Heat Miser
| Heat Miser | |
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 Heat Miser |
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| First appearance | "The Year Without a Santa Claus" (1974) |
| Last appearance | "A Miser Brothers' Christmas" (2008) |
| Created by | Rankin Bass |
| Portrayed by | George S. Irving (1974/2008) Harvey Fierstein (2006) |
| Information | |
| Species | Elemental |
| Gender | Male |
| Relationships | |
| Parents | Mother Nature |
| Sibling(s) | Snow Miser (stepbrother) |
Heat Miser is a character from the Rankin/Bass 1974 children's television special The Year Without a Santa Claus. A vaguely ogre-like being, Heat Miser is a blustery, quick-tempered hothead who is ultimately harmless He is depicted as the personification of all the warm weather in the southern territory. As indicated in the lyrics of his song ("whatever I touch, starts to melt in my clutch"), Heat Miser can melt objects with a touch, even, implausibly, objects that should combust rather than melt, such as a shovel's wooden handle. In the same song, he mentions his preference for hot weather ("I never want to know a day that's under 60° - I'd rather have it 80, 90, 100°!"). Appearances suggest that the objects he melts are actually transforming into lava. Unlike Snow Miser, there is no evidence that he can restore objects he melts, as Snow Miser can with objects he turns into snow. He can also project intense heat from his hands or mouth, even forming simple objects of flame that can endure independently for a few seconds. His anger comes from the fact he feels Santa is unfair to him by giving his stepbrother, Snow Miser free publicity while he gets none, as well as the claim that their stepmother preferred Snow Miser over Heat Miser. Otherwise, he isn't malevolent at all. His heat abilities include: bolts, beams, balls of heat, and spitting fire.
He lives inside of a volcano with his band of imp-like minions who are all identical, miniature versions of himself. Heat Miser controls the hot weather all over Earth. His archnemesis is his stepbrother, Snow Miser, and their stepmother is Mother Nature.
Heat Miser was voiced by character actor George S. Irving. Both Heat and Snow Miser sing a memorable ragtime style song introducing themselves.
In the 2006 NBC live-action remake, he is played by actor Harvey Fierstein. In this depiction, he wears a hawaiian-style shirt, and his underlings are replaced by women in bikinis, rather than his impish duplicates. They operate his over-sized slingshot to launch fireballs and fire volcanoes to feud with Snow Miser.
A 2008 Warner Brothers/Cuppa Coffee Animation sequel to the stop-motion film that premiered on ABC Family, A Miser Brothers' Christmas had Heat Miser and Snow Miser set aside their differences to save Christmas when Santa once again is unable to make his run while fighting off their step brother whom neither brother likes, North Wind. Heat Miser this time is wearing a Suit Type Outfit and its pattern is all flames. George S. Irving reprised his role.
[edit] Song
Both the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser sing the same song commonly known as either the Snow Miser Song or the Heat Miser Song which goes as follows:
I'm Mister Green Christmas,
I'm Mister Sun,
I'm Mister Heat Blister,
I'm Mister Hundred-and-One.
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch,
Starts to melt in my clutch,
I'm too much!
He's Mister Green Christmas
He's Mister Sun
He's Mister Heat Blister,
He's Mister Hundred-and-One.
They call me Heat Miser
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
He's too much!
Thank you.
I never wanna know a day that's under sixty degrees,
I'd rather have it eighty or one hundred degrees!
Oh some like it hot by I like it really hot!
He's Mister Green Christmas
He's Mister Sun
Sing it!
He's Mister Heat Blister,
He's Mister Hundred-and-One.
They call me Heat Miser
What ever I touch
I'm too much!
Too much!
