Gremlins (1984) - Movie Reaction! First time watching!

[@crossbones13]

Gizmo was the precursor to Grogu in cuteness... Interesting fact: The town in Gremlins is the same town in Back To The Future. The theater that Billy blows up is the same theater that Marty races towards at the end of the first Back To The Future...

[@brom00]

Not just the theater but the entire main street.

[@pabloalbertocarrillotoledo8697]

I want a shared universe between this two

[@TwilightLink77]

@@pabloalbertocarrillotoledo8697 The closest would be Lego Dimensions despite the lack of Star Wars.

[@SebHighDef]

same backlot*

[@sapjap172]

"There just may be a gremlin in your house," as you slowly zoom in on Baby Yoda staring blankly at you.

[@brianstraight9308]

"Gremlin" was a term used in the real world by World War 2 soldiers, they were considered to be mischievous creatures who would cause problems and malfunctions in vehicles and equipment, played with here by the inventions never working right and the physical gremlins causing problems with equipment and things around town, like the old woman's chair lift. Made decades before "Furby", who was really a rip-off of the Mogwai. Great video, Marijchu!

[@patrickgogan3517]

Hence nightmare at 30000 feet in Twilight Zone

[@DCFCfanatic]

@@patrickgogan3517 Also the Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Gremlin trying to destroy the plane and the bomb in it and pestering Bugs the entire time. I think it's called 'Falling Hare'. and another Merrie Melodies short called Russian Rhapsody where Russian Gremlins try to take down a plane piloted by Hitler.

[@mikesmollin8908]

but in reality we were just blaming the rushed production of war planes with faults on a myth we just made up LOL America is always perfect

[@jp3813]

@@mikesmollin8908 That would imply that people actually believed in the existence of gremlins.

[@mikesmollin8908]

@@jp3813 so they became a myth because no one ever believed in them?

[@Jailem]

Gizmo voiced by Howie Mandel. Also the term gremlin was popularized during WW2, when if you were having a mechanical problem of any sort you would blame a gremlin.

[@ceeball]

I think the gremlins thing goes back further to WWI. But yea, blame a gremlin!

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@ceeball My dictionary says the origin was the 1920s Royal Air Force (Britain), so between the World Wars.

[@zarquondam]

When watching the scene where the mother knifes one, sticks another in the orange juicer, and sticks a third in the microwave, I thought: From the Gremlins' point of view, this is probably a horror movie about terrifying humans.

[@zarquondam]

I forgot Jonathan Banks was in this!

[@jp3813]

Debunked by what they did to the dog.

[@MovieswithMary]

Merry Christmas ❤️ 🎅

[@pabloalbertocarrillotoledo8697]

Merry Christmas, the man knew about gremlins because it was a real phenomenon reported on world warII, pilots and engineers reported unexplicable ruptures in machinery and blamed them on little goblins who they called like that.

[@jackthenarrator4735]

Happy jingle bells. 🔔

[@RowdyRuth]

Merry Christmas ♥️

[@JW666]

Merry Christmas =) You have a very cute accent ;) =)

[@ceeball]

Merry Christmas Mari.

[@rocketdave719]

My first exposure to Gremlins was actually via a series of illustrated storybook/record sets that related the plot of the movie. My dad collected all five of them from Hardee's for my siblings and me. I didn't see the movie until years later. I actually saw Gremlins 2 first.

[@NeelTheSphynx]

All the gremlins were practical in-camera puppets and animatronics. No CG here. Also Gizmo is voiced by Howie Mandel.

[@TheFairyintheFishBowl]

“I think I’d stay outside…under a LAMP! “ that made me laugh Mary! 😂😂😂

[@alanhembra2565]

Merry Christmas. Please watch “Groundhog day”. You’ll love it I saw Gremlins in the theatre and read the book for it. In the book it’s a slower build up with the gremlins not killing anyone until someone kills one of them.

[@rlam905]

I read the book too. I think I remember the old guy with the tractor survives in it and comes back to help Billy.

[@Drawkcabi]

Did any of you have the books with records that you got (I think) from Burger King. They put out one a week, if you got all 4 it told the entire movie. I had all 4, and read them and listened to the records before I even saw the movie. So I knew the whole story going in. Today, I'd be like "No! Keep those spoiler books away!!!" But back then, I was 9 years old, think it worked out best to prepare me. I loved the movie and wasn't scared at all ! As a comparison, Ghostbusters came out the next week, I went in knowing hardly anything and that movie scared the crap out of me!

[@nowthatisawesome5431]

You: “How does he know about them?” Answer: Gremlins are a common urban legend. Kind of like Big Foot, or the Loch Ness Monster. They were said to be creatures that break things and create havoc, mostly in machines. There was an episode in “The Twilight Zone” where a Gremlin was tearing up an airplane engine during flight, but only one man could see it through his window.

[@Kap00rwith2os]

Mari's reactions to this movie were hilarious! 😂 This idea of gremlins actually did really come out of WW2 when soldiers would blame unexplained airplane and other machine malfunctions on tiny creatures they called "gremlins". MELE KALIKIMAKA ("Merry Christmas" in Hawaiian 🤙 🎄)! I grew up in Hawai'i most of my life so my experience with Winter and Christmas was without snow. As an adult I saw and experienced it in person whe I traveled 🌨 ❄️☃️

[@ridleysaria]

I was 6 when this movie came out. I loved it. Movies like this were a big part of my childhood. I never did get that plush Gizmo I wanted.

[@jasonevans9805]

yes, theres a gremlins 2 which if i remember right is pretty good too, so worth a watch :)

[@rogerramon3151]

I loved Gremlins 2

[@Rocket1377]

It's really good. Very different from the first movie, it's basically a parody of the original, but that just makes it funnier.

[@Rocket1377]

I've watched lots of reactions to this movie, and nobody ever includes the punchline to Kate's Santa story. I know everything she says up to that point is extremely dark, but that's the point of the joke. She tells this really grim tale, and at the end you find out that Kate doesn't hate Christmas because her father died, she only hates Christmas because she found out that... Spoilers Santa wasn't real. 😁

[@taral2]

I'm Australian and saw snow for first time when I was 16 on a school bus trip to a mountain hours away, which used artificial snow for snowboarding etc. Most of the kids on our bus had never seen snow and were seeing it with me for the first time. Growing up seeing beautiful snowy Christmas on TV but having summer hot Christmas at home sucks haha. Love your content!

[@davidahmed7792]

Great reaction Marijchu! I saw Gremlins at the cinema in 1984 and there were no Furbies at the time. I think they were made approx. 10 years later, mid-nineties.

[@mielthesquid6536]

As a kid it was my introduction to horror, I was 8 when I saw it and was quite afraid but also totally into it. Funally enough the scene which I found the most scary was the cocoons hatching, lol, I don't know why.

[@ronb8500]

This was way before furbies.

[@michaelklaus]

Just to put some numbers on it: This movie came out 1984 while the Furby was released in 1998.

[@IggyStardust1967]

They did make Gizmo into a Furby, though. I have one, and yes, it does interact with regular Furbies. The Yoda(old) does not, though, despite being the same technology.

[@lmcgregoruk]

@@IggyStardust1967 I always thought the original Furbys were based on Gizmo, although they would hardly admit it for legal reasons, wasn't surprised when they took out an official Gizmo one.

[@adorkability]

Warner Brothers actually sued the makers of Furby and won a large settlement. And as part of the agreement Hasbro released a Gizmo "Furby".

[@3DJapan]

2:34 I've always had snow but I befriended some au pairs many years ago A couple were from South Africa and had never seen snow before. They were so excited the first time, then after 3 days they hated it. LOL

[@TearyEyesAnderson]

The part where Gizmo gets wet and then multiplies, is a lot like the creatures in the 1960's Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", when a alien creature begins multiplying so much it endangers a starship. The Star Trek episode also had a sequel in the Star Trek Animated series, in a episode titled "More Tribbles, More Troubles". Back to the Future, also was very similar to a Star Trek episode called "City on the Edge Of Forever" where the characters go back in time, and stop a woman from dying and accidentally change history, similar to "Back to the Future: Part III".

[@Pinkielover]

I haven't seen snow in 20 years and very happy I will never see snow unless I want to.. unless seeing snow on a mountain top from very far away counts as seeing snow.... I saw this in theater as a kid and gave me nightmares for months thanks to my older sister

[@lostintechnicolor]

You really need to watch the sequel. I think it’s funnier, more creative, and Gizmo is SO much more adorable in it. The puppets they made for Part Two are so much better looking and more believable.

[@mikhailbakunin8334]

"It seems she has no heart" hahahaha the Best "line"... And never forget to look under all the beds....

[@lurkerrekrul]

You didn't show it in this video, but when the father was in the phone booth at the inventors' convention, the robot standing behind him is Robby the Robot, who is probably the most famous fictional robot ever. He was built for the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, and all of the lines he speaks are from that movie. Robby only appeared in two movies, that and The Invisible Boy, but he has appeared in many TV shows, and even a few TV commercials. He was designed by the same guy who designed the robot for the classic Lost in Space TV show. Robby even appeared on two episodes of that show. Also, there is a guy in the background sitting in an ornate machine with a large disc on the back and when the scene cuts back, the machine is gone and people are looking at the empty space. That was the time machine from the 1960 movie The Time Machine.

[@oxhine]

'Gremlin' was a term popularized in World War II which referred to imaginary mischievous imps that would be responsible for disappearing objects, inexplicable mechanical failures and annoying mishaps. That's what Dick Miller's character was referring to, not the actual creature from the movie. That's why he was shocked to see one in the flesh! Director Joe Dante also directed the terrifying werewolf movie, "The Howling"! The graphic violence in the movie infuriated parents at the time since the movie was marketed to youngsters. The PG-13 rating was devised as a direct result of this film!

[@bigdream_dreambig]

I have heard the same thing said about two other Spielberg movies: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (PG, 1984) and Jaws (PG, 1975).

[@martinbraun1211]

The town-set of "Kingston Falls" is the same as that of "Hill Valley" in the "Back to the Future"-trilogy !

[@ojtheviking]

Fun fact: The original script for this was much more of a horror, and lots more deaths. For example the kitchen scene with the mother; she was originally going to die there, and when BIlly came home, her head would come rolling down the stairs. Not gonna lie, I am 100% a major horror buff, and love all things horror, but I'm honestly glad this one turned out the way it is, with more of a wholesome comedy feel mixed in. Kind of similar to Beetlejuice, which was also going to be more horror-like.

[@Imbatmn57]

In the movie commentary the producer noticed that the two kids with red hats looked like glue bottles, the actress who played kate also put the piece of sawdust on billy's shoulder so she could take it off during the scene.

[@crapstirrer]

We really don't get snow in Australia but I'm just happy 2020 didn't decide to set us on fire this Christmas.

[@crush41gb]

I always thought it was funny that the walking around in snow never counted as them getting wet and feeding after midnight would be anytime then .. also timezones lol.

[@edgarcia4794]

I remember it snowing once when I was a kid in the city of So-Cal I was born in. We got a whole inch and a half.The mountains and high desert get snow and the beach is the same distance travel time wise. The man who was talking about Gremlins in WWI was wearing a B-17 bomber jacket and served in the war.

[@lurkerrekrul]

I'm in New England and we usually get anywhere from 6-24 inches of snow. It seems like we used to get more when I was little though. Some years, we might not get more than 8 inches and it might only last a few days before melting. However back in February of 2013, we got about three feet of snow! I literally couldn't see where the street was. Luckily we were only snowed in for a day. The city didn't send out snow plows, they sent bucket loaders to clear a path down each street. It was like going down a trench.

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

I remember some bad blizzards back in the day in MD. Get snow where I live in Texas maybe once every 20 years or so. The recent big one we were burning 2 trees or more a day trying to keep warm at my father's place. He just replaced the heater not too long ago to a more efficient electric that just happened to be useless when ya need it most. Still had gas though for hot showers to warm up and hot food, but the high ceiling for the heat meant stacking blankets worked better than burning your toes. " It was like going down a trench" I do miss building snow castles like when I was a kid. Pack it high enough you start dreaming of making a second floor.

[@adamromero]

Gremlins was inspired by the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville alien encounter. The gremlins don't like light in the same way the witnesses said the aliens avoided bright lights.

[@3DJapan]

9:05 "gremlins" are kind of an old legend, every time something goes wrong with a machine they say gremlins did it. Like saying there are bugs in software.

[@peasant8246]

I love the facial expressions you are making whenever something happens :D

[@Drawkcabi]

I saw this in the theater with my mom and grandmother when I was 9-years-old. I loved it! Then I saw it again when it came back around to theaters the next year. I don't watch TV the way I used to, but when I did, there was always a channel playing Gremlins around Christmas. Merry Christmas!!!

[@BubblyRainbows]

I found this movie in my dad's movie collection when I was 7 and watched it while my parents were sleeping on a Sunday morning. It gave me nightmares and resulted in me being terrified of the dark for 4 years. It was also (thanks to Billy's girlfriend's story) how I found out there was no Santa.

[@ashj7767]

Loved Gremlins as a kid. Of course the whole ‘Santa Clause doesn’t exist’ message was interesting. Plus never seen snow. It’s summer in Australia for our Christmas atm

[@nathancruz9172]

You should also watch gremlins 2: the new batch, next time.

[@Songfugel]

I think it still airs every Xmas here. I originally saw it as a kid when ithe second one came out and absolutely loved the Gremlins and Gizmo. I didn’t see this first one until much later

[@drwho9209]

What a lovely Christmas present Thank you Mari

[@tabithamotta8753]

I was 7 years old when this movie came out in 1984. I was terrified of the Mogwai when they first showed up, and couldn't handle watching the whole film until I was in my middle teens. It's a wonderful scary movie - the gore is effective and the practical effects have no business being so good! They really did a great job producing this wonderful movie, which (despite being set around Christmas time) was released in June 1984!

[@Milleniumlance]

Gizmo was the "first" baby Yoda

[@ralphroshia9247]

Actually there's Three 1st Gizmo 2nd Baby Groot 3rd Grogu Definitely a pattern here

[@Pinkielover]

@@ralphroshia9247 baby groot is not even cute ,,,,, not even in the same league

[@Pinkielover]

whos baby yoda? his name is Grogu

[@Angelicwings1]

I do recommend Gremlins 2. I’ve seen snow twice in my life. I live on the coast in Australia and I had to travel twelve hours to see snow and it’s only around in winter. It was wonderful to see snow but I can see how living with it could be difficult

[@antoinerideaux-porche5655]

Good morning and happy holidays , I grew up in the 80's and when this movie came out everyone went grogu crazy over gizmo and every kid wanted the gizmo plush toy

[@dabegmister]

Got it makes me feel so old when people say they've never heard of the gremlins and I wasn't even born when it came out

[@MalcomMcLeod]

The OG baby Yoda!

[@WhiskyCanuck]

The word "gremlins" predates the movie, refers to unseen monsters that cause mechanical problems, eg. Your car won't start? Gremlins broke it. There's a famous episode of The Twilight Zone from the 1960s (remade in the 1980s TZ movie) with such a creature attacking an airplane in flight. And yes, this movie was about 15 years before Furbies.

[@RowdyRuth]

And they all lived happily ever after except... 😂😂😂😂

[@periechontology]

I saw it as a kid in the theater when it first came out in 84' . It was very popular, but there were a lot of popular movies (that are now iconic) that came out that year.

[@FutureBoy85]

I remember this movie from when I was a kid. Also, it's only snowed around 3 or 4 times where I live.

[@spiderfingers86]

Love this movie. Aside from Die Hard this is one of the best Christmas movies ever.

[@Trademarc1977]

It was on Dutch TV last night. It's been a favorite of mine since I first saw it around 1986 or `1987. Loved the video!

[@jonmercano1138]

*I WILL MURDER THIS DOG!!!* _oh my heart!_ The original script was much darker. Like the gremlins were gonna eat Barney, Gizmo would’ve turned into gremlin stripe, the teacher was gonna have a bunch of needles in his face Gremlins are folkloric creatures dating back to World War 2 that were blamed for malfunctioning fighter planes. There’s a bugs bunny cartoon and a classic twilight zone episode with a gremlin messing with a plane. They didn’t look like the ones in this movie. For years I never noticed the gremlin she stabbed was trying to pull the knife out XD The futtermans didn’t die. They appear in the sequel. Town is destroyed, couple dozen dead. “You teach him to _watch television?!”_ XD I love this movie. First saw it as a teen. Watch it almost every christmas.

[@TwilightLink77]

Don’t forget that Roald Dhal collaborated with Walt Disney creating a book that was supposed to be a animated film of the Gremlins were they fix machinery, but they ended up in the Wasteland after being forgotten.

[@patrickgogan3517]

The mother got decapitated as well wouldve made a nice R rating lol

[@LordVepsterPainess]

Merry Mary, merry Christmas! I hope you have wonderful christmas holidays despite those difficult times. I enjoy your videos every minute and I am really thankful that you always put a smile on my face (reference not intended). Stay safe, healthy and hopeful!

[@mikell5087]

I saw this in the theater when it first came out, it was great. I was highly aware that the old Chinese man was played by the great Keye Luke who played the son of Charlie Chan in a series of great mystery movies from the 1930's,

[@Madbandit77]

He also played Master Po on the original "Kung Fu" series.

[@futuramayeah]

yeah, Mary, Gizmo was the baby Yoda of 1984 and just 4 years earlier we had regular old yoda and he wasn't as big as Gizmo was. there were Gizmo stuffed animals, stickers, kids books of the movie

[@ripeager9338]

Saw this movie when I was 5 and it traumatised me for years, ever since then I've been a HUGE fan of horror films (seen like 3k+) but have never been as spooked out as this movie made me feel growing up as I'd literally check in all my draws and closets everyday before going to bed.

[@corym.m.3084]

Before there was baby Yoda..... there was Gizmo. Also one flaw with this movie, is snow. If they run around in it and melt the snow, they will continue to multiply.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

That's a good catch! I never thought of the snow issue! The other problem is that midnight is so critical, but is a meaningless human convention that depends on all kinds of things (like where we choose to draw time zones).

[@G-uane]

I saw you today for the first time and your voice caught my attention. You are very funny when you say things, your smile makes me laugh too.

[@IggyStardust1967]

Marijchu: "I don't know how this can be a horror movie." Me: Just you wait.... Also, believe it or not, the original script was MUCH darker. Probably would have gotten a solid R rating(in the US). They took a bit of a tamer route, and got a PG, but were instrumental in the creation of the PG-13 rating, because of where this sat between PG and R. A lot of parents took their young children to see it, and were horrified. It's a little glossed over, but the gremlins DO kill a few people. So they were established as a legitimate threat. In the original script, the murder scenes were a lot more brutal, they even killed the dog in a rather brutal manner. That's one I'm really glad they left out. Even though I know it's a special effect, I still don't like seeing "the dog get it" in movies. Gremlins, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were the catalyst of the PG-13 rating, which, BTW, if you want to watch the first "official" PG-13 movie, it would be "Red Dawn"(1984). Good movie, but arguably considered a "Propaganda film" by many. There is some legitimate claim to that, but personally, I don't see it that way. Gen-Xers literally would have acted in a similar fashion to the young people in that movie.

[@nicksanfilippo9513]

this is my favorite Xmas movie that i've watch every year for as long as i can remember. Gremlins 2 is a fun watch as well, and there's a cartoon that's supposed to come out soon

[@gluuuuue]

I'm actually in the never seen snow irl camp. I live in California (in the Csb "warm-summer Mediterranean climate" coastal part). Our winters are just rainy and in the worst years we get frost or see white covering the tops of our nearby mountains but never severe enough where we have it on the vast majority of where our population lives.

[@pand0310]

that final statement made me afraid of the dark for years as a kid

[@pedromfb]

I saw snow in the spring od 2014 in Germany, but it was on far away on the top of the mountains. In the city where i live, here at Brasil, a cold winter night is 5 degrees celsius. :)

[@chrissede2270]

I was a kid when I seen this. I actually have my old gizmo in a box somewhere in my storage. I am not sure if Europe has an idiom for gremlin, but here in America we use to blame gremlins when stuff breaks unexpectedly even before this movie was made. Although I haven’t heard anybody use that in a long time. That is why that guy blamed planes breaking as having gremlins in them. He wasn’t actually aware of the creatures until they plowed him over in the tractor.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

According to my dictionary, the term is originally from the British Royal Air Force.

[@blowba]

Gremlins were a common myth amongst military personnel during WW2. They are especially associated with aircraft.

[@phousefilms]

You should definitely watch the second one too if you haven't, it's even better, and Gizmo is even cuter. Not to mention the animatronic Gremlins are even greater. The novel itself had an explanation on the origin for the Gremlins(but semi-canon, so take it as you will), which was they were created by extraterrestrial scientists to be the perfect pet. However, they had several side effects, such as their allergy to light, their multiplication with water and the majority(other than Gizmo)being homicidally mischievous and so the project was abandoned and Gizmo was put on earth. For the Gremlin with the makeup and the earring, he's wearing the mean lady Mrs.Deagle's wig.

[@3DJapan]

I was about 7 when this came out. I think I saw it in the theater but I've seen it many times since then.

[@Robert-ht7om]

The end of The Mandalorian S2 reminded me of Gizmo being taken back.

[@JW666]

Yep, saw it the first time when I was a kid & it has from time to time been shown on TV (wish it would have been shown either today, yesterday or the next day). There's a sequel too, more comedic but still good. The Futtermans didn't die, they are in the sequel, Dick Miller has been in basically every movie director Joe Dante has made (that's the main reason why he's in the sequel ;)

[@DougRayPhillips]

Furbies were released in 1998. You're right, a lot of people think of Furbies as Mogwai. You also mentioned that the cocooning looks like Aliens. If you watch "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," it's like most any sequel in that it goes over old ground but ramps things up another notch. There's parodies of Aliens, Rambo, Wizard of Oz...

[@danielcody7568]

Interesting that you have “Grogu” (he’ll always be Baby Yoda to me, dammit!) on your shelf. After I first saw him in The Mandalorian, and was thinking about what made him so cute, I realized he looked like a bald green Mogwai.

[@npenta551]

I need one of those machine chairs for my stairs! Not for me but my luggage

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. Love your reactions, very wholesome and amusing.

[@patrickgogan3517]

The heheheh cop is Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad lol

[@Faerie_Kim]

Gremlins was before furbies. Gremlins was mid 80s. Furbies came out in late 90s I think.

[@DanJackson1977]

This movie has a big connection to Looney Tunes cartoons. Aside from both properties being fron Warner Bros., the director Joe Dante is a huge LT fan and included legendary Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones in this film and had him animate literal Bugs Bunny bits for Gremlins 2 (which itself is a live action LT cartoon). Also, in the 1940s, there were 2 seperate WW2 era LT cartoons featuring Gremlins (which is where the legend comes from).

[@douglascampbell9809]

I saw this in the theater. It shows up on cable/sat tv around Christmas every year.

[@JCG52577]

Downtown Kingston Falls and Hill Valley (Backtothefuture) are the same place!

[@smashbro713]

I’m from Texas. Saw snow 3 times. ‘95, ‘05, and ‘07.

[@carlosvega4795]

I'm one of those people who have never seen snow in life... I live in Colombia, this is all tropical climate, we have snowy peaks but I haven't had the money to go and visit those places, and the only time it snowed in a colombian city I lived there but I wasn't there at the time (it also made the news, for Bogotá is cold but you never get snow) :P

[@CalindaSharisse]

I've seen snow twice in my life and it was cold and strange!

[@toddcortez714]

I haven't even seen your review on this yet and I have already smashed that like button 👍 So glad you watched this for Christmas. I hope you enjoyed it. Lol. It's a classic!

[@joepike1972]

In Southern California it is rare to see snow. But we do have mountains near by and I have seen snow in my life but it is infrequent and it has even snowed twice in the 48 years I have lived in the area that I live not in the mountains.

[@Shaesi.]

8:01 Furby, the robotic toy, was originally released in 1998.

[@futuramayeah]

Mary, if you read this , it's probably later than when you made it, but you realize you have a gremlin on the wall behind you the entire time, no one ever found out where Yodas come from

[@billbryant9995]

I liked your Christmas antlers. LOL. And I'm glad you enjoyed the movie, it was fun...

[@trayolphia5756]

4:30 my fave reply I ever saw to that character going “ooh, my heart” was to scoff “what heart?”

[@xen0bia]

"Gremlins" is what WWII soldiers would blame for equipment malfunctions or machinery going haywire and such, and it stuck around. This is why the drunken veteran reacts with "There are *real* gremlins in my cab!". The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" with William Shatner is another take on the myth - which was also parodied in The Simpsons 4th Halloween Special with "Nightmare at 5-1/2 Feet" - a little creature messing up a plane engine (or in the latter, a school bus) and nobody believing the person who saw it.

[@bobriemersma]

Meanwhile on Xandar: "Who planted all these Groots?"

[@GreatGarloo]

Merry Christmas, Mari! Now watch Gremlins 2 which is a sequel but, also a parody. You'll see what I mean. :)

[@peterschmidt4348]

Please watch "Gremlins 2" too ! Gizmo is even cuter in the sequel !

[@mnomadvfx]

Better animatronics does that.

[@carlalussini]

I've never seen snow irl, only been to the snowy part of my country -Patagonia- during summer, so I only saw like a frozen puddle in a mountain, very underwhelming, lol! Also, I do the "picking the lint out of people's clothes" from having light OCD (something so "out of place" really bothers me and makes i hard to concentrate on anything else) but I get how it can be taken as flirty, and even seen it explained in a movie or show as a classic flirting technique.

[@tomchesley2604]

I live in Vermont USA. There's about 2 feet of snow in my door yard.

[@americanfreedomlogistics9984]

Town square was the same one used in the back to the future films

[@dabegmister]

Yes they still play this during Christmas also you should check out the second one it's pretty good too

[@andysutcliffe3915]

In the UK snow is rare enough to be fun, but also rare enough that we don’t have the infrastructure to deal with it, so it ruins a lot of travel.

[@charlesmetternich5902]

I saw this as a kid. Had a cat once that I named gizmo cause it was light brown n white. Had this stripe action figure

[@tonydonaldson1142]

Yes, I've never seen snow, but I'm Australian so it's no surprise.