''Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol'' is an eight-minute

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produced by Warner Bros. Television and

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, and aired on

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on November 27, 1979 as the first segment of the Christmas special, '' Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales''. The cartoon is an adaptation of the

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1843 novella ''

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'', featuring

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Ebenezer Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge () is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, ''A Christmas Carol''. Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the G ...

and

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Bob Cratchit Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel ''A Christmas Carol''. The overworked, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge, Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hou ...

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plays the ghost of

Jacob Marley Jacob Marley is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol''. Marley has died seven years ago, and was a former business partner of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, the novella's protagonist.Hawes, Donal''Who's Who i ...

and Scrooge's nephew, Fred. Scrooge's dream-journey into his past, present, and future is omitted; instead, Fred dresses up as Marley's ghost to scare the unhappy protagonist straight.

Plot

Scrooge is counting money in the

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of his firm when

comes in, wanting to borrow a lump of

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as he is freezing. Scrooge refuses ("I gave you a lump of coal a week ago; you should've made it last."), and tells him to just work faster so he'll keep warm. Then Scrooge's nephew Fred comes in with

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s and

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. He is tossed out, and decides that "somebody oughta teach that little man some Christmas spiriting". Fred then borrows a piece of coal and places it in the office of Cratchit, who graciously thanks him. However, Scrooge's cat

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notices this and warns him. Scrooge takes back the coal, throwing him out along with the carolers

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, Pepe Le Pew and

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whom Fred let into the office, and fires Cratchit...who invites Fred to dinner. Fred is introduced to Bob's wife and their offspring, including youngest son Tim. Suddenly, the local Light Company shows up and takes the Cratchits' last candle (because their bill is past due). After that comes a notice, from none other than Scrooge, that the family's mortgage is being foreclosed; the Cratchits must vacate their house by midnight. Fred angrily vows to save Bob's domicile however he can. Fred starts by annoying Scrooge with more carolers; when Scrooge goes out to deal with this, he slips in a pile of snow. Next, Fred puts

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into Scrooge's hot bath, turning it ice-cold as Scrooge jumps in. Fred then dresses up as the ghost of Scrooge's late business partner

...dragging around

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s and beats a

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. Investigating, Scrooge accidentally slips down the stairs and into the cold along with Sylvester. When they return to bed, the ghost of Marley reappears. Sylvester promptly flees, slamming the door behind him and cutting off Scrooge. The ghost of Marley threatens to take Scrooge to see "the man in the red suit" (the

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, though Scrooge first guesses

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). Scrooge promptly changes his ways for the better. To prove himself reformed, he dresses up as Santa Claus and runs through the streets at night...shouting "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" and pelting total strangers with fistfuls of cash. He also rehires Bob Cratchit by making his new partner in the firm, succeeding Marley. Tweety raises a toast to him, and Fred kisses him. Scrooge (now going by the name of Sam) still hates kissing, though. This story is the first part of '' Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales''. As the second one featuring Wile E. Coyote and The Roadrunner ('' Freeze Frame'') begins, Bugs congratulates Sam for making Scrooge a charitable character, but Sam tells Bugs that it was all a play, and demands Porky and the gang give all his money back to him.

Cast

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, Tiny Tim Cratchit,

, Pepé, Foggy,

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and Ghost of Jacob Marley

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