History Trivia / MickeysChristmasCarol

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Most of the voice actors in this special are from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'', specifically Hal Smith, Pat Parris, Dick Billingsley

* DescendedCreator: Producer/director Burny Mattinson voices one of the weasel gravediggers.

* Some of the tombstones in the cemetery bear the names of famous names in music, such as Bob Wills and Music/GladysKnight.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/AlanYoung not only voices Scrooge, but he also voices the beggar who asks Scrooge for change at the beginning.

* TalkingToHimself: Alan Young not only voices Scrooge, but he also voices the beggar who asks Scrooge for change at the beginning.

* This was the final time Donald Duck was voiced by his original voice actor, Clarence Nash. Nash died two years later and was replaced by Disney animator Creator/TonyAnselmo, who voices Donald to this day. This was also the first time Creator/WayneAllwine and Creator/AlanYoung voiced Mickey and Scrooge at length, and they became the permanent voices for those characters until ''their'' deaths in 2009 and 2016, respectively.

* ReleaseDateChange: This was intended as a television special and was to debut on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1982, but an animators' strike meant it couldn't be finished in time. A ClipShow special, ''A Disney Christmas Gift'', had to be thrown together to take its place; that show has been covered at Blog/TheIslandOfMisfitChristmasSpecials. When it was finally released the next year, it was not initially on television, but theatrically, alongside a reissue of ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' (earning an Oscar nomination at the process). It was finally shown on television in 1984, on Creator/{{NBC}} and Creator/TheDisneyChannel, and released on home video shortly afterwards.

** The story also features cameos by characters from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Wind in the Willows]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', along with [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats Uncle Waldo]].

** For both the LP and the short; Alan Young is the second actor to voice Scrooge. He was first voiced by Bill Thompson (best known as the voice of WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}) in Scrooge [=McDuck=] and Money[[note]]In Soccermania (essentially the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness "prototype" version]] of [=DuckTales=]), he was voiced by Will Ryan, but Alan Young would be the permanent voice of Scrooge from [=DuckTales=] onwards.[[/note]].

* ReleaseDateChange: This was intended as a television special and was to debut on CBS in 1982, but an animators' strike meant it couldn't be finished in time. A ClipShow special, ''A Disney Christmas Gift'', had to be thrown together to take its place; that show has been covered at Blog/TheIslandOfMisfitChristmasSpecials. When it was finally released the next year, it was not initially on television, but theatrically, alongside a reissue of ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' (earning an Oscar nomination at the process). It was finally shown on television in 1984, on NBC and The Disney Channel, and released on home video shortly afterwards.

* This was the final time Donald Duck was voiced by his original voice actor, Clarence Nash. Nash died two years later and was replaced by Disney animator Creator/TonyAnselmo, who voices Donald to this day. This was also the first time Wayne Allwine and Alan Young voiced Mickey and Scrooge at length, and they became the permanent voices for those characters until ''their'' deaths in 2009 and 2016, respectively.

** Also, for the Ghost of Christmas Future, who ends up being Pete of all people. Who’d have thought that someone as normally harmless and simple could be so scary?

* PlayingAgainstType: Of all the characters you might expect to play cold-hearted swindler and calculating businessman Jacob Marley, we get... ''Goofy''? Turns out SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct!

* Some of the tombstones in the cemetery bear the names of famous names in music, such as Bob Wills and Gladys Knight.

* TalkingToHimself: Alan Young not only voices Scrooge, but also the beggar who asks Scrooge for change at the beginning.

* AllStarCast: Just about every major character from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts appears in this, with the odd exception of Pluto.

** The story also features cameos by characters from ''[[Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Wind in the Willows]]'' and ''Disney/RobinHood'', along with [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] and [[Disney/{{TheAristocats}} Uncle Waldo]].

* ReleaseDateChange: This was intended as a television special and was to debut on CBS in 1982, but an animators' strike meant it couldn't be finished in time. A ClipShow special, ''A Disney Christmas Gift'', had to be thrown together to take its place; that show has been covered at Blog/TheIslandOfMisfitChristmasSpecials. When it was finally released the next year, it was not initially on television, but theatrically, alongside a reissue of ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (earning an Oscar nomination at the process). It was finally shown on television in 1984, on NBC and The Disney Channel, and released on home video shortly afterwards.

* PlayingGertrude: Alan Young is younger than Clarence Nash even though Scrooge is older than Donald.

* TheOtherDarrin: For both the LP and the short; Alan Young is the second actor to voice Scrooge. He was first voiced by Bill Thompson (best known as the voice of WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}) in Scrooge [=McDuck=] and Money[[note]]In Soccermania (essentially the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness "prototype" version]] of [=DuckTales=]), he was voiced by Will Ryan, but Alan Young would be the permanent voice of Scrooge from [=DuckTales=] onwards.[[/note]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One rejected idea was to have Scoorge pass a pet shop with an eager Pluto in the window, and later buy him for Tiny Tim at the end.

** The story also features cameos by characters from ''[[Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Wind in the Willows]]'' and ''Disney/RobinHood'', along with [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]].

** The story also features cameos by characters from ''[[Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Wind in the Willows]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''.

* PlayingAgainstType: Of all the characters you might expect to play cold-hearted swindler and calculating businessman Jacob Marley, we get... ''Goofy''? Turns out HeReallyCanAct!

* This was the final time Donald Duck was voiced by his original voice actor, Clarence Nash. Nash died two years later and was replaced by Disney animator Tony Anselmo, who voices Donald to this day. This was also the first time Wayne Allwine and Alan Young voiced Mickey and Scrooge at length, and they became the permanent voices for those characters until ''their'' deaths in 2009 and 2016, respectively.

* Some of the tombstones in the cemetery bear the names of famous names in music, such as Bob Wills and Gladys Knight.

** Cameos from some characters of WesternAnimation/RobinHood.

* ReleaseDateChange: This was intended as a television special and was to debut on CBS in 1982, but an animators' strike meant it couldn't be finished in time. A ClipShow special, ''A Walt Disney Christmas'', had to be thrown together to take its place; that show has been covered at Blog/TheIslandOfMisfitChristmasSpecials. When it was finally released the next year, it was not initially on television, but theatrically, alongside a reissue of ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (earning an Oscar nomination at the process). It was finally shown on television in 1984, on NBC, and released on home video shortly afterwards.
* PlayingGertrude: Alan Young is younger than Clarence Nash even though Scrooge is older than Donald.

* Miscellaneous trivia:
** This was the final time Donald Duck was voiced by his original voice actor, Clarence Nash. Nash died two years later and was replaced by Disney animator Tony Anselmo, who voices Donald to this day (and who incidentally drew Donald for this cartoon). This was also the first time Wayne Allwine and Alan Young voiced Mickey and Scrooge at length, and they became the permanent voices for those characters until THEIR deaths in 2009 and 2016, respectively.
** Some of the tombstones in the cemetery bear the names of famous names in music, such as Bob Wills and Gladys Knight.