A Christmas Story/Trivia

*While Scut Farkus was described as a yellow-eyed bully, his real-life actor Zack Ward doesn't have yellow eyes.
*Although a Flash Gordon fantasy was cut from the final film (though its portion of the screenplay, which also includes a meeting between Miss Shields and Ralphie's mom, can be read on all home video editions since the 2003 DVD), actor credits for Flash (Paul Hubbard) and Colin Fox (Ming the Merciless) are still in the end credits.
*In recent years, the house used as the Parker residence during shooting has become a Christmas Story museum and tourist attraction.
*Numerous sequels have appeared in the years since. The first two, the 1988 TV movie Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss and 1994's My Summer Story (AKA It Runs in the Family), come from the pen of Jean Shepherd himself. There was also 2011's A Christmas Story 2, and in 2022, A Christmas Story Story was announced, with Peter Billingsley set to return as an older Ralphie. There was also a musical based on the film, which even got a TV adaptation for Fox in 2017.
*This wasn't Billingsley's first experience with firearms in a movie. The previous year, he appeared in Death Valley, brandishing toy guns there as well.
*During the 2021 holiday season, Wal-Mart stores sold actual Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifles.
*Among the cuts made for airings on TBS' annual 24 Hours of a Christmas Story marathons, all of the "they traded Bullfrog" exchange was cut out, except for Mrs. Parker's "Ralphie, on the double!," leaving for an awkward transition to the next scene.
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