<Li> In "Mono Virus", a song by the Eraserheads from their 1996 album Fruitcake, the singer recites a parodied version of the poem before going into the song . </Li> <Li> Alma Deutscher had composed the song in 2014, under the name "The Night before Christmas". </Li> <Ul> <Li> In A Muppet Family Christmas, the Sesame Street Muppets perform a pageant based on the poem, with Ernie narrating as the father (the main character) and Bert as Mamma (he lost a coin toss). The monsters appear as the reindeer, with the Two - Headed Monster as Santa (and Grover as the mouse who is not stirring, literally). The narration omits the line, "The children were nestled, all snug in their bed (s) / While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads ." </Li> <Li> Episode 55 of Animaniacs featured a skit titled "The Day Before Christmas", in which Ralph the Guard is given the task of delivering Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's Christmas presents . The short is presented as a bedtime story told by Slappy Squirrel to her nephew Skippy and is narrated in the poetic form as the original story . This cartoon was adapted into comic book form in a special comic book published by DC Comics in October 1994 . </Li> <Li> In the Barney and the Backyard Gang special, "Waiting for Santa", Barney reads the story to Michael and Amy, whom he has befriended, while Santa himself is in the living room of the house doing his usual work . He falls asleep just as he comes to "With a little old driver, so lively and quick / I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick ." Santa whispers the last quotation to the camera after that . </Li> <Li> In the 1961 Bell Telephone Hour television program A Trip to Christmas, Ken Darby's musical version of the poem is performed off - screen by hostess Jane Wyatt and a chorus, and enacted onscreen by the Bil Baird Marionettes . </Li> <Li> The 23 December 2011 broadcast of the CBS Evening News ended with Scott Pelley saying: "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!" </Li> <Li> Some holiday airings of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy had Charlie McCarthy trying to recite the poem from memory, resulting in such lines as: "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care / In hopes that the laundryman soon would be there". (A few times the line went: "In hopes that the room could stand some fresh air"), "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease / The jolly old elf in the red BVD's", and "Now, Dasher, Now, Dancer, and what do you know / Dasher and Dancer paid $220 to show!" </Li> <Li> The song with the poem as its basis, arranged by Harry Simeone and music by Ken Darby, was performed at holiday airings of Fibber McGee and Molly, usually introduced by Teeny, the neighbor girl, as their "Christmas Carol". </Li> <Li> At the beginning of Friends (TV series) episode 9, "The One with Christmas in Tulsa" (airdate 26 September 2002), Phoebe sings the last four lines of The Night Before Christmas, and Joey claims she wrote it . Another reference is seen is episode 10 of season 7, "The One with the Holiday Armadillo" (aired December 14, 2000), when Ross asks Chandler to leave and Chandler responds by saying "But I didn't get to shake my belly like a bowl full of jelly!" </Li> <Li> The special Power Rangers Megaforce episode, "Robo Knight Before Christmas", ends with Robo Knight saying: "Merry Christmas to all humans on Earth, and to all a good night!" </Li> <Li> The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show story arc "Topsy Turvy World" featured a plot by Boris Badenov to replace Santa Claus for nefarious purposes . The cliffhanger pun titles for one segment of the storyline were: "' The Fright Before Christmas', or' A Visit From Saint Nicholouse' ." </Li> <Li> The Shake It Up episode "Merry Merry it Up" ended with Flynn in the hot tub, saying "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good soak!" </Li> <Li> A hip - hop animated version of the poem was made as an hour - long animated special, The Night B4 Christmas . </Li> <Li> Bell Telephone Company sponsored a short film titled The Spirit of Christmas (circa 1950), featuring the Les and Mabel Beaton marionettes . Within a few years, it became a holiday perennial in many TV markets, especially in the Philadelphia area . In subsequent years it was licensed out as a 16mm film and shown in schools during the Christmas season . </Li> <Li> In the animated TV special by Rankin / Bass (1974), titled Twas the Night Before Christmas, the characters and portions of the plot are loosely based on the poem . </Li> <Li> In the Cabin Pressure radio show on BBC4 the intro of the episode Molokai references some verses of the poem . </Li> <Li> The 1968 animated television special titled The Night Before Christmas had a fictional telling on how Clement Moore created the story . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In A Muppet Family Christmas, the Sesame Street Muppets perform a pageant based on the poem, with Ernie narrating as the father (the main character) and Bert as Mamma (he lost a coin toss). The monsters appear as the reindeer, with the Two - Headed Monster as Santa (and Grover as the mouse who is not stirring, literally). The narration omits the line, "The children were nestled, all snug in their bed (s) / While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads ." </Li>

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