Drabble by Kevin Fagan for December 04, 2024

Anyone remember the series where Mr. Magoo dramatized stories like MOBY-DICK and FRANKENSTEIN?

Oh, Magoo, you’ve done it again.

I’m with you, Ralph. That’s the on Dickens adaptation thats actually faithful to the original.

Give or take the musical numbers, that is.

I like Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, too.

Don’t mess with the classics…

Made me smile. :)

Will it still be A Wonderful Life without them?

After all, Ralph plays the title role

Ralph has the starring role in A Christmas Story

Nothing says Christmas like Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.

Well I heard Snoopys Christmas , A Fairytale In New York, and had my first Gingerbread LatteIt’s Christmas Time

I’ve seen them so many times, I’m sort of watched out on them. Never got to see the Mr. Magoo one though.

I prefer The Hogfather . HAPPY HOGSWATCH TO EVERYBODY !

Die Hard is a Christmas movie

I’m with Ralph on that one! The first made-for-tv animated Christmas special, an often overlooked or forgotten gem.

Die Hard and A Muppet Christmas Carol are my two Christmas movie traditions. Anything else is just gratuitous.

I haven’t seen that one for years, but the great music sometimes pops into my head for no reason. Ringle, ringle, coins when they jingle…

With wasso berwy dwessing.

The muppet Christmas Carol

We watch “Emmet Otter’s Christmas” every Christmas Eve.

Magoo has trouble seeing…the true meaning of Christmas.

Violent Night (search-engine it).

Yep.., those of us old enough know that that’s areal thing!

rolled my eyes so hard it hurt

My favorite Scrooge!

Magoo’s Christmas Carol is one of my two favorite CC versions. It’s got great songs. The George C Scott version is my other fav.

I love the Die Hard movies, RIP Alan Rickman.

Yeah, that’s a tradition.

well… there’s always Die Hard….

Just watch the ones you want, and skip the ones you don’t. She can go somewhere else to watch hers.

“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people”

Most of the so-called “classics” aren’t even worth watching!

Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol is the BEST ever!! every song! look it up in any film critique, and it’s 5 stars across the board!!

yes Johnny Q, I own em’ all

My wife and I have a deal. I’ll sit through her crazy old black-and-white Christmas movies where the adults wear hats and gloves in their own homes, and she’ll sit through my Christmas With the Kranks and Rankin-Bass animated specials.

Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol was the first version of the story that I ever saw, probably in the early 1960’s (not sure when it was made). So it is a sentimental favorite of mine. As for a non-animated version, Alastair Sim as Scrooge will always be the best.

All cartoon Christmas movies, such as Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Charlie Brown Christmas, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are mandatory. Any other movies are negotiable. My personal favorite Christmas Carol movie is the 1970 musical “Scrooge” starring Albert Finney. I memorized most of the songs!

I could watch that

SACRILEGE… Only an unwashed heathen would cut Mr. Magoo from the line up!!!

Violent Night, Bad Santa 1 and 2, A Bad Moms Christmas, Die Hard 1 and 2.