I've first discovered this movie on TBS during the part where Ralphie's mother punishes him by sending him to bed and her yelling at him not to give her that look
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Saw the tongue stuck on pole scene many years ago.
My parents watched it every year. I can't remember a Christmas where I didn't watch this movie.
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It came out in theaters when I was a kid but we didn't go see it. In December of 1984 HBO played it all month long and my brother and I pretty much watched it every time it aired. We practically memorized it. I have passed the love if this movie on to my kids. They even got me a can of Simonize for Christmas last year
share😊~ In the mid-late 80's I started watching on television every 🎄December or right after Thanksgiving🦃 . It's one of my favorite X-mas flick that I never get tired of watching.
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I really don't remember, but I watch it just about every year around Christmas. Saw half of it last night (DVD) and will watch the rest of it tonight! I love this film!!!
shareI was 20 when it came out. I never watched it, ever.
In 1998, I was working at a golf course in Phoenix on Christmas Day morning . It was dead. I had the whole day to just sit on my butt, occasionally answering the phone, but mostly watching TV.
Some of my buddies who worked there would come in from time to time throughout the morning and see how I was doing and wish me a merry Christmas. Nate, who was about 17 at the time, stopped by with some Christmas cookies for me, and asked me why I wasn't watching "A Christmas Story". I told him, I don't think I would like it.
He couldn't believe it.
He walked over to the TV, turned it to the show, and said, "you're going to watch this movie dammit, and you're going to love it". Then he left.
I watched it over and over until it was time to close the shop and go home. When I saw Nate the next day I pointed at him smiling and said, "you sonovabitch, you were right!"
From that day forward, I turn it on the minute it first airs on Christmas Eve, and leave the TV on until the very last second it airs on Christmas Day evening.
Thanks Nate!
I first discovered the movie at the beginning of the 90s on TV.
It was shown on a new founded German network (I'm German by the way).
It was really great and later on I recorded it on a video tape.
Interesting is, that today I totally love the movie. Even more than back in the 90s when I watched it as an 8 year old kid for the first time.
I also still own the video tape, which is round about 20 years old, because there is still no proper DVD release of the movie in Germany (which is really a shame!) and it wasn't shown on TV since 2002 over here. This is the reason almost nobody in Germany has ever heard about the movie (double shame!).
Funny is, that I later found out what a beloved classic it is in the States and that there is the TV marathon every year.
Which is awesome, because the movie totally deserves it.
For me, this is the best Christmas movie ever and one of my personal favorite movies of all time.
I have watched it every year a few days before christmas with my mother.
Sadly she passed away two months ago, so I will have to watch it alone this year and the next ones.
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It was around 1984 & I think it was the first airing on tv. I never saw it in theaters. I was about 9. I remember flipping through the channels and seeing it on. It was early in the movie, I can't remember what scene but I watched it and loved it. I remember the following year at my friends house we saw a commercial for it and I was so excited! She hadn't see it and told her how great it was. I remember us getting in a fight the night it reaired. She did not want to see it and me being a stubborn 10yr old told her that I was the guest and we were going to watch it. As she laughed at the movie I remember feeling happy that I was right. I knew she'd love it. lol For some odd I reason this sticks out in my mind every time I see the movie.
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As a kid I didn't even know that it was in the theaters. I can't remember which exact scene or channel it was but I first saw it on cable one day when I was watching tv after school. I was flipping channels and saw Peter Billingsley who I liked in other movies so I stopped and watched it. The more I think about it, I think it was the scene where they were walking home from school and ran into Scut Farkus. I was hooked right away and watched it until the end. I remember wanting to see it again from the beginning and then I eventually recorded it on VHS. My younger brother and sister also got into it and it soon became a tradition to watch the movie around Christmas. That was in 1986 and at the time, I thought it was a brand new movie. I had no idea that the movie was already 3 years old at that point. Now as an adult, I've visited the actual house in Cleveland, have the special edition version of the film on DVD and my wife bought me a mini leg lamp that I keep on my home office desk. A Christmas Story is a timeless classic and to this very day, I look forward to seeing it on the holidays.
share1986- my art/science teacher had it on VHS and showed it to us as we were doing our Christmas art projects.
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