What is your favorite scene or line from the "A Christmas Story"? line --I double dog dare you" --scene- Ralphie

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going down the slide.

[FalloutShelter]

1. "It's a major award."

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2. thank you , Fallout Shelter.

[kacekwl]

3. It's not so much a line but

it's Randy laughing at Ralph wearing the pink bunny suit.

[debm55]

4. I agree. Thank you kacekwi

[Diamond_Dog]

5. When The Old Man is trying to fix the furnace

“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.”

I was witness to a few incidents like that as a kid.

[debm55]

7. Thank you Diamond_Dog $#@!%$# furnace.

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[underpants]

22. Related. Not really a line but the Dad's reeling off the line of cussing

They couldn’t put it in but they didn’t have to. We’ve all heard an adult do that and we do it ourselves now.

[Meadowoak]

6. Fra-gee-lee, must be italian

[debm55]

8. Thank you Meadowoak. I laugh at that every time he says it.

[Probatim]

9. He had yellow eyes. Yellow Eyes!

This made me laugh years later because of a sales meeting with a colleague and a potential client.

The client is at his desk and I swear to dog, he had yellow eyes.

My colleague and I were born in the same year, same month - so we had a lot in common.

At one point, I realize my colleague has recognized the yellow eyes and knows that I had (maybe still don't have) no filter. He's starting to squirm knowing that, inevitably, I'm going to say something.

I managed to keep my mouth shut all the way through the meeting. We get into the car and I turn to him and whisper "he had yellow eyes. Yellow eyes." My co-worker says - you sonofabitch, I knew you were going to say that in the meeting. You know I have a house, a wife, and two kids. I can't afford your jokes. Then he started laughing to the point of tears.

We worked for a guy who was just as stupid and awful as trump and I'd call out his stupidity to his face. So I had lots of other moments where he'd have to leave or risk getting fired.

[debm55]

10. Thank you Probatim for you very funny post. I laughed while reading.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. that is part of my goto voccabulary. so , that is where its from??

[debm55]

12. Hi AllaN01Bear. No, I double dog dare you has been around before the movie. We used it when I was a kid.

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[KitFox]

13. I'm laughing

just reading these posts! All good choices! I also love all the scenes with the Bumbus’ dogs. I haven’t watched that yet this year. Tonight is the night.

[debm55]

14. Thank you KitFox and enjoy.

[Phentex]

15. We randomly yell BUMPUSES! throughout the year

when ever appropriate but especially with our own dogs

[AZLD4Candidate]

16. "But the duck. It's staring at me." "Oh." CHOP!!!

So Chinese response. From someone who lived there for as long as I did and married a chinese woman from the mainland, I laugh at this more because it is such a chinese reaction to the statement.

[underpants]

21. Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra

It’s funny. Racist sure but funny.

[AZLD4Candidate]

37. Stupid too, because that's more Korea and Japan than China.

[Paladin]

17. I love the actress who plays the teacher.

All her scenes are terrific.

[Niagara]

18. I'm late for this A Christmas Story thread

The Major Award Delivery Scene

[the Old Man reads a side of the box with the prize that he won]
The Old Man: Aaah! "Fra-GEE-leh!" It must be Italian!
Mother: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, honey.
The Old Man: Huh? Oh, yeah.


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The Major Award Is Broken Scene

The Old Man: Get the glue.
Mother: We're out of glue.
The Old Man: You used up all the glue on purpose!

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19. HAHAHAHHAHAhAhA, Thank you Niagara.

[Niagara]

38. You're welcome, Debbie

[underpants]

23. That's in the common vernacular now

10+ years ago a buddy told me he didn’t have a player on his fantasy football team because he was Fra-GEE-leh - he was hurt too often

[debm55]

28. Thanks underpants.

[Niagara]

39. I've incorporated Fra-GEE-leh into my vocabulary as well

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. "SHUT UP, RALPHIE!"

When they're at the Christmas parade, and Ralphie is getting antsy about going to see Santa. The dad yells, "SHUT UP, RALPHIE!" That always cracks me up. The dad is my favorite character.

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29. Thank you Mad_Dem_X

[underpants]

24. Hollywood accounting. It bombed at the box office.

The cost of putting a movie on TV is tied to how it did in theaters. This cost $3M to make and only brought in $19M. A good return sure but not much in revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story

That’s why it’s on TV so much - even before TBS/TNT did the marathon thing. Its based on the book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
by Jean Shepherd.

Shawshank is another case. Released in 1994 with no established lead actors it got swallowed up in the summer of Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump. It did get nominated for just about every Oscar but only $73M in box office after a rerelease after the Oscars. Produced by Rob Reiner’s Castlerock which was sold to Turner Broadcasting or some Turner owned part of that. It was cheap to put on the air (they owned it) so they used it in every available time slot to filled air time including in the middle of the night for the post bar crowd (and workers) to stumble on to. BTW Forrest Gump technically lost money or broke even (Hollywood accounting) but it grossed a lot so it’s expensive to put on TV.

[debm55]

31. Thank you underpants. That is very interesting.

[TommieMommy]

25. The pack of dogs stealing the turkey so they went to eat at the Chinese restaurant and the duck was smiling 😁

[debm55]

33. Thank you TommieMommy

[Meadowoak]

26. It's a clinker! That blasted stupid furnace dadgummit!

[debm55]

34. Meadowoak. that you. %#$##furnace.

[MaryMagdaline]

27. The Chinese restaurant

[debm55]

35. Thank you MaryMagdaline. Agree

[Shambala]

30. Jus a couple of tidbits if you visit a Christmas Story movie house in Cleveland

Make sure to put your ear to the vent on the floor and you’ll hear the old man yelling down in the basement.

Similarly if you pick up the phone in the hall upstairs you’ll hear Shwartz’s mom yelling at her son.

It’s a fun visit and real hands on. I even crawled under the sink like Randy did.

[debm55]

36. Wow, thank you Shambala. That must have been fun.

[Sneederbunk]

32. Narrator re Christmas trees:

"The old man loved bargaining as much as an Arab trader and he was twice as shrewd."

[catbyte]

40. That high-pitched "BUMPASSES!!" after the dogs break in and destroy the turkey.

[debm55]

41. HAHHAHAHAHAH. I agree.

[yellowdogintexas]

42. The mostwell known of all: "Kid, You'll Shoot Your Eye Out"!!!!

I can't believe it was not first on the list

[debm55]

43. Thank you yellowdogintexas