Before he shut himself in for the night, he searched his rooms.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Muppet Christmas Carol movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:22:44 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- In a minute. I had a little bag of jelly beans over here.
- Will you just get over here?
- Sheesh!
- Steady.
- But the incident at the door had made Scrooge wary.
- Before he shut himself in for the night, he searched his rooms.
- Pardon?
- How do you know what Scrooge is doin'? We're down here, and he's up there.
- I keep telling you... storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.
- Hoity-toity, Mr. Godlike smarty-pants.
- To conduct a proper search, Scrooge was forced to light the lamps.
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