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{{Tapped Out Quest
|name = A Holiday Hymn
|image = 
|level = 11
|update = {{TOCU|Christmas 2013}}
|requirements = 
|characters = [[Ebenezer Burns]]
|optional = 
|previous = 
|next = 
|premium = yes
}}

'''A Holiday Hymn''' is a premium questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in the {{TOCU|Christmas 2013}} content update. It requires [[Ebenezer Burns]] to be unlocked.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Ebenezer Burns' exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Is there a more heartwarming holiday tradition than turning off the electricity of delinquent customers?}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Let’s see: South Street Orphange<!--sic-->… off! Sisters of Infinite Mercy… off! The Cratchit Family -- shame about little Tim, but what are you going to do… off!}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Ebenezer Burns! Change your ways before it is too late!}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Excuse me, Spirit, but you’re blocking the power turner-offer.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Repent your evil deeds! Or suffer in hellfire for all eternity…}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|The only eternity I care about is how long this conversation is taking. Now where was I… ah, yes! The Springfield Home for Wounded Firefighters… off!}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Ebenezer Burns Ignore Holiday Warning|60 minutes|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Ebenezer Burns' exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Tonight, Ebenezer Burns, you will be visited by three spirits. The Spirit of Christmas Past--}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon|Upset}}
{{TB|No! No, spare me! I’ll do anything you say! Please take pity on my poor soul!}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Oh, uh, really? Great. Okay, first thing is to buy a fat goose for the Cratchits, then--}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|I wasn’t serious, moron! Do you have any idea who I am? I happen to be on a first name basis with your boss.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Actually, I’m a benign spirit of mercy. Not a devil.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Oh, I didn’t realize! A spirit of mercy! Well OF COURSE I’ll heed your message.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|… Are you being serious this time, or…}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|No, you imbecile! Now shut up and wait in the corner until I’m ready for you. I’ve got work to do.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Ebenezer Burns Count his Money|4 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Ebenezer Burns' exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Ebenezer, let’s skip the whole “Christmas past” thing and visit the modest home of one of your current employees.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Is it Smithers? Because I walked in on him once, and I will not make that mistake again.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Silence! Homer Simpson has been your faithful employee lo these many years. And look at the squalor in which he lives. Shame on you. Shame!}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Shame on me?! Have you seen this man’s attendance record?}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Well, uh, no. But I don’t see how it’s relevant.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|He’s missed fifty-four days this year. Still want to call him my “faithful employee?” Think maybe the squalor could be self-inflicted?}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Huh. Well, you understand, I didn’t have access to these records. Had I known--}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Idiot.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Know what I’m going to do? I’m going to redo the shift assignments so everyone has to work on Christmas. Just to annoy you.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Ebenezer Make Everyone Work on Christmas|12 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Ebenezer Burns' exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Seriously, Ebenezer, I’m only trying to help here.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|ou can help by handing me that wrench.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Here you go. It’s just, from where I’m sitting, it seems like a few years of repenting is a small price to pay for an eternity in Heaven.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|That’s a solid deal, any way you look at it.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Could you take a step back? You’re blocking my light.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Sure, sure. Say, what are you building there, anyway?}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|You’ll see.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Ebenezer Burns Work on “The Weapon.”|12 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Ebenezer Burns' exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit}}
{{TB|Say, what is that thing you’ve built?}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|I’m modifying the ghost vacuum from the Halloween update. Vacuuming is too good for you annoying creatures.}}
{{Tapped Out The Ghost of Christmas Past Icon|Spirit Shocked}}
{{TB|I don’t like the sound of that.}}
{{Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns Icon}}
{{TB|No, you shouldn’t.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Ebenezer Burns Blast Holiday Spirits|24 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}
}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
The quest name is a reference to ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.

{{Tapped Out Quests/Christmas 2013}}
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