10 Random Facts About ‘A Christmas Story’

It's a must watch every Christmas season, and TBS makes it easy with their marathon every year. So here are some random facts about "A Christmas Story."

1. The house does still exist and it actually located at 3159 W 11th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. It was sold back in 2005 for $150,000. The movie superfan that bought the house spent $350,000 more dollars to restore the interior and exterior to the way it looked in the movie. Then in 2006 the house was opened up as a museum and gift shop.
2. Despite the fact that the house is located in Ohio, the movie is actually set in 1940's Indiana.
3. Jack Nicholson almost played Ralphie's dad but came with too hefty of a price tag. If he had signed on to the movie, his salary would have doubled the budget.
4. Ralphie really wants a Red Ryder BB gun. So much so, he says it 28 times in the movie.
5. No, Flick's tongue was not actually frozen to the pole. There was a vacuum that was used to give the illusion it was stuck.
6. There are more than a few possibilities as to what year the movie takes place. If you go by the wall calendar, the year would be 1939 because it shows December 1st falling on a Friday. Ralphie's decoder ring was a 1940 "Speedomatic" model. And if you go by the conversation about the Packers and Bears, it would be 1941. The two teams met in a playoff game on December 14th, 1941.
7. Flick (AKA - Scott Schwartz) went on to a career in porn.
8. There were three leg lamps used in filming, and all three were broken.
9. The movie was based on two books: In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
10. There were more Ralphie fantasy scenes filmed that didn't make it into the movie. Including a scene with Ralphie teaming up with Flash Gordon to fight Aliens.

One more bonus fact: The voice of adult Ralphie narrating the movie is Jean Sheperd, the author of the two books the movie is based on.