[Drew68]

Twenty five years later, still one of my favorites.

[Boogieman]

Plus, it has the whole “kidnap and torture your boss” fantasy too, so really something for everyone!

[Lurker]

Rolling Stone should stick to this work because they suck at anything resembling real journalism.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

With all the times I've seen it, I didn't know Johnny Galecki was in Christmas Vacation.

[Veggie Todd]

Oh, Beverly.....

[Robwin]

Funny film until the end when a “ends justifies the means” angle slithered in and it became just another Hollywood anti-capitalism propaganda film.

[atc23]

I’d rather see Beverly D’Angelo in her underwear than Randy Quaid but that’s just me.

[lowbridge]

I didnt know there was a “christmas vacation” movie until I ran across a dvd copy of it in a local electronics store around 6-10 years ago. It was after new years and the store was trying to get rid of its remaining christmas themed stock such as the christmas movies on dvd.

Ive seen the original vacation movie in 1983 when it came out in the theater. But by 1989 when this movie came out, I had stopped going to the theaters because it was much cheaper to rent out movies on video. So I never knew this movie existed until I ran across the dvd in that store.

[PistolPaknMama]

One of my favorite movies of all time!

[mountn man]

[SamAdams76]

This is Rolling Stone so normally we would need to do some fact-checking here.

However, I can attest that "Christmas Vacation" is indeed a classic Christmas movie. My favorite scenes is that involving the yuppies that live next door (Todd and Margo) because that reminds me of my wife and I back in the 1980s. We've changed since then but we were really the prototypical yuppies back in the day.

[snooter55]

We’re gonna have the “ Hap, Hap Happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tapped danced with Danny Fu*#@ng Kaye “ !!

;o)

[MD Expat in PA]

The company I work for, a manufacturing company requires all employees, including all office personnel to attend mandatory “safety trainings” each and every month.

Most of the time it is making us watch some dry safety video about workplace safety and avoiding hazards and accidents at work and or at home or some safety video that tries to be “humorous” but isn’t really.

At this month’s safety training (for December), we were shown several clips of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and were asked to identify all the unsafe acts that Clark Griswald committed. LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3W-1rouJoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KIO5TjGNHI

The best comment was “don’t invite your family to your house for Christmas”. : ),

[GunRunner]

There are only 4 good Christmas movies: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Home Alone, and Christmas Vacation at number 1.

[rabidralph]

I never saw this movie.

[NCC-1701]

This is a true story.

Five years ago, a squirrel got in my house somehow and I chased it around a while. We had our Christmas tree up and he ran up in it. And to try Christmas Vacation form, he did jump out just like in the movie. I laughed at the ironic connection. Anyway, the squirrel got out of the house and I never saw it again. So every year, a squirrel ornament adorns the tree in his honor. The whole thing was funny.

[CARDINALRULES]

I keep catching parts of the movie since they air it so much on different stations. It’s my favorite Christmas movie.

I also like the Home Alone series, The Santa Clause series, Scrooged, and all those Rankin/Bass animated cartoons.

—
Should have known the other night I was getting sick when I had to turn the channel on the Jello part at the table.

[Intolerant in NJ]

"My cousin here, whose heart is bigger than his brain"
"I appreciate that, Clark"......