Ooooh! Fuudge! It's Christmas Story time again!

[trekgeezer]

It's that time of year again and my favorite all time Christmas movie will be playing a lot in the next week or so.

If you haven't seen the struggle of young Ralphie to get his dream present (the official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle), then I have one question for you. Where the hell have you been?

I have determined that what makes a movie great is it's quotability and this is one quotable movie, buddy. I put it on par with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as the two most quotable movies of all time.

Here are some of my favorites:

"You'll shoot your eye out kid!"

"Oh my god, I shot my eye out! "

"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. "

"My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master. "

"Getting ready to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep-sea diving. "

"Only one thing in the world could've dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window."

"With as much dignity as he could muster, the Old Man gathered up the sad remains of his shattered Major Award. Later that night, alone in the backyard, he buried it next to the garage. Now I could never be sure, but I thought that I heard the sound of "Taps" being played. Gently. "

"I have since heard of people under extreme duress speaking in strange tongues. I became conscious that a steady torrent of obscenities and swearing of all kinds was pouring out of me as I screamed. "


and my all time favorite  "Randy lay there like slug, it was his on defense."

Got any favorites of your own?

[Yaddo 42]

Any and all of the Old Man's nonsense profanity, it all sounds pitch perfect and lets your imagination come up with your own interpretations.

"It's smiling at us."

"Sons of b***hes! Bumpuses!"

You covered so many good ones, Jean Shepherd's narration really does raise the movie to another level. It lead me to a couple of his books (the movie draws on lots of stories from "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" most of which have nothing to do with X-Mas), and to seek out some CD reissues of old albums of his. Worth finding.

[dean]

Speaking of "A Christmas Story" Trek, you'll enjoy this link:

A Christmas Story Animation

While you're there you should check out the other shorts from other movies.  Summing up a movie in 30 seconds is quite fun!

[Him]

"Some men are Baptis, Others Catholic...My father was an Oldsmobile man."

"The old man's tires were only tires in the academic sense. They were round, and had once been made of rubber."

"The old man liked bargining more than an Arab trader. And he was twice as shrude."

"The Bumpasses had over 738 smelly hound dogs. And they ignored every human being on Earth but my old man."

[Scott]

A classic Christmas film for sure. It was on last night.

[LilCerberus]

Ralphie: "I saw some grizzly bear near Plasly's candy store!"
Narrator: "They all looked at me like I had lobsters crawlin' outa' my ears."

[Ash]

Wasn't there a sequel to A Christmas Story?
It came out 2-3 years after the original but I forget the title.

[Mr. DS]

One of my all time favorites...don't forget the Chinese guys singing;

"Deck the hars rit bars of horry...fa ra ra ra ra ra...ra ra ra ra..."

I always find myself saying this quote in December because I generally dislike Xmas;

"I hate the smell of Tapioca..."
Santa

[Ash]

I've never understood the meaning of why that department store Santa said he hated the smell of tapioca.
Why did he say that?

[trekgeezer]

Yes Ash, there was a sequel made in 1994 called "It Runs in the Family" (aka My Summer Story) with Charles Grodin and Mary Steenburgen as the parents. Kieran and Christian Culkin played Ralphie and Randy.

It was pathetic compared to the original and has the distinction of being Charles Grodin's last movie.

[Just Plain Horse]

My favorite part has to be were he talks about how "Over the years I'd become quite a connessuir of soap"... If Andrew ever does a review of this movie, I hope he throws that line in his review... and Darren McGavin's nonsensical cursing.

[Derf]

I was in Wal-Mart the other day, and a mother and her daughter were walking up the aisle toward me. I heard the daughter say, "Okay, then, I want a BB gun." I couldn't resist, and said, "You'll shoot your eye out!" The mother laughed and said her daughter had no idea what I was talking about but she thought it was funny. The poor, deprived child.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Evereyone thought I looked like that kid when I was 9 or so.
-Ed

[odinn7]

My 2 favorite lines are actually curses from the father:

Nada finga! (I think, well...it sounds like that)

Mundane weasel!


I'm constantly fighting with my furnace too and have a nice stream of words come out when I do...people compare me to him but he is way cooler than I could ever be.

[Ash]

Speaking of the Old Man's cursing...

In the scene where he's battling the furnace, for years I always thought he said, "For Christ sake open up the damper will ya!  Who the hell turned it all the way down?  F*ckinhead!"

I turned on the subtitles the other day and instead of "F*ckinhead!" he says, "Again!"  

No matter how many times I see that movie, It always sounds like he says, "F*ckinhead!"