Clarence Nash credited as playing...
Nephew Fred - Donald Duck
- Scrooge: And what are you doing here, nephew?
- Fred: I've come to give you a wreath and invite you to Christmas dinner.
- Scrooge: [touched by Fred's invitation] Well! I suppose you're going to have plump goose with chestnut dressing?
- Fred: Yup.
- Scrooge: And will you have plum pudding and lemon sauce?
- Fred: Yeah, boy oh boy!
- Scrooge: And candied fruit with spiced sugar cakes?
- Fred: Yeah, will you come?
- Scrooge: Are you daft, man? You know I can't eat that stuff! Here's your wreath back. Now, out, out, out!
- [kicks Fred out the door and slams it after him]
- Scrooge: Bah... humbug!
- Fred: [comes back opening the door] Merry Christmas!
- [Fred hangs the wreath on the inside doorknob then leaves]
- Scrooge: [turning to Bob] And a bah humbug to you!
- Scrooge: Ah, nephew!
- Fred: Uncle Scrooge!
- Scrooge: I'm looking forward to that wonderful meal of yours.
- Fred: [to his horse, softly] Well, I'll be doggone.
- [back to Scrooge, excitedly]
- Fred: You mean you're coming?
- Scrooge: Of course I am! You know how much I love candied fruit with spiced sugar cakes.
- [Fred laughs]
- Scrooge: I'll be over there promptly at two! Keep it piping hot!
- Fred: [joyfully] I will, Uncle Scrooge, I *will*! And a *very* merry Christmas to you!
- Fred: Merry Christmas, Uncle Scrooge!
- Scrooge: [closes his book and marches to Fred and Cratchit] What's so merry about it? I'll tell you what Christmas is. It's just another workday, and any jackanape who thinks else should be... boiled in his own pudding!
- Fred: [recoiling sorrowfully] Ohhh.
- Cratchit: But sir, Christmas is a time for giving... a time to be with one's family.
- Scrooge: I say bah humbug!
- Fred: I don't care. I'd say merry Christmas. Merry Christmas!
- Cratchit: [clapping] Well said, Master Fred!
- Scrooge: Cratchit, what're you doing?
- Cratchit: [stops clapping and chuckles nervously] I was just trying to keep my hands warm, sir.