YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!! Christmas Story Movie Reaction | First Time Watching

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Flick says he saw the full length reaction here: www.patreon.com/posts/116342683?

[@WolfsDE]

The majority of the Christmas traditions I grew up with, are pretty similar to this movie. Not all of them of course, but the majority. Like, the ones different...most of the time we did Ham, not Turkey. With Thanksgiving being so close, we were usually not in the mood for Turkey so soon again. My mom's Chili Powdered Cheese Ball is still a tradition. Every single year she makes it, it is an absolute addiction. As an appetizer while we wait for dinner, of course. We would stuff ourselves with that Cheese Ball. Ritz and Club crackers usually the go to. My favorite cracker for it though, is the Chicken in a Biscuit crackers. (If you haven't had them, it is a blue box in the cracker section in the grocery store). Fortunately, we never had an aunt that tried to dress anyone up as a Pepto Bismol colored rabbit. My aunt though loves this movie so much that she got a small version of the leg lamp as a gift one year. A tradition when my grandparents were still alive, his best friend, Jack and his wife would always come for dinner on Xmas eve. Every year, they would get a real gift for each other, and a prank gift. The funniest one they ever did was a can of fish assholes. Jack had written an entire story surrounding the story of this can. Everyone was crying they laughed so hard. My grandma, as she read the story turned beat red. She had heard just about every colorful word in the English language you could name and wouldn't blush. She did that night. She laughed, but you could tell she was embarrassed as well. I can't even repeat the little bits of it I remember. It is that bad. (Mostly about animals, human body parts, and who was putting what into what kind of thing). Stuff you would only say if you were doing the Aristocrats joke. (Look up the documentary about the history of this joke to understand what I mean. I don't know if you could even post it on KZbin or not). Bob Clark, btw...who is behind this film and the narrator, also did the Porky's films. (The first two of which are comedy classics, the third, sucks). You should put them on the list to watch for 2025.

[@leonardharper7885]

The smile on the dad's face has been made by dads for decades. Seeing a son get his boy gift that mom would never let them have.

[@davidyoungsr753]

Yup

[@Mr.Ekshin]

"The greatest gift I'd ever received... or would ever receive". - Really sums it up nicely. That feeling as a kid getting a gift like that is a feeling second to none. I still remember my first BB gun, and that was nearly 50 years ago.

[@joshuasharrock466]

Between 1990 and 2009 Tbs or Tnt would play this for twenty-four hours straight every christmas. It was on every family member's TV when you visited. Whenever I watch this, it feels like i'm in my grandma's living room.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Lmao I don’t know how I never even heard of it! The kiddo didn’t even look familiar

[@joshuasharrock466]

@NiaMakiReacts You would be the type that wouldn't say no to a bb gun.. lol The look on your face when he went behind the desk and found it. I get the Mommy instinct where you don't want your boy to get hurt... But my dad got me one when I was ten and I would be that kind of dad to get my son one at that age if he wanted.

[@paulhewes7333]

TBS. They STILL play it 24 hours.

[@russellward4624]

​@NiaMakiReacts the kid that played Ralphie was a spokesperson for NASA as a kid. They had a whole campaign and he was working during g the space shuttle explosion, which put an end to the campaign.

[@HorrorGenreLady]

This and White Christmas were two of my favorite Christmas movies. The house is in Cleveland, and they do house tours every year around this time. The inside downstairs looks exactly like it did in the movie. The attic space was made into a modern bedroom.

[@dancolon47]

I was 7 years old when this movie came out ... and I've watched it Dozens of times ever since. Watching people react to this movie and love it takes me back to when I was a kid watching it for the first time.

[@Impeach44]

I think 1 station plays it all day from Christmas Eve through Christmas day on repeat or they used to

[@B0TJERRYX]

Ollllllddddd as dirt!

[@TC_Smitty]

I had just turned 8 that September (1983). I knew about this movie. Had always wanted to see it, but don't think I had the chance to see it until after high school.

[@Xfactor444-x4n]

Yea, I watch this every Christmas eve. It's on all day long and it's not Christmas if I don't watch this movie

[@tumenarves]

I watch this movie every Christmas as well. It’s one of my favorite movie. A timeless classic

[@DaleKingProfile]

I always say it makes you nostalgic for a time you didn't actually live through

[@robertombricen7966]

“Fra-GEE-leh!” It must be Italian! 😂😂😂

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 😂

[@andrew77961]

11:09 “sculpture?” Indeed it is.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 electric sex!

[@candicelitrenta8890]

It represents a time between the 1940's and the 1950's. They don't really establish an actual date, but it has to be after 1939 when The Wizard of Oz film came because in the parade they go to has those Oz characters in it.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Ooooh good point!!! I didn’t even think about what references were in here to date it

[@goldleader6074]

One hint of the timeframe is the Little Orphan Annie radio broadcast that Ralphie liked to listen to..according to Wikipedia it ran from 1930 on Chicago's WGN radio and then ran on NBC national radio network April 1931- April of 1942. The sequel to A Christmas Story is also set 33 years later in 1973, so that would put the original movie at December 1940.

[@Oldhogleg]

And the little orphan annie radio show ended in April of 1942. So it's likely between 1939 and 1941.

[@adamnelson4428]

Nope I have it the red rider BB gun premiered in 1940

[@Oldhogleg]

@adamnelson4428 That makes sense because there are no references to the 1941 pearl harbor attack. Although they say it was 1943 in the last sequel depicting Christmas in 1973 as 30 years after.

[@ExUSSailor]

An absolute CLASSIC!

[@ebashford5334]

This movie really does capture the spirit of a child going through a "traditional" snowy Christmas, which does bring back memories. I even had a very similar experience to Ralphie when I was just 6 years old, long before this movie came out. I had thought I had received and opened all my presents, when my parents pointed out a hidden present behind the tree. It was indeed a rifle. If this sounds too unlikely, the reality different from the movie is that it was a just a harmless plastic replica gun, so I could never shoot my eye out. But it was still a nice surprise.

[@navagate1900]

When they brought the duck out at the restaurant it wasn't in the script to have it's head or when chopped it off, so their reactions were real.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 😂

[@penfold7455]

Actually everything happening in that scene was only known to Darren McGavin (who played The Old Man), the Chinese actors who played the wait staff, and Bob Clark the film's director (who did appear onscreen as Swede the neighbor who asked The Old Man about the leg lamp earlier in the movie). Melinda Dillon (Mom), Peter Billingsley (Ralph) and Ian Petrella (Randy) weren't told anything about the scene before shooting; they were just told to go with it. So their snickering and Melinda Dillon's laughing is not acting but is genuine reaction to the silliness going on.

[@bjm9071]

Star Peter Billingsley was in my town at a theater last night showing A Christmas Story and discussing the film. Still so popular after all these years!

[@vovindequasahi]

That must have been really cool! His acting in this movie and at that age is fantastic.

[@denveradams4909]

I find it interesting that the parade focused in on the Marine Corps Band or Drum & Bugle Corps. My older brother played a baritone bugle in the Drum & Bugle Corps. I also served in the Marines from 1977 to 1983. Semper Fi!

[@joeymac3777]

They show this movie for 24 hours straight starting at 8PM on Christmas Eve on TBS. They've been doing it for years and years.... tradition. 😊 I live in Cleveland Ohio, where Ralphie's house is located. Some scenes, like the house shots, the public square parade and the Higbey's Santa scene were all shot here. Across from the house, which you can tour, is the museum and gift shop. They sell all different sizes of the leg lamp, as well as the pink bunny pajamas.

[@62rowley]

The tongue on the pole wasn’t a fake tongue. They showed how they ran an air tube up the post, drilled a hole in the post and put a small air pump on the end of it so it would suck air so it really would hold his tongue to the pole.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Oh wow really?! No wonder that scene was so convincing!!

[@ronweber1402]

I did it for real when I was in public school. I froze the tip of my tongue to an aluminum window frame but luckily I was alone and I tore my tongue off of it rather than be the laughing stock. Lost a little skin off of the tip of my tongue but my pride was left intact.

[@Slugbug]

I was 8 when this movie was released and a friend of mine was convinced that the tongue on the flagpole bit was a myth. He didn't just do the tip of his tongue, he licked the metal support for the swing set outside of school. Fortunately for him, our teacher knew enough to just get a pitcher of hot water to heat up the pole, so he didn't lose any skin.

[@markstoudenmire4935]

This movie still gets to me, especially when opening the Red Rider, much to the surprise of his mom. This covers my parents generation so I feel such a direct connection to everything displayed throughout.

[@candicelitrenta8890]

Little Orphan Annie was originally a comic strip in the newspapers section on a page of other comic strips

[@JayPadrig]

It was the number one listened to radio program in the 1930s. Others were The Shadow and DickTracy

[@ronweber1402]

@@JayPadrig "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." Classic.

[@longfootbuddy]

i enjoyed going to my dads parents house for christmas, and everything else really, because, they were just the most colorful old school grandparents i had, and everything in their house had that old 50s feel to it.. grandma was a great cook, and she always had the giant ham for christmas, with various foods and treats on every available surface.. old 50s christmas decorations, and of course the real tree, with lights that bubbled a liquid when they got warm.. little round metallic looking balls, that youd plug in, and would start chirping like birds after they got warm.. always made a bunch of cookies, particularily the sugar cookies with the red and green sugary coatings, and red hots embedded in them.. that was my favorite.. tons of brothers and sisters that would come, my great aunts and uncles, sitting around telling stories of the old days.. i miss those days so much it brings tears to my eyes

[@rhinno1969]

a Christmas staple 🎄 I've been watching this movie every year since the early 80's 😉

[@Alaskan_Two_Spirit_Wolf]

My family tradition, we get together for breakfast, make pancakes, have whipped cream, strawberries. Fried rice, egg scramble. Fruit salad. Listen to Christmas music while food is being prepared. Home family videos during breakfast, unwrap presents. Xmas movies after eating .

[@masonames4537]

The man in the department store who tells Ralphie where Santa's line starts is humorist Jean Shepherd who is the narrator and film's writer. He had his own radio show in NYC in the 50's through the 70's, and hosted a TV series on PBS called Jean Shepherd's America. He also wrote books based on his childhood of which some of the material is in the film. One of my favorites is Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters.

[@george217]

The dad went on to be a chaser of monsters.

[@0okamino]

Quite a stalker of the night, as I recall.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Kolchak!!!!

[@DaleKingProfile]

Well technically that series was like a decade before this movie

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

The werewolf (there wolf), on the cruise ship, in a full 3 piece suit always makes me laugh.

[@josephtingley654]

There's a sequel to this movie called A Christmas Story Christmas on Max. It's about Ralph as an adult.

[@pleutron]

it's so bad too

[@josephtingley654]

@pleutron That's your opinion and you're welcome to it, but not everyone agrees with you.

[@pleutron]

@@josephtingley654 duh

[@josephtingley654]

@@pleutron Is there a particular reason you're trolling? You gave your opinion, it's been noted, move on and be polite.

[@pleutron]

@@josephtingley654 am I not allowed to respond? I can’t help it if my responses offend you or hurt your feelings

[@denveradams4909]

A couple of funny stories about a BB gun: Even though I was not old enough to have a BB gun, my older brothers did have one. It was around long enough that the original stock had been broken off, so my older brother whittled a pistol grip for it. I was playing with it one day, and there was a balloon which had been laying around for a long time and gotten very spongy. I shot at the balloon and the BB bounced off the balloon and hit me in the stomach, embedding itself just under the skin. I dug it out and never told my mother what happened. Later in life, a neighbor kid, two doors up the street, was shooting his BB gun and the BBs were hitting the aluminum siding on my house and bouncing off. One hit my bathroom window and put a hole in the glass. I sneaked up on the kid and put a stop to it. That kid is now in his thirties and has a family of his own, but that hole is still in my storm window, to remind me of just how dangerous a BB gun can be.

[@Smileybeeblevrox]

This movie came out in 1983, but takes place in the 1940s. Little Orphan Annie was an actual radio program based on the Annie story, and there was a secret society and secret decoder pin in real life back then.

[@44excalibur]

A Christmas Story is the reason why Chinese restaurants across the country do some of their best business on Christmas Day.

[@obdiane]

The way you and the wife/mom plotted on the lamp/major award..12:19🤣

[@Dannean7]

The moral of the bully story is finally! Lol and that's how you truly deal with a bully....most kids have a bully story growing up I think that was the point....when he beat up the bully is a lot of people's favorite scene. I'm from Cleveland where this was filmed and that house was a historic museum here up to recently....

[@adamnelson4428]

29:55 nothing beats that feeling waking up on Christmas morning as a kid

[@positivelynegative9149]

41:35 That's nice. 😃👍 The staple Christmas films of my childhood were all made before I was born, except for this one. I was 5 when it came out, so it joined these others as perennial favorites: - It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965). - How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

[@positivelynegative9149]

12:17 😲 Vile woman! How dare you?! 😠 This has always been my favorite Christmas film. I've probably seen it a hundred times. 😄

[@adamnelson4428]

26:43 fun fact: that’s Gene Shepard aka adult Ralphie

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

The look on your face when he pulled the leg out of the crate was priceless. 😂

[@candicelitrenta8890]

I had the opposite childhood. My father was a nightclub entertainer in the 60's and also a professional Santa Clause. He worked at this place called Santa's Village and had kids sit on his lap and he would take a picture of them with a camera hidden inside of a peppermint stick type thing in his little Santa House. The village was a Christmas based amusement park with Xmas themed rides designed for smaller kids. I never knew he was Santa until I was about 6 years old. Back then you could keep up the facade. There were no ways for kids to just randomly find out about things that easily. The park closed in the 70's, and in that area, there was the Beach Boardwalk amusement park. They have featured that in several films, most notably, the vampire comedy-drama in that town called The Lost Boys. This was Santa Cruz, California

[@3DJapan]

TBS plays this on a 24 hour marathon every Christmas.

[@lisathuban8969]

I enjoyed the reaction! As for Little Orphan Annie... yep, same Annie. LOA started out as a comic strip in newspapers in 1924, so the story is 100 years old. It was a big hit as a comic strip, then was adapted to the radio. Eventually, it was made into a Broadway musical and a few movie adaptations. That orphan has been around a while!

[@DanJackson1977]

What makes this the most American of Christmas movies is that it may be the first Christmas movie thats nostalgic about the *materialism* of American Christmas. A lot of Christmas stories are more about learning a lesson or being a better person or realising that "Christmas doesnt come from a store... Christmas perhaps is a little bit more". This one says "Nope, chrismas comes from a department store window about products advertised in the media i consume" (Red Ryder and Orpahan Annie were both comic strips and radio shows). Speaking of nostalgia, this movie worked on meny generations. Including my grandmother who was born in 1914. She wouldve been the age of the mom in this... so this was a time she knew well.

[@feldweible]

This has been a family tradition to watch it together ever since it came out. My Dad would tell us how when he was growing up in Covington Ky. that he knew someone like every person portrayed in the film. He had one of those leather aviator helmets. Your face when "The Major Award" was introduced was fantastic! We gave Mom and Dad a table lamp that is a smaller reproduction on it. It's gets put up every Christmas. We'd go into downtown Cincinnati every Christmas to see how all the store windows were decorated. We still love this film and we truly miss those days. Merry Christmas!!!

[@marcuscash6517]

Funny thing, for Christmas, I always cook a turkey or turkey crown and also duck breasts people always say it is too much, but everyone always want one.

[@bradkoski]

Love this movie

[@mwhyte1979]

He looks cute------- Nope, he looks like a deranged Easter Bunny!😂

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 a cute deranged Easter bunny

[@ronchesley6290]

As a former little boy, I will attest that being forced to wear that deranged bunny suit would have been more emotionally traumatic than shooting my eye out! 😂 Kudos to the dad for rescuing Ralphie from that torment.

[@dazedandconfusedconfused9500]

Oh Fudge! Looks I'm going to have to sit down here and watch this reaction to A Christmas Story.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 FUUUUUDGE!!!!

[@Tey816]

Ralphie: Oh God, I shot my eye out. Nia: 😂😂😂 I’m so elated that u reacted to this gem of a movie. It was enjoyable to watch you enjoy this film as much as we all have throughout our lives. I think it resonates with a lot of folk esp those older and the millennials. 😊

[@Impeach44]

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first air rifle and 10or 11 when I got an old single shot 20gauge shotgun

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Takes place in 1940. This and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" live in the same headspace and cultural frame. Even takes place in the same state (Ohio).

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Ahhh that’s another good one to have watched!

[@DEWwords]

Indiana is Christmas Story, I believe. Gary, Ind. ( Chicago basically ).

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

@@DEWwords You're right. I thought it was Ohio because Cleveland gets mentioned a few times and it's the same regional look.

[@innocentbystander1853]

The movie was filmed in Cleveland but set in Indiana.

[@kdot5495]

​@dudermcdudeface3674 it takes place in indiana but was filmed in Cleveland, ohio. The house is now a museum you can tour now.

[@UncleQue]

Dad really comes through for Ralphie in the end. It’s a great scene. I’m sure my dad felt That way for some of the gifts I got just as I have felt seeing Christmas thru the kids eyes. It’s a great feeling.

[@jonnyp5586]

You should check out the sequel A Christmas Story Christmas that came out 2022. Most of the original characters are in it.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Oh nice! Sounds like a plan to me!

[@fightingidiocy7724]

People here in Hammond are so proud to be a part of this movie. I can see both the alley and Warrent G Harding from my back yard! hehehe Jean grew up a cuple of blocks over..his house is still there.

[@dggydddy59]

Was Warren G Harding the name of that school? Because every time I watch this movie, I'm always struck by how much their school looks pretty much exactly like my junior high school I went to in the early 70's which was also named Warren G Harding Junior High. So if that's the name of the school in the film AND it looks just like MY Warren Harding, well, that's quite a strange little coincidence. Cheers!

[@fightingidiocy7724]

@@dggydddy59 Yep! and Yep and yep! lol cheers

[@JemJam2976]

The smile on dads face as Ralphie opened the bb gun says it all.

[@zairac2564]

The mom-reactions killed me and had me easily laughing twice as much as normal for this great movie. I'm still wiping tears away during the outro. Sorry about the chimney letdown, but that too 😂

[@neilshackleton89]

This has become my fave Christmas movie over the years. Regardless of when it is set, I feel it really captures the feeling of being a kid.

[@neilshackleton89]

And "Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense." Is one of the all-time greatest lines in a movie ever.

[@bio1656]

"YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT KID" Classic catch phrase ,

[@chetstevensq]

"We'll see you later", YEPPERS! When I grew up in the 60s we had zero parental supervision. From the end of school until dark and all day on the weekend we were out of the house. I moved when I was seven. At my original house we would trick or treat for over 5 miles in one direction and then loop back on a different path. Our group consisted of my eight year old sister as leader, my 6 year old brother and me at 5 along with various neighbor kids in similar age ranges. This was about 20 miles northwest of Chicago, times they have changed!

[@andyshelden8297]

Family traditions of Christmas: Gifts from Santa wete wrapped with a different paper, always had a mini candy cane on them, and gifts tags had only recipient's name. One gift opened on Christmas Eve, and it was always pajamas. My father's 1st ornament was always first to be put on the tree when we trimmed it. Stockings were plain old Argyle socks. Always a tangerine in the toe, then almonds, pecans, & walnuts in the shell, then a small wrapped gift, new toothbrush, and some more mini candy canes. I love this film because its mostly kid-POV, with little snippets of adult/reality thrown in (like the aggro Santa and elf are over the top from Ralphie's perspective, but actually less harsh in the closing shot of that scene).

[@DrummerXero626]

I love this movie, grew up watching it on TBS. To this day I always refrence this movie by doing the "how the hell should I know" shoulder shrug by the delivery guy, and the lines "OOOOOOHHHHH FFFFUUUUDGGGGE...Only I didn't say fudge" "NOT A FINGER!" and when Schertz mom screams on the phone "WHAT! WHHAAT!! WHHAAAAT!!" Before going to beat his butt 😂😂

[@ThistleAndSea]

LOL! Good one, Nia! That's exactly how my Dad gave me my bb gun for Christmas back in the '60's when I was 9 years old. 😀 Thanks for sharing this one. So happy to hear you're making Christmas traditions now for your family. Mmmm, Christmas Breakfast. 😋 Merry Christmas! 🌲

[@bmriverrat11]

You definitely had a "mom" perspective for this movie and it's definitely noticable and great 😂

[@regnorth8659]

nice review Mia....Merry. Xmas! This was a favorite xmas movie in my household when growing up...

[@BenjaminEckles170]

Peter Billingsley, who plays Ralphie, was asked about his great acting as a child. "You were so young. How did you get yourself to cry for that scene?" He replied, "Oh, well, that's easy. You get hit in the face with a snowball." He said they hit him in the face with a snowball.

[@stephenhelmes8106]

I love your reaction to this movie. This is the first time I have seen you and you've won my subscription. This movie is special to me because I lived it. I wasn't alive during the era this movie was supposed to be, but growing up in the seventies was very similar to it. Yes, I was a seventies child, and the mom in this movie is a lot like my mom. She always worried about broken bones as my brother and I jumped home made ramps and ditches with our bicycles. Mom just didn't understand that hat's the kind of cool stuff boys do. The dad in the movie is a lot like my real dad, right down to the bowling ball. My dad didn't do crossword puzzles or trivia contests, but he took his bowling and many trophies very seriously. He was also the one who bought my brother a BB gun for Christmas back in 1973 I remember my big brother teaching me how to load and shoot it and the BBs spilling out all over the place. He didn't shoot his eye out, but he did shoot the window of my dad's car. I remember at Christmas looking through the show window at Woolworth's in East Gate Mall, at the glorious toys on display and of course the flashy, colorful Disco lights (remember, this was the groovin' seventies.) Yes, parents would leave their kids in the toys while they shopped the rest of the store in those days. The only rule was not to wonder off. Be in the toys when they come back for you. If you're still reading this, I could go on and on, but I'll stop here. I can watch his movie again and again, and every time it makes me think of growing up and my family. I bet this movie is special to a lot of us from back in the day. It was a beautiful time to grow up.

[@jduncanandroid]

Cars didn't have seatbelts in the 1940s (when this took place)

[@Uriahjw]

I was about 6 years old when my brother and I got a bb gun. We had to share which, if you're the younger one, meant you watched your brother shoot most of the time. It was a fun time in life. We never shot our eye out, but my brother did shoot the knuckle of my right index finger. The bb looked like an egg in a nest, lol. We still talk about that today.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Ooof!!! I bet it hurt 😩 glad your eyes were safe though!

[@Uriahjw]

@NiaMakiReacts Yeah, it hurt quite a bit, but I was amazed at how the bb just stayed there, even after getting to the house and having my mother take it out. By the way, my brother didn't get into trouble because my mom knew how it went. Her brother shot her in the butt when they were kids as she was setting up the cans to shoot at.

[@michaelcarrillo4760]

Memories of childhood back in the day are awesome.

[@Daslink314]

Theres a family not even a half mile down the way who has that leg lamp on display in their front window every year!

[@NiaMakiReacts]

that's epic lol!

[@ButteredToast32]

33:38 the moment she remembered it looks bad to laugh at a little boy accidentally shooting himself in the face 😆

[@Spazzmatazzz]

I got my Daisy BB gun for Christmas in 1965 when I was ten years old. That is and was a memory that stays with you for life. And yes, I still have both eyes. 😂

[@NiaMakiReacts]

I was gonna ask about your eyes LOL

[@StCerberusEngel]

Filmed in the 80s, set in the 40s, and loved 40 years later. I get cultural differences, but the Christmas holiday is really captured by this movie, ups, downs and otherwise, so I hope you'll have a lot of good memory-building for your family. The important thing is all the moments that make special family memories. I remember it as a time when I'd see my grandparents, aunt and uncles, watch movies like this, the Rankin Bass specials, and Ernest Saves Christmas, have a big meal with the whole family, and open gifts. It was a magical time of year to be a kid. If you should get a tree, make sure and decorate it together. And now, for something completely different, you just need to see Black Christmas (1974) to round out the Bob Clark Christmas duology. :)

[@bvrsteve]

Have been watching this for years. You did a great job.

[@StoneKendricks]

Yes, go for it! Duck actually makes for a great Christmas tradition. My family went thru a phase for a few years in the 90s where we'd get a fully roasted duck for Christmas from a Chinese butcher shop, complete with the neck and head. It was delicious.

[@persephonebasilissa5109]

Ralphie's mom was my role model when raising my two little ones. I always tried to emulate her empathetic, fun way of connecting with her kids. ETA: Also her tactic of redirecting Dad's attention with a comment or question. Comes in handy sometimes....

[@candicelitrenta8890]

Your idea of a duck for Christmas sounds good. Never had it so I will have to You Tube on how to cook it

[@joshntn37111]

EXCUSE ME!!! How dare you not know a Christmas Story...😊 I thought everyone has seen it. Very much enjoyed watching! Thank you.

[@grendeltech]

Ohhhhh fuuuuuudge!

[@vovindequasahi]

This hilarious, beautiful, and nostalgic movie came out in the 80s but it takes place in the early 40s. The one person he never asked - his Old Man - was the one who had his back in the end! Hahaha Nia I caught that little System of a Down jingle there with the Chop Suey restaurant.... ;-)

[@jinjerjunkie]

Funny thing is a lot of my Christmas Traditions growing up included A Christmas Story playing on TNT 24/7 on Christmas Day lol.

[@0okamino]

Season’s greetings to you, Nia, and I hope you get something you want as much as Ralphie wanted his trusty rifle. 🎄 The narrator is Jean Shepherd, who is also the writer. He also makes a cameo as the man who directs Ralphie and Randy to the back of the line to see Santa, and the lady standing beside him was really his wife at the time. The story in this movie is an amalgam of a few different tales he wrote of his very memorable childhood. Of course, his tales carried varying degrees of embellishments with them (though he would never reveal to how much of a degree), but he was at least semi autobiographically the real life Ralphie. The director Bob Clark also makes a cameo appearance as the neighbor who is talking to the dad, when he’s outside looking at the leg lamp. Other than visiting relatives, I don’t remember my family having any specific holiday traditions. We just kind of went with the flow each time, instead of making any real routine of it. Certainly took some of the stress off.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Happy Holidays to you too!! I love the background info on it, a great way to stitch them all together in this movie 💕

[@athos1974]

Life sure was different for people back in the 1950's, when this movie takes place. Almost seems like a different country.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Very different than now! But cute seeing how kids will always be kids lol

[@mikethemotormouth]

At least Ralphie got the bar of soap. I got liquid soap and let me tell ya, it lingers

[@LillBit]

OMG! Really?!

[@mikethemotormouth]

@@LillBit honestly, that's the way

[@LillBit]

@@mikethemotormouth I've heard the stories of using hot sauce & washing kids mouth out with bars of soap, but never heard with liquid soap... Eww, gross!

[@darthken815]

@mikethemotormouth Yikes! You have my sympathies.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

I think you have to cut it with whiskey.

[@tofersiefken]

My dad got a Red Ryder BB gun for me as a kid, and I loved it. I used it to shoot paper wasp nests and wasps from the farm buildings around our acreage.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Ralpie says “ hold my beer!”

[@krdragon6950]

I remember seeing this movie in the theater back in 1983.

[@darthken815]

Oh fuuuuudge!

[@NiaMakiReacts]

🤣 don’t make me get the soap!

[@darthken815]

No thanks! I'll be good!

[@threesixteen3757]

Indiana checking in, just subscribed. I was born in 85 and this is one of my fav Christmas movies.

[@meganlutz7150]

Some of those childhood stories are really sad 😔. You have the right sense of humor to enjoy this classic. Great reaction ! If you haven’t seen It’s a Wonderful Life yet I would really recommend it. It is old but it doesn’t feel dated. I think you’ll love it !

[@michaelschroeck2254]

11:29 before cardboard was the norm! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Tey816]

This is my all time fav Christmas movie. 🎄 😊🔫

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Pew pew 😂

[@infiad1275]

Die Hard is pretty good, too. 🤣

[@Tey816]

@ I’m not as hyped bout that as the majority. Solid action film. Don’t consider it a holiday film. But it’s def a good film.

[@wendell6468]

The man in the gray hat at the beginning of the line in the store is actually the narrator telling the story...🤗😊

[@frankjose4057]

Just like the parents wrapping all the presents Christmas Eve night we also did that for the little ones and have this show on every year

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Aw that’s actually cute!! And it puts off doing the wrapping till the last minute? I’m in!

[@adamnelson4428]

29:19: fun fact: it took me 20 years to get that joke

[@ajlynch5235]

growing up I would always visit my grandparents in the mountains and do pot roast on christmas eve and open presents and look at christmas light around town and on christmas day we would have ham and do like "santa gifts"

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Ooooh pot roast also sounds great!

[@1nkredibleHunk]

I don’t know why of all the Christmas movies, I watch this one every time it comes on, at least twice, every year without fail

[@rhwinner]

The man in the hat who tells Ralphie to go to the end of the line is the author of the novel, and writer of the screenplay: Jean Shepherd. He is also narrator.

[@UncleQue]

The reason the Wizard of Oz characters would be there is because this film is believed to be depicting Christmas of 1940 and The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939. Having characters from the film would definitely be the type of things kids would like to see. Most likely they marched in the towns Christmas parade.

[@adamnelson4428]

31:32 you’re such a mom😂

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

Great reaction. Thanks.

[@thomasbaron5367]

I used to to christmas shopping with my grandmother when I was little We would go shopping on Christmas eve at K-Mart and ee would sit at the K-Cafe and have a hot turkey platters for dinner and drink hot chocolate while listening to the Christmas music playing over the speakers And I would help her wrap presents when we got home Of course my presents were all bought in advance and hidden so I never knew what I got until Christmas morning

[@hayatotheninja]

Funny thing, director Bob Clark also directed the classic 1974 Christmas horror "Black Christmas."

[@righteouslydefiant5362]

I love your mom energy

[@meanmax9663]

My kids (daughters) both had .22 caliber rifles at 7 & 9 years old. Teaching my children firearm safety is one of the most responsible things a parent can do, in my opinion.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yeah that mom just said it’s dangerous then let him go outside unsupervised 😂

[@ronweber1402]

@@NiaMakiReacts BB guns aren't too powerful a lot less than .22s anyway. I had a pellet gun at 10. They are more powerful than BB guns but you only get one shot then you have to reload.

[@clincher2626]

I'm guessing you think you're the coolest dad ever.

[@patwelch8187]

Seat belts,,,,Hahahahahha cars didn't have any..