Hercule Poirot's Other Christmas - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Happy Holidays!!!
A comparison of a Christmas-themed Agatha Christie short story to two of its adaptations.
Contains a short clip from Muppets From Space.
A bit of trivia I've heard is that the mango scene came about because David Suchet was at a dinner party at Buckingham Palace and was served a mango. Prince Phillip was the one who showed him how to cut it when he told him he didn't know how.
For those of you who have seen "The Crown" you will know that Prince Phillip was sent by Elizabeth and The Queen Mother to Australia to open the 1956 Olympics. While on their way they stop at several tropical islands to drink and cavort. It was at one of these islands Phillip learned the Mango Trick. The Duke of Edinburgh was also a huge Poirot fan, and taught David the trick himself. Thus the fun wink about a Duke teaching him the trick.
Watching the anime, one of the benefits of Maybelle is that she gets to say things and ask questions a dumb child with a pet duck might say, which might cut a lot of Hastings dialogue, but does make him look cooler and smarter.
You're not wrong. Not only is that house used multiple times, so are the furnishings within it. The house and that blue and green mirror are both seen in "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim." Guess they wanted to show off some quintessential Art Deco architecture.
What fun it's been seeing your channel take off! Happy holidays and I look forward to seeing you continue in 2023.
@5:04: According to Suchet, the scene with the mango was a nod to a similar experience he personally had with a duke, the Duke of Edinburgh.
True story 👍🏻
YES the Christmas pudding
I'm so glad that you did decide to become a TH-camr. I really love your content and your delivery is very soothing. 😁
Hope you have a good festive period and enjoy your break
Happy to get in on the ground floor of this! This channel was an awesome find and I hope you keep up the good work. Happy Holidays Miles!
I love that house which we see so often and from different angles. I wish I knew where it's actually at.
I also love this short story. It's got a wonderful light touch to it.
Agreed about the light touch. This one cheers me up. The best of the non-murder episodes.
Thanks, so well done.
I love having your videos on while I play solitaire
It's a shame the anime didn't get to cover the rest of the stories. I quite enjoyed it!
Another good video Miles. My two favorite authors of the modern era are Tolkien and Agatha Christie. I suppose I could add R. A. Salvatore and Tom Clancy as close third and fourth.
Brilliant, thanks!
Your videos are perfect Miles, we should thank *YOU* for them
Thank you!! Happy holidays!! Looking forward to your content when you return.
Very good commentary. Hope you gain more subscribers
Loving your content. 🎉🎉🎉
Keep up the great work.
5:55 You are not alone!
I noticed the Edmund instantly, a select and privilleged few my friend :)
Great channel! Will you also be reviewing Poirot's other Christmas story?
If I can edit it in time! :)
@@MysteryMiles Fantastic! Love to see it
There is a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of this story as well.
Hi. I don't understand the problem with erecting snowmen? It was something that people do. Did I miss something? Why is it embarrassing?
Really? It's not the thing with erecting the snowman. It's about the ERECTION of the snowman...🥖🖕🏽🥒🍆
You've done some fabulous work here, Miles. It's been a joy to watch each video. Say, where do you get the anime adaptations? I've had no luck tracking them down.
Here's a TH-cam playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLBBw-kjVBrFrt4KtrblP53VzWUvAOfuVs.html
@@MysteryMiles Oh, thanks!
In THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1978), gentleman thief Sean Connery, while trying to get info about a banker, is hanging out with a rather unattractive female relative of the man. In one scene, they're touring a park that contains miniature replicas of famous tall buildings. Connery has perhaps the funniest line in the movie when he tells the woman... "I've just returned from America, a land of MANY prominent erections."
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I'm really interested in the anime but struggling to find it, any advice?
The plot in the Suchet adaptation was, as usual, ludicrously stupid. Someone was carrying a gigantic stolen ruby around with them (as one does) and, when Poirot entered the kitchen, they thought, "Oh no, let me pull it out of my pocket and drop it in a dessert. That's the smart thing to do!"
And, as you say, Poirot let the ruby and its thief go in order to see if the thief was, in fact, the thief. That's just idiocy. For all the times a car break-down was used as a plot crutch, he was lucky he arrived on the airstrip when he did, and not a mere TEN SECONDS later. It was one of many episodes evincing the screenwriters' low regard for viewers.
And also, as you rightly note, Poirot's services were in an effort to protect a despicable despot! Well done, Hercule; thanks for helping to crush democracy in service to your ego.