#mrs Cratchit

[weltato]

Starkid couples making me weep tears of joy, whether real (the actors) or fictional (the characters).

In this case, it's both.

[lilacthebooklover]

trying to sleep right now but all i can hear is lauren lopez singing "i'll toast my hope that he DIIIEEEEES" like an actual angel

[bestmothertournament]

[lancelotslair]

anyways mrs cratchit nad her wife bob cratchit<3

[ben-the-hyena]

Then, the Ghost brought him somewhere else, in front of a humble home. The Cratchits', according to the spirit. Looking through the window, Scrooge could see the family was almost complete, with Missus Cratchit and 5 of her children of all ages, happy and preparing the celebration with their small means. And their paltry meal for all. This surprised Scrooge. With his shilling per month, surely Bob could treat himself better couldn't he? In fact the latter and his youngest, a little boy whose joy contrasted with his undersized looks, arrived. During the meal, against his family's fervent criticism, Cratchit gave a toast to his boss whom he saw as generous for this break day, only supported by his toungest. "God bless us all, every one!" Timothy alias Tiny Tim, who could move only with a crutch or carried. Couldn't they heal him? The Ghost told him he feared he wouldn't see many more Christmas if things kept going this way. The old man was horrified

[andy-clutterbuck]

Ebenezer Scrooge | requested by Anonymous

[sp00kysk3lly]

“You will be haunted, by Three Spirits.

Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls One.

Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third, upon the next night when the last strike of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.

Look to see me no more;”

- Jacob Marley

[aslightlydifferentchristmascarol]

Mrs. Cratchit: Belinda, don’t you have something to say to your brother? Belinda: I’m sorry I flicked flour in your face. Mrs. Cratchit: Tim? Tim: I’m sorry you’re my sister.

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

QUARTERFINALS

Apple bracket, 1/6 4pm to 6pm (one new battle every 30 minutes)

Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb) vs Iroh (avatar, the last airbender)

Hakoda (avatar, the last airbender) vs Bruno Buccerati (Jojo’s bizarre adventure)

Loid Forger (spy x family) vs Sailor Uranus (sailor moon crystal)

Sully (monsters inc) vs Ping (kung fu panda)

Bapelsin bracket, 1/6 pm, 7pm-9pm

Benjamin Sisko (star trek) vs Gomez Addams (the Addams family)

Pyrrha Dve (the locked tomb) vs Bob Cratchit (a Christmas Carol)

Alfred Pennyworth (Batman) vs Meta Knight (Kirby)

Lee Scoresby (his dark materials) vs Terry Jeffords (Brooklyn 99)

Also there was a mess up, I accidentally pitched Kim Dokja vs Sully instead of Meta Knight.

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Second chance

[weltato]

That is the look of "wise choice kid".

[hitchell-mope]

Very good movie. And I can confidently say that this film did not waste Luke Evans like the prom wasted James Corden and Meryl Streep. So yeah. On that alone. I’d definitely watch it again.

[princesssarisa]

Character ask: the crachit family excluding Bob and tiny tim from a Christmas carol

Favorite thing about them: What a loving, heartwarming family they are, how much joy they share at Christmas despite their poverty (it's no wonder that their humble yet happy Christmas dinner is one of the most iconic holiday scenes in all of literature), and how they support and comfort each other through the pain of Tiny Tim's death... or rather, how they would have if Scrooge's change of heart hadn't saved him. In the case of Mrs. Cratchit, I also like how unabashedly she despises Scrooge. Her husband Bob, of course, is the embodiment of goodwill who can't utter a word against him, so I'm glad that Dickens allows some righteous anger from her. It's annoying that the 1938 film cuts that part and has her cheerfully propose the toast to Scrooge instead – apparently, Hays Code-era Hollywood had more rigid ideas of how "the deserving poor" should behave than Dickens did.

Least favorite thing about them: Nothing about them personally. But if it's true that the Cratchits are idealized versions of John and Elizabeth Dickens and their children as they were during Charles's childhood (the oldest boy Peter corresponding to Charles himself), as Michael Patrick Hearn argued in The Annotated Christmas Carol, then it makes me a little sad to know that the real family was more dysfunctional than their fictional counterparts. But that has no bearing on how I view the characters.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I love Christmas.

*Like Mrs. Cratchit, I can't stand greedy, hard-hearted people like pre-redemption Scrooge.

*I can make very good mashed potatoes and homemade applesauce.

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

*I'm not British.

*I haven't lived in poverty.

*I've never tasted roast goose, though I'd like to.

Favorite line:

From Mrs. Cratchit, in response to Bob's Christmas Day toast to Scrooge:

“The Founder of the Feast indeed! I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he’d have a good appetite for it.”

“I’ll drink his health for your sake and the Day’s, not for his. Long life to him! A merry Christmas and a happy new year! He’ll be very merry and very happy, I have no doubt!”

And following Tiny Tim's death in Christmas Yet to Come, her response to Peter's remark that Bob seems to have walked home more slowly lately:

“I have known him walk with—I have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder, very fast indeed... But he was very light to carry, and his father loved him so, that it was no trouble: no trouble."

brOTP: Each other.

OTP: For Mrs. Cratchit, Bob. For the children, none until they're older.

nOTP: Each other, apart from Mrs. Cratchit and Bob.

Random headcanon: Peter Cratchit is the great-great grandfather of the Pevensie siblings in The Chronicles of Narnia and Peter Pevensie is named after him. Maybe this is a silly idea, since it only stems from the fact that they're both London families whose oldest sons happen to have the same name, but why not?

Unpopular opinion: I wish more adaptations would include all six Cratchit children from the book. Even some of the best adaptations reduce the number of children to five, four, or even three. I understand why this happens, since not all versions have the budget to include all six, but I always enjoy seeing them all. In the book, it's clear that the "two young Cratchits," the boisterous little boy and girl whose names are never mentioned, are a chief source of the family's Christmas cheer – probably because they're the most free to be lively, playful children, since Martha, Peter, and Belinda are more focused on helping their mother with the work of the feast, while Tiny Tim is too frail. Yet those two are the children who most often get the axe in adaptations, and I think that's a shame.

Song I associate with them:

"The Lord's Bright Blessing" from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

"Bless Us All" from The Muppet Christmas Carol.

"Christmas Together" from A Christmas Carol: The Musical.

"Yes, There Is a Santa Claus" from The Stingiest Man in Town (the subject has no basis in the book, but it's a rare solo for Martha Cratchit that shows her being a sweet big sister to Tiny Tim).

Favorite pictures of them:

This illustration by Sol Eytinge Jr.:

This illustration by E.A. Abbey:

This vintage illustration:

And this one:

This illustration by Roberto Innocenti:

From the 1938 film:

From Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, 1962:

From the 1970 musical Scrooge:

From the 1984 TV film:

From The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992:

[daydreamingismyhobby33]

Hear me out... A South Park Christmas Carol:

Cartman as Ebenezer Scrooge

Stan as Bob Cratchit

Wendy as Mrs. Cratchit

Kyle as Jacob Marley

Tweek as the Ghost of Christmas Past

Clyde as the Ghost of Christmas Present

Kenny as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Butters as Turkey Boy

Ike as Tiny Tim

And I don't know why but I have myself laughing over the idea of Craig narrating the entire thing. Just his bored, nasally voice reading A Christmas Carol and everyone breaking the fourth wall to snap at him for doing a shit job... But Craig doesn't care and just keeps on narrating.

[ben-the-hyena]

The fog thickened once more. Without speaking, it seemed that the Ghost invited Scrooge to follow him, or at least move forward, which he did with apprehension. When the fog around him disappeared, he realized he was at the Cratchits' again... but this one Christmas had a much more sorrowful atmosphere to it than what he had seen. Indeed, young Tiny Tim had ended up passing away on a Christmas day from a near future. The Cratchit couple, at his bedside, was incosolable. The old man felt shocked, sad, horrified. Guilty. All because of him. Of his greed. "I didn't want this... Who would want this?..."

[tothetoonandback]

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