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'''Ghost of Christmas Past''': That's exactly what [[Attila the Hun]] said. But when he saw his mother... Niagara Falls. }}
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* [[An Asskicking Christmas]] / [[Badass Santa]]: Featured in ''The Night The Reindeer Died'', one of the [[Show Within a Show|Films Within A Film]] during the movie. Apparently Santa is a very Jolly [[Tremors|Burt Gummer]].
** [[Defictionalization|It's a shame]] [[Averted Trope|this wasn't made]] into a [[Real Life]] movie.
* [[As Himself]]: Lee Majors manages to pull off a double decker. He's Lee Majors, playing Lee Majors in ''Scrooged'', where he's starring as Lee Majors in ''The Night the Reindeer Died''.
** Robert Goulet, John Houseman, and Mary Lou Retton don't manage to get quite as meta with their appearances as themselves.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Bryce Cummings (played by [[Smallville|John Glover]]) seems really nice but is really gunning for Frank's job.
** If anything, Bryce is just like Frank, but without the decency to be forthright and obvious about what a giant [[Jerkass]] he is.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: IBC, the network Frank runs, is directly poking fun at [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. The promo for IBC's ''[[Show Within a Show|Scrooge]]'' says "Yule Love It"; [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s promotional tagline for their shows in the 1985-1986 season (while the movie was being produced) was "You'll Love It".
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Frank at the end of the movie. On the one hand, he ''is'' in a TV studio, he ''is'' speaking into an [[In
* [[Brick Joke]]: The Network Censor getting hurt, see [[Butt Monkey]] below. However in the final scene it all comes to a head. {{spoiler| When [[Heel Face Turn|When Frank changes his ways]] and gets a shotgun toting Elliot Loudermilk on his side. Elliot storms the control room holding them at gun point. The second the censor sees the gun she's the only one that screams and ducks, having enough of getting hurt throughout the entire movie.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Elliot Loudermilk. Fired on Christmas Eve, sells blood for booze money (and the booze gets stolen by the Ghost of Christmas Past), and ends up {{spoiler|assaulting Frank with a shotgun in the finale}}. Also [[The Woobie]].
** [[Moral Guardians|The Standards and Practices lady]] gets hit by a lamppost, run over by a barrel and crushed by a set.
* [[Cheek Copy]]
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Frank Cross.
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'''Waiter:''' Oh ''no'' sir, that's the Baked Alaska, sir, that's a dessert. }}
* [[Opening Credits Cast Party|Closing Credits Cast Party]]
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: The second ghost.
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* [[Cute Mute]]: Calvin (see [[Dumb Struck]], below), who finds his voice near the end to remind the reformed Cross to say, "God bless us, everyone."
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Frank wants to replace the Christmas Carol ad campaign with one that features drug addiction, terrorist attacks, and the threat of nuclear war.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Defrosting The Ice King]]
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female
* [[The Driver]] / [[Drives Like Crazy]]: The first Ghost.
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'''Ghost of Christmas Past:''' Which floor? }}
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Elliot tries to do this after losing his job, but a [[Roadside Wave]] wets the paper bag holding his booze and causes it to fall out. He tries again later, only for the Ghost of Christmas Past to drive by and steal his booze.
* [[
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Cross is driven to tears when he sees his mother in a vision of one of his first Christmases. The Ghost of Christmas Past had earlier mentioned even "Attila the Hun cried" when he saw his own mother.
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* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Frank genuinely does love his brother James. He's the only person aside from Claire that he isn't a flat-out jerk to.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Though Frank is a self-centered creep, there were some redeeming factors to him prior to the climax. Before he sees the ghost of Christmas past, he dumps water on a waiter, thinking he was on fire. {{spoiler|It was merely an illusion by the ghost to get him outside. The thought counts, though.}} Afterwards he makes some friends with the homeless people, even singing with them before the big "Bah Humbug parody." Lastly after seeing the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was devastated that one of the homeless men he met was found dead in the sewer he landed in. He even berates the guy for not staying at Operation Reachout where his ex-girlfriend Claire works.
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** At one point he is
* [[Expy]]
** Ebenezer Scrooge - Frank Cross
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: A ''lot'', though the crowning example has to be Frank's vision of his own funeral by cremation - '''from inside the coffin'''.
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Frank does this to the old woman after stealing a ride from her.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Frank apparently had it even worse than Ebenezer Scrooge. While Scrooge's father just sent him off to boarding school but eventually had a change of heart, Frank's father is shown as a callous, emotionally abusive man who never changes his ways, while his mother (while loving) is distant due to not wanting to stay in the house with her loveless husband, leaving him parked in front of the TV while she goes out.
* [[Gatling Good]]: Lee Majors wields a minigun in ''The Night the Reindeer Died''.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Frank knows the whole Scrooge thing, he has ''[[
* [[The Grinch]]: Frank, at first.
* [[Groin Attack]]: "The Ballbreaker Suite", indeed.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[Hellevator]]: Frank meets the Ghost of Christmas Future here. At the bottom is the funeral noted up in [[Family-Unfriendly Death]].
* [[Hollywood Driving]]: The Ghost of Christmas Past takes it [[Up to Eleven]], panicking Frank. In fact, while in the present, his taxi ''can'' hit other objects.
** He responds to Claire's request to take her to the TV studio quickly with "[[Beyond the Impossible|Which floor]]?"
* [[Improv]]: Half of Frank's lines; the entire closing sequence.
* [[Invisible Holes]]: Frank's old boss, Lew Hayward.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Lampshaded.
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* [[Meet Cute]]: Gave rise to Frank's pet name, "Lumpy."
* [[Moral Guardians]]: The Standards and Practices lady. {{spoiler|She gets into ''ahem'' the spirit a little too much upon seeing Bryce Cummings tied up with garland.}}
* [[Murder
* [[Not My Driver]]: The Ghost of Christmas Past is a borderline psychotic taxi driver.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The Waiter; Christmas Future; the Antler guy; Frank's dead boss; the homeless gent.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: Most of what Frank does outside of [[Kick the Dog|canning Elliot]], but especially:
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'''Claire:''' Oh, what a cute little mouse!
'''Frank:''' Have you thought about... '''staples!?''' }}
** For some reason, Claire starts bitching out the stagehand even though he's just as horrified by the idea.
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* [[Setting Update]]
* [[Show Within a Show]]: A TV production of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' is going on while Murray is meeting the ghosts.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Bryce Cummings, the slimy West-Coast producer called in to "assist" (read: take over from) Frank.
* [[Turn the Other Cheek]]: Claire.
* [[Unnecessary Time Precision]]: When Frank leaves a message for Claire.
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* [[Verbed Title]]
* [[Wide
* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]
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