It’s Christmas Eve. And in my family, that means lasagna, a family reading of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and opening one (just one!) present. I’d imagine that a lot of you are looking forward to your own Christmas traditions, be it watching a movie or singing Christmas carols or, if you’re really old school, roasting chestnuts over an open fire.
But you’re probably not anticipating a visit from a bunch of ghosts who’ll show you what a wasted life you’ve been leading all these years.
Ebenezer Scrooge certainly didn’t want to make those sorts of visitations a tradition, either. But his story—as told by Charles Dickens and many, many, many others—has become as much a part of Christmas as Santa Claus and candy canes.
We’ve paid plenty of attention to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol over the years. We’ve written blogs about it. We’ve talked on podcasts about it. But this year, Emily Tsiao and I sit down to talk about one very special, and very puppety, adaptation of the story. That’s right: We dive into The Muppet Christmas Carol, which Emily insists is the very best adaptation of the story ever.
Is it really the best? Well, Emily and I talk about that very thing. We talk about the particular magic that the Muppets bring to this already (and literally) magical tale. We tackle the story’s theological underpinnings, too. And as a bonus, I get to wear a nice little nightcap during the entire video. (Well, it’s a bonus for me, at least.)
So knock on our Plugged In door, and don’t be put off by that shape-shifting knocker. Come on in and sit by the fire. We’ll dive into The Muppet Christmas Carol with both slippered feet. Come in and know the story better, man. We promise you’ll have fun.
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Thanks for continuing the Rewind series! It’s great to hear the team talk in-depth about films without the constraints of podcast segments and short time limits. I look forward to each new episode, the variety in which films are being discussed, and the many unexpected spiritual parallels that can be brought out of these stories.