Scrooged
Eighties holiday comedy
Scrooged refers to the 1988 comedy film starring Bill Murray, a modern retelling of Charles Dickens's *A Christmas Carol*.
The title plays on the name Scrooge—the miserly protagonist—treating it as a verb suggesting transformation through supernatural intervention.
Someone who gets scrooged undergoes a dramatic moral awakening, typically involving ghosts and Christmas spirit: After three visits from his dead partners, he was thoroughly scrooged.
Hebrew name, commemorative stone
- transformationThorough change in form
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- realizationGrasping what's true
- epiphanySudden profound insight
second-chance · enlightenment · revelation · remorse · atonement · amends · reformation · conversion
Transferring to another
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- giftItem given freely
benevolence · philanthropy · warmth · sharing · open-handed · magnanimity · selflessness · goodwill
Ebenezer
Hebrew name, commemorative stone
- transformationThorough change in form
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- realizationGrasping what's true
epiphany · second-chance · enlightenment · revelation · remorse · atonement · amends · reformation · conversion · reckoning
giving
Transferring to another
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
gift · benevolence · philanthropy · warmth · sharing · open-handed · magnanimity · selflessness · goodwill · bonus
Dickens
Surname of Victorian novelist
festive · spirits · past · present · future · chains · Marley · humbug · bedchamber · nightgown
ScroogedThe Polar Express
White Christmas · The Santa Clause · Holiday Inn · Home Alone