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Once and only once.

none...it's stupid

Maybe once all the way through, then bits and pieces of it sporadically, on TBS during the 24 hours of A Christmas Story :)

@jsimsace: Are you commencing the reputation witch trials? If so, can I join you!?

Bot you giys are scrooges!
I love that movie!!! I'll watch it at least three times, then let it run on TBS. I love the part where Ralphie finally beats the snot out of the bully! Great scene!

I haven't popped in my copy yet, but I'm sure I will at least a couple times this week. Gotta have something to bring me joy while grading a few hundred writing assignments...

Then it might end up playing for at least a fair chunk of the day at my grandparents' house on Christmas morning, through the yearly marathon. It used to be turned on the moment we got there and not turned off until we left in the evening, but in recent years it doesn't get the same level of play.

I watch it in bits and pieces throughout the day on Christmas, catching what I can between breakfast, opening presents, the post-opening cleanup, and the "I got a remote control helicopter" aftermath.

@digger01: This is true about the vignettes. What resonates with me are the scenes with his dad...

1. the whole tire scene...they were technically tires: round, used to have rubber on them... (gosh, the # of times we got flats when I was a kid!)

2. the electrical wires & outlets, trying to plug in 20 things in one socket and having the fuse blow (again, in my house, especially with the xmas lights, every year!)

3. in a rage over something like the furnace in the basement, with the rest of us pretending we never noticed.

4. the scene where Ralphie says, um, "fudge." When I was little I used to see this F word on the sidewalk and asked sibs and friends about it. Noone knew what it meant but everyone said it was terrible though they couldn't say why. One evening, at the dinner table with parents & my 7 sibs, I thought I'd do the adult thing and ask, "What does fudge mean?" Holey moley! Was my dad pissed! (Naturally, he never did explain what it meant.)

I had a discussion once about why A Christmas Story resonates with so many people, and I decided it's because the actors aren't famous for being in any other movies. So it makes their characters much more real to us. In our minds, Ralphie actually IS Ralphie, not some kid named Peter Billingsley playing the role of Ralphie. Same goes for Ralphie's mom, Randy, Flick, Scut Farkus, the singing Chinese waiters, etc.

The only actor that I've recognized in other movies is Darren McGavin (Ralphie's dad)... and every time I see him I expect him to say "NADAFINGA!"