I've never seen A Muppet Christmas Carol, but just looking at these pictures has caused me to start weeping uncontrollably.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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It's considered one of the better adaptations. Gonzo plays Charles Dickens, as Dickens historically made a fair bit of money in his later years narrating his stories in person. Michael Caine plays Scrooge. It's excellent. Kermit and Piggy are Bob and Emily Crathit.
Michael Caine put more love and care into playing the role straight than I would have expected.
Agreed. He treated the muppets as fellow actors and it created a wonderful energy that still shines through all these years later.
There’s a few Scrooge movies I like to catch each year: Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and Spirited has joined the ranks recently. There’s one particular scene in that last one that absolutely horrifies me in the best way. They modernized a lot of it and made it more accessible to people who might otherwise see these concerns as outdated.
i cri evrytiem 😭😭😭
We watch it every Christmas Eve, it's great.
We've watched Scrooged (NSFW) at Christmastime for the last few years.
The bitch hit me with a toaster!
I’m still partial to the mouse antler scene, or the nipple scene.
Check out spirited too!
Watched this tonight and yeah that was heartbreaking.
Seems to me like that bunny should GET A JOBBBBBB
Also i really want the government to be run by unregistered sex offenders. Every night I pray that God will let my guy get away with it.
We had a thing at work where we were being trained to handle payments. As part of the class, we had to run through United Ways poverty simulator and talk about the experience. The idea was to reinforce empathy or something before unleashing us on the payment lines.
One of the girls gets on mic and says she doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. She never has to worry about money or poor people because “god provides for me.” And she laughed about it.
This was following the rest of sharing our own hardships we’ve been through and the troubles we’ve heard from other callers on the phones.
Fucking psychopath.
So sickening and what a lot of people think right now. Wealth is gods reward. The poors are just not Christian enough. It's all part of gods plan.
I call it neo liberal calvinism. Really pisses them off. (Mainly coz i think they dont know what it means.)
Whatever it is it’s not Christianity. Christianity has plenty of faults but this is a whole new horror of its own. They kept the branding and swapped out literally everything else. It’s just putting a cross of Republican politics and pretending it’s a religion now.
It's called the "prosperity gospel".
It was invented by televangelists who told their audiences "give me all your money and God will reward you by making you rich." If you're old enough to remember Oral Roberts, he was one of the first.
Then it spread to mainstream churches, because rich conservative "Christians" wanted to believe they were rich because they were good people, and that poor people were poor because they were bad people. And those rich "Christians" donated generously to churches that told them what they wanted to hear.
It's Christianity, yes. And it's the most repugnant Christian heresy I've ever heard of.
The prosperity gospel is not Christianity any more than a McDonald’s burger is actually a cow.
Does it believe Christ is the son of God? Yes? Then it's Christianity. A particularly ugly version, yes, but Christianity has come up with some really awful versions of itself over the millennia.
as you said, it's a Christian Heresy. in that sense, you're both correct.
It contradicts literally all of the teachings of their Christ. So it literally cannot be Christianity. When I said it kept the branding that covers exactly what your last assertion is. They kept the branding.
Sorry here is some context on what calvinism is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Christianity
Bean bunny deserves better. Wildly underrated muppet.
Why isn't he burrowing? He would be much comfier in a nice den.
I bet that you think you might, but id wager you'd be wrong.