Funny / Last Christmas

• Emma Thompson's character is simply delightful.
  • "Lesbian pudding."
  • She goes on a heartbreaking monologue about how minorities are scapegoated. "They point finger. They say 'Those people, they are reason your life is bad.' And people believe. I blame the Poles."
• The dinner scene, a classic case of a Dysfunctional Family:
  Petra: Not dick, penis.
  Ivan: Dick means penis.
  Petra: Dick means penis? No, Dick is our neighbor...
  Ivan: It also means penis.
  Petra: Our neighbor is called Penis?
  • Also:
  Ivan: Would you rather drive a minicab?
  Petra: Look what it done to him. He look thousand years old.
  Ivan: Oh thanks. Nabijem te na kurac.^note "I will stick you on my dick" (basically a cruder way of saying "fuck you")
• When Santa and Boy first meet, they share a long, awkward, hilariously surreal Meet Cute while the music swells in the background. Kate can only stare, flummoxed.
  Boy: Do you have anything dissimilar to this decoration?
  Santa: Of course. We have many things dissimilar. *awkwardly reaches behind her to grab something* For example, this Christmas Gibbon.
• Kate, having gotten some practice skating the day before thanks to Tom, does reasonably well at her audition for an ice show. One of the casting directors appreciates the fact that Kate obviously prepared, noting that they often get people auditioning who had never even been on the ice before. Kate laughs nervously and asks who would do something so stupid. She then skates away... and falls flat on her face. Trying to remain professional, she plays it off with a joke:
  I did that in case you thought I was too perfect.
• Kate on Santa's ridiculous fake eyelashes before her date with Boy:
  Kate: He'll think he's wandered into the llama enclosure!
• Kate's ringtone for her mother is "She Drives Me Crazy."
• A cop tells her partner that she makes "Merry Christmas" sound like a death threat.
• A customer complains that a nutcracker isn't big enough for his nuts.
• The twist, in the right mood. Though maybe for the wrong reasons.
• Dora, the old foul-mouthed homeless woman, especially as she rings a bell to welcome people into the charity concert.