Hey there!

So the quick answer to your question is, that’s totally fine. Here’s the longer answer:

Appropriation would be stuff like lighting the candles and saying the blessings. Dreidels might be appropriative; my concern would be more with the fact that they can be difficult to find in stores and if you buy a set that’s a set a Jew can’t get hold of, but others’ mileage may vary. Gelt is literally just chocolate coins so like . . . there’s no monopoly on chocolate coins. Go wild. Try to wait to buy the ones modeled after Israeli money until near the end of Chanukkah, but like, there are others that are literally sold for Christmas stockings and they’re everywhere.

Moving on!

Appreciation would be learning the story, listening to the music (as you do), perhaps visiting some kind of Chanukkah display in your town if there is one. You might also choose to eat fried foods in solidarity. Latkes are basically fancy hashbrowns (listen, other Jews, don’t @ me I’m not wrong), but we also eat fried donuts called sufiganiyot, and while brisket is the traditional Jewish meat of choice during Chanukkah I am all about fried chicken. You may also choose to take this opportunity to do charity work; Light One Candle includes the verse “light one candle for those who are suffering pain we learned so long ago,” but it is far from the only Chanukkah song to note that there are others who are wanting and oppressed right now (the first that comes to my mind is The Latke Song by Debbie Friedman: “We must remember those who have so little/We must help them, we must be the ones to feed”). Some great ways to appreciate the meaning of Chanukkah without being appropriative would be to write letters to prisoners, donate money and rarely-donated items to food banks and shelters, or--even though this is mixing holidays and is usually frowned upon--picking up one of those little Angel Tree tickets to provide for a child who’s in need.

Advocacy would be pestering your town and local library for a Chanukkah display and Chanukkah activities, calling a local synagogue and asking if they need someone to stand by while they light the lights or have a special prayer service, or donating to a Jewish project or charity.

IT FUCKING SUCKS AND I AM IMMOVEABLE ON THIS POSITION. 

Mickey’s Christmas Carol is one of the absolute worst adaptations for children I have ever seen with my eyes, and it is CERTAINLY the worst of the popular children’s adaptations. 

Yes, it’s too short, but that’s only the beginning of the issue. It really is a symbol of everything that’s wrong with how A Christmas Carol has been taken in our society, how people can champion it because they think it is literally about fucking Christmas trees and shit instead of NOT BEING A DICK, not being selfish, about sharing with those who are in need. It’s a polished, commercialized turd stripped of its soul to make room for jokes and the Disney(tm) characters. 

Mickey as Cratchit is barely an entity at all in the story, and I wouldn’t say he’s exactly fully realized in the original novella, so that’s quite a bit of criticism I’m handing out here and I don’t do it lightly. 

The silliness of parts of it totally undermines the lesson, like having Goofy be Marley, and like, falling down the stairs while giving a goofy yell. I’m not opposed to humor, the Muppet Christmas Carol is often funny, but it never allows itself to undermine the LESSON of the story. 

But perhaps the most unforgiveable sin the show does is something a handful of adult adaptations do as well. It has Scrooge be the cleverest and funniest person in the room, and instead of him coming off as a miser in a way that makes us NOT cheer for him, it’s that sort of glorious bastard thing that I think can become tiresome ANYHOW in media, but is absolutely horrid in this context. (Scrooged, which I do like, can be a little guilty of this as well, but I think it pulls it back just enough) At the end of it, we’re left going, “He learned something, but why?” 

ah gotcha!

....still! I call Verboden 8′D let my anime mom wear what she’s best in

She has a bigger hat!

Please know that no matter what your intention with your reply was, this is what I heard when I read it:

Hiromi Matsushita only worked on one other episode (#1). His wife Kazuko Tadano was much more heavily involved with the series but she left after the conclusion of the R Season.

I've never kept track of the SM staff and who worked on which season, but I always love hearing things like this.

HEY ROCKAPELLA I FOUND HER