SANTA: Hiya, Mista Snowman! Everything smooth down in Advent land?
MISTA SNOWMAN: Sure is, Santa! Things couldn't possibly be any smoother! I've even imported snowy trees!
SANTA: Sounds terrific. Listen, I'll be there in an hour or two. It's time for your review.
MISTA SNOWMAN: My what? Review? You mean, I'm going to see something that I've already seen?
SANTA: Come again?
MISTA SNOWMAN: RE-view. As in, view twice?
SANTA: No, silly. As the "official" keeper of the Playmobil Advent Calendar, I just need to make sure that you haven't like, set the thing on fire or anything.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Santa, is this really necessary? I'm doing a great job!
SANTA: I'm sure you are. See you in a little bit. Put some coffee on.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Horsey, can you believe this? He wants to check up on me! What if Santa thinks I'm doing a bad job? He'll kill me! He'll stop letting me open presents! OMG HORSEY, is this the end of Christmas?!
MISTA SNOWMAN: Well I'm not going down without a fight! I'm gonna spruce this place up, so that Santa will KNOW how serious I am! I'll need your help, though! I need YOU to get today's gift, so I'll have time to clean!
MISTA SNOWMAN: I'll never forget this, Horsey! Be careful out there!
MISTA SNOWMAN: Now to turn this barn into Santa's private pleasure cruise!
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MISTA SNOWMAN: Welcome back to the barn, Santa!
SANTA: Thanks. Ever get around to making that coffee?
MISTA SNOWMAN: Unfortunately not. I spent the past two hours thinking you said "coughing." I was completely ready to choke up a bone the second you walked in here. By the time I realized that you probably said "coffee," there just wasn't time.
SANTA: Okay. That's sucky.
SANTA: So, Mista Snowman...what has the Advent Calendar brought you this year?
MISTA SNOWMAN: Oh boy, so many amazing things! On December 1st, I got Horsey, but you already know about him. Then on the 2nd, I got a horse poncho and a saddle. Then on the 3rd, there was the stumble bumble wooden jumping thing, and a trough full of invisible hay. Then yesterday I got whips and a broken wheelbarrow.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Still don't know what today has in store, but Horsey should be back with the gift any minute now!
SANTA: You sent a horse to get one of the Advent Calendar gifts?
MISTA SNOWMAN: Yeah!
SANTA: And you don't think that there are any problems with that?
MISTA SNOWMAN: Santa! You of all people should know that there are no such things as problems! "Problems" are illusionary plagues spread by blasphemous Christmas haters!
SANTA: I think it's time for your review, Mista Snowman.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Wait, hold on! Before we do that reviewing thing, I have something to show you!
SANTA: Ugh, Mista Snowman...I'm on a tight schedule here.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Santa PLEASE this will only take a minute!
MISTA SNOWMAN: In celebration of the epicness that is you, I drew up these "pro-Santa" propaganda posters!
SANTA: Hey, these are pretty sweet!
MISTA SNOWMAN: Look at that second one! Inspired by the film Santa with Muscles!
SANTA: Wow! I'm taking that home!
MISTA SNOWMAN: Santa, obviously, you can see that everything here is going great. We don't really need to do that review stuff, right?
SANTA: Afraid we do, Mista Snowman. I've been hearing things. I've liked some of the things that I've been hearing, but not all of them. I need to like 100% of the things I hear to know that you're doing a good job. Do you understand?
MISTA SNOWMAN: Not sure I'm following you.
SANTA: I got an e-mail yesterday...something about how you're mistreating animals and yelling at them about carrots?
MISTA SNOWMAN: WHAT! Who told you?!
SANTA: That's not important.
MISTA SNOWMAN: It's important to me!
SANTA: No, what's important is me being confident that the person running this year's Advent Calendar isn't wasting time yelling at animals about year-old carrots!
MISTA SNOWMAN: You're right Santa, you're right. It was the stress. There's all this pressure. I wanna run a good Advent Calendar, so freakin' bad.
SANTA: Mista Snowman, anyone would be stressed. It is stressful. But you need to be stronger than this. All of the great calendar-openers were.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Will you give me another chance, Santa?
SANTA: Yes, stop blubbering, I'm not firing you. This was just a friendly warning.
MISTA SNOWMAN: Thanks, Santa! Still, gotta admit, I'm pretty ticked that Horsey would sell me out by sending you an e-mail like that.
SANTA: Who said it was from Horsey?
MISTA SNOWMAN: If it wasn't from Horsey, who could--
