User blog:Thomperfan/11 Louds a leapin (My version)

This is basically the same episode, but with Me and my family in it. This is my 2nd favorite Loud House episode and I really suggest you go check it out.

Act 1

(It starts out with me looking on my bed at the presents I got for Lincoln and his sisters. I turn around and notice the viewers.)

Me: Oh, Hey there! I was just finishing the presents I made for Lincoln and his sisters, they are going to love them. Well, I’m off to the Loud House, to go see Lincoln and his sisters.

(Cuts to me putting my winter clothes and heading out the door.)

Me: Mom! I’m going over to Lincoln's house!

Mom: Okay, sweetie, be back before bedtime

Me: I will!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I close the door and Mom looks at Dad.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mom: Why can't he hang out with someone who's quiet and peaceful?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dad: (shrugs his arms) We should let our son decide who he wants to hang out with and besides, he really seems to care about them.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mom: Sure, okay.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(cuts to The Loud House covered in Christmas decorations and then zooms in to Lincoln’s room, where Lincoln is putting on his snow clothes. I come in)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Hi, Lincoln, what’s up?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Well, It’s the day before Christmas and there’s no better time to be in The Loud House.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I’ll say, as I came up to your room, everything and everyone looked so festive.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Come on let’s go.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(LIncoln exits his bedroom and I follow him, he pulls off Lana’s scarf and she spins into the bathroom)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: (singing) Christmas time is totally rad! I want those gifts so I won’t be bad(stops her song and groans) Awww! Come on!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Having trouble with this year’s Christmas song, Luna?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: Bro, I’m stuck like Santa in a chimney. Ooooh, that’s not bad. (singing) I’m stuck like Santa in a chimney. I’ve been good all year so gimmie, gimmie, gimmie, gimmie… (stops singing) Awww! Rubbish!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: I’ll say, those lyrics make no frankincense! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! That’s 1

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (laughs) Hey, Luan, what’s up?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: My 12 puns of Christmas are off to a good start. I just have to come up with 11 myrrh! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Make that 10!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (laughs)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lily: (Blows raspberry)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Hey, Lincoln! Hey, Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(We turn around to see Leni and I gasp in awe.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Look! I just made the perfect Christmas outfit! What do you think!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: You look beautiful Leni! Don’t you agree, Noah?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Noah: Uuuuuuhhhhhhh… (I can’t answer Lincoln, I’m too stunned by Leni’s beauty.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: Has anyone seen my plaid Christmas tablecloth?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni looks down and notices what happen to the tablecloth and shushes Me and Lincoln as she goes into her room as Lori walks out.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: Oh, don’t worry about getting me a gift, Bobby Boo-Boo Bear, I mean sure, it’s our first Christmas together and I’ll probably remember what you get me for the rest of our lives, but, no pressure.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(cuts to Bobby)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bobby: Right, uh, no pressure babe. (he hangs up the phone and starts crying.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oops! Wrong ones!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[throws the boots out of the way; to the me] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Excuse me. This might take a while."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln prepares to dive into the boot pile when Lola zooms in]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[appearing very innocent] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Hey there, favorite big brother! Allow me to dive into that pile of smelly sweaty footwear and find your winter boots for you. " <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[curtsies, then dives into the pile]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln looks on in confusion. Lola then emerges from the pile with two brown boots]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gasps for air] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Here you are, good sir!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[puts Lincoln's winter boots on his feet] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Two big brother boots. Boy, these are stylish!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[suspicious] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Okay, what do you want?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: (quiet voice) To get a good haul from Santa. You see, contrary to popular belief, I am no angel. So, if I want to get on Santa’s nice list, I’ve got 1 day to outdo 12 months of naughty!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: You’re wasting your time. Factoring in sleigh speed, time zone changes and reindeer bathroom breaks, it’s scientifically impossible for this so-called, “Kris Kringle” to deliver gifts to the one billion qualifying children. As you can see, X= No stinkin way!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: (growls) You’re lucky I’m being nice right now!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Don’t listen to her Lola, I believe in you.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: Awwww! Thanks, Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Geo, in a Santa cap with a bell on it, rolls on screen and passes the Christmas tree. Charles is sleeping underneath, dreaming of sugarplums, and Cliff is batting at the lights on the tree. Both of them are in Christmas sweaters. The screen pans to Walt in a scarf flying to a partridge in a pear tree decoration. He lands on the branch and flirts with the fake partridge before it falls down. Cuts to Rita nailing stockings on the wall.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: You know what I want for Christmas? A bigger fireplace?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: What’s that, Mom? I can holly hear you! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! That’s 3!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lily pops out of her stocking, not looking amused and blows a raspberry at Luan.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Lily, are you stocking me? Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! That’s 4!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln and I go into the kitchen but not before we notice Lynn lifting a dresser drawer and Lucy looking underneath.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: See anything?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: nope

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lynn puts down the dresser drawer and winds her arms)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Hi, Lynn! Hi, Lucy! Whatcha doin?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: Looking for presents from Mom and Dad.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Oh.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Have you checked Dad’s underwear drawer.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: (sarcastically) Have we checked Dad’s underwear drawer

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: Lincoln, please. This is not our first rodeo.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(They walk away. A smell comes in and Lincoln and I walk in the kitchen wondering what the smell was]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[singing] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Dashing to the stove... <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[stops singing] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Hey, son, Noah! You're just in time to try the Crown Jewel of Ol' Dad's Christmas Eve feast... <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Opens the pot and smoke comes out all over the kitchen] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">...The Figgy Pudding!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Smoke comes through the window]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: And ruin, the surprise at dinner? I don’t think so.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Look at Dad getting figgy with it! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! #5!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr.: Oh, I love the 12 puns of Christmas. Luan, you want to try my pudding?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Sorry, Dad, yule have to ask someone else. Get it? Yule! That’s 6! I just sleigh myself! Ooooh, 7!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr. and Luan: (laugh)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: (to me) Yep, everyone around here is filled with Christmas cheer.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr Grouse: LOUDS!!!! What’s that awful stench?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Well, everyone except our crabby old neighbor, Mr. Grouse. He really lives up to his name, especially on Christmas.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: LOUDS!!!! Turn down that annoying music! LOUDS!!! Turn off all those horrible lights!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Sheesh. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Walks outside] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Well, I'm not gonna let Mr. Grouse take away my Christmas cheer. I've got a week off school, ten inches of fresh snow, and this guy!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Ooooohhhh! What’s it called?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: The Fearsome Flyer 8000! Or as I affectionately call him, "Big Red". We've been waiting all winter for the perfect sledding conditions.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Can I sled too?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Sure the more the merrier!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln and I run down the stairs, but then get caught in a net)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: Woo-Hoo! My reindeer net worked! Sorry, guys. I’m just getting ready for tonight. (she gets us unstuck.) I’m gonna catch one to keep as a pet!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(A big crash is heard in the front yard. Me, Lincoln and Lana go to see and it’s a car in a pit

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: Woo-Hoo! My reindeer pit works! Oh, don’t worry buddy! I got a winch!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[scene changes to Lincoln with his sled on top of a slide in the backyard]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Now, where was I? Ah, yes. It's just you and me and Big Red." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[puts helmet on and gives me a helmet] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Let's do this." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[slides down the slide] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ha ha! Yeah!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Big Red hits a rock, causing Lincoln and I to scream and landing head first in snow. Big Red then dramatically falls into Mr. Grouse's yard]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Nooooooooo! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to the viewers] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> This is a disaster!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: What’s the big deal? All you just have to do is go to Mr. Grouse and ask for it back.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: You don’t understand. When stuff goes into Mr. Grouse's yard, it never comes back."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashback #1: On a summer day, Leni's beach ball apparently went over Mr. Grouse's fence. Leni winces as Mr. Grouse yells.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Flashback Mr. Grouse: "My yard, my property!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashback #2: At night, Lana's toilet plunger apparently went over Mr. Grouse's fence. Lana looks sad as Mr. Grouse yells.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Flashback Mr. Grouse: "My yard, my property!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashback #3: On an autumn day, Lola's ribbon apparently went over Mr. Grouse's fence. Lola looks angry as Mr. Grouse yells.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Flashback Mr. Grouse: "My yard, my property!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[cracks Lola's ribbon like a whip]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashbacks end]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Oh.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Well, I’m not letting Big Red suffer the same fate, especially on the first day of vacation.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln attempts climbing the fence.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[yelling offscreen, startling Lincoln] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "LOUDS!!! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[pan to the Louds' roof with Rita and three festive air dancers that look like elves on top] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Take down that eyesore. You're bringing down the property values!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[view returns to Lincoln]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: It’s too risky to go in alone. I’m going to need backup! (pulls out his walkie-talkie)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[scene changes to the McBride house. Clyde is in his room, tying a mistletoe leaf to a crooked branch.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[over walkie talkie] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Clyde, come in!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Hey, Lincoln! Just working on my mistletoe. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[taps the leaf] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This year, I'm not gonna squander my one chance to get a holiday smooch from Lori."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[the screen splits to show both Lincoln and Clyde]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[rolls his eyes] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I'm rootin' for you, buddy. But, can it wait? I've got a Code Six emergency!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Oh no! What went over the fence this time? <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gets an idea] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Was it Bobby?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Clyde's fantasy: Somehow, Bobby ended up on the other side of Mr. Grouse's fence. Clyde and Lori hold hands as they look on at Bobby, who is being held by his shirt collar by Mr. Grouse.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fantasy Mr. Grouse: "My yard, my property!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lori and Clyde skip off as a harp vibe plays]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fantasy Bobby: "Babe?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Fantasy ends]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln:"Negative. It was Big Red!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Noooooooo!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Clyde's side of the split screen disappears]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Put on your snow boots. It’s time to put Operation: Scale the fence and retrieve Big Red before Mr. Grouse finds it and takes it into his house forever and also think of a shorter name for this operation into action!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Sorry, I got stuck in a turtleneck. Could you repeat that? Never mind. I'm on my way." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hits his face on the closed door]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln and I go back into the living room.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: I’m going upstairs to get some binoculars, you stay down here until I get back!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Okay. (I notice Lynn and Lucy looking under the couch.) Hey guys, any luck?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn and Lucy: No.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: We could look in the basement. How do you feel about lifting the water heater.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: (tightens her belt) Let’s do this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lynn and Lucy run downstairs)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Good luck! (Then I notice Lori at the stockings.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: I don’t think Mom will mind if I just peel back the corner a little

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Hold it! You are mistletoe-tally busted! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! That’s 8!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (laughs) Good one, Luan! But, seriously Lori, did Miss Rita say you could take a peek.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: (high-pitched sigh) No, but I can’t help it! The sound of the paper tearing! The smell of the tape! The moment when you stick the bow in your hair! GIVE ME THAT!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: You’ve gotta kick this habit Lori. We don’t want a repeat of last year.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lori's eyes widen as a flashback of the previous Christmas starts: tearing sounds are heard as the Loud siblings, sans Lori, look on. The view changes to show Lori, rocking in an unwrapped box with several bows in her hair. Many unwrapped presents are in the background.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Flashback Lori: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[laughs] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You guys got some great stuff!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashback ends] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: You’re right Luan, I gotta fight this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Well, there’s no time like the present! Ho Ho Ho Ho! That’s 9!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: OK, I can be strong. I will not open another present until Christmas morning!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Good, for you Lori, you can do this! I believe in you!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: Awww! Thanks Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The doorbell rings. Lori opens the door.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Short Delivery Man: "Delivery for Miss Lori Loud." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[stuffs a giant green and red present through the door]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[reads the tag] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "To Lori. Open immediately. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[stops reading and groans] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Universe, you are literally testing me!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The Short Delivery Man walks away but yells as a crash is heard. Letters fly off and Lana comes outside.] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: Woo-Hoo! My reindeer cage worked!

<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">​ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lori pushes her present inside.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Hey, guys!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I turn around to the stairs and gasp in awe again.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Forget what I was wearing before. THIS is the perfect Christmas outfit.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: But Leni, I kind of <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">liked <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">what you were you were wearing before. (I start to blush) Uuuuuhhhh, not that what you’re wearing now doesn't look great on you!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Aaaawwww, Noah. You are so sweet. (she gives me a kiss on my cheek.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (I blush even more and giggle a little bit.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: Has anyone seen all my tinsel?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni shushes me, Lori and Luan.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Oooohhh, I’m gonna tell!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me and Leni: No! No! No!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Just ribbon ya! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! That’s 10!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I laugh as Leni sighs)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: Oh, Mother, you’ve done so much to make this glorious holiday perfect, allow ME to look for the tinsel and after I find the tinsel, I’ll rub your tired aching tootsies!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: Thank you Lola, that’s very nice of you.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: Did you hear that Santa? She said nice!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: Wasting your time.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: Control yourself, Lola, she’s not worth it.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I run past. Lincoln has binoculars. He climbs up the slide to get a view of Mr. Grouse's house. Clyde suddenly pops up.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Hey, Lincoln!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[screams and slides down the slide, hurting his rear] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Clyde!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "I'm okay!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[wearing his crooked branch on his hat]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "I see you toned down the mistletoe this year."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Yeah. I don't want a repeat of last year."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Flashback: Clyde puts on yellow lip balm and walks along with a bush of mistletoe on his head.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Flashback Clyde: "Pucker up, my Christmas queen!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[A hawk swoops down and picks up Clyde, causing him to scream. The flashback ends.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sighs] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "So what's the plan?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[draws with a twig to show the plan] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You'll go to the front door and sing Christmas carols here. When Grouse comes out to yell at you, Me and Noah will hop the fence and grab Big Red here."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Strategic genius! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[points to a yellow puddle in the snow] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> One question: what's that?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[grossed out] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ugh! Charles!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Charles shrugs innocently as he enters the house]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Clyde is at Mr. Grouse's front door]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[talking into his walkie-talkie] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Turtledove to Sled Man Walking. I'm in position."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Copy that, Turtledove. Commence caroling."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[blows a note on a kazoo and practices his vocals] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> " <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gets out some sleigh bells, jingles them, and starts singing] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dashing through the snow / In a one-horse open sleigh <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Mr. Grouse answers the door as Clyde continues to carol]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[annoyed] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Stop your off-key caterwauling! I don't care for carolers."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[still caroling] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Laughing all the way <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[In the backyard, Lincoln and I hop the fence and go behind the tree. We sneak over to the crate and spot Lincoln’s sled. We go over to a wheelbarrow which causes the logs to roll out of the way and make a commotion]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[yelling at Clyde] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Go on! Get!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hears the clattering] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "What the Sam heck was that?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[still to the tune of Jingle Bells] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Don't look in the yard / There's nothing there to see / Got lots of songs to sing / So keep your eyes on me <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫ Hey!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Mr. Grouse pushes him into the snow and goes to check the backyard. Lincoln pulls the logs back into place, gasps, and hides. Mr. Grouse comes in and finds Big Red and grabs it]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to the Louds' backyard] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "My yard, my property!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[goes inside and slams the door]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I come out of the logs and Lincoln sighs in defeat]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: I can’t believe I lost Big Red.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Don’t worry, Lincoln. In a few years Mr. Grouse will probably be dead and you can go into his house and get Big Red back.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: That’ll take too long.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Luna comes out.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna:(singing) Merry Christmas, honey. If you don’t have my gifts, I’ll gladly take money. I wrote it all down on my Christmas list, If I don’t get my presents, I’m gonna get-(Mr. Grouse cuts her off.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: LOUDS!!! Knock off that racket! (leaves his house)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Luna goes back inside)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Clyde! Noah! Do you see what I see?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: A star. A star. Shining in the night.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "No. Mr. Grouse just left. I can sneak into his house and get my sled back."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "What? You can't do that! That's Mr. Grouse's property."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "But that sled is <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">my <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> property. I'll just slip through the doggy door, grab Big Red, and he'll be none the wiser."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "But what if you get caught and go to jail, and they only let family visit? You know I haven't married Lori yet, so the guards won't let me see you-"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "CLYDE! None of that's gonna happen, because you're gonna be my lookout."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I sneak back into Mr. Grouse's yard and rush through the doggy door into the house]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[on his walkie-talkie] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I'm in. Just keep a lookout for Grouse."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Clyde is watching outside with the binoculars]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: "Don't worry. You can count on me. I'm not going anywhere." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[steps on a catapult that launches him across the neighborhood and screams]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: Yes! My reindeer catapult worked! Although, It might not be the best way to catch a reindeer.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(cuts to inside Mr. Grouse’s house)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Now, where would I hide a sled if I were a grumpy old sourpuss."" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[notices his sled] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Big Red!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hugs it, grabs it, heads for the door and notices a photo] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Whoa! Is that Mr. Grouse as a kid? And is he holding a Fearsome Flyer 1000?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Suddenly, someone is at the front door; Lincoln and I gasp fearing who it is. End of Act 1]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Act 2

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The door is about to open about Lincoln and I are shaking with fear. Mr. Grouse steps in and unfolds his newspaper. Lincoln and I are hiding behind the drapes and notices he's missing his scarf. As soon as Grouse has his back turned, he grabs it and hides again. Grouse takes off his coat and hat and opens the drapes as Lincoln and I sneak off to the kitchen. He opens the cabinet which catches Grouse's attention. He checks the cabinet only to find that it's empty and steps on something, which turns out to be Lincoln's hand. Lincoln is about to yelp in pain only to stop himself]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shivering] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Hoo...cold."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[He lights a match to throw into his fireplace while a pair of eyes pop out of it.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Aw, dang. All out of wood."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The pair of eyes blows at the match to put the match out. As he leaves to get more wood, Lincoln and I come out of the fireplace and head to the backdoor only to get caught]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Gotcha!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I scream and Lincoln launches his sled into the air only for it to crash and shatter into a bunch of pieces]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[heartbroken] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Big Red!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Serves you right, you little thief!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "I'm not a thief! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You're <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> the thief! You stole my sled and now it's broken!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "My yard, my property! I'm calling your folks right now!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[dials the number for the Loud House] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "They'll straighten you out."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Over at the Loud House, the phone is ringing, but there's too much going on involving Lincoln's sisters for them to hear it. Rita is nailing a wreath on the doorway, Lola is holding the ladder for her, Leni is thinking of what to make her next outfit out of, Luan is thinking of more Christmas puns, Lynn is lifting Lucy who is looking through the vent for their presents, Luna is still thinking of lyrics for her song, Lisa is reading a science book, Lori is still fighting the urge to open her giant present, and Lily is chasing Cliff and the two of them get nabbed in another of Lana's reindeer traps]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "YEEEEEES!!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "No one's answering. Probably can't even hear the phone over all that racket." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hangs up and drags Me and Lincoln to the fireplace] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Till I reach your folks, you can clean up the mess you made." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hands Me and Lincoln brooms]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Why do you have to be so mean all the time? I just wanted my sled back." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[points to the photo he saw earlier] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You of all people should understand that. You had one, too."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[tilting the photo down] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Stop snoopin' and start sweepin'!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hears the phone ring] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ah, that's probably them. Get to work!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln angrily sweeps as Mr. Grouse goes to answer] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Hello? Oh, hey, Junie. Sorry I didn't call back."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[As he speaks to Junie, Lincoln and I overhear it, stop sweeping, and listen carefully]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sadly] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "No, it doesn't look like I'm gonna make it back for Christmas after all. I'm sorry. I know it's been five years, but I just don't have the money to travel this Christmas."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I then notice a photo of Mr. Grouse with his family and feels sorry]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Tell the girls Uncle Buddy says hi and loves them whole bunches. I miss you, too." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hangs up and comes back] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I thought I told you to clean up your mess!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "I didn't know you were from a big family."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "What's it to ya?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: "Well, it's just, it must be hard not to see them at Christmas."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Enough! Go on home!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shows Me and Lincoln the door]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "So, you're <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">not <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> gonna tell our parents?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I leave and Grouse slams the door on us. After learning what he found out, Lincoln feels terrible for his neighbor until he gets an idea. Just then, he gets a call from Clyde]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: It’s Clyde!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[on the walkie-talkie] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Come in, Sled Man Walking." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln picks up] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Are you okay? I'm sorry I compromised the mission. One minute, I was in your yard, the next, I was six blocks away. I broke my mistletoe. So long, holiday smooch."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Sorry, Turtledove. Everything's okay here though. Rescuing Big Red was a bust, but now, I've got a new mission. I'll call you back with the plan." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[signs off and heads home]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Inside the Loud House, Lily is chasing Geo, Lola is vacuuming and dusting, Luan is making a popcorn string, Lisa is still reading her book, and Lucy is contacting spirits as Lynn watches on with hope]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: "Oh, Ghost of Christmas Past...reveal to us where the presents are hidden."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[anxious] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "What'd he say? What'd he say?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: You two definitely have the Christmas Spirit! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! That’s 11!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: Can’t - take it - any - longer! MUST OPEN!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lana ties Lori up with Christmas lights like a horse.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: Woah, Girl!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: "Guys, can you chill? I'm trying to write and I'm down to the wire!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[inspired] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ooh! Maybe that's it!" (starts singing) Down to the wire, Santa’s on fire! (stops singing and groans) I’m never gonna get this! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln and I come inside)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Guys!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Little do we know that a lot has been happening since they were outside upon seeing the insanity. Enter Leni with yet another new Christmas outfit]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Okay, forget that rag I was wearing earlier, THIS is the perfect Christmas outfit!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: But, Leni, I <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">liked <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> what you were wearing earlier and before that too.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: What happened to the stockings, seriously why does everything keep disappearing?!?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni shushes everyone again.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "GUYS!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[He still can't get their attention and Lily pops out of one of the stockings on Leni's outfit. Just then, a foul stench hits both their nostrils. Leni pugs her nose.]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Oh, Lily, you didn’t!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Enter their dad with the figgy pudding]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr.: "Hey hey hey! I need a taste tester for my figgy pudding!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Oh, phew! It wasn’t you!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: I’ll do it daddy! Your figgy pudding is always the highlight of my Christmas (she looks up at the sky desperately) You’re seeing this, right, Santa?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: Truly, pathetic.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lynn Sr. feeds Lola some pudding.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: Mmmmmmmmm, figgy!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: GUYS!!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Don’t worry, Lincoln. I know what to do.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I grab a megaphone from my pocket and place it to my mouth.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (From the megaphone) GIRLS! LINCOLN HAS SOMETHING TO SAY!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(The girls all stop and notice me and their brother.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Thank you, Noah. So, me and Noah were just in Mr. Grouse’s house…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(The Loud Sisters all start complaining about Mr. Grouse.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: He’s not that bad. Well, he is, but now I think I know why.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(A few minutes later.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: And then he told me to leave.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: That is literally so sad!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: I can’t believe Mr. Grouse has a big family, too!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: And he can’t be with them?! That’s awful!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Seeing all of us together must make him miss them even more!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: Usually, I’m impervious to human emotions, but… (immediately breaks down crying.) <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: No wonder he’s such a grumpy-butt this time of year!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: How did we not notice this?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: (pushes her present to the side.) Maybe, it’s because we’ve been so caught up in the hustle and bustle of the holidays.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: Yeah, we were so worried about what we were getting.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: (Blows out her candles) When we should have been worried about what we were giving.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: And isn’t that what Christmas is all about!?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: (Gasps with inspiration) Dudes! That’s it! No wonder I couldn’t nail my song! I’ve been going about it all wrong!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(she goes upstairs)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: We have to do something for Mr. Grouse.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me, Lori, Leni, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa and Lily: Yeah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: But, what can we do? <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "I have a plan!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[huddles up with them] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Okay, the first thing we do..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[As he explains the plan, the scene trails off from their house to Mr. Grouse's. He closes the blinds not wanting to see what they're talking about]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(A few minutes later, back at My apartment, Dad is on his computer looking at tennis videos, Mom is pacing the floor and Sophia is on her tablet.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mom: Where is Noah?! He’s been gone all day!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dad: It’s OK, honey. I’m sure he’ll be back.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Just at that moment I open the door.) <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Mom! Dad! Sophia!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mom: Noah, where have you been?! I’ve been worried about you!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I was at Lincoln’s house, but that’s not important right now! We have to put on our winter clothes and go to Lincoln’s house, right away!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dad: Why?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: It’s very important, I’ll explain on the way, now come on, get dressed!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(A few minutes later, My family is all dressed and we head out the door.) <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Later that night, Mr. Grouse is getting some sleep in his lounger until a mysterious sound wakes him up]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Voices: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ooooooooh <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[waking up] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Huh? Who? What? Can't get a moment's peace." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[turns on the light and goes outside to see something that surprises him]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The Louds, the McBrides and the Dardens are all caroling in front of his house]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Louds, McBrides and Dardens: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ooooooooh <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">"♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">I used to think that Christmas was

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">About the wish list filled with stuff

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">I never really needed, anyway <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lori presses a button and lights up Mr. Grouse's house and yard with decorations]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">"♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">But as long as we're together

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">It's a holiday <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">♫"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Everyone joins in as Luna starts strumming her guitar]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Louds, McBrides and Dardens:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">"♫ <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">It's not what you get, it's what you give

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">We've got the spirit, clear and loud

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ditch the list, hug who you're with

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">'Cause that's what Christmas is all about!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">It's what you give, not what you get

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">We've got the hard part figured out

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">This year will be the best one yet

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">'Cause that's what Christmas is all about!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Merry Christmas from the Louds!♫

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">HO!!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Mr. Grouse is still standing surprised from their caroling]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Grouse."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: "We all chipped in and got you something."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln gives him the present and Mr. Grouse opens it]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: "It's a bus ticket."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: "So you can go see your family for Christmas tomorrow."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: "And since you can't be with them tonight..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Rita and Lynn Sr. finally reveal their faces]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: "...we're bringing <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">our <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> family to you."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr.: "How 'bout it, neighbor?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Everyone huddles together and smiles]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[sternly] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "LOUDS!!!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[thankfully] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "You've made this the best Christmas ever. Thank you. I'd say you all landed permanent spots on Santa's nice list."

<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[joyfully] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Even me?"

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Even you."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lola runs up and hugs Mr. Grouse's leg]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: Once again… (Breaks down and starts crying again. I hug her.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: There there, Lis. Let it out

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Well, what are you waiting for? Everyone inside!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Inside Mr. Grouse's house, to the tune of We Wish You a Merry Christmas, the twins are setting the table for Christmas dinner, Rita is helping Lily put the star on top of the tree, and everyone is doing what they can to make the house more festive]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: "There, Mr. Grouse. Now it's not so <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">gloomy <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> in here."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: "Yeah, you ruined it."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: "Guys, I finally made the perfect Christmas outfit!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Everyone looks at the outfit wondering why it's not Christmas themed]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (facepalms) (to Myself) Leni, not again!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: "It's not for me. It's for Mr. Grouse. You can wear it on your trip tomorrow." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[puts it on him]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Well, thank you." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[notices something] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "What happened to my curtains?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Leni shushes him]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (To myself) (sighs) Now, that’s the Leni I know and love.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr.: "Chow time in five, people!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Before we sit down, there's something I'd like to say."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[chanting] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Speech! Speech! Speech!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lori nudges her to stop]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Well, I know I haven't always been the friendliest neighbor, and I'm sorry about that. You've all given me so much tonight, now I'd like to give something to you."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: "We take checks."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lori nudges her for that statement. Mr. Grouse opens his closet and reveals all the stuff that landed in his yard and he took as his own]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Loud Sisters: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gasp] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "ALL OUR STUFF!!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[They all gather to get their stuff back with cheers]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[holding up her plunger] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "PLUNGEY!!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to Lincoln] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I'm sorry your sled was broken."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "That's alright. It's only a sled. I'm just glad we're friends now."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The two of them smile at each other]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Howard; <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[overjoyed] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oh, Hare-Bear. Isn't this the most wonderful thing you've ever seen?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Harold: "Now, Howie, remember what Dr. Lopez said about-" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shaking it off] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oh, forget Dr. Lopez! This <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">is <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> the most wonderful thing I've ever seen!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Both Clyde's dads walk off sobbing with happiness. Lori walks up to Clyde]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: "Clyde, you know what you're standing under, don't you?" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[points to a mistletoe]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Clyde realizes this and starts shaking. Lori gives him a smooch on his cheek]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: "Merry Christmas, Clyde."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Clyde: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[blushing and lovestruck] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "And to all a good night." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[faints]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I’m in the corner with my phone.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Clyde is going to love this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sophia: What are you gonna do with that? <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I’m going to give this as a present to Clyde. I’ll send it to him in a text, so he can remember that special moment in his life forever.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sophia: Ooohhhhh!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Now, come on, little sis. Let’s get something to eat.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sophia: OK.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(I put my arm around Sophia and we go to the table.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn Sr.: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Come on, everybody, sit! Dinner is served! And save some room for the figgy pudding!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Everyone rushes over to the table to join for dinner]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Christmas morning]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Loud Family: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[open up their presents]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lisa got a new meteorite, Luna got a new banjo, Lincoln got a new video game, Lily got a new teddy bear, Lucy got a glittering Edwin bust, Luan got a magic and comedy kit, Lynn got new cleats, Leni got new high-heel shoes, Lana got a medieval war fortress play set, and Lola got a princess castle play set]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Just then the door opens and it’s me with a Santa hat and a wagon that has my presents in it.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas, Guys!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln and his sisters: Merry christmas, Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Noah: I got you guys each something.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln and his sisters: You, did.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Yeah! For you Lincoln, I made you a comic book.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Oh, really? What’s it about.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: It’s about you and your sisters (Whisper) but mostly you. (I stop whispering) It’s about how you guys get super powers and have adventures and stuff. Read the back there’s a special dedication.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln reads the dedication on the back)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">“This book is dedicated to a great man, Lincoln Loud. A great, kind-hearted intelligent, happy go-lucky guy who keeps his cool and has a plan for every situation and my best friend.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lincoln’s eyes tear up and he hugs me.) <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: Thanks, Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: You’re welcome, and for you Lori, I made you a picture.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: (opens the package) (gasps) (It’s a picture of Lori and Bobby hugging) Aaaaawwww! Lori and Bobby forever. Thank you, Noey! I’ll treasure it forever! (she kisses me on the cheek.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni smiles thinking that she’s going to get the next present.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Luna! I made you something (I give her a present and she opens it.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: (gasps) Mick Swagger?!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I made it out of clay! Now you can always see your idol while you're at home!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luna: Aaaawww! Thanks, little dude! (she rubs my head and then we hug.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: For Luan, I made you a joke book! I put in every single joke I know! You can use for your next gig! <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan: Thanks, Noah! (she hugs me)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: For you Lynn, (I give her the present, she opens it and gasps)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn: Wow! It’s a bunch of golf balls! They’re the only balls I don’t have. Thanks, buddy! (She gives me a great hug.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (squished) Don't mention it.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(She lets go of me.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Lucy, for you I wrote you a poem. Ahem. I call it:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">You’re dark as night, have hair like tar.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">And sometimes we may forget where you are.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">But you are you. You are the only one

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Who knows how to turn dark things into fun

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">So Here's a poem for my very best friend.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Who I will continue to root for and support until the end.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lucy has tears in her eyes and runs and hugs me.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lucy: Thanks, 2nd brother.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: anytime.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: For the twins, I got you something really special.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana and Lola: (gasp) An autographed photo of Blarney the Dinosaur! How did you get this?!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I had to wait a few hours in line to get it signed, but I was happy to do it for you guys.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana and Lola: Thanks, Noah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(They run and hug me and I hug them back.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: For you Lisa, (I give her a present, she opens it, it's an award.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: (reads it) And the award for smartest person I know goes to: Lisa Loud. Once again… (Immediately starts crying and runs and hugs me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: There, there Lisa. Let it out. And you didn't think I forgot about you, Lily.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lily: (babbles)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Here you go! ( It's an Elmo plush doll.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (In Elmo’s voice) Hi, Lily! Elmo's name is Elmo. Elmo and Lily are going to have so much fun together!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lily: (overjoyed) Poo-Poo! (She hugs Elmo and I hug her.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Everyone else: Aaaawww!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni looks sad, because she didn't get anything from me.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Hey, Leni. I need to show you something in the kitchen.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Oh really? what is it?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Come, and I’ll show you.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni follows me into the kitchen and we sit down on the floor.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: So, what is it you wanted to show me?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (I give her a present) Open it and see.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni opens the gift and it's a red rose.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: (gasps) Noah, it's beautiful! Ooh, and what's this?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (nervously) Uh, yeah, remember that poem you saw me with and you asked if it was mine?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Yeah, so?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Well, it was mine and I’m giving it to you. I call it:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">My vision of love

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">When I’m feeling rainy on the inside, You are the umbrella that keeps my heart from getting wet.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">You are the air in my balloon.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">You are the escalator in my mall of love.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">You are my angel.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">You are my Leni.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: So how did I do?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Leni has tears in her eyes.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Uh, Len-

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Before I can say another word Leni tackles me and kisses me on the lips with great passion. A few minutes later she lets go of me and can breathe again.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: (panting) So, I take it you liked it.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Liked it?!? I LOVED it!!!!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Really?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Yes, silly!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(She kisses me once again but this time I’m more prepared and kiss her back.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: I love you, Leni.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Oh, Noah, I love you too!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(We kiss each other again.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Merry Christmas, Leni.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leni: Merry Christmas, Noah.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">(We continue our kiss. A few minutes later we come back to the living room holding hands.)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rita: "Well, that's all the Christmas presents. Time to start decorating for Valentine's Day!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: "Wait! I still have one more!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shows her giant present she's been waiting to open] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "I saved the best for last!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shakes it]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Present: "Ow!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Everyone looks on awkwardly over what made that noise. Lori opens it up and reveals it to be her boyfriend]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bobby: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[weary] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Merry Christmas, Babe..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gasps] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Boo-Boo Bear?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bobby: "I couldn't find anything good enough to buy you for our first Christmas together, so I decided to give you myself."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lori: "Ah. That's literally the perfect gift." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[hugs him] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oh, I got you a present, too."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bobby: "I hope it's food and water."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: "Santa sure was good to us this year."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Louds and Me <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "SANTA?!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lola: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[credulous] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Oh, I thought you didn't believe in him."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lisa: "I didn't, until I spied him leaving a present behind the couch last night." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[shows a picture of what appears to be Santa labeled "SAMTAICUS CLAUSIMUS"] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Behold!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Everyone gasps at the photo]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lynn <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[noticing something behind the couch] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "There <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">is <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> a present back here. And it's addressed to Lincoln."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln opens it up and finds it's a new sled]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Wow!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The rest of his family is just as surprised as him]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[notices the label] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "A Fearsome Flyer 1000?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[This gets him to realize who really left it for him. Me and Lincoln rush outside and catches Mr. Grouse just before he leaves]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: "Hey, Mr. Grouse. Thanks for the sled."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: "Don't thank me. Thank Santa." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[winks] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Merry Christmas, Lincoln."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln and me <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Merry Christmas, Mr. Grouse!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[we run off to try Lincoln’s sled; to Me] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Well, another Christmas has come and gone. But this year, I got the best present ever: a new friend. I think from now on, things are gonna be pretty different around here."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Me: Yeah!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[puts on his helmet and sleds down the slide again] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Ha ha! Yeah!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The Fearsome Flyer 1000 hits the rock just like Big Red did, and this time, crashes through Mr. Grouse's window]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mr. Grouse: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[livid] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "LOUD!!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lincoln: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[worried] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Maybe not that different." <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Lincoln and I rush off]

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luan <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to the viewers] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Well, I guess that about <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">wraps <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> things up! YES! I DID IT!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[presses her remote and the counter finally reads 12] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "That's twelve! Merry Christmas!" <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[gets snared in one of Lana's reindeer traps with her fake antlers sticking out] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "Aah!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lana <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[jumping with joy] <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "WOO-HOO! I FINALLY GOT ONE!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">[The end credits play an instrumental version of That's What Christmas is All About<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;"> in a snowy field]

<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Trivia

 * <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">The poem I read to Leni is the poem that Kenan wrote in the Kenan and Kel episode "Poem sweet Poem."