12 Days of Christmas: Five Fun Facts About "A Christmas Story"
It's Christmas!! To celebrate, we've been counting down the days by posting five fun facts about our favorite festive flicks.
Today we end with a perfect film for the holiday, everyone's favorite Christmas story -- "A Christmas Story."
1. While the movie takes place in Indiana, the real house from the film is located in Cleveland, Ohio -- 3159 W. 11th Street, to be exact. Check it out on Google Maps! If you zoom in, you can even "explore" the house-turned-museum.
2. When Flick (Scott Schwartz) is triple-dog-dared to lick the icy flagpole, a vacuum sucked his tongue in place to make it look like he was frozen to the pole.
3. Ralphie's (Peter Billingsley) mumbling and grumbling while fighting with Scut Farkus (Zack Ward) might sound like ad libbed nonsense, but the rant was scripted word for word.
4. The song that plays when we're first introduced to Farkus is "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev. Guess how to say "wolf" in Hungarian!
5. Go ahead and count. Ralphie says "Red Ryder BB Gun" 28 times. If you lose track, just watch TBS today and you'll have a few chances to try again!
See what Ralphie, Randy and Flick look like now -- plus more holiday movie stars below:
For more Holiday Movie Trivia, check out the links below:
Nightmare Before Christmas
Deck the Halls
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Edward Scissorhands
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Love Actually
Die Hard
Bridget Jones's Diary
The Santa Clause
Gremlins
