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‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Will (Almost) Make You Want to Shoot Your Own Ears Off

OH, FUDGE

FOX’s live musical staging of Ralphie’s quest for a Red Ryder BB gun was a triumph of directing, but suffered from a score about as appealing as a pink bunny suit.

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TBS has famously aired 24-hour marathons of the 1983 cult holiday classic A Christmas Story every Christmas Eve for the last two decades. Who would have thought that FOX’s Sunday night airing of A Christmas Story Live! would’ve seemed even more interminable.

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