A Christmas Story Leg Lamp VERSUS OUR OWN LEG LAMP from TTG?

doodo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mjruvE310Y

A Christmas Story lamp ^. ARound 1:49

And you all know TTG's leg lamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gJLM7Za0M
6:14 around..??

It's around that time year , Christmas...

This should be posted in the general monkey island chat section. Just like the 6:16 on the video link, it's the right spot.

doodo!

LOL no christmas story love?

MoonlightMorrison

I loved the leg lamp puzzle. It was so original. Christmas Story is so...what to say?

Rather Dashing

Now there's a bit of Christmas Story love.

A Christmas Story's lamp is way more iconic, and it's the original. How can you prefer the parody to the original?

Olaus Petrus

I had to vote for Tales' leg lamp, because I have never heard about "A Christmas Story", but it's always nice to learn where they get their inspiration.

doodo!

Olaus Petrus wrote: »

I had to vote for Tales' leg lamp, because I have never heard about "A Christmas Story", but it's always nice to learn where they get their inspiration.

Never seen a Classic that's quoted and spoofed every Christmas and like Dashing said, a iconic movie?

Olaus Petrus

doodo! wrote: »

Never seen a Classic that's quoted and spoofed every Christmas and like Dashing said, a iconic movie?

Nope, but that's probably because I'm not American. Here in Europe every nation have their own iconic Christmas programmes and only American Christmas classic I'm familiar with is Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life", because for some reasons they show it every Christmas in my country.

FitzoliverJ

Olaus Petrus wrote: »

only American Christmas classic I'm familiar with is Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life", because for some reasons they show it every Christmas in my country.

It's because the studio forgot to renew the copyright on it

Rather Dashing

Olaus Petrus wrote: »

Nope, but that's probably because I'm not American. Here in Europe every nation have their own iconic Christmas programmes and only American Christmas classic I'm familiar with is Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life", because for some reasons they show it every Christmas in my country.

I suppose if you were going to get one American Christmas classic, you could do worse than It's a Wonderful Life. Still, I suggest you check the film out if you ever get the chance while being in the mood for something fun, kitschy, and sappy.

This actually makes me wonder: How much US television and film content make it over there? I'd assume that a good few Hollywood films make it damn-near everywhere, but I know nothing about TV shows.

Toothless Gibbon

We get pretty much everything in the UK, as far as I can tell.

FitzoliverJ

Rather Dashing wrote: »

This actually makes me wonder: How much US television and film content make it over there? I'd assume that a good few Hollywood films make it damn-near everywhere, but I know nothing about TV shows.

American television has a very high profile in the UK, mainly because they only import the "good" shows and none of the "57 channels and nothing on" drivel (that's an exaggeration - a lot of our crappier digital and satellite channels are chock-full of imported rubbish, and personally I thought "Battlecrap Galactifish" was unwatchable). More to the point, when the US networks cancel a show halfway through a season, we get to watch the outstanding episodes before you do ("Killer Instinct", "Pushing Daisies", etc)

Olaus Petrus

Rather Dashing wrote: »

I suppose if you were going to get one American Christmas classic, you could do worse than It's a Wonderful Life. Still, I suggest you check the film out if you ever get the chance while being in the mood for something fun, kitschy, and sappy.

This actually makes me wonder: How much US television and film content make it over there? I'd assume that a good few Hollywood films make it damn-near everywhere, but I know nothing about TV shows.

Hollywood blogbusters do get here, but they rarely show indie movies and such in movie theatres. As for TV, they do show big shows like Lost and CSI on Finnish TV, but for example many sci-fi series (which would interest me) will never come here, except on DVD, because those are less popular among the mainstream audience.

Besides American and Canadian programmes we have a lot of TV programmes from other European countries, like from the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the Nordic Countries. And for some odd reason there's also relatively many Australian TV shows on our TV channels.

Personally I watch mostly foreign series, because Finnish TV series aren't usually about horror, fantasy, sci-fi or war. Although I do watch Finnish news, documentaries and programmes about domestic politics.

Rather Dashing

FitzoliverJ wrote: »

More to the point, when the US networks cancel a show halfway through a season, we get to watch the outstanding episodes before you do ("Killer Instinct", "Pushing Daisies", etc)

All I have to add to your point is that I loved Pushing Daisies so much, and the show deserved a damn ending.

Olaus Petrus wrote: »

Personally I watch mostly foreign series, because Finnish TV series aren't usually about horror, fantasy, sci-fi or war. Although I do watch Finnish news, documentaries and programmes about domestic politics.

Ah. The only Finnish shows or movies I know about are Star Wreck and Tuntematon sotilas, of which I only think the latter is worth watching(though it is very much worth watching). As much as I enjoy French and German films, and as much as I enjoy British television, Finnish shows and films have had a somewhat low profile.

Thriftweed Fancy Pants

I've never traveled outside the U.S., but I get the general notion that American movies get all the money and therefore stomp the market competition. This is why international films and indie films are often grouped together, and I assume it's basically the same for TV shows.