While holding the lug nuts in the tire's hubcap, The Old Man accidentally knocks them out of Ralphie's hands, causing Ralphie to utter profanity and have his mouth washed out with Lifebuoy soap. Parker suggests that Ralphie help his father change the tire. His influence later reflects back upon Ralphie when The Old Man's car suddenly blows a tire, and Mrs. His frustrations cause him to swear quite often, including one profanity-laden rant (heard as gibberish) that the adult Ralphie says "is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan". The Old Man also fights a never-ending battle with the malfunctioning furnace in the Parker home.Unable to fix the lamp, he defeatedly buries the remains in the backyard. Parker "accidentally" destroying it, much to the Old Man's fury. "The Battle of the Lamp" develops, ending with Mrs. The Old Man wins a "major award" in a contest – a table lamp in the shape of a woman's leg wearing a fishnet stocking. Interspersed with the main story are several loosely related vignettes involving the Parkers: That night, Ralphie goes to sleep with the gun by his side as his adult self reflects that it was the best Christmas present he had ever received or would ever receive. He lies to his mother that a falling icicle struck him in the face and broke his glasses, and she believes him and takes him to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Believing at first that he has indeed shot his eye out, he realizes that the BB only knocked his glasses off and begins searching for them in the snow, only to step on them by accident and break them. He eagerly hurries outside to try it out, attaching a target to a metal sign in the backyard when he fires, the BB ricochets back and hits him in the face. When it appears that all of the presents have been opened, Ralphie's father ("The Old Man") directs him to one last box hidden in the corner, which proves to contain the rifle. On Christmas morning, Ralphie receives some presents that he enjoys but is disappointed not to find the rifle among them. Ralphie's desire is rejected by his mother, his teacher Miss Shields, and even a Santa Claus at Higbee's department store, all giving him the same warning: "You'll shoot your eye out". Ralphie wanted only one thing that Christmas: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Set in December 1940, the film is presented in a series of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker reminiscing on one particular Christmas when he was nine years old in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana. The building was restored and reconfigured inside to match the soundstage interiors and is open to the public as A Christmas Story House. The front of the Parkers' house where A Christmas Story was filmed in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland's west side. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Filmed partly in Canada, it earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984. The film was released on November 18, 1983, and received positive reviews from critics. It is the third installment in the Parker Family Saga. Widely considered a holiday classic in the United States and Canada, it has been shown in a marathon annually on TNT since 1997 and on TBS since 2004 titled "24 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of 12 consecutive airings of the film from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day annually. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley. A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
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