# I release a thousand Bumpus hounds on TBS!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 25, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604 "2004-12-25T19:53:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/1 "2004-12-25T19:53:25Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/2 "2004-12-25T19:57:21Z")
Yeah, but they’re playing it ALL FREAKING DAY LONG. Doesn’t that count for something?
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### Author:  [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/3 "2004-12-25T19:58:54Z")
> [@elmwood](#):
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> 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.
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.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/4 "2004-12-25T23:25:40Z")
DVD, my friend. Or VHS.
I never, ever watch movies on TV anymore. Haven’t for years.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/5 "2004-12-25T23:28:03Z")
Ya know ,I still haven’t seen that movie.
Most likely never will.
Ah well.
Merry Christmas and a Happy Saturnalia!
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/6 "2004-12-26T00:37:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/7 "2004-12-26T00:40:00Z")
> [@Savannah](#):
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> 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.”
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/8 "2004-12-26T01:17:26Z")
Be sure to drink your ovaltine.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/9 "2004-12-26T01:21:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/10 "2004-12-26T01:49:51Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/11 "2004-12-26T02:27:26Z")
My mother went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner today.
“Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra, ra-ra-ra-rah!”
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### Author:  [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/12 "2004-12-26T02:29:07Z")
> [@elmwood](#):
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> 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.
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> Who watches a burning yule log on television? Someone? Anyone?
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.
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### Author:  [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/13 "2004-12-26T06:09:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#):
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> My mother went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner today.
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> “Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra, ra-ra-ra-rah!”
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)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/14 "2004-12-26T06:23:01Z")
It’s a joke off the movie itself, **duff**.
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### Author:  [@OleOneEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OleOneEye)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/15 "2004-12-26T06:29:07Z")
> [@duffer](#):
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> 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.
Link-le bells, link-le bells, link please, all the waaaayyy 😕
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### Author:  [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/16 "2004-12-26T06:51:00Z")
> [@Little Plastic Ninja](#):
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> It’s a joke off the movie itself, **duff**.
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. 😉
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### Author:  [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/17 "2004-12-26T06:53:35Z")
> [@OleOneEye](#):
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> Link-le bells, link-le bells, link please, all the waaaayyy 😕
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.
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### Author:  [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/18 "2004-12-26T06:56:39Z")
> [@jayjay](#):
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> My mother went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner today.
Me too 🙂
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### Author:  [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/19 "2004-12-26T09:29:13Z")
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_.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/20 "2004-12-26T12:46:37Z")
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.
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