While on vacation this past summer we traveled through Cleveland and stopped to see the house. The complex includes the house, a museum and a gift shop. They were all jam packed with people, a testament to how loved this movie truly is.
I stopped there on my bicycle trip this summer. It's a neat little neighborhood. I ate lunch at the restaurant across the street - Rowley's. I was disappointed they didn't have boiled cabbage, mashed potatoes and turkey on the menu 😉
Did you watch the new one??? I did last year with my brothers, and we all cried. It was surprisingly very good, and if you and your "Old Man" alway watched it, I think you'll really like it.
If you’re ever in Cleveland, you should go to the house. It’s kinda neat, and they have a museum across the street. Don’t come just for that, but if you’re in the neighborhood, it’s worth a couple hours for sure!
My Dad really identified with 'the old man' too, along with the Father, 'Lon' in "Meet Me in St Louis"...every holiday, these were running family jokes. I am sorry about your Dad passing so soon, mine wasn't far behind in 2001 😥, but I smile at least 10-15 watches over each xmas season between those two movies. Don't watch the sequel on MAX from last year without a huge box off kleenex now. Trust me, you will need it if this reminds you of your 'old man'.
I grew up with Flick, went to the family bar on kennedy ave, in hammond. Attended warren harding school. So this movie holds a very special place for me.
I lived in Dolton, Illinois as a kid in the 1960s and remember trips to downtown Hammond, Indiana. Goldblatts Christmas window displays, J.C. Penny's, Walgreens, Parthenon Theater, White Castles on the corner of Sibley and Stateline Ave. Pleasant memories of good old days.
My parents were extremely brand conscious because back then certain brands were always dependable. Buick, Hoover, Zenith and Westinghouse were family favorites.
This was my father's favorite Christmas movie. He would often say that this is what it was like growing up in the 1940's in the Midwest. He passed away in 2016. - Greetings from Cleveland, Ohio- home of the Christmas Story House.
My mom was from Cleveland and would watch the movie at least 10 times every Christmas. It reminded her of Cleveland in the mid 1930's. She passed in 2016 as well at age 91.
That house, from the outside, also reminds me of a scene from ",The Fugitive ". Buy yes, my parents were both Depression babies. My dad passed away young, in '79, but I'm sure he would have loved it.
My best friend lives in Cleveland , I live in the south, been to Cleveland and I Love it !!! That whole area , Canton too !! When I first saw Christmas Story I knew it was filmed in Cleveland !!!
My favorite Christmas movies are home alone a Christmas Carol scrooge it's a wonderful life the grintch the Santa Claus jack frost and this one but I like alot of other Christmas ones as well Jack frost is the Christmas movie that basically always gets to me basically
The scene at the end with Mr. and Mrs. Parker sitting next to each other in soft glow of the lights on the tree, and watching the snow fall, is one of the most romantic scenes I've ever seen. You can feel the love emanating from them. ❤
“Where did you hear that word?” Now I had heard that word at least 10 times a day from my old man 🤣 absolutely classic film and one of my personal favorite lines.
Every time I watch this movie, when she asks that question, I think she must be at least partially deaf to not already know he heard it from his father!!!
This movie was released about the same time I started understanding the real world I lived in. I was in my 20’s. I had landed a really good job with an electric utility company that took me out into the real world. The job was a power line clearance tree trimmer. We would go into people’s backyards. While working out in the field, I met fantastic people that shared their holiday cheer with perfect strangers. It was common to enter a yard and find a pot of coffee and doughnuts or cookies. Every year, as the holidays approach, I reflect back on those years… and a Christmas Story. They were truly challenging but simpler times. As I approach my 63rd year, I reflect back with a humble appreciation for life and for the wonderful people that I had the opportunity to serve.
Yeah, back in the days when I had nightmares (I stopped having them 25 years ago; I don't miss 'em), I used to play dead in my dreams. (When I stopped dreaming about being chased by Nazis or whatever, I started "kickin' A__," instead. One's a weird as the other.)
This *IS* _the Christmas movie_ ! It embodies so much of a real Christmas. The tree drama, crappy gifts, friends and enemies, and the inevitable dinner disasters.
If anyone is curious about the exact date of the movie, I actually calculated it using the newspaper the father is reading at the dinner table at time stamp 1:02:31. There is a picture of a The KMS Admiral Graf Spee, a German Pocket battleship on it. I cross referenced that with the online archives of the Chicago Tribune and found the article about the sinking of the Admiral Graf Spee on 17 December 1939.
I read that TBS and TNT ran this movie for 24 hours every Christmas so that their employees could have the day off. But I love this movie, especially Darren McGavin as "The Old Man." He's hysterical. "NADDAFINGAH!"
Actually for many years they looped it for 24 hours I'm Thanksgiving. I remember the year a friend from Germany was here and we made him watch it during Thanksgiving dinner (one of those large "urban tribe" dinners)
I was born in 1953. Aside from the style of the cars, and the Parkers not having television, this pretty much looked like the world I grew up in. That is part of the reason why I love "A Christmas Story" so much. ❤
Yes I was born in 1953 and we played in yards they had old wooden fences and abandon cars just like in the movies. Yeah we had our neighborhood bullies and I remember wanting a BB gun.
The original leg lamp used in the movie was destroyed after filming was completed. The slide used in the movie is on display at Castle Noel in Medina Ohio, along with many other props. Fox8 newscaster Stefani Schaffer along with her brother were extras in the movie. She's the one in blue coat sitting on the bench in the store. Higbees is now Jacks Casino. Filming was done in February, 2 months after Christmas. The area where the house is located has its own little cottage tourism , with a store across the street that sells souvenirs. Most of the cars used in the street scenes were all locally owned, all the owners were paid rental fees for their use and they were hired to do the driving. Most of these facts are very well known in the Cleveland area. I hope you enjoyed them.
The movie is a celebration of Americana, which is why so many of us Americans love it. I’m sure that’s why it’s not as big in Australia... just ot the same cultural history.
@@timothyneiswander3151 I saw it as a little kid in Alaska, later moved to NC (at around 7 years old) but didn't know it was a big thing until about 10 or 15 years ago, but here in the southeast it's a traditional movie.
@@kageakuma3009 It's definitely an east-coast/midwest thing. It doesn't snow like that in the south or west coast states and the houses look very different there as well. Not that any American can't enjoy it but it has its regional flavors that others might not appreciate as much.
@@mr.pavone9719 I mean here in NC it doesn't snow very much anymore at least in my area lol but I remember snows when I was younger here. Always gives me nostalgia.
It got me through years of present wrapping til early morning. Now I fall asleep and wake up to it. I think there's another station that broadcasts it also.
I went to a showing of A Christmas Story this week hosted by Peter Billingsley (Ralphie) with him doing a long Q&A and trivia afterwards. It was amazing. Peter Billingsley said that he and the director spent time in the studio archives looking for the lost Flash Gordon footage. It was apparently on film and was destroyed after editing. P.B. mom took the bunny costume and the cowboy costume after filming which is pretty cool.
I saw “A Christmas Story” when it was in the theaters in December 1983 when I was 30 years old and loved it. The nostalgic look at Xmas in a Midwestern city in the 40’s as seem through a child’s eyes was both charming and very well done. Bravo!
This is my favorite Christmas movie. It's one of the first times I ever watched my Dad, the hardest working man I've ever known, take time off, just sit, watch TV, and laugh. A few years ago, my wife and kids got me the pink bunny suit (ears and all) for Christmas. I put it on, and then my mom realized she'd forgotten a present and ran out to the garage. I hid behind the door to scare her, and when I jumped out, she was holding my present all right: a Winchester 300 short mag. The idea of someone in a bunny suit scaring a little old lady with large caliber rifle was hilarious, and I started to laugh. I still wear that bunny suit in the winter, because it's incredibly warm. The ears freak my horses out when I go outside, though. :) As for Australian movies, I really enjoy The Man From Snowy River, and The Light Horse. Someday I'd like to visit your country around Christmas, just to see what it's like to have Christmas when it's warm. Please keep up the great videos! And don't shoot your eye out.
My sister and I saw this movie when it was in theatres. By far, the most out loud laughing I have ever done in a movie theatre. I was concerned they were going to throw me out. Have always loved this film, in large part because it takes place when my dad was about Ralphie's age, so the sets, the clothing, the neighborhood, the cars, the lights, the wrapping paper, the radio, all the little details give me little glimpses into my dad's childhood. The street looks just like the street my dad grew up on, and even the school bears a striking resemblance to the one he attended.
This movie is quintessential mid century Americana. All of us over 65 remember when these scenes were our real life. That’s what makes it so special. How else are you going to relive wearing your winter snowsuit and not being able to put your arms down till you got to school? Watching is a yearly tradition that still makes me laugh. It’s wonderful.💕🎄
@@kevinstonerock3158 I started planting it on at least one tv when I was 16. I'm 39 now and about 3 years ago the whole family sat me down and told me they were done with it..... I still throw it on when I get the chance
And despite having never sat and watched it from beginning to end in a session I've seen the entire movie who knows how many times at this point. I know all the scenes and the order since it's on so much at Christmas time I've caught bits for decades.
I think it usually starts around 8pm Christmas Eve and goes to midnight the following day. Hell they've been doing that for over two decades now and I think comedy central does Christmas vacation and bad Santa for a while now. I haven't watched regular TV for years though so I have no idea what's going on anymore, except for news clips about Trump and Biden.
Hopefully 2021 will be a better year... for once I wouldn’t wanna see Fauci’s face on the tv anymore or the so called Covid numbers.. and I hope trump is still president
I first saw this movie in a theater in El Paso, TX in summertime! That's when it was first released, and did NOT do well. The entire theater was loving it and the "warm" feelings continued, despite the 100 degree heat. When it showed up on TBS, it was like total validation. Thank you Mr Turner.
This was my dad's favorite Christmas movie. He was exactly the same age as Ralphie, so it reminded him a lot of his childhood. We would watch it together at least once every Christmas.
My father loved it too. Which was actually very interesting considering that my father acted just like the old man! The bits with the furnace and the extension cords and the fuses blowing out were my father to a "T" when I was a little boy. I sure felt a lot safer when we switched to circuit breakers! LOL And that line 'yoooooou used up.........all the glue........on PURPOSE' was exactly something my father would say! He's still alive too.....in his 90's now.
“Don’t anybody move! Hold it right there. A fuse is out.” “The old man could replace fuses quicker than a jackrabbit on a date. He bought them by the gross.”
Correction: Flik was “triple dog dared” into sticking his tongue on the freezing flag pole. Schwartz broke etiquette by skipping the “triple dare you”, after his “double dog dare you”, and went for broke by challenging Flik with a “triple dog dare you”. Thanks for the video, it’s long overdue.😉
and when someone triple dog dares you you know it's serious. a triple dog dare is a dare that you MUST accept. you absolutely, CANNOT back down from a triple dog dare. it is considered blasphemy.
That was art imitating life. My father grew up during those times and I grew up in the Midwest. Everyone had heard stories about sticking your tongue to a cold Pole in the Winter time. And a friend of mine once, on a school trip, bought a popsicle that was so cold that her tongue stuck to it
In 2022 there was a great sequel “A Christmas Story Christmas” with most of the original cast. My family were huge fans of the original and we really loved this sequel. So glad I got to watch it with my mom before she passed. This movie is very close to my heart and without question my absolute favorite Christmas movie. Thank you for reviewing it Minty! I hope you enjoyed it as much as so many of us here in the states do. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.
This movie is proof that today's movie watchers are just craving movies about characters and story, not CGI and political messaging. Please someone out there start a studio that gets this concept. We movie goers are here with our wallets open just waiting for something genuine.
This was one of my MOM's favorite movies. My sister and I were extras in the sequel that was shot in Cleveland, It Runs in the Family. I recently saw the latest sequel, "A Christmas Story Christmas" and I loved it -- it could stand on its own, but it has a lot of nice references and call-backs to the original -- very well done.
In 2003, Peter Billingsley had a small part in another Christmas film, "Elf", where he played Ming Ming the elf. He's the one who said "You're not a cotton-headed ninny muggins."
He also had a small part in Iron Man as an engineer saying: "I'm not Tony Stark." This also led to another cameo in Spider-man: Far From Home as the same engineer.
"A Christmas Story" is definitive my favorite Christmas movie, and I'm from Germany, but it is really unknow over here either. So Merry Christmas to you
The year that a good friend from Germany spent a year here in the United States, when we went to an "urban tribe" Thanksgiving dinner, I made him watch this during dinner! During another visit back, I also made him watch the original Willy wonka and the chocolate factory and he was excited to recognize Munchen
So much of the Cleveland exterior shots look like the city I grew up in. The nostalgia over flows with this movie for me. Easily my favorite Christmas movie.
This movie is a classic in our household and have tuned in while it’s looping to have it in the background while wrapping presents or baking holiday goodies. It’s funny, relatable to being a kid and young, family dynamic comedy, nostalgic and Christmasy so no wonder everyone likes it and plays it every year. 🎅🏻🎄 It is very Northern American though, so hope it still connects with the typical Aussies. 😊❤️👍
In God We Trust is a FANTASTIC book. It is all exactly like Christmas Story. It is hilarious, nostalgic, and heartwarming in exactly the same way. If you've never read it, I highly recommend it.
I love the irony of someone who did not know this movie existed until just a few days ago is able to tell us yanks of 10 things we may not know about a movie many of us grew up with! LOL But bravo Minty! You pulled that off splendidly! I did learn a few things I did not know about this movie! About 5 or 6 of the 10!
Merry Holidays Minty! This is one of the best Christmas movies ever. I was 8 years old when it was released. It's tradition in our family around the holidays and now I have two 9 year olds!
I went to the Christmas story house a couple of years ago . We made my friend's kid get under the kitchen sink and took a picture. I love this movie it reminds me of my childhood.
My favorite part is when Ralphies dad asked him if he got everything he wanted for Christmas and then he says “what’s that over there behind the desk?”
@@yondu689 If we're talking PURELY Christmas movies in the Top 10, "It's a wonderful life", Yes, Die Hard (Although a classic) not purely a Christmas movie. If so then Lethal Weapon as well.
I can watch it all year round. One of the best films ever. My 5 year old son is starting to love it as well. He dropped some food the other day and did a perfect rendition of, 'Oh Fudge'. I was laughing my head off.
Jean Shepperd was a RADIO personality. My dad and I would listen to his show when we went to NYC. I think he was on at night on WOR...710 AM radio! My dad bought that book and we all read it. In God We Trust, all Others Pay Cash. Brilliant!
@@sethralavode9012 must be a YT glitch. The op comment is about the Xmas story movie running for 24 hours. I'm on a lot of 2a channels and maybe your comment is in ref to 2a vid. What vid are you commenting on?
Love this comment. I'd bet Minty considers it to be "not very polite" though. He seems to strive for Pbs levels of wholesome. That's cool. It's his channel.
It's been a classic in the US for decades. A Christmas staple. RIght up there with It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch, A Christmas Carol, and so on. Fun fact: Scott Schwartz, the kid who licks the pole, went on to work in the adult film industry!
Oh wow! I didn’t know that you didn’t get “A Christmas Story” down under. I’m so glad that you got see it. It’s a very sweet story that seems to connect with any childhood. I couldn’t celebrate holidays as a kid, but I remember really wanting certain toys and sometimes getting them in our humble household.
Love the singsong cackling of “You’ll shoot your eye out” by mom and teacher. Makes me laugh out loud. Been watching for years and finally bought the cd. Husband from Cleveland always comments on the war memorial and Higbees dept store. Never tire of this enjoyable tradition in our home.
"Those ice cycles have been known to kill people." I'm from Georgia and just moved to the upper peninsula of Michigan and just caught my first big ice cycle to the forehead. It didn't kill me (obviously), but I certainly know where the myth came from now😳🤣.
Fast Forward to 2022, and we get A Christmas Story Christmas. It has Ralphie grown with a family of his own; played by Peter Billingsley. This one got me in the feels and thats all I will say. Definitely worth a look for fans of the Original. 🎅☃️🎄✨️
Okay. I was just a kid when this movie came out. I have watched it ever since. It has become a family tradition that when it is aired on TV for 24 hours, the channel does not get changed. I am such a fan of the movie that myself and my family have visited the Christmas Story House twice. My son and I went to the Christmas Story Convention that was actually held in Cleveland. We met the cast, got photos and autographs and even made the evening news there. I also own an original pink nightmare bunny suit, actual film strips from the movie and two leg lamps. (They are out every Christmas) Across the street from the house is the Christmas Story museum. There, you can see the clothes that were worn, pictures from the set, actual props from the movie. So to say it's my favorite Christmas movie is an understatement.
Near where I live there is a house that has just about every inflatable Christmas character you can imagine. The other day I noticed that this year's edition was an inflatable Ralphie in a pink Bunny suit. It looks like it's about 6' tall
I didn't become a thing here in Poland too, unlike Home Alone, or Die Hard :) This December I decided to watch it, I adore Black Christmas (it already became my annual December watch), I have enjoyed Porky's, I guess it was the perfect time for the Christmas Story. I really dug it. I need to check other Clark's flicks. Cheers Minty!
A Christmas Story and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles are 2 of the MUST watch movies every holiday season. Typically we watch P,T,& A every Thanksgiving evening.
@@bluelivesmatter719 That is the weirdest original casting decision I heard since I heard that Gene Hackman was the original choice to play the dad in the "Brady Bunch". Imagine a world where Jack Nicholson is the Old Man in "A Christmas Story" and Gene Hackman was Mr Brady in "The Brady Bunch".
I’m glad he didn’t as Jack type of acting isn’t for a family role. We saw what happened to his family with a boiler. Hate to see him battle a furnace lol
Nicholson is a legend, but I think he would have changed the gravity of the movie. The performances are all great, and the direction is just about perfect IMHO.
To me, A Christmas Story fell into the same category as Princess Bride, and Garrison Keller's Lake Woebegone stories. I grew up at the end of this period and remember wanting a BB gun for Christmas. The last time the family got together for Christmas Eve, we ordered out from a local Chinese restaurant. The movie came to be a cult thing for a while, but I just enjoyed the story. I remember seeing Flash Gordon shorts before movies while living on my grandparent's farm outside of Stanhope, Iowa,(pop. 488). I also was a big fan and am very sorry to hear that these scenes were cut. Thanks.
Well this is by far my favorite Christmas movie. Excellent actors and narration through out the movie. Everything is perfect about it. What can I say. Watch it. A true classic.
This movie hits so many chords for me..memories of past Christmases for me. I acquired this movie shortly after it was released in DVD version and watch it every year it is one of my Christmas traditions..I never get tired of it. Like most every kid I too wanted a BB gun..after several years of hearing the 'you'll shoot your eye out!' my Mom finally caved and got me a BB gun for Christmas it was one of my treasured possessions for many years. All the other scenes in the movie brought back many childhood memories. And Melinda Dillon..lovely actress she was in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' also. Classic movie it will never get old.
"Ollie Hopnoodles Haven of Bliss" was a childhood favorite of my dad's and I. We would watch it together every summer, and we still crack one liners back and forth from the movie to this day.
I saw this in the theater with my next door neighbor when I was a kid. When it came out on cable the following year I told my dad we needed to watch it. He was so taken aback because when he was a kid he wanted a Red Ryder BB gun and his mom told him, “You’ll shoot your eye out “ 😂 His sisters bought him one for Christmas a few years later. He put beer cans in the fireplace and fires the gun. The BB ricochet across the room! Thankfully all of our eyes remained intact 😂
Even though it’s a period piece, it so perfectly captures the feels of Christmas for most kids who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s which is why it’s my favorite Christmas movie.
As a 70s little girl, I totally related to many aspects of the movie, despite it being in the Midwest and mostly about boys, and I was a girl in north Georgia. The characters (kids) are pretty much my mom's generation, and my family was about as nuts as Ralphy's.
A Christmas story is apart of my history growing up an a family tradition to watch right on Thanksgiving until Christmas when I was a kid. Along with the Grinch cartoon, A miracle on 21st an Christmas vacation. I miss the old days before the digital age n Facebook ECT. When I was a kid I really thought a Christmas story was made back in the 30's 40's it looked so realistic as a kid watching it or just me! Thanks for your videos
Jean Shepherd labored for decades in late-night radio, spinning his tales and philosophical musings into the darkness for a loyal but limited audience. (He did some things on public television, and his magazine pieces were a thing for a while, but at heart he was a night-shift radio humorist.) He worked side-gigs, from doing his Saturday Night show at a Greenwich Village nightclub "live" on radio, to one-man shows at local high schools, several of which I attended back in the day. The success of "A Christmas Story" was his final reward, well deserved, his one claim to immortality. And I am happy for him, wherever he is out there in the eternal night. But although I listened to his radio show faithfully, for several years in my young teens, and read all of his books, honestly I only watched "A Christmas Story" once, and thought it was just "OK".
@@LindaC616 Yes,he was a uniquely gifted humorist, and hard-working. I didn't mean to be hard on "A Christmas Story" -- I did like it, I'm just not crazy about it, as it falls somewhere in the middle of the various ways that Shepherd's work has been presented. A number of the Public Television specials, similarly based on his short stories with the same group of characters, were actually better in my opinion, but "A Christmas Story" does qualify as a "classic". Have a great Christmas!!
Dan Magoo, I believe that Greenwich village nightclub was called “The Limelight.” Jean Shepherd would host a live show in that location on Saturday nights over WOR-710 AM. I remember listening to the show one Saturday night with my brothers and we could hear my parents laughing in reaction to Mr. Shepherd’s hilarious stories as they sat in the audience. Mr. Shepherd would often appear at several NJ colleges, including Princeton University and St. Peter’s College. He often poked fun at the great Garden State, commenting on the “aesthetic beauty of Route 22” and how, when he was a young WW II Signal Corps soldier, stationed at Fort Monmouth, he and his buddies tried to pick-up girls on the paddle-boat ride on the lake between Ocean Grove and Asbury Park on the beautiful NJ shore. In fact, Mr. Shepherd lived in New Jersey for many years while he hosted his nightly show over WOR. Mr. Shepherd was one of our nation’s great humorists. Requiem aeternam, Mr. Shepherd.
This movie was released when I was like 3 weeks old, and even though it's set in the 40s/50s, this was so 80s and brings me back to my childhood everytime I watch it! And for the last 20 years or so, it plays on every one of my family members TVs when I visit on Christmas Eve or Christmas day. This movie is the #1 Christmas movie of all time imo.
Every little boy has had fantasies like Ralphie. I think thats where a lot of the love comes from. People can relate to it looking back to their own childhood.
Why would Netflix knowingly promote a traditional, in tact family, especially one where father is a male who works and mother, who is not only female, but also stays at home? Then there’s the BB gun - Netflix only promotes unhealthy gun culture ... the kind with cartoonish, over-the-top, gratuitous violence. This movie is as misaligned with Reed Hastings’ Orwellian values as possible for a Christmas film, except for perhaps “The Story of Christ.” LOL
watching a christmas story is a tradition for my family! every year we turn on the channel that plays it on repeat for 24 hours (TBS) and quote it throughout the days. my aunt also loves to find a christmas story wrapping paper and all my gifts for years have been wrapped in different patterns of a christmas story wrapping paper
Same! The 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" started in 1997. I was 14 that Christmas. My family had it on the TV the entire day. Every Christmas we had it on. My mom passed away in 2017, but if she was alive, I believe she would still play it every year. I do put it on every year still. It's part of Christmas to have that in the background for the full day. It's not like most people who celebrate Christmas actually leave their house or their relatives' house on Christmas Day. It's the perfect day to have the TV on in the background.
Thanks Minty. I've seen this film multiple times, as it was one of my Mum's favorite x-mas films. She passed in March of this year & I take your making this clip, especially considering it's obscurity here in Oz, as the universes way of assuring me that mum was with us this x-mas. Thanks mate, love your work, both here & in general
2:07 " ... American TV personality and writer Jean Shepherd ... " A slight correction: Although Shepherd did do some TV (primarily for Public Broadcasting Service), he was primarily a radio personality -- a late-night raconteur at WOR in NY City for 22 years (1955-1977). TONS Of his broadcasts are available on TH-cam. Give 'em a listen ... he was quite the storyteller! Meanwhile, thanks for covering A Christmas Story ... probably one of my all-time faves!
The Wizard of Oz characters are shown in the visit to Santa at Higbee's scene. That movie was released in 1939, so that's the earliest year that the story could have taken place. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, so the downtown Christmas parade would have been drastically different in 1941 during wartime. So I figure the story is set in 1939 or 1940.
@@larrymcclain8874 It had to be set in the 50's. Look at the attire of some of the characters, especially Little Randy's "spaceman" snowsuit and the extra in line that talks to Ralphie while waiting to see Santa. Could you imagine someone in the 30's or 40's wearing what that kid had on in that scene?
And he also in the MCU As a stark industries Engineer technician He was in the 1st iron man movie all the way to spider man far from home Where he andIn the bunch of ex stark Industries Employees Are in cahoots with Mysterio.
He also directed Couples Retreat(2009) with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau...He was also the ticket seller at the airport in Four Christmases(2008) starring Vince Vaughn....He must be real life friends with Vince and Jon Favreau
Nope more the 60's the wizard of OZ is played here every year & it was our families yearly movie to watch! As it was explained over & over its relevance as a 1st in cinema! The first color movie to be filmed!
" In a breach of etiquette, he skipped the double dog dare, and triple doged dare him, going straight for the throat !! " That was the quote from the movie Minty, a " Triple Dog Dare " Merry Christmas all, Peace
While on vacation this past summer we traveled through Cleveland and stopped to see the house. The complex includes the house, a museum and a gift shop. They were all jam packed with people, a testament to how loved this movie truly is.
I stopped there on my bicycle trip this summer. It's a neat little neighborhood. I ate lunch at the restaurant across the street - Rowley's. I was disappointed they didn't have boiled cabbage, mashed potatoes and turkey on the menu 😉
"In The Heat Of Battle, My Father Wove A Tapestry Of Obscenity, That As Far As We Know Is Still Hanging In Space Over Lake Michigan."
My dad passed in 1994. We watched it together every year. I still watch it every year with love in my heart for my old man.
Did you watch the new one??? I did last year with my brothers, and we all cried. It was surprisingly very good, and if you and your "Old Man" alway watched it, I think you'll really like it.
Have you seen the NEW sequel? A Christmas Story Christmas...it's very good, most of the original actors and very well put together
If you’re ever in Cleveland, you should go to the house. It’s kinda neat, and they have a museum across the street. Don’t come just for that, but if you’re in the neighborhood, it’s worth a couple hours for sure!
My Dad really identified with 'the old man' too, along with the Father, 'Lon' in "Meet Me in St Louis"...every holiday, these were running family jokes. I am sorry about your Dad passing so soon, mine wasn't far behind in 2001 😥, but I smile at least 10-15 watches over each xmas season between those two movies.
Don't watch the sequel on MAX from last year without a huge box off kleenex now. Trust me, you will need it if this reminds you of your 'old man'.
@@marieskee22 yes yes and yes.. it was a great movie!!
I don't care how many times I've seen the movie, it's just not Christmas without it.
Bingo
And like "AIRPLANE!", it NEVER gets old!
We don't have cable but I set up a movie directory on my NAS so I could stream it to my TV just like TBS.
I finally bought it this year... soo satisfied 😌
TNT agrees!
"My old man worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay"
It was his true medium, a master!
That is my husband’s favorite line when ever I get on to him for cursing around the kids he says that to me
Poetry
Every character in this movie was great, but to me Darrin McGavin's dad stole the show.
That was My Mother, WOW was she vulgar. Alzheimer's to the extreme.
I grew up with Flick, went to the family bar on kennedy ave, in hammond. Attended warren harding school. So this movie holds a very special place for me.
Gets your kicks at Flick's! on the avenue
I lived in Dolton, Illinois as a kid in the 1960s and remember trips to downtown Hammond, Indiana. Goldblatts Christmas window displays, J.C. Penny's, Walgreens, Parthenon Theater, White Castles on the corner of Sibley and Stateline Ave.
Pleasant memories of good old days.
Didn't Flick jump into Italy and was never seen or heard from again?
I named my now 22year old son Flick and didn't realise for years the subconscious link at all😂😂😂
Some men are Catholics, others Baptists, my father was a Oldsmobile man.
My old man's spare tires were only actually tires in the academic sense. They were round and had once been made of rubber.
"That #@$%!! would freeze up in the summertime on the equator!" LOL!!
Sounds like a Stephen King line. 😄
My parents were extremely brand conscious because back then certain brands were always dependable. Buick, Hoover, Zenith and Westinghouse were family favorites.
@@janismacolley2395 now everything is junk and built to fall apart😟
This was my father's favorite Christmas movie. He would often say that this is what it was like growing up in the 1940's in the Midwest. He passed away in 2016. - Greetings from Cleveland, Ohio- home of the Christmas Story House.
My mom was from Cleveland and would watch the movie at least 10 times every Christmas. It reminded her of Cleveland in the mid 1930's. She passed in 2016 as well at age 91.
That house, from the outside, also reminds me of a scene from ",The Fugitive ".
Buy yes, my parents were both Depression babies. My dad passed away young, in '79, but I'm sure he would have loved it.
My best friend lives in Cleveland , I live in the south, been to Cleveland and I Love it !!! That whole area , Canton too !! When I first saw Christmas Story I knew it was filmed in Cleveland !!!
I love this movie as well my favorite Christmas movie though is probably home alone
My favorite Christmas movies are home alone a Christmas Carol scrooge it's a wonderful life the grintch the Santa Claus jack frost and this one but I like alot of other Christmas ones as well Jack frost is the Christmas movie that basically always gets to me basically
The scene at the end with Mr. and Mrs. Parker sitting next to each other in soft glow of the lights on the tree, and watching the snow fall, is one of the most romantic scenes I've ever seen. You can feel the love emanating from them. ❤
“Where did you hear that word?” Now I had heard that word at least 10 times a day from my old man 🤣 absolutely classic film and one of my personal favorite lines.
Every time I watch this movie, when she asks that question, I think she must be at least partially deaf to not already know he heard it from his father!!!
Schwartz!
“The queen mother of dirty words”. My 8-year-old often refers to THAT word that way 😂
Definitely a Christmas tradition in my family. Every time I see a BB gun I think you’ll shoot your eye out. 🎯🔫
Mine is either "not a finger" or "daddy's gonna kill ralphie" lmao
“The snap of a few sparks, a quick whiff of ozone and the lamp blazed forth in unparalleled glory.”
"A MAJOR AWARD!!!!"
In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obsenity that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
@CallOfDrewthulhu not a finger!!!
Lol yes my favorite Christmas movie
Hmmm that one goes to the radio that one to the.. Well it's just one to many!
This movie was released about the same time I started understanding the real world I lived in. I was in my 20’s. I had landed a really good job with an electric utility company that took me out into the real world. The job was a power line clearance tree trimmer. We would go into people’s backyards. While working out in the field, I met fantastic people that shared their holiday cheer with perfect strangers. It was common to enter a yard and find a pot of coffee and doughnuts or cookies. Every year, as the holidays approach, I reflect back on those years… and a Christmas Story. They were truly challenging but simpler times. As I approach my 63rd year, I reflect back with a humble appreciation for life and for the wonderful people that I had the opportunity to serve.
That's a great story. Thanks for sharing. Now we have A Christmas Story Christmas coming out on Nov. 17th 2022 !!
Unfortunate that times have changed so much people arent so much like this anymore.
Thank you for that. I agree. That was a sweet story.
❤
I was a freshman in college when this came out. I just found it funny as I had just turned 19.
"Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense."
This has always been one of my favorite, of so many wonderful, quotes.
I had an older brother so being named Randy... I empathized with him, HA
my dog is like Randy, he never eats and just lays there.
Yeah, back in the days when I had nightmares (I stopped having them 25 years ago; I don't miss 'em), I used to play dead in my dreams. (When I stopped dreaming about being chased by Nazis or whatever, I started "kickin' A__," instead. One's a weird as the other.)
That line kills me every time!!!! The way he says it......classic!
This *IS* _the Christmas movie_ ! It embodies so much of a real Christmas. The tree drama, crappy gifts, friends and enemies, and the inevitable dinner disasters.
Agreed !!
And it captures the perfect, genuine Christmas atmosphere.
It pegged my childhood at christmas.
#FACTS
If anyone is curious about the exact date of the movie, I actually calculated it using the newspaper the father is reading at the dinner table at time stamp 1:02:31. There is a picture of a The KMS Admiral Graf Spee, a German Pocket battleship on it. I cross referenced that with the online archives of the Chicago Tribune and found the article about the sinking of the Admiral Graf Spee on 17 December 1939.
Nice. Also, in the kitchen next to the refrigerator is a 1939 calendar. And Ralphie's Orphan Annie decoder pin says 1940.
You did all that work but totally missed the 1939 calendar on the fridge???
@@alexblaze8878 ROFLMAO, now I have to go back and look because I have never seen the Calendar hahahahaha.
Correct. And the cast have confirmed it's 1939.
The Red Ryder BB gun wasn’t available till 1940 if I’m not mistaken.
A Christmas story IS a tradition here in the states. In my house, all day all Christmas on TBS.
I read that TBS and TNT ran this movie for 24 hours every Christmas so that their employees could have the day off. But I love this movie, especially Darren McGavin as "The Old Man." He's hysterical. "NADDAFINGAH!"
I watched it every year like ten years or ago....
@@UltraInstinctBattousai It’s Buttahfingah! (Butterfinger)
Actually for many years they looped it for 24 hours I'm Thanksgiving. I remember the year a friend from Germany was here and we made him watch it during Thanksgiving dinner (one of those large "urban tribe" dinners)
YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE ON PURPOSE!
AKA The Night Stalker.
I was born in 1953. Aside from the style of the cars, and the Parkers not having television, this pretty much looked like the world I grew up in. That is part of the reason why I love "A Christmas Story" so much. ❤
Yes I was born in 1953 and we played in yards they had old wooden fences and abandon cars just like in the movies. Yeah we had our neighborhood bullies and I remember wanting a BB gun.
Same, born 1952...in Cleveland!
My dad used to say the same. RIP Old Man
"F-R-A-G-I-L-E!"
"Must be Italian!"
@@sid2112 I do the same thing. It's the only way I pronounce it.
I thought he said "R-A-G-I-L-E" and she corrected him with the "F"?
RAJEELAY
That whole part is halarious asf to me n the woman is mad about it you can tell when he brings it out the frickin leg lamp 😂😂
Lolololol
Bonus Fact: The Chinese Food scene was mostly improv, but they didn't tell the "boys" and "Mother Parker" for a genuine reaction.
That's Awesome. It does seem genuine
@@wesleywarsmith1113 You can see the lead actors trying not to laugh during the scene.
The mom's reaction when they chop off the head always makes me laugh.
Absolutely best line.
@@leeh9420 its...smiling at us! Haha
The original leg lamp used in the movie was destroyed after filming was completed. The slide used in the movie is on display at Castle Noel in Medina Ohio, along with many other props. Fox8 newscaster Stefani Schaffer along with her brother were extras in the movie. She's the one in blue coat sitting on the bench in the store. Higbees is now Jacks Casino. Filming was done in February, 2 months after Christmas. The area where the house is located has its own little cottage tourism , with a store across the street that sells souvenirs. Most of the cars used in the street scenes were all locally owned, all the owners were paid rental fees for their use and they were hired to do the driving. Most of these facts are very well known in the Cleveland area. I hope you enjoyed them.
I wonder if they buried the Leg Lamp prop the same way it was buried in the movie: Next to the garage of the house used for filming?
“I can’t put my arms down” one of my all time favorite movies of all time let alone favorite Christmas movies.
The mother's response is equally great: Put your arms down when you get to school.
"My brother Randy lay in the snow like a slug. It was his only defense."
Jared Kushner's head= Randy's head
The movie is a celebration of Americana, which is why so many of us Americans love it. I’m sure that’s why it’s not as big in Australia... just ot the same cultural history.
It also has a big mid-western feel to it. There are places around the US where this movie is not a thing.
@@timothyneiswander3151 I saw it as a little kid in Alaska, later moved to NC (at around 7 years old) but didn't know it was a big thing until about 10 or 15 years ago, but here in the southeast it's a traditional movie.
@@kageakuma3009 It's definitely an east-coast/midwest thing. It doesn't snow like that in the south or west coast states and the houses look very different there as well. Not that any American can't enjoy it but it has its regional flavors that others might not appreciate as much.
@@mr.pavone9719 I mean here in NC it doesn't snow very much anymore at least in my area lol but I remember snows when I was younger here. Always gives me nostalgia.
Classic here in Canada too.
it's not really Christmas here in the US unless TBS is broadcasting 24 hours of 'A Christmas Story' :)
It got me through years of present wrapping til early morning. Now I fall asleep and wake up to it. I think there's another station that broadcasts it also.
ONLY 24 hours? Pikers!
Exactly! 🥰
I watched it this year during one of the 24hr showings!
@@elizabethsalvage4338 TNT also shows this movie for 24 hours on Christmas Eve
This is by far my favorite Christmas movie. I always look forward to Christmas Day where it plays for 24 hours on TBS.
I went to a showing of A Christmas Story this week hosted by Peter Billingsley (Ralphie) with him doing a long Q&A and trivia afterwards. It was amazing. Peter Billingsley said that he and the director spent time in the studio archives looking for the lost Flash Gordon footage. It was apparently on film and was destroyed after editing. P.B. mom took the bunny costume and the cowboy costume after filming which is pretty cool.
I saw “A Christmas Story” when it was in the theaters in December 1983 when I was 30 years old and loved it. The nostalgic look at Xmas in a Midwestern city in the 40’s as seem through a child’s eyes was both charming and very well done. Bravo!
Shame kids today don't get to enjoy the animated/mechanical displays in the store windows at Christmas!
This is my favorite Christmas movie. It's one of the first times I ever watched my Dad, the hardest working man I've ever known, take time off, just sit, watch TV, and laugh. A few years ago, my wife and kids got me the pink bunny suit (ears and all) for Christmas. I put it on, and then my mom realized she'd forgotten a present and ran out to the garage. I hid behind the door to scare her, and when I jumped out, she was holding my present all right: a Winchester 300 short mag. The idea of someone in a bunny suit scaring a little old lady with large caliber rifle was hilarious, and I started to laugh. I still wear that bunny suit in the winter, because it's incredibly warm. The ears freak my horses out when I go outside, though. :)
As for Australian movies, I really enjoy The Man From Snowy River, and The Light Horse. Someday I'd like to visit your country around Christmas, just to see what it's like to have Christmas when it's warm. Please keep up the great videos! And don't shoot your eye out.
My sister and I saw this movie when it was in theatres. By far, the most out loud laughing I have ever done in a movie theatre. I was concerned they were going to throw me out. Have always loved this film, in large part because it takes place when my dad was about Ralphie's age, so the sets, the clothing, the neighborhood, the cars, the lights, the wrapping paper, the radio, all the little details give me little glimpses into my dad's childhood. The street looks just like the street my dad grew up on, and even the school bears a striking resemblance to the one he attended.
This movie is quintessential mid century Americana. All of us over 65 remember when these scenes were our real life. That’s what makes it so special. How else are you going to relive wearing your winter snowsuit and not being able to put your arms down till you got to school? Watching is a yearly tradition that still makes me laugh. It’s wonderful.💕🎄
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but there is something special about this movie. I watch it several times every Christmas.
it's wholesome and just a fn watch. Nostalgia is definitely part of it. The acting was incredible as well.
I used to watch it time after time but my family has become scrooges for it. They seem to conspire in ways to prevent it from being watched.
@@kevinstonerock3158 I started planting it on at least one tv when I was 16. I'm 39 now and about 3 years ago the whole family sat me down and told me they were done with it..... I still throw it on when I get the chance
The movie is great but one time per Christmas is enough
I am from Australia, and "A Christmas Story" is my favourite Christmas film.
Bless you, friend!
Seriously doesn’t feel like Christmas until this movie starts playing on tv
TBS or TNT?
And despite having never sat and watched it from beginning to end in a session I've seen the entire movie who knows how many times at this point. I know all the scenes and the order since it's on so much at Christmas time I've caught bits for decades.
I watch this movie every year along with Ernest Saves Christmas, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
I think it usually starts around 8pm Christmas Eve and goes to midnight the following day. Hell they've been doing that for over two decades now and I think comedy central does Christmas vacation and bad Santa for a while now. I haven't watched regular TV for years though so I have no idea what's going on anymore, except for news clips about Trump and Biden.
@@wstine79 Both LOL!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
Here’s hoping 2021 is a better year for all.
It couldn't get much worse (other than getting covid-19)
We all deserve a new better year after this one. Merry 🎄 Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
From your lips to God's ear! Stay safe.
Well, if this joker Biden actually get in with the steal, you can rest assured then next 4 years will mirror 2020.
Hopefully 2021 will be a better year... for once I wouldn’t wanna see Fauci’s face on the tv anymore or the so called Covid numbers.. and I hope trump is still president
I first saw this movie in a theater in El Paso, TX in summertime! That's when it was first released, and did NOT do well. The entire theater was loving it and the "warm" feelings continued, despite the 100 degree heat. When it showed up on TBS, it was like total validation. Thank you Mr Turner.
This was my dad's favorite Christmas movie. He was exactly the same age as Ralphie, so it reminded him a lot of his childhood. We would watch it together at least once every Christmas.
Same!!
My dad was the same age during that time and hated the movie for some reason. He still gave me the DVD for Christmas a year before he died tho
My dad was also Ralphie’s age. He said the depiction of the parents and the other characters of that generation was spot on.
My father loved it too. Which was actually very interesting considering that my father acted just like the old man! The bits with the furnace and the extension cords and the fuses blowing out were my father to a "T" when I was a little boy. I sure felt a lot safer when we switched to circuit breakers! LOL And that line 'yoooooou used up.........all the glue........on PURPOSE' was exactly something my father would say! He's still alive too.....in his 90's now.
Don't talk about "A Christmas Story," Minty. You'll shoot your eye out.
lol
@wstine 79 - I give your post a "C+."
Lololollollololollol dont stick your tongue on a pole lol.
Oh fudge....
@@blackc1479 Only, he didn't say "Fudge"... ;-)
It’s definitely a Christmas classic. I just watched it 3 times in a row on TBS on Christmas Day… as usual.
“Don’t anybody move! Hold it right there. A fuse is out.”
“The old man could replace fuses quicker than a jackrabbit on a date. He bought them by the gross.”
They were tires in the fact they were round and once made out of rubber.
I dated someone who lived in a house with a situation like that. The wiring was shit and always blew glass fuses.
@@planetphatness Did the previous owner just chuck the bad fuse in the box and take out another? Been there, seen that.
Correction: Flik was “triple dog dared” into sticking his tongue on the freezing flag pole. Schwartz broke etiquette by skipping the “triple dare you”, after his “double dog dare you”, and went for broke by challenging Flik with a “triple dog dare you”. Thanks for the video, it’s long overdue.😉
"Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat."
@@MrHeadbanger366 Exactly.
Go big, or go home!
and when someone triple dog dares you you know it's serious. a triple dog dare is a dare that you MUST accept. you absolutely, CANNOT back down from a triple dog dare. it is considered blasphemy.
That was art imitating life. My father grew up during those times and I grew up in the Midwest. Everyone had heard stories about sticking your tongue to a cold Pole in the Winter time. And a friend of mine once, on a school trip, bought a popsicle that was so cold that her tongue stuck to it
In 2022 there was a great sequel “A Christmas Story Christmas” with most of the original cast. My family were huge fans of the original and we really loved this sequel. So glad I got to watch it with my mom before she passed. This movie is very close to my heart and without question my absolute favorite Christmas movie. Thank you for reviewing it Minty! I hope you enjoyed it as much as so many of us here in the states do. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.
This movie is proof that today's movie watchers are just craving movies about characters and story, not CGI and political messaging. Please someone out there start a studio that gets this concept. We movie goers are here with our wallets open just waiting for something genuine.
Well said and true.
Agreed! Bring back movies with actual storylines, no CGI, no remakes, no “wokeness” - just originality!
The modern version. A heart warming story about a 9 year old boy who wants a sex change for Christmas.
Incredibly well said!!
@@Ballinalower Because he's afraid he might shoot someone's eye out?
"Oh Fudge!"
"Only I didn't say fudge."
"I said thee word, the queen mother of all dirty words"
The .... Word
Do you know what your son just said.
“The F dash-dash-dash word!”
When he blames it on another kid and she calls the mom 😂😂😂 that poor kid
This was one of my MOM's favorite movies. My sister and I were extras in the sequel that was shot in Cleveland, It Runs in the Family. I recently saw the latest sequel, "A Christmas Story Christmas" and I loved it -- it could stand on its own, but it has a lot of nice references and call-backs to the original -- very well done.
I love when Randy hurriedly lifts the toilet seat, and the scene quickly cuts away to Ralphy lifting the lid on the cabbage pot.
Different shot, same odor LOL
@@NordicDan different pot, same odor….
You know?? A million views of the movie, and I never drew that line. Thanks for the added layer of humor 🤣. (OMG, how did I miss that?)
In 2003, Peter Billingsley had a small part in another Christmas film, "Elf", where he played Ming Ming the elf. He's the one who said "You're not a cotton-headed ninny muggins."
He also had a small part in Iron Man as an engineer saying: "I'm not Tony Stark." This also led to another cameo in Spider-man: Far From Home as the same engineer.
As a producer, he produced the Broadway version of A Christmas Story: The Musical, on which the Fox TV version was based, which ran in 2012 and 2013.
His appearance in Elf is definitely a nod to the all-time classic nature of "A Christmas Story"
The actor who played Scud Farkis was in one episode of The Goldbergs a couple years ago
@@dgfiedler He was a soldier in the first Transformers movie too. He was one of the first killed by Scorponok.
My Family plays it for the entire day on loop... Tradition since 1988... Great Video!!!!
"A Christmas Story" is definitive my favorite Christmas movie, and I'm from Germany, but it is really unknow over here either. So Merry Christmas to you
The year that a good friend from Germany spent a year here in the United States, when we went to an "urban tribe" Thanksgiving dinner, I made him watch this during dinner! During another visit back, I also made him watch the original Willy wonka and the chocolate factory and he was excited to recognize Munchen
The family has this playing every Christmas morning nonstop, it’s a tradition
This has become a 20-year plus tradition on TBS and or TNT
Us too!
Same. I force my family to watch the entire 24 hours. 😂
@@gokugoma3258 same here. About 20 years or so
So much of the Cleveland exterior shots look like the city I grew up in. The nostalgia over flows with this movie for me. Easily my favorite Christmas movie.
This movie is a classic in our household and have tuned in while it’s looping to have it in the background while wrapping presents or baking holiday goodies. It’s funny, relatable to being a kid and young, family dynamic comedy, nostalgic and Christmasy so no wonder everyone likes it and plays it every year. 🎅🏻🎄 It is very Northern American though, so hope it still connects with the typical Aussies. 😊❤️👍
In God We Trust is a FANTASTIC book. It is all exactly like Christmas Story. It is hilarious, nostalgic, and heartwarming in exactly the same way. If you've never read it, I highly recommend it.
I don't know. I read the book and it was depressing.
I love the irony of someone who did not know this movie existed until just a few days ago is able to tell us yanks of 10 things we may not know about a movie many of us grew up with! LOL But bravo Minty! You pulled that off splendidly! I did learn a few things I did not know about this movie! About 5 or 6 of the 10!
Merry Holidays Minty! This is one of the best Christmas movies ever. I was 8 years old when it was released. It's tradition in our family around the holidays and now I have two 9 year olds!
I went to the Christmas story house a couple of years ago . We made my friend's kid get under the kitchen sink and took a picture. I love this movie it reminds me of my childhood.
"He had yellow eyes. SO HELP ME GOD, HE HAD YELLOW EYES!"
"Scut Farkas, what a rotten name!"
and Green teeth! Green! My God, they didn't have tooth brushes back then?
So Phelous then?
I have seen someone with yellow eyes. It's inherited from her family.
My favorite part is when Ralphies dad asked him if he got everything he wanted for Christmas and then he says “what’s that over there behind the desk?”
A sign of a great dad that really understood and loved his son.
My Dad actually did that with my first BB gun. I only regret that I didn't get the reference that sleepy Christmas morning!
It's not a "claim", A Christmas Story IS one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time! Hand down Top 5!
Agreed. I watch it every Holidays along with the ‘Home Alone’ movies. A classic from start to finish!
@@juliusmaloney Funny thing is that it's literally on RIGHT NOW, as I'm sending this reply. Merry Christmas!
Die Hard and It's a Wonderful Life are also good Christmas movies.
@@yondu689 If we're talking PURELY Christmas movies in the Top 10, "It's a wonderful life", Yes, Die Hard (Although a classic) not purely a Christmas movie. If so then Lethal Weapon as well.
Seriously. It's been on 24-hour rotation on TNT/TBS every Christmas for over 20 years.
I can watch it all year round. One of the best films ever. My 5 year old son is starting to love it as well. He dropped some food the other day and did a perfect rendition of, 'Oh Fudge'. I was laughing my head off.
Jean Shepperd was a RADIO personality. My dad and I would listen to his show when we went to NYC. I think he was on at night on WOR...710 AM radio!
My dad bought that book and we all read it.
In God We Trust, all Others Pay Cash.
Brilliant!
They do a 24 hour marathon of this movie here in the USA
Hey man. I'm from Dayton Ohio. I love Woodland Cemetery. It's anything but lost though. Do you do videos on abandoned cemeteries?
@@joshuagibson2520 Wow, two people with no powers of comprehension.
@@milesparris4045 what?
I don’t get the two people bit of your comment, but if you’d read the OP’s name, maybe you would comprehend the second comment.
@@sethralavode9012 must be a YT glitch. The op comment is about the Xmas story movie running for 24 hours. I'm on a lot of 2a channels and maybe your comment is in ref to 2a vid. What vid are you commenting on?
Minty: "So it's time to give this movie some love from down under."
Me: Oh my!
Bow chicka wow wow
Love this comment. I'd bet Minty considers it to be "not very polite" though. He seems to strive for Pbs levels of wholesome. That's cool. It's his channel.
mad max baby
As someone who loves this movie so much, I’m glad to know there’s a lot of people who find this movie entertaining.
You should give the musical version a try, it's very well done as well.
It's been a classic in the US for decades. A Christmas staple. RIght up there with It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch, A Christmas Carol, and so on. Fun fact: Scott Schwartz, the kid who licks the pole, went on to work in the adult film industry!
This is my favorite Christmas film and it's our Christmas Eve tradition to watch it together. Merry Christmas everybody
Oh wow! I didn’t know that you didn’t get “A Christmas Story” down under. I’m so glad that you got see it. It’s a very sweet story that seems to connect with any childhood.
I couldn’t celebrate holidays as a kid, but I remember really wanting certain toys and sometimes getting them in our humble household.
I literally just finished watching this 30 minutes ago! What a nice Christmas present! Thanks Minty!!
"Randy lay there like a slug, it was his only defense"
I quote that all the time.
@@philipmonihan8222 same here for me and my brothers, my favorite line of the movie. Merry Christmas buddy
@@stogieguy7201 Well, in the movies I watch, a lot of characters just faint whenever. My family usually ends up paraphrasing.
Love the singsong cackling of “You’ll shoot your eye out” by mom and teacher.
Makes me laugh out loud. Been watching for years and finally bought the cd. Husband from Cleveland always comments on the war memorial and Higbees dept store. Never tire of this enjoyable tradition in our home.
"Those ice cycles have been known to kill people." I'm from Georgia and just moved to the upper peninsula of Michigan and just caught my first big ice cycle to the forehead. It didn't kill me (obviously), but I certainly know where the myth came from now😳🤣.
Every year we watch in order "It's a Wonderful Life" "A Christmas Story" and last " Die Hard" Merry Christmas!!!
Love it!
Love it!
Me also....
I'm gonna add to that list. Miracle of 34th St (the 1940's original), Charlie Brown Christmas, Trading Places and Lethal Weapon.
we end with "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. I even designed a T-Shirt that says "Die Hard IS a Christmas Movie!" LOL
AFYI - "A Christmas Story" plays on the TNT cable network for a straight 24 hours starting Christmas eve night.
And TBS
Fast Forward to 2022, and we get A Christmas Story Christmas. It has Ralphie grown with a family of his own; played by Peter Billingsley. This one got me in the feels and thats all I will say. Definitely worth a look for fans of the Original. 🎅☃️🎄✨️
I totally agree! It is a perfect sequel!
Okay. I was just a kid when this movie came out. I have watched it ever since. It has become a family tradition that when it is aired on TV for 24 hours, the channel does not get changed. I am such a fan of the movie that myself and my family have visited the Christmas Story House twice. My son and I went to the Christmas Story Convention that was actually held in Cleveland. We met the cast, got photos and autographs and even made the evening news there. I also own an original pink nightmare bunny suit, actual film strips from the movie and two leg lamps. (They are out every Christmas) Across the street from the house is the Christmas Story museum. There, you can see the clothes that were worn, pictures from the set, actual props from the movie. So to say it's my favorite Christmas movie is an understatement.
Near where I live there is a house that has just about every inflatable Christmas character you can imagine. The other day I noticed that this year's edition was an inflatable Ralphie in a pink Bunny suit. It looks like it's about 6' tall
Do you know how much it costs to stay over night?
Never did anyone ever imagine that a burlesque dancer leg would be an integral aspect of holiday decorating 🤣.
I didn't become a thing here in Poland too, unlike Home Alone, or Die Hard :)
This December I decided to watch it, I adore Black Christmas (it already became my annual December watch), I have enjoyed Porky's, I guess it was the perfect time for the Christmas Story.
I really dug it.
I need to check other Clark's flicks.
Cheers Minty!
A Christmas Story and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles are 2 of the MUST watch movies every holiday season. Typically we watch P,T,& A every Thanksgiving evening.
I had no idea Jack Nicholson was interested in playing Ralphie' dad ......."Heeeeeeere's Ralphie"
Nor did I. Would be interesting but honestly can’t see anyone but Darren McGavin in that role. He killed it
@@bluelivesmatter719 That is the weirdest original casting decision I heard since I heard that Gene Hackman was the original choice to play the dad in the "Brady Bunch".
Imagine a world where Jack Nicholson is the Old Man in "A Christmas Story" and Gene Hackman was Mr Brady in "The Brady Bunch".
I’m glad he didn’t as Jack type of acting isn’t for a family role. We saw what happened to his family with a boiler. Hate to see him battle a furnace lol
Nicholson is a legend, but I think he would have changed the gravity of the movie. The performances are all great, and the direction is just about perfect IMHO.
Lol
To me, A Christmas Story fell into the same category as Princess Bride, and Garrison Keller's Lake Woebegone stories. I grew up at the end of this period and remember wanting a BB gun for Christmas. The last time the family got together for Christmas Eve, we ordered out from a local Chinese restaurant. The movie came to be a cult thing for a while, but I just enjoyed the story. I remember seeing Flash Gordon shorts before movies while living on my grandparent's farm outside of Stanhope, Iowa,(pop. 488). I also was a big fan and am very sorry to hear that these scenes were cut. Thanks.
Well this is by far my favorite Christmas movie. Excellent actors and narration through out the movie. Everything is perfect about it. What can I say. Watch it. A true classic.
I’ve been to the Christmas Story house in Cleveland and of you’re in the area (once Rona subsides in the USA) I highly recommend going for a tour ❤️🎄✨
and ive been to the museum in Hammond, i recommend that also. i gotta get to Cleveland and complete the journey next year.
They're open! They just have foot traffic rules like Walmart.
This movie hits so many chords for me..memories of past Christmases for me. I acquired this movie shortly after it was released in DVD version and watch it every year it is one of my Christmas traditions..I never get tired of it. Like most every kid I too wanted a BB gun..after several years of hearing the 'you'll shoot your eye out!' my Mom finally caved and got me a BB gun for Christmas it was one of my treasured possessions for many years. All the other scenes in the movie brought back many childhood memories. And Melinda Dillon..lovely actress she was in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' also. Classic movie it will never get old.
I own a piece of the siding off the house when they remodeled it. The owner signed it too. I love it!!!!
"Ollie Hopnoodles Haven of Bliss" was a childhood favorite of my dad's and I. We would watch it together every summer, and we still crack one liners back and forth from the movie to this day.
I saw this in the theater with my next door neighbor when I was a kid. When it came out on cable the following year I told my dad we needed to watch it. He was so taken aback because when he was a kid he wanted a Red Ryder BB gun and his mom told him, “You’ll shoot your eye out “ 😂 His sisters bought him one for Christmas a few years later. He put beer cans in the fireplace and fires the gun. The BB ricochet across the room! Thankfully all of our eyes remained intact 😂
Even though it’s a period piece, it so perfectly captures the feels of Christmas for most kids who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s which is why it’s my favorite Christmas movie.
Exactly, I didn’t even realize when I was a kid that it was a movie about the past, it felt like my childhood.
It’s nothing like my childhood in the late 70s and early 80s.
It seems that it’s nostalgic for the ones who were growing up in the 30s-50s.
Your right. I saw this in the 80s and still do and always felt it was an 80s movie
As a 70s little girl, I totally related to many aspects of the movie, despite it being in the Midwest and mostly about boys, and I was a girl in north Georgia. The characters (kids) are pretty much my mom's generation, and my family was about as nuts as Ralphy's.
Despite being a deleted scene, Flash Gordon is still credited in the ending credits.
I hope someone can find the footage... I really want to see it, now. =)
Awww love that!
A Christmas story is apart of my history growing up an a family tradition to watch right on Thanksgiving until Christmas when I was a kid. Along with the Grinch cartoon, A miracle on 21st an Christmas vacation. I miss the old days before the digital age n Facebook ECT. When I was a kid I really thought a Christmas story was made back in the 30's 40's it looked so realistic as a kid watching it or just me! Thanks for your videos
Jean Shepherd labored for decades in late-night radio, spinning his tales and philosophical musings into the darkness for a loyal but limited audience. (He did some things on public television, and his magazine pieces were a thing for a while, but at heart he was a night-shift radio humorist.) He worked side-gigs, from doing his Saturday Night show at a Greenwich Village nightclub "live" on radio, to one-man shows at local high schools, several of which I attended back in the day. The success of "A Christmas Story" was his final reward, well deserved, his one claim to immortality. And I am happy for him, wherever he is out there in the eternal night. But although I listened to his radio show faithfully, for several years in my young teens, and read all of his books, honestly I only watched "A Christmas Story" once, and thought it was just "OK".
Well then that speaks well for the rest of his work!
@@LindaC616 Yes,he was a uniquely gifted humorist, and hard-working. I didn't mean to be hard on "A Christmas Story" -- I did like it, I'm just not crazy about it, as it falls somewhere in the middle of the various ways that Shepherd's work has been presented. A number of the Public Television specials, similarly based on his short stories with the same group of characters, were actually better in my opinion, but "A Christmas Story" does qualify as a "classic". Have a great Christmas!!
@@danmagoo you, as well! Happy New Year, too!
I remember listening to his broadcast from Chicago - Milkman's Matinee.
Dan Magoo,
I believe that Greenwich village nightclub was called “The Limelight.” Jean Shepherd would host a live show in that location on Saturday nights over WOR-710 AM.
I remember listening to the show one Saturday night with my brothers and we could hear my parents laughing in reaction to Mr. Shepherd’s hilarious stories as they sat in the audience.
Mr. Shepherd would often appear at several NJ colleges, including Princeton University and St. Peter’s College. He often poked fun at the great Garden State, commenting on the “aesthetic beauty of Route 22” and how, when he was a young WW II Signal Corps soldier, stationed at Fort Monmouth, he and his buddies tried to pick-up girls on the paddle-boat ride on the lake between Ocean Grove and Asbury Park on the beautiful NJ shore.
In fact, Mr. Shepherd lived in New Jersey for many years while he hosted his nightly show over WOR. Mr. Shepherd was one of our nation’s great humorists.
Requiem aeternam, Mr. Shepherd.
The lamp is from the Nehi (knee high) soda company.
Thanks Radar O'riley
This movie was released when I was like 3 weeks old, and even though it's set in the 40s/50s, this was so 80s and brings me back to my childhood everytime I watch it! And for the last 20 years or so, it plays on every one of my family members TVs when I visit on Christmas Eve or Christmas day. This movie is the #1 Christmas movie of all time imo.
Every little boy has had fantasies like Ralphie. I think thats where a lot of the love comes from. People can relate to it looking back to their own childhood.
why didn't Netflix add this movie to their THE HOLIDAY MOVIES THAT MADE US series?
Ted Turner bought the broadcast rights back in the 90's when they were cheap. He probably wanted too much money
Because they’re Netflix.
@Shagga Or "PC", but we know what you mean. I love how South Park did a whole episode-spoof of Netflix - 'Anything goes, no movie idea rejected'.
It didn't have any real degeneracy, swearing, culture bashing, or trans representation . = NETFLIX USELESS
Why would Netflix knowingly promote a traditional, in tact family, especially one where father is a male who works and mother, who is not only female, but also stays at home? Then there’s the BB gun - Netflix only promotes unhealthy gun culture ... the kind with cartoonish, over-the-top, gratuitous violence. This movie is as misaligned with Reed Hastings’ Orwellian values as possible for a Christmas film, except for perhaps “The Story of Christ.” LOL
watching a christmas story is a tradition for my family! every year we turn on the channel that plays it on repeat for 24 hours (TBS) and quote it throughout the days. my aunt also loves to find a christmas story wrapping paper and all my gifts for years have been wrapped in different patterns of a christmas story wrapping paper
It’s becoming a tradition, watching Ralphie in the background all Christmas Day. 😀🎅🏼🎄☃️
Remember when it used to loop on Thanksgiving weekend?
Now it’s looping on Christmas.
Same! The 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" started in 1997. I was 14 that Christmas. My family had it on the TV the entire day. Every Christmas we had it on. My mom passed away in 2017, but if she was alive, I believe she would still play it every year. I do put it on every year still. It's part of Christmas to have that in the background for the full day. It's not like most people who celebrate Christmas actually leave their house or their relatives' house on Christmas Day. It's the perfect day to have the TV on in the background.
Thanks Minty. I've seen this film multiple times, as it was one of my Mum's favorite x-mas films. She passed in March of this year & I take your making this clip, especially considering it's obscurity here in Oz, as the universes way of assuring me that mum was with us this x-mas. Thanks mate, love your work, both here & in general
2:07 " ... American TV personality and writer Jean Shepherd ... "
A slight correction: Although Shepherd did do some TV (primarily for Public Broadcasting Service), he was primarily a radio personality -- a late-night raconteur at WOR in NY City for 22 years (1955-1977). TONS Of his broadcasts are available on TH-cam. Give 'em a listen ... he was quite the storyteller!
Meanwhile, thanks for covering A Christmas Story ... probably one of my all-time faves!
The Wizard of Oz characters are shown in the visit to Santa at Higbee's scene. That movie was released in 1939, so that's the earliest year that the story could have taken place. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, so the downtown Christmas parade would have been drastically different in 1941 during wartime. So I figure the story is set in 1939 or 1940.
Yes, it's set in 1939
I always thought it was set in the 50's. Nobody knew what a Zeppelin was until WW2.
The police car in the film is a 1948 Chevrolet Stylemaster.
The background music, "Jingle Bells" with Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters was recorded in 1943.
@@larrymcclain8874 It had to be set in the 50's. Look at the attire of some of the characters, especially Little Randy's "spaceman" snowsuit and the extra in line that talks to Ralphie while waiting to see Santa. Could you imagine someone in the 30's or 40's wearing what that kid had on in that scene?
The actor who played Ralphie played one of the elves in Elf. I thought that was awesome!
That's because its a Jon Favreau movie....he has small parts in several of his movies ☺️
And he also in the MCU As a stark industries Engineer technician He was in the 1st iron man movie all the way to spider man far from home Where he andIn the bunch of ex stark Industries Employees Are in cahoots with Mysterio.
He also directed Couples Retreat(2009) with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau...He was also the ticket seller at the airport in Four Christmases(2008) starring Vince Vaughn....He must be real life friends with Vince and Jon Favreau
I need to watch them again. To keep an eye out. 😁 Happy Holiday's y'all
@@BassSlapper89 same here and merry Christmas.
I watch it a million times every Christmas and still never gets old
Its not xmas till you watch this xmas morning!
8:10 mentions Wizard of Oz which came out in August 1939 so this film has to be set during Christmas 1939 or the 1940s.
Nope more the 60's the wizard of OZ is played here every year & it was our families yearly movie to watch! As it was explained over & over its relevance as a 1st in cinema! The first color movie to be filmed!
If you look at the back of the Little Orphan Annie Badge as he's decoding the message, it says 1940 on it
What year are the cars ? I should know but I don’t
@@thomasmcdonald5887 The police car in the film is a '48 Chevrolet Stylemaster.
The background music, "Jingle Bells" by Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters was recorded in 1943.
" In a breach of etiquette, he skipped the double dog dare, and triple doged dare him, going straight for the throat !! "
That was the quote from the movie Minty, a " Triple Dog Dare "
Merry Christmas all, Peace