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| SCROOGED Film 1988. Written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O|Donoghue. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard and Alfre Woodard. | |||
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| BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU | |||||||||||
| 1 | A&M Club  | BBB | Entertainment | Private Clubs | |||||||
A&M Club Frank meets his boss and new coworker Brice Cummings.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | The Ballbreaker Suite | BBB | Music | Songs | |||||||
The Ballbreaker Suite The Ghost of Christmas Present's theme song.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Belle Cab Company | BBB | Transportation | Taxicabs | |||||||
Belle Cab Company Cab driven by the Ghost of Christmas Past. | |||||||||||
| 4 | Bob Goulet's Old Fashioned Cajun Christm... | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
Bob Goulet's Old Fashioned Cajun Christmas Christmas Eve TV special on IBC.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | California Health Plate | BBB | Menu | Menu Items | |||||||
California Health Plate Menu item that Brice Cummings orders at A&M Club.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Daily News | BBB | Periodicals | Newspapers | |||||||
Daily News December 23 headline: "IBC KILLS OLD WOMAN"  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Electronic Media | BBB | Periodicals | Newspapers | |||||||
Electronic Media December 23 newspaper headline: "How crafty is Cross?"  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Father Loves Beaver | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
Father Loves Beaver TV show on IBC.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | The Frisbee Show | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
The Frisbee Show | |||||||||||
| 4 | Frisbee the Dog | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
Frisbee the Dog Children's TV show, with Frank Cross as Frisbee. | |||||||||||
| 5 | Hempstead University | BBB | Education | Universities | |||||||
Hempstead University | |||||||||||
| 6 | IBC | BBB | Cinema | TV Stations | |||||||
IBC Frank Cross is the youngest president of the IBC TV station.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | L.B. Burke Toys | BBB | Toys | Toy Stores | |||||||
L.B. Burke Toys Toy store front on the set of the IBC production of Scrooge. | |||||||||||
| 4 | Manson Family Christmas Special | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
Manson Family Christmas Special IBC employee Eliot Loudermilk tells Frank that his new promo for IBC's Scrooge presentation looked like the Manson Family Christmas Special. | |||||||||||
| 5 | The Night the Reindeer Died | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
The Night the Reindeer Died Christmas TV programming: movie starring Lee Majors.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Operation Reach Out | BBB | Media Companies | Film Production Companies | |||||||
Operation Reach Out Claire's company.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Scrooge | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
Scrooge TV special. "lBC presents live, via satellite from New York, Bethlehem, Helsinki, West Berlin and the Great Barrier Reef, Charles Dickens' immortal Christmas classic. starring Buddy Hackett, Jamie Farr, the Solid Gold Dancers and Mary-Lou Retton as Tiny Tim. Hosted by Sir John Houseman. It will touch every heartstring. It all starts on Christmas Eve - Christmas Eve on lBC."  | |||||||||||
| FICTITIOUS TIMELINE | |||||||||||
| 3 | December 24, 1955 | Dates | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |||||||
December 24, 1955 The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Frank Cross to past Christmas Eves. In 1955, Frank's father gives him 5 pounds of veal for Christmas.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | December 24, 1968 | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |||||||
December 24, 1968 The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Frank Cross to past Christmas Eves. In 1968, Frank meets Claire coming out of Di Maggio's restaurant in New York City.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | December 24, 1969 | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |||||||
December 24, 1969 The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Frank Cross to past Christmas Eves. In 1969, Claire gives Frank a copy of the Kamasutra for Christmas.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | December 24, 1971 | Dates | 20th Century: 70s | Events | |||||||
December 24, 1971 The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Frank Cross to past Christmas Eves. In 1971, Frank works as Frisbee the Dog on a childrens TV show for IBC. When Frank gets an offer to have dinner with his boss and cancels plans with Claire, she breaks up with him.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | November 23, 1988 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
November 23, 1988 During the restaurant scene, a close-up of Frank's wristwatch shows the date is November 23, even though it is supposed to be Christmas Eve.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | December 23, 1988 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Headlines | |||||||
December 23, 1988 Date of Electronic Media newspaper headline: "How crafty is Cross?" and Daily News headline: "IBC KILLS OLD WOMAN". Frank Cross is visited by the ghost of his mentor Lew Hayward, an unloved miser who died from a heart attack seven years prior. Lew warns him three more ghosts will appear to him over the next day to help Frank avoid the same fate.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | December 24, 1988 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
December 24, 1988 Frank Cross visited by three ghosts - the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Future.  | |||||||||||
| OTHER | |||||||||||
| 3 | Claire Phillips | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Claire Phillips Claire Phillips: That's the one good thing about regret: it's never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to. | |||||||||||
| 4 | Claire's nickname for Frank. | Other | Trivia | Name Game | |||||||
Claire's nickname for Frank.
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| 5 | Frank Cross | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Frank Cross Frank Cross: I never liked a girl well enough to give her twelve sharp knives. | |||||||||||
| 6 | Frank Cross | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Frank Cross Frank Cross (sign on Frank's office wall): Cross n: a thing they nail people to.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Frank Cross | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Frank Cross Frank Cross: If you touch me again, I'm gonna rip your goddamn wings off. | |||||||||||
| 4 | Frank Cross | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Frank Cross Frank Cross: The bitch hit me with a toaster! | |||||||||||
| 5 | Frank Cross | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Frank Cross Frank Cross: No, you are a hallucination brought on by alcohol... Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl! | |||||||||||
| 6 | Frank Cross | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Frank Cross Frank Cross: Are you glad to see me, or is this a shotgun in your pocket? | |||||||||||
| 7 | Frank's middle name. | Other | Trivia | Name Game | |||||||
Frank's middle name.
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| 8 | Humanitarian of the Year | Other | Recognition | Awards | |||||||
Humanitarian of the Year Award Frank receives, saying he will cherish it always, and then leaves in a cab.  | |||||||||||
| 3 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Beast | |||||||
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