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Calculator Christmas Gift

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The setup

Two grown twins in matching ski sweaters spend Christmas Eve quivering with joy over the one present they want, a calculator, while their long-suffering older brother quietly collects a game console.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Over the course of a family Christmas Eve, a pair of adult twin brothers in matching sweaters can talk about nothing except the calculator they are certain they are getting. Their parents keep the surprise ambiguous, and their older brother suggests the obvious solution of using the calculator on a computer, which earns him a swift telling-off. Once midnight arrives, the twins unwrap the gift and fall into a shrieking, weeping celebration, while the older brother opens the game console he wanted and keeps his own excitement muted. The twins finish by hugging their prize and begging someone to hand them a multiplication problem.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Why don't you just use the calculator on your computer?

Shut up, Glenn. Nobody cares what you think.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm related to them.

ScriptEnglish · 27 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:03

    Glenn

    Hey, Mom, Dad. Wow, everything looks great.

  2. 00:06

    Mom

    Look how nice you look, Glenn.

  3. 00:09

    Glenn

    Oh, thanks, Mom. I'm wearing Dad's tie.

  4. 00:11

    Dad

    Hey, just don't come down here telling me you're wearing my boxer shorts.

  5. 00:15

    Now, where are the twins?

  6. 00:17

    Glenn

    Oh, they're still upstairs. They're super excited.

  7. 00:19

    Mom

    Oh, you know, those two will not stop talking about what they want for Christmas.

  8. 00:22

    Dad

    Tell me about it.

  9. 00:25

    Mom

    Merry Christmas, boys.

  10. 00:29

    Ma. Ma. Ma, did you get us a calculator? Are we getting a calculator?

  11. 00:35

    Mom

    I'm not telling you. You have to wait.

  12. 00:38

    Glenn, guess what we're getting for Christmas? Yeah, yeah, a calculator. We're getting a calculator.

  13. 00:46

    Glenn

    Yeah, that's great.

  14. 00:47

    Do you have any idea how fast we're gonna do math problems? Square roots? Lightning speed. We are getting a state-of-the-art calculator by Texas Instruments.

  15. 01:00

    Dad

    Guys, we don't know what you're getting. Nobody promised you anything, okay?

  16. 01:05

    But, Dad, come on. Who are you kidding? We didn't even ask for anything else. And when-when we went to Macy's, I saw you ask the guy at the counter if they sold calculators.

  17. 01:17

    Dad

    Okay, enough. Now, who wants to help me get these stockings up? Yeah, I'll do it.

  18. 01:21

    Yeah, so, uh, Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. We gonna get a calculator? That's all we want, Ma. I'm gonna add so many numbers together. I'm gonna keep dividing numbers until there's, like, 50 numbers after the decimal.

  19. 01:39

    Glenn

    Why don't you just use the calculator on your computer?

  20. 01:42

    Shut up, Glenn. Nobody cares what you think. Is it almost midnight, or...?

  21. 01:50

    Dad

    Uh, it is a minute past midnight. Time to open presents. All right, here we go.

  22. 01:55

    We're gonna get a calculator. We're gonna get a calculator. this box here is for Glenn oh man you know we're gonna get a calculator that's we're gonna get no way Nintendo Wii sorry fixed on joy Glenn we're getting a calculator I can feel it thanks mom and dad you guys are the best ma ma can we can we open up our present now you go now that's for for the both of you.

  23. 02:24

    Oh my God. To Paul and Aiden, that's us. I'm going to need freak out control. OK. So this is about the size of a Texas Instruments A100. I can feel it.

  24. 02:39

    I'm going to start crying. Why don't you just open it? All right, do it. I Oh, my God! Oh, my God! We got a calculator! This is the greatest day I ever had. It's a calculator, and I'm finally can't believe how big it is. Mom! Mom, it's unbelievable. Oh my god. Oh my god, it's real. It's real.

  25. 03:10

    Thank you, Ma. Thank you. Oh, my God. We own this now. We own it. This is... I'll do anything we want. It's a calculator. I'm never gonna forget this. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We got a calculator. We got a calculator. It's ours. Take a picture of this. Come on, do it.

  26. 03:30

    Glenn

    Sometimes I can't believe I'm related to them.

  27. 03:32

    Yeah, they're pretty brilliant. They certainly are. Do, um, do a 89 times 56.

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