Muppets Christmas Carol- Dickens meets the Muppets with Michael Cain what more do I need to say
Well I bunged the DVD in, well you've got to. Its brilliant here's some quotes (from the IMDb);
Memorable Quotes from
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Gonzo: I am here to tell the story.
Rizzo the Rat: And I am here for the food.
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Rizzo the Rat: Light the lamp, not the rat, light the lamp.
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Vegetables: If he became a flavor you can bet he would be sour. Yuck.
Muppet Man: Even the vegetables don't like him.
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[Gonzo and Rizzo are flying over London]
Gonzo: Hello, London.
Rizzo the Rat: Goodbye, lunch.
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[an urchin steals a talking vegetable]
Vegetable: Help. Help. I'm being stolen.
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Ghost of Christmas Past: Let us see another Christmas at this place.
Ebenezer Scrooge: They were pretty much all the same. Nothing ever changed.
Ghost of Christmas Past: You changed.
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Fozziwig: At this time in the proceedings, it is a tradition for me to make a little speech.
Jacob Marley: And it is a tradition for us to take a little nap.
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Fozziwig: Here is my Christmas speech. "Thank you all, and Merry Christmas."
Jacob Marley: That was the speech?
Robert Marley: It was dumb.
Jacob Marley: It was obvious.
Robert Marley: It was pointless.
Jacob Marley: It was... short.
Robert Marley, Jacob Marley: I loved it.
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Rizzo the Rat: Mother always taught me: "Never eat singing food."
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Ebenezer Scrooge: You're a little absent-minded, spirit.
Ghost of Christmas Present: No, I am a LARGE absent-minded spirit.
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Ebenezer Scrooge: What business has brought you here?
Ghost of Christmas Past: Your welfare.
Ebenezer Scrooge: Heh, a night's unbroken rest might aid my welfare.
Ghost of Christmas Past: Your salvation, then.
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[Describing Fozziwig]
Ebenezer Scrooge: What an employer he was. As hard and ruthless as a rose petal.
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Rizzo the Rat: [as he is being used to clean a window] Thank you for making me a part of this.
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Jacob Marley: Why do you doubt your senses?
Ebenezer Scrooge: Because a little thing can effect them. A slight disorder of the stomach can make them cheat. You may be a bit of undigested beef, a blob of mustard, a crumb of cheese. Yes. There's more gravy than of grave about you.
Robert Marley: More gravy than of grave?
Jacob Marley: What a terrible pun. Where'd you get those jokes?
Robert Marley: Leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer.
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Robert Marley: We were always heckling you.
Jacob Marley: It's good to be heckling again.
Robert Marley: It's good to be doing anything again.
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Kermit the Frog: If you please Mr. Scrooge, it's gotten colder and the bookkeeping staff would like an extra shovel full of coal for the fire.
Rat #1: All of your pens have turned to inkcicles.
Rat #2: Our assets are frozen.
Ebenezer Scrooge: How would the bookkeeping staff like to be suddenly... UNEMPLOYED?
Rats: [singing] HEAT WAVE. This is my island in the sun.
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Rizzo the Rat: There are two things in life I hate-heights and jumping from them.
Gonzo: Come on, I'll catch you.
Rizzo the Rat: God save my little broken body.
[Jumps and falls to the ground. He looks at Gonzo]
Gonzo: Missed.
Rizzo the Rat: Oh wait- I forgot my jellybeans.
[Slides through the bars to retrieve them, and joins Gonzo back on the other side, who is staring at him]
Rizzo the Rat: What?
Gonzo: You can fit through those bars?
Rizzo the Rat: Yeah.
Gonzo: You are such an idiot.
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Ebenezer Scrooge: What right have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Fred: What right have you to be dismal? You're rich enough.
Rizzo the Rat: Got 'im there. The old boy's speechless.
Ebenezer Scrooge: If I could work my will any idiot who goes around with a Merry Christmas on his lips would be cooked with his own turkey and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Rizzo the Rat: Well, not quite speechless.
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Lew Zealand: It's the boomerang fish. Guaranteed fresh. I throw the fish A-WAY... and it comes back to me. Get 'em while they're fresh.
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Sam the Eagle: [talking to young Scrooge about business] You see, business, it is the AMERICAN WAY!
Gonzo: [whispers] Sam, Sam, come here
[whispers correctively]
Sam the Eagle: Oh... It is the BRITISH WAY
Young Scrooge: Yes, sir.
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Ghost of Christmas Past: There was of course, another Christmas with this girl. Some years later.
Ebenezer Scrooge: Oh please, spirit... do not show me that Christmas.
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Rizzo the Rat: Well hoity-toity Mr. God-Like Smarty Pants.
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Rizzo the Rat: Rats don't understand these things.
Gonzo: You were never a lonely child?
Rizzo the Rat: I had twelve hundred and seventy four brothers and sisters.
Gonzo: Boy! Rats don't understand these things!
