Love, LOve, LOVE this movie! We own it and watch it every year. It rivals “The Princess Bride” for quotability. I’m smiling just thinking about this movie.
It’s 6:27 in the morning.
I’m sitting in my kitchen.
Laughing my ass off. Loudly.
Every single word I go to type just...hahaha… pales. Is so not enough.
HAHAHAHHAHAHA
I GET IT!!!!
We LOVE that movie! Every time I sing to my kids in my crappy Chinese accent… “deck the hall with boughs of HAH-ree...fa-ra-ra-ra-ra...” they just can’t stop giggling!
Daddy’s gonna kill Ralphie!
It makes me so sad to think there are unfortunate people out there who’ve never experienced the awesomeness that is A Christmas Story. You’re doing the world a service by spreading the word.
... “You’ll shoot your eye out!” But I would kill for a lamp like that!
I dimly remember seeing that movie… once.. in my later childhood.. on TV. I don’t think it ever caught on as much over here, which I guess shouldn’t be a suprise, as it’s pure americana without the explosions and car chases. But… there was something about it. I seem to recall that.
I had never even heard of it until about five years ago, when I saw it for the first time.
And, it’s not really that funny. For the most part, I found it to be “meh” at best.
Yes, that is one of the better Christmas movies! Lava Soap!!
I remember movies when you actually got to see two, yes two full length movies...intermission inbetween them of course.
God, I’m old!
Okay you compelled me, everyone tells me how funny it is but like er, you know who, I haven’t seen it either.
My favorite Christmas movie of all time!! We watch it every year.
Oh the memories. My favorite was the soap in the mouth. That was my mom’s favorite revenge.
I cannot beleive Mrs. Britt has yet to see this awsome film!
You know it’s Christmas when A Christmas Story starts showing up on all the channels, along with Frosty and Ruduolph animated puppet shows.
It was....soap poisoning!
Even as a non-jeebus believing kid, I still saw it, then saw it again...and again, and even tried to sell that soap bit to my parents to no avail.
I hope Britt sees it soon, otherwise I’m sorry to say that she may be taking a nasty tumble down my internet respect ladder…
OMG when I was reading your post, you talking about trekking through the snow, I was totally picturing Ralphie all bundled up in my head - serious.
LOVE that movie - a friend of mine hadn’t seen it when I lived in Phoenix, so when TBS ran it 24 hours straight we camped on my couch...she loved it, too!
Happy Thanksgiving to you & Ms. Poppy!!
Colleen- I have it on something like 3 different DVDs… the regular version, the 20th Special Anniversary version, and I think a double disc one. Personally, I think it surpasses Princess Bride in quotability… but that’s just me.
Miss Britt- Do you? Do you really??? I don’t think you do… you won’t “get” it until you can quote it!
Jenni- Everytime I walk into a sit down Chinese restaurant, I am tempted to ask for Chinese Turkey… just to see them chop the head at the table.
Jenny- I feel it is my obligation to be sure the world has received its dose of cheer along with a glass of Ovaltine.
Brian- They sell mini-lamps like that… but I haven’t found a full sized one yet. Once I do… to the coin machine I will go… just so I can rub it… niiiiicccceeeeee…
Creature- It’s based on a book about a 1950’s childhood in the mid-west… so I can understand why alot of the references would be lost overseas. It does have a charm to it though.
Avitable- I really am not surprised you found it to be “meh”. You saw it as an adult… try watching it as a kid and you’ll see the humor… watching it as an adult will give you that “meh” feeling.
Trishk- I luv that soap scene! Two movies for the price of one??? Those were the days…
B.E. Earl- Nope… and I realize you didn’t say “Ffffuuuuudddddddggggggggeeeeee"… but you may as well have!
Beth- Sorry to hear that… didn’t get a Red Rider carbine action two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time, did you?
Finn- Hey there ‘lil sister… don’t be a hater ‘cause I got to see all the PG stuff before you! 
Mik- Don’t fall into the trap of possibly missing out on the new “It’s A Wonderful Life"… with laughs!!!
Bobbird3131- Awesome!!! I watch it multiple times every year too!!!
Toe- The best was when the mother actually put the soap into her own mouth. How many times did we as children dream of that very thing??? Yeah… too many.
Jeremy- I honestly think that after that scene, my mother really though twice about doing that again. Well… for about 2 seconds.
Tug- Well I think that’s really just it… obviously the story is over exaggerated to an adult about the actual events… but to a kid… well that’s really the way it happened! I seriously 
TBS for their marathon. I always catch the first showing, the midnight showing, and then throughout the day the television just stays tuned to it. Then… at 8:00pm… I put the DVD on for the final 4 hours!!!
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
Dawg, You can TOTALLY get a full sized lamp!
I expect to see pictures of it lit up from outside your abode.
I watch this movie every Christmas. It’s tradition.
When I was little I wanted the leg lamp. I never did get it.
Uh, truthfully? I haven’t seen A Christmas Story either....
don’t hit me!
Ha! I wasn’t even born when this came out.
We watch it every year and, even though it is played 24/7 on tv during Christmas, I own it on DVD.
This is one of those movies you need to love as a child to appreciate as an adult.
(Incidentally, I grew up in the same town real life Ralphie is from and didn’t know it until just a few years ago. My nieces went to Kolmar, which is where he went to school. Their “tag line” is “I triple dog dare ya.” Also, there is still a Flick’s Tavern in existence today.)
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