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@space1999

Жыл бұрын

"The plot was predictable!?" Well, durr! It's a classic novel that's been filmed a hundred times and caricatured a thousand times!! Of course its familiar/predictable

@nsasupporter7557

Жыл бұрын

Clair also played Smalls’ mom on Sandlot and Katy on Animal House

@PapaMojo75

Жыл бұрын

Ummm....who is BILL MURRARY? LOL

@d.w.strangeman4963

8 ай бұрын

​@@PapaMojo75wasn't he **** Spoiler alert**** That bloke who had one of the funniest death scenes ever in "Zombie Land"?😂

My favorite part of this viewing is Mary's obliviousness to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol... lol

@0lyge0

Жыл бұрын

Same

@wolf9walker

Жыл бұрын

When she said she's never heard of it, I yelled "WHAT!!" at my cell.

@MJubecki1984

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that.

@Wizastudios

Жыл бұрын

That’s was hilarious. Knows the story points but not the source. CH’s story is a Christmas holiday classic.

@islandseeker1260

Жыл бұрын

In one more generation, maybe two, I dare say the historical reference baseline for future youth will be Justin Bieber and Kanye West!

Came to the comments to see Mary getting roasted for not knowing Charles Dickens’s immortal story AND to see how many recommended The Muppet’s Christmas Carol. Not disappointed.

@alex0589

Жыл бұрын

every. single. comment.

@nixnightbird138

Жыл бұрын

Everyone suggesting Muppets (which IS good) but nobody's mentioning the best of them: 1951's SCROOGE. It's pretty much a perfect adaptation of the book with a brilliant performance by Alastair Sim. If black & white doesn't please you, then 1999's A CHRISTMAS CAROL starring Patrick Stewart is quite good.

@mitchelltyler5972

Жыл бұрын

You can add your comment to that list.

@grendeltech

Жыл бұрын

@@nixnightbird138 was that the one with Alistair Sim?

@88wildcat

Жыл бұрын

I'm not roasting her. I just thought she was Richard Pryor.

The Chrismas Carol was Charles Dickens's most popular book. The most successful one in his career. Many television shows have used the plot of this book for a holiday special and there have been many adaptations of the book itself over the years. Of course, it was predictable, it was following the plot of a 200-year-old book that has been a holiday classic for several generations.

@MysterClark

Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit curious if she's even heard of A Christmas Carol before as she seems to think these different shows just happened to fall onto the same plot or are copying each other or something. I would've thought the fact that they were doing the show in the movie and the fact that it's called Scrooged would've been a tip off but maybe not! haha

@30noir

Жыл бұрын

That is a spectacularly poorly written comment.

@royedmonson7033

Жыл бұрын

@@30noir happy now?

@TheOtherOne111

Жыл бұрын

@@MysterClark at 27:40 she said she's never heard of it before

@MysterClark

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOtherOne111 Yeah. Suppose if you want to get technical she says she never heard of Charles Dickens' Scrooge. But there is no Charles Dickens' Scrooge as it was call A Christmas Carol and just contained a character named Scrooge. It still probably means she's never heard of A Christmas Carol either but I could see some confusion there if she thought Scrooge was an actual story. Either way, she seems very unaware this story has been around for a long time.

“The plot is very predictable.” It should be, it’s a beat for beat of Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol. It’s even the live performance they’re preparing for and performing at the end.

@DavidRomigJr

Жыл бұрын

Dickens is an extremely famous author and A Christmas Carol is his most well-known book, published in 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly business owner who underpays his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and won’t give him the day off for Christmas because he hates Christmas. His dead business partner shows up, says he’s been punished in death, forced to carry around the chains he forged in life, but tells Scrooge he can still be saved and will send three ghosts to him. After the ghosts, Scrooge has a change of heart. That’s the short-short version. There are many performances and adaptations of the book. I think a really good one is A Muppet Christmas Carol. Yes, it is performed by The Muppets and has minor tweaks, but it sticks really close to the story.

@filmfreak11

Жыл бұрын

Mary probably has no idea the live television program is intended to be the same plot as the movie being watched

@anthonyleland2362

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I am flabbergasted that you have never heard of A Christmas Carol. It is one of the most known and most beloved Christmas stories ever told. It had been paid homage to at least hundreds of times. Even The Muppets had their own take on it. I highly recommend digging into some past productions or even the original book. Cheers

@alexp601

Жыл бұрын

It's like saying you've never ever heard of the name Shakespeare

@Caseytify

Жыл бұрын

the Muppets Christmas Carol was magnificent, with Michael Caine as Scrooge.

@Crunchyfrog28

Жыл бұрын

I think its adorable

@soychidoese

Жыл бұрын

She's acting

@redrick8900

Жыл бұрын

Not all households celebrate Christmas.

Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1843) is the quintessential Christmas story written in English. It used to be required reading throughout most of the English speaking world. It's a shame that schools have abandoned such classics.

@redrick8900

Жыл бұрын

Well it's super Christian.

Well... Charles Dickens wrote the original about 180ish years before Popular, but we all experience the story for the first time in our own way, lol. This film has been one of my favorites for some years now, but it helps if you were already a fan of Bill Murray.

I think I witnessed a Christmas miracle. I have never encountered someone of Mary's age who has never encountered Dickens's A Christmas Carol. We are talking about a book that has been one of the most popular Christmas themes for roughly 200 years coming from one of the greatest authors who ever lived. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities just to name a few. I even know I am sounding like a Scrooge but I am genuinely astonished by this it's like not recognizing a Romeo and Juliet theme in a movie

@gmunden1

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. This was required reading from grade school to university.

@thechickapedia1175

7 ай бұрын

Right? I read this in 5th grade but I loved Mickeys Christmas Carol before that

If you're looking for another adaptation of "A Christmas Carol", I'd highly recommend you watch The Muppet's Christmas Carol.

@craig725

Жыл бұрын

I second this one

@richarddefortuna2252

Жыл бұрын

"A Blackadder Christmas Carol" is the absolute cynical best!

@greymatters6555

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. In addition, Gonzo gives a good, brief biography of Charles Dickens right at the beginning. The movie even concludes with, "If you liked this movie, you should read the book!"

@TwilightLink77

Жыл бұрын

There’s also Mickey’s A Christmas Carol.

@nsasupporter7557

Жыл бұрын

And the Jim Carrey 3D version directed by Robert Zemekis from 2009.

This is one of my all time favourite holiday movies. Every time the Ghost of Christmas Present hits him in the face with the toaster it cracks me up.

@Shritistrang

Жыл бұрын

Funniest part of the movie.

@MaryCherryOfficial

Жыл бұрын

so good!

@michaelccozens

Жыл бұрын

That's the inimitable Carol Kane killing it in that role. She also does a great job as the landlord/super in Tina Fey's "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt".

I can't believe that anyone hasn't heard of the very famous book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the most well-known Christmas story of all time that has been made into hundreds of movies including a Muppets Christmas Carol with Michael Caine as Scrooge.

@MaryCherryOfficial

Жыл бұрын

sorry >

@znk0r

Жыл бұрын

@@MaryCherryOfficial you kind of heard of it. I feel you knew about the ghosts of past, present, future and the whole premise but didn't know it all come from there.

@LitLounge

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 sorry😂😂😂

One of the most greatest Christmas films ever made and by far One of his best performances ever!! So much emotions and in the end compassion!!😂🤣😅😢😭❤👏🙌👍☃️❄🎅🎉

The fact that Bill Murray ad libed the speech makes the ending even more special.

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

Bill Murray ad-libs every big speech in his movies, it's kind of a staple with him.

The "A Christmas Carol" story is the single most adapted story in film and TV. Simply amazed that she knows to keep calling him a scrooge, but doesn't know that Ebenezer Scrooge is a character from A Christmas Carol. That episode of Popular she is ranking about was called "Fall on Your Knees" and debuted originally aired in December of 1999. 10 years after Scrooged came out.

YES. This movie is so underrated, it's been a family tradition since I was a kid!

Bill Murray's Scrooge was a staple of cable tv and of public television. 😂

Bill's final speech in is so life affirming.

@michaelccozens

Жыл бұрын

It was also completely improvised. The writers were horrified, thinking Murray was destroying the climax of their film. Donner, on the other hand, knew gold when he saw it.

Carol Cane as The Ghost Of Christmas Present is everything in this movie!!! And, you’re right. This faerie is absolutely unhinged!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

"oh it's one of those movies?" And "It's very predictable". It's literally called Scrooged, based on... You know...Mr Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. *facepalm*

Bobcat Goldthwait as Eliot Loudermilk is priceless. "Why does he have to act crazy all the time?" one second later *Gets served an eyeball in a shotglass*

@Sir_Scrumpalicious

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was going crazy trying to remember where I have seen Claire before. lol

@3DJapan

Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite 80s comedians.

"I like this lady!" Carol Kane (Ghost of Christmas Present) is a gift! She's so funny with her whimsical voice and layer of menace, constant violence that Frank deserves, and she's too cute to boot. She's always a delight.

@DanielBeadle511

Жыл бұрын

Mary probably thought she looked familiar because Kane played Granny in Addams Family Values.

@MaryCherryOfficial

Жыл бұрын

she was hilarious!!

@mikemeggison5084

Жыл бұрын

And she was Valerie (Miracle Max's wife) in Princess Bride.

@gmunden1

Жыл бұрын

Carol Kane starred in the TV sitcom "Taxi" with Danny Devito.

@bletheringfool

Жыл бұрын

As well as being a modern version of Scrooge it was a satire on the TV industry so a lot of the jokes relate to that

I just learned this yesterday. His brother and father in the movie are played by Bill Murray’s real life brothers.

@Rocket1377

Жыл бұрын

His older brother has been in a lot of Bill Murray's movies, including Ghostbusters II and Groundhog Day.

I Love that Mary talks about how she knows the theme of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, And points out that he's Scrooge, but "I don't know anything about Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol".

Oh please, Scrooge was done by Dickens almost 200 years ago. You are forgiven for finding it "predictable".

You should watch an actual direct adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. My favorite is the 1984 version with George C. Scott.

@ollietsb1704

Жыл бұрын

And other earlier versions, too.

@davidward9737

Жыл бұрын

To me that version is the best with George C Scott it is so dark as it should be

@desireetaylor7015

Жыл бұрын

Agreed as well as the Albert Finney adaptation Musical..."I hate people" song is the best!!!

@jd-zr3vk

Жыл бұрын

The 1951 version with Alistair Sims is the best.

'It's Bone You Lucky Dog!!!' That is my favorite part, had me laughing hard!

@30noir

Жыл бұрын

A bone*

This was a fun time watching him get to that really place of being a good man because we all struggle with that

Mary: _shocked by Bill Murray kiss at homeless shelter_ Me: "Mary? Mary?! Oh, God! Code Red! Factory reset! Factory reset!" 😂🤣

One of my favorites. Carol Kane kills me everytime 😂

3:40 "He's so scared." No, that's Bobcat Goldthwait. That's just the way he talks.

I watch this classic every year on my Birthday and I love the way at the end how Bill says his heartwarming speech with emotion and it made me cry with Calvin saying “God Bless us Everyone!”

"She's so familiar..." That's Carol Kane, Mary. You might recognize her as Miracle Max's wife in Princess Bride.

@Rocket1377

Жыл бұрын

She's also in The Addams Family Values as the Grandma.

I do love Frank's monologue at the end.

I just realized that the waiter when Frank has dinner with his boss is Socrates from Bill and Ted!

Another vote for watching Muppet's Christmas Carol.

You need to watch 1992s "The Muppets Christmas Carol". It is considered the most accurate adaptation of the story.

Did you say you've never heard the story of Scrooge/A Christmas Carol before? that's actually incredible! The Muppets Christmas Carol is the one to watch I would say, its very very good!

@30noir

Жыл бұрын

At the end she called it predictable because it was like another movie based on a christmas carol but said it was because they were 'christmas movies'? I'm still not sure she gets it.

@alexp601

Жыл бұрын

What's funny is that Mary uses the term scrooge to refer to someone tight/mean but she isn't familiar with the character of Scrooge

The speech at the end always got me tear eyed almost everytime 🥲

I'm genuinely surprised that you've only just heard of a Christmas Carol now! I always figured everyone on the planet has heard of that story!! Hope you watch the muppets version after this.

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is the most classic Christmas story. Literally everyone has done a version of this from the Flinstones to Jim Carey in an animated version to HBO doing a TV version to there being several live action versions that play it straight and countless others that parody or do their own version ever since the copyright was available to the public. Everyone undoubtedly has seen some version of this at some point in their life. A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island are two of the most adapted stories in cinema.

The fairy ghost is the grandmother from the second Adams family that's probably why she's familiar

This is my favorite version of "A Christmas Carol" Bill Murray is just hilarious!

1969, the air horn sounds, I laughed until my stomach and laughed some more.....thank you!!!!

I look forward to watching this every year. One of my favorites

It was a bit of a shock when I (14 years old) saw this movie for the first time (in German, btw.). But loved it (and Bill Murray), and still do.

This is definitely one of the best Christmas Carol movies.

Its predictable, because its a version of A Christmas Carol. There is no story by Dickens is called Scrooge, its A Christmas Carol. The best version of the book is the Alister Simm version from the 40s, however this is a very fun remake.

@nedrini1055

Жыл бұрын

Alastair Sim 1951 called Scrooge

@peterbridges5781

Жыл бұрын

@@nedrini1055 thanks for the correction

The Solid Gold Dancer's make any Christmas more merry, LOL.

The waiter in the restaurant scene is also the guy who played Socrates in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Amazing reaction!! Thanks to the subtitles, i noticed a line i NEVER noticed before: When Herman asks Frank for 2 bucks and he says "Herman, I blew it all on Liz" (Dick (Burton) was married to Liz (Taylor))" 🤣

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

My theory is Herman was actually an angel and not really a human, and was there specifically to help change Frank's mind.

Literature dies the slow death of a 1,000 cuts. Each generation reads less, and each generation looses some previous generation's treasures. I am guilty as anyone. I grew up in the 70's, and I did read Dickens' A Christmas Carol (by choice), but the list of great authors and books I haven't read leaves me ashamed, and despondent for the future of this world's culture.

Frank's (Bill Murray) boss is Legendary Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum. He was considered one of Hollywood's tough /rebellious actors on and off screen .

Almost every Christmas special is based on either A Christmas Carol or It’s A Wonderful Life

One cannot look at okder movies with the hyper sensitivy of this era. It's a guy who's a Scrooge and who changes.

Richard Prior was an American actor who set himself on fire smoking crack cocaine.

Muppets Christmas carol is THEE quintessential Christmas story a must watch

Oh snap one of my favorite Christmas movies ❤️

It is so endearing that you thought the show you mentioned was the only other version of this story put to screen. Since Charles Dickens published the novella, A Christmas Carol, in 1843 there have been more film versions of this story than any story ever written I should think.

How could you not want to comment on the whole Charles Dickens thing, I am crying laughing

Hi Miss Mary, Karen Allen is a great actress. Starman is also a good movie. I think it came out in 1984. Wish she was in more great movies.

This, A Christmas Story, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are my favorite Christmas Movies!

Claire is played by Karen Allen of "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" fame. She was Marion in that film.

Us millennials know back when we had tube screen TVs, which means dogs and cats couldn’t see what was on the screen back then. It’s only been recently with LCD TVs that they can see anything. heck, back then if you had a video camera and you tried filming a TV all you would see is part of a faded picture with a analog white band going over the screen. The point is TV screens were weird back then. To the point, they were really only calibrated for human site spectrum range.

I love this movie. It's fun and funny and heartwarming. I love Frank's speech at the end especially the part about how it's the one day we are the people we always wanted to be. It's really so true. Then Calvin speaks and the song.

Having recently watched this, this movie was quite ahead of its time with the marketing strategy they had in this movie.

I watch Scrooged and the Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol every year, aways have!! But I do like the end credits where Bill Murry gets the Audience to participate it's amd experience when your in the cinema and everyone joins in ❤

One of the best adaptations of a Christmas Carol, Another great one is the "Muppets Christmas Carol"

OMG!!!! I knew it!!! Mary Cherry was the best!!! So glad you confirmed that lol. This story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published in 1843. So that's why you know the story. Love that you know the show Popular too. It was one of my faves when I was a kid. No one I knew watched it lol. I'm showing my age because I saw it when it was originally on TV, not syndicated reruns, but glad they got their bag, they deserved it. It was a great show and canceled far too soon.

"maybe Calvin will be inspired and talk..." shhhh, no one tell her. 😉 Good reaction Mary😊

Knows what a "Scrooge" is but has never heard of Dickens or "A Christmas Carol"... wow.

Nobody ever watches "The Ref". A yearly Christmas staple in our home.

At 6:40, I knew I loved Mary's editor for a reason.....

Watch Bill Murray again in Groundhog Day. That's his favorite movie EVER.

@Metzwerg74

Жыл бұрын

scrooged and groundhog day are one of my christmas "must haves" but usually followed by "die hard".....

@nedrini1055

Жыл бұрын

Groundhog Day is in my top 10 movies of all time.

@walthersorsa4847

Жыл бұрын

Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I love Mary Cherry's genuine and joyfull reactions. But, and please dont take it the wrong way, she must not only lived all her life down under but also under a rock not having heard of one of the most popular pieces of literature: Charles Dickens Christmas Carol . There are hundreds of adaptation filmed since the invention of cinema and tv, including Mickey Mouse's and the Muppet's. But honestly Bill Murrray's portait of Ebenezer is my favourite one.

"She's so beautiful!" Karen Allen is a very underrated beauty of the 80's, with her big eyes and wide smile. I highly suggest John Carpenter's Starman for one of her best performances.

@johnfriday5169

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Good recommend

The Ghost of Christmas Present is my festive crush.

@johnfriday5169

Жыл бұрын

Carol Kane is a national treasure

One of the best movie lines ever... "The b*tch hit me with a toaster!"

One of my favorites from Bill Murray. His brother was played by his younger bother, and his dad was played by older brother.

and whats funny is people now a days make fun of the vcrs gifts but back when this came out those vcrs retailed for 1100-1300 a piece.

Ms. Cherry, I've often wondered if there are any Australian Christmas songs about the holiday being in the summertime? Christmas in the summer is something us northern hemispherians can't really get our heads around.

@michaelccozens

Жыл бұрын

There's a lot to delve into there, particularly as Christmas is mostly just hijacked winter-solstice celebrations (well, "celebrations"; it's mostly about keeping everyone from offing themselves by reminding them that, all evidence to the contrary, the world isn't dying and the sun is coming back. Also about the time you run out of stored and unspoiled fodder for livestock, and so have a feast instead of watching them starve) that are inevitably sliding-back to quasi-secularism (to the extent that it ever left that territory). But, at least in the North, the summer solstice is a lot less remarkable than the winter one (though I'm not sure Australia's deepest winter is quite as life-obliterating as it is in much of the top half of the world, particularly for those outside the effects of the Atlantic heat-pump), so I can see a lot of "traditional" Xmas stuff not quite resonating to the same degree. What's "A Christmas Carol" without the ever-present threat of darkness and cold, especially as it symbolizes Scrooge's dying empathy and humanity? Many a paper written on this, I'm sure.

How in the world can an adult who grew up in an English speaking country not be familiar with Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol? Blows my mind.

Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" was a schooltime classic. I have seen every adaptation from childhood on. Just about all of Charles Dickens' novels has been turned into a film, mini series, and Broadway play or musical.

I've always loved this movie.

My favorite version of A Christmas Carol for sure

He's not blurry. He's Murray.

@SwiftJustice

7 ай бұрын

Yes Points!

I’m actually pretty impressed with myself. Despite having never seen a single episode of Popular, I was able to correctly predict the beats of Scrooged when I first saw it in 1988! 😂

140 years after A Christmas Carol came out, Disney did Mickey's Christmas Carol and it was a big deal. Introducing and starring Scrooge McDuck who went on to have his own starring role on a show called DuckTales.

Many, many versions of Scrooge/A Christmas Carol. My favorite is a black & white classic starring Alistar Sim. Very solid telling of the story!

Blackadder's Christmas Carol is the absolutely hilarious and cynical best adaptation of Dickens' original, by far!

I know there are people flipping out because Mary didn't know A Christmas Carol. She's not the first Aussie reactor not to know it. I don't think the story is as well known in Australia as it is in the UK, US or Canada, so I'd cut her some slack.

Took me years, but I noticed that the phone numbers in this movie are real.. They don't have the typical "555" like fake numbers....

Charles Dickens' book about Scrooge is actually called A Christmas Carol, but some adaptations were called Scrooge instead, for some reason. The Popular episode is also an adaptation of the same book.

The ghost of Christmas Present is Carol Kane. She has been comedic actress for years. Have you seen "Princess Bride" or Adams Family movies? Or a straight version of Charles Dickens classic Christmas story "A Christmas Carol" I recommend the 1951 or 1984 version. Look them up.

I remember when Scrooged came out...there was a big lawsuit because they ripped off the whole plot of the movie from Popular. I think they eventually settled out of court.

@rocketdave719

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for reacting to this, despite the fact that some of the jokes haven't aged well, it's still one of my favorite Christmas movies.

RIP Richard Donner who in addition to this directed The Omen, Superman, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon and 16 Blocks. Next Bill Murray film should be Groundhog Day

You really should screen one of the classic film adaptations of Dickens' tale. The early ones feature Alistair Sim and Reginald Owen, and both have good qualities, but other later versions are also great, featuring Albert Finney, George C. Scott, and Sir Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. The best cartoon adaptation for me is the Mr. Magoo version.

@JB0071051982

Жыл бұрын

I watch the 1999 made for tv version with Sir Patrick Stewart every year at Christmastime. It is one of my go to Christmas movies.

As hard as it might be to believe, according to reviews the most accurate movie adaptation of this story that also uses the most direct quotes from the book is the movie The Muppets Christmas Carol. It’s a real good feel good movie that would be worth your time to watch.

There are a lot of Christmas Carol adaptations to check out: those our age are more partial to the Muppets version or the Disney version.