Annual "A Christmas Story" marathon

[flintlox]

Well, the annual 24 hours of "you'll shoot your eye out" madness is almost done on TBS. I noticed this year that Starz was running a 24 hour "Elf" marathon. Does anyone really watch over and over? Or is it just an excuse for those networks to do no real programming one day a year? Oh.....fudge.

 

[haole396]

Had it on for several years now, it's background noise while we wrap the presents. It actually helps, same thing over and over so you don't keep track of time.

 

[Rollin Bonz]

A Christmas Story is tradition at our house. It's usually background noise for us during present opening Christmas morning. Used to loop while "Santa" was delivering and putting together gifts for our girls. Little trivia for you... The guy that plays Ralphie has an uncredited role in Elf (which we enjoy too). He plays the elf supervisor in an early scene that asks Buddy how many etch-a-sketches he has put together. My favorite scene is when Ralphie gets his little orphan Annie decoder ring... cracks me up EVERY TIME!

 

[flintlox]

Didn't know that Peter Billingsley had that role in Elf. Cool bit of trivia.

 

[Bucket99]

Ovaltine? LOL

 

[flintlox]

FWIW, I saw the 2012 sequel for the first time this year, and it was horrible. They tried too hard to make it like the original, and it fell flat. Every bit of camp that made the original memorable was overdone in the sequel. Sometimes they just need to leave well enough alone. Actually, most of the time that's true.

 

[stonecole]

Watched it once all the way through but yes I've been seeing additional scenes all day

 

[DMGun]

I like that movie, but I think the full Christmas Vacation is about the best / funniest movie there is...

 

[Rollin Bonz]

Ovaltine? LOL

Lol

"A crummy commercial?" And we witness the death of childhood innocence...

 

[Hayata]

We went to tune into the marathon and it was 15 minutes from ending...dang it!