'Tis the season for great movies

I've already mentioned my love for Christmas carols - so now, with only two sleeps to go before the Big Day, it's time to admit my love of schmaltzy Christmas movies.

I love the classics like It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (the original, of course), The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and more recent movies such as The Muppet Christmas Carol (best.Dickens.ever), Love Actually and Die Hard (what? it's set during Christmas!). But this is my all time favorite:



It just has so many wonderful lines! How could anyone not love this movie?


Mr. Parker: What is the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse?
Mother: Ah... Victor! His name is Victor.
Mr. Parker: How did you know that?
Mother: Everybody knows that!

Ralphie: Oooh fuuuuuuudge!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word. The big one. The queen-mother of dirty words. The "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
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Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word?
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.


Mr. Parker (reading a word on the lamp box): Ahh..."fra-GEE-lay." That must be Italian!
Mother: No honey...I think that says "fragile."


Ralphie: I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.
Just about everyone at one point or another: You'll shoot your eye out, kid!


But the narrator gets all the best lines:

"Downtown Hohman was prepared for it's yearly bacchanalia of peace on earth and good will to men."

"Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man."

[diving into the Christmas gifts] "We plunged into the cornucopia quivering with desire and the ecstasy of unbridled avarice."

"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."

"Every kid, at the back of his mind, vaguely but insistently, believes that he will be struck blind before his 21st birthday. And then they'll be sorry."

"My old man's spare tires were only actually tires in the academic sense. They were round and had once been made of rubber."

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Seriously, how often do you hear the word "bacchanalia" in a Christmas movie? (Or any movie, for that matter.) Love it!