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| rdfs:label | - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
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| rdfs:comment | - "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas", is a children's song. The Three Stooges sang a version of it on their Christmas album.
- "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is a novelty Christmas song popularized in a 1953 recording by 10-year-old Gayla Peevey. The Oklahoma City Zoo used the song as part of a campaign to raise money to purchase a hippo. A baby hippo named Matilda was purchased as a Christmas present for Peevey, who in turn donated it to the zoo. Elmo sings "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" on the album Elmo Saves Christmas: Holiday Favorites. Anne Hathaway and Big Bird sang the song in Elmo's Christmas Countdown, replacing "Hippopotamus" with "Snuffleupagus". File:Anne and Big Bird Singing
- When Stan tunes out Francine's talking in "Stan Goes On the Pill", his imagination takes him to the Theater of the Bored Mind where he watches a film of a little girl singing "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" until he is brought back to reality by Francine.
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| Publisher | - Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc.
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| abstract | - "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas", is a children's song. The Three Stooges sang a version of it on their Christmas album.
- "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is a novelty Christmas song popularized in a 1953 recording by 10-year-old Gayla Peevey. The Oklahoma City Zoo used the song as part of a campaign to raise money to purchase a hippo. A baby hippo named Matilda was purchased as a Christmas present for Peevey, who in turn donated it to the zoo. Elmo sings "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" on the album Elmo Saves Christmas: Holiday Favorites. Anne Hathaway and Big Bird sang the song in Elmo's Christmas Countdown, replacing "Hippopotamus" with "Snuffleupagus". File:Anne and Big Bird Singing
- When Stan tunes out Francine's talking in "Stan Goes On the Pill", his imagination takes him to the Theater of the Bored Mind where he watches a film of a little girl singing "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" until he is brought back to reality by Francine.
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