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Random Trivia For This Title: - 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 YoungAlan Young (Scrooge).
- This is the last film where Clarence NashClarence Nash provides the voice of Donald Duck and the first where Wayne AllwineWayne Allwine provides the voice of Mickey Mouse.
- The first animated short with Mickey Mouse since {The Simple Things}.
- Voice actor Will RyanWill 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}.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This is also the first time that Alan YoungAlan Young provides the voice of Scrooge McDuck. Bill ThompsonBill Thompson, who'd done the voice in {Scrooge McDuck and Money}, had already passed away, and Alan YoungAlan Young's voice is noticeably softer than Thompson's was, with a stronger Scots accent.
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