Who here thinks that Ralphie's Mom broke the leg lamp, I think it fell down when she was watering

[texanwitch]

her plant.

I wouldn't break that ugly lamp.

[Franzia]

1. I have always thought she broke it because she was embarassed by the 'glow of electric sex'.

Notice how she is sitting in the background and trying hard not to laugh while the Old Man is desperately attempting to glue his Major Award together.

[outofbounds]

2. I do

From the moment it came out of that Italian box she was jealous. The clues suggest that she was because she helped with the cross words that helped him acquire that Major Award. Then again the leg may have looked better than her own and made her feel somehow less sexy. I want one though. lol

[texanwitch]

5. That is right, she supplied the name Victor.

She does look like she might have broke the lamp but she could have broke it any time, or blamed it on the kids.

If if was me I would have let the kids play inside with a football.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Excuse me. That wasn't just a lamp, it was a major award. n/t

[grasswire]

4. not only that, it was Italian!

FRAGILay!

[Lars39]

6. She broke it.

The sight of that leg in the picture window every night embarrassed her. :D

[texanwitch]

7. Maybe.

Ralphie seemed interested in it.

Randy was to small to care.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Hmm. So, we have at least two human suspects.

Could the Bumpus hounds also be behind the damage?

[texanwitch]

9. I think it was Mom but it was a accident.

Yes she didn't like the lamp but I think she could have figured out a way to move it somewhere else.

That's it.

She was moving the lamp away from the window and it fell.

I believe her.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Actually, I am reviewing the case right now and ...

... I believe it may have been the a combination of the father and the delivery men.

When they bring the crate in, it is clearly marked "THIS SIDE UP" and they ignore it and lay it flat.

They may have caused the lamp to be weakened by ignoring that warning.

[texanwitch]

21. I didn't think about that.

The heat from the light bulb could have caused further damage.

I think the Mom would have moved the lamp into a corner at some point and then the basement.

That is what I would do.

[GinaMaria]

10. Don't know

I think she accidentally bumped into the table. She really wasn't a malicious character. She was quite kind and gentle but also carried some puritanical baggage. She was really uncomfortable with that thing glowing in the window for all the neighbors to see. I have to say, if I won a major award and that was it, I would be pretty disappointed.

[texanwitch]

11. I would think a major prize might have been a really nice radio.

The leg would have been like a 3rd, 4th or 5th prize.

I wonder what it would have been made out of, it couldn't have been plastic.

[GinaMaria]

14. just went to wiki

because I thought it was plastic. Bakelite was first introduced 1912, reaching wide spread consumer use in the 1920s. After the First World War, improvements in chemical technology led to an explosion in new forms of plastics. Among the earliest examples in the wave of new plastics were "polystyrene" (PS) and "polyvinyl chloride" (PVC), developed by IG Farben of Germany.

The real star of the plastics industry in the 1930s was "polyamide" (PA), far better known by its trade name nylon. Nylon was the first purely synthetic fiber, introduced by DuPont Corporation at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.

...this is as far as I got.... I believe the film is set in the 40s, so plastics were around and in widespread use at that time. But who knows what that leg lamp was made out of.


Fragile... must be Italian (my favorite line)

[truedelphi]

19. The Family discusses the leg being made out of plastic in the movie n/t

[GinaMaria]

20. LOL. How many times have I seen that movie ?

Thanks for the info.

[truedelphi]

22. Well , I was almost cheating - I had never heard of the movie till abt

2 Hours before I saw this topic - and I watched about forty minutes of it, including the part where they discuss the leg's components.

Company arrived, and I didn't get to see the end of the movie yet. (Nor have I seen the beginning. I'm assuming it will be re-run this weekend.)

[yellowdogintexas]

23. isn't it on 24 hour cycle right now? nt

[GinaMaria]

24. It's usually run for 24 hours straight

on TBS or some such station... for some strange reason, we are not getting that channel today. It's part of my holiday ritual to have that movie on as I cook and do things. I'm pretty sure I can't cook without it ;-)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. she broke it when she was having rough

sex with the mexican gardner from down the block

[crimsonblue]

13. god i hate that movie. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

17. Scrooge!

:P

[enigmatic]

15. one of the all time great films

Filmed in my hometown, too. Darrin McGavin as The Old Man was just about perfect..

[ColbertWatcher]

18. I remember seeing him in the Night Stalker and ...

... at first thought it was bad casting.

But, he was excellent in it.

I could never think of him in anything else after I saw that movie.