- It'll waste a lot of expensive coal for the fire.
- Yes. That's definitely a point. That's a point. That's right.

Kermit The Frog (Steve Whitmire), Bob Cratchit (Steve Whitmire)

8 seconds sound clip from the The Muppet Christmas Carol movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:16:08 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Very well. I'll see you at 8:00 tomorrow morning.

- Um... Um... Tomorrow's Christmas.

- 8:30, then.

- Oh, um, I-if you please, sir, half an hour off hardly seems customary for Christmas day.

- Hardly customary. No. No. Not at all.

- How much time off is customary?

- Uh, why, um... The, uh, whole day. Yes! That's right.

- The whole day.

- The entire day?

- No, no. That's the frog's idea.

- If you please, Mr. Scrooge, why open the office tomorrow? Other businesses will be closed. You'll have no one to do business with.

- It'll waste a lot of expensive coal for the fire.

- Yes. That's definitely a point. That's a point. That's right.

- It's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every December the 25th.

(All exclaiming disappointed)

- But as I seem to be the only person around who knows that... take the day off.

- Oh. Yeah. Yay! What a boss! Oh, he's great!

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