Since I noticed several others find this to be the best Christmas movie ever, I think we should dedicate a thread to it.
I discovered the greatness of this movie my freshman year in high school (1993). Me and my friends would watch it every year. And I would watch it everytime it came on TV. It even got me in trouble during football practice one day.
We're standing in the huddle waiting for our coach to decide what play he wants us to run next. My best friends looks at me and says in a perfect Uncle Louis voice, "Bethany, you couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant".
I started laughing uncontrollably. My coach hears it and decides that I should suffer for laughing in the huddle. So Aunt Bethany's line cost me a trip around the huge ass practice complex...and I had to count the steps and report them to the coach when I got back (1,756 of them by the way).
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My two favorite quotes:
QuoteWhere do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny farging Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of iceholes this side of the nuthouse
QuoteHey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shtein he is. Hallelujah. Holy shtein. Where's the Tylenol?
All hail the great Clark W. Griswold :evil
Chevy Chase's Vacation rants (one per movie) are farging classic.
My favorite is when that lady behind the counter says her name I think and he says, 'no shtein'. Classic! :yay
You may note that I do tend to forget things and it could be something totally different as far as what she says....
my favorite part of the movie is by far Randy Quaid at dinner when the dog is belching and puking under the table. I almost died of a stroke the first time i heard it.
How could I forget Eddie standing at the curb..."shteinters full"...with a can of Meister Brau in his hand in his bathrobe and one of those funky redneck hats.
Classic.
PLAY BALL!
"Eddie, I wouldn't be more surprised if I woke up tomorrow morning with my head stapled to the carpet."
:-D
By far, my favorite Christmas movie. We watch it as a family every year.
Neighbor- "Hey, Griswold, where are you going to put a tree that big?"
Clark- "Bend over and I'll show you."
There are sooooooooooooo many, that movie is farging great.
Eddie and that dog are hilarious.
I'm about to watch it...lol. I think I'm bringing it to the gym where I will go on the elliptical and watch it on there...lol
Great Xmas movie...and IMO the best of the Chase "Lampoon" movies...
Love the part at the end after Clark announces the bonus and SWAT raids the house and they tell everyone to freeze.....and she has her hands on his crotch. :-D In comes the boss' wife, they shake hands.....and the hand goes right back to the crotch... :-D
QuoteEddie: "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 got to be proud."
Eddie: "Oh, yeah. Yeah, last season he was a pixie-dust spreader on the Tilt-O-Whirl. He thinks that 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."
:-D :-D
I don't like Chevy Chase, but NLCV is a classic. Another CC movie we like in the Yeti house is "Funny Farm". If you never saw it and you like Christmas Vacation, it is a must rent.
I love the senile Aunt and Uncle who wrap up the jello mold and the cat as presents. When that box with the cat starts jumping around, thats fargin funny.
Clark to Cousin Eddie:Quote"May I refill your egg nog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead?"
That's the quote I was just thinking of, Reidme. Chevy has the best way of delivering stuff like that.
Best two lines in the movie:
QuoteWhere do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny farging Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of iceholes this side of the nuthouse.
QuoteHey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shtein he is. Hallelujah. Holy shtein. Where's the Tylenol?
Cousin Eddie draining the chemical toilet in the storm drain:
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shteinters full!
:-D
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 29, 2004, 08:44:14 PM
Best two lines in the movie:
QuoteWhere do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny farging Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of iceholes this side of the nuthouse.
QuoteHey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shtein he is. Hallelujah. Holy shtein. Where's the Tylenol?
that's why phreak posted them in his first post. :P
I don't read very well. Remember, I went to Council Rock and then Penn State. It's a miracle I have a job. ;)
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 30, 2004, 08:28:11 AM
I don't read very well. Remember, I went to Council Rock and then Penn State. It's a miracle I have a job. ;)
With those 2 schools, its a miracle you can even type. >:D
i aghhfrrweee
:-D @ FF
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I refuse to watch Christmas Vacation 2. Just a disgrace that they would even make it.
Quote from: MURP on November 29, 2004, 04:00:05 PM
my favorite part of the movie is by far Randy Quaid at dinner when the dog is belching and puking under the table. I almost died of a stroke the first time i heard it.
"That's just Snot yacking on a bone. There...he got it."
Quote from: PhillyGirl on November 30, 2004, 08:31:18 AM
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 30, 2004, 08:28:11 AM
I don't read very well. Remember, I went to Council Rock and then Penn State. It's a miracle I have a job. ;)
With those 2 schools, its a miracle you can even type. >:D
Hey, tack it eazy on the Council Rock bashing.
Yeah, my uncle was the head of the math dept there! >:(
Quote from: MadMarchHare on November 30, 2004, 11:23:28 AM
Yeah, my uncle was the head of the math dept there! >:(
Your uncle isn't Mr. Adler, is it? He was my Calculus teacher senior year.
To me this isn't just the best Christmas movie ever it is one of the best comdies. I need to go out and purchase it soon.
Quote from: drunkmasterflex on November 30, 2004, 01:46:45 PM
To me this isn't just the best Christmas movie ever it is one of the best comdies. I need to go out and purchase it soon.
I just watched 35 minutes of it while on the treadmill at the gym...lol. I totally forgot about the part at the beginning for some reason. I love when Chevy Chase is going to bed and is sticking to the magazine (from the pine tar) and then after kissing his wife goodnight, gets her hair stuck in his hand and then the lamp after he turns it off....lmfao
Tis the season, bitches.
I wanted to buy this movie when I was in Best Buy today and they didn't have it. What a crock o shtein.
I watched it yesterday instead of going out to watch the Eagles game. It was a good decision.
i love it, it's the best Xmas movie out there.
My team had a little Christmas party at work today and we watached it...no matter how many times I've seen it I still laugh when Cousin Eddie says "shteinter was full!".
"Hey Griswold. Where do you think you're gonna put a tree that big?"
"Bend over and I'll show you."
"You've got a lot of nerve talking to me like that Griswold."
"I wasn't talking to you."
ha!
It was on NBC last night, Jay. I have the DVD though.... :)
I missed it last night. :(
I wanted to get the DVD today but all they had at the BB was Christmas Vacation 2. I didn't even know they made a 2!! It didn't look good and probably sucks likes most sequels do.
CV and Its A Wonderful Life are two movies I have to see each year multiple times.
The best Christmas movie is A Christmas Story in which all the kid wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB Gun.
Quote from: Tomahawk on December 19, 2005, 05:33:14 PM
The best Christmas movie is A Christmas Carol in which all the kid wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB Gun.
I think thats "A Christmas Story". It was great until TBS started playing it a bazillion times a year.
Quote from: Butchers Bill on December 19, 2005, 05:36:34 PM
Quote from: Tomahawk on December 19, 2005, 05:33:14 PM
The best Christmas movie is A Christmas Carol in which all the kid wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB Gun.
I think thats "A Christmas Story". It was great until TBS started playing it a bazillion times a year.
That's what I meant to type, but, alas, I am a retard.
Quote from: Tomahawk on December 19, 2005, 05:37:12 PM
That's what I meant to type, but, alas, I am a retard.
Anyone who thinks that "Christmas Story" flick is better than NLCV is a retard. I agree.
Quote from: Butchers Bill on December 19, 2005, 05:36:34 PM
Quote from: Tomahawk on December 19, 2005, 05:33:14 PM
The best Christmas movie is A Christmas Carol in which all the kid wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB Gun.
I think thats "A Christmas Story". It was great until TBS started playing it a bazillion times a year.
I agree with both assessments.
i love the sledding scene. there's a second? odd. never heard of it.
funny farm is definately funnier thou.
Everyone should get The Hebrew Hammer, if you want to talk about a holiday movie.
Or, watch the latest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's filled with loads of jew humor that most gentiles wont get.
Quote from: MDS on December 19, 2005, 06:44:44 PM
Everyone should get The Hebrew Hammer, if you want to talk about a holiday movie.
Or, watch the latest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's filled with loads of jew humor that most gentiles wont get.
the all time greatest holiday episode was when Larry hired the live nativity scene and got into a fight with Joseph
It's that time again, kiddies.
QuoteHey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shtein he is. Hallelujah. Holy shtein. Where's the Tylenol?
Ha!
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Eddie: I don't know if I oughta go sailin' down no hill with nothin' between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.
Clark: Do you really think it matters, Eddie?
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 08, 2006, 09:32:15 AM
It's that time again, kiddies.
Hell yes.
"Can't see the line, can ya Russ?"
"Nope."
Watched it again last night.
Solid gold.
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on November 30, 2004, 08:42:53 AM
Quote from: MURP on November 29, 2004, 04:00:05 PM
my favorite part of the movie is by far Randy Quaid at dinner when the dog is belching and puking under the table. I almost died of a stroke the first time i heard it.
"That's just Snot yacking on a bone. There...he got it."
Luv that part. Especially when the table is shaking and all the plates and silverware are clinkin'.
Friggen' hilarious.
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Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 24, 2008, 11:53:26 AM
Watched it again last night.
Solid gold.
Hit it up Saturday. It doesn't feel like Christmas until the shteinter's full.
Watching it right now...
"I don't know Margo!"
I've watched it twice this season. I am texting back all the losers texting "Merry Christmas" with "The shteinter was full!"
I got it on DVD for Christmas. Go me!
Not nearly as cool as what I got.
Yeah, but I wouldn't want a hummer from my dad anyway.
Quote from: General_Failure on December 25, 2008, 11:34:17 PM
Yeah, but I wouldn't want a hummer from my dad anyway.
Even if he used your new :CF t-shirt to clean it up?
He was actually using my mom's old :CF t-shirt to clean up expanding foam in the roof rafters just the other day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M55m81BWdBc
GOAT