The Pollitt family has begun to gather to celebrate he sixty-fifth birthday of the domineering Mississippi plantation owner and patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives).However impressive it was, Dr.Evil preferred to speak of his own latest plan, describing the tale of a gold-loving Holland Dutchman in 1972 named Johann Van Der Smut, also named Goldmember: "He lost his genitalia in an unfortunate smelting accident - hence the name Goldmember.He exited from the car onto the sidewalk where some Native Americans (in traditional tribal dress) were standing and walking by.He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.