Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The funniest thing about Christmas according to Jean Shepherd&s over-the-top holiday comedy is spending it with your own family In 1940&s Indiana nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle But when his gruff dad & doting mom regularly respond with " You&ll Shoot Your Eye Out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale hint-dropping Santa begging campaign In this tale you&ll be caught up in all kinds of childhood calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen flagpole gambit