Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of "A Christmas Carol."Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of "A Christmas Carol."Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of "A Christmas Carol."
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Joe 'Flash' Riley
- Mr. Robert Small
- (as Jay Merreman Riley)
Herbert Ellis
- Landlord
- (as Herb Ellis)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStrangely, Esther's husband Woody is missing from the holiday gathering at their apartment at the story's ending.
- GoofsWhen Fred and Lamont go to Aunt Esther's, Esther says they're too late for dinner and egg nog, although the bowl of egg nog is pretty full. Once Fred starts singing, when the camera changes angle, the bowl is almost empty. When Fred stands up to finish the song, the bowl appears almost full again.
- Quotes
Aunt Esther Anderson: I have the feeling of Christmas!
Fred G. Sanford: And the face of Halloween!
- ConnectionsReferences King Kong (1933)
- SoundtracksThe Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
(uncredited)
Written by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells
Performed by Redd Foxx
Featured review
The Christmas episode
"Ebenezer Sanford" was the show's only Christmas episode, and surprisingly had to wait until the fifth season to do it. Aunt Esther has 'the spirit of Christmas' when she arrives: "and the face of Halloween!" Eric Laneuville, who later appeared twice as Aunt Esther's adopted son Daniel in "Aunt Esther Meets Her Son" and "The Will," knocks on Fred's door as Ronnie Small, looking for a job to buy his parents a gift. Lamont balks at his father taking advantage of the teenager, going so far as to call the old man Scrooge: "what the Dickens are you talking about?" Tired from 'over-resting,' Fred takes a nap and dreams himself into the story "A Christmas Carol," with Lamont representing the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. The first stop is Fred's childhood home in Missouri, prompting him to call Lamont 'The Spirit of St. Louis!' From deceiving his own mother to the way he insults Aunt Esther, he looks into the future and sees himself alone and unloved. Making amends proves to be heartwarming and expensive, a worthwhile addition to television's yuletide traditions, capped by Redd Foxx rasping "The Christmas Song" from 1944, which ironically was composed during a summer heat wave.
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- kevinolzak
- Dec 6, 2016
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