Mickey's Christmas Carol [1983]

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• This animated special contained three Disney shorts. The first was about Donald Duck fighting a snow war against his three nephews. The second was about Mickey chopping down a Christmas tree where Chip and Dale live in, and Pluto terrorizes the tree and the chipmunks. The third short was about Goofy on a ski trip, being instructed by a narrator.
• GOOFY HOLLER: When Jacob Marley (Goofy) falls down the stairs.
• Of all the songs on the original album, only {Oh What A Merry Christmas Day} made it to the animated cartoon. The rest of them -- including one sung by Ebenezer Scrooge that was called {How Christmas Ought To Be} -- were all dropped for some reason, and the lyrics were rendered into normal dialog.
• The opening scene is apparently modeled on a ^[?] Carl Barks painting called The Season To Be Jolly, which features Uncle Scrooge walking down the street with a bag of money on his back.
• Voice actor Will Ryan came up with the idea to recreate Willie the Giant's (The Ghost of Christmas Present's) flub of the word "pistachio" from {Mickey and the Beanstalk}.
• The first animated short with Mickey Mouse since {The Simple Things}.
• The theatrical release of this film was as part of the reissue of The Rescuers.
• Based on a Disney record which was co-written by Alan Young (Scrooge).
• This is the last film where Clarence Nash provides the voice of Donald Duck and the first where Wayne Allwine provides the voice of Mickey Mouse.
• This is also the first time that Alan Young provides the voice of Scrooge McDuck. Bill Thompson, who'd done the voice in {Scrooge McDuck and Money}, had already passed away, and Alan Young's voice is noticeably softer than Thompson's was, with a stronger Scots accent.