The Homecoming: The Walton's Christmas Story

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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?

The broken doll made me sad.

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

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.

[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.

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.

[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.

Was the gay grandpa in both?

[quote]Was the gay grandpa in both

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

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.

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!".

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.