Scrooged - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[veronica]

Some characters have trouble remembering the name of the boat on Gilligan's Island (1964), a show on which director Richard Donner worked.

[tom]

Richard Donner: [Christmas] One of several Richard Donner movies set, in part or in whole, at Christmastime.

[jeffrey]

John Houseman: As himself, hosting the television show "Scrooge".

[tammy]

At the end of the movie, when everybody is singing "Put a little love in your heart", Frank says (among many other things): "Feed me, Seymour!" This is a line from Little Shop of Horrors (1986), in which Bill Murray had a small part.

[ken]

Before Bill Murray signed on, he requested that the script be re-worked. "We tore up the script so badly that we had parts all over the lawn", Murray told Starlog. "There was a lot I didn't like. To remake the story, we took the romantic element and built that up a little more. It existed in the script's original version, but we had to make more out of it. The family scenes were kind of off, so we worked on that."

[morris]

Writers Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue worked on Saturday Night Live (1975).

[sandra]

Preston tells Frank that in America there are twenty-seven million cats, forty-eight million dogs, and then says quite seriously that IBC needs to start gearing programming towards them. As of 2015, there are several dog and cat specific channels on Roku that supply dedicated pet programming based on scientific studies of what interests them.

[toni]

Charles Dickens' 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol" is only referred to under the title of "Scrooge" in this movie, but in the closing credits, it is named under its main and original title of "A Christmas Carol".

[eli]

The movie's title is a play-on-words of the last name of Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol", which inspired this modern adaptation parody. "Scrooge" has also been the title of some of the films adapted from that work. (You don't say!)

[ava]

Carol Kane would get upset at having to "rough up" Bill Murray in their scenes together.

[victoria]

The movie was the first of two consecutive ghost comedies that Bill Murray made over the course of two years. He starred in [Ghostbusters II](/category/10889/Ghostbusters-ii) (1989) the year after this one. Wikipedia states, "the film was marketed with references to Ghostbusters (1984), which had been a great success four years earlier." In the U.S., the tagline was, "Bill Murray is back among the ghosts, only this time, it's three against one".