About this episode
🎄 Venture into the uncanny valley on a trip back to 2009 to rewatch Disney’s motion capture nightmare starring 4 Jim Carreys, 3 Gary Oldmans, 2 Robin Wrights, and a Cary Elwes in a pear shape. **** 🎙 Guest: Matt Weiland ( Matt’s Dream Destinations , @DinnahDawg ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Respect to a Disney movie that jumps from a storybook opening to a corpse’s face. 2. Despite being the 5th highest grossing Christmas movie as of 2020, this is also one of history’s biggest box-office bombs . 3. Coins on a corpse’s eyes in 19th century England had less to do with paying the ferryman’s toll and more to do with keeping their eyes closed . 4. Cary Elwes (one of the “portly” solicitors) is a descendant of John Elwes , the real-life inspiration for Scrooge. 5. Christopher Walken forgetting his lines as Captain Hook in Peter Pan Live . 6. Disney’s Movies website accidentally credited Gary Oldman as both Kermit the Frog and Robin the Frog . 7. Macy’s Dickens Village in Philadelphia. 8. The Ghost of Christmas Present flying Scrooge’s entire room around London is a weird mix of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and Soarin’ . 9. Jim Carrey on his various accents . 10. Roundhouse alumna Julene Renee as Want. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: McDonald’s: Scrooge’s Party , 1984, preserved by Dinosaur Dracula . **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: Merry Britsmas . Yuletide TV . Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” © 2009 Disney. Say hi on Twitter and Instagram . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .