The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas is the 13th episode of The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures Series season 6
Its lesson is on The true meaning of Christmas.
Summary[]
When Sid accidentally ruins one of Manny's Christmas traditions, he's told that he will now be on Santa's naughty list; Sid heads to the North Pole with Crash, Eddie and Peaches in tow to plead his case directly to Santa Claus. Along the way they learn from the Veggie and Character Gang there is more to Christmas than just presents.
Plot[]
Eight years after the events of the third film and seven years before the fourth film, Christmas is coming and Scrat eyes a beaver assembling a cache of foods, among them an acorn. Scrat sneaks in and takes the acorn, along with others he finds in the area set up as decorations. He ties a large stockpile of them on a piece of bark and tries to leave with them, but they break out and roll away, leaving him with nothing.
Meanwhile, Manny brings the Christmas Rock out of storage, to Ellie's delight: the rock is intended as a surprise for Peaches, who comes sliding down a snow slope in a snowball fight with Crash and Eddie. Manny reveals that the Christmas Rock is the same one from his childhood, a family heirloom, and important as it lets Santa Claus find them to deliver presents. Diego and Sid step in to see the Christmas Rock, with Sid deriding it. Manny refuses to let Sid near the rock and Sid, to find his own means of decorations, decides to find a different decoration and chooses a tree. Crash and Eddie help him to decorate the tree with insects, small animals, and fish bones. To top the tree, Sid puts a star-shaped piece of ice on top, which is accidentally flung off like a boomerang and hits the Christmas Rock, shattering it. Furious, Manny declares that Sid is now on the "Naughty List" for ruining the Christmas rock, but dismisses the idea of Santa to Ellie, Peaches overhears this, and the young mammoth is shocked that Manny does not believe in Santa, and Sid, in tears that he destroyed the rock and is on the Naughty List, slides downhill as his tears freeze solid.
Scrat finds an acorn half frozen in a pond and steps onto the slippery surface to pull it out. After pulling it out successfully, Scrat begins to ice skate with the acorn, going through a log, where he misplaces the acorn and instead mistakenly holds onto a spider, which attacks him. Meanwhile, Sid, feet still frozen, sulks about being on the Naughty List until Peaches calls on him to snap out of it. She intends to head to the North Pole with Sid so as to convince Santa Claus to take Sid off the Naughty List, along with Crash and Eddie, who, despite their misdeeds, still want Christmas.
The four set off to the North Pole by following the Northern Lights, and move on until they reach a whiteout, which separates them for a moment until they find one another and move on, led by Sid, who mistakenly leads them off a cliff. As they fall, they are rescued by a flying reindeer, who takes them to the other side of the cliff and introduces himself as Prancer. Sid thanks the reindeer and moves on before he nearly falls down the cliff again and is caught by Peaches, who decides that the reindeer will go with them. Back at the village, however, Manny attempts to patch up the Christmas Rock with mud and sticks, to poor effect, when Ellie comes along, calling out that she cannot find Peaches, Sid, Crash, or Eddie. Diego states that the four of them headed out to the North Pole to find Santa; with that, Manny and Ellie move on to find Peaches and the others, led by Diego, who tracks them by, reluctantly, picking up Sid's scent.
Prancer and the animals arrive somewhere near the North Pole, seeing sugar plums and peppermint bark. As they continue, they are stopped by a mini sloth and the "santourage", who keep out visitors to Santa. They move towards Prancer and the animals, causing him to fly up into a block of snow, and as they try to pull him out, the ice cracks, causing an avalanche, ruining Santa's work, and toppling the rescue trio. Angered and distraught by the mess, Santa invents the Naughty List after Manny talks about it, causing the mammoth to realize Santa is real and rally everyone to make things right. All the animals fix the mess, but Santa has much more gifts than usual, so Prancer volunteers to fly the sleigh. He realizes he can't do it alone so he goes and gets his family, Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. Then, Santa leaves through the night sky, and everyone is back on the Nice List, even Sid. Then, Scrat looks at his present from Santa (which is a small nut), but blows away and gets repeatedly kicked by the reindeer while going around the Earth.
Cast[]
- Phil Vischer as Bob, Silly Song Announcer, Archibald, Pa Grape, and Jimmy Gourd
- Mike Nawrocki as Larry, Jerry and Oscar
- Lisa Vischer as Junior
- Keri Pisapia as Laura
- Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
- Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
- Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck
- Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
- Bill Farmer as Goofy/Pluto
- Daniel Tamberelli as Arnold Perlstein
- Daniel DeSanto as Carlos Ramon
- Tara Meyer as Dorothy Ann Hudson
- Erica Luttrell as Keesha Franklin
- Maia Filar as Phoebe Terese
- Stuart Stone as Ralphie Tennelli
- Andre Ottley-Lorant as Tim Wright
- Lisa Yamanaka as Wanda Li
- Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny
- Martin Sherman as Thomas the Tank Engine and Percy the Small Engine
- Eilizabeth Daily as Tommy and Buttercup
- Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie
- Kath Soucie as Phil and Lil
- Cree Summer as Susie
- Tara Strong as Dil and Bubbles
- Dionne Quan as Kimi
- Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
- Travis Oates as Piglet
- Daveigh Chase as Lilo
- Chris Sanders as Stitch
- Andrea Libman as Emmy
- Danny McKinnon as Max
- Chantal Strand as Cassie
- Ty Olsson as Ord
- Jason Michas as Zak
- Kathleen Barr as Wheezie
- Cathy Cavadini as Blossom
- Ray Romano as Manny
- John Leguizamo as Sid
- Denis Leary as Diego
- Seann William Scott as Crash
- Josh Peck as Eddie
- Queen Latifah as Ellie
- Ciara Bravo as Peaches
- Karen Disher as Molehog
- Chris Wedge as Scrat
- Billy Gardell as Santa Claus
- T. J. Miller as Prancer
- Judah Friedlander as Head Mini-Sloth
Songs[]
- The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures Series Theme Song
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- A VeggieTales Christmas Party: The Eight Polish Foods of Christmas
- Christmas Shines
- Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
- Deck The Halls
Trivia[]
Moral[]
- Christmas is about giving, not receiving, and it is especially about celebrating the greatest gift ever: Jesus Christ. (This moral is also used in "Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too")
Trivia[]
- Goofy, Bugs Bunny, Thomas, Percy, the Rugrats, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Lilo, Stitch and the dragon land gang will go with Sid, Crash, Eddie and Peaches to the north pole.
- This is the only Ice Age special to feature characters' singing songs.
Transcript[]
The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas/Transcript