History YMMV / GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer

* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** Cousin Mel, and alongside her attorney, I.M. Slime, due to their LesYay and memetic statuses.
** While Grandma herself doesn't get much screentime, she's one of the few characters people like unironically, being funny, sweet, snarky, unafraid to let people know when she's pissed off, and just all around a CoolOldLady.

** Grandma refusing to go with Austin Bucks' deal. Was it simply because she didn't want to sell the property, or did she understand selling the business for one big lump sum (even if it was a few million dollars) wasn't a good idea in the long term? Given that the rest of her family (with the exception of her grandson, Jake) aren't exactly a bunch of brain surgeons, they would've probably squandered the cash. She's ensuring her family's longtime stability by making sure they have a place where they can be gainfully employed with a steady source of income.
*** On top of this, was it also because she was trying to hold onto the one bit of Cityville that didn't belong to him? It was acknowledged that Austin Bucks pretty much owned the entire city except for her store, so was Grandma's refusal an attempt to ensure Cityville wasn't completely owned by some corporation?

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Every musical sequence, although [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyqlwrEPr0M one]] has the excuse of Grandpa being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. The only song that truly has much connection to the story and is actually referred to is the title song.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Cousin Mel, and alongside her attorney, I.M. Slime, due to their LesYay and memetic statuses.
** To a lesser extent Grandma, on the grounds she's one of the few characters people like unironically, being funny, sweet, snarky, unafraid to let people know when she's pissed off, and just all around a CoolOldLady.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: It may have been random, but there's something oddly endearing about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZ4Uky2arI Grandpa's song]], wherein his supposedly dead wife is being comforted by deceased celebrities in Heaven.
-->'''Grandpa:''' Grandma's spending Christmas with the super stars\\

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Cousin Mel is treated as heartless and materialistic for trying to stop a woman named Martha from walking out of Grandma's store without paying for merchandise. The problem is that not only did she not know Martha had a line of credit with Grandma and legitimately think she was a shoplifter, Martha was also trying to leave the store without telling anybody she was taking it, so nobody would've had any way of knowing she owed the store for it. Even if she could be trusted to pay the store back, not mandating that customers inform the store about what they're taking would only encourage theft, making Mel seem completely sensible.

* EvilIsSexy: Cousin Mel.

** Grandma refusing to go with Austin Bucks' deal. Was it simply because she didn't want to sell the property, or did she understand selling the business for one big lump sum (even if it was a few million dollars) wasn't a good idea in the long term? Given that the rest of her family (with the exception of her grandson, Jake) aren't exactly a bunch of brain surgeons, they would've probably squandered the cash.

** The [[CourtroomEpisode courthouse sequence]], due to how bizarrely intricate it is with legal procedures despite being made for a kid-oriented flick.

* PopCulturalOsmosis: There's quite a lot of people who don't realize that Dr. Elmo has a lot of Christmas songs besides the one which spawned this special. Many of them, such as "Grandma's Killer Fruitcake," appear in the special, but some viewers mistakenly assume they are original to it.