# Poll: Your favorite version of "A Christmas Carol" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 25, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048 "2025-12-25T15:27:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/41 "2025-12-25T23:39:53Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Nobody likes Public Polls. Good point. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/42 "2025-12-26T00:12:16Z")
Ashamed of which version you like? ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/43 "2025-12-26T01:06:48Z")
For **Magoo** fans, I was pleased to discover a nicely transferred and absolutely complete version of **“Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol”** on YouTube, on a site called **StreamChristmas**. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/44 "2025-12-26T03:14:46Z")
Thanks for that info. I’m sure I read the book several decades ago and assumed that since it was in the Sim version that it was from Dickens himself. Another thing I missed in the Owen version were Ignorance and Want at the feet of the ghost of Christmas present. All in all, the Owen version seemed rushed. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/45 "2025-12-26T03:41:17Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > with a close second being the Jim Carrey version from 2009 I couldn’t pick a favorite, but I quite enjoyed that one and feel it’s underrated. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/46 "2025-12-26T03:42:42Z")
_Mickey’s Christmas Carol_, 1983, featuring Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, Mickey as Bob Cratchit, Jiminy Cricket, Willie the Giant, and Peg-Leg Pet as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come, and Goofy as the ghost of Jacob Marley. First version I ever saw and the only version I have ever needed to see. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/47 "2025-12-26T05:07:59Z")
Yep, the Finney musical is my wife’s favorite version. She watched it and the Muppets’ versions today. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/48 "2025-12-26T05:29:38Z")
_Scrooged_ (watched it again last night, in fact!) followed closely by the Muppets. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/49 "2025-12-26T05:36:00Z")
Just watched **Spirited** on Apple TV. It’s as much a remake as a sequel of _A Christmas Carol_. It exceeded my expectations. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/50 "2025-12-26T08:47:03Z")
It does not disappoint! PS Good afternoon! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/51 "2025-12-26T08:58:16Z")
Muppet Christmas Carol for me - it’s pretty faithful to the story and the narrative devices (and the fact that it’s the Muppets) make it immensely watchable. I think maybe second place for me is the Kelsey Grammar musical. I don’t think it’s the best adaptation or casting, but I particularly like the Inch by Inch musical number in the scene with Marley’s ghost. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/52 "2025-12-26T14:38:32Z")
I once stumbled over a version set in the present (probably about 15 years ago), on a cable channel, like USA, or ABCFamily, or something, that not only used a modern setting, but was gender-swapped. I didn’t recognize anyone in it, and I don’t even know how old it was when I saw it, but it was on during the day, so it was probably a few years old; it had computers in it that looked about 10 years out-of-date. I Googled “a christmas carol modern set gender-swapped” and several things came up, nothing of which rang a bell. I didn’t go through them one by one, because I didn’t have time, but I might try later. It was oddly compelling-- I wouldn’t say it was good, but I ended up watching all of it. It might be my favorite Christmas Carol pastiche. Even more than the Muppets. Whoever played the Scrooge character did a good job of being very dislikable and unpleasant in the beginning-- no hint of things to come-- and doing a thorough 180 at the end-- I wanted to hug her. It was a mediocre script, but she did a great job with it. She was short and had dark hair, maybe in her late 40s. Anyone recognize this? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/53 "2025-12-26T15:06:43Z")
Ms Scrooge (1997)? > **[Ms. Scrooge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Scrooge?wprov=sfti1)** > > Ms. Scrooge is a 1997 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy drama film starring Cicely Tyson and Katherine Helmond and is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The film changes the roles of Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley into female counterparts. The film is also notable for mentioning that Tiny Tim is dying of a "slow-growing congenital tumor", instead of an unnamed condition. The film's setting is changed from London to Providence, Rhode Island. It ori... ---
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> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > She was short and had dark hair, maybe in her late 40s. > > Anyone recognize this? [Ms. Scrooge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Scrooge) You didn’t mention skin color but her height and age fit. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/55 "2025-12-26T17:15:27Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > [Ms. Scrooge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Scrooge?wprov=sfti1) That can’t be it, because I would recognize them, and at any rate, the Scrooge character was white. I am thinking they did keep the name Scrooge, so maybe I can just search IMDb for that. Not that motivated right now, though. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/56 "2025-12-26T17:25:11Z")
I watched the George C. Scott version last night. Now I have a tie for first place between Scott and Sim. Scott’s performance was wonderful and much deeper than Sim’s. The backgrounds, costumes, and minor characters were also superior. They’re products of different times and each was a home run in a different ballpark. I shall try to watch them both every year, though I could not find the Sim version this year and had to settle for Owen. As a kid I watched the Mr. McGoo version several times but wouldn’t watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/57 "2025-12-26T17:37:15Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > As a kid I watched the Mr. McGoo version several times but wouldn’t watch it again. Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but the National [US] Federation of the Blind has nothing good to say about anything Magoo. A previous president of the NFB (Mark Maurer) called Magoo a “menace.” Sorry if that sounds like a hijack, but I’m asking if maybe we can lay that particular version quietly aside, just as we would do with an older version that played on racial stereotypes. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/58 "2025-12-26T18:06:12Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > I rather like the 1970 version, “[Scrooge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_(1970_film))”, with Albert Finney as ES. I quite liked that one. It may have been the first one I saw in it’s entirety. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > [Ms. Scrooge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Scrooge?wprov=sfti1) > > That can’t be it, because I would recognize them, and at any rate, the Scrooge character was white. I am thinking they did keep the name Scrooge, so maybe I can just search IMDb for that. Not that motivated right now, though. There was a TV movie called _Ebbie_ with Susan Lucci as Ebbie Scrooge. 1995 which is impossibly 30 years ago. ---
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> [@madmonk28](#): > > I think it was this one from 1971: Yep, that was my favorite one as well. Some wonderfully scary and creepy parts. They showed it every season for awhile. I found it on YouTube a couple years ago and it holds up well. ---
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> [@solost](#): > > Yep, that was my favorite one as well. Some wonderfully scary and creepy parts. They showed it every season for awhile. I found it on YouTube a couple years ago and it holds up well. I found some bits on YouTube, it really was beautifully drawn and Sim reprised his role as Scrooge for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048.md?page=4)