Bumpusses!
No no its fine its just that, he’s smiling at me.
[whack]
Notta finga!
What brought you to this lowly state?
My old man’s spare tires were actually only tires in the academic sense. They were round, they had once been made of rubber.
You used up all the glue on purpose!
It was… it was… soap poisoning!
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.
You can put your arms down when you get to school.
It’s a CLINKEEERRRRR!
Icicles have been known to KILL people!
And it’s not a good itching, like the wound is finally healing. It’s an insane itching, and the more I scratch the more it itches.
As nicely quotable as this movie is, it’s this line that completely ruins it for me. Yes, dad is an idiot, but I hate that I’m asked to believe that he’s never come across the word “fragile”.
I think his mind is so overcome by excitement that all he’s able to see is something exotic. Good the the Major Award didn’t disappoint.
I don’t think it’s that he never ran across the word before; it’s that he is in an excited frame of mind, and expecting something exotic, and just misinterprets the word. Have you never had the experience where a perfectly familiar word somehow looks strange?
ETA: That’s what happens when you have to take a phone call before you’ve finished composing a post. :mad:
"The heavenly aroma still hung in the house. But it was gone, all gone! No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey Hash! Turkey a la King! Or gallons of turkey soup! Gone, ALL GONE! "
His wife even calls him on it in the next line when she says something like, “Honey I think that just says ‘fragile’”.
I never did get to see the director’s cut.
Daddy’s going to kill Ralphie!
Oh my god, I shot my eye out!