Honoring The Greatness Of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation...

[PhillyPhreak54]

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).



My two favorite quotes:

Where 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

Hey. 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

[PhillyGirl]

Chevy Chase's Vacation rants (one per movie) are farging classic.

[hbionic]

My favorite is when that lady behind the counter says her name I think and he says, 'no shtein'. Classic!

You may note that I do tend to forget things and it could be something totally different as far as what she says....

[MURP]

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. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

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.

[Wingspan]

PLAY BALL!

[Father Demon]

"Eddie, I wouldn't be more surprised if I woke up tomorrow morning with my head stapled to the carpet."




By far, my favorite Christmas movie.  We watch it as a family every year.

[Syracuse]

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.

[PhillyGirl]

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

[BigEd76]

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.    In comes the boss' wife, they shake hands.....and the hand goes right back to the crotch... 

[Yeti]

Eddie: "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."

   


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.

[Reidme]

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:

"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?"

[Susquehanna Birder]

That's the quote I was just thinking of, Reidme. Chevy has the best way of delivering stuff like that.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Best two lines in the movie:

Where 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.

Hey. 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?

[Butchers Bill]

Cousin Eddie draining the chemical toilet in the storm drain:

shteinters full!