2014-12-20
Original: 2014-12-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Ghost (a hooded, cloaked figure): SCROOGE! BEHOLD THE FUTURE IF YOU DO NOT CHANGE YOUR WAYS!
Panel 2:
(Scrooge, an old man in a nightcap, stands beside the cloaked ghost; a book sits on a lectern. No dialogue.)
Panels 3-4:
(Scrooge studies the book intently, reading it. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
(Close-up of the open book. Its left page is headed "HORSE RACE RESULTS FOR 1844" and the right page is filled with handwritten entries. No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
Ghost: I TAKE YOUR SILENCE FOR REVELATION.
Scrooge: YEAH, OH YEAH. SAD. SORROW AND ALL. DANG.
Panel 7:
Caption: SOON...
Scrooge (leaning out a window, calling to a boy in the street below): A RAISE?! AND A WHOLE GOOSE?! YOU'VE REALLY CHANGED, MR. SCROOGE!
Panel 8:
Scrooge (standing triumphantly atop an enormous pile of gold coins, arms raised): I'VE JUST GOT THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!
Votey:
Scrooge (lying in bed, eyes closed, smiling): SPIRITS! TEACH ME MORE LESSONS!
Ghost (a hooded, cloaked figure): SCROOGE! BEHOLD THE FUTURE IF YOU DO NOT CHANGE YOUR WAYS!
Panel 2:
(Scrooge, an old man in a nightcap, stands beside the cloaked ghost; a book sits on a lectern. No dialogue.)
Panels 3-4:
(Scrooge studies the book intently, reading it. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
(Close-up of the open book. Its left page is headed "HORSE RACE RESULTS FOR 1844" and the right page is filled with handwritten entries. No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
Ghost: I TAKE YOUR SILENCE FOR REVELATION.
Scrooge: YEAH, OH YEAH. SAD. SORROW AND ALL. DANG.
Panel 7:
Caption: SOON...
Scrooge (leaning out a window, calling to a boy in the street below): A RAISE?! AND A WHOLE GOOSE?! YOU'VE REALLY CHANGED, MR. SCROOGE!
Panel 8:
Scrooge (standing triumphantly atop an enormous pile of gold coins, arms raised): I'VE JUST GOT THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!
Votey:
Scrooge (lying in bed, eyes closed, smiling): SPIRITS! TEACH ME MORE LESSONS!
Alt text
A parody of A Christmas Carol. A hooded ghost confronts old Scrooge in his nightcap: "Scrooge! Behold the future if you do not change your ways!" A book sits open on a lectern. Over several panels Scrooge silently studies the book; a close-up reveals it is titled "Horse Race Results for 1844," filled with handwritten results. The ghost says, "I take your silence for revelation," and Scrooge mumbles, "Yeah, oh yeah. Sad. Sorrow and all. Dang." A "Soon..." caption follows: Scrooge leans out his window as a boy in the street calls up, "A raise?! And a whole goose?! You've really changed, Mr. Scrooge!" In the final panel Scrooge stands triumphantly atop a giant heap of gold coins, arms raised, declaring, "I've just got the Christmas spirit!" The joke: he used the ghost's vision of the future to learn winning race results and got rich. Votey: Scrooge lies in bed smiling with eyes closed, saying, "Spirits! Teach me more lessons!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.