RiffTrax: A Christmas Carol by Coronet (Full FREE Short)
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- Sure, this adaptation of the Dickensian classic doesn't have any big stars or muppets. But what it lacks in charm, it also lacks in budget. Enjoy Scrooge and all his ghostly pals FREE on our TH-cam channel!
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"3 spirits? Now you're talking. Make it Vodka, Scotch, and a small pint of Gin".
3.. k ugh.. to your health to your happiness.. .. .. ugh.. and may you find love/joy.. ...
Rich Littles Christmas Carol! 😂loved it!
If I ever get Scrooged, I want my ghosts to be Mike, Kevin, and Bill respectively~
And Bill will be his Observer-like Death, pointing awkwardly and constantly gushing about how stupid you are for not getting the obvious foreshadowing :D
“I’ll be James Spader in Secretary, you be Maggie Gyllenhall.” I cry laughed at that one.
Coronet really just did a speedrun of A Christmas Carol, didn't they.
It makes Mickey's Christmas Carol look like Infinity: Endgame
For real, not four minutes in, and we're at the bedchamber scene.
@@dawnbreaker2912 At least they cut out the nudity. Wait what version did I see previously..?
@@user-os7ec4dm8x It's just not the same without the Ghost of Christmas Future's striptease act.
"And why aren't you played by Kermit the Frog?" Truer words have never been spoken, it's the best version of the Christmas Carol 🐸🎄
Just watched it again. I 100% agree 👍
What about Mickey’s Christmas Carol?
@@TwilightLink77 It's cute, but there's just something magical about the Muppet Christmas Carol that even Disney couldn't replicate
It's awesome, and ranks in a close second for me, but my #1 favorite version would have to be the 2009 animated version with Jim Carrey.
It is a truly marvelous adaptation of the book, unbelievably faithful to the source material down to the smallest details!
Scrooged. Just Scrooged.
"Old People - Sometimes They Just Dissolve"...Now THAT should be Golden Corral's new slogan!
It happens sometimes, people just explode. Natural causes.
Is that what MacArthur meant by old soldiers simply fading away?
First thing I thought - well played!@@JamaicanCastle
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"I see an empty chair in the future"
*two seconds later*
"I cannot answer about the future"
"Probably Dicken's most popular story... that we're going to whittle down to a half hour short and skip nearly every single of the most important elements of the story that help to support the main parts".
Yeah, I love this story but this particular version lacks a lot of the subtlety in the original. Blah! Too bad for Basil Rathbone.
The funny thing is in the book, Marley really has been watching Scrooge secretly for years! He says, "that is no light part of my penance."
"Every day since my demise, I've been made to watch you. Especially in the nightly hours. I've seen you do things, Scrooge...horrible things. Things that would make the very Devil himself shiver. You're a sick old man, Ebenezer. A disgusting sickening degenerate of a prune. Your nights of debauchery weight heavier on my soul than these damnable chains."
“No light part of my penance” is right. Remember, he probably saw Scrooge change clothes.
that's quite a ghost burn
"Good old Blimey Jim!" Seriously, this has to be the most bare-bones Christmas Carol ever...
How in the hell did Coronet get Fredric March and Basil Rathbone?
That’s like trying to get Shohei Ohtani and you’re a Little League team.
Or the Mets🤥
Many people don't recall that Basil Rathbone was in "Is This Love?"
Or the Mariners
Basil Rathbone was in the Mariners? Huh, learn something new every day.
Their careers were nearing the end so they thought "screw it, where's my paycheck?".
"Brought to you by Encylcopedias, it's like we never existed!" Well now I feel old at 43.
A few years ago I threw out the 1966 encyclopedia set I’d used as a boy, still in my parents’ house. The paper recycling in the town allowed recycling of books if the bindings were removed, so I removed them and filled the recycling bins with the paper.
Thrift shops are sick of getting old encyclopedias so I just got rid of the set properly.
@@markiangooley I have a set of the red and black binded ones they sold door to door, They match my decor and make me feel like Vincent Price when I'm in my study. like 50% of the infomation is 80's wrong.
We had to watch this in elementary school and the only lesson i ever learned was that I really wanted a bed with curtains
"Thank god we don't have to listen to Tiny Tim singing about tiptoeing through tulips anymore."
Tiny Tim tip-toes through tulips while traipsing through turtleheads and tramping through trilliums.
@@Firguy Better not do that last one in Ontario. It’s our Provincial flower. You can’t even pick one without getting arrested.
We need a version where Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Bob Marley😂
You mean The Muppets Christmas Carol?
One could only imagine how condensed Coronet would make Gone With The Wind
😂😂😂
I'm guessing this is exactly how poor ol' Basil Rathbone turned out after he was forced to do "Hillbilly in a Haunted House"...
"he not only lives, he walks!"😂😂😂
What I’d do for a version where Scrooge never learns his lesson because of that one misunderstanding.
I note that the major cut in the film was the missing line about raising Crachit's wages.
The five scariest words are "Knew your father, I did!"
The Bridget version of Mr. B Natural is so much less frightening…
"You leave my father out of this!"
Somehow I never thought I'd see Fredric March in a Rifftrax. My two obsessions -- 1930s-40s Hollywood and listening to snarky comments about cheesy films -- have collided.
This version of Marley seems to move around a LOT more freely than most of the many other versions.
When looking at Marley I could only think of the word babushka
Another clever disguise by Sherlock Holmes;)
Having seen so many retellings of this classic and read it, I can't help but mentally note every scene they skipped and how relevant it was to the overall tone and story, hurting this short version to have skipped them.
Definitely! This is the only Dickens story I really like. I enjoy most versions of this story, but this one lacked a lot of subtlety and felt super rushed. I feel kinda bad for the big name actors in this one.
They really jammed a huge novel into a short film!! Rathbone did a great job. You guys crack me up!
Not so huge really. The original was just a novella, with only 147 pages, many of which were just illustrations. An important work, no doubt, but not a "huge novel" by anyone's definition.
More a novella
"Huge"? What?
@@eviljoel Yes, I have never read a Dickens book. Ya got me. Too many characters called Fezzy Bottom or Perry Winkle for me.
When Scrooge said, "Jacob Marley"! I wish Marley would've said, "Wassssupppp"!
"Who can we get to play the ghost of Christmas Future? We'll need someone who can point. Someone with a good index finger."
And really fat hands, apparently
So they got the guy who played Thing from The Addams Family.
things are so upside down and backward these days, I'm almost expecting Mike and the guys to actually become Golden Corrall's new spokesmen.
Considering they recently put out a video of them actually going to Golden Corral... yep.
It was made for TV, Rathbone complained in his memoirs that it demonstrated how television can make a great story mediocre, and I suspect that Coronet just bought the rights to it.
I have a friend who owns a t-shirt that reads "Movies: Ruining the book since 1930"
Pretty much...
Scrooge had Riff Raff vibes. Thought he might start singing Time Warp.
At the end of the short he bursts into Fred's house with a gun saying his lifestyle's too extreme.
This comment caught me completely off guard. I haven't laughed so hard in years. Thanks, I needed that! 🤣
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@@JamaicanCastle😂😅😂😅😂😅❤
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The real life inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge was a nobleman named John Elwes, a man who was so cheap that he would buy rotten meat to save money.
Oh my God. Do not invite that dude to the potluck.
Elewes wasn't exactly a nobleman, lacking any hereditary or life title in the British Peerage that would qualify him as part of that class. Still, he did come from lower-rank noble stock, had inherited a small fortune as a young man that allowed him to build up a sizeable property portfolio in Central London,, served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 12 years, and, yes, was very much a miser of the first order. Indeed, his miserliness became the stuff of legend. Besides eating bad meat, Elewes' other eccentric behaviors include walking twenty miles in downpouring rain to avoid paying coach fare, keeping only one fireplace in his lofty London house lit in the dead of winter, allowing his country estate to fall into ruin rather than spend money on its upkeep, and spent only £50 per annum despite leaving a fortune that, inflation-adjusted to the 2020s, would be worth an estimated £81 million!
Tiny Tim: Can I come to the table now, ma?
Emily: Not just yet, dear. You've still got a few more hours in the shunning chair.
Recipe for Cripple's Gruel
One cup of beef tallow
Two cups of filtered ditch water
Heat and stir until amalgamated and piping hot garnish with parsley scraps and serve. Serves two small cripples.
Ebenezer Skrull was one of the deleted transformations for Amelia Clarke.
Coronet Films. The gift that just keeps on giving.
The very last line slayed me! Thanks for the seasonal reminder my time is indeed valuable! Oysters and nameless gray vegetables for everyone! Now who want more cake?
Ah, the days before they invented walls.
RiffTrax: just handing out all the hot Dickens we can handle this holiday season.
HOT DICKENS FOR EVERYBODY! MERRY XMAS!
JUST PASSING 'EM OUT
HOT. DICKENS.
'Oh my god, I shot a cop! What am I going to do??'
20:00 Homeless Martin Van Buren lmao
"We're getting crunk tonight, lads!"
The Hero With A Thousand Adaptations
Just read the novella for the first time and hats off to Coronet--the abridged dialog is almost verbatim from the book. Actually, this isn't a terrible retelling visually, either, considering the budget. What is even happening?
That Christmas goose looked like a malnourished duck.
the Gandalf one got me good
Fun livestream premiere. The spirits did it all in 25 minutes!
I’m so hungry I’d eat a 6 foot party sub served in a coffin….
Nice to hear you guys up to your old retorts. I do miss the silhouettes though. I've been going thru my MST3K sets & watching movies I've never seen before or don't remember and it's still great fun. Merry Christmas ya ole Buildings & Loans! 🤣
The moral of this story: the rich will only share if you scare the living crap out of them.
This digest version of A Christmas Carol makes the Muppet version look like a Cannes Film Festival winner. 😂
Thanks folks happy holidays 😊
Marley and Me: A Christmas Carol Slash-fic
Marley the Dog should have been eating Pesto Flavore Basil Rathbones.
Here's a deep question. If Scrooge hadn't given Cratchett off, would the spirits even had bothered?
Riff-trax and coffee. Just what we need this crazed, pre-Christmas workday.
Merry Christmas, Briny Jim.
I finally gave in! Thanks to a decade of Martin Van Buren jokes. I finally took the dive, so I could refresh my memory.
I was tired of not getting the jokes.
I'm Canadian but have a keen interest in all things American, so I did already know the basics but wanted to do a refresh and also learn more, (about the numerous sex scandals and hush money, taken from the pockets of the American worker.)*
So thank you Rifftrax. God Bless you, every one!
* In case I'm taken seriously. Everything I wrote, between the brackets, is probably not true ;)
The answer to the animal riddle is actually "Boris Johnson's hair!"
Exactly what I want for Xmas. A month's worth of Dickins!
with the actual number of ''interpretations'', you could probably get some dickins every day of the year and twice on sundays. LOL
a young Richard O'Brien watches this short and thinks "I know how I want to look now"
''Ha! Booyah! Suck it, Marley!''
Should have said that in A Muppets Christmas Carol. 😂
Coronet needed more Muppets.
"Little Bo Peep had a more understated bow than him"😂😂😂
Enjoying this with a nice, hot Dicken's Cider. Merry Christmas, lads.
3:05 Holy crap, is that Basil Rathbone?!
He must have been bored that year. 😴
An ACI Christmas film would be... _interesting._
I'll just stick with Magoo and the Muppets for my Christmas Carol
I wish there was an ACI adaptation of this tbh
“Is Christmas cheer Grass?”
At Your Fingertips: Christmas Ghosts
@@JamaicanCastle beat me to it!
That little chuckle at 2:28 is sending me 😂
This line is in most adaptations but I still never understood it. Why does the ghost of Christmas present say "I see an empty chair where Tiny Tim once sat." But then immediately after say "I can't speak for the future." Like dude, make up your mind.
Because Tim was so weak, he could literally die at any moment. Tim could be on his death bed if things continued how they did for the Cratchets. But it’s also meant for Scrooge to think about what could happen if he kept treating Cratchet as he did. But this could also be a hint it was a dream.
I guess it's because that line is supposed to be the ghost's speculation instead of an officially-sanctioned Christmas Future prophecy. Like, "I don't know man, but it doesn't look so good to me."
I remember the commercial jingle, “Extra value is what you get/ When you buy Coronet!” But I can’t recall what Coronet was selling! With Coronet Films, it’s extra value for riffing?
Paper towels or napkins, I think?
Bill had the 2 best jokes: "except for the Irish" and the reference to the Maggie Gyllenhaal secretary scene.
Tiny Tim's Christmas Gruel mmmm de-lish
Although Basil WrathBone is my 2nd favorite Sherlock, I find I'll have to stick with 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol' as my annual X-Mas video-viewing tradition. But since RiffTrax makes even the truly unwatchable watchable, I'll just say "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good Riff!"
12:49 " a fat alcoholic prone to bragging "😂
Scrooge was a miser in everything but putting buttons on his dressing gown.
Well, I was in live comments, switched to "like" as suggested, & can't get into live comments again. Thanks, RT
This story needs a spring sprite or a bread devil to give it some pizazz.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 😅
The Muppets did it better. Actually, I watch the Muppets one every year. “It is the American way!” (narrator whispers) “Oh, It is the British way!”
Light the lamp, not the rat! LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT!!
@@roonilwazlib9877 🤣👍
If "Festivus" becomes a real holiday to replace Christmas, thank Miss Piggy & that damned Muppet Christmas Carol. 🤬
I have always what would the visit of the ghost of Bob Marley be like
Scrooge asks him if his soul can be saved and Marley breaks into Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright
You think Afred Higgins has an adaptation of A Christmas Carol? I think not.
Coronet Films, because someone has to make these stupid educational shorts to distract the students so the teacher can go get a quick smoke.
I think it would have been some great irony if Jacob Marley was played by Nigel Bruce but he was long dead.
So, no live show this Christmas then...
How could you do this to me
Soooo... nobody is going to comment that he's only a couple of pages into the book when he ends the story?
This is a Coronet Films production, you know. 😆
21:39 So if I'm following the moral of this story... and I may not be... we should be generous and give to those less fortunate so that people don't steal our precious belongings and talk shit about us once we're dead? This sounds less like Scrooge having a change of heart and more him realizing he needs to lay some money around to help his PR.
Anybody else think Scrooge's hairdo kinda looks like Jimmy Savile?
Yeah, I totally did! I was expecting him to introduce a one-hit wonder glam band.
@@5roundsrapid263 and/or a fellow disgrace/glam artist.
I’ve seen a notification for an hour, maybe even a day. But this is crazy lol
The harsh lighting makes it seem like I'm watching a German expressionist film.
Man... how much starch did they use in Scrooge's night cap??
Ah, you can tell by the quality of this movie that this was filmed in the 1930s.
What's that? It was filmed in 1959? The same year in which Matthew Modine was born?
Sweet Jesus.
Yes, this was a lean year for me. Coronet really came through.
This was kind of adorable and I enjoyed it. Obviously it was the highly abridged version, lol. And I thought it was funny how every house was made up of a single window sitting in the fog. I feel like the character of Fred has to be done delicately. In some versions he comes off as a bit annoying. "Merry Christmas, uncle! Why don't you like Christmas? I love Christmas! Yaaaaay!" As a fan of the George C. Scott version, I like that movie's portrayal of Fred. He's more sincere. He loves Christmas, but is also hurt and confused that his uncle dislikes him so much.
I like Christmas, but I feel like if I had a Fred in my family, I probably wouldn't.
Did you guys cut out the part where the Grim Reaper plays Chess, Twister and gets a girlfriend, with the help of that family guy?
Allegedly Rathbone took any role he could get right up to the end because his wife loved an extravagant lifestyle. Then again perhaps he did too.
4:40 - I know it's a short film, so cuts have to be made ... but imagine how foolish you'd have to be to remove the "There's more of gravy than of grave about you" line.
Please do this with the Sanford and Son version of A Christmas Carol please please please
I feel like this version was ahead of its time and would likely be appraised favorably by modern audiences for being short, sweet, and to-the-point had it been made today.
Nah not enough 'diversity' for today's tv execs!
“Good afternoon!”