Heartwarming / Scrooged

• Put a little love in your heart!
  • According to comments on YouTube for that scene by people who saw it in theaters, the moviegoers DID sing along.
• It was a small moment, but when Frank thinks he sees the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, his first instinct is to protect Grace from him even though it turns out to be a performer in costume.
• "God bless us, everyone."
  • Frank's whole speech leading up to that moment. Bill Murray's passionate delivery makes it come off as genuinely heartfelt and completely unscripted — and given Murray's knack for improvisation, it almost certainly was.
    "For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people we always hoped we would be."
  • Everyone, even the three ghosts (plus Herman and Lew) celebrating near the end of the movie. Even the ghouls inside the Ghost of Christmas Future's robes can be seen partying with the rest, happily singing and enjoying Christmas candies no less.
• When Claire visits Frank on the set of the show, he seems genuinely happy to be reunited compared to merely taking glee in the misfortune of others or his advancing career.
• When Frank is visiting his brother, who is having a small get-together (that he was invited to, but he declined) with friends. While he's initially cynical as ever ("It looks like a beer commercial"), he is genuinely touched (and regretful) when he hears his sister-in-law ask James when he's going to learn that Frank will never change and James just shrugs: "Well, never; he's my brother."
• When Frank berates Herman for dying because he should have stayed at Operation Reachout. Also counts as one of the film's biggest tearjerkers.
  • Also because it partly counts as him beginning to realize that his own life sucks without Claire and the speech is just as relevant to him. The Ghost of Christmas Future drives the point home, but the seeds are sown right there.
  Frank: You moron! You jerk! Why didn't you stay at Claire's? Why didn't you stay with Claire?! She would have taken care of you; you would've eaten, you would've been warm! You might be alive! You'd be a prettier color, I can tell you that!!
  • That Herman against all odds froze to death with a huge smile on his face. Really, nothing could get him down.
• Frank's already been through a shit-ton in normal life and with the ghosts as the guy he fired goes on a rampage in a very unhinged drunken state. Just before this, The Ghost of Christmas Future was about to make a big entrance by creeping up through the TVs and giving him a Jump Scare. The interruption seems to have the ghost conclude that Frank doesn't need a hard time like the other spirits who've been gleefully doling out verbal and physical abuse have put him through. It reels it in and just simply appears to Frank and just gets to the point with the harsh truths.
• As sad as it is, Frank's immediate reaction to seeing Calvin in the mental hospital in the Bad Future is to desperately remind himself that this isn't guaranteed, he can change this, saying he knows a great pediatrician and he can pull some strings to help Calvin. And in the end, he does change it — no string-pulling required.
  • Same for seeing Wendy at the cremation ceremony, and believing it is James that has died instead, genuinely mortified his brother is gone in this timeline he created. Then James walks into view....
• During Frank's speech at the end of the movie, he indirectly mentions Claire, saying that he wishes he was with her and asking if it's not too late to make up. When he says her name, everyone at the shelter breaks into cheers.
• The Ghost of Christmas Past showing up to help reunite Claire and Frank.