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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 22, 2010, 12:48:53 am ---This might irk some--
but not me!
 ;D
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBMzGq1vhs&NR=1[/youtube]
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The Muppets are never irksome.  :)

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 21, 2010, 03:48:48 pm ---Not to get OT, but IMO, the Patrick Stewart one was boring.  Never thought I'd say that about something Patrick Stewart is in.  :P 
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Unexpectedly, I got to see the Patrick Stewart version last night--I noticed that TNT was running it. I was impressed by the realism of much of the production--in the Hallmark/George C. Scott version, even to me, even the cobwebs in Scrooge's rooms seem just a little too perfect. OTOH--and no offense intended to anyone who prefers this version--especially in some early scenes, where you see Patrick Stewart in profile, with the shape of his head and his lean figure dressed in black, I thought he bore a startling resemblance to the vampire in Nosferatu.  Or, worse, yet, an Edward Gorey cartoon. :(  And then there was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: with those two bright eyes within the cowl and no visible face, he made me think of an overgrown Jawa.  :(

Minor quibble: While I haven't double-checked, I suspect the early 1840s may be too early for Tiny Tim to have known Silent Night in English, and I also doubt that God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen was sung in church at that time.

I need to research cast lists, too, because I would swear that the elderly actress who played Mrs. Dilber in the pawn broker scene was the same actress who played Mrs. Dilber in the Hallmark/Scott version.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 22, 2010, 12:48:53 am ---This might irk some--
but not me!
 ;D
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBMzGq1vhs&NR=1[/youtube]
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Here's a sacrilege: I find "The 12 Days of Christmas" irksome (when sung by anybody, but probably especially Muppets). So repetitive and boring! It's Christmas carols' answer to "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall."



southendmd:

--- Quote from: crayonlicious on December 22, 2010, 11:08:48 am ---Here's a sacrilege: I find "The 12 Days of Christmas" irksome (when sung by anybody, but probably especially Muppets). So repetitive and boring! It's Christmas carols' answer to "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall."

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There's always The Twelve Days of BBM Christmas!

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: southendmd on December 22, 2010, 11:20:49 am ---There's always The Twelve Days of BBM Christmas!

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THAT one I love, Paul!  :D  :-* I just revisited it yesterday when you bumped it. Thanks!

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