Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol

<p>It’s a very special <strong>Scrooge Sunday</strong> episode as a couple of elves from <a href="https://tisthepodcast.com">’Tis the Podcast</a> drop in to the Advent Calendar House to celebrate the first ever animated TV Christmas special, “Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol,” from 1962.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), extremely nearsighted, but not <i>that</i> nearsighted.</li><li><strong>Anthony Caruso</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.comacaruso929">@acaruso929</a>), the bathrobe-adorned and out-of-order Ghost of Christmas Present.</li><li><strong>Julia Colburn</strong>, a candle in a jar of razzleberry dressing.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Backus">Jim Backus</a>, the voice of Mister Magoo, based his portrayal of Thurston Howell III from “Gilligan’s Island” on another character he played on a radio show hosted by another famous future Scrooge, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alan_Young_Show">Alan Young</a>.</li><li>Nephew Fred is cut entirely to make room for a song about Broadway that sometimes also gets cut entirely.</li><li>The ghosts of Christmas Present and Past show up out of order for no clear reason, but an <a href="https://tv.avclub.com/mr-magoo-s-christmas-carol-comes-this-close-to-screwin-1798234953">A.V. Club article from 2012</a> tried to find one.</li><li>Tiny Tim is an English-speaking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI12ZsTR3Mo">Gerald McBoing-Boing</a>.</li><li>This special invented a flavor! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razzleberry">Razzleberry pie</a> is now a thing that exists, made with raspberries and blackberries.</li><li>The <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/ar1WR9g">Ghost of Christmas Past looks like “Toon Link”</a> from “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.”</li><li>Marie Matthews, the voice of Young Scrooge, was on a <a href="https://www.paleycenter.org/fall-2009-revisiting-mist