My history with A Christmas Story goes back to the year it came out on video, when I was working in a record/video store. A fellow worker wouldn't bug me until I watched it. Years of me telling people about it followed, to be met with "What's THAT?" at best, and "I didn't think it was that funny" at worst. Now of course EVERYONE loves it, and I have the thing memorized to the point of nausea.
It will be on at my mom's house tomorrow, though, because she likes to quote lines from it, so I will of course enjoy it.
I always think of that evil male elf as Tim Robbins, though I know it's not him. "Come ahhhhn, kid."
I have absolutely no idea why, but I'm watching Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on YouTube for the second time today....what the heck, I couldn't sleep I figured I'd be bored to the point of sleeping but this hasn't worked.
I found the MST3K version, have that queued up to watch next. Is it the same story line?