I love that sadistic smile on moms face as she strolls into the living room to "water her plants" , you can just see she is thinking, " this is it, I'm taking out that lamp" lol
@@brandonthomas3390 she broke it because The lamp was physically attracted and she got mad and battled with the lamp so out of cautiousness she did it maliciously
@@jenniferwills9752 It wasn’t even innocent she did it maliciously because she was jealous because the leg was physically attracted to everybody in the neighborhood and she was challenging a object for no reason
Fun Fact: Jack Nicholson was originally considered for the role of the old man, but Darren McGavin was given the role because let's face it, this was a role he was born to play.
That's right, plus I think Jack also wasn't available to play the old man, cause I think he was in the process of working on something else around that same time.
Jack Nicholson's a great actor but him in this role would've been way too distracting and out of place. Darren McGavin was perfect with his facial expressions, and his mannerisms that highlighted a tough but loving father.
This entire scene is perfection. I especially love the billowing black smoke after he hurries up the stairs when he hears the crash.... As if he knew exactly what it was
I love how when he calls her jealous, she immediately jumps to, "He doesn't see me as appealing as he does as that lamp" but then he does a complete 180 and says, "jealous because I WON. Pure gold.
2:08 Love how they have a train whistle blowing, because when this took place, railroads were everywhere, and steam locomitves were still a thing. Many people remember hearing the steam whistle as a kid.
@@keepcoolgames5896 It has to be a steam locomotive whistle. You can tell by the sound. Also noting that the movie takes place before WW2, we can reasonably assume it is a steam whistle because dieselization did not start to take place until after WW2. Diesel locomotives did exist, yes, but they were not as common as the steam locomotive.
I love the line, "you used up all the glue... on purpose"! Also, I am amazed at how the parents, who likely had Ralphie and Randy in their early 20's, manage to look like they are in their 60's instead of 30's.
I remember watching this movie in 1985 with my Dad, when it first premiered on HBO...I was 14 at the time, now I'm 47...and this is a huge holiday classic, loved by many. I never thought when I first saw it, that it would become such a huge classic, 35 years later.
"You were always jealous of this lamp." "Jealous of a plastic lamp?" "Jealous--jealous because I won." "YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE...ON PURPOSE!!!" HAHA, I love both those lines, and the inflections in Darren McGavin's voice when he delivers them. I watch this movie at least once every Christmas on TBS, and Mr. Parker is my favorite character in the whole film. (Remember too, that although he came across as a grouch, he was actually the one who got Ralphie the gun he wanted for Christmas.)
@@jalenmartin5129 Taps is what is played at a funeral in honor of the dead persons life. So the joke here is the dad was so devastated about the lamp breaking, he played taps.
Best line: *Mr. Parker* : "NODA FINGA!" *Narrator* : "Later that night, alone, in the backyard he buried it. Now, I can never be sure, but I thought that I heard the sound of Taps being played, gently." Darren McGavin was perfect in this role!!!
I love how innocent she acts at first then when he accuses her of being jealous she goes with the “That’s ridiculous! Jealous? Jealous of what?! That is... the most ugliest lamp I’ve ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE!!!” One of the best scenes in my opinion. 😂😆
1:34 That's ridiculous! Jealous, jealous of WHAT?? That is, the UGLIEST lamp I've ever seen in my ENTIIIRRREE LIFE!!" 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣 definitely one of the funniest lines in the movie. The mom doesn't get enough credit for her line deliveries in this movie. They're just too good!! 😂🤣
bloodyrose1985 Oh she did all right. I asked my sister if breaking the lamp was intentional or accidental and she said “Intentional, it was totally on purpose”. So sure it was no accident.
Well, i'm sure that if a woman saw her husband was paying more attention to a lamp, or other inanimate object, i'm sure she would brake it out of sheer hatred.
I guess he was too much excited to get the shade back on and was hoping the shade wasn't too strong to break the leg stand all over again. (Of course, he looked very excited once it was delivered to him and never like it to be turned off).
I thought the idea was that it looked like he taped it back together, and that's why it didn't hold up, because he couldn't find an open store to buy any glue.
Now that you mention it, I remember about 8 years ago, this kid made my GameCube fall. He didn't even bother picking it up and didn't apologize for what he did. His mother whooped his ass for it, cause she saw him do it. A few days later, it shorted out and died. But I was able save the memory card. Shortly after, I put it back into the box it came in and I buried it out Into the woods. The boys mother apologized for what he did and offered to pay me about a hundred dollars to buy a new one, I said "no need. I have a Nintendo Wii." Which I bought a few months earlier, Cause Wii plays GameCube. The boy was a friend of my nephews and I don't think they keep in touch anymore cause a few months after, they moved to Pittsburgh. Afterwards, my nephew told me he was glad they left cause he said the kid stole something of his. Which makes the kid a troublemaker. He broke my GameCube and stole from my nephew, so there you have it.
got those kinda people in this world who'd care less those kinda people or whomever ashame really is how u gotta meet them or know them or apart of somones life and they can't be removed from life itself or done a certain way in life for their lives anyone's lives to change or obliterated or somehow they the bad ones don't have to be even though of anymore becuase therd be no more problems becuase of that they wouldnt exist anymore, and no more trouble makers no more bad people no more anything but hopefully the day will come when that day comes where all bad kids bad older people or bad anything or any cruelty or any wronging doers or anything in any area any subject is all gone forever or corruption in the world or anywhere on this planet or in any states any or cities any at all or towns any towns or anywhere all gone one day or country that's my wish cuase its not needed its people like that that are trash and try to ruin lives or try ruin somones good decency somone use to have before anything happened before that shouldn'tve becuase its not needed AMEN to that one.
How he takes his gloves off to care for his lamp! Priceless!!! And how the lamp had on ripped hooker pantyhoes when he tried to fix it. Super priceless!!!
I always loved how the smashing of the lamp brought the old man out of his cursing flurry and barreling up the stairs. Like he somehow knew what happened before he saw it 😂
At 0:40, I bet Mrs. Parker was sardonically smiling and saying "Whoops!" as she knocked over the lamp. Then she put on an act of innocence when she heard the Old Man come in.
2:46 with as much dignity as he could muster, the old man gathered up the sad remains of his shattered major award. now, i couldn't be too sure, but i thought i heard the sound of taps being played gently.
Clearly, she broke the lamp on purpose. You can tell by how the leg part was shattered like a crushed egg shell in three different sections, literally looking like she picked it up and slammed it down on the table corner. Had she accidentally knocked it over, the most damage that lamp would have had is a bent shade bracket and maybe a broken top lightbulb.
The funniest part of the movie ever so I know what you're saying because I almost peed my pants cuz I could not quit laughing every time I watch that scene it really is freaking hilarious lol
That's true. I was thinking that too. Unless maybe the scene from 2:07-3:08 was probably like 30 minutes after he went out to go buy glue, and maybe he wasn't putting the glue on but, was just checking after 30 minutes to see if it was dry (I didn't see any glue in his hands where he looked like he was feeling the lamp to make sure the glue was dry) and before he put the shade on, the look on his face from 2:21-2:24 was like he was saying "oh good, it's dry, time to put the shade on." Unfortunately, maybe the lamp was too much broken that glue wasn't helping whether it was regular glue or super glue.
Shea Raven Are you sure it was tape since he told his wife to get the glue where she said that there was no more glue which caused him to step out of the house to go buy glue since him or his wife never mentioned about tape?
Shea Raven That's okay. I sometimes make mistakes when I watch TH-cam videos. But yes, I can see a little bit that a reflection looks like he put tape on the lamp. I can somehow tell he put glue on the lamp and not tape since from 2:07-2:18 he looked like he was feeling the lamp after putting glue by checking to make sure it was completely dry and from 2:21-2:24 the look on his face was like "it finally dried, it's time to put the shade back on." Unfortunately, the lamp was broken too much that glue or super glue wouldn't help.
I wonder what type of furnace they had. Was it a coal furnace or something? Also, I drove past the local liquor store last night & I saw that they once again had the leg lamp & even the wooden crate it came in on display in the front window.
A family controversy for years. I guess for years his father claimed his wife broke the lamp on purpose and she claimed she didn't. Well, only she knows the truth because no one but her saw how it happened. It might have been an accident but then again, she hated the lamp so she might've done it on purpose and tried to make it look like an accident.
My favorite bit is that when the Old Man's lamp falls apart. You can see the Mother just laughing to herself until he turned back to look at her hahaha. Only for him to look away again and then she just continues laughing hahahaha. That detail has always been one of my favorite scenes in this film hahahaha.
Took me YEARS to realize the continuity error in this scene. At 1:01 the leg is in at least four or five different pieces but then at 1:17 onward, the lamp is nearly intact but broken and cracked in different places.
As I was watching this movie on TBS this Christmas, I noticed that Mrs. Parker picks up her watering can as Mr. Parker is downstairs "fighting" the furnace. I don't know if she was planning to water he flowers before, but that part would imply that she knew exactly what she was doing.
It was a curious tension beginning to build in the house. Kids can tell this. And one night, just before supper, the old man was in the kitchen. I was downstairs in the basement. My kid brother was in the john - he spent a lot of time in the john. My mother was dusting, and she was humming away. Radio on top of the refrigerator was playing. We had this radio: white plastic case, it had tape on it, and an airplane dial. It had a hum. Bing Crosby was always singing "Sweet Leilani." My mother was always listening to that. I remember asking my mom one day, "What's a sweet leilani, Mom?" She says, "You wouldn't understand." I never did. She's dusting and the radio's playing. It was just a day like any other day. When all of a sudden, from the living room, we heard this tremendous crash. Every one of us knew instantly. _Instinctively,_ man knows when his world is changed. It's like the minute that the first bomb landed that the Hiroshima-man instinctively knew nothing would be the same after that. There was this crash. And for one brief instant, there was a kind of an electric air and the old man suddenly in the kitchen heard it and he yelled, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT??" And I heard him run down the hall into the living room. I came up from the basement. My kid brother came running out of the john with his pants off. And there it was, spread out all over the floor: the old man's major award. And my mother stood there amid all the wreckage with her dust cloth. And he took one look at it and says, "My god. You broke it!" My mother said, "Yes. I'm sorry." He looked her right in the eye. It was the first time I'd ever heard him talk like this and he said, _"You broke it. I know why you broke it. Because you're *jealous!*"_ She says, "Jealous? Jealous of what? Ridiculous lady's leg?" And he says, "No! You're jealous because *I won.* ... Where's the glue?" She says, "We're out of glue." And he says, "God dammit." And he ran out of the house, jumped in the car, and you could always tell the attitude of the old man at any given time by the way he drove the car. We had this fourth-hand Oldsmobile, an Oldsmobile Rocket 98. He stepped on that baby and then first you could feel the gravel hit the front of the house. He was gone. Ten minutes later he came back with two great big tubes of glue, the kind of glue that they used to glue together exploded locomotives. Then he squatted down at the kitchen table and he started to glue that thing together. And he never got it glued together. It didn't work. And finally, he got up. Walked out to the back porch and dropped the whole thing in the wastebasket. Came back and sat down and started to read the sport page. They never mentioned it again. But nothing was ever again the same in our family. Everything was changed after that.
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I love that sadistic smile on moms face as she strolls into the living room to "water her plants" , you can just see she is thinking, " this is it, I'm taking out that lamp" lol
Yes!! It was so clear that she was up to something.
@@brandonthomas3390 she broke it because The lamp was physically attracted and she got mad and battled with the lamp so out of cautiousness she did it maliciously
More like innocent
@@jenniferwills9752 It wasn’t even innocent she did it maliciously because she was jealous because the leg was physically attracted to everybody in the neighborhood and she was challenging a object for no reason
She’s like, “now’s my chance.”
I like how you see the mother snickering behind his back when it falls apart again XD
I noticed that on Christmas Eve.
So easy to spot it.
The way the old man slowly looks at her makes it look like he wanted to kill her.
I know right because she hated that Lamp and the Dad is giving her a Dirty Look saying with his Body Language I'll get Even with you 😂🤣
Her best role next to the one in Close Encounters.
Fun Fact: Jack Nicholson was originally considered for the role of the old man, but Darren McGavin was given the role because let's face it, this was a role he was born to play.
That's right, plus I think Jack also wasn't available to play the old man, cause I think he was in the process of working on something else around that same time.
I agree Darren McGavin was stellar in this role, but I’d love to see that alternate reality where Jack Nicholson played the Old Man.
Jack Nicholson's a great actor but him in this role would've been way too distracting and out of place. Darren McGavin was perfect with his facial expressions, and his mannerisms that highlighted a tough but loving father.
Jack wanted twice as much money as they paid McGavin.
@@jongon0848 McGavin has the kind loving father look, Nicholson doesn't
The look on her face as he tries to put it back together... priceless
+Philip Holman I would break it again if he was able to fix it.
+Philip Holman I also loved the look on her face on the second film when she sees the lamp again.
That bitch was smirking!
You used up all the glue on purpose!
@@andrewcolinwilson1 A man would break another man's electric sex? What a feminine thing to say. 😂
This entire scene is perfection. I especially love the billowing black smoke after he hurries up the stairs when he hears the crash.... As if he knew exactly what it was
When i was a kid, it thought he did know.
He knew.
Yup, he was QUITE CERTAIN it was none other than his precious, treasured lamp.
LMAO no of course he knew. Dad's always know but there's a grain of disbelief hoping it was something else 😂
Accusing her of using up all the glue on purpose is the best thing ever 😂🎄
As much as this movie is overplayed to death around Christmas, it's still fantastic.
It's overplayed for those who missed it at various times of the day so they can be catch the next showing.
I love how when he calls her jealous, she immediately jumps to, "He doesn't see me as appealing as he does as that lamp" but then he does a complete 180 and says, "jealous because I WON. Pure gold.
And her quick retort: “Jealous?!! Who do you think you’re kidding, buddy? That is, by far, the UGLIEST lamp I have EVER seen in my ENTIRE LIFE!!!”
I laughed my ass off when he said “you used up all the glue ON PURPOSE” XD
My favorite lmaoooo
"That is the ugliest lamp I have ever seen in my entire life!"
His face! HAHAHAHAHA
MichaelCasanovaMusic Now it was out.
***** Not a finga!
get the glue!
Disney Guardian We're out!
Jealous? Jealous of WHAT?
1:52 "You used up all the glue on purpose!"
NOT A FINGA!!
HAHA! I love the way he says that, especially "...on purpose!" at the end.
Billy Hennigan XD of course she did
"Grud dumb fruttin' hosticle fifer!" " You platypus snodgraffer!" "You snordpunga lay munga snaffa sillCACA!!!" Ralphie's dad ROFL
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my sister always heard platypus nut grabber either way I'm in legit tears
When Ralphie beat up the bully, he cussed like his Dad did with the coal furnace! LOL!!!
You mundane noodle!
@@nostalgia6578 lol he said something like "you Thornton no good damn nothin. Bang Gump stinkin crisp"
🤣🤣🤣🤣...😂...🤣🤣🤣🤣
2:08 Love how they have a train whistle blowing, because when this took place, railroads were everywhere, and steam locomitves were still a thing. Many people remember hearing the steam whistle as a kid.
And there are several that still survive today in fact if this is Indiana it might have been on the B&O
Love trains 🚆
Man I hear that stir all the time lol MAD trains around me. Dunno if it’s still a ‘steam whistle’ probably not but it sounds like one
@@keepcoolgames5896 It has to be a steam locomotive whistle. You can tell by the sound. Also noting that the movie takes place before WW2, we can reasonably assume it is a steam whistle because dieselization did not start to take place until after WW2. Diesel locomotives did exist, yes, but they were not as common as the steam locomotive.
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory well I’m not about to argue with a historian
I love the line, "you used up all the glue... on purpose"! Also, I am amazed at how the parents, who likely had Ralphie and Randy in their early 20's, manage to look like they are in their 60's instead of 30's.
That’s what happened back then when people smoked like a chimney, breathed in coal all day, lived through 2 world wars and the great depression lol
That’s probably how the kids view them
@@spencerbrown3875 YES, That is a good insight. hehe
Best Christmas movie ever! lol XD
Best movie ever it is my 3 favourite movie of all time after phantom of the opera and titanic
That background music every time shit hits the fan throughout the movie
*"YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE **_ON PURPOSE!"_* XD
NOT A FINGA!
That, "jealous because I won," and "fra-gee-lay," are my favorite lines in the whole film.
Old Ralph: the old man stood quivering with furry stavering as he coming up with a real crusher all he got out was
1:52 LOL 🤣
I bet she used the glue to make christmas cards🎄🎁
I remember watching this movie in 1985 with my Dad, when it first premiered on HBO...I was 14 at the time, now I'm 47...and this is a huge holiday classic, loved by many. I never thought when I first saw it, that it would become such a huge classic, 35 years later.
The way he emerges from the smoke is hilarious. This is one of my favorite scenes!
The look on his face at 1:12 is a solid sneer of revenge as if to say “How could you!” when he walks over to her.
I believe what the Old Man bellowed to his wife was "Butterfinger!!". LOL!!
If so, then he must have gotten it from Bart Simpson! Because nobody better lay a finger on his Butterfinger! #LOL
I always thought he said Not A Finger
Butta-fingah
@@michaelboyd2790 Found this online about A Christmas Story quotes.........“Naddafinga!”
He does indeed say “Not a finger!” implying “Don’t even TOUCH my lamp!(AGAIN!)
I don't what's more funnier in the scene, the lamp breaking or the dad yelling at the furnace using those weird words 😂
"You were always jealous of this lamp."
"Jealous of a plastic lamp?"
"Jealous--jealous because I won."
"YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE...ON PURPOSE!!!"
HAHA, I love both those lines, and the inflections in Darren McGavin's voice when he delivers them. I watch this movie at least once every Christmas on TBS, and Mr. Parker is my favorite character in the whole film. (Remember too, that although he came across as a grouch, he was actually the one who got Ralphie the gun he wanted for Christmas.)
Specially when he squeezes the lamp in anger that one gets me everytime.
That's Ridiculous Jealous Jealous of WHAT? THAT IS THE UGLIEST LAMP I EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!!
@@rosieasmrwhispererzephier7021 Now it was out.
@@nathanparsons1658 Get the Glue We're out of Glue
@@rosieasmrwhispererzephier7021 GAAH! YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE…ON PURPOSE!
"NOT A FINGA!"
What he meant to say was, "Bitch!, don't you move! I'll be right back! Don't you touch that lamp! Don't you to touch it not even a finger!"
@@jameshalleluyah8133 LOL
Good one! #LOL
Puts on the silly hat likes he jumping into an fighter plane.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love it how he just storms upstairs looking like he came out of WW2.
“I thought I could hear the sound of taps being played”
Gets me every time
What exactly did he mean by that?
@@jalenmartin5129 Taps is what is played at a funeral in honor of the dead persons life. So the joke here is the dad was so devastated about the lamp breaking, he played taps.
RIP Mrs Parker. You will forever be iconic.
It’ll soon be a year since she died(it’s two days before Christmas 2023 as I post this comment.)
Best line:
*Mr. Parker* : "NODA FINGA!"
*Narrator* : "Later that night, alone, in the backyard he buried it. Now, I can never be sure, but I thought that I heard the sound of Taps being played, gently." Darren McGavin was perfect in this role!!!
+sportsygirl8 He was also great on the movie Billy Madison. Unfortunately, he passed away. May he rest in peace.
"YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE ON PURPOSE!!!!"
lol the mother is soo funny just love her
She really is funny and hilarious the best Christmas comedy movie ever! love it
They picked the absolutely best actors for this movie
Lmao at how she plays all innocent at first until he accuses her of being jealous and then she let's it all out 😂
I love how innocent she acts at first then when he accuses her of being jealous she goes with the “That’s ridiculous! Jealous? Jealous of what?! That is... the most ugliest lamp I’ve ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE!!!”
One of the best scenes in my opinion. 😂😆
Holy hell the old man cursing at the furnace in the beginning of this clip!😂😂😂
RIP to Petty Legend Melinda Dillion she totally did that shit on purpose gotta love it😂
I love that he takes his gloves off to hold his precious lamp.
1:39 His expression when she calls his prized possession "ugly" 😂😂😂
Sad to see Mom & Dad get in a fight
He's like : '' Hey! Don't you call it ugly!''
1:34 That's ridiculous! Jealous, jealous of WHAT?? That is, the UGLIEST lamp I've ever seen in my ENTIIIRRREE LIFE!!"
😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣 definitely one of the funniest lines in the movie. The mom doesn't get enough credit for her line deliveries in this movie. They're just too good!! 😂🤣
Now it was out..
@@coolestvideoproductions7375
Get the glue!
@@jediindyfan98 we’re out of glue.
@@coolestvideoproductions7375 BRAUGHHHHH!!!!! GRAAAHHH!!!! YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE ON PURPOSE!!!!
@@jediindyfan98 The old man stood quivering with fury stammering as he tried to come up with a real crusher, only get out was
He loved that lamp more than his wife!!!
That was for sure!
Wouldn't be surprised if she broke it on purpose
bloodyrose1985 Oh she did all right. I asked my sister if breaking the lamp was intentional or accidental and she said “Intentional, it was totally on purpose”. So sure it was no accident.
Ronald Likens yeah man, and he was acting as if she murdered someone.
No shit!
Oh man, I love this scene! He is furious with her! I love the look he gives her at the end. Like, "Okay, you won this time.
You shouldn't have broken your husband's lamp, Mrs. Parker.
@@andrewcolinwilson1 why shouldn't she? The old man loved that lamp more than he loved his wife and that's not right.
I always wondered if the Darren McGavin’s furnace-fighting dialogue was scripted or if he just improvised. It’s genius either way!
his nonsensical rants when fighting the furnace were 100 percent ad-libbed. Darren McGavin was a genius.
The dramatic music when it breaks as he puts the shade on is priceless
"NOT A FINGAH!!!"
bahahahahha
uNVme130 i always thought he was saying buttah fingah!
I love how the explosive bang from the furnace doesn't hardly faze anyone in the house
RIP 🙏 Melinda Dillon.
She totally broke that lamp on purpose!
She probably did since she said that it was the ugliest lamp ever.
***** Yes, she probably poured all of it away just so she could break it and he couldn't put it back together.
Yeah, obviously.
I have to agree with you on that.
Agreed
What I find weird is that the lamp made a shattering sound when it broke like it was made of glass, but the lamp was plastic.
I thought the same .
The logic in Christmas films make the best sense.
It had to make some kind of sound to lure the old man. Otherwise, he might have blamed Ralphie or his brother.
Light bulb
Yeah that always bugged me.
His wife is back there trying to fight back laugher LOL
I bust out laughing every time that lamps falls apart!
Shouldn’t he wait until the glue dries up?
She really hated that lamp...
Well, i'm sure that if a woman saw her husband was paying more attention to a lamp, or other inanimate object, i'm sure she would brake it out of sheer hatred.
That bitch
Another thing to notice that she was being very passive aggressive.
Disney Guardian well men let their wives have vibrators
CyrusCyberdog Cyroi ralphie was like now it was really out now
All the old man had to do was let the glue dry
I guess he was too much excited to get the shade back on and was hoping the shade wasn't too strong to break the leg stand all over again. (Of course, he looked very excited once it was delivered to him and never like it to be turned off).
LordFuzzy32 Several people have commented that no matter what the lamp was too broken to fix.
Either that or maybe it wasn't the right type of glue.
But she used up all the glue on PURPOSE!
I thought the idea was that it looked like he taped it back together, and that's why it didn't hold up, because he couldn't find an open store to buy any glue.
This how I'll feel if someone break my ps4
Now that you mention it, I remember about 8 years ago, this kid made my GameCube fall. He didn't even bother picking it up and didn't apologize for what he did. His mother whooped his ass for it, cause she saw him do it. A few days later, it shorted out and died. But I was able save the memory card. Shortly after, I put it back into the box it came in and I buried it out Into the woods. The boys mother apologized for what he did and offered to pay me about a hundred dollars to buy a new one, I said "no need. I have a Nintendo Wii." Which I bought a few months earlier, Cause Wii plays GameCube. The boy was a friend of my nephews and I don't think they keep in touch anymore cause a few months after, they moved to Pittsburgh. Afterwards, my nephew told me he was glad they left cause he said the kid stole something of his. Which makes the kid a troublemaker. He broke my GameCube and stole from my nephew, so there you have it.
got those kinda people in this world who'd care less those kinda people or whomever ashame really is how u gotta meet them or know them or apart of somones life and they can't be removed from life itself or done a certain way in life for their lives anyone's lives to change or obliterated or somehow they the bad ones don't have to be even though of anymore becuase therd be no more problems becuase of that they wouldnt exist anymore, and no more trouble makers no more bad people no more anything but hopefully the day will come when that day comes where all bad kids bad older people or bad anything or any cruelty or any wronging doers or anything in any area any subject is all gone forever or corruption in the world or anywhere on this planet or in any states any or cities any at all or towns any towns or anywhere all gone one day or country that's my wish cuase its not needed its people like that that are trash and try to ruin lives or try ruin somones good decency somone use to have before anything happened before that shouldn'tve becuase its not needed AMEN to that one.
@@emgemg5017 Amen
Those little bastards!
That is the worst game console I have ever played in MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!
How he takes his gloves off to care for his lamp! Priceless!!! And how the lamp had on ripped hooker pantyhoes when he tried to fix it. Super priceless!!!
What happened next was a family controversy for years
The first time I saw this film I nearly wetyself laughing...and I fell in love with it!
R.I.P Leg Lamp.
Damn onions.
I forgot about that one.
😭😂😂
For about 29 years.
lol 😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Plus i love it when ralphie's dad says motherfinger!!😅😆💖 especially the qoute grum house sickle viper!!!!
He said NOT A FINGA! 😂
I always loved how the smashing of the lamp brought the old man out of his cursing flurry and barreling up the stairs. Like he somehow knew what happened before he saw it 😂
She broke his leg 😂
Old man: MY LEG!!!!
Mrs. Parker: That is the ugliest lamp I have ever seen in my entire life
Me: Oh, shots fired
At 0:40, I bet Mrs. Parker was sardonically smiling and saying "Whoops!" as she knocked over the lamp. Then she put on an act of innocence when she heard the Old Man come in.
One of the greatest scenes in motion picture history.
NOT A FINGER!!!
2:46 with as much dignity as he could muster, the old man gathered up the sad remains of his shattered major award. now, i couldn't be too sure, but i thought i heard the sound of taps being played gently.
is the last part what i think it is? its so weird its not mentioned anywhere.
@@someiraniandudez5886 yes, the old man held a funeral for his lamp.
@@MegaMelodytime That's not... what I mean :( This is seriously bothering me...
Clearly, she broke the lamp on purpose. You can tell by how the leg part was shattered like a crushed egg shell in three different sections, literally looking like she picked it up and slammed it down on the table corner. Had she accidentally knocked it over, the most damage that lamp would have had is a bent shade bracket and maybe a broken top lightbulb.
And she was laughing in the background when he tried to glue it back and it fell apart
“Get the glue.”
“We’re out of glue.”
“HEEEEAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!”
I love how they play the same music whenever something bad happens!! 😂😂
You're right! They do!
1:38 - 1:43 That is the ugliest lamp I've ever seen in my entire life! LOL, this made me laugh.
The funniest part of the movie ever so I know what you're saying because I almost peed my pants cuz I could not quit laughing every time I watch that scene it really is freaking hilarious lol
“He buried it next to the garage”
"Now I could never be sure but I thought that I heard the sound of taps being played, gently".
The father is the best character in the movie.
You gotta admit, the way Darren McGavin played this scene out was as if his wife had murdered his mistress
I love how mom is trying not to laugh through the whole time dad is trying to fix the lamp
Exactly why I thought she did it on Purpose
@@robertrodriguez787 Oh she did it on Purpose. she pushed the lamp right off the table. lol.
Him talking shit in that basement has me dead especially when he runs up the stairs like the devil or some shit lmao
love the battle music when he walks in lmao love this movie 1:06
After Mr. Parker left with the broken lamp, Mrs. Parker was obviously laughing her ass off lol!
Love this holiday movie 🎬
2:33 Wait for the glue to dry before putting the shade back on, silly goose!
That's true. I was thinking that too. Unless maybe the scene from 2:07-3:08 was probably like 30 minutes after he went out to go buy glue, and maybe he wasn't putting the glue on but, was just checking after 30 minutes to see if it was dry (I didn't see any glue in his hands where he looked like he was feeling the lamp to make sure the glue was dry) and before he put the shade on, the look on his face from 2:21-2:24 was like he was saying "oh good, it's dry, time to put the shade on." Unfortunately, maybe the lamp was too much broken that glue wasn't helping whether it was regular glue or super glue.
@afriendofbean He used tape not glue!
Shea Raven Are you sure it was tape since he told his wife to get the glue where she said that there was no more glue which caused him to step out of the house to go buy glue since him or his wife never mentioned about tape?
@afriendofbean idk lol I was caught in the moment . This movie is so old too it might have been like a reflection i saw in the window.
Shea Raven That's okay. I sometimes make mistakes when I watch TH-cam videos. But yes, I can see a little bit that a reflection looks like he put tape on the lamp. I can somehow tell he put glue on the lamp and not tape since from 2:07-2:18 he looked like he was feeling the lamp after putting glue by checking to make sure it was completely dry and from 2:21-2:24 the look on his face was like "it finally dried, it's time to put the shade back on." Unfortunately, the lamp was broken too much that glue or super glue wouldn't help.
I wonder what type of furnace they had.
Was it a coal furnace or something?
Also, I drove past the local liquor store last night & I saw that they once again had the leg lamp & even the wooden crate it came in on display in the front window.
The way he hisses "jealous because I WON" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was a major award 🤣🤣🤣
This is my favorite scene in this movie
Love this movie
This to me is the best scene in this movie!! Especially when the old man is cradling the lamp like a baby.
The way he's holding the lamp like it a family member
A family controversy for years. I guess for years his father claimed his wife broke the lamp on purpose and she claimed she didn't. Well, only she knows the truth because no one but her saw how it happened. It might have been an accident but then again, she hated the lamp so she might've done it on purpose and tried to make it look like an accident.
Don't forget the lamp itself was Fra-Gee-Lay
My favorite bit is that when the Old Man's lamp falls apart. You can see the Mother just laughing to herself until he turned back to look at her hahaha. Only for him to look away again and then she just continues laughing hahahaha. That detail has always been one of my favorite scenes in this film hahahaha.
Melinda Dillon starts LAUGHING!!!! at 2:35
I always thought it was odd that it was a plastic lamp but made a loud shatter when it broke as of it was made entirely out of glass or porcelain.
Took me YEARS to realize the continuity error in this scene. At 1:01 the leg is in at least four or five different pieces but then at 1:17 onward, the lamp is nearly intact but broken and cracked in different places.
Good catch bro after all these years I never noticed
As I was watching this movie on TBS this Christmas, I noticed that Mrs. Parker picks up her watering can as Mr. Parker is downstairs "fighting" the furnace. I don't know if she was planning to water he flowers before, but that part would imply that she knew exactly what she was doing.
She was planning on it. She listened in on his swearing and fighting the furnace then she made her move.
YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE ON PURPOSE!
The Old Man stood quivering with fury, stammering as he tried to come up with a real crusher. All he got out was...
TIsaacs NOT A FINGAH!
LMAO!
2:35 Look at her. She’s laughing
0:41; the old man was probably like "That sounded like something breaking upstairs!"
"You know, I don't need this lamp."
This is definitely one of the best movies ever made!
Jealous of what. That is the ugliest lamp I've ever seen in my entire life lol 😂
Now it was out
lizardking02793 get the glue
Cody Wrasman We're out of glue
lizardking02793 ahh you use all the glue on perpous
the old man stammered, as he struggled to come up with a real crusher.
love the sound of it falling apart
This is y i love xmas cuz of this n family!
2:17 Mrs. Parker being a mood watching that futile attempt of Mr. Parker trying to repair the lamp knowing full well the glue wasn't dry. 😂😂😂
even if the glue did dry, the lamp was still beyond repair
Yes, it definitely was beyond repair.
Rip the closed captioning trying to reason out the old man's cursing
I remember watching it years ago on TBS and the captions simply said “@&$” or whatever symbol.
He buried the damn lamp....excuse me, sorry.....his major award lol
It was a curious tension beginning to build in the house. Kids can tell this. And one night, just before supper, the old man was in the kitchen. I was downstairs in the basement. My kid brother was in the john - he spent a lot of time in the john. My mother was dusting, and she was humming away. Radio on top of the refrigerator was playing. We had this radio: white plastic case, it had tape on it, and an airplane dial. It had a hum. Bing Crosby was always singing "Sweet Leilani." My mother was always listening to that. I remember asking my mom one day, "What's a sweet leilani, Mom?" She says, "You wouldn't understand." I never did.
She's dusting and the radio's playing. It was just a day like any other day. When all of a sudden, from the living room, we heard this tremendous crash. Every one of us knew instantly. _Instinctively,_ man knows when his world is changed. It's like the minute that the first bomb landed that the Hiroshima-man instinctively knew nothing would be the same after that. There was this crash. And for one brief instant, there was a kind of an electric air and the old man suddenly in the kitchen heard it and he yelled, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT??"
And I heard him run down the hall into the living room. I came up from the basement. My kid brother came running out of the john with his pants off. And there it was, spread out all over the floor: the old man's major award. And my mother stood there amid all the wreckage with her dust cloth. And he took one look at it and says, "My god. You broke it!"
My mother said, "Yes. I'm sorry."
He looked her right in the eye. It was the first time I'd ever heard him talk like this and he said, _"You broke it. I know why you broke it. Because you're *jealous!*"_
She says, "Jealous? Jealous of what? Ridiculous lady's leg?"
And he says, "No! You're jealous because *I won.* ... Where's the glue?"
She says, "We're out of glue."
And he says, "God dammit." And he ran out of the house, jumped in the car, and you could always tell the attitude of the old man at any given time by the way he drove the car. We had this fourth-hand Oldsmobile, an Oldsmobile Rocket 98. He stepped on that baby and then first you could feel the gravel hit the front of the house. He was gone.
Ten minutes later he came back with two great big tubes of glue, the kind of glue that they used to glue together exploded locomotives. Then he squatted down at the kitchen table and he started to glue that thing together. And he never got it glued together. It didn't work.
And finally, he got up. Walked out to the back porch and dropped the whole thing in the wastebasket. Came back and sat down and started to read the sport page. They never mentioned it again. But nothing was ever again the same in our family. Everything was changed after that.
2:08 There is a steam locomotive whistle, At the time this film came out some historic groups were running them for excursion use like Reading T1 2102
Also the NKP 765 and GTW 4070 etc were running trips.