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Nothing brings Christmass mood like thousands tormented souls screaming in agony across night sky.

I now realize the Muppets rendition of A Christmas Carol is very accurate, and I actually know the whole thing

One thing about Christmas Carol that I think gets misunderstood is that people think Scrooge is greedy. Don’t get me wrong, his sweetheart left him because he came to see gaining wealth as the only pursuit and he absolutely measures everything transactionally but he truly is as is often described “miserly.”

There’s no better showcase of this than when he goes home. Sure, he has a big house but it’s empty, cold, and barely lit. It’s more like a crypt than a home. He eats porridge in his room. He almost doesn’t live any better than the Cratchits even if he could.

This, to me, reveals far more about his character than just casting him like the worst aspects of Scrooge McDuck, swimming in mountains of gold and luxuries. Scrooge is a man who has left any love in his heart behind. He’s miserable and he thinks any kind of happiness or mirth is either a distraction or a self-imposed delusion.

It’s why, again, to me, him going to Fred’s party is the moment his redemption is complete. Because giving alms and everything were true acts of charity but now he had to lay himself at the mercy of his only relative and the only connection he had left to his beloved sister, who he’s treated like crap for years.

But Fred never stopped loving him. Scrooge just needed to accept he could still be loved.

Before this moment I didn’t think I needed Eminem drawn in the extra credits style but I really did and I thank the team for that so much 🤣

I actually HAVE read the book, and here's proof: One scene, which always gets left out of adaptations, had Scrooge finishing off the festivities with the Ghost of Christmas Present at a Twelfth Night party.

Apparently after Dickens gave a reading of a Christmas Carol in the States  years later a factory owner closed his factory on Christmas Day and gave his workers a turkey 🦃 each.

I literally laughed out loud when Zoey was the “terrifying” Christmas ghost.

You forgot the most important part about Ignorance and Want. The Ghost warns Scrooge to beware more of Ignorance, than Want. Because ignorance, left unchecked, leads to doom.

It was especially poignant when you think of how much suffering (or doom) results because of ignorance, willful or not.

"He's weak and palms sweaty", "Snap back to reality" as well as an animated eminem, three eminem referances I didn't know I needed.

"If I had my way, every fool who goes about with a Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."

I always like that they say "Tiny Tim, who did not die..." in the story

Tim has become immortal?

"And so, as Tiny Tim observed... God bless us, every one!"

Ghosts of Christmas look at Amazon management and say “yea, no, they’re beyond saving.”

"Behold an unthinkable present."
-Ghosts of Christmas Present and Future, probably

I'm surprised that they didn't note the political messaging in the book too, since theirs a part where churchgoers are voting to stop allowing the poor access to baker' stoves on Christmas out of the sad tale of overworking bakers on what should be their day off.

Awesome job, EC! Keep 'em comin'!
Some suggestions for literary topics:
1) Les Miserables
2) War and Peace
3) The Da Vinci Code
4) Canterbury Tales
5) Dante's Divine Comedy

If youve ever watched Little Drummer Boy or read Leg3nd of the Poinsettias you know that gifts given out of desperation are often the best.  Also with Dicken's tale.

Having the EC Crew as the cast of the story is a nice touch to end the year on. Also, I absolutely called who Zoey would play.

I have read the book, and as proof here's how Marley convinces Scrooge that he is not an hallucination brought about by his dinner: his jaw drops all the way to the floor.