NOTES: This was Mom's old nativity scene, which she made at Marshall Field's in 1982 at a ceramics class. If I remember right, the figures were sold in a kit as unfinished pottery--she painted, glazed, fired, and gilded them. The original special had Magic Screen showing scenes of nativity plays, and there was no doubt about using this set to similar effect for the one moment in this whole thing that's played with absolute sincerity and reverence. The speech is taken word-for-word from Magic Screen's original.
The script initially called for Magic Screen's "face" to frame the scene, her speech shown in a word balloon. In practice, I wasn't satisfied with any version of that idea, and it came down to simply having the image shown straight-on, with Screen's usual Jokerman text changed to the more solemn Times New Roman.
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