Pluto’s Christmas Tree and Mickey’s Christmas Carol Review

Beyond good, beyond evil, beyond your wildest

imagination! It is day 23 here on ToonCastBeyond's

25 Days ToonCastBeyond 2016. I am of course TFU

and Mike. Joining me one more time before, well

actually the second, third or fourth or fifth

time. He'll be here again day 24 and day 25 as

well along with Steve Megatron. But we got Doug

Abel from Talking About My Generation. Hello

sir. Hello. How are you? I'm good actually. That's

good, that's good. And today we're going to talk

about two of our favorites, two of my favorites.

The first one has always been a favorite of mine.

It's Pluto's Christmas tree. This is the Disney

short where Mickey goes out to chop down a Christmas

tree for Christmas and turns out that he chopped

down Chippendale's tree. So you've got Mickey

Mouse, Pluto, and Chippendale in one hilarious

Hilarious cartoon. I love this one. This one

is just one of the ones I watch if I don't watch

this every year It's not Christmas to me. It

just isn't I just am so good Is seeing Dale and

he's dressed up as the Santa with the candle

on his head. Yep. Look you try to light it. He's

blowing it out Hey, I know there's something

wrong with this. Mm -hmm. Yep, absolutely Like

I said the way this starts out Mickey goes out

gets the tree Chippendale figure out. Oh, hey,

they chop down our tree. So they go and decorate

it and as they're decorating Chippendale are

playing with the lights and playing with the

ornaments and just the visuals of this special

are just so wonderful like the way that the camera

used was used for the animation for the lighting

for the for the blow up heads of the chipmunks

inside the the ornament bulbs. It's just all

so fun. It really, really is. And Pluto just

consistently freaks out even more and more and

more and more until he finally just jumps into

the tree and destroys the tree. I mean, Pluto

went through that Christmas tree a lot faster

and a lot easier than Uncle Lewis lighting Clark's

tree on fire with a cigar. Yeah I don't I don't

I don't think Figaro would he's he's too mellow

Really he must miss me apparently But now Lucy

that's a different story. She's she's a little

devil cat shit. She'd probably have done that

yeah Yeah Yeah, this one. I just absolutely love

I just think it's so fun so funny to see Pluto

I love How he's helping Mickey at first where

he's got all the ornament bulbs on his tail That

was hilarious There's a picture of me before

I came out to California for vacation This holiday

season I helped my apartment complex put up their

lot the Christmas tree that they put up in the

lobby every year and For some odd reason I have

no idea why I have never wanted to pierce my

ears. I've just I'm not into that I'm not into

the whole pain and all that and everything else

and I'm just not a pierced ear kind of guy But

for some odd reason for some to get a laugh out

of somebody I took one of the ornaments and I

actually hung it off the top of my ear. So there's

a picture out there somewhere floating around

of that. I don't think the apartment complex

has uploaded it yet, but yeah, that was just

so funny seeing Pluto with all the ornaments

on his tail and things like that. Just absolutely

fun, fun Christmas special. Any other thoughts

on this one before we get to Scrooge? Like you

said, it's one of my favorites. It's timeless.

It lasts. It can be pretty short. Mm -hmm. Yeah.

Absolutely. All right, folks. We're going to

take a quick break. We're going to come back

with Mickey's Christmas Carol after this. Coming

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through the world with us. What's so merry about

it? I'll tell you what Christmas is. It's just

another work day. And any jack -o' -lantern who

thinks else should be boiled in his own pudding.

But sir, Christmas is a time for giving. A time

to be with one's family. I say bah! Humbug! I

don't care! I say Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!

Well said, Master Fred! Cratchit! What are you

doing? I was just trying to keep my hands warm,

sir. And what are you doing here, nephew? I've

come to give you a wish and invite you for Christmas

dinner. Well, I suppose you're going to have

plump goose with chestnut dressing? Yep. And

will you have plum pudding and lemon sauce? Yeah,

boy oh boy! And candied fruits with spice sugar

cakes? Yeah, will you come? Are you daft, man?

You know I can't eat that stuff. Here's your

wreath back. Now out, out, out! Bah! Humbug.

Merry Christmas! And a bah -humbug to you. Ah,

that Fred. Always so full of kindness. Aye, he

always was a little peculiar. And stubborn. Ooh!

Ha ha ha ha! Customers. I'll handle this, Cratchit.

Yes, what can I do for you two gentlemen? Sir,

we are soliciting funds for the indigent and

destitute. For the what? For collecting for the

poor. Oh, aha. Well, you realize if you give

money to the poor, they won't be poor anymore,

will they? Well, and if they're not poor anymore,

then you won't have to raise money for them anymore.

Well, I suppose. And if you don't have to raise

money for them anymore, then you would be out

of a job. Oh, please, gentlemen, don't ask me

to put you out of a job. Not on Christmas Eve.

Oh, we wouldn't do that, Mr. Scrooge. Well, then

I suggest you give this to the poor and be gone.

So we are back and we're going to be talking

about Mickey's Christmas Carol. This is probably

the only version of a Christmas Carol. that I

have not watched this holiday season. Yeah, normally

this is one of my traditions to watch, but Jen

and her mom absolutely love A Christmas Carol.

They love every single version of A Christmas

Carol. So this year, I have seen Scrooge. I have

seen the old black and white version. I have

seen... The other in color version, I've seen

the Jim Carrey horribly CGI version. Ouch. I've

seen like 17 different versions of the damn thing

and by the end of it, I understand they love

it and that's great, it's their tradition. But

watching the same story being told, the only

one that we did not get to watch was a Muppet

Christmas Carol, which is by far, in my personal

opinion, the best one outside of the Mickey one

here that we're gonna talk about. But yeah at

the end of at the end of all watching all those

different versions. I'm just like I just can't

watch another Version of the same damn story.

I just just couldn't So Mickey's Christmas Carol

obviously it's based on the Charles Dickens story

as every TV film animated version Muppet thing

of this is uh... it's basically got an easier

scrooge bob cratchit all that good stuff just

how they put the disney characters into these

rules roles but you've got uncle scrooge as you

know it's scrooge mcduck as evanesia scrooge

i find that absolutely fitting you've got donald

as his nephew fred which again Going off the

uncle and nephew relationship thing there, that's

awesome. You've got Mickey as Bob Cratchit, and

I believe Minnie was his wife, but... When I

was watching this, I looked in the credits and

I did not see... Like, they named off the characters

in the credits, and I did not see her name there

anywhere, but I know she's there. They've got...

A little mini kind of Mickey character for Tiny

Tim, which is really, really interesting and

awesome. Kind of reminds me of the fact that

they use Kermit's nephew Robin as Tiny Tim in

the Muppets one. You know their names, right?

Know what? You don't know their names? No. Oh

my god, dude. Now, I have to school you because...

Yeah, I know. ...from my old school Disney knowledge.

Okay. Their names are Morty and Ferdy. Morty

and huh yep Morty and Ferdy they were his nephews

oh Okay, like way back when okay. Yeah, see I

don't remember Mickey having nephews. That's

It was always Donald with Huey Dewey and Louie,

but yeah So you got all that going on you've

got Daisy which is it's kind of weird to me that

you have Daisy duck as as Belle That was a little

strange that's always been a little strange to

me because I've always seen Daisy is being with

Donald But you got her playing Belle You know

and it's you know the traditional Christmas Carol

story screw you get the good cast they brought

in like they had all cash for the width of the

willows mhm toad and uh... ratty and boli into

the wills i thought that was awesome seeing them

i just like oh my god they put characters that

normally we haven't seen anything else so they

brought him back for eighty three for this i

thought that was great absolutely uh... I think

by far the best casting out of this is goofy

as Marley. As Jacob Marley. That and Pete as

the ghost of Christmas future. Whose grave is

this, spirit? Why, it's yours, Ebenezer! Ha ha

ha ha. Yep. Then you've got Jiminy Cricket as

the ghost of Christmas past. I don't remember

the guy's name who is ghost of... I know he's

been in a lot of Disney stuff. I know... it's

not the Hunchback. No, that's Willie the Giant.

Okay. It was the giant from Brave Little Taylor

and Mickey and the Beanstalk. Oh, okay, okay.

That's right. That's right. I remember that now.

Mickey and the Beanstalk. That was a good one.

What I like about this version... of the Christmas

Carol story with Mickey and with Scrooge and

all that is just at the end, I mean in every

version they show his change but I think that

with this being animated and it being Scrooge

McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge I think he took the

change a lot more seriously and you can tell

in the animation, you can tell in the voice actors

inflections of everything but just how happy

he was at the end. And different actors do it

differently and you know some some do it. Well,

some don't do it. Well That Jim Carrey thing.

I will never watch that version ever again. Oh

my god. That was horrible I can't I can't say

I blame you on that. It's Alan Young is you know,

God rest his soul man was the best for uncle

Scrooge captured that Know that there's a lot

of people out there who like don't worry But

Alan is the one he is the he is the one who holds

that bar up there Yeah Yeah, absolutely and so

friggin lately and I just love how the whole

thing turns around because of Scrooge's you know

because of his attitude turning around I know

it's Christmas folks, but I'm gonna get a little

bit morbid here If you look at this story analytically,

if Scrooge had stayed negative, if he had stayed

in his old, miserly ways, Tiny Tim would have

died, right? That's the juxtaposition of the

beginning part of the story, that Tiny Tim will

not survive. But just because one guy changes

his attitude, the kid lives. I mean, I know they

want to give us a happy ending, and I know it's

a part of the story and everything else, but...

Well, you want the real story is that he actually

does die Yeah, that's what I figured the original

dick in the story because that was what happened.

Mm -hmm. Yeah Yeah, that's that's what I figured

But you know, I absolutely adore this one, I

think it's super fun seeing the Disney characters

as these characters and just seeing all the various

cameos and things like that, I thought it was

really really fun. Anything else you want to

say about this one? Well, I'm gonna put out blast

for you on this. I like this one better than

the Muppets one. I know that you... It's... See,

for me I can separate them and like them equally

the same because... This is fully animated, and

that is muppets. I do not consider muppets to

be outside of muppet babies. The muppets are

live action. They're not animated characters.

They were animated characters in a few cartoons,

one television series, but I really do not consider

them to be... Eligible to be counted as full

-on animated characters because they're live

-action They're real in a real inanimate objects

if that makes any damn sense, but you know so

I can Agree to disagree with you on it But I

still say that I can like each of these versions

independently of each other because they're just

both so good in both versions that they do I

don't like Muppets, but I do I like the Disney's

the Mickey's Christmas Carol Little you know,

I like it better than that, but that buckets.

Yeah, you're the office Yeah, yeah, I mean I

like them equally I You know what like I said

in the two different genres if I'm gonna pick

one to watch I'll probably end up watching both

of them I have to at least these are the only

two that I will probably ever watch again out

of all the Various Christmas carol versions there

are because these are the two you know this and

the Muppets one of the ones that I grew up on

and the ones that I just absolutely love watching

and just have the most enjoyment out of watching

them so Alright folks, I think that's gonna do

it. I know it's again. It's been another short

episode But most of these 25 days to gasp beyond

stuff that have been short tomorrow Doug will

be back along with Steve Megatron and Myself

to talk about the classic frosty the snowman.

We do bring up briefly frosty returns But and

then we talk briefly about the legend of frosting

which apparently is a new one that I have not

seen that's on Netflix So we'll talk about that

and then after that we close out 25 days to cast

me on Christmas with Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

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you tomorrow. Merry Christmas. Ah, humbug.