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* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Set on Christmas Eve 1993, released in the middle of March 1994.
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* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Set on Christmas Eve 1993, released in the middle of March 1994. This was lampshaded by [[https://youtu.be/MwZ2ibuO_tQ its teaser]] that was shown around the 1993 holiday season:
-->'''The Ultimate Christmas Movie\\
is coming This Spring'''
-->'''The Ultimate Christmas Movie\\
is coming This Spring'''
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* TheDanza: Dr. Wong is played by B.D. Wong.
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* TheDanza: Dr. Wong is played by B.D. Wong.Creator/BDWong.
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* FocusGroupEnding: As mentioned below, the film's ending was re-shot because test audiences hated the original one.
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* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Set during Christmas Eve, released in the middle of March.
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* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Set during on Christmas Eve, Eve 1993, released in the middle of March.March 1994.
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* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Set during Christmas Eve, released in the middle of March.
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* TheDanza: Dr. Wong is played by B.D. Wong.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JKSimmons' first film role (he plays Siskel).
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Christmas dinner can't be cancelled because it's 1994 and the extended family is already on the road. Starting about 5-6 years later cell phones would '''''really''''' take off and Connie and Lloyd's brother would have presumably gotten a call and a convincing lie to stop them from coming over, averting most of the movie.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending of the film would've had [[spoiler:Gus turn himself in as a lesson to Jesse]]. Test audiences reacted very negatively to the ending, so it was reshot to what it is now.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending of the film would've had [[spoiler:Gus turn himself in as a lesson to Jesse]]. Test audiences reacted very negatively to the ending, so it was reshot to what it is now.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: TechnologyMarchesOn:
** The OneLastJob of cat burglar Gus goes badly wrong, and he forces a local upper middle class couple to hide him from police patrols in their house. There's a problem though: it's Christmasdinner can't be cancelled because it's 1994 Eve, and the extended family is already on the road. Starting about 5-6 road, so there's no possible way to cancel them coming over now! Instead they have to improvise by having Gus pretend to be the dysfunctional couple's marriage counselor, pretending to attend the dinner with them. The film came out in '94; it's a pretty safe bet that within the next five years later or so the extended family would have had cell phones would '''''really''''' take off and Connie and Lloyd's brother would could have presumably gotten a call and been called off with a convincing lie lie.
** At one point, Gus has tostop them from coming over, averting most give his partner the couple's home phone number to call when the partner figures out a way to sneak Gus past the cops patrolling the area. Inconveniently, one time when the partner tries calling the house a cop checking the houses of the movie.
neighborhood picks up the phone instead. Today, it would be assumed that Gus and his partner would have cell phones that they would be calling directly, and it's pretty unlikely that such a scenario would ever come up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending of the film would've had [[spoiler:Gus turn himself in as a lesson to Jesse]]. Test audiences reacted very negatively to the ending, so it was reshot to what it isnow.now.
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** The OneLastJob of cat burglar Gus goes badly wrong, and he forces a local upper middle class couple to hide him from police patrols in their house. There's a problem though: it's Christmas
** At one point, Gus has to
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending of the film would've had [[spoiler:Gus turn himself in as a lesson to Jesse]]. Test audiences reacted very negatively to the ending, so it was reshot to what it is
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit B.D. Wong]] has a brief appearance as Lloyd and Caroline's therapist [[TheDanza Dr. Wong]], and Creator/JKSimmons is the guy Jesse is blackmailing.
** Creator/RaymondJBarry, DaChief of the local police force. Such as it is.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Watched a cartoon? You've heard Robert Ridgely, who plays Bob (the mayor, or similar figure).
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[LawAndOrderSVU B.D. Wong]] has a brief appearance as Lloyd and Caroline's therapist [[TheDanza Dr. Wong]], and Creator/JKSimmons is the guy Jesse is blackmailing.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[LawAndOrderSVU [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit B.D. Wong]] has a brief appearance as Lloyd and Caroline's therapist [[TheDanza Dr. Wong]], and Creator/JKSimmons is the guy Jesse is blackmailing.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[LawAndOrderSVU B.D. Wong]] has a brief appearance as Lloyd and Caroline's therapist, therapist [[TheDanza Dr. Wong]], and Creator/JKSimmons is the guy Jesse is blackmailing.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Christmas dinner can't be cancelled because it's 1994 and the extended family is already on the road. Starting about 5-6 years later cell phones would '''''really''''' take off and Connie and Lloyd's brother would have presumably gotten a call and a convincing lie to stop them from coming over, averting most of the movie.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[LawAndOrderSVU B.D. Wong]] has a brief appearance as Lloyd and Caroline's therapist, and JK Simmons is the guy Jesse is blackmailing.
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** Raymond J. Barry, DaChief of the local police force. Such as it is.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[LawAndOrderSVU B.D. Wong]] has a brief appearance as Lloyd and Caroline's therapist, and JK Simmons Creator/JKSimmons is the guy Jesse is blackmailing.
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** Raymond J. Barry, DaChief of the local police force. Such as it is.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Watched a cartoon? You've heard Robert Ridgely, who plays Bob (the mayor, or similar figure).
** Raymond J. Barry, DaChief of the local police force. Such as it is.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Watched a cartoon? You've heard Robert Ridgely, who plays Bob (the mayor, or similar figure).
