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"The plot was predictable!?" Well, durr! It's a classic novel that's been filmed a hundred times and caricatured a thousand times!! Of course its familiar/predictable
The Chrismas Carol was Charles Dickens's most popular book. The most successful one in his career. Many television shows have used the plot of this book for a holiday special and there have been many adaptations of the book itself over the years. Of course, it was predictable, it was following the plot of a 200-year-old book that has been a holiday classic for several generations.
I'm a bit curious if she's even heard of A Christmas Carol before as she seems to think these different shows just happened to fall onto the same plot or are copying each other or something. I would've thought the fact that they were doing the show in the movie and the fact that it's called Scrooged would've been a tip off but maybe not! haha
@@TheOtherOne111 Yeah. Suppose if you want to get technical she says she never heard of Charles Dickens' Scrooge. But there is no Charles Dickens' Scrooge as it was call A Christmas Carol and just contained a character named Scrooge. It still probably means she's never heard of A Christmas Carol either but I could see some confusion there if she thought Scrooge was an actual story. Either way, she seems very unaware this story has been around for a long time.
Came to the comments to see Mary getting roasted for not knowing Charles Dickens’s immortal story AND to see how many recommended The Muppet’s Christmas Carol. Not disappointed.
Everyone suggesting Muppets (which IS good) but nobody's mentioning the best of them: 1951's SCROOGE. It's pretty much a perfect adaptation of the book with a brilliant performance by Alastair Sim. If black & white doesn't please you, then 1999's A CHRISTMAS CAROL starring Patrick Stewart is quite good.
“The plot is very predictable.” It should be, it’s a beat for beat of Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol. It’s even the live performance they’re preparing for and performing at the end.
Dickens is an extremely famous author and A Christmas Carol is his most well-known book, published in 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly business owner who underpays his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and won’t give him the day off for Christmas because he hates Christmas. His dead business partner shows up, says he’s been punished in death, forced to carry around the chains he forged in life, but tells Scrooge he can still be saved and will send three ghosts to him. After the ghosts, Scrooge has a change of heart. That’s the short-short version. There are many performances and adaptations of the book. I think a really good one is A Muppet Christmas Carol. Yes, it is performed by The Muppets and has minor tweaks, but it sticks really close to the story.
I am flabbergasted that you have never heard of A Christmas Carol. It is one of the most known and most beloved Christmas stories ever told. It had been paid homage to at least hundreds of times. Even The Muppets had their own take on it. I highly recommend digging into some past productions or even the original book. Cheers
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1843) is the quintessential Christmas story written in English. It used to be required reading throughout most of the English speaking world. It's a shame that schools have abandoned such classics.
Well... Charles Dickens wrote the original about 180ish years before Popular, but we all experience the story for the first time in our own way, lol. This film has been one of my favorites for some years now, but it helps if you were already a fan of Bill Murray.
I think I witnessed a Christmas miracle. I have never encountered someone of Mary's age who has never encountered Dickens's A Christmas Carol. We are talking about a book that has been one of the most popular Christmas themes for roughly 200 years coming from one of the greatest authors who ever lived. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities just to name a few. I even know I am sounding like a Scrooge but I am genuinely astonished by this it's like not recognizing a Romeo and Juliet theme in a movie
Agreed. In addition, Gonzo gives a good, brief biography of Charles Dickens right at the beginning. The movie even concludes with, "If you liked this movie, you should read the book!"
That's the inimitable Carol Kane killing it in that role. She also does a great job as the landlord/super in Tina Fey's "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt".
I can't believe that anyone hasn't heard of the very famous book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the most well-known Christmas story of all time that has been made into hundreds of movies including a Muppets Christmas Carol with Michael Caine as Scrooge.
@@MaryCherryOfficial you kind of heard of it. I feel you knew about the ghosts of past, present, future and the whole premise but didn't know it all come from there.
The "A Christmas Carol" story is the single most adapted story in film and TV. Simply amazed that she knows to keep calling him a scrooge, but doesn't know that Ebenezer Scrooge is a character from A Christmas Carol. That episode of Popular she is ranking about was called "Fall on Your Knees" and debuted originally aired in December of 1999. 10 years after Scrooged came out.
One of the most greatest Christmas films ever made and by far One of his best performances ever!! So much emotions and in the end compassion!!😂🤣😅😢😭❤👏🙌👍☃️❄🎅🎉
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Bill Murray's Scrooge was a staple of cable tv and of public television. 😂
Did you say you've never heard the story of Scrooge/A Christmas Carol before? that's actually incredible! The Muppets Christmas Carol is the one to watch I would say, its very very good!
At the end she called it predictable because it was like another movie based on a christmas carol but said it was because they were 'christmas movies'? I'm still not sure she gets it.
It was also completely improvised. The writers were horrified, thinking Murray was destroying the climax of their film. Donner, on the other hand, knew gold when he saw it.
"I like this lady!" Carol Kane (Ghost of Christmas Present) is a gift! She's so funny with her whimsical voice and layer of menace, constant violence that Frank deserves, and she's too cute to boot. She's always a delight.
I watch this classic every year on my Birthday and I love the way at the end how Bill says his heartwarming speech with emotion and it made me cry with Calvin saying “God Bless us Everyone!”
I Love that Mary talks about how she knows the theme of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, And points out that he's Scrooge, but "I don't know anything about Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol".
"oh it's one of those movies?" And "It's very predictable". It's literally called Scrooged, based on... You know...Mr Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. *facepalm*
Bobcat Goldthwait as Eliot Loudermilk is priceless. "Why does he have to act crazy all the time?" one second later *Gets served an eyeball in a shotglass*
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is the most classic Christmas story. Literally everyone has done a version of this from the Flinstones to Jim Carey in an animated version to HBO doing a TV version to there being several live action versions that play it straight and countless others that parody or do their own version ever since the copyright was available to the public. Everyone undoubtedly has seen some version of this at some point in their life. A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island are two of the most adapted stories in cinema.
I'm genuinely surprised that you've only just heard of a Christmas Carol now! I always figured everyone on the planet has heard of that story!! Hope you watch the muppets version after this.
I watch Scrooged and the Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol every year, aways have!! But I do like the end credits where Bill Murry gets the Audience to participate it's amd experience when your in the cinema and everyone joins in ❤
Amazing reaction!! Thanks to the subtitles, i noticed a line i NEVER noticed before: When Herman asks Frank for 2 bucks and he says "Herman, I blew it all on Liz" (Dick (Burton) was married to Liz (Taylor))" 🤣
It is so endearing that you thought the show you mentioned was the only other version of this story put to screen. Since Charles Dickens published the novella, A Christmas Carol, in 1843 there have been more film versions of this story than any story ever written I should think.
I love Mary Cherry's genuine and joyfull reactions. But, and please dont take it the wrong way, she must not only lived all her life down under but also under a rock not having heard of one of the most popular pieces of literature: Charles Dickens Christmas Carol . There are hundreds of adaptation filmed since the invention of cinema and tv, including Mickey Mouse's and the Muppet's. But honestly Bill Murrray's portait of Ebenezer is my favourite one.
Frank's (Bill Murray) boss is Legendary Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum. He was considered one of Hollywood's tough /rebellious actors on and off screen .
Us millennials know back when we had tube screen TVs, which means dogs and cats couldn’t see what was on the screen back then. It’s only been recently with LCD TVs that they can see anything. heck, back then if you had a video camera and you tried filming a TV all you would see is part of a faded picture with a analog white band going over the screen. The point is TV screens were weird back then. To the point, they were really only calibrated for human site spectrum range.
Ms. Cherry, I've often wondered if there are any Australian Christmas songs about the holiday being in the summertime? Christmas in the summer is something us northern hemispherians can't really get our heads around.
There's a lot to delve into there, particularly as Christmas is mostly just hijacked winter-solstice celebrations (well, "celebrations"; it's mostly about keeping everyone from offing themselves by reminding them that, all evidence to the contrary, the world isn't dying and the sun is coming back. Also about the time you run out of stored and unspoiled fodder for livestock, and so have a feast instead of watching them starve) that are inevitably sliding-back to quasi-secularism (to the extent that it ever left that territory). But, at least in the North, the summer solstice is a lot less remarkable than the winter one (though I'm not sure Australia's deepest winter is quite as life-obliterating as it is in much of the top half of the world, particularly for those outside the effects of the Atlantic heat-pump), so I can see a lot of "traditional" Xmas stuff not quite resonating to the same degree. What's "A Christmas Carol" without the ever-present threat of darkness and cold, especially as it symbolizes Scrooge's dying empathy and humanity? Many a paper written on this, I'm sure.
Charles Dickens' book about Scrooge is actually called A Christmas Carol, but some adaptations were called Scrooge instead, for some reason. The Popular episode is also an adaptation of the same book.
You know, _A Christmas Carol_ is my all-time favorite book. I always say that there will never be too many screen versions of the book. It's amazing to me that you weren't familiar with the story before now. I'm glad I got to see you react to it for the first time.
I love this movie. It's fun and funny and heartwarming. I love Frank's speech at the end especially the part about how it's the one day we are the people we always wanted to be. It's really so true. Then Calvin speaks and the song.
140 years after A Christmas Carol came out, Disney did Mickey's Christmas Carol and it was a big deal. Introducing and starring Scrooge McDuck who went on to have his own starring role on a show called DuckTales.
I hope Mary kept the movie on through the credits because they're a post-credit scene along the lines of Ferris Bueller where Frank talks to the audience in the theater. It's hysterical. This is my favorite all-time Christmas movie.
Its predictable, because its a version of A Christmas Carol. There is no story by Dickens is called Scrooge, its A Christmas Carol. The best version of the book is the Alister Simm version from the 40s, however this is a very fun remake.
OMG!!!! I knew it!!! Mary Cherry was the best!!! So glad you confirmed that lol. This story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published in 1843. So that's why you know the story. Love that you know the show Popular too. It was one of my faves when I was a kid. No one I knew watched it lol. I'm showing my age because I saw it when it was originally on TV, not syndicated reruns, but glad they got their bag, they deserved it. It was a great show and canceled far too soon.
As hard as it might be to believe, according to reviews the most accurate movie adaptation of this story that also uses the most direct quotes from the book is the movie The Muppets Christmas Carol. It’s a real good feel good movie that would be worth your time to watch.
You really should screen one of the classic film adaptations of Dickens' tale. The early ones feature Alistair Sim and Reginald Owen, and both have good qualities, but other later versions are also great, featuring Albert Finney, George C. Scott, and Sir Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. The best cartoon adaptation for me is the Mr. Magoo version.
"She's so beautiful!" Karen Allen is a very underrated beauty of the 80's, with her big eyes and wide smile. I highly suggest John Carpenter's Starman for one of her best performances.
Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" was a schooltime classic. I have seen every adaptation from childhood on. Just about all of Charles Dickens' novels has been turned into a film, mini series, and Broadway play or musical.
I remember when Scrooged came out...there was a big lawsuit because they ripped off the whole plot of the movie from Popular. I think they eventually settled out of court.
This is my favorite Bill Murray movie up there with Ghostbusters and Lost in Translation. I don't know what it is about him but when he does r o l e s like this and Groundhog Day you can't help but love him being a jerk that you know has a real❤
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"The plot was predictable!?" Well, durr! It's a classic novel that's been filmed a hundred times and caricatured a thousand times!! Of course its familiar/predictable
Clair also played Smalls’ mom on Sandlot and Katy on Animal House
Ummm....who is BILL MURRARY? LOL
@@PapaMojo75wasn't he **** Spoiler alert****
That bloke who had one of the funniest death scenes ever in "Zombie Land"?😂
The Chrismas Carol was Charles Dickens's most popular book. The most successful one in his career. Many television shows have used the plot of this book for a holiday special and there have been many adaptations of the book itself over the years. Of course, it was predictable, it was following the plot of a 200-year-old book that has been a holiday classic for several generations.
I'm a bit curious if she's even heard of A Christmas Carol before as she seems to think these different shows just happened to fall onto the same plot or are copying each other or something. I would've thought the fact that they were doing the show in the movie and the fact that it's called Scrooged would've been a tip off but maybe not! haha
That is a spectacularly poorly written comment.
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@@MysterClark at 27:40 she said she's never heard of it before
@@TheOtherOne111 Yeah. Suppose if you want to get technical she says she never heard of Charles Dickens' Scrooge. But there is no Charles Dickens' Scrooge as it was call A Christmas Carol and just contained a character named Scrooge. It still probably means she's never heard of A Christmas Carol either but I could see some confusion there if she thought Scrooge was an actual story.
Either way, she seems very unaware this story has been around for a long time.
Came to the comments to see Mary getting roasted for not knowing Charles Dickens’s immortal story AND to see how many recommended The Muppet’s Christmas Carol. Not disappointed.
every. single. comment.
Everyone suggesting Muppets (which IS good) but nobody's mentioning the best of them: 1951's SCROOGE. It's pretty much a perfect adaptation of the book with a brilliant performance by Alastair Sim. If black & white doesn't please you, then 1999's A CHRISTMAS CAROL starring Patrick Stewart is quite good.
You can add your comment to that list.
@@nixnightbird138 was that the one with Alistair Sim?
I'm not roasting her. I just thought she was Richard Pryor.
My favorite part of this viewing is Mary's obliviousness to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol... lol
Same
When she said she's never heard of it, I yelled "WHAT!!" at my cell.
I was just thinking that.
That’s was hilarious. Knows the story points but not the source. CH’s story is a Christmas holiday classic.
In one more generation, maybe two, I dare say the historical reference baseline for future youth will be Justin Bieber and Kanye West!
“The plot is very predictable.” It should be, it’s a beat for beat of Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol. It’s even the live performance they’re preparing for and performing at the end.
Dickens is an extremely famous author and A Christmas Carol is his most well-known book, published in 1843.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly business owner who underpays his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and won’t give him the day off for Christmas because he hates Christmas. His dead business partner shows up, says he’s been punished in death, forced to carry around the chains he forged in life, but tells Scrooge he can still be saved and will send three ghosts to him. After the ghosts, Scrooge has a change of heart. That’s the short-short version.
There are many performances and adaptations of the book. I think a really good one is A Muppet Christmas Carol. Yes, it is performed by The Muppets and has minor tweaks, but it sticks really close to the story.
Mary probably has no idea the live television program is intended to be the same plot as the movie being watched
😂😂😂😂
I am flabbergasted that you have never heard of A Christmas Carol. It is one of the most known and most beloved Christmas stories ever told. It had been paid homage to at least hundreds of times. Even The Muppets had their own take on it. I highly recommend digging into some past productions or even the original book. Cheers
It's like saying you've never ever heard of the name Shakespeare
the Muppets Christmas Carol was magnificent, with Michael Caine as Scrooge.
I think its adorable
She's acting
Not all households celebrate Christmas.
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1843) is the quintessential Christmas story written in English. It used to be required reading throughout most of the English speaking world. It's a shame that schools have abandoned such classics.
Well it's super Christian.
Well... Charles Dickens wrote the original about 180ish years before Popular, but we all experience the story for the first time in our own way, lol. This film has been one of my favorites for some years now, but it helps if you were already a fan of Bill Murray.
I think I witnessed a Christmas miracle. I have never encountered someone of Mary's age who has never encountered Dickens's A Christmas Carol. We are talking about a book that has been one of the most popular Christmas themes for roughly 200 years coming from one of the greatest authors who ever lived. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities just to name a few. I even know I am sounding like a Scrooge but I am genuinely astonished by this it's like not recognizing a Romeo and Juliet theme in a movie
Exactly. This was required reading from grade school to university.
Right? I read this in 5th grade but I loved Mickeys Christmas Carol before that
If you're looking for another adaptation of "A Christmas Carol", I'd highly recommend you watch The Muppet's Christmas Carol.
I second this one
"A Blackadder Christmas Carol" is the absolute cynical best!
Agreed. In addition, Gonzo gives a good, brief biography of Charles Dickens right at the beginning. The movie even concludes with, "If you liked this movie, you should read the book!"
There’s also Mickey’s A Christmas Carol.
And the Jim Carrey 3D version directed by Robert Zemekis from 2009.
This is one of my all time favourite holiday movies. Every time the Ghost of Christmas Present hits him in the face with the toaster it cracks me up.
Funniest part of the movie.
so good!
That's the inimitable Carol Kane killing it in that role. She also does a great job as the landlord/super in Tina Fey's "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt".
I can't believe that anyone hasn't heard of the very famous book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the most well-known Christmas story of all time that has been made into hundreds of movies including a Muppets Christmas Carol with Michael Caine as Scrooge.
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@@MaryCherryOfficial you kind of heard of it. I feel you knew about the ghosts of past, present, future and the whole premise but didn't know it all come from there.
😂😂😂😂 sorry😂😂😂
The "A Christmas Carol" story is the single most adapted story in film and TV. Simply amazed that she knows to keep calling him a scrooge, but doesn't know that Ebenezer Scrooge is a character from A Christmas Carol.
That episode of Popular she is ranking about was called "Fall on Your Knees" and debuted originally aired in December of 1999. 10 years after Scrooged came out.
YES. This movie is so underrated, it's been a family tradition since I was a kid!
One of the most greatest Christmas films ever made and by far One of his best performances ever!! So much emotions and in the end compassion!!😂🤣😅😢😭❤👏🙌👍☃️❄🎅🎉
Bill Murray's Scrooge was a staple of cable tv and of public television. 😂
The fact that Bill Murray ad libed the speech makes the ending even more special.
Bill Murray ad-libs every big speech in his movies, it's kind of a staple with him.
Did you say you've never heard the story of Scrooge/A Christmas Carol before? that's actually incredible!
The Muppets Christmas Carol is the one to watch I would say, its very very good!
At the end she called it predictable because it was like another movie based on a christmas carol but said it was because they were 'christmas movies'? I'm still not sure she gets it.
What's funny is that Mary uses the term scrooge to refer to someone tight/mean but she isn't familiar with the character of Scrooge
Bill's final speech in is so life affirming.
It was also completely improvised. The writers were horrified, thinking Murray was destroying the climax of their film. Donner, on the other hand, knew gold when he saw it.
"I like this lady!"
Carol Kane (Ghost of Christmas Present) is a gift! She's so funny with her whimsical voice and layer of menace, constant violence that Frank deserves, and she's too cute to boot. She's always a delight.
Mary probably thought she looked familiar because Kane played Granny in Addams Family Values.
she was hilarious!!
And she was Valerie (Miracle Max's wife) in Princess Bride.
Carol Kane starred in the TV sitcom "Taxi" with Danny Devito.
As well as being a modern version of Scrooge it was a satire on the TV industry so a lot of the jokes relate to that
Carol Cane as The Ghost Of Christmas Present is everything in this movie!!! And, you’re right. This faerie is absolutely unhinged!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
I look forward to watching this every year. One of my favorites
I watch this classic every year on my Birthday and I love the way at the end how Bill says his heartwarming speech with emotion and it made me cry with Calvin saying “God Bless us Everyone!”
The speech at the end always got me tear eyed almost everytime 🥲
"She's so familiar..." That's Carol Kane, Mary. You might recognize her as Miracle Max's wife in Princess Bride.
She's also in The Addams Family Values as the Grandma.
I Love that Mary talks about how she knows the theme of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, And points out that he's Scrooge, but "I don't know anything about Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol".
"oh it's one of those movies?" And
"It's very predictable". It's literally called Scrooged, based on... You know...Mr Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. *facepalm*
I just learned this yesterday. His brother and father in the movie are played by Bill Murray’s real life brothers.
His older brother has been in a lot of Bill Murray's movies, including Ghostbusters II and Groundhog Day.
'It's Bone You Lucky Dog!!!' That is my favorite part, had me laughing hard!
A bone*
You should watch an actual direct adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. My favorite is the 1984 version with George C. Scott.
And other earlier versions, too.
To me that version is the best with George C Scott it is so dark as it should be
Agreed as well as the Albert Finney adaptation Musical..."I hate people" song is the best!!!
The 1951 version with Alistair Sims is the best.
Bobcat Goldthwait as Eliot Loudermilk is priceless.
"Why does he have to act crazy all the time?" one second later *Gets served an eyeball in a shotglass*
Thank you! I was going crazy trying to remember where I have seen Claire before. lol
One of my favorite 80s comedians.
Oh please, Scrooge was done by Dickens almost 200 years ago. You are forgiven for finding it "predictable".
3:40 "He's so scared."
No, that's Bobcat Goldthwait. That's just the way he talks.
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is the most classic Christmas story.
Literally everyone has done a version of this from the Flinstones to Jim Carey in an animated version to HBO doing a TV version to there being several live action versions that play it straight and countless others that parody or do their own version ever since the copyright was available to the public.
Everyone undoubtedly has seen some version of this at some point in their life.
A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island are two of the most adapted stories in cinema.
Mary: _shocked by Bill Murray kiss at homeless shelter_
Me: "Mary? Mary?! Oh, God! Code Red! Factory reset! Factory reset!" 😂🤣
I'm genuinely surprised that you've only just heard of a Christmas Carol now! I always figured everyone on the planet has heard of that story!! Hope you watch the muppets version after this.
You need to watch 1992s "The Muppets Christmas Carol". It is considered the most accurate adaptation of the story.
The fairy ghost is the grandmother from the second Adams family that's probably why she's familiar
The waiter in the restaurant scene is also the guy who played Socrates in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
I just realized that the waiter when Frank has dinner with his boss is Socrates from Bill and Ted!
I watch Scrooged and the Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol every year, aways have!!
But I do like the end credits where Bill Murry gets the Audience to participate it's amd experience when your in the cinema and everyone joins in ❤
Amazing reaction!! Thanks to the subtitles, i noticed a line i NEVER noticed before: When Herman asks Frank for 2 bucks and he says "Herman, I blew it all on Liz" (Dick (Burton) was married to Liz (Taylor))" 🤣
My theory is Herman was actually an angel and not really a human, and was there specifically to help change Frank's mind.
It is so endearing that you thought the show you mentioned was the only other version of this story put to screen. Since Charles Dickens published the novella, A Christmas Carol, in 1843 there have been more film versions of this story than any story ever written I should think.
One of my favorites. Carol Kane kills me everytime 😂
This is my favorite version of "A Christmas Carol" Bill Murray is just hilarious!
Another vote for watching Muppet's Christmas Carol.
This was a fun time watching him get to that really place of being a good man because we all struggle with that
I love Mary Cherry's genuine and joyfull reactions. But, and please dont take it the wrong way, she must not only lived all her life down under but also under a rock not having heard of one of the most popular pieces of literature: Charles Dickens Christmas Carol .
There are hundreds of adaptation filmed since the invention of cinema and tv, including Mickey Mouse's and the Muppet's.
But honestly Bill Murrray's portait of Ebenezer is my favourite one.
I do love Frank's monologue at the end.
Frank's (Bill Murray) boss is Legendary Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum. He was considered one of Hollywood's tough /rebellious actors on and off screen .
and whats funny is people now a days make fun of the vcrs gifts but back when this came out those vcrs retailed for 1100-1300 a piece.
This is definitely one of the best Christmas Carol movies.
Us millennials know back when we had tube screen TVs, which means dogs and cats couldn’t see what was on the screen back then. It’s only been recently with LCD TVs that they can see anything. heck, back then if you had a video camera and you tried filming a TV all you would see is part of a faded picture with a analog white band going over the screen. The point is TV screens were weird back then. To the point, they were really only calibrated for human site spectrum range.
The Solid Gold Dancer's make any Christmas more merry, LOL.
1969, the air horn sounds, I laughed until my stomach and laughed some more.....thank you!!!!
Ms. Cherry, I've often wondered if there are any Australian Christmas songs about the holiday being in the summertime? Christmas in the summer is something us northern hemispherians can't really get our heads around.
There's a lot to delve into there, particularly as Christmas is mostly just hijacked winter-solstice celebrations (well, "celebrations"; it's mostly about keeping everyone from offing themselves by reminding them that, all evidence to the contrary, the world isn't dying and the sun is coming back. Also about the time you run out of stored and unspoiled fodder for livestock, and so have a feast instead of watching them starve) that are inevitably sliding-back to quasi-secularism (to the extent that it ever left that territory). But, at least in the North, the summer solstice is a lot less remarkable than the winter one (though I'm not sure Australia's deepest winter is quite as life-obliterating as it is in much of the top half of the world, particularly for those outside the effects of the Atlantic heat-pump), so I can see a lot of "traditional" Xmas stuff not quite resonating to the same degree. What's "A Christmas Carol" without the ever-present threat of darkness and cold, especially as it symbolizes Scrooge's dying empathy and humanity?
Many a paper written on this, I'm sure.
One of my favorites from Bill Murray. His brother was played by his younger bother, and his dad was played by older brother.
Charles Dickens' book about Scrooge is actually called A Christmas Carol, but some adaptations were called Scrooge instead, for some reason. The Popular episode is also an adaptation of the same book.
Having recently watched this, this movie was quite ahead of its time with the marketing strategy they had in this movie.
It was a bit of a shock when I (14 years old) saw this movie for the first time (in German, btw.). But loved it (and Bill Murray), and still do.
At 6:40, I knew I loved Mary's editor for a reason.....
I've always loved this movie.
Oh snap one of my favorite Christmas movies ❤️
You should see the original! "The Muppet Christmas Carol"
This, A Christmas Story, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are my favorite Christmas Movies!
You know, _A Christmas Carol_ is my all-time favorite book. I always say that there will never be too many screen versions of the book.
It's amazing to me that you weren't familiar with the story before now. I'm glad I got to see you react to it for the first time.
Thanks for reacting to this, despite the fact that some of the jokes haven't aged well, it's still one of my favorite Christmas movies.
I love this movie. It's fun and funny and heartwarming. I love Frank's speech at the end especially the part about how it's the one day we are the people we always wanted to be. It's really so true. Then Calvin speaks and the song.
140 years after A Christmas Carol came out, Disney did Mickey's Christmas Carol and it was a big deal. Introducing and starring Scrooge McDuck who went on to have his own starring role on a show called DuckTales.
Hi Miss Mary, Karen Allen is a great actress. Starman is also a good movie. I think it came out in 1984. Wish she was in more great movies.
I hope Mary kept the movie on through the credits because they're a post-credit scene along the lines of Ferris Bueller where Frank talks to the audience in the theater. It's hysterical. This is my favorite all-time Christmas movie.
I think it happens really early on in the credits so should be quite hard to miss
@@alexp601 I think you're right. You'd have to turn it off pretty quick in the credits to miss it.
Its predictable, because its a version of A Christmas Carol. There is no story by Dickens is called Scrooge, its A Christmas Carol. The best version of the book is the Alister Simm version from the 40s, however this is a very fun remake.
Alastair Sim 1951 called Scrooge
@@nedrini1055 thanks for the correction
He's not blurry.
He's Murray.
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Muppets Christmas carol is THEE quintessential Christmas story a must watch
Claire is played by Karen Allen of "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" fame. She was Marion in that film.
Blackadder's Christmas Carol is the absolutely hilarious and cynical best adaptation of Dickens' original, by far!
OMG!!!! I knew it!!! Mary Cherry was the best!!! So glad you confirmed that lol. This story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published in 1843. So that's why you know the story. Love that you know the show Popular too. It was one of my faves when I was a kid. No one I knew watched it lol. I'm showing my age because I saw it when it was originally on TV, not syndicated reruns, but glad they got their bag, they deserved it. It was a great show and canceled far too soon.
Watch Bill Murray again in Groundhog Day. That's his favorite movie EVER.
scrooged and groundhog day are one of my christmas "must haves" but usually followed by "die hard".....
Groundhog Day is in my top 10 movies of all time.
Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies of all time.
As hard as it might be to believe, according to reviews the most accurate movie adaptation of this story that also uses the most direct quotes from the book is the movie The Muppets Christmas Carol. It’s a real good feel good movie that would be worth your time to watch.
Mary Cherry...A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843. I be flabbergobmackedgasted! Merry Christmas! LOL
You really should screen one of the classic film adaptations of Dickens' tale. The early ones feature Alistair Sim and Reginald Owen, and both have good qualities, but other later versions are also great, featuring Albert Finney, George C. Scott, and Sir Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. The best cartoon adaptation for me is the Mr. Magoo version.
I watch the 1999 made for tv version with Sir Patrick Stewart every year at Christmastime. It is one of my go to Christmas movies.
You were saying that the fairy, the ghost of Christmas present, seemed familiar. If you saw 'the Princess Bride', she was miracle Max's wife...
and She played Latka's wife Simka on the TV show Taxi.
How in the world can an adult who grew up in an English speaking country not be familiar with Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol? Blows my mind.
My FAVOURITE Christmas film! I watch it every year without fail :) :)
"She's so beautiful!"
Karen Allen is a very underrated beauty of the 80's, with her big eyes and wide smile. I highly suggest John Carpenter's Starman for one of her best performances.
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My favorite version of A Christmas Carol for sure
There are a lot of Christmas Carol adaptations to check out: those our age are more partial to the Muppets version or the Disney version.
One of my favorite scrooge adaptations is "The Stingiest Man in Town". It's an animation film and man it's probably the only one that makes me cry.
Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" was a schooltime classic. I have seen every adaptation from childhood on. Just about all of Charles Dickens' novels has been turned into a film, mini series, and Broadway play or musical.
Many, many versions of Scrooge/A Christmas Carol. My favorite is a black & white classic starring Alistar Sim. Very solid telling of the story!
One cannot look at okder movies with the hyper sensitivy of this era. It's a guy who's a Scrooge and who changes.
The Ghost of Christmas Present is my festive crush.
Carol Kane is a national treasure
Almost every Christmas special is based on either A Christmas Carol or It’s A Wonderful Life
One of my favorite Christmas films I watch it every year!
I remember when Scrooged came out...there was a big lawsuit because they ripped off the whole plot of the movie from Popular. I think they eventually settled out of court.
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One of the best movie lines ever... "The b*tch hit me with a toaster!"
OMG I used to love Popular. So cool that you know it, and yes, Mary Cherry was great
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My Murray Favorites🎄😅 And Have Yourself A Merry Cherry Christmas from Honolulu🎁🌹
Nobody ever watches "The Ref". A yearly Christmas staple in our home.
This is my favorite Bill Murray movie up there with Ghostbusters and Lost in Translation. I don't know what it is about him but when he does r o l e s like this and Groundhog Day you can't help but love him being a jerk that you know has a real❤