Wiggle my ears and tickle my toes! Methinks I see a ... square wheeled bicycle?
A young Jared makes bikes in Santa's workshop. Source: Stonegate Mortgage Facebook
In the opening scene of the video, Billy is upset over getting a bike with square wheels for Christmas.
Santa reads a letter from Billy who no longer believes in Christmas after receiving the bike with square wheels.
Twin brothers Walker and Brooks act on set. Source: Tom Quann
Joel Cordero directs two elves. Source: Tom Quann
A young Jared makes bikes in Santa's workshop. Source: Stonegate Mortgage Facebook
In the opening scene of the video, Billy is upset over getting a bike with square wheels for Christmas.
Santa reads a letter from Billy who no longer believes in Christmas after receiving the bike with square wheels.
Twin brothers Walker and Brooks act on set. Source: Tom Quann
Joel Cordero directs two elves. Source: Tom QuannOne day 30 years ago, an elf named Jared made a square wheeled bike, leading to a young boy named Billy no longer believing in Santa — afterall, if Santa was real, why would he gift him a bike with square wheels?
Now, the story of how Jared ended up building the square-wheeled bike and what happened to both Jared and Billy after is finally being revealed in a three episode mini series.
The mini series, called "Too Many Lights," was filmed and created by Stonegate Mortgage, with this being the second year the company has made holiday videos.
The series began last year after Stonegate Mortgage posted a video on their Facebook page featuring an elf hanging upside down in a string of lights while he was decorating Padanaram for the Holiday Stroll.
“I had everybody asking me, ‘Hey, what happened to the elf? Why is he upside down?’” said Tom Quann, founder and president of Stonegate Mortgage, “And we had to come up with a silly storyline that he was addicted to candy canes and we had to get him cut down before he ate them all.”
Quann and his team only had two and a half weeks last year to think of a storyline and a script and then film the video before the Holiday Stroll.
“That was the tough part because obviously if Kenny didn’t get cut down, he wasn’t going to be working. Everyone would’ve seen him,” Quann said.
The idea behind this year’s storyline is built off the ending of last year’s when people were walking by and saw Santa flying through the air.
“They said, ‘Oh, boy, the last time we saw this is when that elf built that bike with square wheels,’” Quann recalled, “And then the elf actually ended up popping out and saying, ‘Hey, that’s actually a true story.’”
This year, viewers will learn how Jared built the square wheeled bike, the impact it had on his elf career and how sad it made him.
Quann and others involved in creating the videos also had more time this year to come up with the storyline and get more involved with the project, such as including more props in the story, like the square wheeled bike that a friend of Quann’s made.
“It [was] incredible to have a machine shop actually make us a square wheeled bike,” he said.
He thanked a number of people involved in making the videos, including Joel Cordero from Cordero Video and Photo who shot and edited the film; Tanya Henicke, who was in charge of the overall storyline, scripts and prompts; Craig Boudria from Capital House Media who oversaw social media; and the elves themselves.
This year members of the community also reached out to be involved and appear in the videos. This includes 3-year-old twin brothers Walker and Brooks, who appeared in a video last year when they threw candy canes at Kenny the elf. Now, they’re back for round two.
“What’s nice about these videos is we’re getting the local residents involved,” Quann said. “We have people now coming up to us and asking if they can be in the videos.”
He noted, “The videos are really one way to just show our heart, show our holiday spirit, and obviously get the community more involved and get the children to understand what we have going on down here too.”
Quann said he plans on continuing the Too Many Lights series annually, noting that “it’s fun to be able to tell these quirky storylines.”











