tax leech: 3 ghosts appear to Scrooge in black and white, due to NASA's refusal to allocate taxpayer dollars to developing full-colour ghost-imaging
EP Grondine: Scrooge is unable to escape being hectored by the 3 ghosts due to NASA-Israeli conspiracies to prevent easy hatch egress
Tom Brosz: the 3 ghosts convince Scrooge of the virtues of socialism, causing a fiscal blow-out, massive nationwide apathy, and the growth of a world-wide gulag
Phil: Phil (or p) appears to Scrooge instead of the 3 ghosts, kicks him severely in the butt, and mocks him in every way possible.
Bowser: 3 dogs find their way into Scrooge's house, and bark and growl at him incessantly, causing great annoyance and with little enlightenment.
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