A short but sincere pitting to TBS, for destroying a time-honored tradition.
They’re airing COMMERCIALS during A Christmas Story. Animated, long-ass, glurge-filled Tide ads are among the commercial intrusions upon what used to air in a pure and undefiled form.
What would Ralphie say? FUDGE! Only it wouldn’t come out as that. For shame, TBS. For shame. Is nothing sacred?
Yeah, but they’re playing it ALL FREAKING DAY LONG. Doesn’t that count for something?
When I first noticed those ads, I thought one of the dogs had hit the remote and changed the tv to Nick or Cartoon Channel.
I think next year I’ll just put the DVD in and set it to repeat.
DVD, my friend. Or VHS.
I never, ever watch movies on TV anymore. Haven’t for years.
Ya know ,I still haven’t seen that movie.
Most likely never will.
Ah well.
Merry Christmas and a Happy Saturnalia!
It’s a good movie. I like it a lot. I’m not going to like it after repeated all-day playing. What a way to turn people off a sweet, funny little movie.
Reminds me of clearchannel.
“Say, you haven’t heard this song in a while, eh? You really like it, eh? Let’s see how much you like it after you’ve heard it fourty times in the next 24 hours.”
Be sure to drink your ovaltine.
I seem to be the only one in the entire world who cannot stand this movie. And the fact that TBS plays it what-seven times in a fucking row!-just rubs salt into the wound.
On top of the commercials with A Christmas Story, I’ve also got three channels airing burning yule logs, with one from a GAS FIREPLACE.
Who watches a burning yule log on television? Someone? Anyone?
My mother went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner today.
“Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra, ra-ra-ra-rah!”
Cats and dogs?
“Hey, isn’t that the shit Mommy keeps saying is hot? Well, I just went near it and it’s not HOT AT ALL? Mommy’s a damn liar! Let’s poop in her bed!”
E.
In another thread about mocking a known Christmas song, I learned it’s insensitive to use someone’s disability to get a chuckle in such a demeaning way.
Why the hate towards people that haven’t the ‘L’ sound in their language? Stop making fun of them. I find it uncalled for and very insulting to our Asian brothers and sisters.
(Yeah, the other thread pretty much guarantees I won’t have a sense of humor here, lest I insult someone)
It’s a joke off the movie itself, duff.
Link-le bells, link-le bells, link please, all the waaaayyy 
I’m old enough that I saw it in the theater when it was released. I know it was a joke. But earlier I saw how some fictional stuff could be taken as an insult to people whom are differently-abled. I put language and speech patterns into the category of difficulties some have to overcome. And mocking said hurdles is incredibly insensitive. 
Surprisingly close, but I asked for my OP to be closed after the first reply showed it resulted in a complete and utter smackdown 2 years ago. Thankfully the thread was closed immediately. I did a quick search but didn’t find the thread I basically resurrected. Ya live, ya learn, ya get Doped.
Me too 
As far as replaying the movie over and over, that’s just TBS’s way. Ever notice how they like to string episodes of Law and Order into bladder-busting events, going so far as to speed up the credits and remove any commercials between episodes? Sometimes I think they’re programming key is sticky.
Not that I mind, I like Law and Order.
It was either TBS or its devil spawn TNT that showed Overboard and cut out the single most important scene in the movie — the one at the end in the galley with Annie/Joanna and Andrew — so it could fit in its commercials. I mean, almost any other scene could have been hacked for that purpose. I’m with Whiterabbit: it’s either premium channels or DVD for me.