It was a beautiful day in Cartoon Network City and it was snowing outside as it was getting closer to the holiday season and many were in joy and anticipation of the holidays, except for maybe a rather Scrooge of a duck who was known as Daffy while everyone else was in a good mood outside of the store he owned.
"Merry Christmas, Mr. Duck." Cindy greeted the black duck.
"Bah, humbug!" Daffy scoffed.
"Hmph..." Cindy glared at Daffy slightly. "What's got his feathers in a twist?"
A penguin who looked quite sad came up to Daffy and rubbed his stomach to show that he was starving and wanted food.
"What do I look like, an ATM?" Daffy sneered to the penguin. "Jeez, why is it that around the holidays, everyone thinks that they can hit the businessman?!"
The penguin just had ice cubes as tears running down his face.
"Hey, Doc!" A familiar gray rabbit with a hat and scarf soon appeared right beside Daffy. "That's no way to treat those less fortunate! Where's your sense of holiday spirit?"
"WHO ASKED YOU TO BUTT IN, LONG EARS?!" Daffy glared at Bugs before storming off inside of the store.
Bugs glared at the duck and pulled out some coins and gave it to the penguin. A pig girl, Bubbles, Jessie, and Autumn were singing Christmas carols.
"Happy Holidays, Mr. Duck," Jessie smiled. "We're collecting donations for needy families."
"Well, that's an interesting spin on trespassing, pandering, and illegal solicitation," Daffy rolled his eyes. "SCRAM BEFORE I SEND YOU ALL TO ELF PRISON!"
'But what about the needy families?' Autumn asked.
"I said scram, you little brat!" Daffy glared at her.
"That's not very nice, Mr. Duck." Bubbles pouted.
"Scram, or I'll have to send my security after ya!" Daffy snapped before he saw their can which had money in it which made him grin and took it away from them while shaking it. "Now that's the kinda holiday jingle I like to hear."
"That's ours!" Jessie told Daffy.
"It's mine now, you little brats," Daffy replied. "Now, go on and get out, go make a snowman or somethin'."
"Come on, let's go." The pig girl told Jessie softly.
"We can't let him get away with this, Priscilla!" Jessie told their new friend.
"He's a thief, and I don't like thieves," Bubbles added. "They are really selfish."
Autumn then pulled out her whistle and blew it.
"Let's see how much those little brats made," Daffy said as he took a look inside of the can. "Not very much. Oh, well, it's mine now."
Jo was soon rushing over toward the store while jogging. "Hey, Autumn, I was in the middle of a quick jog to send the mail over the world for Sue, what's up?"
Autumn pointed toward Daffy.
"What about him?" Jo asked.
"He stole the money that we were gonna use to donate to needy families." Jessie told the jockette.
"What?!" Jo asked.
Autumn nodded to her big sister.
"Excuse me for one moment, I think it's time have a little roast duck." Jo said before walking over to the greedy duck.
"Hmm... It may not be enough, but maybe I can still buy something." Daffy said as he peeked in through the hole of the can.
"Hey, you!" Jo glared.
"What now?" Daffy glared back.
"Give that money back, now!" Jo demanded.
"Nuh-uh," Daffy replied. "Finder's keeprs, Loser's weepers."
"I've always wanted to try roast duck." Jo smirked as she grabbed a hold of Daffy by the neck.
"I can't breathe!" Daffy gagged. "I think that my face is turning blue!"
Jo soon pulled onto Daffy like he was made of rubber and then flung him into the store against the automatic doors and made the bucket fly into the store, go against a cash register with some money, and it soon flung back outside.
"Thank you for watching my bucket, Mr. Duck!" Priscilla smiled as she took the money bucket and skipped off with it.
"Well, that's that." Jo smirked as she dusted her hands clean.
Autumn took Jo's hand.
"Come on, kiddo, let's go home and see if dinner's ready." Jo told her little sister while taking her home.
"Security! Security!" Daffy yelled out. "I've been robbed! SECURITY, GET OVER HERE AND STEP ON IT!"
Ralph was sitting on the Red Guy's lap as the Red Guy was dressed as Santa again.
"SECURITY!" Daffy yelled out.
"Duh, I'm coming, boss, I'm coming!" Ralph called back.
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot randomly ran by Ralph and made him slip on the wet floor as someone was mopping it. Ralph ran into Daffy then crashed into the carts. Yogi Bear, who was the cashier, checked out Angelia Hill, both of them winced at the crash.
"Ah, look at that, the last pair!" Kathy smirked to Angelia as she took a box of latex gloves before adding them to her cart and walked off while humming Jingle Bells since her rival was defeated this holiday shopping season yet again.
"Where'd ya go, Boss?" Ralph asked as he looked around before looking at the bottom of his shoe to see that Daffy was squashed like chewing gum. "Ah, there ya is!"
"Note to self: chose words carefully when berating the security guy!" Daffy grunted to himself.
"I got ya, Boss!" Ralph told Daffy while peeling him off of his shoe with a candy cane.
Daffy rolled down the ground, looking dazed and confused he, then shook his head and looked at the security guard who always chased after the Warners Brothers, and the Warner Sister. Ralph hid the candy cane behind his back, smiling sheepishly and waved, before then running off.
Daffy dusted himself clean and soon whistled for his segway and soon went to ride on it through the store while people were doing last minute Christmas shopping. 'Attention, everybody!' he announced on a megaphone while passing by his employees and customers. 'It's the busiest day of the year!'
Wile E. Coyote looked hungrily up to a vending machine and soon put in a dollar so that he could buy himself a snack.
"No eating on the job, Coyote." Daffy warned as he took away the dollar.
Wile E. Had his tongue stuck to the machine, he tried to pull it out, but it caused him to be inside of the machine.
Huckleberry Hound was on the ladder by the tree, yawning and falling asleep.
'WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, HOUND!' Daffy yelled at the blue dog through the megaphone. 'What do you think this is, a holiday?'
Marvin sighed sadly as he was changing prices on dolls while looking up at a model solar system and couldn't help but stare at the fourth planet from the sun which was his home: Mars. "Home sweet home," The Martian sulked to himself. "Oh, how I miss you during the holidays."
"Stop daydreaming, Space Boy." Daffy scoffed.
Marvin accidentally shot his laser at a teddy bear, exploding it, made a 50% off sign say 500% off and even zapped Daffy.
"And triple the price on everything..." Daffy dazily told Marvin while he had nearly been burnt to a crisp. "Parents are suckers this time of year!"
Penelope Pussycat was trying on a new perfume, and of course, it attracted the familiar skunk, known as Pepe Le Pew.
"That's a good sample of ours, ma'am." Anne Maria smiled to the black and white cat.
Penelope smiled back as she then decided to try it on. The black and white female cat then squirted herself with the perfume.
Pepe soon sniffed her and dashed toward her while holding her while looking in love. "You 'ave no need for zhe perfume, my Christmas keety~... You smell of zhe sveetest garden in zhe bloom of Spring~" he then kissed her plenty of times on the muzzle.
"Hey, Casanova, that's not what I meant when I said 'woo the customers'," Daffy deadpanned to the skunk. "Watch the master," he then spun around the female cat. "Take my advice, Tuna Breath! Buy a quart of the expensive stuff, and gargle with it!"
Penelope punched him in the face and the greedy duck landed in the ladie's wear and he accidently wore a dress.
"I know, my sweet, but you are new, no?" Pepe flirted with Daffy because he thought that he was a girl.
In the Toy Assembling Department, Speedy Gonzales was making the toys while Pixie, Dixie, and Jerry were watching.
"Wow, your cousin Speedy is really fast, Jerry." Pixie commented.
Jerry smiled and nodded to the gray mice he was good friends with.
"Speedy, do you have that doll I asked for?" Ellody asked the fastest mouse in all of Mexico.
"Si, senorita, it's right here." Speedy smiled as he handed her a gift wrapped box.
"Oh, muchos gracias..." Ellody smiled back.
Daffy soon zipped by them.
"Oh, Merry Christmas, Senor Duck, or like we say back home 'Feliz Navidad'." Ellody told Daffy.
"Tonto." Speedy and Ellody muttered together.
"What did you call me?" Daffy glared at the mouse and genius as he came back from overhearing that.
"Uh... Tonto, it means, uh, 'genius' in Spanish." Speedy smiled nervously.
"Well, in that case, I guess I'm the biggest tonto in the world!" Daffy replied before speeding off.
"He said it, not us." Ellody whispered to Jerry, Pixie, and Dixie.
"Oh, I cannot wait for our Christmas Family Get Together, Jerry," Speedy smiled to his cousin. "It's going to be so much fun, especially with Senors Pixie and Dixie's family going to also join us."
"It's going to be the best Christmas ever." Pixie replied.
Jerry nodded silently as always.
"So, Jerry, how's Tom?" Ellody asked the silent brown mouse.
Jerry just rolled his eyes at the mention of Tom who he had an ongoing rivalry with.
"Well, hopefully Tom and Mr. Jinks can leave us alone for the holidays." Pixie said.
Jerry wiped his forehead with a sigh of relief.
"Also your sister's coming with her kid," Dixie said to Jerry which made him gulp. "Uh... You did remember, didn't you?"
Jerry gulped nervously as he forgot all about his sister coming over.
"Oh, I didn't know that you had a sister, Jerry?" Ellody said to the silent brown mouse.
"Her name is Mariana," Speedy explained. "Jerry doesn't see her so much, unlike his nephew, Nibbles."
Jerry nodded to Ellody to prove that that was true.
"I hope you don't mind about me meeting your family." Ellody said to Jerry.
Jerry smiled and shook his head as he was allowed her to see his family.
"Finally, a little respect, now where did my assistant manager run off to?" Daffy said to himself before pulling out a megaphone. "Oh, Mr. Assistant Manager? Move your lazy bones!"
"A-A-Assistant manager Porky Pig r-r-reporting for d-d-d-d-d-for service, sir." Porky saluted as he ran behind Daffy only to slip on a cloth in the floor and bounce off of the floor.
"Good job, Twinkle Hooves." Daffy deadpanned.
Porky landed on the skateboard and rode off, passing down the escalator and went past Jude and Bridgette who were shopping together.
"Rad skate moves, Pig Dude!" Jude praised.
"Porky, are you okay?" Bridgette asked the pig.
"Oh, Mr. Assistant Manager!" Daffy called out as he rode the escalator. "Your boss wants to see you this instant!"
"Come on, dude, you can do it!" Jude smiled as he put Porky on another skateboard to make him go toward Daffy.
"Jude, no!" Bridgette cried out, but it was too late, Porky was already skating towards Daffy.
Both of them fell off the floor and landed on top of a sale sign, but Daffy landed on the star of the tree, then screamed and jumped back into the sign and it got ripped apart. Both of them fell again, Porky landed on the stocking and Daffy was inside the present like a Jack-in-the-Box and destroyed the tree.
Mike was eating a candy cane with Ling-Ling on her shoulder and pushed a cart with lots of stuff. "What's up, Doc?" she then smirked. "Care for a candy cane?"
"Stop snacking on store merchandise, Mister, or I'll see to it that you're arrested for stealing!" Daffy snapped as he took the candy cane from Mike and spit all over her.
Mike then yanked his tie and used it to dry her face and Ling-Ling before letting go. "You might wanna ease up on the S words until you work through that little spitting problem of yours."
"M-M-Maybe you should see a speech th-th-th-th-th-specialist." Porky added as he hung from the stocking.
"And you are demoted to assistant assistant manager!" Daffy glared.
This caused Porky to sigh sadly.
"And you are messing with the wrong duck, Mister!" Daffy glared at Mike.
"Fine then," Mike replied. 'Come on, Ling-Ling, let's take our last minute shopping list elsewhere."
"Hai, Mike-san." Ling-Ling replied before looking over at Daffy to flip him off, and then jumped back onto Mike's shoulder.
"Come here, buddy." Mike smiled to her battle monster as she took out her shopping list which reached and spread to the floor.
"Just exactly who are you buying all of that stuff for?" Daffy asked Mike.
"Just for very good friends and family." Mike replied.
"The kid's got the right idea." Bugs agreed with Mike.
"I've never liked families, but I do love money," Daffy rolled his eyes. "So shop 'til you drop, and don't forget to pay for the candy canes!"
Lu and Og soon came to join Mike, but they didn't have actual money and had crabs and pigs which were considered currency on their home island.
"What is that?!" Daffy asked the native children.
"Our island money, sir." Og replied.
"You call this money?!" Daffy glared.
"Mm-hmm..." Og smiled and nodded. "Sometimes we get a discount in fish bones."
"GET OUT OF MY STORE!" Daffy snapped.
"But we want to purchase gifts for our loved ones for the winter holiday Mike tells us is full of magic like when she was a kid in New York." Og replied.
"Let me handle this, guys," Mike told Lu and Og before turning back to Daffy. "Hey, Duck, before I finish my last purchase, I need your second opinion on these items."
"I don't have time." Daffy told her.
"I've got these earmuffs for Princess Clara, and these ski goggles for Xandir, oh, how about this matching fairy dress costume for Toot that's just her size, and also this pacifier for Baby Leah, not to mention this bowling ball for Spanky and Captain Hero's guy's night with Xandir?" Mike listed as she shoved the items against Daffy which made him fall over in pain.
"Okay... Fun's over..." Daffy muffled before he tossed aside the bowling ball. "You... You! Customer or no customer, get out of my sight, now, now, NOW!"
"For shame, for shame," Bugs scolded Daffy. "Has your holiday spirit flown South for the winter?"
"In case you haven't noticed..." Daffy replied softly at first before he ripped up the dress while getting rid of the goggles and earmuffs. "I HATE THE HOLIDAYS!"
"Ya don't say," Bugs smirked like Nicholas Cage. "Well, Bah, Humduck!"
Daffy glared at first before smiling. "Bah, Humduck? I like that... Bah, Humduck."
A young teenage blonde girl came to the store with a plate of freshly baked cookies. "Daffy, I'd be careful if I were you," she then warned the mean black duck. "Bad things happen to people who mess with Christmas."
"Oh, yeah?" Daffy scoffed. "Like what?"
"Well, if they're really bad, and I think you fit the bill, they get visited by the Ghosts of Christmas." Bugs eerily told Daffy.
Daffy shivered at first before he glared at the gray bunny. "I'm not afraid of ghosts, in fact, I'm not afraid of anything."
"What about low corporate productions?" Mike smirked.
"Oh, you're so funny," Daffy scoffed to Mike before zipping off. "But still I say, 'Bah, Humduck!'."
The blonde teen girl looked at him before going to the others with a smile. "Fresh cookies?" she then offered. "Granny made them especially nice for nice folk on Christmas. I managed to save some while that nasty cat was trying to get Tweety again."
"Your granny makes the best cookies ever," Mike smiled to her. "What kind are they?"
"Sugar and ginger mostly." The blonde girl smiled.
"Thanks, Ida, you're the best," Mike smiled back as she grabbed a couple of cookies and ate them. "Mm... Delicious."
"Glad you like them so much, Mike." Ida smiled.
Daffy just rolled his eyes and pressed the wrong button and set him backwards and landed in the Garden Center and was electricuted, then fell on the ground, looking dazed.
"My flowers!" Daisy Davis yelled out as she was in the Garden Center because of course she was.
"Serves that duck right," Lu scoffed. "I should have his head for treating the princess like that."
"I can't believe I'm saying this, Princess, but you might actually have a point," Mike said to the island girl. "Daffy's been such a humbug."
"Or in his case a 'Humduck'." Og commented.
"Ooh, if there was only some way we could scare him into having the holiday spirit." Lu glared in determination.
"Well, Lu, there was a classic Christmas book when I was growing up with such an idea called A Christmas Carol," Mike told her. "This really rich dude named Ebeneezer Scrooge hated Christmas more than anything and was even cruel to his employer, Bob Cratchit, and nearly made him work on Christmas Day away from his poor and hungry family, so four ghosts visited him, like his old business partner, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future."
"So, what do we do?" Lu asked. "Dress up as ghosts and scare the crap out of him?"
"Hmm..." Og hummed in thought as he plucked his nose ring. "Old Queeks often summons ghosts of our ancestors if we misbehave."
"But those were our ancestors," Lu reminded her cousin. "It's not like he can summon actual ghosts."
"You never know..." Og replied.
"Aw, great, I thought I was missing that old grouch." Mike rolled her eyes slightly.
They soon left the Mall and they went up a hill together to meet the Albonquetine Island elder. Old Queeks was inside of his cave, sleeping as usual. Mike, Lu, and Og poked their heads out as they saw the old man in his hammock.
"Why does it smell like old people here?" Ling-Ling complained.
"Hey, Queeks!" Mike called out as loud as she could.
Old Queeks shook a little and soon fell out of his hammock. "What? What?" he then spotted the usual trio. "Oh, it's you all... What do you want?"
"Mike wants to teach a duck a lesson like in a story she heard from New York." Lu told Old Queeks.
"It's always the city with you." Old Queeks muttered to Mike.
"You dare disrespect Mike-san?" Ling-Ling glared to the elder of the Albonquetine Island. "Ling-Ling will kill you!"
"What is that thing?" Old Queeks asked about Ling-Ling.
"Ling-Ling, get down, that's just how he is." Mike told her battle monster.
"That's the ugliest dog I've ever seen." Old Queeks said about Ling-Ling.
"Anyway, can we see about ghosts visiting Daffy Duck?" Mike asked.
"Hmm... Perhaps..." Old Queeks replied. "But..."
"But what?" Og asked.
"You all will have to help the ghosts haunt the duck!" Old Queeks told them.
"Huh?" Lu asked. "And how in the heck would we do that?!"
"I have no idea, now, please, go away until next year." Old Queeks muttered before falling back asleep in his hammock.
"Now that was a waste of my time," Lu groaned. "What do we do now?"
"Like he said, we help the ghosts haunt Daffy," Mike replied. "And to help the ghosts, we should become ghosts."
"And how do we do that?" Lu asked.
Mike took out a special phone and soon contacted her Aunt Penelope for help.
"What are you doing?" Og asked.
"Calling a family member to help us." Mike replied.
"A family member?" Lu asked. "But you're an orphan!"
"I may be an orphan, Lu, but I still have family members," Mike narrowed her eyes slightly. "I mean, I never met your Great-Uncle Bernard who saved Og from a tree like you said he did."
"That's true..." Lu stared down at her feet.
"Hey, Aunt Penelope, it's your favorite niece," Mike smiled. "Say, listen, I need a favor. Can you make me and my friends into ghosts to scare a certain duck to like Christmas instead of ruining it for everyone?"
"Why sure, sweetie," Penelope replied. "I'd be more than happy than to do that for you."
"Thanks, Aunt Penelope, I knew I could count on you." Mike smiled.
"Oh, you're welcome, sweetie," Penelope replied. "Anything for my niece."
"Thanks, Aunt Penelope, you're the best." Mike said to her aunt from the Ghost Zone.
"But your friends will have to help the ghosts." Penelope reminded.
"Yes, Aunt Penelope, we understand." Mike nodded while Lu and Og tried to listen in on the phone call since Mike was agreeing to something for them without their permission.
"Come on, Og, what's she saying?" Lu demanded. "I can't hear what she's saying!"
"It's not polite to eavesdrop." Og told Lu.
"Princesses don't eavesdrop!" Lu snapped. "They just listen in case the subjects are talking about her."
Og just rolled his eyes to his cousin.
Mike soon hung up. "Okay, guys, time to be ghosts for this Bah Humduck of a Scrooge that is Daffy Duck."
"Ghosts?!" Lu yelped. "But I don't wanna die! I didn't even get to go to Prom with Manny Wanny!"
"You won't die, it's just a temporary spell to make you guys into ghosts for one night and you'll be back to normal by tomorrow morning." Mike promised.
"Phew! That's a relief," Lu calmed down now. "Who's going to be who? Oh, can I be the Ghost of Christmas Past?"
"If you want to, Lu." Mike shrugged.
"Sweet." Lu smiled.
"And Og, you can be the Ghost of Christmas Present." Mike decided.
"I guess therefore, you would be deduced as The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?" Og assumed.
"Oh, yeah," Mike smirked. "I'll probably scare him for a bit."
"It does fit the description for the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come," Lu admitted. "You'll be perfect for it."
"Thanks, Princess." Mike replied.
"This shall be a rather invigorating experience and will sure to be a Christmas that Daffy Duck will never forget." Og added.
Meanwhile, over at the Garden Center at the store...
"Sir, now that y-y-you finished your d-d-daily in-in-inspect-abuse, c-c-could I ask for a favor?" Porky asked.
"Do I know you?" Daffy asked in a daze.
"Uh, s-s-s-sir, I'm your assistant assistant m-m-manager." Porky told Daffy while Daisy was crying about her flowers.
"Did I like you?" Daffy asked.
"Y-Y-You don't l-l-like anyone, sir." Porky replied.
Daffy soon shook his head with a glare toward Porky and looked up and down at him. "I remember you now," he then told the pig. "And you're right; I don't like you!"
"MY GARDEN!" Daisy cried out.
"Aw, shut up, it's just a stupid weed!" Daffy told her before he then looked up to see Peridot, Lapis Lazuli, and her best friend Taafiete, The Princess of the Gray Puddle just staring at him. "What are you looking at? Just get back to your stupid shopping!"
"Uh, s-s-sir, I need to talk to you about s-s-s-something." Porky said to his boss as they walked along together.
"Clods." Peridot muttered as she walked away with her friends as they were finishing up Christmas shopping.
Lapis hid a snicker from Peridot's comment as they walked along.
"M-M-My daughter Priscilla r-r-really wants that Pretty Punchy Peggy doll for Christmas," Porky told his boss on the way up in the elevator. "It's all she talks about, sir. She's my only daughter and I love her so much, I w-w-would love to buy it for her, but it's too ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-I can't afford to buy it."
"Can't afford it?" Daffy replied. "Well, what if you stop eating?"
"I d-d-d-don't think that's much of a concern," Porky said to Daffy. "I-I-I can't on my salary."
"Then how do you explain the big, pink gut, Porkchop?" Daffy replied.
"Uh, I'm a pig, sir." Porky pointed out.
"You said it, not me." Daffy mumbled.
Mike, Lu, and Og snuck inside while Daffy and Porky were talking.
"O-O-Oh, sir, it's the holidays," Porky frowned as he followed Daffy inside of his office. "It's Christmas E-E-E-E-E-E-"
Daffy shut his mouth before he could finish. "Hold that thought." he smirked before slamming the door in Porky's face.
"But it's Christmas..." Porky frowned before he walked away in sadness that he wouldn't be able to make his daughter have a Merry Christmas this year.
