: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.
No, the single most important point in the movie is the one where Goldie Hawn bends over in that string thong. Mmmm-mmm.
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.
Or maybe:
NOTAFINGA!!
::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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
Disabled people are still normal, you fucking moron.
There’s normal and then there’s Clothahump. Deal with it.
I HATE THAT FUCKING TERM. It’s so condescending. Please, please, PLEASE don’t use it.
Um…I mean “differently abled.” gagging
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, who to this day still manufacture airguns featuring the Red Ryder® character.
That’s the problem with nonsensical rants.
They don’t make any fuckin’ sense! :rolleyes:
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!”
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.
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.
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), we’d at least get an idea of the timeframe.
