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27 Facts About Our Favorite Christmas Movies

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

October 01, 2021

27 Facts About Our Favorite Christmas Movies

One of the finest parts of Christmas is curling up in front of a good holiday film. Everyone enjoys watching a nice Christmas movie to get into the spirit of things, whether it's a comedic picture like ‘Elf’ or a classic tearjerker like ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’.

Among the most wonderful aspects of the winter is being able to snuggle up on the couch and watch your favorite Christmas films.

There are very few things that make us experience more festive than watching Christmas movies, whether alone after working on a chilly cold winter night or with our fellow group and family members.

Even if you've seen your favorite Christmas classic hundreds of times, there's a good chance you've missed out on some intriguing knowledge. Here are a few of our personal favorites!

Bring a popcorn bucket and keep on scrolling! Here are some interesting facts about some of the most popular Christmas films.

26 Elf

Jim Carrey almost played the lead. Carrey was initially attached to star in the movie, but the script took 10 years to finally go into production, and by that time he wasn't interested anymore. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf

25

Sally wore socks for very practical reasons. The original doll's ankles were so thin, she couldn't stop - so they made the ankles thicker, and put socks on her to disguise that. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

24 The Nightmare Before Christmas

The studio wanted eyeballs on Jack. Some people at Disney suggested he should have eyeballs, but Selick and Burton just ignored them. Selick says, We were never going to do that. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

23 The Nightmare Before Christmas

Danny Elfman's role as Jack Skellington was the only time he played a character in a movie he composed music for. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

22 The Nightmare Before Christmas

The movie was originally supposed to be a TV special. That's how Tim Burton pitched it to Disney, back in the early '80s (Disney turned it down because the style didn't work for them then). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

21 A Charlie Brown Christmas

Charlie Brown's dinky little tree comes from a fairy tale. Producer Lee Mendelson suggested the idea of decorating a scrawny, ugly tree because he'd read Hans Christian Andersen's The Pine Tree, and that was on his mind. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bits Of Weird Trivia About A Charlie Brown Christmas

20 A Charlie Brown Christmas

The idea to have Linus recite from the Gospel of Luke sounded like a disaster. When Schulz suggested it, Mendelson and director Bill Melendez thought it'd go over like a lead balloon, and take their careers with it. But it turned out great. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bits Of Weird Trivia About A Charlie Brown Christmas

19 A Charlie Brown Christmas

DOC AL IN I Executives hated a classic Peanuts feature. They didn't like that little kids spoke grown-up lines like We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern syndicate, you know. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bits Of Weird Trivia About A Charlie Brown Christmas

18 A Charlie Brown Christmas

Christmas Time Is Here wasn't supposed to have any lyrics. Mendelson got the idea to put some lyrics in two weeks before the special aired, and called some lyricist friends, but they were all busy. So he quickly came up with them himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Bits Of Weird Trivia About A Charlie Brown Christmas

17 A Christmas Story

It took Bob Clark 12 years to get the movie made. A period movie about a kid wanting a BB gun for Christmas? Hard pass, studios kept saying. MGM reluctantly agreed to pony up the money if Clark signed up to direct another movie for them. 8 CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

16 A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story was out of theaters before Christmas. The movie opened the week before Thanksgiving - and by December 16th it was shown the way out, to make room for other holiday movies. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

15 A Christmas Story

Peter Billingsley was the first to audition for Ralphie. Director Bob Clark thought it'd be too obvious to give the part to him, as he was a well known-child actor-but eventually, he came back to Billingsley after going through 8,000 more kids. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

14 A Christmas Story

Ted Turner made it into a holiday classic. In 1986, Turner bought MGM's entire film library, which included A Christmas Story. TNT started running the movie non-stop during Christmas season in 1997. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

13 A Christmas Story

27 Facts About Our Favorite Christmas Movies — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

12 How The Grinch Stole Christmas

The Grinch's songs were sung by the guy who voiced Tony the Tiger. Thurl Ravenscroft sang The Grinch's songs, but he's probably best known for the line They're Grrrrreeeat! CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'

11 How The Grinch Stole Christmas

They used Max just to stretch out the running time. The story took 12 minutes to read aloud, so they needed another 12 minutes for the special's 24-minute length. They settled on spending time with Max, as he's both observer and victim, at one with the audience. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'

10 How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Chuck Jones pitched the special by acting it out. He'd display his storyboards on an easel to potential sponsors, acting out different scenes. Dr. Seuss would tag along to the pitches, but Jones, seeing his poor face after every rejection, eventually told him to stay home. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'

9 How The Grinch Stole Christmas

At first, Dr. Seuss was dead set against the idea of a Grinch TV special. When his old friend Chuck Jones drove up to pitch him on the idea, Dr. Seuss had planned on stonewalling him by reminiscing about old times until Jones went home. But Jones wore him down. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'

8

In the original script, Buddy was a much darker character. Favreau said that when he looked at the script, he realized the man-elf was way too dark, so he rewrote the script for about a year to get it to a PG place. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf

7 Elf

Buddy's famous belch was voiced by Maurice LaMarche. on FIRE The Canadian voice actor is famous for voicing Brain in Pinky and the Brain, and he also did the singing burbs for Wakko in Animaniacs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf

6 A Christmas Story

The kid had to chew actual tobacco. Actors playing cowboys chew on black licorice, even if they're adults. Not this boy, though-he was given a wad of actual Red Man chewing tobacco, which made him sick. What's a beloved family movie without a bit of child endangerment? CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

5 A Christmas Story

There was a straight-to-DVD sequel in 2012. A Christmas Story 2 features Daniel Stern as the dad of a horny, car-obsessed teenage Ralphie - because that's exactly what everyone wanted to see as a follow-up to the first movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

4 A Christmas Story

You can stay at Ralphie's house. The Cleveland house that played the Parkers' home has been fully restored, and you can book tours and overnight stays. Across the street, there's a museum with props from the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'A Christmas Story': 15 Holly Jolly Facts About The Beloved Holiday Classic

3 The Nightmare Before Christmas

They used a very old-school trick to make Zero look like a ghost. To make him look like a ghost, they shot a transparent mirror showing the puppet (which is off-screen). It's an ancient, old-Hollywood technique for shooting ghosts, says Henry Selick. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

2 The Nightmare Before Christmas

The scriptwriter wanted to change Oogie Boogie because she thought he was a racist caricature. Oogie Boogie had ugly, dangerous, racist connotations for Caroline Thompson - he looked like a Klansman to her; his name was a derogatory Southern term for Blacks; and the character was voiced by a Black singer, so it's like a trifecta of wrongness. She begged Tim Burton to change the character, but to no effect. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

1 The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton's friends saved the movie (depending on how you look at it). Burton didn't think Jack should be giving the kids their real Christmas presents, but a few of his friends watched it, and they all said he should keep it. So he went with that. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Wild Facts About 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

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