Cartoon about a Japanese monkey fighting Japanese organized crime in Tokyo, Japan — but shoehorn in the ghost of a white American guy voiced by posterchild white American guy Jason Sudeikis — seems soooorta racist.

Gonna make an uneducated guess. Steven talks about, and eats food, Gem people sing an off-key, pedantic, song about friendship and evil is either defeated or converted to the cause of good through a blinding (Care Bear Stare) flash.

The softer Scrooge from 1987 is arguably the most popular Scrooge. I don’t think many of the people that helped to make the orgianl show such as success knew about the comic at all. I know I didn’t and although I really wasn’t the right age for when it initially came out I think like a lot of shows of that era…