All language subtitles for Dear.Santa.2020.1080p.WEBRip.x264-RARBG

[film clicking]
[light music]

[tense music]

[boinging]

♪ Sweet World

- [Kid] Sweet world films.

[kid laughing]

[whimsical music]

- Santa Claus,

- Is,

- The person who
gives us presents.

- He gives presents.

- He delivers presents

- At night,

- On Christmas.

- He gives toys to children
all around the world.

- Santa Claus gives
gifts to the good kids.

- The bad people don't
get much presents.

- And the bad kids get coal.

- He lives in the North
Pole which is a snowy place.

- He wears lots of fuzzy
things so he doesn't freeze.

- He makes presents
at the North Pole.

There's a toy factory.

- He has reindeer.

- I think he has eight
or nine reindeer.

- That carries him in a sleigh.

- Flying.

- The reindeers pull the sled

and they fly across the air.

- He says

- [Kids] Ho ho ho!

- Ho, ho, ho.

- He flies around
house to house.

- They land right
on top of the roof.

- And he comes down the chimney.

- He goes down the
chimney pretty quietly

so he doesn't wake
the family up.

- And he puts the
presents under the tree.

- And he eat cookie and
he drink milk, that's it.

- He's gonna know what I want

because I'm writing
a letter to say

what I want for Christmas.

- [Kid] Dear Santa.

- [Kid] Dear Santa.

- [Kids] Dear Santa.

- I want a Nintendo Switch.

- A doll.

- I would like a barbie doll.

- Pokemon toys.

- A skateboard and a teddy bear.

- Unicorn stocking,
unicorn socks.

- A Nerf gun.

- A unicorn snow globe.

- iPad.

- Unicorn shoes.

- I want a GoPro.

- A puppy.

- A black cat.

- A super cool

race car.
- Race car.

- A really cool

Hotwheels set.
- Legos.

- A Lego spaceship.
- A Lego train.

- Kids write letters and then
they put them in the mail.

- [Kid] You mail it to Santa.

- [Kid] And the post office,
they deliver it to Santa

so Santa knows what
we want for Christmas.

[festive holiday music]

♪ Haul out the holly

♪ Put up the tree before
my spirit falls again ♪

♪ Fill up the stocking

♪ I may be rushing things but

♪ Deck the halls again now

♪ For we need a
little Christmas ♪

♪ Right this very minute

♪ Candles in the window

♪ Carols at the spinet

♪ Yes we need

♪ a little Christmas
[train hooting]

♪ Right this very minute

♪ Need a little Christmas

♪ Now

[bells jingling]

[chimes tinkling]

- Today, you guys are gonna
get to write a letter to Santa.

Remember if you can
think it, you can say it,

you can write it.

And make sure you
put your last name.

'Cause there's probably
a lot of Brinleys

and there's probably a
lot of Elijahs out there

and Vedas, and Damiens.

[kid laughing]

I'll be right with you.

- [Kid] Lawanda Adams.

- [Teacher] No you need
to put your name on it.

- Dear Santa ,i would
like my family to have

a good Christmas, can
you give them that?

- I would like my parents
to have Christmas socks

and I would like a Barbie doll.

- And then she put, do
your reindeer like carrots?

I wonder what he's gonna say?

- [Kid] He'll say yes.

- Do you guys think that
reindeer like carrots?

Give me a thumbs up
if you think they do.

I think they do.

So we may not get to read
all of them in class.

But Santa will be able to, okay?

We are going to mail
them off to Santa.

- [Man] Little
postman, how are ya?

- [Postman] Hi, how you doing?

How you doing, Kyle?

- Good, good.

Some of our students
wrote some letters and

I was gonna get 'em
to you so you can

make sure Santa gets them.

Can you do that for me?
- Well we'll do.

We will send those to
the North Pole today.

I'm gonna take
those letters back

to the office, get
them in the mail today

and get them up
to the North Pole.

[whimsical music]

Santa gets quite a few letters

and so we need to
get them up there

as quick as possible so
he has time to answer 'em.

- Okay, this is how
Santa get the letters.

- The mailman
drives in his truck.

- The mailman drives
all the way, all the way

up to where Santa Claus is.

- Only the post office
knows where Santa lives.

- I think the mailman
takes the airplane.

- [Boy With Glasses]
They put the letters

carefully in the plane.

- They ride the plane
all the way to Santa.

[wind lightly blowing]

[light music]

- Elves!

- I'm an elf working
at the North Pole.

I'm processing letters that
kids write in to Santa.

If you'll have the
address at the top right.

That makes my job easier.

- [Woman] If there
is an address.

- If there is an address, yeah.

- Santa has 20 elves.

- Santa probably has more
than a hundred elves, I think.

- He has one thousand.

- One thousand.

- A million.

- Santa's the boss of the elves.

- He's a nice boss.

And he makes sure
that everything's done
perfect and right.

And that we'd make
sure all the children

are taken care of.

So we open letters,
and that's what we do.

We try and get them all
answered by Christmas.

- And then Santa does nothing.

He just leaves, and
when someone calls him

then he picks up the phone.

That's all he ever does.

- [Greg] It's interesting that
kids from different states

like different kinds of toys.

For instance, in New York,
much more into electronics

than a lot of the country.

And you go to California,
and you guessed it,

a lot more surfboards
are being asked for.

Down in the south
and in the north,

everywhere is a
little bit different.

And most of the kids are
just very, very polite

in the way they ask
Santa for their gifts.

- [Kids] Please, please, please.

Thank you, thank you!

- [Greg] It does get very busy.

Then the closer we
get to Christmas,

- Thank you.

- [Greg] The busier it gets.

The more letters there are,
the more children there are,

the harder it was to
answer all the letters.

So a few years ago, they
decided to start digitizing.

We put them all in the computer

where we can bring up every
single child's letter,

and we go through it
and we categorize it.

What kind of gift
does this child want,

do they want a bike,
do they want a puppy?

What are they asking for?

We make sure every child's
name is put into the computer

and then we make sure
it gets taken care of.

- Santa loves it.

It makes his job easier.

- Sometimes he used to stay
up really late at night.

And it's getting
smoother so he can get

a little bit of a rest
before he takes off

for Christmas night.

We're working hard, Santa.

We're gonna do
everything possible

and we're keeping up with you.

It's hard, you're the
hardest worker, Santa,

but we're keeping up with you.

[machine whizzing]

♪ There's a silent night

♪ A holy night

♪ Oh

[crowd applauding]

- Thank you guys very much.

Thank you all for being here.

We have elves over there,
where the letters are.

[light jazzy music]

This year, the Operation
Santa program is online.

But you can still
adopt them in person.

Just Chicago and New York
are the only two places

that you can still adopt
hardcopy letters as well.

- I invite you to
come out at any time

and read the letters and
see what touches your heart.

Okay, thank you.
- Merry Christmas.

- Merry Christmas
to you as well.

Thank you so much.
- Good job.

- Girl, you doing a good job.
- Thank you.

I was so happy.

You thought I had won
a million dollars.

I was like, well what do I do

and when do I start?

So he explained
the program to me

and told me what I needed to do.

And he sort of left it to me

to do the flare of
whatever I wanted to do.

And I just decided
to bring it to life.

- [Man] When will you start
dressing for the holidays?

[Janice laughing]

- [Janice] About the 23rd.

- I'll take some of these.

I'll keep them separate
from the two children.

- I think I got my three
families this year.

- Is he asking for a kitten?

I'll get you a kitten.

- Once people start reading,
they can't hardly stop.

And we actually put
tissue on the table

because they sit
there and they cry.

- This is a little
girl, five years old.

My name is Kelly, I have been
on my best behavior all year.

I will try to keep
my wishlist short.

Winter leggings, so
she wants tights.

- We're from Lilydale
Missionary Baptist Church.

And we're here today
to adopt a family.

These letters are, oh my god,

I wanna pick 'em all.

- I say the same
thing every year.

I wish I could take 'em all.

We've been doing this
now about 16 years.

We don't have a lot of money

but what we do have, we
want it to go to someone

who really needs it.

- One little boy
asked for a bible

so that's right up our alley.

So of course we wanna buy
some bibles and pass them out.

- Yay, we got three!

- [Attendant] You
got three letters.

- I work at a real
estate company.

This is our eighth
year doing it.

The first year, I sent
out an email company wide

and I said hey, the post
office runs this program.

I'm gonna go down
there and pick up

a couple letters for myself.

Would anybody like
to participate?

So we had about 20 people
get involved that year.

We got gifts for 35 kids.

- Every year they would get
larger and larger and larger.

And I said we're gonna let
our boss know about you.

And so he sent them
a thank you letter.

- This year I've got
the master list here.

You know, we're up to 64
people at my company now

and 114 kids are going
to get their hopes,

dreams and wishes fulfilled

so they can celebrate
the magic of a holidays.

[light music]

- It's a family of eight

and there's five kids.

Her, her grandma
and five children.

- Does it give ages in there?

- No.

Wait!
- Hey look, there's Janice!

- How are you?

- How are you?
- Good.

- I thought you were
retiring this year.

I said to Matt,
- No.

Really?
- and he's like

I'm reaching out to
Janice now and I'm like,

are you sure?
- No,

I'll let you know
- I think she's retiring.

- when this elf goes to the
North Pole for permanent.

- Well here's another
one and this has,

- Throw it at me.

- [Matt] Five kids.

- They are a special group.

We have families sometimes,
six, seven, eight,

up to 10.

And a lot of times
they get left.

They will choose those letters
and help those families.

We spend hours just letting
them do their thing.

- They write a 37 year
old mother of six.

- [Matt] Let's take
this two from Janice.

- [Ashley] Yeah I think
that's what we take.

- [Jen] Yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

- The first year that we did it

was the first year
that I met you.

And you introduced
me to this program.

I didn't even know it existed.

And we did a family and
I can remember vividly

it was a letter written
by an 11 year old kid

who asked for
nothing for himself

which is, I've had
11 year olds, like,

they're known to be selfish.

Asked for nothing for himself,

talked about how
loving and awesome

his single mother was, and she
did the best that she could

and we're like all right, great.

And fast forward
to today, we do,

we probably have 150 to 200
different donors every year.

We're just sort
of like the vessel

that holds it all together.

We're Santa's helpers.

- We're Santa's elves, we help.

[light music]

- I'm a ornamental iron worker.

I work for a window
installation company.

[welder zapping]

I went through the free
apprenticeship program,

it's only for women,

and they help women
get into the trades.

I waited to get a phone
call from local 580,

had an interview, took a test,

and I've been doing
this for five years.

Sure.

- Okay.
- Okay.

Sounds good, thank you.

One of our senior
instructors, Gene Matthews,

he started up with Operation
Santa 11 years ago.

- I kind of like this one

'cause at least she's honest

about she's not doing well
in school but she's trying.

- So this is yes, [speaks in
foreign language] Maria, Maria.

- We started doing it on a job,

15, 20 guys on a job.

We've been dying to
get a few letters.

Had some big tough
guy ironworkers crying

when they were
reading the letters.

And it just started to snowball.

- I joined him
five years ago and

I wait for it all year,
it's like my baby.

- [Gene] And I defy anybody
to read them letters

and not want to adopt them.

- So just, you could
just go through them,

see if there's any of
these that you want.

- [Gissel] Santa sends a
special elf called Gail.

- Lamborghini. [laughing]

- A mansion.

- And a mansion.

- I'll take the first
one if you want.

- I'll take the socks.

- Oh, my.

- My name is Gail Branham,

and I am the Chief Elf
for Operation Santa

here in New York.

Mhmm.

- [Gissel] Gail reaches
out to all of us.

Any New Yorker or
anyone just to help out.

- We're in close
communication with Santa.

We're not, we don't really
divulge too much information

as to, you know, our
conversations with him

but he knows that we're out here

and we're doing his work.

And we're making
things easier for him.

And tilt that right.

- There you go.

- We good, we good?

- [Gail] I think it's okay!

- You get to read the
letters, they're so heartfelt.

Some children are unfortunate.

And then you got some
children that are fortunate

but they still
wanna get gifts too,

which is okay.

We all love gifts.

One kid asks for just
food for Christmas.

Another kid asks for a bed.

But I've seen bikes
come through here,

I've seen a bed come here.

I've seen refrigerators,
I've seen it all.

Just tons and tons and
it makes the kids happy.

They just smile and
smile and smile.

- We got 53 letters
in total here.

- How's it coming on over here?

Good?

[kids chattering]

I'll take that, thank you.

Okay, perfect.

Today, we're in a East Harlem

low income housing project.

This is our fourth
year of doing this.

And every child is able
to write letters to Santa

and we make sure that
they're fulfilled.

Wow, that's coming
together pretty well.

I like it.

Sometimes it can
be a little tougher

for Santa to get to
certain locations

or make sure that they
get their presents.

And so we do work hand in hand.

I think of it as
Santa's special forces,

that we make sure
that these kids

are gonna get their
Christmas presents.

Santa does know that,

I'm quite familiar with
the things that he does.

[light music]

When I was 10 or 11 years old,

I wrote a Dear Santa letter.

I was a bit disillusioned
child at the time.

We were going through
some pretty rough times.

My mom who was a
newly single mom

admirably was trying her
best to make a life for us.

We were struggling
to just keep afloat

and have food in the house,

and we didn't have anything.

Just a mattress on
the floor, had no TV.

I wrote, I would
like either a radio,

because we had nothing
that made any sound

so it'd be nice to
have some sort of sound

from the outside world,

or an alarm clock so that my mom

wouldn't have to wake me up.

In the morning, I
can go to school,

and do it on my own and not
have to burden her with that.

The time came where I
opened up the present

and it was an alarm clock radio.

It's an alarm clock
but it's also a radio.

It was everything that
I didn't even know

I wanted and needed
and there it was.

[light music]

People don't necessarily
remember what you say to them.

They'll remember how
you made them feel.

And now we make sure
there'll be all types

of Christmas cheer

and we're gonna help
facilitate that.

- Mmm!

[bright music]

♪ I want a hippopotamus
for Christmas ♪

♪ Only a hippopotamus will do

♪ Don't want a doll

♪ No dinky Tinkertoy

♪ I want a hippopotamus
to play with and enjoy ♪

♪ I want a hippopotamus
for Christmas ♪

♪ I don't think Santa
Claus will mind, do you ♪

♪ No crocodiles or
rhinoceroseses ♪

♪ I only like hippopotamuseses

♪ And hippopotamuses
like me too ♪

[light music]

- [Woman] Hold on,
let's see what's in here

so everybody can get
their special ornament.

- [Young Woman] Make sure you
don't clump them together.

[chattering over each other]

- Dear Santa, hello.

I'm writing you to
tell you thank you.

Thank you for everything
you have given me

for the past 12 years.

- [Woman] There you go,
perfect, you're welcome.

- Have you read my
sister Maya's letter?

She just loves animals so much.

I was wondering if me and her

could get a puppy for Christmas.

You don't have to
get me anything else

and I don't care what
kind of dog, any works.

I promise I will
take great care of it

and give it so much love.

That's all I want.

You could even leave
my stocking empty.

I don't care.

Well thanks so much for
reading this letter.

You're an awesome
person/spirit/fairy/cow.

Natalie.

[boy screaming]

The thing I love
most about Christmas

is like being able
to see my siblings

opening up their gifts

and just seeing their
surprised faces.

I just love seeing them happy.

[bells jingling]

- Dear Santa, this is
what I want for Christmas.

10 Dutch bunnies,
five boys, five girls.

Enough money to take
care of Dutch Bunnies.

A useful taking care
of Dutch Bunnies guide.

Food for Dutch Bunnies
and happiness for all.

From Christopher.

P.S. I will send you gifts.

You deserve them.

I wrote about Dutch Bunnies
'cause I love rabbits a lot.

They just fill my
heart up with joy.

[light music]

One time I went to Pratt's
Pets to look at them.

And I found this
really cute white one.

I picked it up and it didn't
want me to put it down.

It would fight whenever
I tried to put it down.

I felt sad for the guy.

I felt really bad.

- I'm not buying
any more property.

I'm a borrow.

- He's always loved animals

and he just wants to be
a vet when he gets older.

He just loves them.

Specially like, the rabbits.

- Is it good?

- Yes, it's good.

- Okay, let me read it then.

- But I think Santa
wants people to be good.

He loves kids.

I was thinking about
writing other stuff

but I just decided just to
write about the rabbits.

[light piano music]

[bells jingling]

- Dear Santa, my name is
Bryan and I am 12 years old.

This Christmas I would
really like a limo

to give me and my family
a ride around the city.

I've also never been in one.

My mother would pay for it
but she doesn't have the money

and my dad isn't around,
so I'm asking your for it

and I will really appreciate it.

[tires screeching]

I've seen a lot of
like movies and shows

about like people
riding limousines

and so I want to
see how it felt.

It's like kind of private

and it's like nobody
experiences that every day.

- That's a dream that he had

because he told me
"Mommy, sometimes I see

"in movies and
everything and I see

"so many kids in limousines

"and I want to be in a limousine
with you and the family."

I said, "Oh Bryan,
that's very expensive.

"I don't have money for that."

He said "Well, I'm going to
write a letter to Santa."

And I said, "Okay, do
it, but I don't know."

- I know a lot of kids
write letters to Santa

about what they want this year.

So I wrote several to
see if he like notices.

'Cause I know
there's a lot of kids

and he has to like take
his time for them too, so

if he couldn't do that,
I wouldn't have been mad

but I would really
appreciate it if he could.

I follow my directions and
stuff, like listen to my mom.

I respect everybody.

I think I've been
on the nice list.

- Bryan is very good in school.

I say to my son "Always have
your face up, don't go down.

"Try to be your best."

Will Santa get that for Bryan?

Well I don't know.

But I continue believe.

[bells jingling]

- Dear Santa, this is Victoria.

I told mommy to
help me write to you

because I am still
learning to write.

We had to move to Chico now

because the fire
burned our house.

[birds chirping]

- Dear Santa, we moved again.

My biggest Christmas wish
is to live back in paradise.

[somber music]

[siren blaring]

- [Dispatcher] All
units, be advised.

The town of Paradise is
under mandatory evacuation.

The town of Paradise is
under mandatory evacuation.

[fire crackling]

[light piano music]

- [Mom] There's white in here.

Does anybody want white
for their cookies?

- Yes.

Can you tell me when we're done?

- You guys can just
put them on here

when you guys are done.

We knew that our home was gone

right away, and most of our
friends lost their homes.

- I'm very grateful for
my kids to have a home

and a place to stay,
and for our lives.

It could have been to
where we didn't have

any more Christmases, you know?

I am being nice and
good for you, Santa

because I love you.

- I would like a
hoverboard or a skateboard.

Could you please bring
gifts for my brothers

and sisters too?

- I miss home.

I want my bed and books
to read with my mommy.

I will make cookies and milk.

They are just like
the ones at Paradise.

Thank you for my presents.

Love, Victoria.

- I'm sure we will love
anything you bring us.

Love, Lorelai.

[funky holiday music]

- [Crowd] Whoah!

- You want some new
socks, or, yeah?

Okay.

- What's up there?

Oh what is it?

You can't get that.

[baby shouting]

You can't get that.

Decided to write
a letter to Santa,

just to do something with
my kids before I went home.

I asked for just household
stuff and like clothes.

My couch is a
little messed up but

I'm living so I can't complain.

I still have a
roof over my head.

[crowd chattering]

- The Christmas season
honestly is a little rough.

I'm kind of struggling,
trying to make a way,

doing the best I can.

- Where's your pencil?

You gotta pull the chair up.

Did he get one?

- I'm seven months pregnant.

He's been my little blessing

but he's definitely
a surprise, like,

we have to get cribs and car
seats and clothes for him so

it's rough 'cause I
had to stop working.

- [Taylor] I'm just looking
for like some household things

like I need help with
like mattress for my kids.

- [Woman] Now put
it in your envelope.

- [Taylor] It would
mean so much for me

for my kids to wake up and
have a wonderful Christmas.

- And then you pulled it
over and it'll get stuck.

You wanna lick it?

- You did a great job.

- I'm getting ready to cry
now just thinking about it,

like it will be a blessing,

it will be a really
big blessing.

A really big blessing.

- Yeah lick it till it sticks.

There you go.

Push it down.

Yeah, high five!
- Thank you, Merry Christmas.

♪ Here comes Santa Claus,
here comes Santa Claus ♪

♪ right down Santa Claus Lane

- I met Santa Claus once.

- I met Santa in the mall.

- I saw Santa at CVS.

We were just in this aisle,
just looking for hair stuff.

And he just like walked
towards us and I'm like.

- I was like shaking.

- [Mom] Can you smile for
Mom so I can take a picture

of you with Santa?

- Some Santas aren't
the real Santa

when people take
pictures of them.

They're not the real Santa,

just someone dressed up.

- [Mom] Tell Santa what
you want for Christmas.

- The Santas that we see
at the mall are helpers

because there's
only one real Santa.

- The other ones might
be volunteering for him

while he's really busy.

- Kids can tell the fake Santa
what they want for Christmas

and then he'll report
it to the real Santa.

- But the little kids don't
know that it's not actual Santa.

- Babies don't know.

- There's some Santas
that we see that are white

and this one time I
was in first grade,

that Santa, he was black.

- Merry Christmas!

- [Kid] It's really good too,

because it can be
different colors of Santa.

- I don't know if
he's real or fake.

- And they can tell
which one's fake

because of their shoes.

The fake ones look
like regular shoes.

- My cousin Morgan,
she's seen Santa before

in real life because
he showed her his ID.

I'm just hoping I
could see that one too.

[giggling]

[bells jingling]

[light music]

- [Instructor] Okay,
boys and girls.

Good afternoon, how's
everybody today?

- [Kids] Good.

- We are about to take a look
at our candidates this year

for letter selection for
Operation Pay It Forward.

So we're gonna look
over a few letters

and we're going to decide
which ones will be appropriate

for us to adopt.

At PS253, one of the clubs
is a Student Government Club.

And one of our most
successful programs

is a Pay It Forward program
that we do at Christmas time.

- Dear Santa, hi.

My name is Semaj and
I am 11 years old.

- [Ms. Gellman] You
know, it's very busy

up in the North Pole
this time of year.

So our school
community is very happy

to act as elves for Santa.

He has my cell phone
number and he texted us

and we got right to work.

- Dear Santa, what I
would like for Christmas

is a red X-box, one
controller please.

- [Ms. Gellman] So this
looks like somebody

that really would
like electronics.

So what do you think about that?

- I think no, because
if we can't afford it,

then we shouldn't buy
it for them, 'cause,

- It's too expensive.
- Yeah.

- It's too expensive.

We have to look for
more doable things

because, like we say,

it's not what we
have that matters.

It's what we do with
what we have, right?

Our school, we're very
close to the beach.

[waves crashing]

A few years ago, when
Hurricane Sandy hit,

our community lost a lot.

Many of the students,
where they lived,

so their apartments
were flooded out.

They all had a rough time.

Many people brought
many donations,

clothes, mattresses, water.

Anything you could imagine.

So this is one way of
kind of paying it forward.

We were helped, and now
we're helping other people.

- Dear Santa, my name is Emma.

I am six years old and
I'm in first grade.

I like to read and draw.

- [Ms. Gellman] What
can we do for her

for reading and drawing?

I mean, we're a school.

- Colorful pencils and paper?

- [Ms. Gellman]
Excellent, so is everybody

liking this letter so far?

- [Kids] Yes.

- Okay, let's continue
from here, sweety.

Where it says Santa.

- Santa, I would like
to send son present

to my mom.

She work really hard, and my
brother, he is 14 years old,

is very good boy.

- Good, okay let's
stop right there.

What is she doing?

Is she just asking for herself?

- [Kids] No.

- No, what is she doing, Amna?

- [Amna] She's showing respect?

- [Ms. Gellman] For who?

- Her mom and brother?

- Her family.
- Yeah she's showing respect

for her family.

I think she really is somebody

that we might wanna help,
but it's student choice.

You guys decide,
what do you think?

- [Kids] Yes!

- [Ms. Gellman]
Yes, she's a yes?

- Yes.

- I'm so excited.

I'm confirming.

And we're adopted.

[chill music]

[bells jingling]

- My favorite time of
the year is Christmas.

I love the excitement
of all the extra parcels

and all the extra mail.

And it drives
everybody else crazy

and they're like
all stressed out

and I love it.

Oh my god, that one is funny.

- Yay!

- Look at this.

- That's fantastic.

- A dragon with

a rainbow popsicle.
- No, look at this.

- This is fantastic.

- Googly eyes.

- I am the head elf in Chico.

This is my ninth year doing it.

Santa needs elves because
this is a really big world

and he can't possibly
do it all by himself.

We're there to help him and

you know, do some of
the legwork for him

so that he doesn't
have to work so hard.

- Okay, she wants a rainbow
light to hold in her hand,

a king octopus, a dragon
that talks, flies,

is a girl warrior,
and is rainbow

and has Wonder Woman clothes.

[everyone chuckling]

- [Jamie] I love
the idea of toys.

Toys bring everybody such joy.

You know, little kids love toys.

Well, believe it or not,
adults love toys too.

I can be an adult all
day long if I want to.

But most of the time
I don't want to.

- Answer back what you want
for Christmas, Brianna.

[chuckling] I love kids.

So good.

- Dear Santa, you know
Cooper really wants

a Lego train, right?

So I was thinking,

- Santa sent me a big
red mailbox years ago

and we put all the
letters into that mailbox

so that we don't lose any.

At that point, I
get a hold of Santa,

either by text or Facebook.

We go over all the letters,

we decide who's been
naughty, who's been nice.

And then there we decide
what they're gonna get

off their list,

and we go from there.

- All right, dear
Santa, this is Victoria.

I told mommy to
help me write to you

because I'm still
learning to write.

We had to move to Chico now

because the fire
burned our house.

I missed home.

We had to move a lot.

I want my bed and books
to read with my mommy.

Take a breath.

- You know.

- [Woman] It's all right.

- She's supporting the family
right now making tamales.

And I mean, she has five kids.

And it's just, I mean,

I don't know, it's just,

it's just sad when
it happens, but,

everything makes
me sad. [laughing]

- [Woman] That's
why we have Mookie.

- That's why I have my
support monkey. [laughing]

- [Woman] How about a hug?

Here you go.

[somber piano music]

- With the fire last year,

we had about 40,000
people overnight

that moved into Chico.

We're still feeling the
aftermath of it this year.

I've always collected
toys and I love toys.

And because I didn't really
think our house was gonna burn,

I just thought we were leaving,

I left all of my toys.

And it just... [sobbing]

I mean, I left my whole house.

This is the first toy that
I bought after the fire.

It just means a lot to me now.

[tractor beeping]

The house was long ways.

And then this was all,

you can see it used to
be a retaining wall.

We plan to rebuild our
house and start over.

With the Santa
Project this year,

I just want to give a
little extra attention

to those that I know
are from Paradise.

I mean, I've been there, I know.

I just feel like it's my duty.

[jazzy music]

[chimes tinkling]

- It can get stressful.

- It's a lot of moving
parts. [laughing]

You have a lot of
people who are just

hearing about the program,
and they want to come in

and get letters.

And then we have a
lot of people who are

coming back with their packages.

Lots and lots of packages.

We feel the pressure.

[elevator dinging]

I love the stress.

But yet, nobody
better get in my way

because it's gotta be done.

[cars honking]

[bells jingling]

[lightly excited music]

- Saturday morning is
our Christmas event

and I'm still 25
letters off minimally.

So today I'm gonna be
going store to store,

trying to fill in
the gap that we have

for the amount of presents.

And even wrapping paper,

and any other kind of
donations that we can get.

Thanks, thanks you,
appreciate it, thank you.

All my cash is into this.

I've got nothing left.

All my networks are basically
tapped at this point.

I'm here to try to
get actual stuff

and fill this bag.

I've got bags within this bag.

So I can carry a
bag, I got bags, so

you know, we're
planning for success.

We gotta try.

It's down to the wire.

The pressure is, there's
just these little

puppy dog eyed kids
just looking at us

and being like, you know,

you didn't get me a present?

[bells jingling]

- [Jen] And if you
finish this little boy,

then you come back to me,

and then we'll do,

we'll do another person, okay?

- Okay.

- All right, high five.

Wait, wait, wait,
no, let's do go team.

Ready, one two three!

Go team!

[light excited music]

- Hey, which way is toys?

Oh, it's right there!

Any baby toys or board books?

- I love it.

Let's do it, let's
look at the prices.

- Undies!

I found undies, guys!

- She really needs to be warm.

- So we should
get her a blanket.

- Okay, blankie.

- Small blankets, I saw them,

over there.

- After the families call us,

I take notes, I write
down their name,

everything about them.

I get a lot of information.

And I like my donors
to know the story.

We have to do a separate
transaction for each person.

So this is Jeremiah,
he has more stuff.

So everything for
Jeremiah will go in a bag

or however many bags it takes.

And then we don't open the bag.

This is the system.

Hup two three four, here
we go, out the door.

[light music]

This is number three.

So one, two, three.

Number three, this is Autumn.

Who is this?

Autumn and Jeremiah's.

[chill music]

- [Ashley] Come right in, yeah.

Just put it right here,
right in front of you.

Amazon just piles, and piles up.

- Candy?

- [Delivery Guy]
Thank you very much.

Thank you.

- [Jen] Thank you.

- [Matt] I'm Jewish.

Like, I didn't have
any of this as a kid.

This is all brazen to me.

- We have two adults
coming at two o'clock.

It looks like the bulk of people

are coming at three or four.

[people chattering]

- [Matt] Donors come drop off
and they'll stay for an hour

and wrap some gifts
to help us out.

[guests chattering]

We've talked for years, like
let's go get a warehouse

but we do this out of our house

because we do it when
my kids go to bed,

we do it all day long.

It can't be done
except in our house

'cause we can manage both
lives at the same time.

It's organized chaos, I think.

- [Jen] It's organized
chaos, it really is.

- Everybody take a
basket of supplies.

You're gonna need scissors.

Here, why don't you
take that, honey?

We have our little stickers.

We have glue sticks.

And over here you
can cut these out

and color them in and paste them

on a construction paper.

Let's go.

Paper.

Paper.

Every class adopted
a child from a letter

that was sent to Santa.

And they spent the last
two weeks preparing

to deliver presents to
that child for Santa.

- It doesn't matter how
many things you wrap.

We just have to get it done.

- [Kids] Yeah, yeah yeah.

- Get it done!

- We nailed it, yeah!

- Most children don't feel
like they have the power

to make somebody's dreams
come true like that.

So they get very excited,
they bring in their presents.

They bought them wrapping paper,

you bring in whatever you can.

I think our students really
develop some empathy,

civic pride, and just
know a real good feeling

to be Santa and make
somebody's dreams come true.

- In Miss Sevage's class,

they are wrapping
presents for Simone.

She's a fifth grade girl, and

they're wrapping
presents such as clothes,

sweaters, socks, and toys.

It makes me feel really
happy for this girl.

- We chose this family because
we really care for them

and we felt sad that
their mom passed away.

- [Teacher] Right here is good.

That's good, that's good.

That's good.

- We have so many gifts
because they're giving presents

for her aunt, for her
brother and sister

and the little 10
month old baby.

- Even if you don't
particularly celebrate

Christmas or Hannukkah

or Diwali or Kwanza,

we still would like to feel
that Santa is in your heart

because that's truly what it is.

And the good feeling of giving

and being peaceful and
happy with each other's

what we're trying to promote.

- I think they're
really gonna love them.

- I'm so excited.

[calm and gentle music]

- All right, at this time,

we would like to
introduce to you

Damion Digrazia, please give
him a big round of applause.

[crowd applauding]

- Thank you so much everyone
for coming out tonight.

You know, a Christmas
gift can be impactful.

You know, like it has
for me, once upon a time

I was an Operation
Santa Claus kid myself,

came from an
underprivileged background,

where I wrote out
a little letter

to get a alarm clock or a radio.

And I got an alarm clock radio

and it was the best thing ever.

And it stuck with me.

Going forward, we're at
least 25 letters off.

And we're trying to
finish all those letters

because the kids are gonna
come, try to get their gifts.

And either they're gonna get
their gifts or they're not.

So you know, if anybody
wants to donate later

and any way you guys
wanna get involved,

I really appreciate everything

that you guys are
doing, it's amazing.

The mission continues,
thanks, everybody.

[crowd applauding]

[gentle music]

What we get here is just
mission critical period.

You know, I don't know
if we're gonna be able

to come up with enough.

- Reading all the
letters around here,

it makes me just wanna go out
and actually buy everything

that's on the list.

That's all this
is about, is kids.

- [Damion] But we
might be witness

to a Christmas miracle tonight

is what I've been feeling.

[chill music]

- It's the holidays.

It's Christmas, it's Hannukkah,
it's whatever you celebrate.

Here in New York, if you're
not like pushing tourists

out of the way, or getting angry

at traffic or whatnot,

everyone's in that
same mindset of

we are here
together, we are one.

Let's just have this
moment of unity and giving.

I've been doing this for 15
to 18 years at least now.

[camera clicking]

This year, I wasn't
actually going to do it.

I needed a break, to be honest.

And then this letter
fell into my lap

and I said well,
here we go again.

There's no not
doing it this year

because of this letter.

[serene music]

It says "Dear Santa.

"Do you support the
LGBTQ community?

"And if you can speak to God,
can you tell him I love him?

"and if he loves
me for being gay.

"Thank you."

That's all this letter says.

At its essence, the kid
is only asking for love

for Christmas,
from Santa and God.

So what's happening in the
background for this kid?

That's like, wow.

How can you not grab this letter

and send him all the love?

So upon receiving
this, I sent it

to my gay brothers and sisters.

I said hey, this
is what I'm doing.

Read the letter, I think
we need to mobilize.

And so immediately, everyone's
like, yes, yes, yes,

yes, yes, yes.

We're gathering all these
kids books on acceptance

and what it's like
to be different, and,

I know there's a
book coming my way

about LGBT history for kids.

And someone just sent
me a rainbow Santa hat

just to be like, you know what,

even in the North Pole,
everybody's different, right?

I mean Rudolph was
different and ostracized

until he was the hero
for being different.

[bells jingling]

[lightly tense holiday music]

- Try to see if you
could fold it in a way

that it gives it
like reinforcement

and then you're gonna wrap
this whole thing in brown.

- To protect the branding.
- Yes.

Did you get all the
price tags off of this?

My dear nana, thank you
for all the love and care

you give me and Dookie.

- Dookie!

- We love you so much.

- Yup, Dominic.

- [Man] That's 25P, right?

- Today we are wrapping
up presents for 62 letters

and 171 people and
one cat Dookie.

- Jonathan!
- Yeah?

- [Gissel] That needs to go to-

- Yeah, I got it.

- Jonathan, that needs
to be taped down.

Jonathan, can you run this?

Jonathan!

- Yeah?

[light jazzy music]

- You know, you lose everything
sometimes in a divorce.

And when I joined
580 as an apprentice,

my daughter was
living down south

and I was up here starting to
get on my feet financially.

And you know, I
wasn't able to provide

not even a home for
her at that time,

let alone like buying gifts.

If I was able to
receive like a box,

like boxes that we give out,

I would just cry.

I know I'll be just
crying, crying, crying.

Being able to deliver
these packages,

making sure that they're
packaged correctly to be shipped

to make it to their destination

is something very
important to me.

And I send them with
love, lots of love.

Like a little piece of Gigi
goes with you. [chuckling]

- [Woman] Santa rules!

[crowd cheering]

- Nina's gonna do the weighing,

and then you're gonna
enter the postage

on the computer and then
print out the postage sticker.

- Remember what Gail said,
every third one free.

- [Gissel] Santa and
all his little elves

are gonna be happy.

And then all our
apprentices were happy

just to know like
they did a good thing.

- [Gail] Thank you so much.

- No, thank you.

Thank you so much.

- Say Operation Santa!

- [Everyone] Operation Santa!

- Goodbye, Santa Claus.

- [Ms. Gellman] Okay you ready?

- [Kid] Yup.

- One at a time, let's go.

One step at a time,
be very careful.

Here, start passing it down.

[kids chattering]

Come back, good job.

Pass it to me.

[kids chattering]

How's everybody doing, okay?

How you doing,
Alshie, you all right?

[kids chattering]

Boys and girls, we
are now in Manhattan

as you can see by all
the tall buildings.

[kids chattering]

- [Kid] Look at that
building right there!

[cars honking]

- Let's go, let's
go, go that way.

All eyes on me.

Boys and girls, Miss Gail

would like to say
something to you.

- Welcome.

I'm the Chief Elf here at
Operation Santa in New York.

So I'm really pleased
that you could be here.

We have been working
for 107 years

to help bring
Christmas to people.

And you have all been working
for the past three years

on this program,
this is amazing.

You're so generous, you're kind,

and you're looking for
ways to make a difference

in people's lives.

Yes?

- How many elves
are there in total?

Like that work in
this post office?

- Right now we have about
15 elves working here.

But we have the whole Postal
Service throughout the country

working on Operation Santa.

It's a big deal.

Thank you so much for
participating in this program,

it's amazing, right?

- [Kids] Yes!

[kids applauding]

[light music]

- Samaji goes over there.

Nancy's son right here, yeah.

- I always wanted the
experience of helping others

so I feel happy.

- It feels nice to like

get to know other
people's culture and

like be a part of it.

- [Woman] One,
two, three, smile!

- All this day long, I
was excited and happy.

- One, two, three, smile!

Look how beautiful!

♪ You better watch out,
you better not cry ♪

♪ You better not pout
I'm telling you why ♪

♪ Santa Claus is
coming to town ♪

- Santa only get the
good people presents.

- He has elves to watch us

so he knows if we've
been bad or not.

They go back to
Santa and tell him.

And if he sees you again,

he's just gonna keep on telling.

- Some people trap Santa.

- And then they take his
presents and be naughty.

- I'm taking his sled.

- [Kid] I've seen somebody
do that in a commercial.

- [Kid] People be naughty,
he give them coal.

- I've been good.

I think I'm gonna get presents.

♪ Santa Claus is
coming to town ♪

[light music]

- Good girl.

This year, my wife and I said

we would each adopt one letter.

That didn't happen.

We adopted more than
that. [laughing]

All in all, we
adopted five letters.

Leave it.

Good girl.
- Leave it.

Come on, come on.

- I was particularly
drawn to one letter

because he wants 10 bunnies.

10 bunnies, and it
was just so funny.

The other letter,
this little girl,

all she had asked for
was for her family

to get a puppy.

Santa reached out to us

because Santa knew
that we were involved

in animal rescue community
and are huge animal lovers.

The fact that we can
get a rescue bunny

and a rescue puppy,

being able to tie it
back to our own values

meant a lot to us.

Good girl.

We're so honored
that Santa asked us

to help deliver both
of these letters.

[bright music]

- Wait, where did I hit you?

- [Dad] Your last
one was Foxtrot two.

- That too, it's a person.

- Oh, it's a person
holding the egg.

[doorbell ringing]

- [Mom] What is that?

- [Natalie] The bell.

- Oh, the bell?

- Yeah.

- Hey guys, there's
somebody here

that wanted to meet you.

[kids gasping]

- Oh, it's a puppy!

- Do you guys wanna hold her?

- [Kids] Yeah!

- Yeah?
- Oh my god!

- Here you go.

- [Dad] Wanna put
her on a blanket?

- [Natalie] Let's put
her on the blanket!

Oh my god!

She's so cute!

I'll just pet her.
- Hey guys.

Why is there a puppy
here, you think?

- I don't know.
- I don't know.

- Santa Claus sent him here

and that's our new puppy.

- [gasping] Really?

[gasping] Oh my god!

Wait, really?

- [Dad] Absolutely.

[kids giggling]

- Oh my god!

Really?

- [Dad] Whose letter
was it that was wrote?

I forgot.

- Mine.

- Santa sent somebody
who sent the puppy.

They're right here.

- [Kids] Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- You're welcome.
- Oh my gosh,

I love her!

- [Maya] We always wanted a dog!

- You always wanted a dog?

- [Maya] But then
our mom said no, so.

[everybody laughing]

She's so tiny!

She's just the cutest girl!

[everybody giggling]

- [Kid] Is it a girl or a boy?

- It's a girl.
- It's a boy.

- It's a girl.

- No, it's a girl.

- It's a girl 'cause
it has a cute collar.

- She is so cute.
- She has a cute collar

so it's a girl.
- Wait.

- [Kid] She's cute!

- I was not aware
that Santa answered

puppy letters very
often. [laughing]

So it was a very
big surprise, yes.

- Shocked, I think is
the best way to phrase.

It was amazing to have
something I never thought

was even a possibility
come to life for us.

And for our children to
get to experience this,

it is tremendous.

- Natalie!

We got a puppy!

Yes we do!
- Oh my god!

- [Kid] Yeah, too awesome!

[light blues music]

[phone ringing]

- [Man] Hello?

- Hi, is this Frank?

- [Frank] Yes, it is.

- This is Kelsey.

I was the one who
adopted the bunny letter.

- [Frank] Oh, okay great.

You're from Michigan?

- I am.

- [Frank] Thank
you for doing that.

I really appreciate that.
- Absolutely.

Thank you for delivering.

- [Frank] Ha, no problem.

I'm on the way over there.

- How is the bunny?

- [Frank] Oh, he's great.

He's really good, beautiful.

[bells jingling]

- Nine.

One, two, three,
four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine.

I want the officer job.

- We'll see about that.

[doorbell ringing]

[gentle music]

- [Kid] Choose your bit,

choose your husband or wife.

Backseat.

- Wait.

[gasping]

- It's a little
present from Santa.

A little rabbit?

- Oh my god.

- Are you the one that's
been wanting the rabbit?

This beauty's name is Kringle.

He's really really good.
- That's amazing.

- It is amazing, yeah.

He called and said
someone needed a rabbit.

- But you asked for,

- Did you ask

for a rabbit?
- That's right.

- You want to sit and
I'll put him on your lap?

How's that?

So let me put him
on your lap, okay.

Just kind of hold
him there real tight.

Like that and then
rub his little head.

Well that's Kringle.

Say hi, and just start to

introduce him to everybody.

- [Jonah] I was
not expecting that.

[Frank chuckling]

- [Frank] What do you think?

Should I tell
Santa you like him?

- I love him.

[Frank chuckling]

I feel really happy.

- [Dad] This season has
always for me been about

like the innocence.

And it's unbelievable

when you actually get
to see it firsthand.

[cart clacking]

- We're gonna deliver
five, or maybe six.

Santa still shows up, yup.

Let's see what we got here.

Here it is.

[dog barking]

[knocking]

Good morning, are you Adam?

Hi, how are you?

- Good.

- Hi, is Zoe here?

[paper ripping]

[kid gasping]

- I love it!

- Do you need help?

- No, I got it.

- Bubble wrap!

- [Mom] Bubble wrap, yeah!

- Yes!

I love 'em.

[popping]
- Oh!

[bubble wrap popping]

- I'm so happy you wrote to me.

We love getting letters
at the North Pole.

- Elves around the country
were able to deliver cheer

by adopting these letters.

- Have a merry
Christmas, love Santa.

- [Dad] That's
what you asked for!

- That's what you
were asking for!

Well you wrote to Santa
and he wrote back.

- Okay, go play
with your toy, baby.

- Bye bye, Merry Christmas!

[gentle music]

[light jazzy music]

[bells jingling]

[chimes tinkling]

- Seven.

Whee!

We're getting ready to hand out

all the presents to each route,

and that carrier will deliver

the parcels for Santa today.

I believe there's 137.

Are you okay with that?

Okay, I just need to make
sure all the parcels are fine

before I leave.

35.

It's complete chaotic,

and it's like the worse it
gets, the better it gets.

Okay, watch the wrapping paper.

Last night, I got
a hold of Santa

and let him know about
the last 17 letters

that had just come in.

So I had to ship
them all off to him.

He had to look them over
and check out the kids,

and make sure who was
naughty and who was nice.

And luckily the 17 I got
were on the nice list.

Mookie's like the little elf,

so Mookie's job is to look cute

and make little kids smile and
adults smile too. [chuckling]

Open, open, open, open.

I have a lot of excited
anxiety as I walk in.

Sometimes I think like I'm
more excited than they are

'cause it's like oh!

Just, I love Christmas
if you haven't been able

to tell yet.

I hope they're happy.

I hope this is what they wanted.

[doorbell ringing]

What is going on?

- [Mom] Merry
Christmas, come in.

- So I'm an elf,
my name is Jamie.

Santa has sent me down.

I have some presents for you,

and when we're done,
I have more presents.

And when we're done,
I have more presents.

You think you can handle that?

- [Kids] Yeah!

- Yeah?

Who is Victoria?

Okay, there's one for you,

you can take it over there.

Lorelai, is that how you say it?

All right, there you are.

Ooh, I think that's
for you, don't I, huh?

Hmmm, okay.

See if Santa knew
what you wanted.

- [Kid] He would know.

- Look at what I got!
- Yeah!

- [Leticia] It's nice
to feel remembered

and to know that
people still care.

- [Jamie] Well, I hope
you've enjoyed our visit.

Have a very Merry Christmas.

Remember, Santa's
always watching.

Tomorrow starts the new year.

- [Kid] Tomorrow?

- [Jamie] So you gotta start
being good all over again.

- Again!

[tense music]

- [Taylor] Dear Santa,
my name is Taylor.

I would really appreciate
clothes or household items,

things for my children.

- [Kendra] We just need
everything for the baby.

Cribs and car seats and clothes.

- [Danielle] I need help
with some household things

like the mattress for my kids.

- [Taylor] I really
need a couch.

Love you Santa, thank you.

Love, Taylor.

- They might be upstairs.

[knocking]

Delivery from Santa.

[knocking]

- Hello.
- Hi.

- [Woman] Ooh.

- That is you.

- Some more gifts from Santa.

- Oh my god!

- [Mailman] There you go, look.

- Ooh!

- It's a baby doll!

- OMG!
- A baby doll?

- Oh, lots of dishes.

- The big one's mine.

- The big one is
yours, it's heavy too.

- It's for the kitchen!

We have some plates and bowls!

- Hi, I'm helping
Santa Claus out

and I have one
more thing for you.

- [Mailman] One more gift.

- We got one more gift?
- One more,

yep, one more.

- Santa said you
needed a new couch?

- [screeching] I got a couch!

- [Kid] Couch,
couch, yay, couch!

Couch, couch!

- Get up there.

Come here, Manny.

Let's test out the couch.

- Santa has more.

- Those are my beds?
- Oh!

- Santa gifts, thank you!
- Merry Christmas.

- [Kid] That's my bed?

- [Mail Woman] Who
asked for this?

- The mattress.

We needed that.

Anything for that.

- [Mailman] For your brother.

- [Woman] For your baby, huh?

- [sobbing] This is
a major blessing.

- Gonna be nice
and comfy for you.

- I'm not getting
in your bed no more.

- I bet you ain't. [laughing]

Got your own bed
you can sleep in.

- Thank you Santa Claus!

[Taylor laughing]

- Thanks, Santa!

- Keep writing Santa, okay?

- Bless you.

- Bless you!

- Let's put the
binkie in her mouth.

There we go.

[bells jingling]

[machinery whirring]

- For the logistics
of all of this,

we have 31 families.

So we drop them onto a map

and literally, we just
start circling neighborhoods

and times and we figure out

when we're gonna do
deliveries in batches of,

we could probably knock
out six to eight at a time.

And we rent a truck and
we drive around the city

for a few days
delivering the gifts

to all the families.

[bright music]

Ready?

- [Ashley] Thank you.

- When these people
write these letters,

I feel like they're
just releasing

just a little bit of the pain,

a little bit of the hurt.

Send it out into the world,

message in a bottle type deal.

- Hey!
- Hey!

- [Jen] I see a tree!

I just know from
how I felt as a kid,

just knowing that somebody
else was thinking of you,

that you weren't forgotten,

that somebody perhaps
understood your pain.

- [Matt] Just take it all out.

There's stuff for everybody.

- Usually I'm the one that's
like what do you need?

And this year it's like,
- It's our job.

- Now, yeah.

Now the tables are turned.

Can you get that?

- That's for mom.

- Thank you all so much.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Bye, have a Merry Christmas.
- Bye, merry Christmas.

- [Girl] Merry Christmas.

- [Ashley] Bye, buddy.

- Bye bye, guys.
- Bye guys.

- [Jen] You got
presents to open.

- Oh my god! [laughing]

[bells jingling]

- Today's the big day.

We've been gearing
up towards this

from the fundraiser to
running around to the stores,

to everywhere, and
the Christmas miracle

is coming to its finale.

This is the kid's names
right, first name, last name.

This is kind of like probably
what's in the gift right here.

- Okay.

- I was wrapping all night long.

I got about three, four
hours sleep last night.

And my girlfriend
Valentina, she was up.

Hasn't slept a wink yet.

Up all night cooking
400 cupcakes.

- We have vanilla.

I see, now you
have the chocolate.

- Damion said that they
were 25 totally shy

of meeting their goal.

So I told him that
I'd love to help

and made some phone calls
to people in my network.

I drove all through
the night to get here

to try and get as many
toys as we could here,

and we got them the
toys that they needed.

- You good, come in this way.

Yup.

[bright music]

We have 160 letters or so
that were written to us

but there's gonna be
probably another 40, 50,

even more kids that'll
just kinda trickle in

that haven't written letters.

So I think it's probably
around 200 to 300 kids.

- [Man] Talk to them.

- Oh, there's still one here.

We give the three gifts.

- Well, 60s are over here.

- It's kinda like
the list, you know,

checking it twice.

I've checked it a
lot more than twice.

Many more times than twice.

- Have you been a good boy?

Yeah?

Would you tell me
if you weren't?

Yeah, okay, Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

- Just like how
it happened to me

when I did Operation Santa
Claus and I got that gift

and it changed my life,

I'm sure there's gonna
be some children here,

some maybe adults too,

but children are
gonna get that gift,

they're gonna say,
you know, I remember

that this happened.

This amazing thing where
somebody had that thoughtfulness

and they're gonna pay it forward

and this just continues.

I mean for me, to see all
the kids get their gifts,

it's that Christmas magic,

it's what gets me out
of bed in the morning.

It's what makes me just
continue my day to day.

This is what to me
life is all about.

- [Man] Ooh wee, yeah!

- I love my present!

[gentle holiday piano music]

- I haven't seen Santa.

No, I haven't seen Santa Claus

but I plan to make sure I
get to see him this year.

- He knows when
people are sleeping.

- He know when I'm awake.

- Well I plan to wake up
in the middle of the night

to see him.

- [Kid] We have to be careful.

- 'Cause we don't wanna
get on the naughty list.

If he catches you, then
you won't get no presents.

You cannot go down the stairs.

- I promise I'll tell
you what he looks like

if I ever get the
chance to see him.

[chimes ringing]

[buzzer ringing]

- Hi.

- Oh, hello.
- Hi.

- [Man] How's it going?

- Good.
- Are you Bryan?

- Yeah.

- [Man] Hey, how's
it going, Bryan?

Merry Christmas.
- Hi.

- I'm Santa's helper, man,
you know what I'm saying?

He had to send me here.

Got a little treat for you.

Little hat, there you go.

- Thank you.

- Oh, no!

Oh, no!
- Oh, shoot!

- Bryan's not ready for
this one. [laughing]

Oh, look what we got you, Bryan.

We're going and taking a
nice little tour today.

No more train today.

Merry Christmas, man.
- Thank you.

- Try to make it
red for you, man,

it didn't work out.

- Oh yeah, thank you.

Oh, shoot!

Look at the lights!

I feel like a king.
- The limo has everything.

- That's my Christmas
present, cool to go!

Finally my dream came true.

- [Mom] Go Santa,
go Santa, go Santa.

- [Everybody] Go Santa,
go Santa, go Santa.

- [Kid] You're famous.

♪ Jingle bells, jingle bells

♪ Jingle all the way

[humming] Hey!

[kids laughing]

- Oh, we're in Rockefeller.

Look at that.

[kids gasping]
- Oh my god!

- Ice skating!
- It's even bigger

than last year.

- Wait, that's a
ice skating rink?

- [Everyone] Yes!

[bright music]

Rockefeller Center,
look, look, mood!

I didn't know the
tree was so big.

Oh!

[bright holiday music]

- [Man] Times Square, guys.

- [Bryan] I like sharing
it with my family because

they really deserve it.

- I think Santa is so good
,so wonderful, so amazing!

And all that they want,
made their dream come true.

Santa Claus, love you!

- Santa Claus,

- Is,

- [Kid] The person
who gives us presents.

- [Kid] He gives us presents.

- [Kid] He delivers presents

- [Kid] On Christmas, he
gives toys to children

all around the world.

- [Kid] He got elf to help him.

- [Kid] They help get presents.

- [Kid] It can be
different colors of Santa.

- [Michael] One thing that
I've learned from this

is that one person can
really make a difference.

- [Kid] You just give
someone a present

even if you don't know
them and that's your chance

to finally get to
know that person.

- [Ms. Gellman] It's the
foundation throughout your life

to remember how
you helped somebody

and pay it forward.

- [Bill] It's just
a good feeling that
I've helped somebody,

that I put a smile
on their face.

- [Jamie] The
excitement in a child,

the memories you make with
giving, with receiving,

I mean everything about it.

- [Jen] You'll never know how
you benefited someone's life

and how you changed their life.

[gentle holiday piano music]

- [Woman] Thank you.

- [Woman] Thank you.

- [Woman] Just
thank you so much.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Thank you.
- Thank you all so much.

- [Kid] Thank you, Santa.

- [Kid] And Santa, I love you.

Merry Christmas.

- Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas!

- [Kid] Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!

♪ Oh Donner gonna rock

♪ Blitzen gonna rock

♪ Dancer, Prancer,
Dasher gonna rock ♪

♪ See the reindeer rock

- [Woman] Imagine
I was a martian

coming from another planet.

And I never ever heard
of Santa Claus before.

Who is Santa Claus,
what does he do?

I don't understand
why everybody's

telling me about him.

♪ When Santa cracks his whip
you're really gonna flip ♪

♪ 'cause the reindeer
learned to rock and roll ♪

♪ Santa clause changed
it all because ♪

♪ He knows what the
bop beat means now ♪

♪ I even heard from
an arctic bird ♪

♪ That the old boy
wears blue jeans now ♪

♪ So the reindeer rock

- [Woman] You want me to ask
you a different question?

Where does Santa Claus live

and can you tell me
what it looks like?

♪ Across the milky way

♪ And see the reindeer
rock rock rock rock rock ♪

♪ Rock

♪ Rock rock

♪ Rock rock rock

♪ Rock rock rock rock

- We also get, make snow
angels, that's like,

let me lay on the
floor and show you.

- [Woman] Okay.

- Whee!

Pretend I'm in snow, okay?

- [Woman] Okay.

- A snow angel
takes a lot of work.

So we have to do this
a couple of times.

♪ See the reindeer rock

♪ Once every twinkle toe
down to the bow and so ♪

- I really don't know how.

- Uh.

- I don't know.

- I don't know
what it looks like.

- Whatever you call that.

- And uh...

- I don't know.

But I think like...

♪ See the reindeer rock

- [Woman] Do you get
toys from anybody else

other than Santa?

- I get some toys from
my mom and my dad.

And my dad is really sweet.

'Cause he's very kind and he
always takes us to the park.

And my mom, she's
sweet too because

this one time we went out
of town to get some donuts.

It's called Dunkin Donuts.

It was so delicious.

- [Man] You're really
good at talking.

- [Woman] You really are.

- Yeah.

My brother say I'm just like
a radio that won't shut up.

[laughing]

♪ When he comes to
fill your stocking ♪

- [Woman] Want me to ask
a different question?

Okay.

How does Santa get your letter

and then how does he
get you the stuff?

Can you explain?

♪ We're gonna cheer this bug

♪ Across a moonlit rug

♪ Right down to the clock

♪ Santa fills your socks

♪ You'll make a real fun block

- [Woman] No?

[women laughing]

♪ Rock

[chimes tinkling]