of cheer. So just to please all the girls and boys, why don't we have a parade of the toys?
(A poodle pulls a large toy box wagon into the ring. The door to the box opens. Two clowns dressed as balls roll out. A bear dressed as a teddy bear hops out. The children in the audience watch with wonder as more circus performers dressed as toys come out of the toy box. The tall clown pops out of a jack-in-the-box. Two lions dressed as plush lions jump out. A monkey rides on a wooden horse, followed by a midget on a rolling sailboat, and two midgets on a toy train. The performers all stand around Milton, as they all take a bow. The crowd cheers.)
Milton: And now to make us all feel jolly, my very best toy, a dancing dolly.
(Lanie sings and dances to the stage.)
Lanie:
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
At the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see
Every couple tries to stop
(Lanie stands on top of the North Pole sign. From underneath the sign grows a Christmas tree.)
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Let the Christmas spirit ring
Later we'll have some pumpkin pie
And we'll do some caroling
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing, "Let's be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly"
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Have a happy holiday
Everyone dancing merrily
In the new old-fashioned way
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing, "Let's be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly"
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Have a happy holiday
Everyone dancing merrily
In the new old-fashioned way
(The crowd applauds the performance. On the street, Rudolph and Scratcher meet up with Sam in his policeman disguise. Rudolph gives Sam the suitcase.)
Sam: Oh, thank you, me fine lad. Welp, off to the bank! (takes off)
(Frosty is pacing around in the circus lot, carrying a Christmas tree hat, just as Rudolph returns.)
Frosty: Where were you, Rudolph?
Rudolph: Frosty, something funny is going on.
Frosty: I don't think it's so funny. I'm just about ready to give up hope.
Rudolph: Oh, I don't mean that.
Frosty: Here's your star. (puts the hat on Rudolph's head)
Rudolph: Aw, Frosty, Santa gave his word. He'll be here before the fireworks are over.
Frosty: Oh, I don't know. (gets on Rudolph's back)
Rudolph: You ever see a policeman wearing a helmet?
Frosty: No. But then, I never looked for one, either.
(Rudolph carries Frosty into the tent.)
Frosty: Sure I'm not too heavy?
Rudolph: No, but you're kinda chilly.
(Rudolph flies Frosty around the Christmas tree, and stands up on top, lighting his nose. The spotlight shines on Lilly.)
Lilly: Well, that's the show, folks! A little corny, but expensive! Be sure to hang around outside for our pre-4th of July fireworks display! And come back again next year!
(The crowd cheers as the lights dim as the band plays the closing music. Rudolph and Frosty return to the circus lot.)
Frosty: (dismounts Rudolph) You hear that, Rudolph? (removes Rudolph's hat) Time for the fireworks.
Rudolph: I heard, Frosty. I just don't understand. And all that business with Scratcher. Something's real wrong here.
Chilly: Come on, Daddy, Uncle Rudolph.
Milly: Don't wanna miss the fireworks!
Frosty: Miss 'em? I'd like to stop 'em.
Milly: Why do wanna stop 'em, Daddy? Aren't you patriotic?
Frosty: Sure, I'm patriotic. (gulps and places his hand over his heart) My only regret is, I only have but one life to melt for my country.
Rudolph: Wait a minute, Frosty! What you just said! Maybe we can stop the fireworks!
Frosty: Yeah! Let's find out who's setting them off.
Rudolph: You go this way, I'll go that. (he and Frosty run off)
Scene 17: The fireworks begin[]
(Lilly lights the fuse to a large row of fireworks. One by one, the fireworks shoot into the sky and blow up. Frosty runs up to Lilly. The crowd watches and gasps in awe.)
Frosty: Mrs. Loraine, you've gotta help me.
Lilly: Anything, Frosty. You just name it.
Frosty: Stop the fireworks.
Lilly: You named the wrong one.
Frosty: Huh?
Lilly: I can't stop 'em. Once the main fuse is lit, they keep going. Even if a cloudburst poured down on top of 'em.
(Another firework goes off. The circus performers watch with awe.)
Lilly: Why do you want 'em stopped?
Frosty: Well, I got a... funny kind of feeling.
Lilly: About fireworks?
Frosty: No. About melting. How many are there?
Lilly: Exactly a hundred.
(Another firework blasts off.)
Lilly: That's number three.
Frosty: I'm counting, I'm counting.
(The third firework explodes in the sky.)
Crowd: Ooh...!
Frosty: Which one's number 100?
Lilly: Right over there.
Frosty: That's my number, alright. And when my number goes up, my number is up. And where's Santa?
(Santa and Mrs. Claus continue through the snowstorm.)
Santa: Still no sign of it letting up, Mama. I'm afraid we're gonna be too late to save Frosty.
Mrs. Claus: It's not your fault, Papa. All we can do is keep going.
Santa: (shakes his reins) Ha! Faster!
(The reindeer keep pulling the sleigh through the storm. At the circus, Frosty and his family keep watching the fireworks go off.)
Frosty: That's number 72.
Milly: Daddy, why are you so worried about the pretty fireworks?
Crystal: Children, you must be very brave.
Frosty: Aw, gee. Why'd I get everybody into this mess? (boom) 74.
Chilly: We promise to be brave, Mommy.
Crystal: I'm very proud of you.
(BOOM!)
Frosty: 75.
Crystal: (sad) Oh, Frosty...
Frosty: There, there, honey. I just want you to know I'm sure glad I married you.
Crystal: I am too, love.
Frosty:
You are everything I've always wanted more than anything
And if there's any doubt, well, now you know
(BOOM!)
Frosty: 76. Boy, I remember when I could only count to four. The good old days.
(The fireworks continue blowing up in the sky.)
Scene 18: Extinguished[]
(Winterbolt is flying his sleigh closer to the circus.)
Winterbolt: (cackles) Now, to go down and put out Rudolph's light for good!
(Rudolph looks up, waiting for Santa to arrive.)
Lilly: Hey! We've been robbed!
(Rudolph sees Lilly at the office wagon with Officer Kelly.)
Lilly: I went to get the money to give to Officer Kelly here, and it's gone!
Rudolph: He's the policeman it was supposed to go to?
Lilly: Well, yeah. Why?
Rudolph: Didn't you send Scratcher to fetch it?
Lilly: Me, let a roustabout reindeer handle the loot?! I ain't that daffy!
Rudolph: Oh, wow!
Lilly: Hey. What do you know about this, Blinky?
(The fireworks are still going off.)
Frosty, Crystal, Milly, and Chilly: 91!
Milly: Daddy, Mommy, look! It's Santa!
Crystal: Frosty, it's the sleigh!
Frosty: Huh? Oh, boy!
Rudolph: Wait a minute! It's a sleigh, alright, but it's not Santa.
(Winterbolt's sleigh comes into view and lands in the lot. Thunder and lightning flash at his presence.)
Winterbolt: (dismounts his sleigh) Oh, how I've waited for this moment.
(Rudolph and Frosty run over to see Winterbolt. Another firework goes off.)
Frosty: 93!
Rudolph: Sir! Sir!
Winterbolt: My name is Winterbolt. King Winterbolt.
Frosty: A king? Gee!
Rudolph: Your... Your Majesty, Santa never showed up.
Winterbolt: Yes, I know.
Rudolph: Frosty's time is almost over.
Frosty: Just seven more fireworks!
(BOOM!)
Winterbolt: Correction - six. That was number 94.
Rudolph: You just got to make those amulets last a little longer.
Frosty: Maybe even a lot longer.
Winterbolt: Of course, of course, my dear friends.
Rudolph: You hear that, Frosty?
Frosty: Oh, wow! Wait 'til I tell the wife and the kids!
Winterbolt: One moment!
Frosty: Huh?
(BOOM!)
Winterbolt: 95.
Frosty: Aw, we don't have to bother keeping count anymore.
Winterbolt: Oh, yes you do.
Rudolph: What do you mean?
Winterbolt: I will make the amulets power last, Rudolph, only so long as your nose remains extinguished.
Rudolph: My nose is not extinguished.
Winterbolt: Really? Try to light it.
(Rudolph tries to light his nose, but to no avail. Another firework explodes.)
Winterbolt: 96!
Frosty: Go ahead, Rudolph.
Rudolph: I'm trying. I'm trying real hard. (grunts)
(Winterbolt laughs, as does his snakes.)
Frosty: Rudolph, what's wrong?
Rudolph: It... It won't light up! What did you do to it, Winterbolt?!
Winterbolt: I didn't do a thing; You did it to yourself. You used your nose for an evil purpose. You robbed the money from the box office wagon and gave it to one Sam Spangles!
(Sam and Scratcher show up.)
Sam: Sorry, sucker.
Frosty: I don't understand.
Rudolph: They tricked me, Frosty! (steps up to Winterbolt) Well, I'm gonna set things straight. I'll tell everybody what really happened!
Winterbolt: No, you won't! I warn you, if you clear your name to save your nose, the Frostys all will melt. Admit your guilt, and I will allow them to remain frozen. (a firework explodes) 97! (another one explodes) 98! Only two more. What do you say, Rudolph?
Rudolph: Okay. I won't tell anybody the truth. I'll take the blame, and let my nose go out.
(BOOM!)
Winterbolt: 99!
Frosty: But you can't just let your nose go out forever, Rudolph.
Rudolph: I don't have any choice, Frosty. Come on. We only have one firework left.
(Rudolph and Frosty sadly leave as the snakes laugh at them.)
Crystal: Only one more. Where's Frosty?
Lilly: Hey, what's going on here?
Rudolph: Miss Loraine, I... I stole that money.
Lilly: (shocked) What?!
Milly: Uncle Rudolph?
Chilly: I don't believe it.
Frosty: No, he... he... I mean... I can explain.
Rudolph: No, Frosty, don't. (to Lilly) I stole the money, ma'am, and gave it to Sam Spangles.
Lilly: Spangles?! That means he takes over the show! Rudolph, what got into you?
Rudolph: I can't explain.
(Lilly sadly walks off. The last firework explodes.)
Crystal: 100! (crying) Oh, Frosty!
Frosty: Relax, Crystal. We aren't gonna melt. See?
Crystal: Why... Why, you're right.
(Frosty sees Rudolph sadly hanging his head.)
Milly: Mommy, we're saved!
Chilly: Oh, Daddy, we're not gonna melt!
Rudolph: Congratulations! Now you don't have to worry.
Crystal: I'm sorry, Rudolph, but I don't want the twins associating with a dishonest reindeer.
Milly: Aw, Uncle Rudolph.
Chilly: Why'd you do it?
(Crystal leaves with Milly and Chilly.)
Frosty: No, wait! You don't understand!
Rudolph: Frosty, you must never tell them that I didn't do it.
Frosty: But, Rudolph...
Rudolph: Never! What's more important? A silly old red nose or the lives of my best friend and his family?
Frosty: Aw, Rudolph. What can I say? You sure are a friend. (he and Rudolph shake hands) Hey, that funny little mark on your hoof. The star inside the snowflake, it's gone!
Rudolph: (sheds a tear) Yes. I know.
Scene 19: Rudolph's darkest hour[]
(Winterbolt sits in his sleigh, as he, Scratcher, and Sam, cheer their victory.)
Winterbolt: (to Scratcher) Come. You're the number one reindeer of the North now.
Scratcher: You bet! (hops in Winterbolt's sleigh)
(Winterbolt cracks his whip at his snakes.)
Winterbolt: Away! Away!
(Winterbolt's sleigh take off into the sky, while Sam stays behind.)
Sam: So long! (turns to the clowns) Okay, creeps! There's gonna be some changes around here!
Tall Clown: You don't own the show yet!
Sam: Wanna bet? Who's gonna pay to see... (sings mockingly) Rudolph the unlit reindeer, with a very nothin' nose? (laughs) I can't wait 'til tomorrow night!
(The following night, Rudolph is in the circus ring, trying and failing to light his nose, while being booed by the crowd.)
Rudolph: I'm sorry. But I can still do my jumps.
(The crowd continues to boo Rudolph. Rudolph sadly leaves the stage.)
Crowd: (chanting) We want our money back! We want our money back! We want our money back!
(Rudolph exits the circus tent, and walks by Milton and Lanie.)
Milton: Rudolph?
Lanie: How can you even speak to him, after what he did to my mother?
Milton: But there must be some reason. We're all friends. You can tell me, Rudolph.
Rudolph: There's nothing to tell. I stole the money, and gave it to Sam Spangles.
Milton: But, Rudolph...
Rudolph: Just... just let me be, Milton.
Lanie: You heard him. Let's go, Milton. (walks away)
Milton: Goodbye, Rudolph. Goodbye... for good. (follows Lanie)
(Rudolph sadly walks to his trailer as he sings.)
Rudolph:
No bed of roses
That's how life seems to be
(In his dressing room, Rudolph stands at his mirror, where a vase with a rose with falling petals sits.)
No bed of roses
No easy way for me
(Rudolph imagines his reflection's nose glowing, but the reflection fades away.)
You were my star glow
But now you're gone
(Newspapers of Rudolph saving Christmas fall off the walls, as do several photos, one of Frosty with his family, another with Lilly, Lanie, and Milton, and autographed photos of Father Time and Clarice.)
You took the roses
But left each thorn
(The photos float down to the floor.)
Go on without me
But if you change your mind
One thing about me
I won't be hard to find
(Rudolph sticks his nose in a tub of red glitter, in a vain attempt to make his nose shine again.)
If there's a glow again
I know that life can be
A bed of roses
For you and me...
Scene 20: A trade for Winterbolt[]
(Frosty sadly walks over to a big ball, and sits on it.)
Frosty: There must be something I can do alone that wouldn't hurt the family. Maybe I could give Winterbolt something in exchange. (his image appears in Winterbolt's Eye of Snow) But what do I have that he'd want?
(Winterbolt looks at Frosty through his Eye of Snow, with Scratcher sitting by his throne.)
Winterbolt: (cackles) "What", indeed. His corn cob pipe?
Scratcher: He does have something. I don't know. He might have something. Why not ask the Genie?
(Winterbolt consults the Genie.)
Genie: Frosty the Snowman has his own magic, which could prove quite valuable.
Winterbolt: Really? Tell me. What is it?
Genie: His hat. Let me show you, oh, master.
(The Genie shows a vision of a group of children building Frosty and bringing him to life as his signature song plays.)
Chorus:
Frosty the Snowman
Was a jolly, happy soul
With a corn cob pipe and a button nose
And two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the Snowman
Is a fairy tale, they say
He was made of snow, but the children know
How he came to life one day
There must have been some magic
In that old silk hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around
Oh, Frosty the Snowman
Was alive as he could be
And the children say he could laugh and play
Just the same as you and me
(The vision ends.)
Genie: Just think. If you had that hat, and could find the secret of its magic, you could duplicate it over and over again, oh, master.
(Zoom in on Winterbolt's eyes. He imagines a vision of many mirrors, each showing a reflection of Frosty's silk hat, summoning an army of evil Frosty clones.)
Winterbolt: Why... You could bring an army of snowman to life.
(The Frosty clones twirl their brooms and march. The vision fades back to Winterbolt.)
Genie: And Frosty, the only one who knows the true secret of Rudolph's nose would be lifeless.
Winterbolt: Yes, and I would be safe. But what would I give Frosty for his hat?
Genie: Lie to him, my master. Deceive him. Tell him you have the power to restore the Borealis Light to Rudolph's nose.
Winterbolt: The light... (cackles) Of course, of course!
(Cut to Frosty.)
Frosty: Gee. I'd do anything. Anything to help Rudolph.
(Winterbolt scoops up a handful of snow, whispers into it, and blows it into his Eye of Snow. The thought enters Frosty's head.)
Frosty: I know what to do! (looks at his hat)
(Winterbolt flies his sleigh.)
Winterbolt: (cracking his whip at his snakes) Faster! Faster! Back to the circus lot!
Scene 21: Rudolph meets an old friend[]
(Rudolph walks by the shore. A light casts over him.)
Rudolph: More fireworks? (he looks up, and sees the Borealis light in the sky.)
Lady Boreal (voice only): Rudolph...
Rudolph: That voice. I remember.
Lady Boreal: I am no more. But my love, in the form of the Northern Lights, watches over me.
Rudolph: Aww. What am I gonna do?
Lady Boreal: Have no fear, when you defend the helpless.
Rudolph: I don't understand.
Lady Boreal: Be brave. Be very brave, and the star in the snowflake will return.
Rudolph: You mean there's a chance my nose will light up again?
Lady Boreal: (fades away) Be brave. Be... very... brave...
Rudolph: No! Don't go! (the Borealis light disappears) Alone again.
(Rudolph continue to walk along the shore, until he hears another voice.)
Big Ben: Rudolph! Is that you up there, on the beach?
Rudolph: What new?
Big Ben: Out here, in the water! Big Ben, the clockwork whale, remember me? I work for Father Time.
Rudolph: Sure, I do. What are you doing here?
Big Ben: Strangest thing, like I was led to you. I was under the water, following the glow of the Northern Lights. Came up to get a good look, and there you were.
Rudolph: Oh, Ben. I've got problems.
Big Ben: Well, little feller, you tell them to me. I got a big shoulder to rest your head on. And it's wet already, so a few tears won't hurt. (chuckles)
Scene 22: Frosty's Sacrifice[]
(Back at the circus, Winterbolt has met up with Frosty.)
Winterbolt: So, you want to give me your hat, eh?
Frosty: Only if you can turn Rudolph's nose back on.
Winterbolt: Why, of course, I can!
Frosty: What did you say?
Winterbolt: It's hardly worth it.
Frosty: It is to me. This hat is what keeps me all living. Without it...
Winterbolt: Oh, very well. I'll make the trade.
Frosty: Would you say goodbye to Crystal, Milly, and Chilly for me? Especially Crystal. Oh, Crystal. (sees Crystal, Milly, and Chilly's shadows from behind a tent in the distance) If only we could be together one more time. But that's impossible. So I hope you'll remember all the good times.
Now and then
Will you think of me
Not, I hope
As a memory
(Fantasy sequence: Crystal rides on a flying snowflake, and is joined by Frosty, also riding on a flying snowflake.)
I'll always love you
As I always love you
Wherever you may be
(Frosty imagines Crystal winking at him in the night sky.)
In my heart
There's a golden glow
You alone
Keep it shining so
(Fantasy sequence: Crystal, Milly, and Chilly all stand on floating snowflakes, crying, but become happy when Frosty reunites with them. The snowman family spins together on their snowflakes.)
Parting brings sorrow
But maybe tomorrow
With love, we'll meet again
If only now
And then
(Frosty reaches for his hat. Fade back to Big Ben.)
Rudolph: And that's the whole story, Big Ben.
Big Ben: Oh, that's terrible. Rudolph, you gotta get your nose back.
Rudolph: I can't. If I tell the truth, that means Frosty has to melt.
Big Ben: Not necessarily. No time to explain. I gotta swim like thunder. (turns away and returns to the ocean)
Rudolph: Where are you going?
Big Ben: To South Ameeeeeeeeeeeeerrr-icaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...!
Rudolph: South America?
(Back on the circus lot...)
Winterbolt: Now, give me your hat!
(Frosty tilts his hat slowly, about to take it off, but Winterbolt swipes the hat off Frosty's head. Frosty loses his magic and turns into a lifeless snowman again.)
Winterbolt: (cackling)
Rudolph: What's going on here?
Winterbolt: The poor frozen fool gave me his hat when I promised to return your nose.
Rudolph: You know you can't do that!
Winterbolt: Yes, I know. But he didn't! (cackles)
Rudolph: (angrily paws the ground) Okay, Winterbolt. You asked for it.
Winterbolt: You got to catch me first! (takes off flying into the sky, cackling)
(Rudolph takes off, chasing after Winterbolt in the sky. Crystal, Milly, and Chilly, come around the corner, looking for Frosty.)
Crystal: Frosty? Frosty? Frosty? Where are you? (sees that Frosty is no longer alive; covers her eyes and cries) Oh, no... (sobs) No...
(Milly and Chilly try to run over to Frosty, but their mother covers their eyes.)
Crystal: Don't look, children. (Milly peeks past Crystal's hand)
Scene 23: Rudolph vs. Winterbolt[]
(In the sand dunes, Winterbolt flies in the air, keeping Frosty's hat away from Rudolph, still in pursuit of the wizard. Winterbolt hides behind a sand dune. Rudolph lands in the sand dunes.)
Rudolph: Come on out from there! I know where you're hiding!
Winterbolt: (offscreen) Come and get me!
Rudolph: Okay! (paws the ground) I will!
(Rudolph charges for Winterbolt, when all of a sudden, he's cornered by Winterbolt's snakes, making him skid to a stop.)
Winterbolt: Surprise! (cackles) SURPRISE!!! (cackles)
(One snake wraps around Rudolph. Rudolph struggles to get himself free. He even tries biting the snake. He flies up into the air, with the snake still holding on. Another snake flies up and chases after Rudolph. Rudolph throws the first snake off of himself. Winterbolt watches in shock as the snake falls to the ground. A third snake comes at Rudolph, so he dodges it. The third snake collides with the second snake, and get entwined with one another. Rudolph lands on the ground.)
Winterbolt: (cackles) You don't frighten me. (wears the hat on his head) The hat is mine. Try and get it!
(Rudolph charges at Winterbolt, and rams him in the stomach, knocking the hat off his head.)
Winterbolt: OOF!
(The hat flies into the air. Rudolph flies up, and catches the hat on his head. His red nose lights up again.)
Rudolph: Hey!
(Winterbolt, having landed on his back from the hit, looks up in shock.)
Winterbolt: Oh... Oh, no... No! It's impossible!
Rudolph: (lands on the ground) It's like Lady Boreal said!
(Rudolph checks the bottom of his hoof. The star-inside-the-snowflake mark has returned.)
Rudolph: It's back for good! (laughs triumphantly)
(Rudolph flies away as Winterbolt yells after him.)
Winterbolt: I warn you! I WARN YOU! I will not be defeated!
Scene 24: Power and money restored[]
(The next morning, at the circus, Crystal, the kids, and Lilly's family stand around the inanimate Frosty, mourning his loss.)
Lanie: (crying)
Milly: Oh, daddy.
Chilly: But, but... Can't he get another hat, Mommy?
Crystal: (hugs Milly and Chilly) Children, remember him as he was.
Lilly: (removes her hat) Poor roly-poly little son of a gun.
Sam: Alright, you jerks! Clear outta here! The show's mine now!
Rudolph: Not so fast!
Sam: Huh?!
(Rudolph returns, with Officer Kelly riding on his back, holding the briefcase of money and a bag. Officer Kelly dismounts as Rudolph's nose glows.)
Sam: Hey! You got your beak back!
Rudolph: That's not all we've got back. Go ahead, officer.
(Officer Kelly shows Lilly the briefcase of money.)
Officer Kelly: Here's your money, Mrs. Loraine. Rudolph was tricked into taking it. He's innocent as a newborn babe.
Lilly: (puts her hat back on and takes the briefcase) Well, I'll be blasted!
Officer Kelly: One other thing.
(Officer Kelly takes Frosty's hat out of the bag. Crystal is surprised and happy to see the hat back.)
Officer Kelly: He risked his life to get this back. (walks up to Frosty) For you, sir.
(Officer Kelly puts the hat back on Frosty's head, bringing him back to life.)
Frosty: (stretches and yawns) Happy birthday!
(Everyone cheers.)
Frosty: What are we celebrating?
Crystal: You!
Frosty: Oh, good idea!
(Sam storms away from the celebration, only to be stopped by Lilly, who puts the briefcase in his hands.)
Lilly: Here's your dough. The circus is still mine.
Officer Kelly: (takes the briefcase back) I'll be taking that.
Sam: Why?!
Officer Kelly: (takes Sam away) You won't be needing it in jail.
Crystal: Oh, Rudolph. We're so sorry for the way we acted.
Lanie: What can we do to make it up?
Rudolph: Aw. It wasn't your fault.
Frosty: Gee. Thanks, Rudolph.
Rudolph: Thank you. You gave everything you had for me.
Frosty: Well, didn't you give everything for me? I mean, us misfits got to stick together. Put 'er there, pal.
(Rudolph and Frosty shake hands, and everyone cheers.)
Rudolph/Frosty:
We're a couple of misfits
We're a couple of misfits
Rudolph:
What's the matter with misfits?
That's where we fit in
Rudolph/Frosty:
We're not daffy and dilly
Don't go 'round willy-nilly
Frosty:
Seems to us, kind of silly
That we don't fit in
Rudolph/Frosty:
We may be
Different from the rest
Who decides the test
Of what is really best?
Rudolph:
We're a couple of misfits
Frosty:
Not a couple of nitwits
Rudolph/Frosty:
What's the matter with misfits?
That's where we fit in
Rudolph:
Why am I such a misfit?
I am not just a nitwit
I'm a dear of a reindeer
Why don't I fit in?
Frosty:
Why am I such a misfit?
I am not just a nitwit
There's no man like a snowman
Why don't I fit in?
Rudolph/Frosty:
We may be
Different from the rest
Who decides the test
Of what is really best?
Rudolph:
We're a couple of misfits
Frosty:
Not a couple of nitwits
Rudolph/Frosty:
What's the matter with misfits?
That's where we fit in
That's where we fit in!
(Everyone cheers for Rudolph and Frosty's song. The celebration is cut short, when Winterbolt appears, furious.)
Winterbolt: Not so fast! I still have my scepter! Destruction to you all!
Lilly: (aims her pistols at Winterbolt) This one looks like my job!
Lanie: But, Mama, there are only blanks in those guns.
Lilly: Yeah, but the guns are made of iron!
(Lilly tosses her pistols at Winterbolt's scepter, and shatters it.)
Winterbolt: No... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! My... My powers are gone!
(The remains of Winterbolt's scepter melt as a root grows from underneath his robe, as a start to his fatal transformation.)
Winterbolt: When the scepter dies... I go, too! I turn... I turn... turn... I... turn... into... a... tree...
(One of Winterbolt's branch arms breaks in half. Everyone gasps at witnessing Winterbolt's demise.)
Lanie: (covers her eyes) Oh!
Lilly: Wow! (laughs) What an exit!
(In the forest, the snowstorm disappears, and the sun shines over Santa and Mrs. Claus.)
Santa: Mama, the storm's gone.
Mrs. Claus: Like... a miracle!
Santa: Now we can be to the shore in a few minutes! Up! Up! (the sleigh takes off) Dash away, all!
Scene 25: A temporary melting[]
(Cut to the Circus By the Sea.)
Lilly: Well, our troubles are over. Kinda dull, huh?
Milton: Well, I'm glad old Winterbolt's powers are gone.
Rudolph: Me, too. (realizes) Hey, wait a minute!
Lilly: What is it, Blinky?
Rudolph: If all his powers are gone, that means those amulets are no good, either. (gasps) Frosty! Crystal!
(Rudolph runs to the beach. Lanie is kneeling and crying over a puddle, where Frosty's hat is sitting.)
Rudolph: Lanie, what happened?!
(Milton and Lilly join Rudolph and Lanie.)
Lanie: Well, the sun came out, and they just... just... look!
(Rudolph looks at the puddle. Joining Frosty's puddle, are three more puddles, with Crystal's hair, Chilly's hat, and Milly's bow.)
Rudolph: Aw, gee whiz! Aw... After all we went through... I should have realized. It's too late, now. When Frosty melts, nothing can help except a magic December wind to unmelt him. And this is July.
Lilly: Yeah. But where are we gonna find a Christmas wind in July?
Big Ben: Right here!
(Big Ben swims up to the shore with a figure riding on him.)
Big Ben: And I brought Jack Frost with me!
Jack Frost: (waves his hat) Hey, Rudolph!
Rudolph: How'd you do it, Ben?
Big Ben: Had to go all the way to South America. That's where winter goes in July. (laughs)
Rudolph: Jack Frost! Do your stuff!
(Fade to Jack Frost on the beach, standing before the puddles.)
Jack Frost: I got to aim very carefully, or I'll give colds to all the kids on the beach. Well, here goes.
(Jack Frost blows his wind on the puddles, bringing back Frosty, Crystal, Milly, and Chilly.)
Frosty, Crystal, Milly, and Chilly: Happy birthday!
(Everyone cheers.)
Rudolph: Come on, gang! Let's dig them out! Keep that cold breath on 'em Jack!
Lanie: (points up in the sky) Look!
(Santa's sleigh is flying in the sky.)
Lilly: Great jumping geranium! Santa Claus is finally coming to town!
Scene 26: Ending[]
(Jack Frost keeps blowing his wind on Frosty and his family, as they all sit in the back of Santa's sleigh. Santa and Mrs. Claus are now in their regular attire.)
Mrs. Claus: Papa, we'd better get going before Jack runs out of breath.
Rudolph: I'll stick with the show, sir, until they're out of debt.
Santa: They're gonna be out of debt real soon. (laughs) I gave Lilly some of my magic corn feed.
Frosty: The kind that makes animals fly.
Rudolph: Wow! A circus by the sea is one thing, but a flying circus by the sea!
(Lilly nods.)
Milly and Chilly: Daddy, Daddy, can we stay and see it?
Crystal: Oh, Frosty, could they?
Frosty: No deal. Enough's enough.
(Everyone laughs.)
Santa: Then let's get going! (laughs) Awaaaaaay!
(Santa cracks the reins, and his sleigh takes off in the sky as Lilly waves goodbye.)
Rudolph: Gee. I kinda miss not being with Santa.
Lilly: Blinky, you wanna lead something through the sky? You got it!
Rudolph: What?
Lilly: Forget the sleigh! It's time for the flying circus parade, with you right up front.
Rudolph: Okay!
(Rudolph flies through the sky, followed by Lilly on her giraffe, and the other circus performers and animals.)
Lilly:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
(They fly up to Milton and Lanie in their hot air balloon.)
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games
(They fly past Santa's sleigh. Lilly waves to Frosty and his family, and they wave back.)
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
"Rudolph, with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
And how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You'll go down in history!