The same fridge that Ralphie and his friends carry up flight after flight of stairs is seen again later in the movie, abandoned by the side of a road in the woods.
When the family gets lost trying to find their way back to the main road and ends up surrounded by a herd of cows, the music that plays during the scene is the same composition that played in 'A Christmas Story' when Ralphie is trying to decode Little Orphan Annie's Secret Message.
A TV movie made for the Disney Channel.
The Parkers' car is a 1946-1948 Chevrolet Stylemaster.