History YMMV / DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol

* NarmCharm: The episode is practically fueled by it.

* HarsherInHindsight: One of the photos of Kazran and Abigail has the Statue of Liberty in the background. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan In other words, it's an image of an Angel.]] %% Counts as this trope because it is most likely unintentional on Moffat's part.

** 4,500 gideons doesn’t sound like much money to put someone in cold storage someone as a security. But [[spoiler:she only had 8 days left to live]]

** 4,500 gideons doesn’t sound like much money to take someone as a security. But [[spoiler:she only had 8 days left to live]]

** 4,500 gideons doesn’t sound like much money to take someone as a security. But [[she only had 8 days left to live]]

* CrazyAwesome: Flying. Christmas. Shark.
* GeniusBonus: It's recently been discovered that great white sharks really ''can'' live at least 70 years, to judge by growth-ring patterns in a large male salvaged after its death.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** The Doctor explaining to Kazran and Abigail that they have to leave the party because he somehow got engaged to Marilyn Monroe. Kazran and Abigail, who have just had a very serious conversation the Doctor is unaware of, ignore him, driving him to go through with the marriage ''out of spite''.
--> '''Doctor''': Marilyn! Get your coat!
** The Doctor's entrance via the chimney.
--> '''Doctor''': Sorry, Christmas Eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney, my whole brain just went 'WHAT THE HELL!'
** The psychic paper finally encounters a whopper so big it can't function; that the Doctor is a mature and responsible adult.
** A little girl excitedly looks out of her window expecting to see Father Christmas on his sleigh, only to be confused when a shark pulling a hansom cab shoots past instead.
** The Doctor continuously failing to do the "pick a card, any card" trick.
** Amy appearing via hologram to Kazran, wearing her policewoman outfit...
--> '''Rory''': Hey! Eyes off the skirt!
** Abigail greets her Christmas visitors with a happy, "Doctor!" up to the year puberty turns Kazran into a serious hunk and her greeting becomes an astonished and appreciative, "Kazran?!"
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Kazran and Abigail riding the shark-driven sleigh one last time to celebrate their last Christmas together.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Abigail's song at the end.

* TearJerker:
** Despite what happened previously, the shark (almost) dying is quite sad.
** Kazran revealing that Abigail had only a few days left to live, and he and the Doctor spent almost all of them.
** Kazran almost hitting his younger self and realizing how he really had become just like his father.
** Isabella's family, pleading for Abigail's release so that she can spend Christmas with her sister. How much more desperately must they have begged to see her ''after'' the Doctor changed history, in such a way that Isabella's children actually ''knew'' their aunt?

** Abigail greets her Christmas visitors with a happy, "Doctor!" up to the year puberty turns Karzan into a serious hunk and her greeting becomes an astonished and appreciative, "Karzan?!"

** Kazran almost hitting his younger self and realizing how he really had become just like his father.

** Amy appearing via hologram to Kazran, wearing her [[FetishFuel policewoman outfit...]]

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Doctor explaining to Kazran and Abigail that they have to leave the party because he somehow got engaged to Marilyn Monroe. Kazran and Abigail, who have just had a very serious conversation the Doctor is unaware of, ignore him, driving him to go through with the marriage ''out of spite''.

* TearJerker: The entire thing.

* RuleOfCool: Pretty much every single element of the episode sounds ''totally stupid'' when you're trying to tell someone about it the next day -- re-writing a person's life, a flying shark calmed by singing, etc, etc, etc -- yet every single time, the result is so ''awesome'' it completely eclipses how stupid it might have been.

* [[RuleOfCool Rule Of Awesome:]] Pretty much every single element of the episode sounds ''totally stupid'' when you're trying to tell someone about it the next day -- re-writing a person's life, a flying shark calmed by singing, etc, etc, etc -- yet every single time, the result is so ''awesome'' it completely eclipses how stupid it might have been.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Doctor explaining to Kazran and Abigail that they have to leave the party because he somehow got engaged to [[spoiler: Marilyn Monroe]]. Kazran and Abigail, who have just had a very serious conversation the Doctor is unaware of, ignore him, driving him to go through with the marriage ''out of spite''.
--> '''Doctor''': [[spoiler:Marilyn]]! Get your coat!

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:Kazran and Abigail riding the shark-driven sleigh one last time to celebrate their last Christmas together.]]

* [[RuleOfCool Rule Of Awesome:]] Pretty much every single element of the episode sounds ''totally stupid'' when you're trying to tell someone about it the next day -- [[spoiler: re-writing a person's life, a flying shark calmed by singing, etc, etc, etc]] -- yet every single time, the result is so ''awesome'' it completely eclipses how stupid it might have been.

* ClicheStorm: At its core, it's just another rehash of the Scrooge story. Only with time travel and sharks.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Doctor explaining to Kazran and Abigail that they have to leave the party because he somehow got engaged to [[spoiler: Marilyn Monroe]].
--> '''Doctor''': Marilyn! Get your coat.

* [[RuleOfCool Rule Of Awesome:]] Pretty much every single element of the episode sounds ''totally stupid'' when you're trying to tell someone about it the next day -- [[spoiler: re-writing a person's life, a flying shark calmed by singing, etc, etc, etc]] -- yet every single time, the result is so ''awesome'' it completely eclipses how stupid it might have been.

* [[RuleOfCool Rule Of Awesome:]] Pretty much every single element of the episode sounds ''totally stupid'' when you're trying to tell someone about it the next day -- [[spoiler: re-writing a person's life, a flying shark calmed by singing, etc, etc, etc]] -- yet every single time, the result is so ''awesome'' it completely eclipses how stupid it may have been.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Abigail's song at the end.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:Kazran and Abigail riding the shark-driven sleigh one last time to celebrate their last Christmas together.]]

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The Doctor explaining to Kazran and Abigail that they have to leave the party because he somehow got engaged to [[spoiler: Marilyn Monroe]].

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[spoiler:Kazran and Abigail riding the shark-driven sleigh one last time to celebrate their last Christmas together.]]

CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Doctor explaining to Kazran and Abigail that they have to leave the party because he somehow got engaged to [[spoiler: Marilyn Monroe]].

** A little girl excitedly looks out of her window expecting to see Father Christmas on his sleigh, only to be confused when a shark pulling a hansom cab shoots past instead.