Tiny Timothy!

We sneak in a little more Jo Stafford and a little "A Christmas Carol" with this picture from the June 1953 issue of "Radio-TV Mirror":

Cute!

Is It Him?

I often see things for sale where the item is indicated as featuring Scrooge, but sometimes I don't know.

Take, for example, this postcard:

That's not really Scrooge, is it? There wasn't a subgenre of reformed Scrooge in scenes that would have taken place after the book ended, is there?

If not, should there be?

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Happy Thanksgiving!

Another Commercial

Here's another new commercial making the rounds:

Was that a passive-aggressive Christmas gift from Belle?

The Dark Knight Returns!

 You may recall that Funko released a "Batman as Ebenezer Scrooge" Pop! figure last holiday season.

Well, he's back this year as a little plush figure:

And, in a color variant, as an ornament:

Pretty fun!

"Fred" in Hi-Def!

A while back I had mentioned watching the 1934 British musical "Evergreen" starring Jessie Matthews as part of my Barry MacKay excavation project.

It recently popped up on TCM and the high definition version of movie looked absolutely dynamite!

If only every movie from the 1930s looked this good!

Not to pick on "Scrooge" from 1935, as it probably never looked as good as "Evergreen," but I'd still like to see a really good print of it.

Carry on!

Still Gold!

Keeping the Mickey thing going, here's a coloring book from 1984:

The publisher is "Golden," so it must be related to Little Golden Books?

In any event, for those keeping score, that's Dewey doing the painting on the cover!

PB (Hold the J)!

Besides fighting pirates and reissuing kiddie records over and over Peter Pan keeps busy driving buses and making peanut butter, that latter of which caught the attention of our favorite miser:

If Mrs. Cratchit had only sent Bob to work with a plate of cookies, everything could have been resolved much sooner!

Dragon Approved!

Time for another International edition of "A Christmas Carol" with a wacky cover, this one published by Hachette of Australia:

More info at their website.

You would think "A Christmas Carol" wouldn't need it, but cool to get a recommendation from Cressida Cowell, author of the popular "How to Train Your Dragon" series of books!

Vegan!

This is funny:

Commercial!

Here's a new commercial I've been seeing on TV:

I sometimes think how just a regular commercial these days pulls off special effects that say, Twickenham Studios would never have imagined when producing 1935's "Scrooge" with Sir Seymour Hicks!

One quibble  with that commercial, though: I was hoping the future would be Jetsons-style flying cars!

It's almost 2022! Where are they?

A Little More Archie!

The Archie-verse of comics is always good from some random Scrooge references as well as spins on "A Christmas Carol!"

The Little Archie story "George to the Rescue" is one such example. 

The basic story is that the school wants to buy some bird feeders, but Mr. Weatherbee is too cheap to sign off on the necessary expenditure, so Little Archie refers to him as an "Ol' Scrooge."

It happens that Little Archie brought "George," his new parakeet to school that day for show and tell.

George gets out if hsi cage and flies into Mr. Weatherbee's office, where he repeats the Scrooge reference and also throws in a few cheeps, which sounds like he's calling Mr. W "cheap."

Mr. Weatherbee thinks he's being haunted by the bird, so he has a change of heart and buys a bunch of bird feeders!

Probably more than you need to know, but that's the set-up for these panels from the story that mention Scrooge:

I always thought it was odd that in the Little Archie stories, everyone calls him "Little Archie." Since this is Archie as a younger child, there was no "Big Archie" at that time, so why does everyone go out of their way to make the distinction that this is Little Archie?

All of the characters are younger, but nobody calls the younger Jughead "Little Jughead," for example!

These are important things to think about!

More Archie!

Word is that an upcoming special Archie comic book, "Archie's Holiday Magic" is a take-off on "A Christmas Carol" with Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come segments.

You can read more about it here.

Intriguing!

Good Choice!

A quick little blurb from the December 24, 1955 issue of "Billboard" magazine:

That was a good choice!