You Can't Do That on Television1979

Lance Prevort:
[finishing a story about Santa Claus at bedtime] Well, how did you like that story, Vanessa?

Vanessa Lindores:
Entertaining, Dad, but there's just a few inconsistencies.

Lance Prevort:
Incan-wha-whats-tacies?

Vanessa Lindores:
Inconsistencies.

Lance Prevort:
Oh.

Vanessa Lindores:
You see, I was just figuring...

Lance Prevort:
Mm-hm.

Vanessa Lindores:
For Santa to travel all the way around the world to every kid's house on one night, his sled would have to travel approximately 200,000 miles per hour.

Lance Prevort:
Yeah, but ya see, he's got on a rocket-powered sled. And, d'yeh, he... Oh, and he knows a bunch of good shortcuts.

Vanessa Lindores:
What about fuel consumption?

Lance Prevort:
Dah...

Vanessa Lindores:
According to my calculations, he'd have to refuel approximately every...

Lance Prevort:
Oh, he's got... he's got diesel-powered reindeer. Yeah. V-very fuel efficient.

Vanessa Lindores:
Well, what about presents? How would he get all those presents in his sled?

Lance Prevort:
Because he, d'yeah, picks them up all along the way.

Vanessa Lindores:
Must be a lotta work.

Lance Prevort:
It IS a lotta work, Vanessa - and, you know, you could help Santa cut his workload.

Vanessa Lindores:
How's that?

Lance Prevort:
Go without presents this year.

Vanessa Lindores:
Well, come to think of it, a little hard work never hurt anybody.