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Meanwhile, this + 2nd glass of wine. Has anyone seen Flick?!?!
When the kids put “hobo” teeth in their mouths and the teacher makes them all come forward and give her the teeth...she has them put the teeth in her hand and Ewwww...
I’ve been to Cleveland twice but NEVER on a day when the Christmas Story House was open. It is one of the biggest bummers as a Hoosier kid...that this movie set in Indiana was filmed in Ohio. https://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com
I had never EVER heard of Ovaltine until watching this movie. When I realized it was chocolate drink with vitamins and you could still purchase it in the late 1980s...I made my mom start buying it.
Is it just me or is the Dad significantly older than the Mom? This was one of my biggest beefs with this movie as a child. It’s time to research this!
It often goes unmentioned but the leg lamp has the lower half of a butt cheek, not visible once you put the shade on.
I KNEW IT! The actor who plays the father is SEVENTEEN years older than the actor who plays the mother. And this is not a bad thing, maybe even parallels the original memoir, but as a kid in the 80s this made me nuts...that the Dad seemed more like a grandpa!
ICYMI: the house is on Cleveland Street, which must be a nod to the fact that the movie was filmed in Cleveland, OH.
I had to look up the release date of A Christmas Story. It’s 1983, when I was 4 yrs old, which validates my belief that there was definitely a time when I watched this movie as a young child and I honestly didn’t know what word Ralphie said that got him in so much trouble.
Observation: I always thought the Mother put the soap in her mouth bc she said the F-word on the phone to Schwartz’s mother. But tonight I think maybe she does it bc she cusses a lot when the kids cannot hear. RM says she was just curious abt the taste. What do you think?
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine” A crummy commercial? !?!?Introducing a generation of 80s kids to the annoyance of advertising that would become even more annoying in the age of Facebook...
I have trouble suspending my disbelief when I see that the 4th grade teacher wrote her comments on Ralphie’s theme in all caps...
This kid with coon skin hat always scared the shit outta me, so I always felt relieved when Ralphie finally beats Up Scut Farkus
“The line to see Santa stretched all the way to Terre Haute!” This line from Ralphie’s narration was of particular import to me bc it was a place I knew of an had actually been to!
I don’t remember making the connection as a child that the department store Santa was so mean bc the store was closing & they were ready to go home. As a kid you don’t know what it feels like to have an hourly job, and know you won’t be paid for extra time.
So...really? You get your kid a BB gun for Cmas and let him go out by himself? He puts the target on metal and it ricochets back at his face. Kid is 9 and should not have started without any instruction or supervision.
I wonder if the final scene in the Bo Ling chop suey palace is true to the original memoir? I find it difficult to believe there were Chinese restaurants in Indiana in the 1940s UNLESS they are really close to Chicago. I’m going to have to investigate. this...
Update: I found the passage below from Jean Shepherd's book Wanda HIckey's Night of Golden Memories. IRL the dogs ate the Easter Ham. Born in 1921, JS grew up in Hammond, IN, near Chicago. (cc: @PaoliNice @songofstreams)
