National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation vs. A Christmas Story FITE

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Vacation

Is Rusty still in the Navy?

butchered on uk tv right now, so my Facebook feed tells me

overwhelming in its melancholic nostalgia. The last scene with the mom and dad bathed in Christmas tree light and watching snow plays completely different at the tail end of Christmas Day than it does Christmas Eve.

Still believe this, tbh. The end of Christmas and the start of three to four months of winter is always a killer.

the 50 days til the start of baseball spring training, really

I've never seen Preston Sturges because I prefer Charles fuckin Dickens

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christmas story sequel is dreadfully cornball with little of the OG's charm

there's even a scene that's actually a watered down version of a Christmas Vacation scene

Watched the preview and I will be passing

I just love riding in cars!

GRACE

Don't drop me down, Clark!

Something sort of perverse that any single frame of film would center on Chevy Chase, given the galley of assassins making up the entire rest of the cast

The bless-ing!

No one in the movie pulls focus harder than Doris Roberts. She has maybe 4 lines of actual dialogue and somehow gets maybe three dozen laughs.

I’ve seen it too many times, but some small moments still get me. When Clark sticks his head out of the attic window and you see the lunatic application of Christmas lights. And “If I had a rubber hose I would beat you…”

Randy Quaid’s “You serious, Clark?” after he tells the kids about Santa is still probably my all time though.

otm!

It's a goddamn stupid line, but last night I lost it when Randy Quaid said, "Better take a rain check on that, Art, he's got a lip fungus that ain't been identified."

The bless-ing!

― Paul Ponzi

Whenever someone in the family says they can't hear, we whip out this line.

i don’t KNOW, margo

that’s my most quoted line

My carpet! *sobs*

EDDIE

It's a crying shame the older kids couldn't make it. Yeah, I got the daughter in the clinic, getting cured off the Wild Turkey. And the older boy, bless his soul, is preparing for his career.

CLARk

College?

EDDIE

Carnival.

CLARK

You gotta be proud.

EDDIE

Yeah, last season he was a pixie-dust spreader on the Tilt-O-Whirl. He thinks maybe next year he'll be guessing people's weight or barking for the Yak Woman. You ever see her?

CLARK

No.

EDDIE

She's got these big horns growing right out above her ears. Yeah, she's ugly as sin, but a sweet gal. And a hell of a good cook.