Yosemite Sam Stars in 'Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol'

At eight minutes and nineteen seconds in length, this must qualify as the shortest version of 'A Christmas Carol' out there.  In this one Yosemite Sam plays Sam Scrooge, gleefully counting stacks of money while Bob Cratchit, played by Porky Pig, shivers and, for once, stutters naturally due to his cold, hard office.  Enter Bugs fulfilling the role of nephew Fred and attempting to put a bit of Christmas cheer in the life of this wretched duo.

His best efforts only serve to rile Scrooge though and, after one carol recitation with pals Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Peu and Foghorn Leghorn, they are all ejected - including Cratchit who is fired for his troubles.  Bugs decides the only way Scrooge will learn is if he dresses up as a ghost and haunts him into enjoying the festivities.  Which he does, and the whole lot of them sit down to a bumper Christmas lunch before, inevitably, we're told that 'That's All Folks'.

This cartoon owes as much to Dickens' original text of 'A Christmas Carol' as Tweety Pie does to the letter S, but it was a reasonably fun romp.  Strictly for the pre-teens though...call them through and sit them in front of the video below.