History Film / GhostDad

* ChekhovsGag: Amanda leaving her skates on the stairs. Elliot almost trips on them but [[spoiler: Diane]] later does.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Tony Ricker calling Diane a "bitch" ''while he's talking to her father on the phone''.

* KarmaHoudini: [[UngratefulBastard Collins]] faces no kind of comeuppance or punishment for firing Elliot after having him so hard for him for years—heck, Elliot doesn't even enact any kind of divine retribution on him for it either.

* SkewedPriorities: In the film, Eliot is more concerned about getting a business deal than trying to work out the circumstances surrounding his own death.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The ability to become a ghost after death is genetic. Like haemophilia or sickle-cell anaemia. [[spoiler:[[AnAstralProjectionNotAGhost And you don't have to be dead.]]]]
** Apparently, spirits dissipate from view under strong light, but the film's very dodgy continuity issues make it unclear as to how this works or just how much light is needed; how vulnerable Elliot is [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe depends entirely on the scene in question]].

* SkewedPriorities: Apparently, death is like hiccups, since Elliot decides getting a business deal done is more important than, you know, reconciling '''he's dead'''.

Elliot makes the epic mistake of catching a ride with Satanist taxi driver Curtis Burch, who drives erratically and screams about obeying his "Dark Master" (Elliot pretends to be Satan and commands him to stop, causing Burch to drive the cab into a river). When he runs into Burch again at the end, Elliot orders him to go straight to hell and Burch ecstatically drives off.

%%* ReachingBetweenTheLines

* DrivesLikeCrazy: The Satanist cab driver takes him on a wild ride, often not even looking at the road.

* HollywoodSatanism: The taxi driver demands that Elliot "accept the Lord Satan as the Supreme Being," something that a real-life Satanist would probably never do. Then again, he's batshit insane, which is a weak justification.

%%* TheTaxi
* UnexplainedRecovery: The insane taxi cab driver, despite being in the same taxi that fell off a bridge, turns up alive and driving another taxi at the end of the film.

* HollywoodSatanism: The taxi driver demands that Bill Cosby "accept the Lord Satan as the Supreme Being," something that a real-life Satanist would probably never do. Then again, he's batshit insane, which is a weak justification.

** Apparently, spirits dissipate from view under strong light, but the film's very dodgy continuity issues make it unclear as to how this works or just how much light is needed; how vulnerable Cosby is [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe depends entirely on the scene in question]].
* PapaWolf: After hearing his daughter's boyfriend tell him rudely to put his daughter on the phone, Cosby goes through the phone to choke him and say never to talk to, look at, or think of her ever again.

* SuddenlyShouting: Cosby and the scientist do this when arguing over if Edith, the name of the scientist, is a girl's name.

* UnexplainedRecovery: The insane Taxi cab driver, despite being in the same taxi that fell off a bridge, turns up alive and driving another taxi at the end of the film.