Tonight a Christmas special goes on the air at eight, live from the Square One Playhouse, and you are the stage manager. Tap anything on the street. Find five hidden shapes a day. Go through the stage door to put on the show. In the lobby, a hanging mobile gains one shape every evening at six.
Everything here is drawn in code. The look comes from the limited animation of UPA (Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, 1962), studied, not copied. Bible verses: World English Bible, public domain. Pageant stories: Moore 1823, O. Henry 1905, Hoffmann 1816, Grimm 1812, Neale 1853.