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Mickey's Christmas Carol

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For years, Mickey Mouse, a once-mighty force in animation, was but a memory. After his fall from popularity in the 1940s, and his final appearances in the 1950s, it seemed like there was no future for the mouse save as a corporate symbol for Disney, which had its animated output put into a slump since the passing of its legendary namesake creator in 1966.But then, in 1983, this film came along and changed that — well, sort of.Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 24-minute film, and a fairly straightforward adaptation of that one classic story everybody knows about by now. Despite the short being billed as Mickey's comeback, he serves only as the character of Bob Cratchit. Scrooge McDuck (in the role of—take a wild guess—Ebenezer Scrooge!) carries the bulk of the film instead, making his first animated appearance since the 1967 educational short Scrooge McDuck and Money (Otherwise, up to this point he'd only appeared in the Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics and this short's precursor, a storybook album from The '70s.), along with the debut of Alan Young as his primary voice actor.Debuting as a supporting feature with the 1983 theatrical re-release of The Rescuers (after an animators' strike delayed an intended 1982 premiere on television), this adaptation was fairly well-received and nominated for an Academy Award as Best Animated Short Film. In 1984 it began airing annually around Christmas on network and cable television and remains a holiday season favorite to this day. In 2001, it was included in the Christmas special Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse, but did not feature the original opening title cards or credits. As of 2023, the special can be seen in its entirety on Disney+.
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Age Lift
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Age Lift: Downplayed in that she's only seen as her usual self in the past, but Daisy Duck plays the role of Belle, Scrooge's ex-fiance, which would imply she's much older here than in any other media.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Will Ryan's voice for the second Weasel Gravedigger in the Future scene is an impression of Peter Lorre.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Several classic Disney characters make appearances, including The Three Little Pigs, Jiminy Cricket, Willie the Giant, and Mr. Toad. And just about everybody at Fezziwig's appeared in a Disney feature (Robin Hood (1973) in particular) or short.
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Micro Dieting
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Micro Dieting: The Cratchits have little more than a tiny little turkey for Christmas dinner due to their poverty. Tiny Tim apparently doesn't know any different, sincerely declaring, "Oh my, look at all the wonderful things to eat! We must thank Mr. Scrooge."
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: Not in the short, but on the original LP, Scrooge sings about how "the only thing that counts for [him] is money". The same song has a "villain sucks" section that's sung from Bob Cratchit's perspective. Also on the original LP, Marley's Ghost has a "villain sucks" song about himself and how he was wrong to rob and swindle as he did in life.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: Played With Goofy as Jacob Marley. Goofy is usually portrayed as a heroic, bumbling character. But Jacob Marley is someone who was evil enough in life he's sentenced to damnation, though his role here is to give a warning message so Scrooge won't follow his footsteps or else he'll suffer eternally, which is technically a rather heroic role despite his evil past. At least Goofy still kept his bumbling attitude.
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Good Is Not Nice
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Good is Not Nice: While all of the Ghosts are meant to change Scrooge into becoming a better person, they make it no secret that they think he's a despicable miser who has done nothing but choose money over love and the needy.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: The Ghost of Christmas Future cracks an ironically cruel joke at Ebenezer's impending demise.
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Door Slam of Rage
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Door Slam of Rage: After Scrooge breaks up with Isabelle, the heartbroken girl walks out the door, slamming it and causing Scrooge to lose count of his coins.
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Mythology Gag
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In the original Disney record version, Foulfellow and Gideon are the alms collectors, with Gideon at one point speaking in unison with Foulfellow. May double as a Mythology Gag, Gideon was meant to speak in Pinocchio, voiced by Mel Blanc (yes, that one), but all his lines but a few hiccup sound effects were cut.
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Carnivore Confusion
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Carnivore Confusion: A suckling pig makes an appearance when Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present after the Three Little Pigs have a cameo as carolers in the opening scene on the city streets. Donald also invites Scrooge to have goose for dinner despite having at least two cousins who are geese.
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Yet Another Christmas Carol
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Yet Another Christmas Carol: An adaptation of the book.
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Got Me Doing It
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Got Me Doing It: Mickey almost says "And a Bah Humbug to you" to Scrooge, but catches himself and wishes Merry Christmas instead.
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Out of Focus
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Out of Focus: Despite getting title billing, Mickey has a relatively small role in what was hyped as his comeback film, portraying a sympathetic and likable Bob Cratchit.
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Burial at Sea
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Burial at Sea: Marley left Scrooge enough money to buy him a tombstone. Scrooge pocketed the money and buried Marley at sea. This is not book accurate, as the book describes Marley's tombstone and Scrooge as his only mourner.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Fred's wife isn't seen or mentioned, presumably since Daisy is already playing Young Scrooge's love interest, Isabelle. Scrooge's childhood is never shown, which means his sister Fan never appears either. The Cratchits have only three children instead of six.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: The first five minutes is one long line of these moments for Scrooge, starting with Marley's funeral. Marley left Scrooge money specifically for funeral arrangements, which Scrooge shirked out on by having Marley buried at sea.
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant: The Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Willie the Giant. At least he tries to be gentle.
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Lonely Funeral
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Lonely Funeral: The weasel gravediggers say that nobody showed up for Scrooge's funeral.
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Graceful Ladies Like Purple
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Graceful Ladies Like Purple: When Isabelle leaves Scrooge, her dress, parasol, and fur cape are all dark purple.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: A famous one, coupling perfectly with the Wham Shot from the original story.
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Deadpan Door Shut
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Deadpan Door Shut: Scrooge opens the curtains of his bed to find the Ghost of Christmas Present (played by Willie the Giant) sitting in his bedroom. He quickly closes the curtains, then peeks through to check if he was just seeing things, and is met with Willie's gigantic eye staring back at him.
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Book Snap
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Book Snap: Scrooge is working on his ledger when Donald Duck (as Fred) comes in and wishes him a Merry Christmas. Scrooge slams the ledger shut and asks him "What's so merry about it?".
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: At the very beginning of the short, we see the Big Bad Wolf ringing a bell next to a pot, which is way too much like the Salvation Army (which was founded in 1865, 22 years after the novel's 1843 publication). What's really bad, however, is that he's wearing a modern Santa Claus suit - it wasn't until Norman Rockwell drew numerous pictures of him in the 1920s that his current appearance really solidified. Anyone dressed like that in the 1840s would have looked more like a clown than St. Nick.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: The result of telling an already short novel in a half-hour runtime. Some plot points are lost and others condensed and/or simplified; Tiny Tim's Bad Future fate for instance, is shown in a few seconds, without dialogue.
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Tiny Tim Template
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Tiny Tim Template: One of Mickey's nephews plays the role of Tiny Tim. In this universe, Tiny Tim appears as a poor boy walking with a crutch, who is in need of assistance.
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Evil Laugh
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Evil Laugh: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come laughs after shoving Scrooge into his own grave.
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Expecting Someone Taller
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Expecting Someone Taller: Scrooge's reaction to meeting the Ghost of Christmas Past, played by Jiminy Cricket. The Ghost's response is that if men were measured by kindness, Scrooge would be no bigger than a speck of dust.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: As in all adaptations of the story, the Ghost Of Christmas Future's is hidden in his cloak — until he strikes a match on Scrooge's grave to light a cigar, whose light reveals his identity: it's Pete.
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Devastating Remark
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Devastating Remark: Isabelle (played by Daisy Duck) asks Scrooge if he's made his decision on whether or not he wants to marry her. He says he has, and her face lights up as hearts float around her. He then clarifies that he's made up his mind about foreclosing the mortgage because Isabelle was an hour late to pay him. The hearts around her then fall to pieces as she trudges out of there, sobbing. She then gives him an angry look, having lost all love she ever had for him, and slams the door.
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Token Human
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Token Human: The Ghost of Christmas Present (portrayed by Willie the Giant) is the only human-looking character in the film (even though he isn't strictly speaking a human).
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Chewbacca Defense
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Chewbacca Defense: Scrooge confounding the charity workers.
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The Faceless
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The Faceless: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has no face visible under its hood except for his eyes. Averted when the ghost reveals himself as Pete.
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Pink Means Feminine
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Pink Means Feminine: Isabelle's first dress is bright pink.
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Adaptational Nice Guy
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Willie the Giant, the villain of the Mickey and the Beanstalk half of Fun and Fancy Free, plays the role of the Ghost of Christmas Present, whose intent is to help Scrooge become a better person.
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Accidental Bargaining Skills
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Accidental Bargaining Skills: After Scrooge's reformation, he goes to the alms collectors. They are stunned at his sudden turnaround, which leads him to think they're holding out for more!
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Necessarily Evil
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In most adaptations, the Ghost of Christmas Future is simply Necessarily Evil and a Villainy-Free Villain, or Creepy Good at least; here, he actually finds sadistic enjoyment in forcing Scrooge through his potential Bad Future. Of course, this one's portrayed by Pete, so what else did you really expect? Although his goal is still technically heroic by scaring Scrooge straight, but he hammers the message stronger by acting more villainous.
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Second-Face Smoke
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Second-Face Smoke: Done by Pete (as the Ghost of Christmas Future) to Scrooge, who chokes on the cigar smoke.
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Mind Your Step
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Mind Your Step: Happens as Marley's ghost bids farewell to Scrooge and walks through the bedroom wall:
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Fire and Brimstone Hell
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Fire and Brimstone Hell: In the scene where Scrooge is confronted by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, he is shown a newly dug grave, and told that nobody came to the funeral of the man who will be buried there. Upon learning that it is his grave, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shoves him into the grave. Scrooge screams for mercy and vows to change, but he loses his grip on a twig and falls into a casket whose interior is on fire, implying he is about to enter Hell.
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The Voiceless
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The Voiceless: Bob and Tiny Tim are the only members of the Cratchit family who speak. Though Mrs. Cratchit does speak in the record version. Fezziwig also doesn't get any lines.
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Layman's Terms
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Layman's Terms: This happens when the two charity collectors ask Scrooge to donate some money to the poor:
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Dramatically Missing the Point
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Dramatically Missing the Point: When Isabelle asks Scrooge about his decision, she means whether they get married, while he thinks it's about the mortgage on their honeymoon cottage, which he forecloses. Needless to say, she walks out on him forever.
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Dangled by a Giant
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Dangled by a Giant: The Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Willie the Giant, dangles Scrooge over his bed and eventually over several succulent Christmas pies, meats, and fruits. He dangles Scrooge again while he's gripped at the end of a grape branch.
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My God, What Have I Done?: When visiting his past, Scrooge expresses regret for foreclosing his would-be home with Isabelle, thus driving her out of his life. When he sees the potential future, he also expresses horror over the thought of Tiny Tim dying at a young age because he wasn't paying Bob enough.
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Secondary Character Title: Even though it's called "Mickey's Christmas Carol," it's Scrooge McDuck who takes the lead as Ebenezer Scrooge. Mickey's presence as Bob Cratchit is pretty limited.
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Rule of Funny: Some of the greedy stuff Scrooge brags about, Marley's pratfalls, and the giant walking around town.
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Digital Destruction: The 30th Anniversary Edition home video releases have digitally smeared picture, which also looks zoomed in too closely. The Digital HD release of Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse does provide an un-cropped, more filmic-looking alternative, albeit without any credits.
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Offscreen Crash: Happens to Goofy (playing Marley) along with Mind Your Step. Scrooge tells him to "watch out for that first..." Step. Cue YAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HOOEY!
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Demoted to Extra: Fred is a bit less important in this adaptation. Scrooge chews him out in the first act, then reconciles and promises to go to his party in the ending, but the Ghost of Christmas Present doesn't take him to see Fred's party in progress.
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Anthropomorphic Shift: Inverted with Cyril Proudbottom the horse. He is a Partially Civilized Animal in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, but he's a Nearly Normal Animal in this featurette.
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The same song has a "villain sucks" section that's sung from Bob Cratchit's perspective.
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And Starring: Clarence Nash gets this billing as he was the only one of the Disney characters' original voice actors to return for the special. It wound up being his last time voicing Donald Duck.
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Insane Troll Logic: Scrooge pulls this on the two charity collectors as an excuse to avoid giving them any money for the poor.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast: Every character is played by an established Disney animated character.
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Cigar Chomper: Pete as the devilish Ghost of Christmas Future.
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Littlest Cancer Patient: Tiny Tim is terminally ill. In the bad future, Tim has died of his illness and Bob is deeply in grief.
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Spin-Off: The success of this short paved the way for Disney to put together DuckTales (1987), with Alan Young returning as the voice of Scrooge McDuck.
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Porky Pig Pronunciation: As in Fun and Fancy Free, Willie still can't say "pistachio".
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Composite Character: The Ghost of Christmas Past's (Jiminy Cricket) line about being measured by kindness, is similar to when the Ghost of Christmas Present retorts Scrooge's "surplus population" remark in the original book.
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All Just a Dream: What Scrooge is very thankful for, given his nightmare's conclusion.
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Never Say "Die": Almost averted. The Ghost of Christmas Present tells of Tiny Tim: "If these shadows remain unchanged, I see an empty chair where Tiny Tim once sat." To which Scrooge says, "Then that means Tim will..." but gets cut off when he realizes that the Ghost of Christmas Present has vanished. The next scene makes the conclusion abundantly clear, though.
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