# A Christmas Carol - versions you'd like to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413 "2010-11-12T13:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/1 "2010-11-12T13:50:58Z")
It seems like every TV series ever made has done a \*very special version \*of A Christmas Carol to be aired in December. This in addition to the many variations as stand-alone productions. Surely the denizens of Cafe Society have their own ideas of slight tweaking or massive overhauls of this classic - do share! I’d love to see a LOLCATS interpretation - from an adorable kitteh as Tiny Tim to a hairless sphinx as Marley. Just the thing to put a person in the mood to find the \*true meaning \*of Christmas… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/2 "2010-11-12T14:09:42Z")
This doesn’t precisely address your question, but one of the best “Christmas Carol” episodes I ever saw was on _Northern Exposure_ when Joel encountered the three ghosts of Yom Kippur. > **[download-tvshows.com](http://northern-exposure.download-tvshows.com/season-6/)** > > Watch TV Show Online for Free,Download TV Shows,Naruto,Supernatural,TV Shows,Free Watch Full Movie India,Free Download Video Songs,Stream Free TV Shows,Free Movies on Web,Download Web Free It’s episode three: “Shofar, So Good.” The best part was that as YK was ending and the gates of heaven were closing (which is the metaphor used in the liturgy), Joel was running through the heavenly landscape throwing himself at the gates promising to do better. I love Christmas Carol episodes. God bless Charles Dickens (and us… every one). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/3 "2010-11-12T14:30:03Z")
[If a Christmas Carroll had been written by someone else](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448634) Lots of good stuff there. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/4 "2010-11-12T14:45:38Z")
I want to see Christopher Lloyd play Jacob Marley. Compare: “One! Point! Twenty-one! Gigawatts!” “Business??!! Mankind was my business!!!” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/5 "2010-11-12T15:04:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This doesn’t precisely address your question, but one of the best “Christmas Carol” episodes I ever saw was on _Northern Exposure_ when Joel encountered the three ghosts of Yom Kippur. > > [download-tvshows.com](http://northern-exposure.download-tvshows.com/season-6/) > It’s episode three: “Shofar, So Good.” > > The best part was that as YK was ending and the gates of heaven were closing (which is the metaphor used in the liturgy), Joel was running through the heavenly landscape throwing himself at the gates promising to do better. > > I love Christmas Carol episodes. God bless Charles Dickens (and us… every one). 🙂 Oh, that was one of the most awesomely wonderful episodes of one of the best TV shows EVER! I recorded a lot of NE on videotape. All the NE Christmas episodes were so great, they just bring tears to my eyes. A Christmas Carol performed in stop-motion by Fisher Price little plastic people? My Little Ponies? Legos? … Barbie and Ken dolls! YES! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/6 "2010-11-12T15:09:47Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Oh, that was one of the most awesomely wonderful episodes of one of the best TV shows EVER! I recorded a lot of NE on videotape. All the NE Christmas episodes were so great, they just bring tears to my eyes. > > A Christmas Carol performed in stop-motion by Fisher Price little plastic people? My Little Ponies? Legos? … Barbie and Ken dolls! YES! [Sims 2 Christmas Carol.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6_eOFg0W-w) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/7 "2010-11-12T15:34:29Z")
I want a SpongeBob Squarepants Christmas Carol. With Mr. Krabs as Scrooge and Spongebob as Crachit. And Patrick as Tiny Tim. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/8 "2010-11-12T15:43:05Z")
Has Family Guy ever done this? With Mr. Herbert as Scrooge and Chris as Tiny Tim, of course. “Mmmm Hmmm!” Stewie would be the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Or Stewie as Scrooge and a young Joe as Tiny Tim. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/9 "2010-11-12T16:25:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I want a SpongeBob Squarepants Christmas Carol. This was the other one I thought about, but I’m not familiar enough with SpongeBob to cast it. Still, how could it fail? Hey, maybe on Bones, they could find the remains of all the characters and as they reconstruct them, Temperance would learn the True Spirit of Christmas… Or maybe not. I’m gagging at the thought. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/10 "2010-11-12T17:34:10Z")
I want to see one where Scrooge wakes up the next morning and takes a sub-machine gun to the Cratchits. Tiny Tim eats hot lead, as do the rest of the whiney bumpkins. Then Scrooge spends Christmas in the company of many comely prostitutes, living out the rest of his days in happiness and contentment. He is welcomed into Valhalla when he dies, for having rid the world of one of the most annoying and cloying tales ever promulgated by a third-rate, paid by the word hack. Gads, I hate “A Christmas Carol!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/11 "2010-11-12T18:01:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Gads, I hate “A Christmas Carol!” You should try watching the _Blackadder’s Christmas Carol_. It’ll warm the cockles of your non-sentimental heart ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/12 "2010-11-12T19:02:48Z")
I own it. Mandatory viewing when the air around here gets too treacley. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/13 "2010-11-12T19:06:54Z")
A _Firefly_ Christmas Carol The impossible to script - A _Dead Like Me_ Christmas Carol. I mean whose gonna visit her? Living people? ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/14 "2010-11-12T19:26:34Z")
How about a Stooges Scrooge. Of course they are no more, but it would’ve been fun to have them remake that and they could play multiple roles ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/15 "2010-11-12T21:06:25Z")
I getting wood for the **Bad Santa** version of A Christmas Carol, with **Billy Bob Thorton** as Scrooge, and **Tony cox** as Tiny Tim. Although I’d pay to see the\*\* Firefly\*\* version, too. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/16 "2010-11-12T21:11:28Z")
Give me a gender-reversed Christmas Carol with Scrooge an aged Madam (of a whorehouse). ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/17 "2010-11-12T21:11:48Z")
Something with Ozzy Osborne as Cratchit, and the ghosts played by (actors impersonating) Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/18 "2010-11-12T21:19:07Z")
This year’s Doctor Who Chrismas special will be their take on this story… ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/19 "2010-11-12T21:28:33Z")
A “Peanuts” version would be cool. With Chuck as Crachitt, and Linus as Marley. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413/20 "2010-11-12T21:43:30Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > A “Peanuts” version would be cool. With Chuck as Crachitt, and Linus as Marley. That would be awesome. The ghosts would be Sally, Lucy, and Snoopy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-carol-versions-youd-like-to-see/560413.md?page=2)