I’m surprised it doesn’t get played Way Up North. Universal themes and humor! A city in winter that looks like every other Northern Hemisphere city in winter! Meatloaf and red cabbage! You guys do eat meatloaf and red cabbage, don’t you?
This thread is A+++++++++++!
ETA: F—, already beaten to it. OK how about:
Now it is well know throughout the Midwest that the old man is a turkey junkie
A bona fide golly turkicanis freak.
A few days before Christmas his eyes would begin to gleam with a wild and ravenous light.
It does get played here, but I have never bothered to watch it because I don’t know much about it. And yes, we do eat meatloaf, and we do eat red cabbage - are you supposed to eat them together?
Has anyone here watched the sequel? I don’t expect it to be as good as the original (especially with a different cast) but I’m wondering if it’s worth seeking out.
You are not alone. I came in to tell a story about a watch that a friend bought in China. A watch with a voice that announced the time in English. A Chinese voice…Guilty pleasure for all.
It serves me right that I find myself standing off from the crowd, left out, not getting the joke. 
The “major award” appeared as an artifact in the warehouse this week on Warehouse 13. 
If it’s the one where the family goes on vacation, no. Maybe it suffers by comparison.
the narration was similar and good.
the story did have its moments.
the story and acting wasn’t as good IMHO.
At our house, we speculate on what kind of medication Mommy is taking, or what kind she ought to take.
Sequel or remake? The one with Charles Grodin?
Sequel - the movie is about the same characters but it’s set during a summer vacation not Christmas. Charles Grodin and Mary Steenburgen played the parents and Kieran and Christian Culkin played Ralphie and Randy. It was released in 1994 (eleven years after the original) with the title It Runs in the Family. But apparently some people didn’t realize it was a sequel to A Christmas Story so it was retitled My Summer Story for its DVD release. The movie was directed by Bob Clark and written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Clark (and narrated by Shepherd) so there was some continuity.
While reviews were mixed, the movie flopped completely. It was released on September 23, 1994 and it earned $70,936 in theatres. No, that’s not a typo. September 23, 1994 was coincidentally the same day The Shawshank Redemption was released. The top grossing movie that weekend was Timecop (in its second week) with Terminal Velocity being the top-grossing debut at the number two spot.
What was the name of the Lone Ranger’s nephew’s horse?
I’ve only seen it because I was visiting my parents one Xmas and they had a cable package that included TBS.
The traditional Xmas movie in Canada is The Sound of Music, of course.
It’s Fra Gilé 
Ralphie : “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.”
Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.
Victor. Everybody knows that!
Meh, it’s not like y’all are missing a movie that won an ‘Academy Award’ or had Oscar winning performances by slew of ‘A-list’ actors or anything like that. 
But IMHO, it’s a pretty good ‘holiday’ movie. 
I actually was one of the few people who seemed to have seen this in the theaters. The whole place was empty but for us and we loved it. Apparently we were early adopters.
Saw it in the theater with my parents. They were fifteen and twelve at Christmas in 1940, living in Racine.