The Muppet Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens (Gonzo) and his friend Rizzo serve as narrators of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy, penny-pinching and lonely moneylender of 19th-century London, who does not share the merriment of Christmas. On Christmas Eve, he rejects his nephew Fred's invitation to Christmas dinner, dismisses two gentlemen (Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker) collecting money for charity, and hurls a wreath at a carol-singing Bean Bunny. His kind, humble employee Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog) and the other bookkeepers request not to work on Christmas Day, since there will be no business for Scrooge on the day, to which he reluctantly agrees.

That night, Scrooge encounters the shackled ghosts of his late business partners, Jacob and Robert Marley (Statler and Waldorf), in his bed chambers. They warn him to repent of his wicked ways, or be condemned to wear chains and suffer in the afterlife as they do. They tell Scrooge that three spirits will visit him during the night to help him change his ways.

At one o'clock, Scrooge is visited by the childlike Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his childhood and early adult life. Along with Dickens and Rizzo, they visit his lonely school days and then his time as an employee at Fozziwig's (Fozzie Bear) rubber chicken factory. There, at Fozziwig's Christmas party, Scrooge meets a young woman named Belle, with whom he falls in love but she leaves him as he chooses money over her. A despondent Scrooge tells the Ghost to leave him and is returned to his home.