I've seen this thing about 500 times and if I see it 500 more I'll never be able to watch the scene where Ralphie has to try on the bunny suit without collapsing in laughter! This movie always cheers me up.
I know what you mean. I grew up in Hackensack, went to elementary school strikingly similar to the one in the movie.
Not enough can be said for the job Darren McGavin does in the movie.
“Somewhere, Schwartz was getting his.”
Was just trolling and saw your post. I grew up in norhtern NJ and spent my childhood there duriing the late 50’s - mid 60’s. What makes me write is that for one of those childhood years my family moved up to just outside of Boston (I was around 6 at the time). My brother and I used to call on our friends who lived in an adjoining project and on one particularly cold morning my brother pranked me with the “flagpole” joke from the movie. He got me to stick my tongue on the freezing-cold bannister outside our friends’ home and when they opened the door, there I was—stuck to the railing by the tongue. I think they went to get some water, but I couldn’t wait and pulled away, leaving a small memento of the occasion behind!
Sad thing is my brother didn’t have to double-dog OR triple-dog dare me...what a dope I was!
“He looks like a pink nightmare!”