Line #9 Trivia/MickeysChristmasCarol


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Creator/WayneAllwine not only voices Mickey Mouse, but he also voices the beggar who asks Scrooge for change at the beginning as well as the first weasel gravedigger.
3	** Will Ryan voices Willie the Giant, the Big Bad Wolf and Pete.
4	* AllStarCast: Just about every major character from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts appears in this, with the odd exception of Pluto, although Pluto was originally supposed to appear.
5	** The story also features cameos by characters from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad The Wind in the Willows]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Robin Hood\|1973}}'', along with [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats Uncle Waldo]].
6	* KidsMealToy: In the 1984 holiday season, Hardee's released a set of five plushes. These consisted of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Scrooge.
7	* TheOtherDarrin:
8	** For both the LP and the short; Creator/AlanYoung 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]].
9	** For the LP, Minnie and Daisy were voiced by Creator/JanetWaldo after both were previously voiced by Ruth Clifford. For the short, Daisy was voiced by Patricia Parris.
10	** For the LP, Mickey is voiced by Alan Young instead of his usual voice actor at the time Jimmy [=MacDonald=].
11	** For the short, Goofy is voiced by Hal Smith instead of Tony Pope (his primary voice actor at the time). Smith would go on to voice Goofy for a few more educational shorts and shorts during TheEighties.
12	** As Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher had passed away in 1971 and 1979, Will Ryan takes over as Willie the Giant and Pete & Big Bad Wolf.
13	* PlayingAgainstType:
14	** Of all the characters you might expect to play cold-hearted swindler and calculating businessman Jacob Marley, we get... ''Goofy''? Turns out SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct!
15	** 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 as him could be so scary?
16	* 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/DisneyChannel, and released on home video shortly afterwards.
17	* SwanSong: 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.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One rejected idea was to have Scrooge pass a pet shop with an eager Pluto in the window, and later buy him for Tiny Tim at the end.
19	* WrittenByCastMember: Scrooge's voice actor Alan Young helped adapt the story and was one of the writers given a "Story Adapted by" credit.
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21	!!Miscellaneous trivia
22	* This was the first time Creator/WayneAllwine and Creator/AlanYoung voiced Mickey and Scrooge at length (though Wayne had begun voicing Mickey six years prior on the animated wraparounds of ''The New Mickey Mouse Club''), and they became the permanent voices for those characters until their deaths in 2009 and 2016, respectively.
23	* Some of the tombstones in the cemetery bear the names of famous names in music, such as Bob Wills and Music/GladysKnight. Another tombstone has the name of Barry Temple, an animator who worked on this and other Disney productions.

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