Christmas Eve Norway "Julenissen" and Sweden "Jultomten", personally meets children and gives presents in the evening of Christmas Eve. In Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Romania, Uruguay, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, Christmas presents are opened mostly on the evening of the 24th – following German tradition, this is also the practice among the British Royal Family since it was introduced by Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort – while in Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, English
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street funding credits are displayed on a black screen with Cookie Monster's numerous belches heard on the soundtrack. A variety of Christmas songs help interweave these three plot lines and make the production much more touching, including: One of "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street's" competitors that year was a lesser-known, critically panned "Sesame Street" special on CBS -- "A Special Sesame Street Christmas". When the special aired on Muppet Matinee's Christmas Special Marathon on Nickelodeon in December 1994, "I Hate Christmas" was cut. In various re-airings on PBS in the late-1980s, the closing scene with Susan and Gordon finding that Cookie