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Had a [[Made for TV Movie]] sequel made in 2003.
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* [[Absurdly Bright Light]]: The house's Christmas lights (when they work).
* [[Alcohol Hic]]: Ellen's mother has one while laughing at Clark's failed lights.
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* [[Ass Shove]]: [[Memetic Mutation|"Bend over and I'll show ya!"]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: When Clark finds out that {{spoiler|instead of a check his Christmas bonus is a year-long membership to the Jelly of the Month club}}, he does not take it well.
** Leads to [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]. During the ensuing rant, Clark says how much he'd love to have his boss right there in front of him to tell him what for. His well-meaning but moronic relative interprets that as a directive to ''go and kidnap Clark's boss''.
* [[Big Blackout]]: Clark causes one when he turns his Christmas lights on.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The SWAT team does this in the last act for Mr. Shirley. However, once they learn ''why'' he was kidnapped, however, they change tune:
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* [[Product Placement]]: Ol' Roy.
* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]:
{{quote|'''Clark''': Ahh... hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people. And I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! HALLELUJAH
* [[Rhetorical Request Blunder]]: Clark reacts to the news that he received a subscription to a Jelly-of-the-Month Club in lieu of a Christmas Bonus from his boss by ranting that he wished the boss was right there so he could chew him out. {{spoiler|His cousin-in-law promptly jumps into his RV and kidnaps said boss.}}
* [[Rule of Funny]]
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* [[That Poor Cat]]: Aunt Bethany's kitty electrocutes itself chewing on a Christmas light cord.
* [[The Unfavorite]]: Oddly enough, Ellen's father is shown to be much more approving of Cousin Eddie (the unemployed idiot who has his family living in an RV) than of Clark (who has provided Ellen with an upper-middle class lifestyle).
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Margo's last scene has her being surrounded by SWAT officers who have her at gunpoint, leaving us to wonder what happened to her after that.
** Maybe she just got arrested... '''''[[Fridge Horror|or shot to death]].'''''
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Ellen. Although ''everyone'' is wiser than Clark.
* [[X-Ray Sparks]]: Happens when Santa Claus gets electrocuted by the lights in the animated opening credits.
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