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The group heads south again to visit the lair of Heat Miser and his minions to present the situation to the demonic giant. Mother Nature calls her sons to her home and orders them to cooperate.

After a rousing dance number with his minions, the wizard says he is willing to make it snow in Southtown, but can only do it if his stepbrother, who controls the weather in that part of the world, will allow it. Figuring that the mayor's request could help boost the spirits of the town and her husband as well, the woman arrives in a sleigh, pulled by the reindeer Blitzen, and takes Jingle, Jangle and Iggy with her to see Snow Miser.

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Trying to figure out how to get snow to fall in Southtown, the elves place a call in to Mrs. Unfortunately, the Mayor will only believe their story if the elves can use their magic to make it snow in Southtown. Under his father's advice, he tracks down Jingle and Jangle (who were unable to pay Vixen's bail at the pound themselves) and brings them to the Mayor's office where they plead their case. Klaus' leaving with Dasher, figures out that was the real Santa Claus he and his parents were just having tea with and decides that there has got to be something he can do to help. Iggy then tells Santa that the two elves went to go get their dog out of the pound, so he heads off to bail Vixen out himself, and not a moment too soon, as the little doe has fallen ill in the warm weather. Thistlewhite sings a song about when he was a boy and learned that Santa was in fact real, leading Iggy to admit that maybe he's not too old to believe in Santa himself, lifting Santa's spirits. Thistlewhite's tea to help with his cold, the family discusses the existence of Santa Claus, not realizing that they are in his company. The boy's mother, overhearing their conversation, invites the disguised jolly man into her home. Klaus', asks him if he's seen the two elves. After arriving in Southtown himself, he meets and befriends Ignatius and, calling himself 'Mr. Santa has tea with the Thistlewhite family.īack at the North Pole, Santa learns of his wife's plot to resurrect Christmas and sets off, accompanied by his flying reindeer Dasher, to assist the helpless elves in a dangerous world they know nothing of. Disheartened that no one seems to care that Christmas is cancelled, the elves almost fail to notice that Vixen has been captured by the dog catcher. After an encounter with a grouchy woman, Jingle and Jangle approach a group of nonchalant schoolchildren, including a boy named Ignatius Thistlewhite. To avert suspicions, they disguise Vixen as a dog. The elves soon arrive in an American city known as Southtown (the exact state it's located in is never mentioned) and receive a court summons from a local cop. The elves and Vixen are immediately attacked by Heat Miser and his minions as Snow Miser looks on, but they fortunately manage to escape. Riding the baby reindeer Vixen, the dim-witted elves set off to the south, when they get caught in the crossfire of the ever-feuding Miser Brothers - Snow Miser, who controls the cold, northern weather, and his foul-tempered brother Heat Miser, who controls the hot weather in the south. She orders them to leave the North Pole in the weeks leading up to Christmas, to find a town where they could rally up some Christmas cheer to convince Santa to still perform his annual journey. Claus assigns two elves named Jingle Bells and Jangle Bells with a task. Humoring her husband for the time being, Mrs. Heat Miser and Snow Miser in one of their typical battles. Under the recommendation of his doctor, Santa decides to issue a press release to announce that Christmas was cancelled so that he may take a holiday. As the story begins, Santa Claus has fallen ill and hurt and doesn't quite feel like making his annual Christmas Eve trek. Claus, of the year that there almost wasn't a Christmas. The Year Without a Santa Claus is a story told by Mrs. Santa's doctor recommends that he stay home this year.

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