The Homecoming: The Walton's Christmas Story

Publish date: 2024-05-03

You're fucking welcome, cunts!

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by Anonymousreply 13December 25, 2020 3:25 AM

John Boy, are you smoking up here?

That line always made me bust out laughing. Of all the things she could have guessed. She didn't smell smoke, did she?

by Anonymousreply 2December 25, 2020 2:50 AM

The broken doll made me sad.

by Anonymousreply 3December 25, 2020 2:52 AM

Who had it worse? The Waltons or Addie without a Christmas tree?

by Anonymousreply 4December 25, 2020 2:55 AM

A brilliant TV movie. Different from the series. I'd be curious which set of adults was closest to the real life family, because the dynamics are very different in the series.

Patricia Neal and Miss Michael Learned are very different, but each was great in their own way.

by Anonymousreply 5December 25, 2020 2:57 AM

[quote]Patricia Neal and Miss Michael Learned are very different, but each was great in their own way.

You forgot me, bitch. I was the original.

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by Anonymousreply 6December 25, 2020 3:02 AM

Patricia Neal wanted to do the series The Waltons but producers didn't think she could handle the grind of a weekly series. Michael Learned does play the role differently but I liked both.

by Anonymousreply 7December 25, 2020 3:07 AM

[quote] John Boy, are you smoking up here? That line always made me bust out laughing. Of all the things she could have guessed. She didn't smell smoke, did she?

Unless she thought that furiously masturbating creates smoke.

by Anonymousreply 8December 25, 2020 3:08 AM

Was the gay grandpa in both?

by Anonymousreply 9December 25, 2020 3:09 AM

[quote]Was the gay grandpa in both

No. The grandpa in Patricia Neal's version was Candy Bergen's father.

by Anonymousreply 10December 25, 2020 3:13 AM

It must have been challenging to rub one out in that cavernous farmhouse with family members lurking around every corner. The girls probably had more luck spending the afternoon with a nicely-shaped cucumber or winter squash, out behind the barn.

by Anonymousreply 11December 25, 2020 3:15 AM

Isn't that the one where John Boy locked himself in his bedroom to write or read and his mother (Patricia Neal) came and found the door locked, and she demanded in a very accusatorial tone "what are you doing in they behind locked doors?". Every time I've seen that one I always yell out "HE'S JACKING OFF YOU OLD BITCH - LET HIM BE!".

by Anonymousreply 12December 25, 2020 3:18 AM

This movie is my Christmas Day staple and has been for years.

I don't remember when I saw it first, but I had the VHS, and now the DVD, and no matter what else I'm doing on Christmas Day, I watch this.

The Chicago CBS station used to show it on Christmas Eve in the afternoon. Maybe this is where I started watching it.

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by Anonymousreply 13December 25, 2020 3:25 AM

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