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02 Jan 08 | 10:54pm |

Ages ago, I ran a poll named Which Mr Men or Little Miss is who in Mr Men: A Christmas Carol? Here are the real answers.

Scrooge - Mr Mean
ceriwytch, anne_l_davies, missmagic all correct.
suziehill plumped for Mr Greedy, gowhonker put down Mr Grumpy.

Bob Cratchit - Mr Happy
No wrong answers here, although some skipped it.

Ghost of Christmas Past - Mr Nosey
No-one got this. It's not Mr Daydream, Mr Messy, Mr Forgetful or Mr Tickle.
Mr Nosey is a quite clever choice here - who else could remind Mr Mean that his previous Christmas had been spent all alone? Had to be someone that would put his nose in.

Ghost of Christmas Present - Little Miss Wise
Again, no-one got this. It's not even the previously rare Mr Christmas.
Little Miss Wise can work out what the near future will be like. Dreams don't have to be logical, but this one makes sense to me.

Ghost of Christmas Future - Little Miss Bossy
Again no-one guessed it.
This is a slight twist to the tale - rather than just letting Mr Mean work out that it's not a good thing for Mr Happy to be renamed Mr Sad in a possible future, the third ghost is quite direct about it being all Mr Mean's fault. So Little Miss Bossy works well here.

So let that be a lesson to us all - don't underpay the people who work in your piggy bank factory.

The winner was Anne, by the magic semi-cheating method of a second tie-breaker chance in real life denied to people not in the same room as me a month or two back. She got one of the two copies of Mr Men A Christmas Carol that I bought on some sort of Waterstone's deal. I am keeping the other, which makes more sense than it previously did.
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ceriwytch

[info]ceriwytch | 03 Jan 08 07:43pm (UTC)

I haven't got a clue about little misses. I don't think they existed yet when I was little, or maybe my parents just didn't know or care that they did; and my step-daughter didn't enter my life until past the age for them; and my son, though he does have a few, mostly went for the Mr Men. I have to admit that I also massively prefer the Mr Men. The Mr Men are as a whole much more bold and concept lead in design and personality. With the little Misses ( as you might expect from their name) generally speaking, with a few exceptions perhaps, their attributes are as gender stereotyped as their appearance. They are horribly diminutive, ( 'little' miss), obviously girls not women ( whereas Mr Men are not boys, they are men) and fussily feminine, with their pastel colours and cutesy bows - this defines and limits their variation from each other in a way that does not occur with the Mr Men who vary greatly. Ick. Its so sexist it gets on my nerves!

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Paul Gregory

[info]paulgregory | 04 Jan 08 12:50am (UTC)

Yes, it is odd that the original run never mentioned any Little Misses but they were clearly an un-necessary after-thought. Ironically just having a men-only village would have been less sexist. Have you seen the redesigned Mr Men for the upcoming US/UK animated series The Mr Men Show? www.themrmenshow.co.uk (warning: noisy). There are still cutesy bows and less variation than the Mr Men, but by reassigning some genders and removing some duplication I think it's actually a better set. The Mr Men and Little Misses of Dillydale look more like they've always been together rather than those of the books. As for reducing the concept to some sort of Spongebob sketch show, I'm reserving judgement until I actually see it.

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