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* BeamMeUpScotty: The secret message didn't actually say "Drink More Ovaltine" as is commonly repeated. The actual message was "Remember to drink your Ovaltine". Same general vibe but different wording.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: The secret message didn't actually say "Drink More Ovaltine" as is commonly repeated. The actual message was "Remember "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine". Same general vibe but different wording.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: The secret message didn't actually say "Drink More Ovaltine" as is commonly repeated. The actual message was "Remember to drink your Ovaltine". Same general vibe but different wording.
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** In 2022, [[Creator/{{Epix}} [=ScreenPix=] Action]] did a nice little meta-joke about this by running a 24-hour marathon of Creator/BobClark's ''other'' Christmas movie, ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', on Christmas Eve.
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** In 2022, Recently, [[Creator/{{Epix}} [=ScreenPix=] Action]] did has done a nice little meta-joke about this by running a 24-hour marathon of Creator/BobClark's ''other'' Christmas movie, ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', on Christmas Eve.
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* SequelGap: The original came out in 1983. The sequel came out twenty eight years later. The upcoming sequel will come out ten years after the first sequel.
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* SequelGap: The original came out in 1983. The sequel came out twenty eight years later. The upcoming sequel will come {{Film/A Christmas Story Christmas}} came out ten years after the first sequel.
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* MarathonRunning: Every year, Creator/{{TBS}} runs the movie for twenty-four hours solid, beginning at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The marathon originated on Creator/{{TNT}} in 1997, and remained on the network until 2004, when it moved to TBS (though one year, the marathon was bizarrely aired by Creator/USANetwork, a non-Turner network). The film returned to TNT in 2014, running an hour ahead of another marathon on TBS so that the movie would start on one or the other at the top of every hour.
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** Every year, Creator/{{TBS}} runs the movie for twenty-four hours solid, beginning at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The marathon originated on Creator/{{TNT}} in 1997, and remained on the network until 2004, when it moved to TBS (though one year, the marathon was bizarrely aired by Creator/USANetwork, a non-Turner network). The film returned to TNT in 2014, running an hour ahead of another marathon on TBS so that the movie would start on one or the other at the top of everyhour.hour.
** In 2022, [[Creator/{{Epix}} [=ScreenPix=] Action]] did a nice little meta-joke about this by running a 24-hour marathon of Creator/BobClark's ''other'' Christmas movie, ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', on Christmas Eve.
** Every year, Creator/{{TBS}} runs the movie for twenty-four hours solid, beginning at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The marathon originated on Creator/{{TNT}} in 1997, and remained on the network until 2004, when it moved to TBS (though one year, the marathon was bizarrely aired by Creator/USANetwork, a non-Turner network). The film returned to TNT in 2014, running an hour ahead of another marathon on TBS so that the movie would start on one or the other at the top of every
** In 2022, [[Creator/{{Epix}} [=ScreenPix=] Action]] did a nice little meta-joke about this by running a 24-hour marathon of Creator/BobClark's ''other'' Christmas movie, ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', on Christmas Eve.
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** He also appears as the man waiting for Santa that tells Ralphie the line starts "back there".
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Creator/JeanShepherd's usual approach to his stories was LifeEmbellished, so while this story is fictional, the main characters are based on himself and his family--brother Randy, parents Jean Sr. and Anne, his second grade teacher Ruth Shields, and his childhood friends Jack Flickinger and Paul Schwartz.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Creator/JeanShepherd's usual approach to his stories was LifeEmbellished, so while this story is fictional, the main characters are based on himself and his family--brother people he knew growing up in Hammond, Indiana--his brother Randy, his parents Jean Sr. and Anne, his second grade teacher Ruth Shields, and his childhood friends Jack Flickinger and Paul Schwartz.
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** The upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel, ''A Christmas Story Christmas'', will be produced by a different crew not involved with the original film.
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** The specific BB Gun Ralphie wanted didn't exist; Jean Shephard had conflated several different models in his mind when he was writing the story. It exists now, though....
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* WrittenByCastMember: Jean Shephard, who co-wrote the script, appeared in a voice-over role as the adult Ralphie.
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* WrittenByCastMember:Jean Shephard, who co-wrote Creator/JeanShepherd, writer of the original stories and co-writer of the script, appeared in a voice-over role as the adult Ralphie.
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** Toronto and Cleveland, OH stand in for 1940s Northern Indiana.
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** Toronto UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} and Cleveland, OH UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} stand in for 1940s Northern Indiana.Indiana (the house used for the exterior shots of the Parker house is still standing in Cleveland, with the parade scene and the Santa scene also done there; most of the interior shots were done in Toronto, plus a few outdoor scenes, while the school was actually in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls, about a two hour drive from Toronto).
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* FilmedStageProduction: Creator/{{Fox}} aired a live production of the Broadway musical adaptation in 2017. Three songs, including a short Music/BebeRexha music video that played before the musical proper, were added to the television version.
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* StudioHop: ''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'' are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros as a result of Creator/TedTurner purchasing the pre-May 1986 Creator/{{MGM}} (in which the original is distributed by) library through Turner Entertainment Co. in the late 1980s which was then acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* StudioHop: ''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'' are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros as a result of Creator/TedTurner purchasing the pre-May 1986 Creator/{{MGM}} (in which the original is distributed by) library through Turner Entertainment Co. in the late 1980s which was then acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* ColbertBump: The film's popularity inspired the Daisy Rifle Company to start producing Red Ryder BB guns for sale during the UsefulNotes/Christmas season, becoming one of their best-selling rifles.
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* ColbertBump: The film's popularity inspired the Daisy Rifle Company to start producing Red Ryder BB guns for sale during the UsefulNotes/Christmas Christmas season, becoming one of their best-selling rifles.
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* ColbertBump: The film's popularity inspired the Daisy Rifle Company to start producing Red Ryder BB guns for sale during the UsefulNotes/Christmas season, becoming one of their best-selling rifles.
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** Similar to the first sequel, ''Film/ItRunsInTheFamily'', ''A Christmas Story 2'' had the film entirely recast due to the original cast having grown too old to reprise their roles, since the film is set 6 years after the original film.
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** Similar to the first sequel, ''Film/ItRunsInTheFamily'', ''A Christmas Story 2'' had the film entirely recast due to the original cast having grown too old to reprise their roles, since the film is set 6 six years after the original film.
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** The film's first sequel, ''A Christmas Story 2'', had none of the cast and crew involved from the original film.
** The upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel, ''A Christmas Story Christmas'', will be produced by a different crew not involved with the original film.
** The film's first sequel, ''A Christmas Story 2'', had none of the cast and crew involved from the original film.
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* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros. due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros. Creator/WarnerBros due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, library in the late 1980s, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/{{WarnerBros.}} due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/{{WarnerBros.}} Creator/WarnerBros. due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/{{Warner Bros.}} due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/{{Warner Bros.Creator/{{WarnerBros.}} due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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** Hungary and the Republic of Bulgaria will fill in for 1970s Northern Indiana for the upcomimg Creator/HBOMax sequel.
* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/{{Warner Bros.}} due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
* ChannelHop: The original film was distributed by Creator/{{MGM}}. The films subsequent sequels (''A Christmas Story 2'' and the upcoming ''A Christmas Story Christmas'') are distributed by Creator/{{Warner Bros.}} due to the rights of the original film being acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Creator/TedTurner purchased MGM's pre-May 1986 film library, which were later acquired by Time Warner (Warner Bros. parent company) in the late 1990s.
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* RoleReprise: Creator/PeterBillingsley, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz, R. D. Robb, and Zack Ward will reprise their roles as Ralphie Parker, Randy Parker, Flick, Schwartz, and Scut Farkus in the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel.
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** Creator/JulieHagerty will replace Creator/MelindaDillion in the role of Mrs. Parker in the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel.
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** Similar to the first sequel, ''Film/ItRunsInTheFamily'', ''A Christmas Story 2'' had the film entirely recast due to the original cast having grown too old to reprise their roles, since the film is set 6 years after the original film.
** Creator/JulieHagerty will replace Creator/MelindaDillion in the role of Mrs. Parker in the upcoming Creator/HBOMax sequel.
** Similar to the first sequel, ''Film/ItRunsInTheFamily'', ''A Christmas Story 2'' had the film entirely recast due to the original cast having grown too old to reprise their roles, since the film is set 6 years after the original film.
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* SequelGap: The original came out in 1983. The sequel came out twenty eight years later.
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** He also appears as the man waiting for Santa that tells Ralphie the line starts "back there".
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* AnachronismStew: A costume example. The movie is set in the 1940's, but the design of the Mickey Mouse mascot costume seen in the Christmas parade was first debuted in 1962.
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** Apparently no one told Melinda Dillon that the waiters in the Chinese restaurant were going to bring in a cooked duck - and then suddenly chop off its head with a meat cleaver! Her startled, tears-of-laughter reaction to the duck (first with its head, then without) is completely genuine.
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** Apparently no one told Melinda Dillon that the waiters in the Chinese restaurant were going to bring in a cooked duck - and duck--and then suddenly chop off its head with a meat cleaver! Her startled, tears-of-laughter reaction to the duck (first with its head, then without) is completely genuine.
