History Film / JingleAllTheWay

* TruthInTelevision: At the same time that the film was in theaters (the 1996 Christmas season), there was a massive craze for the Tickle Me Elmo doll. There were numerous reported incidents of crazed parents in massive crowds trampling and fighting each other to buy the doll as a Christmas gift for their kids, in scenes not too different than the films' depictions of massive crowds of parents vying for Turbo Man dolls. Additionally, the film depicts a toy store clerk getting trampled as a crowd makes their way into the store after they first open; On December 14, 1996, a [[CanadaEh Canadian]] Wal-Mart employee was trampled and severely injured after a crowd spotted him handling a box of Tickle Me Elmo dolls.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Liz is initially thankful for Ted's attention to air her frustrations with Howard, but she draws the line at cheating on her husband. The moment Ted makes a move on her, she hits him in the face.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Ted is a closet pervert, but he has every right to be mad when he finds Howard breaking into his house and stealing his son's present. When Ted tells him off, an ashamed Howard can't really defend himself.

A 1996 Christmas-themed comedy film directed by Brian Levant and starring Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Creator/{{Sinbad}}, Creator/JakeLloyd, Creator/RitaWilson and Creator/RobertConrad.

* [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Cinema]]: At the same time that the film was in theaters (the 1996 Christmas season), there was a massive craze for the Tickle Me Elmo doll. There were numerous reported incidents of crazed parents in massive crowds trampling and fighting each other to buy the doll as a Christmas gift for their kids, in scenes not too different than the films' depictions of massive crowds of parents vying for Turbo Man dolls. Additionally, the film depicts a toy store clerk getting trampled as a crowd makes their way into the store after they first open; On December 14, 1996, a [[CanadaEh Canadian]] Wal-Mart employee was trampled and severely injured after a crowd spotted him handling a box of Tickle Me Elmo dolls.

* AuthenticationByNewspaper: After the BadSanta who overheard Howard being desperate about getting a Turbo Man doll offers him one secretly, Howard instantly calls shenanigans because he can't possibly have one (Howard turns out to be right -- the dolls are illegal knock-offs). The Santa's "elf" shows Howard a Polaroid of him holding a Turbo Man doll alongside that morning's newspaper (which has a front-page article about the doll's scarcity).

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:In the end of the movie after Howard gives Jamie everything he wanted, Liz asks him what he got her, and he panics over forgetting to get something ''again.'']]

Workaholic mattress salesman Howard Langston (Schwarzenegger) is a constant disappointment to his son Jamie (Lloyd). After missing his son's karate practice yet again, to compensate for his own BumblingDad nature, Howard decides he is going to get Jamie the toy he really wants for Christmas: the Turbo Man action figure. Unfortunately, the Turbo Man action figure is the hot toy of the season and is [[DemandOverload in short supply]], and Howard has waited until Christmas Eve before trying to find one. Subsequently, he finds himself competing with crazed mailman Myron Larabee (Sinbad) and massive crowds of other parents to get the same toy. What follows is a comedy of errors as both men race to get the toy.

This film features the last comedic role for Ah-nold, and one of the last for Sinbad. It was based on the holiday crazes for both Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' toys.

Workaholic mattress salesman Howard Langston (Schwarzenegger) is a constant disappointment to his son Jamie (Lloyd). After missing his son's karate practice yet again, to compensate for this own BumblingDad nature, Howard decides he is going to get Jamie the toy he really wants for Christmas: the Turbo Man action figure. Unfortunately, the Turbo Man action figure is the hot toy of the season and is [[DemandOverload in short supply]], and Howard has waited until Christmas Eve before trying to find one. Subsequently, he finds himself competing with crazed mailman Myron Larabee (Sinbad) and massive crowds of other parents to get the same toy. What follows is a comedy of errors as both men race to get the toy.

It is also the last comedic role for Ah-nold, and one of the last for Sinbad. The film is based on the holiday crazes for both Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' toys.

** Also Ted when he finds his son Johnny watching the entire spectacle that Howard and Myron put on for the doll and seeing that Howard is dressed up as Turboman. Knowing that Liz just exposed him as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a creep]] and that she's going to tell Howard. What does he do? [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere He drags himself and Johnny out of dodge as fast as possible to avoid retaliation from Howard.]]

* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IROZqyCmn0 This]], which of course samples "Put that cookie down!"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4YUzMEQNlI Sparta Remix]].