“You’re” isn’t the only mistake.
No, no, it’s all the reading. In the properly ordered universe, Mary should never have had to worry her pretty little head with all that book learning. It’s only in the terribly wrong universe where Mary had to spend all the time reading books, thereby making her unsuitable for marriage.
And how can you lasso the moon? That rope would have to be, like, ten miles long!
That was to emphasize that the whole town revolves around George. If Clarence had said, “Oh, Mary ended up marrying Fred Reynolds who works at the box factory. They have two kids and she’s reasonably happy”, that would have given him an incentive not to go back to his former life.
(What could he do for a living had he decided to stay in the new reality? He has no Social Security number; he was never born and thus is not a U.S. citizen. Technically, he’s an illegal alien! 
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And how would [i[you* know how a naked woman’s bush shakes?
. . . Ummm, I mean . . .
When George comes back to the reality where he has existed, it immediately begins to snow. Does George Bailey have an effect on weather?
interface2x I can’t remember the name of the movie, but Donna Reed played Pocahontas and pretty much looked like hell.
Me and the wife were wondering, did Jim Henson name Bert and Ernie after Bert the cop and Ernie the cabbie.
Well, if a butterfly flapping its wings in Topeka can cause a Tsunami in Tokyo…
Wow, can’t believe I haven’t seen this one posted yet. At the very end, when everyone is singing Auld Lang Sinh, Jimmy Stewart isn’t singing anything intelligible at all. Like he doesn’t know the words or something. Drives me nuts every time.
My sentiment echoes that of wolf_meister: Mr. Potter stole that deposit (if you hand a stack of money to a bank president, is it reasonable for him to keep it for himself?), yet he is never held to account for it (by the story). In a formula Hollywood movie you expect the good guy to get the girl and the bad guy to go to jail; but in this film the bad guy gets away with his crime. Yes, things work out for the good guy another way, but the bad guy walks off with the money. Tsk, tsk!
Actually, I read somewhere there was a problem getting the movie released originally because of just this point. I believe movies had to comply with the “Hayes Code”, which meant you couldn’t show someone profiting from crime or evil-doing and ‘getting away with it.’ Which Potter did. I’m not sure how they convinced whomever policed such things in Hollywood to let them release it anyway. Could be complying was a voluntary thing.
Satch
I always thought they were, but according to this, the answer is no.
Mary’s other suitor was Sam “Hee-Haw!” Wainwright. I would have considered it a far more horrible fate to be married to this braying jerk than being left to close up the library, but The Powers That Be evidently feel differently.
The subtle subtext that I pick out of this movie is that nearly everyone in Bedford Falls is a hopeless loser, incapable of managing their own lives, and they would all fall into misery and ruin, were it not for George Bailey keeping them on the right track.
I won’t buy this movie on DVD until a collector’s edition comes out with the SNL skit as bonus material!
I thought that was the wohle point of the movie! “Not only are you a good man you’re the only one keeping this idiots alive.” I mean, he had to convince George to continue living, why not convince George that he truly is the center of his Universe?
That was not just some plot device dreamed up for the movie; that scene was filmed at Beverly Hills High School, which actually had a pool under the gym floor. Presumably it worked just as depicted in the movie, though I don’t know how you could not realize the floor was beginning to move under you.
Slight hijack:
Have you seen this parody of the movie?
Well, as additional detail, that episode was hosted by (and the sketch was introduced by) William Shatner. That episode also had the classic “Get a life!” sketch set at the Star Trek convention.