Link to the show: Young Adult Movie Ministry Vol. 2, Episode 12 on Substack
Release date: December 24, 2021
Movie of the Week
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), directed by Brian Henson [Streaming on Disney+]
Who the Hosts Are This Week
Sam is reporter-at-large, editor of Forever Wars, film critic for hire, and whatever. Alissa is the film critic at Vox, author of the upcoming book Salty, and a little tiny mouse.
Other Mentions
- “Are the Berenstain Bears Part of an Interdimensional Conspiracy?"
- Follow That Bird (Alissa’s big Muppet movie introduction)
- Adventures in Odyssey episode A Thanksgiving Carol
- It’s a Wonderful Life (Two and a half hours long and very melodramatic, per Sam)
- Street Gang - documentary about Sesame Street that Alissa recommends
- “The true deranged wonder that is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas” - discussed on Episode 24
- The End of the Tour - Jason Segal movie about David Foster Wallace, which came up stream of consciousness after Sam mentioned Segal’s Muppet movie
- The Albert Finney musical version of A Christmas Carol called Scrooge featuring Sir Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley’s Ghost and a song called “I Hate People”
- Carol’s Christmas - a disturbing “urban retelling” of A Christmas Carol coming out this year
- Scrooged (the Bill Murray version)
- Doctor Who episode of A Christmas Carol
- Bah, Humduck! (A Looney Tunes Christmas)
- A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and the three ghosts
- 3D TVs
- Pacific Rim (good in 3D) (wow we went off on a tangent here)
- “In Defense of Scrooge, Whose Thrift Blessed the World” - a serious WSJ op-ed written by former US Senator Phil Gramm
- The Morgan Library (which has the original handwritten manuscript of A Christmas Carol on display)
What we learned today
Alissa: Even if you feel like you’re surrounded by Muppets, you should act like you are acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Sam: When a hand puppet dies, the emotion you feel is called ‘felt loss’. (Sam is summarily cancelled.)