Plot
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th-century, based-on-novel, bitterness, boss, change-of-heart, charles-dickens, childhood, christmas, christmas-eve
Gonzo: Hello! Welcome to the Muppet Christmas Carol! I am here to tell the story.::Rizzo the Rat: And I am here for the food.
Rizzo the Rat: Light the lamp, not the rat, light the lamp, not the rat! Put me out, put me out, put me out!::Gonzo: Oh! My apologies! Um...::[Suddenly spotting a barrel of water below the lamp post]::Gonzo: Rizzo!::Rizzo the Rat: What?::["Mr Dickens" pushes Rizzo so he falls into the water barrel]
Vegetables: If he became a flavor you can bet he would be sour. Yuck!::Muppet Man: Even the vegetables don't like him!
[Gonzo and Rizzo are flying over London]::Gonzo: [Thrilled] Hello, London!::Rizzo the Rat: [Scared] Goodbye, lunch!
[an urchin steals a talking vegetable]::Vegetable: Hey, I'm being stolen! Hey, help me! Help me!
Ghost of Christmas Past: Let us see another Christmas in this place.::Ebenezer Scrooge: They were all very much the same. Nothing ever changed.::Ghost of Christmas Past: You changed.
Fozziwig: At this time in the proceedings, it is a tradition for me to make a little speech.::Jacob Marley: And it's a tradition for us to take a little nap!
Fozziwig: My speech! Here's my Christmas speech. Ahem. "Thank you all, and Merry Christmas."::Jacob Marley: That was the speech?::Robert Marley: It was dumb!::Jacob Marley: It was obvious!::Robert Marley: It was pointless!::Jacob Marley: It was... short!::[turns to Robert]::Jacob Marley, Robert Marley: I loved it!
Rizzo the Rat: Mother always taught me: "Never eat singing food."
Ebenezer Scrooge: You're a little absent-minded, spirit.::Ghost of Christmas Present: No, I'm a LARGE absent-minded spirit!
"Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the end of sex and violence on television!"
Sgt. Floyd Pepper: Can you believe this cat?::Sam The Eagle: I am not a cat, I am a bird.::Sgt. Floyd Pepper: You may be a bird, but you ain't the bird.
Sam The Eagle: Do we want an eighth deadly sin for the pageant?::Nigel: Which one?::Sam The Eagle: [Into phone] Who's your eight? [To Nigel] Wearing funny pants to a funeral.
George the Janitor is a fictional character in The Muppet Show. He is a crusty old custodian who cleans up after the Muppets on He seems to have no affection for anyone or anything except his trusty mop. The single exception is an act where a vocal group of singing mops perform "Rag Mop."
George would appear regularly on the first couple of seasons of The Muppet Show until the custodian's job was taken over by Beauregard, played by Dave Goelz, in Season 3 of the show. George would make a cameo appearance, though, in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
George is performed by Frank Oz.
The Janitor is a fictional character, played by actor Neil Flynn in the American comedy-drama Scrubs.
Neil Flynn was originally billed as a recurring guest star throughout Season 1, although he appeared in all 24 episodes of that season. He was promoted to a series regular beginning with Season 2 and remained a regular through to Season 8. He made his final appearance in the Season 9 premiere, "Our First Day of School", as a guest star.
Janitor appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except Season 2's "My Lucky Day" and Season 8's "My Last Words", "My Absence" and "My Full Moon".
In the series' pilot episode, protagonist J.D. sees Janitor fixing a sliding door that is stuck, and suggests someone might have stuck a penny in the door. Janitor immediately accuses J.D. of sabotaging the door, and forms a relationship in which the Janitor tries to sabotage J.D. through much of the series. Although he previously denied it, J.D. admits to the penny issue as an accident in the season eight finale. Janitor admits he saw J.D. do it and claims it was a "character test" that he failed, although J.D. tried to defend himself on the grounds that it had been an accident and he hadn't wanted to create a bad impression at his new job. Some of his practical jokes have been on the severe side, such as destroying J.D.'s bike (twice), trapping him in a water tower, stranding him in the middle of nowhere, tricking him into robbing an Asian couple's house and enlisting Ted and Todd to duct tape him to the ceiling.
Jamieson "Junior" Brown (born June 12, 1952) is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released nine studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar.
Brown was born in Kirksville, Indiana. He first learned to play piano from his father "before I could talk". His music career began in the 1960s, and he worked through that decade and the next singing and playing pedal steel and guitar for groups such as The Last Mile Ramblers, Dusty Drapes and the Dusters and Asleep at the Wheel while developing his astonishing guitar skills. By the mid-1980s he was teaching guitar at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State University, in Claremore, Oklahoma.
In 1985, Junior invented a double-neck guitar, with some assistance from Michael Stevens. Junior called the instrument his "guit-steel". When performing, Junior plays the guitar by standing behind it, while it rests on a small podium/music stand. The top neck on the guit-steel is a traditional 6-string guitar, while the lower neck is a full-size lap steel guitar for slide playing. Brown has two guit-steels for recording and live work. The original instrument, dubbed "Old Yeller", has as its standard 6-string guitar portion the neck and pickups from Brown's previous stage guitar, a Fender Bullet. The second guit-steel, named "Big Red", has a neck laser-copied from the Bullet neck, but in addition to electric guitar pickups, both the standard and lap-steel necks use an identical Sho-Bud lap-steel pickup. There is a pocket in the upper bout of the guitar to hold the slide bar when it is not in use.
Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
Stephen Malkmus was born in Santa Monica, California on May 30, 1966 to Mary and Stephen Malkmus, Sr. His father was a property and casualty insurance agent. When Stephen Jr. was 8, the family moved upstate to Stockton, where he attended Carpinteria's Cate School and Lodi's Tokay High School. As a teenager, Malkmus worked various jobs, including painting house numbers on street curbs and "flipping burgers or whatever" at a country club. At age 16, he spent the night in jail after consuming alcohol, urinating in the bushes, and walking on the roofs of several residential homes. Later, he was placed on probation for underage drinking, and was also expelled from school "for going to a party in the woods where people were taking mushrooms. I didn’t take them, but some guy narc’d on me."
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Europe from 1952.