# 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:  [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/21 "2004-12-26T12:52:49Z")
:smack: I mean, TNT does the Law and Order chain smoking.
I have Tivo, Netflix, and a discount card to Suncoast. Commercials do not touch me any more.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/22 "2004-12-26T12:53:38Z")
> [@Liberal](#):
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> 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.
No, the single most important point in the movie is the one where Goldie Hawn bends over in that string thong. Mmmm-mmm.
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/23 "2004-12-26T20:16:08Z")
**elmwood** , you’ve given me a Christmas gift in a hilariously worded thread title. But the icing on the cake would have been if the first word of your rant was:
_SONSABITCHES!!!_
Heh.
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### Author:  [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/24 "2004-12-26T20:31:29Z")
> [@scout1222](#):
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> **elmwood** , you’ve given me a Christmas gift in a hilariously worded thread title. But the icing on the cake would have been if the first word of your rant was:
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> _SONSABITCHES!!!_
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> Heh.
Or maybe:
NOTAFINGA!!
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/25 "2004-12-26T22:22:20Z")
::wanders into thread to say::
I was living in Toronto when they shot some of the outdoor locations for this film. I remember them decking out Queen Street with fake snow. I’m always amused when I see the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars going by, when they’re out buying the tree. I didn’t know what it was that was being filmed, I only recognized it much later when I saw it on television.
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/26 "2004-12-26T23:36:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> 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.
Hear, hear!
The first time I saw that movie was enough, and then some. I have since grown to loathe it with a deep and abiding hatred.
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/27 "2004-12-27T01:23:00Z")
> [@imthjckaz](#):
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> Or maybe:
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> NOTAFINGA!!
BWA HA HA!!! I have the DVD, and I watched it last week. When it got to that scene, I had to rewind and watch it again, I was laughing so hard.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/28 "2004-12-27T03:46:30Z")
My favorite part is when Dad tells the headwaiter, “The duck is, uh, _smiling_ at me!”
And he whacks its head off with a cleaver! The way the family squeals–priceless!
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### Author:  [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/29 "2004-12-27T15:18:46Z")
It was wierd
They kept it on at my In-laws, just so they could see the tongue stuck to the pole scene over and over again.
Then while playing Trivial Pursuit DVD Pop Culture, I got the question, what did Ralphie want for Christmas?
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/30 "2004-12-27T15:24:29Z")
> [@duffer](#):
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> 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. 😉
Differently-abled? Man, you are just a bastion of Political Correctness.
There is no such thing as differently-abled. There’s normal and there’s handicapped. Deal with it.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/31 "2004-12-27T17:13:35Z")
> [@Clothahump](#):
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> Differently-abled? Man, you are just a bastion of Political Correctness.
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> There is no such thing as differently-abled. There’s normal and there’s handicapped. Deal with it.
Disabled people are still normal, you fucking moron.
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### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/32 "2004-12-27T17:19:09Z")
There’s normal and then there’s **Clothahump**. Deal with it.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/33 "2004-12-27T18:09:23Z")
I HATE THAT FUCKING TERM. It’s so condescending. Please, please, PLEASE don’t use it.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/34 "2004-12-27T18:10:44Z")
Um…I mean “differently abled.” _gagging_
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/35 "2004-12-27T18:18:08Z")
> [@elmwood](#):
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> They’re airing COMMERCIALS during _A Christmas Story_. For shame, TBS. For shame. Is nothing sacred?
Okay, this I just don’t understand. Haven’t they _always_ run commercials during their _Christmas Story_ marathon? I seem to recall commercials a couple years ago. Besides, isn’t that what commercial television is all about?
Although I guess one could have a sponsor for the marathon to show it commercial free. As for who such a sponsor would be, there are only two possibilites: Ovaltine, or the good folks at [Daisy Outdoor Products](http://www.daisy.com/), who to this day still manufacture airguns featuring the Red Ryder® character.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/36 "2004-12-27T23:33:49Z")
> [@mobo85](#):
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> Okay, this I just don’t understand. Haven’t they _always_ run commercials during their _Christmas Story_ marathon? I seem to recall commercials a couple years ago. Besides, isn’t that what commercial television is all about?
That’s the problem with nonsensical rants.
They don’t make any fuckin’ sense! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2004, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/37 "2004-12-29T10:09:34Z")
My only problem with **ACS** is the annual squabble between myself and Mr. Rilch, who for some reason is convinced that it’s set in the **forties**.
“No, it’s set in the thirties. The Depression.”
“No, it’s the forties.”
“They’re **poor**. It’s the Depression.”
“They’re poor because there’s a war on.”
“Did you see one damn reference to war bonds or ration tickets or blackouts?”
“So it’s set in the forties **after** the war.”
“After the war is when the economy started to pick up! The whole theme is about scrimping and saving, buying a crappy tree, rejoicing because the Old Man won a prize, and Ralphie’s fear that he will only get **one** present, so it **has** to be the Red Ryder whaddaycallit!”
“But the Wizard of Oz characters are in the Christmas parade. That means it has to be after 1939.”
“So that was the director’s decision. The story is based on Jean Shepherd’s essays about life **in** the 1930s.”
“I saw cars that weren’t from the thirties.”
“Director’s decision. Or set dresser.”
“It could even be the early '50s.”
“If it was the '50s, they wouldn’t be listening to the radio. They’d be jonesing for a TV.”
“But you said they were poor.”
“Argh! :::dials phone::: Dad? Didn’t you have one of those Little Orphan Annie decoder rings?..That was in the thirties, right?..Okay then!”
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/38 "2004-12-29T14:46:47Z")
From the IMDB:
_The Radio Orphan Annie decoder pin that Ralphie receives is the 1940 “Speedomatic” model, indicating that the movie takes place in December, 1940. Different decoder badges were made each year from 1935-1940. By 1941, the decoders were made of paper._
No talk of the Depression because it was over. No talk of the war because we weren’t involved yet.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/39 "2004-12-29T19:37:46Z")
Well, to be fair, that IMDB entry would have been contributed by a viewer, not by someone involved with the film.
Again I say, the script was adapted from several of Shepherd’s essays. The quest for a Red Ryder BB gun was one story; defeating the neighborhood bully was another; the Major Award was another, and the decoder ring was yet another. I still say that pinning down the decoder ring to a specific year is incidental.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-release-a-thousand-bumpus-hounds-on-tbs/281604/40 "2004-12-29T20:29:37Z")
If we can pin down the inspiration for the Major Award (Mr. Shepherd says it was based on a Nehi logo - perhaps one [like this](http://www.fun-inc.net/Images-Collectibles-40'sUp/Page-6/NehiSign.jpg)), we’d at least get an idea of the timeframe.
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