The Muppet Christmas Carol Page #3

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myself at Christmas.

- That certainly is true.

- And I cannot afford

to make idle people merry.

That is certainly not true.

Don't you have other things to do

this afternoon. My dear nephew?

Sadly. I do. Uncle.

So I shall make my donation...

and leave you to make yours.

Thank you so very much.

Oh. Uncle. Come and have Christmas

dinner with me and Clara tomorrow.

- Why ever did you get married?

- Why? Because I fell in love.

That's the only thing in the world

sillier than a merry Christmas.

It's no use. Uncle. I shall keep

my Christmas humour to the last.

A merry Christmas to you

and a happy New Year.

- Merry Christmas. Fred.

- Merry Christmas. Bob.

Humbug!

Now. Then. Sir.

about the donation?

Well. Now. Let's see.

I know how to treat the poor.

My taxes go to pay

for the prisons and the poorhouses.

- The homeless must go there.

- But some would rather die.

If they'd rather die.

then they'd better do it...

and decrease the surplus population!

Oh. Dear. Oh. Dear.

- Oh. Dear. Oh. Dear.

- This is the door. You may use it.

All right. Beaker. Come along.

I think we've taken enough

of Mr Scrooge's time.

Oh. Dear. Dear. Dear.

Good King Wenceslas looked out

on the Feast of Stephen

Though the snow lay round about

deep and crisp and even

Brightly shown

the moon that night

Though the

- What do you want?

- Uh. P-penny for the song. Guv'nor?

Seventeen. Twenty-four. Fifty-eight...

two fifty-two. Twenty-one.

seventy-eight.

Uh. Excuse me. Mr Scrooge.

but it appears to be closing time.

Very well. I'll see you

at 8.00 tomorrow morning.

- Tomorrow's Christmas.

- 8.30 then.

If you please. Sir. Half an hour off hardly

seems customary for Christmas Day.

- Hardly customary.

- Not at all!

How much time off is customary.

Mr Cratchit?

Uh. Why. Um.

the. Uh. Whole day.

- Yes! Yeah. That's right! The whole day!

- The entire day?

No. That's the frog's idea.

If you please. Mr Scrooge.

why open the office tomorrow?

Other businesses will be closed.

You'll have no one to do business with.

It'll waste a lot

of expensive coal for the fire.

- Yes. That's definitely a point.

- That's a point.

- That's right.

It's a poor excuse for picking

a man's pocket every December the 25th.

But as I seem to be the only person

around who knows that...

- Take the day off.

- Yay!

What a boss! Oh. Man!

- We love you. Ebenezer!

- Will you stop that!

Thank you. Mr Scrooge.

- Be here all the earlier the next morning.

- Okay. Sir! You bet!

With their employer gone at last...

Bob Cratchit and the bookkeepers

immediately began...

that most pleasant of activities.

the celebration of Christmas.

He's gone!

Gentlemen.

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