This is an adaptation of Charles Dickens classic and one of his most famous works A Christmas Carol that features clowns in place of the well known and beloved characters. it is an 8 minute & 32 second short that opens with Marley getting backed into an alley and then getting murdered by an unseen assailant. Scrooge is the only person paying his last respects at Marley's grave. Afterwords he walks back to his office, counts his money, harrasses his clerk, gets interrupted by his nephew, the charity collectors, and Christmas Carolers. The short ends right after Scrooge is initially confronted by Marley's ghost. He shakes it off and walks out of his office. The link for it is right here
This work contains the following tropes:
- Angry Fist-Shake: Scrooge does this at an old lady whose looking at him from her window while walking back to his office. He also is holding a pipe in his hand and seems to be flipping her off with it.
- Fingore: It's so cold in Scrooge's counting house that one of Cratchit's fingernails falls off because of frostbite. There's even a Gross-Up Close-Up shot of him pulling it off
- Intelligible Unintelligible: None of the characters are intelligible to the audience. We have to rely on overly exaggerated body language and knowledge of the story from other sources to know what's going on. The characters can all perfectly understand each other though.
- The Speechless: None of the characters in this adaption of A Christmas Carol talk, they grunt, scream, sigh, make all kinds of funny noises but they never say a word. When Cratchit talks to Scrooge, he calls him Scroogie, when Scroogie's nephew shows up and happily invites him to dinner, the audience only knows this is happening because its been done so much before, all Scroogie says is Bah Humbug and coughs.
- Villainous Harlequin: Scrooge is not so subtly implied to be the one who murdered Marley. When Cratchit asks him for coal, Scrooge threatens him with a bat that looks like the same one used to beat Marley to death. He also uses the same bat to chase out The Charity Collectors and it even has blood spatter on it.
