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I can’t watch football until my wife goes to bed so for the next 90 mins I will be live tweeting Christmas Vacation.
Apparently this movie only has a 68% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes which tells me 32% of people are just awful.
Apparently this movie only has a 68% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes which tells me 32% of people are just awful.
My guess on the richest cast members:
1 Julia Louis Dreyfus
2 Johnny Galecki
108 Randy Quaid
(Note I am not sure if 108 people were in this movie)
1 Julia Louis Dreyfus
2 Johnny Galecki
108 Randy Quaid
(Note I am not sure if 108 people were in this movie)
Can one of you tell me what the first kind of tree displayed at the White House was?
Good oral history of the movie here if y’all are interested... https://pocket.co/xhjS52?cta=1&src=ph
The “did you bring a saw”/cut to dug-up tree video is a nice gag but... they didn’t bring a shovel either.
Looks great.
Little full.
Lotta sap.
Little full.
Lotta sap.
Fun fact: On the cover of the People magazine Clark reads is the movie’s director.
Oh the crunch enhancer? Yeah it's a non-nutritive cereal varnish. It's semi-permiable. It's not osmotic. What it does is it coats and seals the flake, prevents the milk from penetrating it
Brian Doyle is my 3rd favorite Murray brother but honestly I love them all.
‘This the season to be merry.
Well, that’s my name!
(Ah, there is a nip in the air though.)
Well, that’s my name!
(Ah, there is a nip in the air though.)
Thinking back on who has the most money from this cast... you could pretty much tell me any number for Juliette Lewis’ net wealth and I would believe you. In debt $50M? Sure, that makes sense. Owns an island in the Caribbean? Yup, I buy it.
“At this point, I can’t even see the nuts. They must’ve blown away.”
“I don’t know what to say except it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.”
Anybody know if Beverly D’Angelo is still with Al Pacino?
Anybody know if Beverly D’Angelo is still with Al Pacino?
“Why is the carpet all wet, Todd?”
“I don’t KNOW, Margo!”
“I don’t KNOW, Margo!”
The actor who plays Todd has been a one-off guest star on about a million shows, mostly CBS procedurals and once as a character named “Ivan Trotz” on the original 90210. But his best non-NLCV work was as the dad in Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got a Gun” video.
“He worked really hard, Grandma.”
“So do washing machines.”
“So do washing machines.”
Clark’s dad is in bed reading Sassy magazine.
The house used for the movie is the same one from “Lethal Weapon 2” that had a bomb on the toilet.
The scene in the attic when Clark keeps stepping on loose boards is fine and all but nothing compared to Sideshow Bob and the rakes.
I’m a begrudging fan of all the Vacation movies (not counting Ed Helms’ one) but what separates this one & the original from the other 2 is the genuine amount of heart in them. The scene of Clark watching the old home movies is perfect & absolutely makes this movie work.
Todd and Margo are essentially Frank Grimes characters, which I think is great for scripts like this. They provide the point of view of someone who isn’t a crazy person that underscores just how absurd the world we’re rooting for really is.
Just cracked my 3rd Elysian Space Dust so please forgive any future misspellings or crude remarks.
Better take a raincheck on that. He’s got a lip fungus they ain’t identified yet.
Falls down a well, eyes go crossed. Gets kicked by a mule, they go back. I don’t know.
Falls down a well, eyes go crossed. Gets kicked by a mule, they go back. I don’t know.
If Ole Miss ever changes their name from Rebels, I suggest Leghounds.
Little tip for y’all this holiday season: White Russians but with egg nog instead of milk.
Got the daughter in the clinic getting cured off the wild turkey and the older boy, bless his soul, is preparing for his career.
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out into the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead?
Subtly great gag: Every Christmas gift for Frank Shirley is exactly the same thing. Look at how they’re wrapped.
“Get me somebody. Anybody. And get me somebody while I’m waiting.”
“Get me somebody. Anybody. And get me somebody while I’m waiting.”
It’s absolutely insane what has happened to Randy Quaid. I mean, he’s released sex tapes! More than one! And he looks like this now...
The guy who plays Bill has had a hell of a career:
Drop Dead Fred
LA Story
Raising Arizona
Head of the Class
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
Class Act alongside Kid &/or Play...
Drop Dead Fred
LA Story
Raising Arizona
Head of the Class
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
Class Act alongside Kid &/or Play...
Shitter’s full!
Do they still make MeisterBrau?
Another great subtle gag: Clark puts light bulbs in the cast. Eddie then drops a giant bag of dog food on top of them.
If only I had all the money back I sent to that TV preacher.
What about the kids?
Well, his kids can take care of themselves...
What about the kids?
Well, his kids can take care of themselves...
Aunt Bethany was the original voice of Betty Boop.
Uncle Lewis has some underrated credits including Sea of Love. I’d like to think he introduced Beverly D’Angelo to Pacino.
I also always get him confused with Henry Gibson from The Burbs & the Illinois Nazi in Blues Bros.
Uncle Lewis has some underrated credits including Sea of Love. I’d like to think he introduced Beverly D’Angelo to Pacino.
I also always get him confused with Henry Gibson from The Burbs & the Illinois Nazi in Blues Bros.
Oh Aunt Bethany, you shouldn’t have done that!
Oh dear, did I break wind?
Oh dear, did I break wind?
Save the neck for me, Clark.
If that thing had 9 lives, she just spent ‘em all.
I honestly would love to be enrolled in a jelly of the month club.
Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?
Fixed the newel post!
(This movie is still the only time I’ve ever heard the term “newel post.”)
(This movie is still the only time I’ve ever heard the term “newel post.”)
You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant.
“Gonna catch it with the coat, smack it with the hammer.”
Incidentally, I went through a 6 mos span in which squirrels kept coming in thru our chimney. Had prob 10 in the house before I shelled out for a $600 chimney cap. Got good at catching them but they chewed up our blinds.
Incidentally, I went through a 6 mos span in which squirrels kept coming in thru our chimney. Had prob 10 in the house before I shelled out for a $600 chimney cap. Got good at catching them but they chewed up our blinds.
Obviously Julia Louis Dreyfus went on to star on Seinfeld, but she wasn’t the only NLCV star to do that... John Randolph, who plays Clark’s dad, was the original Frank Constanza. He was recast after one episode with the role going to Jerry Stiller.
Randolph’s part on Seinfeld - the episode where they buy a TV for The Drake - was re-shot with Stiller for repeats.
Randolph is a super fascinating guy though. He was blacklisted as a communist sympathizer in the 1950s.
Randolph is a super fascinating guy though. He was blacklisted as a communist sympathizer in the 1950s.
“Yes officer, it seems my husband’s been abducted. He was wearing a blue leisure suit. The plates were from Kansas. He was a huge... beastly... BULGING man.”
Beverly D’Angelo improvised the hand on Chevy Chase’s crotch. The hand shake and return to crotch moment is hysterical.
Feels like there was a great new Christmas movie every 2-3 years for a while but what’s the last genuinely rewatchable one? Elf? That was 17 years ago! I guess some people enjoy Four Christmases but even that’s 2008. Hollywood sucks these days.
The Christmas Vacation theme song is just wonderfully awful. recorded by Mavis Staples, which makes me wonder if she felt it was beneath her. Also I bet she recorded it in, like, mid-Aug. Also my daughter’s middle name is Mavis, after her grandmother but also kind of bc of this.
Anyway, hope you’ve all enjoyed this viewing of one of my top 10 all-time favorite movies.
Merry Christmas, Sparky.
Merry Christmas, Sparky.
