References to A Christmas Carol in other media. Whole Plot References should be placed under Yet Another Christmas Carol.
Comic Books
- A Christmas Archie Comics tale involved a bitter old business owner buying pine trees to make toothpicks with. Said businessman's name happened to be H.M. Bugg.
- The Pagemaster: The gravestone of Jacob Marley is seen in the horror section.
- Belfast: Buddy goes to see a stage production with his family at one point.
- Carry On at Your Convenience: One of the horses Sid Plummer bets on is called "Tiny Tim".
- Molly's Game: When Molly meets her father near the end, and accuses him of not giving her money when she needed it, her father calls her, "Tiny Tim".
- Violent Night: The leader of the mercenaries attempting to rob the Lightstone family uses the code name Mr. Scrooge.
- The Dresden Files:
- Fool Moon: Agent Benn discards a wolf-belt as grudgingly as "Scrooge might have let fall a string of diamonds".
- White Night: When describing just how rarely Mac talks Harry says that if money were words, Mac would make Scrooge look like Monty Hall.
- The short story "Even Hand" is from Marcone's perspective and gives an amusing bit of insight into Hendrick's taste in literature. When imaging what quote Hendricks is going to critique his current plan with Marcone goes over some Hendricks has used before in his head, including "Are there no prisons" from A Christmas Carol.
- Ghost Story: Harry insists that Uriel make like the Ghost of Christmas Present before he decides, at the end.
- Rivers of London: In "Favourite Uncle", Abigail finds a reference in the Folly library hinting that A Christmas Carol may have been inspired by a real fae encounter — and the being she meets later in the story has some of the mannerisms of the Ghost of Christmas Present.
- In Language Arts, Charles's fourth grade teacher points to each child's assigned seat like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
- Goodnight, Mr. Tom has the children of Little Weirwold, both locals and evacuees, put on a production of the story at Christmas 1939. This production is complicated by the fact that many of the evacuees' parents are taking their children home due to there being no immediate (at the time) threat from Germany, meaning the roles played by evacuees have to be recast.
- Arrow: "Three Ghosts", aired just before Christmas, is a heavy handed non-Christmas A Christmas Carol plot, as Oliver hallucinates the titular ghosts throughout the episode: Shado is "Past", and the horrors of his time at the island; Slade is Present, representing his current crisis of confidence and the Big Bad of the season, as revealed at the episode's end, while Tommy is "Future", and the hope for Oliver that he can, in fact, become a hero.
- Castle: Castle grants Alexis permission to see Fame with her boyfriend "but I have dibs on A Christmas Carol." Alexis' actor, Molly Quinn, did voicework for the film.
- Mork & Mindy: In the episode "Twelve Angry Appliances", Mork disguises himself as the "Ghost Of Appliances Past".
- Northern Exposure: In "Shofar, So Good", Joel fasts in preparation for Yom Kippur, and suffers a hallucination of his childhood Rabbi, appearing as the spirits of Yom Kippur Past, Present, and Future, showing him visions of how his behavior affects those around him. There's even expies of Ignorance and Want, included!
- St. Elsewhere: In "Good Vibrations", Ebenezer and Marley Wright are named after Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol.
- The West Wing: In the season two episode "18th and Potomac", Mrs. Landingham is going to buy herself a new car for the first time since her husband died. Charlie tries to get her to get whatever discounts she can, but she insists on paying the sticker price. When President Bartlet hears of this, he greets her by calling her, "Bob Cratchit."
- NetHack: Overhearing things while hallucinating can elicit the description You hear Ebenezer Scrooge!
- Overwatch: McCree's holiday skin serves as a shout-out to Scrooge from A Christmas Carol.
- Plague Inc.: One of the many quick shout-outs provided by the news ticker is "Banker attempts suicide -haunted by three ghosts."
- The Order of the Stick: In the "Stick Tales" stories there's a quick shout-out to A Christmas Carol.Greenhilt: Start talking about why you're haunting the castle, and it better not be because I've lost the true spirit of Christmas.
King: Well, you have.
Greenhilt: NOT THE POINT.
- Philosophy Tube: In introducing Charles Dickens in her Capital Punishment
video prior to quoting his disgust at a public execution he attended Abigail makes the amusing aside that Dickens is the author of Oliver Twist and The Muppet Christmas Carol. - Zsdav Adventures: Tiny Tim appears as a recurring villain in the series where he lost his legs and tries vile and cruel methods to grow them back. He debuted in Karácsonyi külön kiadás (Christmas special) where he shows no signs of villainy but after-coming episodes do portray him as evil.
