Scrooged/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Heartwarming Moments: Practically the entire ending, but especially shouting out to Claire, seeing Herman as a ghost, Calvin speaking and the spontaneous song.
  • He Really Can Act: Murray up to this point has been known for mostly comedy and while this movie is also a comedy there are moments of drama where Murray is no slouch either. Such as Frank crying after seeing his mother in the past as well as his big speech at the end of the movie. The latter of which started out as comedic, but became a speech that was a mix between awesome, heartwarming and tearjerker. Much of what he said was not only on point in regards to Christmas, but it got people who in the movie were a tad close to getting him fired for pulling a stunt like his on Live TV; to turn around and celebrate with him.
  • Iconic Character, Forgotten Title: The promos for IBC's version of A Christmas Carol continually refer to it as "Charles Dickens's immortal classic, Scrooge."
  • Nightmare Fuel: Frank's commercial for the production of Scrooge, described as "The Manson Family Christmas Special" by Loudermilk. It's later revealed that the spot actually killed an old lady who watched it.
    • NEVER look under the Ghost of Christmas Future's robes. EVER. (You might get a lawsuit?)
      • Nightmare Retardant: The little guys inside him are seen partying with the rest of the ghosts during the big happy festive ending scene.
    • Hell, that TV for a face. Before the final vision of Frank's death, you can actually see an image of an evil, red-eyed, zombie-like Frank on the screen.
      • "The special effects guys went all out on you, didn't they? We're going to get calls."
    • The cremation scene.
    • The scene where Frank hallucinates that a waiter is on fire.
    • The frozen homeless man.... just agh!
  • Tear Jerker: The fate of the homeless gent with the pocket-watch.
    • It even scores more Tear Jerker points when Frank of all people berates him for not staying at Operation Reachout.
    • How can we not forget the part where Frank sees his mother and cries? This troper never seen a comedian like Murray cry in a movie especially a comedy. What's even more sad is it's not a comedic cry either.