Next to opening presents and passing out on the couch in a turkey-fueled haze, my favorite part of Christmas Day is watching A Christmas Story over, and over, and over again on TBS (DirecTV channel 247). Well-written, poignant, and uproariously funny, ACS will always be my favorite Christmas-themed movie -- mainly because of dialogue like this:
The Old Man [Reading the newspaper]: Did you hear about this guy who swallowed a yo-yo?
Mother: Swallowed a yo-yo?
TOM: Yeah, this clodhopper down in Griffin, Indiana.
M: There's the silliest things in the newspapers.
TOM: What do you mean "silly?" Tha-that's real news! That's not like that politics slop!
I'm gonna be watchin' A Christmas Story, and eating fried turkey, tomorrow; and then I'm gonna be out of town a few days (ducks aren't gonna shoot themselves). A Man's Gotta Eat will return Sunday, December 28.
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"Can you show mommy how the piggies eat?"
Heh heh, I love that movie.(It's a major award!") Broadcast TV used to show that and a bunch of other great Christmas movies, but not anymore! You have to have cable, or sat-ee-lite to get such exchanges as:
Mr. Parker: "Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian."
Mrs. Parker: "Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear."
Mr. Parker: "Oh, yeah."
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