History Film / Scrooged

* CreepyChildrenSinging: Danny Elfman's score features a children's choir; YMMV on whether or not it's "creepy," but it certainly isn't a nice, cheery, uplifting score.

* AbusiveAdvertising: Frank's ad for ''Scrooge'' is a barrage of modern-day horrors leading to "watch the special - your life may depend on it!", or as Loudermilk calls it "The Manson Family Christmas Special!". It’s mentioned later in the film that it actually scared an old lady so bad she died of a heart attack and the network is getting sued.

* CompositeCharacter: Lew Hayward is a combination of Mr. Fezziwig (Scrooge's old mentor and host of the Christmas party) and Jacob Marley (Scrooge's dead partner and the first ghost to visit him).

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After being visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, Frank makes himself a vodka and Tab that has a few drops of Tab.

* PetTheDog: Lew, by his own admission, was a terrible person when he was alive. But he threw a fantastic Christmas party for his staff every year, and in the past told Frank, a {{workaholic}} even then, to chill out and enjoy the festivities with everyone else. He also seems to be [[VillianousFriendship genuinely fond of Frank]], and [[CruelToBeKind his terrorizing him as a ghost]] is ultimately done [[ForYourOwnGood for the sake of saving him from sharing his miserable fate in the afterlife]].

* FanserviceExtra: The Solid Gold Dancers in their ''very'' skimpy outfits. Though the crew member is right, you can hardly see them nipples.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The Ghost of Christmas Past clearly looks disgusted by how Frank's father mistreated him as a child.

* AffablyEvil: Lou Hayward, back when he was alive. He's very genial to his employees and takes Frank under his wing, even urging him to take a night off to enjoy the office Christmas party. He's also a serial adulterer, and the one who taught Frank to be a corporate shark and helped ruin his relationship with Claire, faults that he admits to when he meets Frank as a ghost.

* PetTheDog: Lew, by his own admission, was a terrible person when he was alive. But he threw a fantastic Christmas party for his staff every year, and in the past told Frank, a {{workaholic}} even then, to chill out and enjoy the festivities with everyone else. He also seems to be genuinely fond of Frank, and [[CruelToBeKind his terrorizing him as a ghost]] is ultimately done [[ForYourOwnGood for the sake of saving him from sharing his miserable fate in the afterlife]].

* RejectingTheConsolationPrize: Played with: Frank receives a Humanitarian of the Year award at a banquet, which technically means that he won first place. However, based on his own dismissive attitude of the ceremony itself and he flicking the award to test its density (i.e., it's not solid gold), he leaves it behind in the taxi he takes back to work.

* RunningGag: [[ButtMonkey The lady from the FCC]] accumulates several AmusingInjuries, each time screaming "[[OhCrap OH SHIT!]]" before it hits her

* FamserviceExtra: The Solid Gold Dancers in their ''very'' skimpy outfits. Though the crew member is right, you can hardly see them nipples.

* AffablyEvil: Lou Hayward, back when he was alive. He's very genial to his employees and takes Frabk under his wing, even urging him to take a night off to enjoy the office Christmas party. He's also a serial adulterer, and the one who taught Frank to be a corporate shark and helped ruin his relationship with Claire, faults that he admits to when he meets Frank as a ghost.

* InstantKarma: Frank suspects Brice is gunning for his job, but it isn't confirmed until Frank interrupts the ''Scrooge'' broadcast and Brice smirks, "He's finished." Unfortunately, his reveal as a BitchInSheepsClothing is timed with Frank's HeelFaceTurn, and Brice is immediately knocked out by Elliot Loudermilk as he storms the broadcast booth.

* SuggestiveCollison When Eliot breaks into the broadcast booth, the censor falls into the lap of a security guard and he cops a feel.

* GenreBlindness: Played with. In producing a version of ''A Christmas Carol'', Frank is familiar with some beats of the story - looking somewhat glib when Lew's ghost tells him he's going to be visited by ''three ghosts''; he calls out the Ghost of Christmas Past, advising he knows the deal, and also recognises the Ghost of Christmas Future ''immediately'' (even if it's ''not'' the real deal). By the point he actively ''meets'' the Ghost of Christmas Future, however, Frank is so rattled by what's going on that any familiarity with the story would be meaningless, particularly when the powers that be actively go one step further than showing him his own grave.

* MoralGuardians: The Standards and Practices lady. [[spoiler: She gets into ''ahem'' [[JustForPun the spirit]] a little too much upon seeing Bryce Cummings tied up with garland.]]