Charles Dickens… He’s one of the few whose writing can make me laugh—not in-my-head dainty laugh, but chortle, snort, big laugh. Dickens peppers acid-tongued cunning humor even in works which deliver dark critiques of Victorian society and woeful, loathsome lives. One of Dickens’s most popular (and humorous) books is A Christmas Carol. A few in my family re-read it every Advent, and we all enjoy watching movie adaptations too. My favorite adaptation? The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Shocking, but the Muppets mesh with and enhance Dickens’s brand of humor. Despite who (or what) is delivering the lines, the lines themselves are remarkably unaltered from the text of the original work. To top it off, there is Michael Caine, who took the role because his then 7-year-old daughter had never seen him perform. Amazing. As if it could get no better, Michael Caine wears a knit nightcap for most of the movie that I couldn’t get out of my head. So I knit an interpretation of it here… with enough sizes so the whole family can get into the spirit.