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- "My Mother Must Have Gotten To Miss Shields." Adult Ralphie.
- "How About A Nice Football?" Santa Claus. When Ralphie's attempts to convince the other adults in his life to get him the BB gun fail, he sees the only option left is Santa.
- "He Looks Like A Deranged Easter Bunny." The Old Man. While Ralphie excitedly wakes on Christmas morning to find out if he got his dream present, he also has to contend with the less thrilling presents that are under the tree for him.
- "Meatloaf, Smeatloaf, Double Beetloaf. I Hate Meatloaf." Randy. Randy is less relatable as an actual character than what he represents — the ever-present, mostly annoying, and sometimes entertaining younger sibling.
Nov 30, 2023 · These classic movie quotes from 'A Christmas Story' and 'A Christmas Story Christmas' will make you feel oh-so-nostalgic this holiday season.
Oct 8, 2024 · Get into the holiday spirit with these 'A Christmas Story' quotes from characters like Ralphie Parker. Enjoy these quotes from 'A Christmas Story' year-round. We triple-dog-dare ya...
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Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters occur. – A Christmas Story (1983, dir. Bob Clark) “OK, folks, the granddady of ’em all, the big one, the queen mother of all Christmas movies – and a veritable cornucopia of yuletide ...
The writer is paramount. Taken from over 25 years of Christmas Eve broadcasts, the (mostly) fictionalized reminiscences of talk radio pioneer Jean Shepherd and (highly) fanciful accounts of his Depression-era upbringing in Northern Indiana continue to resonate anytime one mentions “leg lamp”, “Flick’s tongue”, or “Little Orphan Annie secret decoder...
Dreams are often better left unrealized. Close viewers of the next 90 minutes will note the dreamy expression on little Ralphie Parker’s face, brilliantly expressed by child actor Peter Billingsley. There are only two moments in this film where this blissful state isn’t almost immediately followed by crushing despair, and this is the first. The moc...
In the eternal struggle between kids and parents, kids are always on the losing end. Ralphie’s glum digestion of sad oatmeal evokes one of the cruel truths of childhood: a kid will never win. A kid can plot, cajole, plead, or scheme, but in the end a kid’s best efforts are wasted by a fundamental lack of control over his or her destiny. Furthermore...
…especially when the opponent is your mother. Though my own mother passed away almost 25 years ago, her airtight, inarguable logic will continue to haunt my own poor attempts at decision-making until I myself am no more. Like life itself, it simply is not fair that the bonds of motherhood are anchored in an irrefutable, unyielding rectitude. (It do...
Children inevitably become their parents. And more specifically: the weaker, usually male parent. To this day, speaking of myself, a steady stream of profanity will pour forth unbidden from quivering lips at the mildest provocation: lost keys, wrong directions, stubbed toe, whathaveyou. (A literal curse, moreover, that can apparently be traced alon...
If a kid won’t eat, it’s really not worth resorting to trickery. Bringing back vivid memories of my own younger brother, dressed dolefully in his Cub Scouts uniform, refusing to eat a bowl of chili into the late hours of the evening, I’m really glad in retrospect that my parents did not use some cheap ruse to get him to eat. Zach may have missed hi...
Life’s victories are not only small but absurd. On air or in the pages of Playboy, Shep’s Old Man’s misplaced enthusiasm over winning the famed Leg Lamp was heralded as “the birth of pop art”, but in A Christmas Storyis correctly contextualized as a brilliantly-lit blight on Cleveland Street. Shining brightly forth in its unutterable folly, the “so...
Disasters occur well beyond one’s ability to adequately cope with them. An eternal klutz myself, as is my own Old Man, it is tempting in all such situations to shift blame to fate, the elements, inadequate lighting, the clumsiness of others, or whathaveyou. Otherwise, though, and despite the dire consequences for a child of 9, it is often easier to...
Punishment rarely fits the crime. Though I had been familiar with this arcane treatment from a very young age, “washing your dirty mouth out with soap” was frequently threatened but never implemented as a child whose word choice was often more suited to the backroom of bars than a suburban household. If it had, however, cruel and unusual though the...
Oct 27, 2023 · The Best 'A Christmas Story' Quotes. A Christmas Story, a holiday classic directed by Bob Clark, features some of the most memorable quotes in cinema. Released in 1983, it stars Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Ian Petrella, and Darren McGavin and follows the adventures of Ralphie Parker (Billingsley), a young boy in the 1940s whose heart is ...
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Sep 24, 2024 · From classic films like “Miracle on 34th Street” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” to modern favorites like “Elf” and “Klaus,” there's no shortage of festive movies and Christmas movie quotes to keep...
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A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
