An Angel for Christmas (Goodtimes) - Phelous
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- An Angel comes a to town run by an evil flange factory, whose owner totally isn't a Scrooge stand in, which has banned Christmas. But she forgets she's an Angel until the end.
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I don't know why the writers didn't just make it, like, a mining town. He could be like "I hate Christmas cuz it means the workers get days off". It would have solved a lot of major logic issues.
Cal if they did that, the movie might have been watchable, and apparently they intended this to be painful.
Well, technically, wouldn't that still hold true in a factory town? He just never gives days off, including Christmas and other holidays?
The OG Scrooge was mad about having to pay people on days off at least in most adaptations.
True, but this is Goodtimes, and logic is a concept that means nothing to them
There are legit reasons rich people hate Christmas. This film was too lazy to think of them
I'm absolutely shocked that one guy didn't turn out to be Santa.
Yeah, I mean why design a character to look exactly like Santa and then make no reference to it?
Yeah that’s the craziest plot twist-that-is-not-a-plot-twist ever
It really doesn't make any sense at all. Why design a character to look like Santa, in a CHRISTMAS special, and then do nothing with it? It's yet another instance of "What The Heck Was The Character Design Department Thinking?"
@@maniacaldude to hint he is a good guy really?
How is it possible that a cartoon can feel like it was improvised as it went along
Having some experience animating in flash, it's when you actually animate shit and record voice as you go along!
How they did that with allegedly professional animation production, I have no idea.
How is it possible that this comment is from 1 week ago but this video was posted today?
Because I'm one of Phelous's patrons and get to see videos early, MYSTERY SOLVED
WAIT!!! Do we know if these witches weigh as much as a duck?
Ask the masters of the art: Dingo Pictures.
One thing I must give this movie: they actually knew that Holly was the one with red berries and not Mistletoe.
They totally dropped the ball by not naming the animal sidekick Wolfred
Well, at least they didn't call him something cliched like Wolfie or Fluffy.
Your sona(?) is adorable. is the a roo?
@@brunobucciaratiswife Yeah but he's just an OC (my sona happens to be also a roo though)
Wolfgang? Wolf grey?
"Why was it ok for 25 years before this Christmas?" well you see Phelan the Elder gods knew that if all holidays merged with each other it would cause the destruction of the multiverse so they created the rules of Holiday combat that states that if someone suppresses a holiday for 25 years they can merge the holiday with theirs. The Angel is in fact the Protector God of Christmas Realm.
And therefore she is.... God of Useless~!
I had no idea the Elder Gods actually cared about the well being of mortals. They're such nice guys.
I know I'm late writing a comment here, but has anyone noticed that the want a be scrooge looks and sounds like hey Arnold's grandpa.
Godism: 😅
Enforcer Santa, the greatest Christmas kombat character.
That tree got wet in the river. It's completely useless now....
This movie is wet from the snow! It's completely useless now!
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
If ya want to rewrite this thing into something worth while (albeit sappy) make it that the villain hates Christmas because his daughter died years ago during Christmas and hates how others were happy while he lost everything. Then at the end the angel is revealed to actually be his daughter come back to make him stop forcing anti-Christmas on people and move on from his grief.
You can set the story around the end of world war II when people were super patriotic and overzealous about Christmas but where they have to work really hard on artilary for the war and keeping them from celebrating it.
I guess what I'm saying is - if you could rewrite this story about finding love and hope in a time of dire situations or such it would be really sweet.
I would watch that take on this movie.
Oh crap! He actually does look like the wolf on Cookie Crisps cereal!
As an Angela I will say it's a relief to see an actual good guy with the name instead of an ironically named villain
Oh I just love cancelling the biggest money making holiday and preventing me and my town from getting big money and potential big investors. I'm a stupid evil businessman.
stlouisrocker100 Most of these businessmen are soooo stupid.
They sure are.
Yeah that's basically what it is
He's Scrooge but without the reasons for hating Christmas, a heel face turn that makes sense, and a brain. So basically a watered down and idiotic Scrooge.
Makes as much sense as cutting wages so your employees can't spent their money.....
I think it would have been cool to have the Angela character act like an actual Biblical Angel and had her slaughter the town with fire and brimstone because they refused to show her hospitality.
“bE nOT aFRaID”
To be honest the story concept wasn't horrible and might have made for a decent Christmas special. So of course GoodTimes mishandled it horribly.
What's even more frustrating about these is that it wouldn't be difficult (or runtime consuming) at all to give these characters actual motivations, they just do pointlessly villainous things because "dumb kids movie."
Possibilities:
- doesn't want to give workers another off day
- sees the celebrations as wasteful or unproductive
- had some personal/family tragedy happen on christmas
- seeing families happily celebrate fills him with resentment at his own lonely childhood
Even more blatantly 'evil' options like just wanting to crush his worker's spirits so they stay in line would be SOMETHING, although the Scrooge style character 180 would be difficult in that case. He'd probably just have to fall into a vat of his own boiling green goo at the end.
All of those possibilities were the reason for Scrooge to hate Christmas. All of them.
I love the logic here "If you won't put down a tree, I'm gonna close the factory that I didn't close for a single day in year because I was afraid to lose profit" Genius
5:15 You know Scrooge at least had a decent reason for hating Christmas...most of the worst moments of his life happened to him around Christmastime, so the annual resurgence of it forced him to relive his holiday-spawned PTSD every single year. What's THIS guy's excuse?!
"I hate Christmas, I think it's the worst!"
Shredderouge (?)
I couldn’t stop laughing at “And then they fell in love and created the first Werewolf!” Ha haha ha! Always love your they just fell in love jokes!
Have you seen Goodtimes' actual adaptation of A Christmas Carol? That's one of their most bizarre adaptations and that's saying a lot.
Highlights of that include:
-The Ghost of Christmas Past flying backwards briefly and making Scrooge surf on snow.
-The Ghost of Christmas Present turning Scrooge's living room into a beautiful garden with a waterfall (insert Old Man joke here).
-The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come looking like some sort of wizard with green skin and pointed elf shoes.
-Jacob Marley having godlike powers not unlike The Christmas Tree's Santa (when the Ghost of Christmas Present beckons Scrooge to join him, Scrooge wonders aloud if Marley was right about the Ghosts being helpful and then Scrooge's bedroom is filled with a giant lightning bolt, to which Scrooge responds, 'Marley never liked being doubted' or something like that.
McGeesJabberwock
"Christmas Yet to Come" is a mouthful.
I can't wait to see Phelous do that one!
I'm hoping he does that one this year. I watched that movie a lot as a kid.
do you mean the one with tim curry as scrooge?
No, I think that one was DIC (it also had Ed Asner play a Jacob Marley that looked a bit like Senor Moustache from Golden Films' BatB crossed with "Golly Gosh Man" from Burbank's lol)
I was hoping for a Cricket on the hearth joke somewhere with the kids bringing random pickups on the street to live with them
♫Angel on the hearth!♫
I’m a machinist and I’ve made flanges before and can confirm that that’s not a flange.
It’s probably a sex toy or something.
Also the threads on the flange you showed in the video look very clean and that made me happy.
Or maybe some kind of paperweight or abstract sculpture.
So this is where Cookie Crisp wolf got his first gig
If the town doesn't celebrate Christmas for the 25th year in a row, the Earth realm will be taken over by Out World.
OHH my gawd! I had the same joke! *laughs*
It's a Very Johnny Cage Christmas
DAAAAAMMMMN YOOOOOOOUUUUUU!!!
Sub-zero makes the Earth snowy while Scorpion makes fireplace fires all over the place.
THAT'S IT!
Siro: the MERRIEST Mortal Kombat character
Not gonna lie, that wolf character has a surprisingly smooth and sexy voice.
Yeah it fits the character to be more sophisticated and full of high class 🎩🍷
i mean...you're not wrong.
Official royal pet? Official royal pet.
9:25 Sore-y? I love it when these cartoons literally speak Phelous' language.
You mean saying it with an "o" like how it's spelled!? Honestly most of the time I don't notice that we and the U.S. Americans say "sorry" differently, but the Americans always seem to be able to point it out.
Same here.
Master Markus the short "o" sound works too, especially since it isn't followed immediately by a consonant and another vowel. It is interesting and a bit funny that a lot of Ontarians, especially, seem to say it with the long "o", but I noticed some Minnesotans, for example, say it similarly. My Anglo phone family members in Quebec almost pronounce it the same too. It's just a bit of gentle ribbing. We say so many funny and weird things on this side of the border of course.
Aboot.
@@mastermarkus5307 everyone says words differently. It’s dialect.
Red skies at night, they live in Gotham confirmed.
I stopped watching the Nostalgia Critic to watch this. Phelous is the bomb
Proud to be an Misanthrope
Agreed. I will occasionally watch NC stuff still, but mostly I just like NC for introducing me to phelous and lupa and Brad ,:P
Malcolm Alex I learned NC from the nerd. Than NC introduced me to the rest of the gang.
The Nostalgia Critic really lost his touch since his revival four years ago.
Johnell Diaz May I ask how? I know most reviews recently it have become a bit cringe worthy.
Proud to be an Misanthrope Overuse of skits, a reliance on "messages" and story rather than the review at hand, contempt of when his audience disagrees with him and, more recently, an obsession with Trump jokes which are neither funny or original.
That's the summary, but I'm sure there are more reasons.
I can see the ads now: "Buy flantasy flaaaaange..."
🤣
I was so glad you pointed out the fact literally every cartoon that happens in forests have wolves randomly showing up to eat people even tho that's unlikely in real life.
Seriously, there is ALWAYS random wolves or bears attacking for no reason in every cartoon. And they always kind of... just... show up.
It's actually much more likely to be attacked by a deer or a boar but i guess we can't possibly teach kids that adult Bambi IS in fact a very dangerous wild animal. Duh. Deer good. Wolf bad.
PS: eveil flange guy looks like a pigeon.
Finally, a cartoon I actually remember. And I'm not proud of it.
I had a box set of the good times family classics growing up, I know your pain
He has hit some movie I remembered like the first Anastasia movie he did and the Christmas bulb plus this movie I was hoping he do this after those
Sanjūrō Surine Really? I never came across these things in my life!
But I remember watching A Troll in Central Park and the "second" Snow White, which where beautifully/competent animated crap! 😏
The parents could've asked a neighbor or someone to take her in at least. Damn these people are heartless.
There's always goodtimes while watching Phelous' reviews. ^_^
DashieSparkle but there are no good times while watching this movie alone.
that is so true
DashieSparkle agreed. Take notes, everypony else! (Namely Dingo and Goodtimes/Golden Films)
+Didgeree Media I want to see Dingo rip off MLP now. 🤔
is Dingo even around still?
Wow, the really forced character transformations reminded me of the villain in Cricket on the hearth
At least that one SORT of made sense in that he really cared for her and when presented with the idea that he was a good and worthwhile person, something he likely didn't believe himself, his heart was warmed to the extent that he wanted to meet that expectation (albeit in a dinky poorly established way). While in this the visage of an angel touched his heart so much that the personality switch in his brain was flipped to "good"
Iirc Cricket on the hearth was adapted from a book that was written by Charles dickens. I'm sure that they had to rush something but I'm surprised that it would be that bad.
It's obvious why an angel would want to hang out with a wolf...
She needs his insides to be beautiful again.
oh
*WHEEZE*
All eyes on me! Lol 😆
It’s because the writers needed a bland comic relief character to be added to the story Wilfred Wolf is one dimensional and he’s just a rude snob
19:29
“You were expecting an angel, but it is I, Dio!”
Wow, the Hunchback did a better job hiding he was an angel
It's sad when a two minute Robot Chicken skit has a better story about a blatantly evil town leader banning Christmas resolved by Angel Ex Machina. Maybe all this movie needed was a humping robot instead of a talking wolf.
Little miss angel-pants is probably immortal and doesn't actually need to eat and the wolf can just go hunt his own food in the wild like he always had before. Nah! Instead, let's impose on a family of strangers who can barely support themselves. Tis the season for freeloading!
Wolf gets one nice meal and then immediately starts demanding more
It wasn’t food she really wanted.
Angela x Angelmodo, the ship of the ages!
Maybe the wolf is also an angel and that's just his fursona. Don't judge him.
Alice Angel And Boris Relationship?
That Christmas tree fell in the water. You know what THAT means!
25 years they don't celebrate Christmas and Bear answers from one to the other "it's Christmas this particular day".
They didn't forget what something they ignore for 25 years to do?
The people of this town have the most vivid memory ever.
How many Doves the Dove foundation gave this movie?
Wow, what horrible sin made it lose two doves?
The voice of Wolfred... it sounds familiar...
Hold on, pitch it down, add a slight bit of gruffness, yeeeess...
Holy crap, it's Beast Wars Megatron!
It should not have taken me 17 minutes to realize why her name is Angela
Idk if you're going to read this, Phelan, but thank you so much for this video. My boyfriend broke up with me last night. I love him. I feel so empty inside. Despondent I guess. I don't know why, but your sarcastic reviews of dumb kid's cartoons are one of those things that are funny and entertaining enough to distract me and even make me laugh a little, even while I'm crying.
Sorry to hear that. Glad my vids help a little!
Phelan Porteous :) You're awesome.
Does this movie take place in the Pureflix universe? Because replace the Sterotypical corrupt CEO with a Stereotypical Atheist who outlawed Christmas in this town, and you have the perfect setup to a Pureflix movie!
TheArceusftw pureflix?
kanchomerocks12 The Gods Not Dead "Series" among other horrible, ghastly examples of the worst of Christian fundamentalist propaganda.
See "The Bible Reloaded" for more details.
The Cinema Snob also did quite a few of them, made his own parody film, only for it to have been ripped off by pureflix. (in brad's own words: 'It's like if Airplane! came out before Zero Hour')
gunmunz Pureflix ripped off Jesus Bro? What do you mean?
It's called 'Let There Be Light' basicly same plot of a famous atheist who has a near death experience and becomes a christian.
As someone whose name honestly actually IS Bear, I had a great laugh over this!
COMMENTS SECTION INTERRUPTING BEAR!
In all seriousness, that's quite cool! 😄
Weird. I work at a place that makes parts like what’s being made in the factory (more than flanges and they arent green) and if we drop a part and it breaks, we just scrap it and order new ones. If the rule was getting fired for dropping a part, no one would be working there anymore.
New Phelous Christmas video! Surgery recovery sucks less now! 😊
Mike White get well soon~
TiffanyDoll thank you kindly 😊
Get better soon!
Hope you feel better soon :3
Mike White Ah? What happened to you?
The flange businessman is actually the reincarnated body of the Grinch... hence the Whovian style flanges... But what happened in Ironville they say? Why the flange man's heart grew 3 sizes that day!
Salem went from being a cat and got turned into a wolf.
That moment when you almost cry because the new phelous good times review came out JUST as you're having an episode, and feeling depressed and broken.
Suddenly I'm actually smiling and laughing :)
THANKS PHELOUS! I'm SO GLAD to have found your channel. Always super entertaining and engaging, and welcoming. :D
Malcolm Alex I'm in literally the same position right now.
Malcolm Alex Couldn't agree more! Phelous deserves more recognition than junk like Josh Thomas and DarkSidePhyl. Maybe Phelous should do a collaboration with Johnny on one of his videos.
Tommy Deonauth's Archives yeah- when I realized he had a backlog of literally hundreds of videos I was like... How have I never heard of this guy before? He creates the exact sort of content I love, and even things like the bootleg zones- which I've never been into toy review videos before- caught my attention, and made a fan of me instantly lol.
I feel exactly the same way about Phelous' reviews...I struggle a bit with depression too and they always make me laugh, always so funny. 😊 You take care.
Same! I'm suffering from so much fear and depression this week
"What can I give an angel for Christmas?" AH! He said it!
Yes I agree Mr Covet. Flanges are what I live for too. Flanges are the best thing in the world. Life is meaningless without flanges. Flanges at home. Flanges at the mall. Flanges at the post office. And even flanges in kin Jung Uns basement. Flanges for every boy and girl. People say that earth revolves around the sun. They are wrong. Earth revolves around a giant flange. I pray to flanges with my flange shrine every night. Flanges, you have done well.
11:49 Seriously why hasn't anyone made a Christmas werewolf movie?
Because it would it would probably be a really bad horror movie... Hey that means Phelous would review it. Haha
I’d watch the heck out of that!
"He'll be home for the howlidays"
Genius! We have our tag line!
It would probably be a b-movie, but it doesn't matter because I'd still watch it. As long as the werewolf isn't bad CGI.
I feel like these guys just grabbed A Christmas Carol, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and The Little Match Girl, then thought "how can we make this all at once but also make it terrible?" and this was born
I know I should feel this is a really cheap cartoon, but after all those Dingo 'cartoons' this one looks almost top-notch.
This was my childhood I had the 15 disk collection
"This movie is a sobering reminder of why we don't let flanges control our lives anymore."-Phelous
11:46 Yes Phelan watch it instead, the movie is called Wolf Children! ;)
I can fix a bit of this story in a way that makes the talking wolfred NOT pointless.
The christmas patrol finds the kids bringing the tree to town. Outraged, santa man cuts the rope, which provokes Wolfred to attack by biting his arm. In defense, santa man stabs Wolfred in the chest, killing him. all of the kids are upset, and Angela cries. they bring Wolfred back to town to have a funeral (for some reason AFTER the whole tree thing because we still need dumb logic), where they're confronted because of the tree. Angela reveals that she cannot make Wolfred come back to life, but that single patch of falling snow begins snowing on Wolfred to Angela's surprise, which brings him back.
Finally we see the one village that " Cancelled Christmas " like the Sheriff ordered in the Costner Robin Hood Movie. 😹
I'm guessing the factory owner's logic is that he doesn't want his workers to take a day off of work for Christmas.
That's the only logical reason.
22:31 Well, we do have Christmas ham in Sweden, but what kind of maniac would toss it into a tree?
I hate Christmas and you heard it first
I love it when Santa doesn't rehearse
I hate Christmas
I T S T H E W O R S T
Sung by Jesus Christ?
Rock it, Oliver Cromwell!
🎵I love contradictions I think it’s the worst 🎶😂
The dvd case was so subtle about Angela being a angel
Phoenix Animation, not to be confused with Phoenix Games.
11:44 I'd TOTALLY watch "The First Christmas Werewolf"! Someone make this ASAP
I'm fairly sure any company that attempts to ban Christmas like this would face all kinds of issues. Especially legal ones. Plus the company would face a major PR backlash
Oh Wilfred, you are so funny adjacent.
Merry Canadian Christmas !!!
Ｂｏｘｉｎｇ Ｄａｙ
Nathaniel Foga have a nice Australian Christmas! Scorching summer days! Yay(!)
Nathaniel Foga Marry Christmas to you too
Nathaniel Foga Fuck Canada!
That "anyway... you want some coooookie crisp" line always cracks me up.
Imagine the movie just stopped there because it was just an one hour ad.
**net neutrality at risk of dying**
i sleep
**Phelous uploads a Goodtimes video**
REAL SHIT
*Phelous makes net neutrality survive thank's to the miracle of a christmas angel*
ASCENDED!
Charles Dickens: That's what my Christmas stories need more of: talking wolves!
7:19 must be a bobsheaux!
Kevin Hemsing A comment referencing Bobsheaux? MAHGOD!
What if we had a Phelous and Bobsheaux crossover?
Phelan has survived the nuclear fallout of Canada
Old man Burnscrooge must have loved himself some England Constable esthetics for his men's uniforms.
Finally, someone said it
That wolf is actually an avatar of Buddha.
This is like "Goodtimes' Plagiarism: The Movie."
Every aspect reminds me of something else, and much better too.
3:10 He really reminds me of Dr.Doofenshmirtz.
Nexus427 Except Doof is actually funny
Nexus427 did Phelous and Ferb ever do a Christmas Carol homage?
@@ArendAlphaEagle And had actual motivation behind the things he tried to do to people. Even if every story he told was completely ridiculous.
@@AllyOJustice um I don’t know I can check 😅
More animated films should have talking wolves. They just add so much value to anything that features them. That is why Storks is the best animated film of 2016.
"I agree, I agree, I agree..." ;)
First Dexter the dog detective from Food Fight and now a wolf with a bowl of cereal.
I remember watching this movie quite a bit when I was young. Now, as I watch it, I find myself raising quite a bit of questions.
Ok so, why do most villains in animated Christmas movies always try to cancel the most money making holiday in the world? I mean it just doesn't make sense
Because writers are too stupid to think of having them still be greedy about making money off the holiday and having the moral be about spending time with your family and the gift of giving type shit.
Because Scrooge existed and they're too stupid to pick up on Scrooge's reasons to hate Christmas, namely days off, having to spend time with family, and being obligated to do things for other people
Obviously they run companies that don’t produce anything that can be Christmasised so can’t make money off of it. 😝
All I heard in that villain song was "I hate Christmas and you heard it first"
9:47 nice impression of Troy Baker doing a Patrick Warburton impression, Phelous 👌🏾
"This dialog, it's too natural."
"Someone saving another from death? Well you can't have that without the Christmas spirit!"
Y'know, if you replace "Christmas Spirit" in that line with "being a christian" then you have the moral of every Dove Foundation-approved movie ever!
The Dove Foundation: if it doesn't please our Helen Lovejoy-like minds, it gets 0 doves.
And PureFlix movies in general
This video raises an interesting question, would proton packs work on angels?
Spyro Fan Well, it did work on a god once....
Let's try it out.....
Yes
if it worked on the three spirits of christmas, i believe it would work on angels
Old man, Old Major, Senor Mustache, Old Beard, Old Du Bois, Golly Gosh, Old Flange and Old Bread
10:08 The perfect sum-up of the movie if you are looking for one... The face says it all
I'd rather watch the sophisticated wolf on his own adventures XD
He's out of place because he's not boring
I actually searched for this film 2 years ago because I grew up on it as grandad got me this. I found the film on CZcams and in the related recommendation section on the right I found your review video on it and that's how I discovered your channel! I'm so glad I did.
Anyway, my theory on why this Mr scrooge burns thinks Christmas is bad for business is that all his workers would want the day off or 3 days off. That would be bad for business I guess. I mean I don't think people would want to buy these flanges as Christmas gifts so it wouldn't be more profitable at Christmas time.
13:54
I love watching these with the subtitles on, because Phelous throws in secondary jokes. I cracked tf up at "thing-fall-down alarm." XD
"This ritual has restored my powers. Your wills are mine!"
How is Christmas bad for business, I doubt it effects employment in some form or another.
joseph barker It's because making money is bad for business. Logic.
late but holidays from thanksgiving to christmas eve + christmas day, new years all usually give days off with pay and anyone working tend to get overtime pay + holiday pay which companies hate paying for in the first place.
@@otakunthevegan4206 And what sort of Stupid Business allows that to be logic?
This seems to have some similarities to The Legend of Frosty. A Christmas related thing shows up to a town with a strict leadership and shows its residents the meaning of Christmas. Don’t know if this ripped off The Legend of Frosty or vice versa, but it’s at least a weird coincidence.
Stephen Brown
*Wabuu:* This town is sooooooo stupid! It's like a bunch of PureFlix asshats wrote this! Hehehe....
Well considering this is a '96 movie and The Legend of Frosty came out in *2005*
That's actually not an uncommon formula for story writing. Basically "Things sucked in this town until we had a magical/unusual visitor and now we learned stuff and things are better" The holiday is incidental. you take that formula and plug in the who, how and why's and you can get a great story like 'the music man' or you do it lazy and tack on christmas loosely tie it together and you get this movie or frosty 2 eclectic igloo. A more general version of this trope is "A stranger comes to town" which applies to malevolent characters too a la the pied piper. Using the trope isn't whats lazy mind you, its lazy cause they put little to no thought into it.
Tommy Deonauth's Archives Hi again! 👋
I see I'm not the only one to recognize popular tropes that Christian films seems to affectionate so much, including the moron at the end that wouldn't have helped the boy because only good people who celebrate Christmas/Jesus have humanity... 😑
I'm pretty sure they just copied this plot from that one Rankin-Bass special, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town".
I find it funny how often people actually miss the core of Christmas Carol. Like yes, it's about Christmas to an extent and happens during the holiday but its goal isn't to make Scrooge love Christmas. Marley isn't in chains because he refused to celebrate the holiday or didn't like it deep in his heart. His chains were connected to his money coffers. He was being punished for being greedy and stingy. He and Scrooge were both rich people, who refused to share their wealth. They didn't even spend it themselves. They just hoarded it and kept it under lock and key. Scrooge could afford to pay Bob Cratchet a living wage, especially since he himself wasn't really using it for anything. He knew(and Marley before him knew as well) that Bob had a family and a sick kid. When the two men came to him to ask for a charity donation he also refused them, even tho, again he didn't use the money for himself. He just kept it for the sole reason of hoarding it. The story is set during Christmas because it's the holiday that is about being charitable and helping others more than any other holiday. Like, let's say Easter. The holiday is a way to show how deprived and coldhearted Scourge is. That even on this one day, when everyone around tries to give back and help others, he refuses to. Plus the book is set in 19th century England. In times when CHILD LABOUR was legal, and children as young as nine years old could be employed and WORK 12 HOURS a day and 60 hours a week. Day or night. Often ENTIRE FAMILIES worked in one factory, and they still lived in deep poverty. Dickens, for all the faults and vices he had, was a socially conscious man. He created Scrooge and Christmas Carol as a sort of morality play. Scrooge and his bitterness also made him reject and alienate people who cared about him. His fiance, and even his nephew. The spirits show him his impact on the world, and how he got to where he was, and people who hindered him(like his father) but also people who loved him and helped him like his former employer, his ex-fiance, and his sister. They showed him consequences of his actions and that they don't only impact his life(see: Tiny Tim's death)
Oh Phelan, you spoil us with Goodtimes. Please have a big treat for us on Christmas.
Is this what those crazy people who yell about "the war on Christmas" believe would happen?
Crimson Trax yes
Someone please edit Wabuu cutting down the rotten tree as the angel girl was trying to save the blonde kid.