History Film / TheMuppetChristmasCarol

* HarsherInHindsight[[invoked]]: An intentional in-universe example. The choir of elderly lady Muppets saying that Scrooge must be lonely and sad, then changing their minds when he ignores them, is PlayedForLaughs. Then we discover his backstory, showing they were right.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie follows the book very closely, and can be seen as very dark for a Muppet movie. The emotion is often put before the laughter, Gonzo and Rizzo provide more than half of the comic relief, and the part with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is both scary and sad--and Gonzo and Rizzo bail on that sequence out of fear of the Ghost, saying they'll be BackForTheFinale. The Marley(s) scene is one of the biggest PlayedForDrama scenes in the franchise, even though they are portrayed by JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Belle breaks off her engagement to Scrooge, she leaves the scene ''and'' the story, never to be seen or mentioned again[[note]]In Dickens' original, the Ghost follows this vision with another one of Belle implied to take place during the period Marley was dying, happily married to someone else and with a loving family[[/note]].

* GoOutWithASmile: The Ghost of Christmas Present begins to vanish into nothingness, much to the devastation of Scrooge who pleads him to stay. The Ghost though remains jolly and upbeat right to the very last bitter second, perhaps offering some hopeful optimism to Scrooge as the two are forced to part ways.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Belle breaks off her engagement to Scrooge, she leaves the scene ''and'' the story, never to be seen or mentioned again[[note]]In Dickens' original, the Ghost follows this vision with another one of Belle in the present, happily married to someone else and with a loving family[[/note]].

->'''Gonzo:''' Hello! Welcome to ''The Muppets Christmas Carol''! I am here to tell the story\\

** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking A relatively minor example]], as it doesn't occur in-story: during the [[TheVillainSucksSong "Scrooge"]] musical number, a harpsichord can be heard playing in the background. This is inaccurate for the time period, as the harpsichord was more popular in the [[BaroqueMusic Baroque era (c. 1600-1750)]], but the film takes place during the Romantic era of music (c. 1780-1910), by which time the piano [[note]] invented around the 1700s [[/note]] had practically replaced the harpsichord as the standard keyboard instrument.[[note]]It's also worth noting that this particular example occurs only on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBUwS_Sp0k soundtrack version of the song]] - it's possible that the filmmakers realised this mistake in post and [[ShownTheirWork removed the harpsichord part accordingly]] before the film was finished. Unfortunately, the soundtrack version was still [[RecycledTrailerMusic used in the trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpu2tq9GG4 though]].[[/note]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: The Marleys treat Scrooge's "more gravy than grave" line as one.
-->''Leave comedy to the bears, Ebeneezer!''

->''"If being mean's a way of life you practice and rehearse\\
Then all that work is paying off, 'cause Scrooge is getting worse.\\
Every day, in every way, Scrooge is getting worse!"''\\
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'''Creator/CharlesDickens (Gonzo):''' Hello! Welcome to ''The Muppets Christmas Carol'' page! I am here [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere to describe the page.]]\\

Every day, in every way, Scrooge is getting worse!"''