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Chances are you’ll be watching **‘A Christmas Story’](A Christmas Story (1983) - Movie | Moviefone)**at least once over the next few days. Ever since TBS started airing 24 hours of the film beginning Christmas Eve through Christmas Day, it’s become a tradition in many households to keep their televisions tuned in to Ralphie’s X-mas-related trials and tribulations for hours upon hours on end.
As such, there’s a good chance a few questions may pop up while the film is playing in the background, attempting to drown out Uncle Eddie’s post-Christmas dinner snoring. We’ll be taking the next couple of days to answer some of those questions for you, this way when your little cousin Bobby turns and asks whether a person can really have yellow eyes, you’ll be waiting with a smile and the correct answer.
‘A Christmas Story’ Myths: Can a Person Really Have Yellow Eyes?
Short Answer: Yes
Longer Answer: As Ralphie continues on his quest to acquire the elusive Red Ryder BB Gun, he’s continually threatened by the local bully, Scut Farkus. When we’re first introduced to Farkus, Ralphie’s voice-over points out that he has yellow eyes – so help me god, yellow eyes! But is it really possible for a person to have yellow eyes?