Scrooged! (1988)| 50% Facts Holiday Special Review | Guest cohost Josh Hajar
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Jim McDonald
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
You can find Josh on Instagram @amazingjrab https://www.instagram.com/amazingjrab/.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Scrooge'd
04:02 Bill Murray's Career and Scrooge's Impact
09:49 Themes of Corporate Greed and Morality
17:57 Nostalgia and Family Memories
23:56 Casting and Production Insights
29:55 Comparisons with Other Holiday Films
36:03 Character Development and Relationships
42:00 Final Thoughts and Ratings
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| 0:00.0 | All right, boys. |
| 0:12.0 | All right. |
| 0:13.0 | For Christmas, |
| 0:15.4 | for the, |
| 0:17.7 | our short holiday film festival, |
| 0:19.7 | we got Scroooged. Yes. We got the scrooge who josh is here with me |
| 0:25.0 | and this is his favorite christmas movie this has been a staple of christmas for me since i was a |
| 0:29.9 | kid i was going to say so how old were you when you first saw this movie i think i liked it as |
| 0:35.7 | most uh i don't know if i count as a younger millennial or an older millennial |
| 0:39.3 | at 43 years old, but as most millennials happen, we end up seeing a lot of movies that are |
| 0:45.3 | inappropriate for us at a very young age. |
| 0:48.4 | And I want to say I started seeing this movie when it was on syndication when I was in my |
| 0:53.4 | early adolescence, like 10 or 11 years old. |
| 0:56.1 | Okay. |
| 0:56.7 | And that's when I first started watching it because it was just whatever was on TNT or TBS at the time. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.9 | By contrast, in 1988, I had a two-year-old. |
| 1:13.1 | So a little different, yeah. |
| 1:15.2 | And Sebastian wasn't even conceived. |
| 1:18.6 | Maybe his parents hadn't even met yet. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, probably. |
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