Pippi Celebrates Christmas

Village: Fair (December 24th)

It is Christmas Eve and many of the villagers are gathered at the Christmas fair in the town to celebrate such a joyous occasion.

Nearly everyone present is happy, for all except two… Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom.

Fate was not with these reformed crooks as they were short on money, and jobs were scarce during this time, as no one would want to spend Christmas stuck at work.

"I say, Bloom, it's just like back in the old days… when we were crooks and also short on money." Thunder-Karlsson said.

"Tell me about it, this is all the money we have." Bloom said as he took out a coin. "What are we going to do?"

"Well, I'm not proud of it… but we're gonna have to go back to our old ways." Thunder-Karlsson said.

"But we're not into that stuff anymore. We reformed." Bloom said.

"I know that, it's only a last resort, we'll only take enough just to get us through Christmas, and that's it." Thunder-Karlsson said.

"Well, in that case, I guess we can make an exception then." Bloom said, and the two went to look for potential targets.

Meanwhile, somewhere else at the fair are Pippi, Tommy, and Annika; they are enjoying the hot chocolates that Pippi bought for the three of them.

"Mmm, hot chocolates are always their best when it's cold." Annika said.

"Yes, yes it is." Pippi said. "If there is hot chocolate, I think there should be cold chocolate, you know, for when it's hot."

"Yeah, except we already have it in the form of a chocolate ice cream." Tommy said.

Then, the kids noticed a bunch of people gathered at one spot.

"Hmm, I wonder what's going on." Pippi said. "We should go check it out."

At the area where all the people were gathered, there was a man controlling a marionette monkey.

"Hi everyone. My name is Mike the Monkey. It's nice to meet you." the monkey said.

"Wow, I should have brought Mr. Nilsson along, he would have loved to see this." Pippi said.

Meanwhile, Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom sneak from behind the crowd and notice that a woman's purse is open.

Thunder-Karlsson cracked his fingers and got ready to take the wallet.

Meanwhile, Mike was dancing and entertaining the crowd, when his controller noticed Thunder-Karlsson with the woman's wallet in his hand.

"Hey, that man is trying to take that woman's wallet. Police! Police!" Mike shouted, and Kling and Klang rushed to the scene.

"What's going on here?" Klang asked.

"Well, it looks like a wallet snatcher to me." Kling said.

"No, you don't understand, this woman dropped her wallet, so I was picking it up for her." Thunder-Karlsson lied.

The woman rudely snatched her wallet back and left.

"Well, that went smooth." Bloom said sarcastically.

"Patience, Bloom, I'm not beaten yet." Thunder-Karlsson said.

The two crooks came across a man with his wallet hanging out of his pocket.

"Look at that man's wallet. It'd be too bad if someone stole it." Thunder-Karlsson said.

Thunder-Karlsson got ready to steal the wallet while Bloom looked on.

"Come on… come on…" Bloom said impatiently. "COME ON!"

Thunder-Karlsson drops the man's wallet in surprise, and the man takes notice.

"Can I help you gentlemen?" the man asked.

"Uh, I just wanted to tell you that your wallet fell on the ground." Thunder-Karlsson said, then he and Bloom retreated.

After several more failed attempts to loot people, Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom came across a man dressed as Santa Claus collecting money for the needy.

"Ho ho ho, have you come to donate to the needy?" Santa asked.

"Here, take it. What good is it to us anyway?" Thunder-Karlsson said as he put the only coin he and Bloom have into the pot.

Then, Pippi, Tommy, and Annika come along and they each put one coin in the pot.

Then, Pippi noticed Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom looking gloom.

"Hi, what's with the long faces? It's Christmas, you should be merry." Pippi said.

"Well we would, if we weren't broke." Bloom said.

"We couldn't pay for our rent, so the landlord kicked us out." Thunder-Karlsson said. "And now we have nowhere to stay."

"Sure you do." Pippi said. "It's a big house with plenty of space and room. Come on, you know this place all too well."

Village: Villa Villekulla

Pippi brought Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom over to her house.

"Do you remember?" Pippi asked. "This is where we all met."

Pippi prepared a big dinner and Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom helped themselves to it.

After Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom were asleep, Pippi put a gold coin in each of their pockets.

Then, she went upstairs, tucked in Mr. Nilsson, got into her own bed, and started sleeping.

As everyone fell asleep, a sled flew by in the sky.

The sled came down from the sky to the roof of Villa Villekulla, where a man came down from it, and down the chimney he went.

He noticed the stockings and filled them with gifts, climbed back up the chimney, and rode off into the night.

Village: Villa Villekulla (December 25th)

It is a white Christmas morning at Villa Villekulla, and the occupants soon stir awake.

Pippi woke up and started waking up everyone else.

"Wake up, everyone! Rise and shine! It's time to open up our gifts!" Pippi said as she banged a ladle and a frying pan together, creating a loud noise that wakes everyone up.

Everyone rushed to open their presents; Thunder-Karlsson got a top hat, Bloom got a decorative monocle, Pippi got a teddy bear, Mr. Nilsson got some fruits, and Buster got some carrots.

"Merry Christmas, everyone." Pippi said.

"Merry Christmas to you too, Pippi." Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom said. "Thanks for letting us stay at your house."

Pippi served everyone breakfast, and afterwards, Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom left.

"You know, whenever we need help, Pippi comes through for us." Thunder-Karlsson said.

"I am glad to have met her." Bloom said.

Village: Park

Later that morning at the park, Bengt and his lackeys had gathered, each with a sour look on their faces.

"Let me guess, guys. You're mad just like me because you didn't get presents." Bengt said.

"Yeah, not even one." Riker said.

"I know, let's take gifts from other kids. That way, we get something and we make someone else feel bad." Bengt suggested. "I'll find gifts for each of you, and you guys work together to get me a gift."

And with that, the bullies went their way.

Bengt came across four boys playing with their new sled, wagon, toy car, and toy dinosaur, he growled at them, and the boys ran off scared, and Bengt took their stuff.

Meanwhile, with Bengt's lackeys, they are looking around, when they notice Willie walking by.

"Hey, I know what we can get Bengt." Billy said, and the lackeys followed Wille.

Meanwhile, Pippi, Tommy, and Annika were walking by when they ran into the boys who were scared off by Bengt.

"Hey there, what's the rush?" Pippi asked.

"This mean guy roared at us and took our Christmas presents." one boy said.

"I already know who they're talking about." Tommy said, and then, Willie came by, without his glasses.

"Help! Bengt's buddies took my glasses." Willie said.

"Don't worry, I'll get your glasses back, and these little boys' Christmas presents as well." Pippi said.

Later, the bullies gathered back at their meeting spot.

"Okay boys, I got you these." Bengt said as he showed the toys that he stole from the little boys.

"Check out what we got you." Adam said, as the lackeys revealed Willie's glasses.

"They're Willie's glasses. It'd be a shame if they broke." Vincent said.

Bengt took the idea and put Willie's glasses in the snow.

"Oh dear, I lost Willie's glasses in the snow, it'd be a shame if I stepped on them by mistake." Bengt said as he raised his foot over the glasses.

"Still haven't learned your lesson, have you Bengt?" Pippi asked as she suddenly appeared.

Pippi grabbed Bengt and tossed him into a branch and did the same to his lackeys.

"FYI, Bengt, Willie's glasses are right here." Pippi said, and she went to return everything that the bullies stole. "If you changed your ways, you might get a present for Christmas."

"I… HATE… PIPPI… LONGSTOCKING!" Bengt shouted from the top of his lungs.

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