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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Santa looks like [People playing volleyball and Santa rides by]

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christmas came early this year..alright complete the figure of speech with an

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allusion Jimmy won't share he's a real blank yeah... and

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here are the potential answers.... Hey now watch the

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language there people whatever nasty names you have for this selfish Jimmy [Two guys in a bedroom]

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guy keep them to yourself we're being asked to complete the sentence with an

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allusion, an allusion is a reference to something that's well-known Scrooge,

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Elvis, Santa, Odysseus we may not know them personally but their names all ring [Girl thinking and bell ringing]

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a bell for sure so we'll need to compare Jimmy to one of these four famous people

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three of them fictional but well which one is most fitting is he a real Elvis

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well maybe if he had a voice that could melt butter and out of control hips but [Jimmy dancing on stage]

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Elvis wasn't really known for not sharing he might have been a little

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stingy with his peanut butter and banana sandwiches but other than that he was a [Jimmy in the kitchen and Elvis slaps sandwich out of his hand]

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pretty unselfish guy he give away almost everything is Jimmy a real Santa, hardly

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sharing is Santa's middle name we think.. Anyway it wouldn't make any sense to [Santa giving away presents]

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compare Jimmy to Santa because Santa is always giving away and while he's never

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selfish whereas Jimmy well if you want a freshly baked cookie you'd better beat

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him to the kitchen is he a real Odysseus huh well Odysseus is the most obscure of [Jimmy with Odysseus by a ship]

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the bunch but he's an awfully famous character from literature he's the main

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dude in Homer's epic The Odyssey and he goes on an adventure where he runs into [Odysseus tied up on a boat]

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some sirens, a cyclops and a whole bunch of other crazy characters but what does

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that got to do with sharing we have no idea so yeah option D) is on our naughty

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list well then hopefully he's A) a real Scrooge and yep he sure is Ebenezer

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Scrooge the guy from A Christmas Carol is famous for being stingy with his [Scrooge holding stacks of money]

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money Scrooge wouldn't dream of sharing a penny so making an allusion to another

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cheapskate in Jimmy's case makes perfect sense it's no wonder Santa comes during

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the winter and not in the middle of the summer instead it's so much harder to [Santa filling a stocking]

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fill a flip-flop with candy...

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