If in fact Ralphie did start that fire it would be too "like him" to be true. I truly believe that he didnt do it.
Anyway, my history teacher is second cousins with Joe Pantolliano and he says that Joey Pants is a big time jerk in real life. Once when they were kids, my teacher beat him up. I thought that was hillarious.
"You can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin him only once." -Amarillo Slim