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Can’t believe he didn’t takeoff a sin for the scene when he opened up the BB gun and his dad is laughing with glee. It shows that the one person who was listening and paying attention, was the one person Ralphie didn’t ask, And that his dad loved him.

As a kid, I loved that it's the Old Man - probably the last person anyone would expect - who gets Ralphie the Red Ryder rifle. As an adult, I love the Old Man's giddy reaction to Ralphie opening it - I've had similar reactions many times myself.

That sin for the "785 hound dogs" being too specific of a number right after the joke about Steven King writing 785 novels... well played, CinemaSins. Well played.

Fun Fact: The kid they hired to play "weird kid in the mall" at 9:58 who says, "I like Santa" really was weird and that hat with the goggles was his. When Ralphie acts annoyed by him in the scene, it wasn't acting. Peter (Ralphie) Billingsly really found the kid strange and really was annoyed by him when shooting the scene.

Fun Fact: The female elf was supposed to be a teenager, yet Patty Johnson, the actress who played her, was in her thirties. After she responded angrily, they realised that the outburst was a perfect fit for the character, and she was hired instantly.

I love this movie because it's about kids just being kids and doing kid things. They don't have a goal or conflict to overcome that drives the plot. There's no real moral to the story. It's just about a family experiencing a Christmas together.

I love this movie so much. I just saw it yesterday, and could watch it 5 times today. I think so many people love it so much because there is a universality to it. I'm a Black female who grew up in NYC during the '80s and '90s, but there are things I can relate to. My made me drink Ovaltine all the time in the winter. She dressed me in so many layers that I could barely put my arms all the way down during the winter season. It was notorious among the people we knew. The biggest thing I relate to the most is how alike my dad was to Ralphie's dad. I could totally see him buying that lamp (thank God it never happened). He often didn't censor himself around us kids. My best friend still laughs at the time he told someone to kiss his ass in front of us. I think we were 8. Then there's the electrical fire hazard at the outlet. We had one of those too. It was only a miracle and my mom's good sense that kept us safe. I could go on. Despite all of the craziness, my parents were wonderful people who loved us, and did their best despite not having much to do it with. Just like Ralphie's parents.

We met the actor who played Randy a few years back. Cool guy. He told us that in the scene where Randy couldn’t put his arms down, he actually very much *could* put his arms down, and they had to do so many takes that his arms got tired, so they had to stuff styrofoam into his jacket to hold them up for the joke. That’s a sin for making a child suffer!

The weird kid at the mall wasn’t a character in the script. He was literally just a weird kid at the mall when they were filming.

Let's not gloss over the fact the Ralphie had a really fucked up day, and that led to beating the brakes off the bully. Life lesson... leave people alone.

should've taken a sin off for the old man's happiness when Ralphie opens his present. So much warmth

Should've taken off a Sin for the moment where the store Santa pushes Ralphie down the slide with his boot while saying "Ho ho ho". One of the most iconic and hilarious parts of the entire movie!

Fragile. It must be Italian!

Fun fact: the main street in Hammond, IN, where Shepherd grew up, is named Hohman. The reasoning behind the main street and city names is even more interesting, though. Hohman and Hammond were early business innovators in this fledgling town. When it was decided to actually create a city, they flipped a coin. The winner got the city named after him, and the loser had the main street named after him. 100+ years later, I live on Hohman Ave, in Hammond.

Darren McGavin's facial expressions are priceless. By his age at the time, he'd have more likely to have been Ralphie's grandfather, but he just plays it so well and it could be reduced to everyone seeing their parents as much older.

Cinemasins: We should touch on The Christmas Story. See how many sins it has. Fans of the movie: NOT A FINGER!!!

“Ahhh. Fra-gi-lè. That must be Italian. “ One of the best lines in the movie.

The Witch does make sense. This movie is set in Winter of 1940, the Wizard of Oz was released in August of 1939, with most households not having a TV until after WWII, Stores hiring bit-actors to work malls and parades to sell merch to children makes total sense.

Another fun fact I recently found out. Ralphie (Peter Bilingsley)was also the head Elf in the movie Elf!

Fun Facts- When he's hit in the face with the snowball, Peter Billingsley's tears were real as whomever thrown it from off screen did it too hard and it hurt him. Neither Peter or Ian Petrella (Randy) liked the kid talking to them when they were in line to meet Santa. They thought he was weird and annoying and wanted nothing to do with him. Ian was terrified of going down the slide. The Red Ryder BB and the pink bunny suit that Ralphie gets for Christmas are still in Peter's possession to this day.

I think 50 sins should have been removed for that final scene of the dad and mom sitting and looking out the window at the snow on Christmas night while the music played. It's a beautiful scene and I've been chasing that kind of Christmas feeling my whole life.

Omg the “kids” bonus round has me currently in tears I can’t stop laughing! “Kids under the sink?!”

Before this movie came out, my Dad did the exact same thing on Christmas with a BB gun. It was a pistol, not a rifle, but I've always related to the scene. He just passed away this year, but I love this scene even more now. Dads from that era ( mine would have been a teenage when the movie was set) give off a disconnected aura with their kids, but every now and then they showed how much they really knew what was going on. The point of the slow roll was to create the moment between father and son. It's awesome.

I love how this movie has some much back story. There’s so many little “fun facts.” Such a classic

About finishing the tree on christmas eve. I'm not sure how common this was with other families, but my grandmother's family (1930-1950) would literally put up and decorate the Christmas tree, while the kids were asleep, so the kids would wake up to see it on Christmas

My family plays this movie on repeat every single Christmas….I have waited for the episode for so long. Thank you CS!🙏🏻

12:17 I always tear up when Ralphie opens up the Christmas present that he wanted that year. I always wish I could get the Christmas present I wanted when I was a kid, but I never did. I thought Santa never wanted to deliver presents to the kids in my city because the people of the city of Camden NJ would rob him for everything he is carrying. And we were too poor to go out to buy any toys. But at least I had a place to sleep every night, some clothing to wear on my body, and had food in my belly nearly every night.

Christmas, 1989. My girlfriend, now my wife, and I are in the little neighborhood store that rented VHS movies. She saw Christmas story and said her teacher showed her this back when she was in high school. We laughed all night and watched it 3 times. Back in 1989 very few people knew about this movie.

*JEREMY:* I want to do an EWW for "A Christmas Story!" *SANTA:* You'll sin your eye out, kid!

Cinemasins: “We’re doing a Christmas Story” Me: “Don’t. You’ll shoot your eye out.”

11:27-11:32: Fun fact; for Traditional Catholics the Christmas season STARTS on Christmas day and continues until Mardi Gras, not from when the advertisers tell us to begin shopping and then crash on Christmas day. The decorating of the tree just prior (Dec 24th) to Christmas is still a tradition we keep with my family, now that we have children of our own. Christmastide (time) starts midnight Christmas Eve and continues until Lent. It’s awesome! Also it breaks up the humdrum winter blues.

Fun Fact: The scene in the Chinese restaurant, all the actors were born in the U.S. and they ad libbed the "fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra" which is why the "boss" covers his face because he was busting out laughing.

I like how he almost shoots his eye out on the very first shot after everyone warned him 😂. Him being a four eyes saved him lol.

5:07... mark the time, ladies and gentlemen. The day when Jeremy sinned NOT ENOUGH lamps!

You have chosen to sin the only Christmas movie ever made, that doesn't trigger a gag reflex for 80% of the public. I salute your courage, sir.

Of course he was worried more about his dad learning about the cursing instead of the fighting. It’s the 1940s. As long as you gave better than you got, fighting was A-okay with Dad.

Fun fact: My dad worked at the mall when they were filming this movie. He said this movie was the first time it was ever decorated for Christmas.

IT FINALLY HAPPENED! Also, if I was the Old Man, I’d sue the neighbors for: 1. The dogs ruining their turkey 2. The bill from the restaurant

This movie is the only one I can think of that is free of all sins. That makes it sacred.

As an adult this movie embodies the magic of Christmas to me. This is the movie that makes me believe in Santa Claus. He isn't a being, he's a feeling , a moment. It's being an adult and seeing the excitement on a kids face when they wake up on Christmas morning. I appreciate how hard mom and dad worked to make that happen for me and my siblings.

"Three blocks away, Schwartz was getting his." Ralphie bears false witness against his friend, just to get the bar of soap out of his mouth for a minute. What a great kid!

I used to go to school a block away from the house, they have a leg lamp sitting in the window year round, my neighbors uncle was also one of the delivery men who dropped the leg off in the movie

How could you not remove a sin for Darren McGavin’s performance in this movie, especially with the leg lamp?

"I personally would wear the s*it out of that bunny costumer. But, the movie presumes there's an appropriate time to wear this, and there is not". BEST LINE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fun story, I got a bb gun for Christmas when I was around 12 and literally almost shot my eye out. I was shooting cans and bottles around some trees. A bb hit a tree bounced back and hit my lower, I guess eyes socket on Christmas day. It gave me a black eye, but I wasn't blinded so that's good. Another fun fact. Later that day I accidentally shot the back window of my dad's minivan out. Worst whopping I ever got was on Christmas day🙃

While I can't thank you enough for finally doing this movie, are you seriously not sinning Ralphie (whose family seems to be on a steady of boiled cabbage) somehow coming up with the funds to buy a nice fruit basket to bribe his teacher? Because I know I do. Every. Single. Time.

I honestly dont mind leaving it on repeat when it's on all day. I love all the characters and the narration is great.

The only adult character in this movie that Ralphie didn’t tell about the BB gun he wanted was the one that got it for him. His father.

This is my favorite Christmas movie for many reasons, followed by Christmas Vacation. A few of the reasons why I love A Christmas Story: The elementary school this was filmed at in Cleveland reminds me of the elementary school I went to in Cleveland; The snow reminds me of growing up in Cleveland, before we moved to Tennessee; The self awareness of the movie and the comedy of Ralphie's inner imagination scenes; finally, the adult humor throughout the film. This film was way ahead of its time and the type of storytelling wouldn't get popular until The Wonder Years came out in the 1990's. Yeah it has its flaws, but it;s still a classic.

It’s a tradition in my family that we watch this movie every Christmas, and I love it!

What makes this such a great movie is that its so genuine and down to earth it feels like real things you may have done or said as a kid and remember your parents saying or doing. Theres no goofy hijinks, no crazy stoner style comedy, nothing out of the ordinary. Just a little boy and that one christmas season almost like the narrarator is telling the story to his grandchildren

That scene down at the Bowling Chop Suey cracked me up. While teaching Engrish in Japan, my students wanted to learn a popular American Christmas song and they picked... Ludolph the Lednosed Leindeer.

And decades later we are still chasing the feeling of having a Christmas this special in real life....

I watch this movie like ten times every year because one of the channels where i live plays it on loop starting christmas eve and once it starts nobody changes the channel lol

8:29 Before the bully finished his sentence, I was like, "That's what Jeremy's college girlfriend used to say..." 😂

3:13 the joke is that Randy is the baby of the family and thus overly protected. Hence why Ralphie is in normal clothes while Randy can barely move.

My mom and i always used to put the finishing touches on our tree on Christmas Eve with cocoa and music right before bed, not sure why but it was really nice

It’s the sign of a great movie that the only way it could accumulate the usual amount of sins was to sin kids doing anything and everything in a movie about kids at Christmas.

What always gets me about this movie is when Ralphie throws his buddy under the bus. That poor kid got his ass kicked and has no idea why.

Jean Shepherd was a master storyteller, he's a big reason why ACS was so damn good.

Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine. Gold Jerry. Gold.

This is by far the one of the greatest Christmas movie besides Home Alone 1 and 2.

I am upset he didn’t take off a sin for “Fragile.. must be Italian”

you should've done something with that part after the ovaltine scene where it transitions directly from Randy lifting the toilet seat to the lid for the pot of soup being removed. Either sin it for being gross, or removed a sin because it's ingeniously clever

Zack Ward, who played Scut Farkus was also in the first Transformer movie. He played First Sergeant Donnelly and was the first of the group to get killed when the Arab village was attacked. Even though he was only in Transformers for about 5 minutes, he said everyone wanted to talk to him about Christmas Story and getting beat up by Ralphie.

In the 1940's? Yes, he'd be far more concerned about the cursing than the fighting. Chances are, his dad would be proud he kicked Scut's ass.

This has been my favorite movie since it came out in theaters in 1984. I never did make the connection about the "bowling" vs "bo ling" at the restaurant. When Ralphie daydreams about Black Bart and his crnies, you can see the trampoline the guy uses to jump over the fence. When he finally gets to see Santa, we hear the screaming of the children that have already gone before him. The guy who tells Ralphie to get to the back of the line is Jean Shepard, the author/narrator. And I would suggest everyone read the book this movie was based on to get a little more insight. It's by Jean Shepard and called In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.

Ever since I've first seen this movie, its been a classic in my household that we watch every year it comes on. This in itself feels like an early Christmas gift, thank you CS!

Statement: A Christmas Story is the all-time greatest "you can drop in and out of watching it on TV, any part, any time" movie of all time. I'm not sure the next-best is even close. Fight me!

Fun fact: when the mom is laughing in the restaurant, it was really the actress breaking character

THE KIDS BONUS ROUND TOOK ME OUT THE FIRST TIME THROUGH OMG 😭💀

"Once been made of" is a saying and can be swapped out with anything. Its an old saying of something doesn't resemble what it once was. Like the rubber tires are so old that they don't resemble what they were originally. i.e. "once been made of rubber."

Two sins missed concerning the lamp...one is when Ralphie's mom told his dad she turned it off to save electricity, but it appears that every other light in the house is still on. The other is when the lamp breaks, you hear the sound of shattering glass. The lamp is clearly plastic. The only thing glass would be the bulb and even if it did break, it wouldn't be that loud.

13:53 Yay! A bonus round! It did not disappoint! "Bloodthirsty kids" followed by "Serial killer kids" made me choke on my beer. Thanks! 🤣😂

For several years, when driving to my brother's house on Christmas Day for the big family celebration, I'd notice that the only cars in the mall parking lot were right in front of the Chinese restaurant.

Great video, loved it. I read once that the weird kid in the Santa line was not scripted or officially cast, that he just came onto the set acting all weird like that and they kept it in the movie. I might be wrong because it sounds implausible.. but.. did anybody else hear that?

The bonus round killed me. This was one their best videos in a while.

12:40 I recently, just a week ago, discovered that Christmas pickles is actually a tradition. I don't know where or when it started, just that it's a real thing

First time my brother watched this he rolled over laughing at the fight scene. I asked what was so funny and he said "Don't you remember, that was you and the neighborhood bully. If I had not pulled you off him you would have gone to jail for murder." He was right, I was 10 and finally had enough of our bully and l don't remember much, just my brother pulling me off him as I was driving his face into the driveway.

I watched this movie since being a child...much older now. The older I get the more I love it...brings happy memories of my childhood and waiting for Santa!

The kids extra at the end was classic comedy gold. I loved it.

The actor of the dad, Darren mcgavin, is in my opinion one of the funniest characters in Christmas movies

Still watch this every year with my family, a classic :)

5:41 "Goth Killed Poultry" sounds like a vegan heavy-metal band name and, "slut-up chicken" sounds like an insult a kid who just learned the word "slut" would say. 🤣

Me reading the title: “Everything wrong with A Christmas Story” Also me: Ain’t nothing wrong with A Christmas Story you bastard. 😂

Two more “sins” for future consideration… 1) When the old man comes home from work or shopping all excitedly having found out about the major reward he’s to receive his Oldsmobile is full of snow…That much snow on a car would make sense if he was just leaving his home to go somewhere, but in this case he’s returning home from somewhere. So logically either most of the snow will have melted from the heat of the car, or he would’ve brushed off the snow himself, or the wind and movement from the road would’ve contributed to knocking a bit off the car… 2) Melinda Dillon’s hair style. No way a housewife in the 1930s or 40s wears her hair like that in some 80s curl type fashion.

There was already a jar of pickles on the table, and then Ralphie's mom comes up from the basement with that same jar of pickles and puts it on the table.

10:30 Yes, kids in the 1940s did smell like tapioca. My grandparents, if they were still around, would agree.

Going after a holiday classic...brutal, just brutal.😀

Cinema Sins just never gets old.

This movie is too fudging wholesome to be sinned.

A Christmas Story is 40 years old! Didn't do well originally but over time this remains a timeless staple of the holidays as it should be Based on the book by Jean Shepherd I didn't know The film based on the directors real-life has plenty of charm, comedy, a real sense of childhood, and a true feel for the season So many memorable scenes from the tongue to the power pole to the pink bunny to the mean Santa at the mall to the local bully Lots of quotable lines too It helps the actual director himself narrates a lot of this so essentially it's his own story being told The film made a legacy of its own drawing fans from all over even imprinting into merchandise like clothing, Broadway shows, an official sequel, and non-stop tv programming year round Even the cast has kept it going thanks to fan conventions and tall shows although the man himself who begat everything was pretty unsentimental, more iconoclastic Plus it wasn't his idea yet there's an honesty in this story that's often mistaken for cynicism We can all relate to Ralphie or Shepherd to an extent of having a mean father who still loved his kids or a mother who hadn't had a good meal in so long We've all had bullies too as well as unable to sleep for the excitement of Christmas The film has so much universal appeal it's hard to ignore plus it teaches us a lesson in stoicism in the face of disappointment A solid portrayal of childhood as well reminding us what it was like to be kids during childhood in the holiday season

Love this movie, but here is my biggest gripe. 6:40. No way in the world would his old man have been MORE upset Ralphie said the F word than the fact that he lost all the lug nuts in the snow, in the dark, on the side of the road.

"You'll shoot your eye out." "You're right. Can I have the JR Chemist, Uranium and Cloud Chamber Nuclear Chemistry Set for Christmas instead?" "Hmm I can't see anything wrong with this."

I love this movie due to the fact that getting my first BB Gun happened almost the exact same way except it was my grandpa that gave it to me after all the presents had been unwrapped. Always brings a tear to my eye when i watch it.

"The sin, as always, is kids" I laughed waaaay too hard at this bonus round

“The old man loved bargaining as much as an Arab trader and he was twice as shrewd” 5:59 You missed an opportunity to say “That’s Arabist”

Darren McGavin's face when Ralphie "doesn't" say, "fudge" 🤣

Fun fact! One of the guys outside observing dad’s special reward was wearing a Miami Dolphins hat from the 80’s. The movie takes place in the 40’s☺️a little wardrobe error. & also, the moms hairstyle is all wrong for this decade. It’s more 80’s as well.