Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

<p><strong>Day 24:</strong> The Season 2 finale brings Advent to a close with the first Christmas special I ever remember watching, 1978’s “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.”</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>, sometimes-food enthusiast with a taste for rotary phones.</li> <li><strong>Erin Evans</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mserinmevans">@mserinmevans</a>), tiny figure skater dancing to the slowest, clumsiest rendition of <em>Feliz Navidad</em>.</li> <li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ImGonnaDJ24">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>), obsessive vampire with the world’s greatest ice-skating cape, from <a href="http://ynotradio.net">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Words_W_Nerds">Words with Nerds</a>).</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li>My taped copy of this is interrupted in the middle by a WHYY telethon with Philadelphia TV legend <a href="https://www.broadcastpioneers.com/edcunningham.html">Ed Cunningham</a>.</li> <li>The Count’s amazing <a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Count_von_Count_walk-arounds">ice-skating cape</a>.</li> <li>The wibbly-wobbly physics of <a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Oscar%27s_trash_can">Oscar’s trash can</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaina_Reed_Hall">Olivia</a> married the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Peter_Hall">Predator</a>.</li> <li>The subway ride reveals an actual clue into how to get to Sesame Street.</li> <li>A cameo by the seldom remembered <a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Macintosh">Mr. Macintosh</a>, usually a fruit vendor, here selling Christmas trees.</li> <li>If you want to go read about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Calloway">Northern Calloway</a> (David) and his off-screen troubles and tragic death, go right ahead.</li> <li>The adorable 2-year-old girl too little for her own vocabulary trying to explain that Santa pushes a magic button to go dow