We are in the middle of a flood…of cheesy holiday movies.
We are in the middle of a huge flood. Batten down the hatches and start weatherproofing your house. The cheesy Hallmark, ABC Family, Lifetime, UP Network and all other channel onslaught of Christmas specials are coming. Romance in snowed airports, Christmas dogs, losing jobs in marketing, finance and accounting and having to return to family tree lots, small towns or cabins in the woods businesses. The specials are taking over the traditional Christmas specials. There is a need for villains in these specials called the overbearing, or workaholic fiance.
Whatever happened to the good old villain to the Christmas special called Scrooge and The Grinch?
What happened to the original grumpy guys who taught us lessons about the true meaning of Christmas?
The Green Master of Disaster.
Who is the who that can bring grumpiness to the Who’s? Who is the hairy green guy that the tiny dog that can carry a sleigh and steal a whole towns presents while also trying to take away their presence? Who is the original outcast that just wants to be left alone without all the lights, and the food and the singing and toys? Who’s the guy with heart that is two sizes too small, and that avoids the mall? He’s the Green Master of Disaster The Griiiinnnch!
The Scrooge smirk.
In the other corner, we have the overworked jerk, the accountant with no discountant, the host of the three timed ghosts, the thug of humbug, the guy that puts Christmas Carols in peril, the Geezer named Ebeneezer, the hatchet of Bob Cratchit, the Turkey of turnkey, the steed of greed, the presence of presents, the Scrooge Scourge!
Which Christmas criminal are you with? The whombug of Whoville? Or the Bitterman of Britan? Which one will stop the flood of fianced wannabes? Which one did Jim Carrey play best? Who’s side are you on?
Jim Carrey…
…or Jim Carrey?
ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH
Bitter Christmas Jerk Ben
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Scrooge for the win! Especially when he’s being played by Bill Murray!
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Bill Murray did play an awesome Scrooge. I’m thinking that is what Hans Christan Andersen had in mind when he wrote the book.
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Scrooge with Bill Murray is one of my most favorites!! It maybe sick, but I love the way he gets the snot knocked out of him to teach him a lesson.:)
Always have to watch – its a wonderful life – black and white version, and Rudolph or its just not Christmas – thank you for bringing these wonders up Ben!
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Always glad to help you remember the villains of Christmas as I am.
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My money’s on Scrooge McDuck. Not that he needs any more money.
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No, he doesn’t need any more. But it would be fun to swim in his vault even though he would know if you took one of his little pennies.
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He totally would! That Scrooge…
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What would he do though. Send his Duck police to get me? The Aflac duck?
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Maybe Darkwing Duck. But you could totally take him. Just scowl at him and send waves of bitterness to billow his purple cape into submission.
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I was actually more partial to the Robot guy. Was it Gizmo? I can’t remember, but I loved that guy.
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Sorry, but my anti-heroes in the highest are the strange santas who march around in the Dr. Who and Donna Noble Christmas special. A Salvation Army style band of Bad Machines with horns. Whoohoo.
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Now there is something I have no idea about. I’ve heard many good things about Dr. Who but haven’t had the bitter pleasure of watching him myself yet.
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Hm. I chose Marv because he’s just hilarious. 😛
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Well, I guess you get to choose someone else. Actually, no you don’t.
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Wow, in that third image. I had no idea Jim Carrey could play Bill Murray so convincingly … the prosthetics are astounding.
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He really has an underrated ability to completely look like someone else.
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I’m so ashamed of myself, but I must admit that I watch the worst of the worst, Christmas movies in succession. They’re so cloyingly sweet that they give me a toothache, yet I watch on. What is wrong with me?
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I hope you are at least watching good ones that have great villains and not the stupid fiance ones.
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I mean the Grinch of course! He’s green and fuzzy, therefore he has absolutely every right to be bitter.
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And the stupid Who’s keep throwing out perfectly good garbage and outcasting him. I’m there with you.
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Scrooge vs. The Grinch NEEDS to be a screenplay (Comedy-Not Predator vs. Aliens type movie)- start writing now!
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Oh my gosh that sounds like a great idea. I think that I’m the one that has to write it too. Definitely a comedy. And to see Jim Carrey vs. himself or some other person against himself would be even better.
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Bah, humbug!
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Ben Humbug for sure.
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I’m gonna go Grinch. He reminds me of myself. He’s bitter and he rhymes!!
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And you and him and Kermit and the Hulk are so green and stuff.
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Of course. I take great pride in my complexion you know. People often ask me, how do you stay so green looking?
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I always say that age makes those green spots.
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Why I never! Most people tell me that I look amazing for 96!
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And most people tell me I look terrible for 105.
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Tell them that you’re 120. They will be amazed by your youthful appearance!
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They will be like you look young, but you seem so bent over and rickety for a 120 year old.
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Right, just all the plastic surgery.
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No plastic surgery for me. Like I’ve said before, I want to be at least half metal (not your music kind, but you know, steel.)
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Start with the hip.
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I’ve been hoping for a new steel hip. Hopefully one that shoots rockets.
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Sweet.
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The rockets will come in handy in traffic.
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love, Love, LOVE this post! I am a big fan of both the Grinch and Ebenezer (we’re on a first-name basis; he calls me Cin, short for the Evil Woman CinCin). I was not a fan of the Grinch movie and never saw the Jim Carrey Scrooge, although we have a large collection of Christmas Carol DVDs and videos. Give me a rotten villain over an overbearing, workaholic fiance any day! I hope you’re enjoying your Curmudgeonly Christmas Season (I just made that expression up, do you like it?).
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I definitely love the not so generic villains that are on the lifetime movies. Give me a Grinch or a Scrooge or any good villain and I’m good. CinCin sounds like a great villain name and you could even be from Cincinnati to complete the effect.
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I am evil. But not from Cincinnati. Hmm… (re-thinking my own backstory)
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But wouldn’t it be so fitting if you were from there? Or the city of Cin, Las Vegas? For evil backstory purposes anyways.
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I obviously have not put enough thought into this.
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And I obviously have put way too much into it.
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I think I’d have to pick Bill Murray in Scrooged.
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Scrooged is one of the greats. Bill Murray is pretty awesome as a Scrooge.
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Darn it! I was just about to write this post before you picked my brain. Oh well…I guess I’ll just go watch something on Netflix. Oooh look — cheesy Christmas movies!
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No reason you can’t write it. There are thousands of different ways to write about the same thing. Just be creative instead of bitter like me.
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Got to be Scrooge all the way. That man got da dollar.
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Especially Scrooge McDuck. I’d like to hang out in his vault sometime.
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