You might not realize it, but the version of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol with which you are familiar is actually based on the first, unfinished draft. Fortunately, the Shark at Work crew recently unearthed the final manuscript, which, due to a clerical error on the part of an unpaid intern at Dickens’ publishers, had been languishing for the last 167 years under a stack of uncorrected copies of Louisa May Alcott’s never-published Sci Fi series, Little Genetically Unclear Beings. And since we love literature so, we took it upon ourselves to bring to life the version of the story that Mr. Dickens intended the world to see. We begin shortly after the Ghost of Christmas Future has departed… the point at which the two drafts begin showing major differences:

This was originally uploaded to YouTube on December 24th, 2007. I consider it a personal failing on the part of every human being on the planet that I did not receive this in my inbox 800 times by December 25th, 2007: