If you read yesterday's post, which was the 18th Annual A Diet of Christmas Films, and have regularly followed that particular series - I am sure you're wondering why I hadn't watched A Christmas Story.
I didn't decide to pass on it this year. I watched it yesterday afternoon after lunch.
I simply forgot to mention that I was planning to catch it on Christmas Day, as I had done at the close of at least one other edition over the years.
Here's something I first noticed about the film yesterday.
Can you believe that, after all these years with A Christmas Story on my festive watchlist, that Christmas Day 2025 was the first time I realised Mrs Parker is played by Melinda Dillion, who also performed as the mother in the Bigfoot and the Hendersons movie (or Harry and the Hendersons for those outside of the UK)?
Funnily enough, I first watched Bigfoot and the Hendersons during a Christmastime. My dad took my sister and I to a showing at the cinema on the day we broke up from school for the festive period of 1987.
That was the second 'ohhhh' moment of Christmas. When watching one of the closing scenes of The Muppet Christmas Carol, after Michael Caine's Ebeneezer Scrooge had seen the light, I noticed one of the shops was named 'Micklewhite's' - an obvious nod to Caine's real name - Maurice Micklewhite.
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