(L-r) WINSLOW FEGLEY as young Jake Doyle and STEVE ZAHN as John Doyle in New Line Cinema and HBO Max’s family film “8-BIT CHRISTMAS.” (Image from HBO Max)
8-Bit Christmas, now streaming on HBO Max, brings the magic of Christmas in the 80s to a new generation. In the 80s, a Nintendo Entertainment System topped many holiday wish lists. Join Jake Doyle as a young kid in the 80s who is on a quest to get one for Christmas - despite whatever challenges come his way! 8-Bit Christmas is funny and entertaining. . .with a heartfelt message that captures the true meaning of the holidays. Check out the best quotes from 8-Bit Christmas below.
Best Quotes from 8-Bit Christmas
"You know what I want for Christmas? How about a winning team! Any Chicago team." - Radio Announcer
"I get more calls on your phone than you do." - Annie Doyle
"When I was a kid I wanted a Nintendo worse than you want a phone." - Jake Doyle
"Is it dangerous because I might die from boredom?" - Jake Doyle
"Yeah of course. We always wore helmets in the 80s." - Jake Doyle
"A known psycho, he had a tendency to lose his mind on a regular basis." - Jake Doyle
"Mikey Trotter. Tough, tenacious, was allowed to watch R-rated movies and it showed." - Jake Doyle
"It was both - Tom Cruise and diarrhea. The two are not mutually exclusive." - Jeff Farmer
"Electronic intelligence so advanced it was deemed not a video game, but an 8-bit entertainment system - Jake Doyle
(L-r) CHE TAFARI as Mikey Trotter, WINSLOW FEGLEY as young Jake Doyle and SANTINO BARNARD as Evan Olsen in New Line Cinema and HBO Max’s family film “8-BIT CHRISTMAS.” (Image from HBO Max)
"My mom was always multi-tasking - thrived on the chaos. Two things at once, she was golden, but give her a third task to juggle things got dicey and you could get her to agree to stuff she wouldn't normally agree to." - Jake Doyle
"A kid who thinks? How refreshing! Maybe you could teach my students how to do that." - Kathy Doyle
"My dad was something of a dyslexic Bob Villa." - Jake Doyle
"It's a beautiful memory and a gross cup." - Kathy Doyle
"It's not even below zero out. What have you been doing inside all day?" - John Doyle
"Video games make you fat, Jake. It's a fact." - John Doyle
"Looks like a no-go on the 'Tendo." - Lizzy Doyle
"He smells like my dad after he practices guitar in the garage." - Teddy Hodges
"You have to be specially trained in Tae Kwon Do, which is like karate - just more expensive." - Timmy Keane
"Sucks to lose. . .to a girl." - Tammy Hodges
"Hey, what I can I tell you, it was the 80s - things got real." - Jake Doyle
(L-r) JUNE DIANE RAPHAEL as Kathy Doyle, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS as Jake Doyle and SOPHIA REID-GANTZERT as Annie Doyle in New Line Cinema and HBO Max’s family film “8-BIT CHRISTMAS.” (Image from HBO Max)
"It was a complicated decade." - Jake Doyle
"It was the end-o of Nintendo at the Keanes." - Jake Doyle
"Would I be arrested? Would I go to jail? Or worse, would I never play Nintendo again?" - Jake Doyle
"It could be 20 below with a Soviet attack on the way and we'd still have school." - Jake Doyle
"Back then people were more close minded about fashion. . .and everything else." - Jake Doyle
"It's called the Dewey Decimal System. Right. This is a life skill people, like cursive." - Ms. Hugo
"Connor Stump was the weirdest kid in school. He always carried around a recorder and his lunch was almost exclusively tuna." - Jake Doyle
"What, do you have a learning disability or something? Wait. . .you don't really have a learning disability do you?" - Neighbor
"A swarm of snot-nosed Gordon Gekkos had been born." - Jake Doyle
"I won't take no for an answer. That is the first rule of salesmanship! The first rule!" - Josh Jagorski
"You have to do what I tell my kids in class to do everyday - make that a vacuum cleaner, suck it up and do the work." - Kathy Doyle
WINSLOW FEGLEY as young Jake Doyle in New Line Cinema and HBO Max’s family film “8-BIT CHRISTMAS.” (Image from HBO Max)
"Our yard looked like a vanilla cake that someone dumped an entire bag of chocolate chips on." - Jake Doyle
"You think I like paying taxes and talking to our neighbors? No. But you gotta do it." - John Doyle
"Santa didn't get me a She-Ra last year so I can't trust him. I have to go through mom and dad." - Lizzy Doyle
"Well, turtlenecks and your parents. Great." - John Doyle
"Everyone - no bathroom breaks. You had your chance at home. Do not test me." - Kathy Doyle
"Sold out in 20 minutes. Last patch in all of Chicago. One woman punched a grandma right in the throat. Same family too." - Store Janitor
"Forget your sister, Jake. She's useless." - Nintendo
"The actual cost of my retainer had been explained to me in terms of 'if you lose it, don't bother coming home.' I figured it cost roughly as much as a new car." - Jake Doyle
"Do you want to deal with your sister if she doesn't get what she wants? I don't negotiate with terrorists." - John Doyle
"Word is you've come into a little cabbage?" - John Doyle
"It's a globe of the whole world! All of it!" - Scout Leader
"It was like winning more school. Why had the troop leaders promised us toys and then given us books?" - Jake Doyle
"Who cares about Billy Ripken?" - Tammy Hodges
"Nice Trapper Keeper, Doyle." - Josh Jagorski
"Connor Stump wasn't a weirdo - he was a rebel. He didn't care about being called names. He didn't care about bullies." - Jake Doyle
"This was a tragedy so great that I'd never go to prom, never go to college, never leave the house. I'd become a 30-year-old balding man in his parents' basement making elaborate pictures of Zelda on his Lite-Brite." - Jake Doyle
"That was the Christmas you and grandpa found your thing." - Annie Doyle
"He was a magician. He was a hero. He was my dad." - Jake Doyle
About 8-Bit Christmas (From HBO Max)
Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, June Diane Raphel and Steve Zahn,8-Bit Christmasis ahumorous and heartfelt look back at the adventures of childhood. Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, the story centers on ten-year-old Jake Doyle’s (Fegley) herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.
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