Talk:A Colbert Christmas Story

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breakfast

• brother won't eat
• mother doesn't get to eat
• father and get-rich-quick scheme

Cowboy fantasy (justify need for gun)

first basement heater ref (self-reliance)

going to school

• first sign of overprotectiveness of kid brother
• tricks on the teacher
  • germ and disease ridden communal classroom (!)
• playground pranks, one-up-manship, dares
• never defy authority (the bell rang)
  • fire department, cops show up
• teacher tries to use guilt as punishment
• writing a "theme"
  • "What I Want For Christmas"

coming home from school

• the bullies
• the neighbors (785 bumpus hounds)

Family time

• family news (won the prize)
• brother won't eat again
• mother still not eating
• a strange knock on the door...!
• Fragile--it must be Italian (fascination with all things foreign)
• first battle with the lamp
• ignorance of electrical fixtures...
• bragging with the neighbors
• listening to the radio

School Day #2

• theme fantasy
  • success, just like dear old dad!

Shopping for Christmas trees

• haggling
• singing in car
• fixing the tire
  • doing adult things
  • talking like an adult

Punishment

• eating soap after using a dirty word
• blaming friends
• mom calling friend's mom

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Guilt Fantasy

• they'd be sorry

Back At School

• bringing the teacher something

Back At Home

• joining a club!
  • honors and benefits, already at the age of 9
  • secret message
  • disappointment
• sharing the bathroom
• strange dinner
• the heater again
• second (and final?) battle with the lamp
  • backyard burial

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Going to School

• bragging about each other's dads
• bullies
• themes are graded
  • disappointment
• bullies and broken glasses
  • revenge!
• watching a kid fight
• running to tell Mom

Back At home

• Mom makes everything better
• uh-oh Dad's gonna be home any minute now...

Hometown Parade

• recent movies
• old favorites (Mickey Mouse)
• Santa!

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Department Store

• Santa line
  • weird kids
  • screaming kids
  • employees tolerating all the kids
• finally meeting santa
  • asking Santa (oh no! they got to him too!)

Back At Home

• going to sleep before midnight
• waking up to see snow
• playing in pajamas
• presents
  • from clueless relatives
  • clothes
• tasting alcohol for the first time
• genuine surprise
  • junior's first weapon!