Modern Classics Summarized: A Christmas Carol

Have a holly, jolly christmas! Spend time with your family, eat tons of good food, and don't forget to ponder the looming specter of your mortality and the worth of how you've spent your fleeting existence!

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[AmouxJohnsonakagreencat]

"Scrooge reads the room and asks if Tiny Tim is gonna live and the ghost is like NOPE"
Lines like this are why I love this channel

[jamescornell]

The past, present, and future walk into a bar.

It was a tense Christmas.

[bluelfsuma]

Ah, "A Christmas Carol". Or, as most people know it, "What every poor person wishes would happen to rich people."

[PRGME]

Here’s an analysis: Marley did good and helped humanity by warning Scrooge.

[masterofmythology]

"Whose lonely grave is this?"
"Why yours, Ebenezer. The richest man in the cemetery!"

[igive]

I love how the symbol of “Disney” is blended to also look like a Lovecraft monster/nightmare lol

[Fubukio]

"He's afraid of the world and uses money to protect himself from it.'

RIP H.P. Lovecraft.

[lightlytoastedtoast]

"He is going to be visited by"
*accidentally clicks another video*
"Edgar Allan Poe"

[woodencoyote]

I'm always disappointed that the scene of the poor debtor family never makes it into adaptations, because that really hammers home the point that the single most good Scrooge could do in the world, if he doesn't change his ways, is just to drop dead. It's also a fair representation of the poor family - we don't know why or how they came into debt, but there's no implication that the children are uncare for, that the mother is wasteful spender, that the father is a drunk or a gambler, or any of the other faults that get attached to the struggling as an excuse for not giving them aid. All we know is they're trying to pay what they owe, and they just need Scrooge to give them time to do so. Which it's implied he could easily do, since it's as easy as dropping dead.

[SnowFox-gvrn]

Scrooge: “Will Tim live?”
Ghost of Christmas Present: “NOPE!”
I know that was a morbid part, but the way that she said it was hilarious

[Castor]

I love the story behind how Dickins supposedly came up with "A Christmas Carol"

Supposedly he was exploring a cemetery as Christmas drew near, and stumbled across the names 'Ebenezer' and 'Scrooge.' I'm not sure if it was the name of a single person, or two names on separate stones... As the story goes, he pondered at the type of person a man named Ebenezer Scrooge must have been before settling on the crotchety old miser. When he returned home, he already had the rough draft of his new story in mind

[Nick]

"The multi-limbed eldritch monster known as the House of Mouse." As someone who has always loved Disney and even worked for them for a short time....yeah, that about sums it up.

[keirgomcginlay]

I sometimes wonder about Jacob Marley. 'The dead cannot improve their lot as only the living can help each other'. By these rules he has NOTHING to gain from helping Scrooge, and in fact, should believe he CANNOT help Scrooge. But he still invests in doing so. I often wonder if he was under a secret test of character. Given this one chance to speak and he spends it all trying to help the closest he had to a friend with no thought of improving his own lot.

Anyway, I know I'm watching this a year late but... thank you. I really needed this given the state of the world right now and Christmas Carol holds a special place for me, so just listening to you go through it and talk about it was a real heart warmer. Merry Christmas.

[connordillivan]

“If I could do that, I’d never lose an argument again.” Excellent priorities.

[TalkingVidya]

I second Red on her (correct) opinion that the Muppet's version is the best one.

[OmegaHulk]

"Whose grave is this?"
*Light's Match Revealing the name Ebenezer Scrooge*
"Why it's Yours Ebenezer, the RICHEST Man in the Cemetery!"

[mushimello]

Most commonly used metaphors by Red:

1.) Put two and two together
2.) too good for this sinful world
3.) revealed himself/herself in all of his/her glory

[floraf]

Fun fact: people's mouths are often open after death because the muscles keeping them shut no longer work. Tying a scarf around the corpse's head is one way to keep their mouth closed (modern funeral homes usually sew or staple the mouth shut from the inside, so i've read).
This is probably why Marley's jaw "falls off" after untying the scarf.

[beholdnonsense]

The fact Dickens did take criticism into account and improved his writing is in fact a very nice thing to know. Thank you for mentioning that.

[henriklarsen]

I read somewhere that Dickens used to invite poor people, especially children, to his house to just hang out, offering them some free food and even a slight pay. This was to learn how to write them as accurately as possible, since he at that point lived a very different life from them. However, he did it so much that the area near his house began to RUN OUT OF POOR PEOPLE, due to the money he offered them (and less spent on food by them, I guess), and they had to come from different parts of town to remain "authentic"!