Jingle All the Way's inspiration was real-life Christmas toy sell-outs.
  Many jingles are also created using snippets of popular songs, in which lyrics are modified to appropriately advertise the product or service
=== Lawsuit ===In 1998, Murray Hill Publishing sued 20th Century Fox for $150,000, claiming that the idea for the film was stolen from a screenplay they had purchased from high school teacher Brian Webster entitled Could This Be Christmas? They said the script had 36 similarities with Jingle All the Way, including the plot, dialogue and character names

