Sesame Street Stays Up Late!

Sesame Street Stays Up Late! is a 1993 Sesame Street New Year's Eve television special with guest appearances of characters from the international versions of Sesame Street.

Dialogue

[Oscar the Grouch is impatiently waiting on his telephone.]

Oscar: Operator? Operator, come on, I haven't got all night here!

[Telly Monster runs up to Oscar's can and frantically starts knocking at it.]

Telly: Oscar! Oscar! Oscar!

Oscar: Hey, scram, Telly! Scram, I'm makin' an important New Year's Eve phone call here.

Telly: Grouches celebrate New Year's Eve?

Oscar: Well, sure. Every year, I call my mom and some relatives, kind of a grouch conference call, and we say something very special to each other.

Telly: Wow. Well, if even grouches celebrate the new year, maybe I don't have to worry.

Oscar: [turns to the viewers] Oh, I can't resist. [turns to Telly; clears his throat] Of course you have to worry. Think about it, Telly. When this year is through, everything you know and love, all those things that are part of a year, the months, the days of the week, the hours, the minutes, the very seconds, everything that makes up a year will be over.

Telly: [uneased] ...Over?

Oscar: Why do you think they throw out old calendars at the end of the year?

Telly: I... I... I don't think I want to know, Oscar.

Oscar: Because they don't need them anymore.

[Telly runs off screaming.]

Oscar: [laughs] Oh, I enjoyed that.

Last lines

All: Happy New Year! [everyone cheers]