The Death of Poor Joe the oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character.
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This footage starts with Bob Cratchit showing someone out of Scrooge's office on Christmas Eve, just before he and Scrooge leave for the night, and ends at a scene showing the death of Tiny Tim.
Scrooge McDuck is led in a quest around the world by Magica De Spell.
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The long term influence of this type of stage work can be felt in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, where Scrooge is confronted and offered a way to live to his full potential.
Daffy is the Scrooge-like owner of the Lucky Duck Superstore (a Costco-esque megastore), and he treats his employees (played by other Looney Tunes) like they're garbage.
The first story to feature the Beagle Boys in a major role is Only a Poor Old Man from March 1952, which serves as a template for virtually all future Beagle Boys appearances, and establishes them as a serious threat to Scrooge's fortune.
Colman has played Scrooge hundreds of times on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Meadow Brook Theatre in the Detroit area.
Selected performances include Edgar Allan Poe in The Death of Edgar Allan Poe (2010), Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad (2009), George in The Daemon of Darby Castle (2009), Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (2008), B7 in The Head That Wouldn't Die (2007), Estragon in Waiting for Godot (2003), and originating the role of The Abbot in The Witch of Greythorn.
As the wiseman hands Scrooge a didgeridoo, Scrooge sarcastically replies "Great! Now I'm John Philip Sousa!", which Jabby takes literally, and hence, calls Scrooge by the name Jonflip Zooza.
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Jabiru, or Jabby as Scrooge calls him, tells Scrooge that he is on a walkabout, reading the Dreamtale, and he wants Scrooge to join him.
Either being a miser ("scrooge") in totality or selectively allowing children's needs to go unmet (e.g. father will not buy a bicycle for his son because he wants to save money for retirement or "something important")
In November 2009 Gero made his debut at Ford’s Theatre, playing the role of Ebeneezer Scrooge in the company’s annual version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Characters confirmed to appear in the game are the DuckTales interpretation of Scrooge McDuck from the Duck universe, Ariel, Ursula and Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Rapunzel from 2010's Tangled, Jafar from Aladdin, the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, and Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu from The Lion King.
He is represented by Kanye West rapping against Scrooge in the third season of Epic Rap Battles of History.
He is portrayed by Nice Peter in a usual black robe and an skeleton head in the Christmas 2013 Epic Rap Battle of History rapping against Scrooge.
Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the Thief of the title, which is very reminiscent of Harris's earlier work animating Wile E. Coyote for Jones).
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a comic book series about the life of Scrooge McDuck written by Don Rosa
Among his dozens of film roles were Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945), the Church Warden in Went the Day Well? and Bob Cratchit in Scrooge (1951).
Mackenzie appears as a character in the fictional Scrooge McDuck comic book, The Buckaroo of the Badlands (1992), set in 1882, in which the poor, newly hired Scrooge, helped by Theodore Roosevelt, rescues a championship bull belonging to Mackenzie.
Gemstone Publishing later reprinted the story again in 2005 for a Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge graphic novel with another story inspired by this one called "Somewhere in Nowhere".
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Scrooge refuses, saying that if more people knew that he was the Richest Duck in the World, "every chisler from Cape Town to Nome would be waylaying me!"
One of the series' memorable episodes was the December 23, 1956, telecast of The Stingiest Man in Town, a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring Basil Rathbone as Scrooge and Martyn Green as Bob Cratchit.
The ducks climb a tree for protection, and Scrooge shakes Flintheart's branch trying to drop his ball (with the title of richest duck at stake, he's not so above dishonesty), although he stops when scolded by Dewey.
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Scrooge's coffee had a sleeping potion while the clay pile is an ant-hill.
Upon learning that a witch named Circe wanted the first coin minted by Croesus for the same reason Magica wants the Number One Dime, Scrooge finds a way to turn this tragedy in a triumph: he gives the coin to Magica.