#fan scrooge

[justice-for-jacob-marley]

Marley: Close your eyes.

Scrooge: No. I never close my eyes when people tell me to.

Marley: What? Why not?

Scrooge: When we were little, Fan used to tell me, "Close your eyes, you'll get a surprise!", and then she’d punch me.

Marley: I’m not gonna punch you!

Scrooge: That’s what Fan would always say.

[aslightlydifferentchristmascarol]

Child Scrooge: Hey Fan, wanna hear a secret? Fan: Sure. Scrooge: I think Headmaster Havisham is a space alien spy. He's trying to corrupt our young innocent minds so we'll be unable to resist when his people invade earth! Promise not to tell anyone? Fan: Don't worry.

[lancelotslair]

get in loser we're gonna look at all the cringe you've ever posted

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

Ebenezer Scrooge when he was young

*Ebenezer and Fan place milk and cookies in front of the fireplace*

Ebenezer Scrooge: Where's Santa?

Fan Scrooge: He's not here yet. We have to lure him into the house with milk and cookies, or he won't leave presents.

Ebenezer Scrooge: How does he get in?

Fan Scrooge: The chimney, duh!

Ebenezer Scrooge: But what about the fire?

Fan Scrooge: Santa is fire-proof.

Ebenezer Scrooge: But there's 378 million kids who celebrate Christmas, average 3.5 kids per family, that's 91.8 million homes. Even if Santa travels east to west using time zones in the Earth's rotation to gain 31 hours, he'd still need to hit 822.6 houses per second traveling 3,000 times the speed of sound. How does he do it?

Fan Scrooge: He's fire-proof.

[princesssarisa]

Character ask: Fan, Scrooge's sister (A Christmas Carol)

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Favorite thing about them: Her warm, joyful, affectionate nature, and the love she gave Scrooge in his otherwise lonely childhood.

Least favorite thing about them: That so many adaptations leave her out, and especially that she's left out of The Muppet Christmas Carol. That movie would be even more perfect if only it included her visit to young Scrooge as his school, as well as a reference to their stern father to explain why young Scrooge never went home for Christmas.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I'm very affectionate to my loved ones.

*I love Christmas, especially with family.

*I love music, as it's implied that she did.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I don't have a brother.

*My father has always been a kind man.

*I haven't died young, leaving a son behind.

Favorite line: "Yes! Home, for good and all. Home, for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven! He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed, that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should; and sent me in a coach to bring you. And you’re to be a man! and are never to come back here; but first, we’re to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world.”

brOTP: Her brother Scrooge.

OTP: Her husband, Fred's father. Especially if he was as handsome as the actor who plays him in her deathbed scene in the 1951 film.

nOTP: See "brOTP."

Random headcanon: She suffered from chronic tuberculosis most of her life. This is what the Ghost of Christmas Past referred to when it described her as "Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered." Fred's birth itself didn't kill her, but weakened her and hastened her death from her illness, much like what happens to Frances Earnshaw (who by coincidence shares her name – "Fan" would have been a nickname for "Frances") in Wuthering Heights.

Unpopular opinion: I wish adaptations would stop making her the older sibling, when in the book she's much younger than her brother, and stop making her more serious than Dickens made her. I have nothing at all against the gentle, nurturing young woman played by Carol Marsh in the 1951 film Scrooge, but she isn't the Fan described in the book: a little girl who, despite her physical frailty, has the same lively, joyful spirit as her future son Fred.

Song I associate with them: The folk song "Barbara Allen" (the melody only, not the lyrics), because the 1951 film so effectively uses it as her theme.

"Christmas Wishes" from Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022), one of the few musical adaptations to give her a song of her own.

Favorite pictures of them:

This illustration by Charles Edmund Brock.

Ira Stevens in the 1938 film.

Carol Marsh in the 1951 film.

The uncredited child actress from the musical Scrooge, 1970.

Joanne Whalley in the 1984 TV film.

Rosie Wiggins in the 1999 TV film.

Leah Verity-White in A Christmas Carol: The Musical, 2004 (more shabbily dressed than the other Fans because of the changes this version makes to Scrooge's backstory).

From Disney's 2009 CGI film (a cute little thing even if Robin Wright's attempt at a child voice isn't very convincing).

[night2time]

And finally the Disney family all together in a photo(i was not going to draw 420 Bunny children, so have 20 of them)

I love the idea of max's family being just so crazy Big is so funny and endearing to me, like, imagine max babysitting all the Bunny children asdasd(tho his closest cousins are huey Dewey and Louie)

there are characters that i didnt put there cuz they are not as close to family members to max as this ones are(pete is just an occasional friend) or just not official family members like Gilbert goof or mama goof(this are the found family members)

[secret-tester]

MOTORCYCLE CHASE!?

Reference:

This is from the artbook

[dollyknight]

Fellow lovers of ducktales for umm research purposes(tootally not a secret project) if the reboot had a season four what kind of things would you like to see from episodes,to character interaction and cameos

[undeadchestnut]

Why did they have to make Scrooge look like THAT and also give him a cute dog, how was I not meant to take that personally???

[niku30]

Back on my scroogeposting schedule

[gwekkuu]

Just in time 👀✨ got the chance to participate in the @duckblrsecretsanta2023 event!

Merry Christmas to @yeyeducks !! I hope you enjoy this very short but very sweet scroldie comic.

[justice-for-jacob-marley]

Here's my designs for some of the characters from Scrooge's past!

[aslightlydifferentchristmascarol]

Young Scrooge: (shows Fan a glass of juice that appears to be half-full) Would you say this glass is half-full or half-empty? Young Fan: Half-full. Scrooge: (shows Marley the glass) Would you say this glass is half-full or half-empty? Young Marley: Half-empty. Scrooge: (shows Fezziwig the glass) Would you say this glass is half-full or half-empty? Fezziwig: Half-full. Scrooge: (shows Mrs. Fezziwig the glass) Would you say this glass is half-full or half-empty? Mrs. Fezziwig: Half-empty. Scrooge: HA HA! YOU'RE ALL WRONG! THE GLASS IS FIVE-TWELFTHS FULL AND SEVEN-TWELFTHS EMPTY! SUCKERRRS! Fezziwig: When do we get to give a psychological test to HIM? Mrs. Fezziwig: You really think a test is necessary?

[diogxnxs]

Ducktales Theme Song starts playing...

Insert a plot line where Scrooge takes advantage of Trip's abilities in the horse track and they all get into huge trouble. Trouble with who? Glomgold and his goons, of course. Or worse, two angry dads.

[rori-mckenzie]

quick stuff w expedition Scrooge⭐️

[princesssarisa]

Why do so (comparatively) many adaptations of A Christmas Carol change Belle's name?

Is it because her name is only mentioned once in the book, by her husband in the usually-cut scene of her post-Scrooge married life? Any screenwriter adapting the book should have enough reading comprehension to notice it. What do those screenwriters have against the name "Belle"?

The 1951 Alastair Sim film calls her Alice.

The musical Scrooge (both the original 1970 live-action version and the 2022 animated version) and Mickey's Christmas Carol both call her Isabel.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical calls her Emily. Although I know the reason for that – she was renamed to distinguish her from Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, since Alan Menken wrote the scores for both musicals.

The 2019 horror miniseries calls her Elizabeth.

And according to The Annotated Christmas Carol, some stage adaptations from Dickens's own lifetime renamed her Bella (at least that's just one letter's difference) or Ellen.

For that matter, why does the musical Scrooge (both versions) change Fred's name to Harry? I understand why the animated remake changes his mother's name from Fan to Jen: because of what "fanny" means in modern British slang. That's presumably the same reason why several other adaptations change her name to Fran. But why Harry? Is it because Harry was the name of the real son of Charles Dickens's sister Fanny? Did Leslie Bricusse want to pay tribute to that boy who died at age 10 by giving his name to Scrooge's happy, thriving adult nephew?

I'd like to know the rationale for all these random name-changes.