@@BloodGuyReviews Yeah, William Hickey. I've only seen him in Christmas Vacation and Mouse Hunt, and was surprised to find he was only 69 when he died in 1997 (by contrast, Questel died in 1998 at 89.)
She always did! Especially in the original vacation. I could never understand why they always had clark, chasing after these girls! Ellen put them all to shame!
This really demonstrates what an actor does with the lines. Just reading them some seem angry and some seem flat, but, out of Chevy's mouth they become funny and bright.
If you have a dvd copy of this, be sure to listen to the commentary. Hearing the actors and makers talk about it and what went on during filming is great. One example is when they are commenting that the actor playing Rusty wasn't required to be on the set when they filmed the pool scene with the model, but he was there anyway.
Eddie with the water bottle in the front of his pants. The Dickie under his sweater. I never even noticed till I listened to the commentary version. Love it!
@@dangolfishin I think I know what scene your talking about, the one where Clark gets in the pool with the mysterious woman he first saw driving a sports car. But I’m pretty sure here they are referring to the scene in Christmas Vacation when Clark imagines the hot sales woman taking of her swimsuit while standing on the diving board.
Agreed. My family always tries to watch Christmas vacation, Scrooged, and A Christmas story. If we don't have time/ someone isn't able to show up, we always squeeze in Christmas vacation, if nothing else...
@@85wastedyears Scoorged is my favorite it brings back memories and nostalgia of the good ol days when things were better times. Those are all the greatest with family for the holidays. Definitely need to watch at least one of those all together. 🌟✨🎄🎆
This movie will never get old. It’s not a Christmas holiday unless this movie is being watched just as many times as a Christmas story. Nothing will ever beat Clark’s post bonus rant….or how everyone freezes when the cops bust in.
That's how we feel about it. We bought Christmas Vacation t-shirts for everyone that comes over for Christmas and after dinner we all watch the movie. New kids in the family get a t-shirt for their 1st Christmas here. The end scene you talk about is on my granddaughter's dvd we watch.
I suggest you go back and watch that part again and watch with close attention when Ellen is bending over beside Clark and she reaches her hand out to shake hands, watch where she puts her hand when she retracts it, Mind you not once but twice she cups Clarks family jewels. and no one has ever caught that part. I think ol Chevy and Barbs had a lil something something going on.
The other crazy thing is is once you watch this movie as an adult you could already tell the people in your household or family that are each one of those characters =)
One of the best scenes is the dinner scene. The sounds with them eating that were produced is so fitting and really makes you think you are there in the room.
In german synchro you hear Rusty say "Mompf Pigfood"...Reminds me to the synchro in every Hill/Spencer movie while they eat...i mean the complete dinner scene.
Fun memories! I was a photojournalist in Colorado at the time. I got to photograph a lot of the filming done in Summit County including the semi truck scene (Hwy. 9 north of Silverthorne); The Christmas tree scene (Hwy. 9 north of Breckenridge...now a golf course and million dollar houses); the sledding scene beginning at Breckenridge Ski Area crossing Hwy. 9 in Frisco and ending at the Walmart and the Walmart scene. Little known is they built the entire attic inside the (then) high school gymnasium. Great video. Thanks!
I went this summer and visited all those filming locations! Fun trip, beautiful town. There's a great article online covering everything that was filmed in Breckenridge, the snow storm etc. Bingo!
Matthew, thanks for the filming details. I knew the towns that were film in, but not the exact route. I would also love to visit these sights, but, yeah, the million dollar homes would be depressing. 😑
I will never admit how many times I watched this movie before realizing just a few years ago that Clark slipped the box of lightbulbs on top of the shopping cart right before Eddie smashes it with another bag of dog food. Such a small thing, but hilarious!
I honestly believe that Chevy's commitment to following as much of the script as closely as he did is a testament to the level of respect Chase must have had for John Hughes and his writing abilities. Chevy didn't seem to find much need for ad-libbing wiggle room, something he was notorious for. Plus so many scenes being deleted show that director Jeremiah Chechick and writer Hughes totally understood how fat was supposed to be trimmed and exactly where to do so, which only tightens the film in all the right places. Even scenery and line gags that never get explicitly addressed, like Eddie wearing his own pair of awful white dress shoes mentioned in the original Vacation, Rusty's poster of the mating turtles, Frank Shirley receiving the same mystery gift from every single employee at the company, the Marty Moose mug, Betheny's cat being wrapped in birthday paper (and poorly!), Rocky's Las Vegas shirt (their home in the next film), Rusty mentioning that they should have gone to Hawaii (calling back to what he said to Roy Walley in NL Vacation) and many, many more help cultivate the universe that these movies inhabit and make it more real. Touches and brushstrokes like these have only further cemented NLCV the masterpiece it remains today.🎄🦃
This is the only film (series) I can think of where Chevy Chase doesn't play himself with the constant deadpan sarcastic lines. He really kept Clark a down to Earth dad.
@@DrMurdercock But the fact that Chevy Chase never demanded his lines in the shooting script to be rewritten says a lot about how much he did respect John Hughes - because Chase almost always demanded things to be "his way" for his spoken lines. Yes, he was absolutely a nightmare to work with... but not so much on a Hughes movie set. That definitely says something.
I recall hearing somewhere that the tirade that ended with "Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?" was actually written on cue cards held by the cast/crew off-screen to help Chevy out
I think they mention this in the commentary for this. It's much better than the original Vacation commentary where Chevy either seems super unenthused or some reasonable facsimile lol.
that wouldn't be surprising, even a great actor would have problems remembering and saying all of that at one time that quickly...You could hardly expect Chevy Chase an OK actor to get through that.
My second favorite Christmas movie behind Home Alone. The way it captures the true feeling of a huge get together for a family holiday is just perfect.
Honestly I considered National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to be the greatest Christmas Movie of all time, IMO no other Christmas Movie even if it’s great can never top Christmas Vacation for me just me tho
Home Alone’s moral hits too close to home for me… Being an adult is hard shit, man. Kevins mom left him for like a week and he had a blast until the end. I haven’t spoken to my mom in 4 years…. Lil twerp lives like a gangster and it hurts to see, basically In that regard, the less motherly love bullshit i have to sit through in a movie, the better.
John Hughes 3 hour cuts of many of his movies are all locked up, in A basement somewhere. Some over 3 hours. Breakfast club, Home Alone, planes,trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck. So sad we may never see them.
Vacation came out in 1983. This movie came out in 1989. Brian Doyle Murray is in both movies. He plays the owner of Kamp Komfort in Vacation and in this movie he plays Clark's boss Frank Shirley. In 6 years he seemed to age about 30 years. He was also in Caddyshack as Lou the caddy boss. Hard to recognize him as he looks so young in Vacation. In another John Hughes classic he plays the priest in Sixteen Candles.
@@nickrustyson8124 Holy crap, the mayor of Pugsatony in Groundhog Day previously was Clark's boss? Perhaps he changed professions later following Eddie's kidnapping to connect to the working man
Brian Doyle Murray was also in another major movie released in 1989, Ghostbusters II where he plays the doctor at the mental hospital that Jack Hardemeyer commits the Ghostbusters to. This is but one of my many movies he and brother Bill Murray worked together on.
It's a great comedy film. I love it when Eddie asks Clark if he's surprised to see him and Clark replies "If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be as surprised as I am now !" 🤣
Yeah the scene with the shovel did seem pointless. The closeup of Clark, the "boing" sound, and the cut to the tree on the car said it all. Sometimes less is more.
I get that a film must be cut for time for theatrical release. And I also get that when it comes to films that are a bit older, as in pre DVD and blu-ray and now 4k days, we couldn't have expected directors and producers to save all of the cut footage in the hopes that in the future, formats with much larger storage would exist for home releases. Still though, it would be nice to have all of the cut footage for our viewing pleasure these days. The 70's and 80's contain the majority of my favorite films, and getting to see parts of movies that I more or less know word for word at this point would be a treat. I'd have especially liked to see more of Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany, both of whom are arguably the most humorous characters in the end half of the film. And man, you are so very correct in saying that that last cut scene with the Santa would have been hilarious to see. The film ending with one final 'F U' to the neighbors would become one of the best scenes. It could have popped up a few moments into the credits. There's a technical term for those scenes but I can't remember it.
older movies than this one have 4K Blu-ray releases with deleted scenes. Still, it's possible the deleted scene footage may have been lost to time, which would be a shame.
Chase pulls off an amazing trick in this film. He believably plays a guy earnestly trying to create the best Christmas ever for his family, while somehow managing to still be Chevy Chase. Much of that comes down to Hughs’ script. And Hughs had the advantage, which few script writers have, of knowing who was going to play his lead. I should have guessed that things like ‘nipply/nippy’ and other such Chaseisms weren’t improvised, but I didn’t know that until now.
Say what you will about Chevy Chase, but if there were a hall of fame for on-screen dad rants, the one from the original Vacation ('This is no longer a vacation, it's a quest...') would be first and the Christmas Vacation one would be a close second. So brilliantly written by Hughes and brought to life by Chase.
This movie is such a classic for me. I was a teenager when it came out and the whole thing is so relatable to me and my family. We actually had so many similarities in our family. We had a cousin Eddie (my uncle Nathan), and I am not exaggerating. We had those big holiday gatherings of dysfunction and laughter. So nostalgic. Good times. Sometimes 🤣
Read up on The Thin Red line. Adrian Brody was cast as the leading man but Terence Malick shot some 6 hours or so of footage. By the time he edited it down to 2 hours how he liked he ended up making Jim Cavezel the lead and Brody was cut down to only a few minutes of screen time and didn’t even find out until he watched it at the premiere and was embarrassed as hell. (Probably was all exciting telling his friends and family about starring in it as he was still up and coming at the time I believe)
John Hughes was a contributing writer to National Lampoon magazine back in the 70's and 80's. A lot of the inspiration for his short stories and adaptations come from his real-life family experience growing up. 'Christmas Vacation' was a screen adaptation of his short story _'Christmas '59'_ that was published in 'National Lampoon' magazine in 1980.
Even though it makes sense that these scenes were cut, I’d still like to see a fully restored directors cut. Honestly, that’s what studios should do now if they have enough deleted footage to release a directors cut for it like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Batman Forever
I wish one day they would release the original ending of the Vacation movie from 1983. It has a completely different ending at Roy Wally's mansion and all this crazy stuff happens. I heard even Christie Brinkley shows up as Roy Wally's daughter and that is why she is in the movie to begin with. It has been said that Chevy Chase has a copy of it and the Vacation fans would love to see it.
Quite a few scenes including the opening car and truck scenes, the searching for the Griswald Christmas tree scene, Clark and Cousin Eddie shopping scene, the sledding scene and Clark in the attic scene were filmed in Breckenridge, CO. There is an article about the movie on the GoBreck blog. A lot of their information came from Ann Lukacs who is a Breckenridge local and was part of the camera crew for Christmas Vacation. She might know who "Jolly Jerry" is or at least she might have more info on that particular scene as that would have taken place there in Breckenridge as well.
I've been in Breck a few times and love it there. I was watching the movie one time and noticed the area in the movie. I thought to myself that it looked like the Breck area. In fact, I thought I recognized exact locations. So, went to the credits to see filming locations and sure enough, Breckenridge was mentioned.
My family tries to watch this movie every Christmas eve, yes we have the VHS and we seem to be able to quote this movie every day. This and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles have apparently lost of deleted scenes and i would be delighted to see both of them.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles was actually reduced from a 4 hour film. Sadly, most of the original footage has deteriorated beyond the capacity for restoration so we'll probably never get to see it.
Fun Fact: after the part where Clark is screaming about his boss saying “with a big ribbon on his head” and started cussing out his boss, all of the cast members had signs around their neck with the cuss words he was supposed to use. During the part, the camera cuts back to the family watching him cussing, but for those takes they weren’t watching him. They were taken beforehand and then added so you could see the family reaction without the signs.
@napalm5 in the commentary they talk about the original song being removed and replaced with the track that's showhorned in. They couldn't get the rights, but I forgot what song it was supposed to be.
As someone who’s into lost/unreleased media, it’s always interesting to hear about lost cuts and deleted scenes popular films that you wouldn’t have even thought twice about. It’s relieving to hear that the cut scenes didn’t effect the story too much and didn’t change the key elements we know and love today (especially since John Hughes has a history of story-altering lost cuts). The Christmas tree farm scene in particular is interesting to me as there’s a good chance that it’s out there somewhere if it appeared in early television airing of the film. That Lost Media Wiki might need to be consulted about this as I’d love to see it surface one day. And as a final side note: I’d love to see you cover the lost deleted scenes of ‘A Christmas Story’ one day. They’re pretty interesting and would’ve added some great scenes to the film, even if they didn’t necessarily contribute to the story.
One of my favourite top ten Christmas comedy films to watch, not just at Christmas time but anytime of the year. So many classic scenes and one liner comic genius lines. Still looks a bit nipply out.
Oh my GOD Joe, I've always been mystified by that DVD photo and also wondered how the heck they dug up the tree. Thank you for this, I will sleep a little better tonight. (Great video as always!)
I really wish the full uncut version was available... I'd love to see it as it was edited for the original release. I've watched this movie at least 100 times and can recite it almost line for line.
As much as I love Chevy Chase, I feel he has never given John Hughes the credit he deserves when it comes to these films and prefers to take most of the credit for himself. Its a shame.
I’ve never thought about the cut footage. This was really interesting. I think they made good choices on what to cut with one exception. The Todd and Margo epilogue scene should have been in the finished movie in some form, perhaps as a post credits clip.
These videos are really awesome and fascinating! Another John Hughes ‘lost cut’ that I find interesting is the 2.5 hour cut of one of my favourites the Breakfast Club.
One deleted scene that I have seen once but can't seem to find again is earlier in the movie with Clark and a few of his coworkers talking about what to get their boss for Christmas. One of them says what he likes. Sorry I forget what it exactly was. later in the movie when Clark is giving his boss his gift explains why all the gifts are the same.
Wow, I didn't know so much was omitted from this gem and it is still one of my favourite Christmas films. Thank you so much for putting this together. John Hughes really was in his element with this and Home Alone at the time. I can see why Chris Columbus opted out of this film (Chevy didn't help matters) and went to Home Alone. I also am amazed how well Chevy did with his ranting scene that wasn't adlibbed. I have no idea who played the tree seller but knowing Hughes, it might have been a Chicago regular from one of his other films, that's my guess. Lots of great moments and still my favourite of all the Vacation films.
This movie is a dear family tradition. I just love to hear my Mum laugh as loud as she does watching this stupid film every year. Merry Christmas y’all 🎄
I think I've seen this movie at least 2 dozen times. I've watched it in the middle of summer just to feel a little Christmassy. EVERY time I see just a still from it, it brings a smile to my face. EVERYTIME I watch it I anticipate certain scenes or lines and still laugh at them. Only one other movie does that to me the same way, the original Home Alone.
It would be great if we were all able to see these deleted scenes, same if we were able to see the deleted scenes of other films that John Hughes had either written, produced and/or directed.
Well you also run into the problem that in the 80s pretty much up until the early 2000s studios didn't make it a habit to hang on to all their cut footage. They might store it for a bit, but eventually everything was going to get destroyed because there was no need to keep hanging on to that stuff back then... And even then thats IF there isn't something that happens at the studio. Like the Friday the 13th unedited cuts, which have only ever been released on VHS and, never been remastered or re-released because a fire at the studio destroyed the footage...Universal has had a few studio fires that may have destroyed some footage to some of their movies, a studio fire destroyed the original King Kong attraction from the studio tour.
I heard that the whole side of the house at the end was supposed to blow off in the explosion. There was concept art (maybe storyboards) that recently sold on Ebay.
This year I went out an did the Clark Griswold thing and cut my own Christmas Tree from the forest (with the proper permits of course) and luckily remebered to bring my saw!
Kind of sad they never put all of these deleted scenes on the DVD in the initial releases of it, when Bonus Features were a huge selling point for DVDs. I do see why most of these were cut. However, I think it's a huge sin that they got the post-credits scene as it's hilarious, wouldn't mess with the pacing, and actually sort of brings the Todd/Margo subplot to a hilarious conclusion. Plus, if I had one very minor criticism of the movie, it's that it needed one final laugh after the whole national anthem bit. Those post credits bit would've provided that and I think it's the one deleted gag that would've strengthened the movie. I can only hope they filmed it and eventually put it out.
John Hughes 3 hour cuts of many of his movies are all locked up, in A basement somewhere. Some over 3 hours. Breakfast club, Home Alone, planes,trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck. So sad we may never see them.
I always assumed that, somehow, Clark got the station wagon back to the tree and ripped the thing out by its roots with the car. A shovel makes much more sense. Dickster. _snicker_ I would've paid more for more Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany. William Hickey is one of those great, "Look, it's _that guy!"_ actors, and Mae Questel killed it as batty Aunt Bethany. Major props to both John Hughes for scripting Clark's freak out and Chevy Chase for delivering it in a way that makes me cry from laughing so hard. Oh, that post credits scene would have been superb. It's a shame John Hughes isn't around anymore. I'd love to pick his brain about other situations he would've put Clark and the rest of the Griswolds into.
Same I’ve always thought that they just put a chain around the trunk and use the car to pull it straight up out of the ground! I don’t know why I thought that, but in my head it’s canon
As I saw the picture I remembered that scene and some others from the 90s that I have not seen the 3 or so times I've seen this movie in the past 20 years
According to actor Zach Galligan during the Gremlins DVD commentary, he said Gremlins was shown in the background in Christmas Vacation and Zach was getting residual checks. Years ago, I tweeted to him to ask about that telling him I have never ever seen a scene with Gremlins and it and he replied they must have deleted it. Maybe a TV cut?? But I have never seen that. They are both WB movies so I can see why they would put it in there...but never seen it!
I love Vacation. Watched it every year since it came out. I also read that shooting script-or an early draft-back in February. One thing I noticed was how many of Margo’s lines in the movie were originally Todd’s.
This movie is a Christmas tradition for my family... we know every line. Even though I'm writing this on the day after Christmas... your video officially made my Christmas a little bit brighter. Thank you!!
Every Christmas my sister text me "What's that sound? You hear it? It's a funny squeaky sound." And I reply "You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant."
My old man used to tell me about all the deleted scenes they cut out of the original jaws when I was a kid. Never believed him until I found them, and honestly, they add so much more to the movie that I’d love to see an uncut edit
The Three Stages of Life: Stage 1: When you're a kid, you make fun of confused old Aunt Bethany and musty old Uncle Lewis. Stage 2: When you're grown up, and they die, you miss them. Stage 3: You BECOME Aunt Bethany or Uncle Lewis. I am nearly at Stage 3. Fortunately, I have not yet begun wrapping my garbage as presents, or making Jello with dry cat food garnish.
People always thought I was crazy! I would describe scenes from movies that I saw on cable that everyone swore to me never existed. Then I'd watch the blu ray or DVD and the scene wasn't there lol. I thought it to be some kinda Mandella Effect. I don't understand why the cable tv versions with the extra scenes were never used again....and many probably lost forever.
I had a similar situation. I have watched How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) for 20 years and was familiar with the movie. I then watched the movie on Freeform and there were about 5 scenes that I have never seen before. What a surprise! I have no idea why that wasn't included in the dvd. Those are not considered deleted scenes either. I would think that the cable version cut parts to save time... instead of the dvd.
I watch this movie a few times each Christmas, and also ALWAYS when wrapping Christmas gifts. It hits true because the company I worked for in Durham, NC did this to us one Christmas. Thankfully though one high ranking guy talked the VP into announcing it a few weeks early instead of making it a surprise no bonus. And true enough, we didn't even get a jelly of the month club. But at least my kids were toddlers and didn't know they got cheaper gifts that year.
I remember seeing the tv version of National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 and was surprised at how different it was from the official release. It rearranged whole parts of the movie. If memory serves it was probably 15% different.
@@ashleytuchin7693 yeah I mean it's mostly the same movie but there were definitely some things they threw in that caused them to have to rearrange some parts. Definitely gives it a different feel.
@@ianfinrir8724 It reminds me how, a few years ago, people asked Sinbad if he ever played a genie in a film back in the 90s. These people were confusing him with Shaq, who did play such a role (in a film called Kazaam.)
Would absolutely love to have a version that has the deleted scenes being my favorite Christmas movie but I personally love the ending, so perfect and simple "I did it."
I was sure Chevy's rant was scripted, if only because of the term "Four Flushing, or Four Flusher." John Hughes loved that term. He uses it in Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Dutch, and of course Christmas Vacation.
I’m watching this video wondering why do I recognize that poster and yet I don’t think I saw this movie and I realize the movie I’m thinking of is “I’ll be home for Christmas”
Most of these scenes were in the original 1988 theater release. There are four different released VHS released versions one of them does have all of the theatrical scenes, others have had the scenes altered or deleted. There was a test re-release in theaters in 2019 that had all of the original deleted theatrical scenes removed to see how the public would react.
I'm just glad some of this Stuff never got put into the Final Movie and this is someone who owns the Movie Today on DVD but also had the Movie back then in the Early 90's too!
Watching this movie has been a yearly family tradition for at least the last 15 years ever since i was considered old enough to watch it (i was 8 at the time), though its possible we’ve watched it longer as my father adores this movie. Never knew there were so many deleted scenes, also since when has there been a sequel?
I saw this movie with friends in 1989 during opening weekend for my birthday (11 years old), and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. I'm certain I don't remember seeing any of these deleted scenes. Not even the first one at the Christmas tree farm, and not even at a time when it was newly in theaters. I suspect the cuts may have had as much to do with helping maintain a PG-13 rating (or at least bias it toward a more family friendly PG-13) as with tightening up the story/timing. There are plenty of jokes and visual gags in those deleted scenes that wouuld probably have made quite a few parents wince.
Santa going through the roof at the end of the film should have been left in or at least been included on DVD ,it would have made the ending even more special and receive more laughs.
Years ago I read an article that said were some of these scenes were shown, alot of the people who said they saw it were in Europe and it was when they showed the movie on what is like basic cable here back then. Edited for TV and time kinda channels but in Europe. Years ago someone from Europe recorded a tape recording he found in storage and uploaded here to TH-cam, im guessing it got pulled along time ago if it's still not here cause that's how I saw them
25 years later I'm still laughing my ass off at that 'bend over and I'll show ya' line.
I still wish Hughes woulda clued us viewers in on why Todd & Margot hated Clark so much.
"I wasn't talking to you"
Why’s there carpet wet. I don’t know Margo lol
25 years later and I’m still USING that line.
It's brilliant
Fun fact: Aunt Bethany is the final role of Mae Questel, the original voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.
GRACE!? She died nearly 30 years ago!
@@bleeneo101 THE BLESSING!
Funner fact: the old cigar smoking relative is Dr Finklestein in Nightmare Before Christmas.
@@BloodGuyReviews Yeah, William Hickey. I've only seen him in Christmas Vacation and Mouse Hunt, and was surprised to find he was only 69 when he died in 1997 (by contrast, Questel died in 1998 at 89.)
Fun fact: everything dies.
It never gets brought up but Beverly D Angelo’s Christmas outfit in this movie is stunning she looks amazing
She always did! Especially in the original vacation. I could never understand why they always had clark, chasing after these girls! Ellen put them all to shame!
“Where’s the Tylenol?” One of the greatest rants in cinema history lol.
This and the car rental scene from planes, trains and automobiles.
@@AllOuttaBubblegum123 “oh boy…you’re fucked.” Absolute classic lol.
@@forgettablelisa Whadya know it’s Mr Peterson… You still want his daytime number?
@@MikeLikesChannel lmao another great one
This really demonstrates what an actor does with the lines. Just reading them some seem angry and some seem flat, but, out of Chevy's mouth they become funny and bright.
If you have a dvd copy of this, be sure to listen to the commentary. Hearing the actors and makers talk about it and what went on during filming is great. One example is when they are commenting that the actor playing Rusty wasn't required to be on the set when they filmed the pool scene with the model, but he was there anyway.
Eddie with the water bottle in the front of his pants. The Dickie under his sweater. I never even noticed till I listened to the commentary version. Love it!
Uhh, I'll have to check that out!
BTW: Rusty is played by Johnny Galecki, who's also Leonard on The Big Bang Theory.
The pool scene was in a different movie with a different rusty. Play by Anthony Michael Hall
@@dangolfishin I think I know what scene your talking about, the one where Clark gets in the pool with the mysterious woman he first saw driving a sports car. But I’m pretty sure here they are referring to the scene in Christmas Vacation when Clark imagines the hot sales woman taking of her swimsuit while standing on the diving board.
There was a pool scene in Xmas vacation.@@dangolfishin
THIS IS the quintessential all time number 1 Christmas movie in cinematic history. 🏆
Agreed
Agreed. My family always tries to watch Christmas vacation, Scrooged, and A Christmas story. If we don't have time/ someone isn't able to show up, we always squeeze in Christmas vacation, if nothing else...
@@85wastedyears Scoorged is my favorite it brings back memories and nostalgia of the good ol days when things were better times. Those are all the greatest with family for the holidays. Definitely need to watch at least one of those all together. 🌟✨🎄🎆
I always liked A Christmas Carol (1951) starring Alistair Sim
A Christmas Story & this are my favorites.
This movie will never get old. It’s not a Christmas holiday unless this movie is being watched just as many times as a Christmas story.
Nothing will ever beat Clark’s post bonus rant….or how everyone freezes when the cops bust in.
"Not you! Them! Them!" Classic lampoon humor hahaha
That's how we feel about it. We bought Christmas Vacation t-shirts for everyone that comes over for Christmas and after dinner we all watch the movie. New kids in the family get a t-shirt for their 1st Christmas here. The end scene you talk about is on my granddaughter's dvd we watch.
I suggest you go back and watch that part again and watch with close attention when Ellen is bending over beside Clark and she reaches her hand out to shake hands, watch where she puts her hand when she retracts it, Mind you not once but twice she cups Clarks family jewels. and no one has ever caught that part. I think ol Chevy and Barbs had a lil something something going on.
@@xippzap I’ve caught it every time.. just never really thought into it.
The other crazy thing is is once you watch this movie as an adult you could already tell the people in your household or family that are each one of those characters =)
One of the best scenes is the dinner scene. The sounds with them eating that were produced is so fitting and really makes you think you are there in the room.
In german synchro you hear Rusty say "Mompf Pigfood"...Reminds me to the synchro in every Hill/Spencer movie while they eat...i mean the complete dinner scene.
It is great sound design. The clinking of dishes, and crunching of turkey.
Fun memories! I was a photojournalist in Colorado at the time. I got to photograph a lot of the filming done in Summit County including the semi truck scene (Hwy. 9 north of Silverthorne); The Christmas tree scene (Hwy. 9 north of Breckenridge...now a golf course and million dollar houses); the sledding scene beginning at Breckenridge Ski Area crossing Hwy. 9 in Frisco and ending at the Walmart and the Walmart scene. Little known is they built the entire attic inside the (then) high school gymnasium. Great video. Thanks!
I went this summer and visited all those filming locations! Fun trip, beautiful town. There's a great article online covering everything that was filmed in Breckenridge, the snow storm etc. Bingo!
Matthew, thanks for the filming details. I knew the towns that were film in, but not the exact route.
I would also love to visit these sights, but, yeah, the million dollar homes would be depressing. 😑
I will never admit how many times I watched this movie before realizing just a few years ago that Clark slipped the box of lightbulbs on top of the shopping cart right before Eddie smashes it with another bag of dog food. Such a small thing, but hilarious!
I literally just noticed that for the first time watching it last night, even though I've seen it dozens of times!
Is there a second joke there that Eddie eats dog food? I could never tell if that’s what we are supposed to think.
@@dougherbert7899 Not sure about that. I never assumed it. I figured it was all for Snots. We know Eddie loves his lime jello with cat food though!
I just wonder if Clark went ahead and bought those crushed light bulbs ? Maybe this will be answered in a sequel?
one of the funniest scenes of the movie!!!
I honestly believe that Chevy's commitment to following as much of the script as closely as he did is a testament to the level of respect Chase must have had for John Hughes and his writing abilities. Chevy didn't seem to find much need for ad-libbing wiggle room, something he was notorious for.
Plus so many scenes being deleted show that director Jeremiah Chechick and writer Hughes totally understood how fat was supposed to be trimmed and exactly where to do so, which only tightens the film in all the right places.
Even scenery and line gags that never get explicitly addressed, like Eddie wearing his own pair of awful white dress shoes mentioned in the original Vacation, Rusty's poster of the mating turtles, Frank Shirley receiving the same mystery gift from every single employee at the company, the Marty Moose mug, Betheny's cat being wrapped in birthday paper (and poorly!), Rocky's Las Vegas shirt (their home in the next film), Rusty mentioning that they should have gone to Hawaii (calling back to what he said to Roy Walley in NL Vacation) and many, many more help cultivate the universe that these movies inhabit and make it more real.
Touches and brushstrokes like these have only further cemented NLCV the masterpiece it remains today.🎄🦃
This is the only film (series) I can think of where Chevy Chase doesn't play himself with the constant deadpan sarcastic lines. He really kept Clark a down to Earth dad.
Lol you know nothing about CHevy then. He is/was a self centered prick that gave absolutely ZERO fucks about ANYONE around him
Funny considering that by many accounts he's a first class asshole. This is why Will Farrell vetoed him being in Elf.
@@DrMurdercock But the fact that Chevy Chase never demanded his lines in the shooting script to be rewritten says a lot about how much he did respect John Hughes - because Chase almost always demanded things to be "his way" for his spoken lines. Yes, he was absolutely a nightmare to work with... but not so much on a Hughes movie set. That definitely says something.
Great comment to point out these many gags built into the movie.
I recall hearing somewhere that the tirade that ended with "Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?" was actually written on cue cards held by the cast/crew off-screen to help Chevy out
I think they mention this in the commentary for this. It's much better than the original Vacation commentary where Chevy either seems super unenthused or some reasonable facsimile lol.
that wouldn't be surprising, even a great actor would have problems remembering and saying all of that at one time that quickly...You could hardly expect Chevy Chase an OK actor to get through that.
@@lutherheggs451 he wasn’t that bad. He was just a good enough character actor that they made the mistake of thinking he was a leading man
This movie is hilarious. My family and I watch it every Christmastime.
@matt allen your loss
@matt allen And your opinion matters....how?? #FJB
My second favorite Christmas movie behind Home Alone. The way it captures the true feeling of a huge get together for a family holiday is just perfect.
The mad magazine article is wayy better too
Honestly I considered National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to be the greatest Christmas Movie of all time, IMO no other Christmas Movie even if it’s great can never top Christmas Vacation for me just me tho
Home Alone’s moral hits too close to home for me…
Being an adult is hard shit, man.
Kevins mom left him for like a week and he had a blast until the end.
I haven’t spoken to my mom in 4 years…. Lil twerp lives like a gangster and it hurts to see, basically
In that regard, the less motherly love bullshit i have to sit through in a movie, the better.
John Hughes 3 hour cuts of many of his movies are all locked up, in A basement somewhere. Some over 3 hours. Breakfast club, Home Alone, planes,trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck. So sad we may never see them.
Agreed with you. Also It's A Wonderful Life
Vacation came out in 1983. This movie came out in 1989. Brian Doyle Murray is in both movies. He plays the owner of Kamp Komfort in Vacation and in this movie he plays Clark's boss Frank Shirley. In 6 years he seemed to age about 30 years. He was also in Caddyshack as Lou the caddy boss. Hard to recognize him as he looks so young in Vacation. In another John Hughes classic he plays the priest in Sixteen Candles.
Also he was the Flying Dutchman in Spongebob, how the hell I didn't know this
@@nickrustyson8124 Holy crap, the mayor of Pugsatony in Groundhog Day previously was Clark's boss?
Perhaps he changed professions later following Eddie's kidnapping to connect to the working man
And then he stopped aging again.
Brian Doyle Murray was also in another major movie released in 1989, Ghostbusters II where he plays the doctor at the mental hospital that Jack Hardemeyer commits the Ghostbusters to. This is but one of my many movies he and brother Bill Murray worked together on.
He was also in Modern Problems with Chevy Chase from 1981. He looks young in that also.. maybe mid 30's.
Christmas Vacation is one of those rare, perfect movies that you can watch 100 times (you probably have) and never get tired of it.
Agree 100%.. Christmas vacation is truly a perfect Christmas movie - there is not a single scene that is weak
I get tired of it
I got on to watch the video as soon as I saw the notification. I love this movie!
That's what she said lol but, same! 🤪🤘
Saw this in theaters back in 89. Love this film and took toooo long to make Vegas Vacation.
Whoa. TMI
We need a extended version of the movie!
The epilogue with Todd and Margo made me laugh REALLY hard. XD
they were not the nicest neighbors, were they... i wish Hughes woulda explained the reason why they hated Clark so much.
@@mylovesongs2429 cuz they’re a couple of awful yuppies, that’s why :P
It's a great comedy film. I love it when Eddie asks Clark if he's surprised to see him and Clark replies "If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be as surprised as I am now !" 🤣
God, this truly is one of the best written movies, let alone Christmas movies, ever made. every single little snippet of it is memorable and iconic
Yeah the scene with the shovel did seem pointless.
The closeup of Clark, the "boing" sound, and the cut to the tree on the car said it all. Sometimes less is more.
I thought they dug it up by hand.
@@RichV20 yeah it clearly shows the tree was either pulled up or dug up definitely not cut down.
@@BrandonTharphorrortownusa @rich viola It was pulled up....even if the scene had been in, the guy was not going to give them a saw.
There's a scene where Clark mentions to Eddie that he dug up the tree
I agree, the surprise of seeing the tree dug up was essentially a punchline in itself.
I get that a film must be cut for time for theatrical release. And I also get that when it comes to films that are a bit older, as in pre DVD and blu-ray and now 4k days, we couldn't have expected directors and producers to save all of the cut footage in the hopes that in the future, formats with much larger storage would exist for home releases. Still though, it would be nice to have all of the cut footage for our viewing pleasure these days. The 70's and 80's contain the majority of my favorite films, and getting to see parts of movies that I more or less know word for word at this point would be a treat. I'd have especially liked to see more of Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany, both of whom are arguably the most humorous characters in the end half of the film. And man, you are so very correct in saying that that last cut scene with the Santa would have been hilarious to see. The film ending with one final 'F U' to the neighbors would become one of the best scenes. It could have popped up a few moments into the credits. There's a technical term for those scenes but I can't remember it.
Its called a post-credit scene.
@@jedhawkins1769 Yes. I don't mean after the entire credits though, like Marvel films. I mean just a couple of seconds in.
@@Kai0nTheMoon a stinger?
older movies than this one have 4K Blu-ray releases with deleted scenes. Still, it's possible the deleted scene footage may have been lost to time, which would be a shame.
I think it's just called a mid-credits scene.
Chase pulls off an amazing trick in this film. He believably plays a guy earnestly trying to create the best Christmas ever for his family, while somehow managing to still be Chevy Chase. Much of that comes down to Hughs’ script. And Hughs had the advantage, which few script writers have, of knowing who was going to play his lead. I should have guessed that things like ‘nipply/nippy’ and other such Chaseisms weren’t improvised, but I didn’t know that until now.
I vividly remember seeing the drunk Santa clause on tv only like 4 years ago
Say what you will about Chevy Chase, but if there were a hall of fame for on-screen dad rants, the one from the original Vacation ('This is no longer a vacation, it's a quest...') would be first and the Christmas Vacation one would be a close second.
So brilliantly written by Hughes and brought to life by Chase.
I love the older sister she’s like a girl version of me
This movie is a family Christmas tradition. My family and I have watched this together every year since I was a little boy and I’m almost 40 now…
This movie is such a classic for me. I was a teenager when it came out and the whole thing is so relatable to me and my family. We actually had so many similarities in our family. We had a cousin Eddie (my uncle Nathan), and I am not exaggerating. We had those big holiday gatherings of dysfunction and laughter. So nostalgic. Good times. Sometimes 🤣
Thas what Christmas is really about.... striving to make the best of it in spite or hardships and setbacks
It must suck to have been cast in what would become a holiday classic, only to be cut from the final version.
Two good examples of this is Rik Mayall cut from Harry Potter. Michael Jai White was cut from Kill Bill.
@@NewFriendJason Kevin Costner in The Big Chill. Tracey Ullman in Death Becomes Her.
The receptionist in _UHF_
Read up on The Thin Red line. Adrian Brody was cast as the leading man but Terence Malick shot some 6 hours or so of footage. By the time he edited it down to 2 hours how he liked he ended up making Jim Cavezel the lead and Brody was cut down to only a few minutes of screen time and didn’t even find out until he watched it at the premiere and was embarrassed as hell. (Probably was all exciting telling his friends and family about starring in it as he was still up and coming at the time I believe)
Your dead on, the writings off the charts! The fact he was just straight banging these out back then as well is astounding.
John Hughes was a contributing writer to National Lampoon magazine back in the 70's and 80's. A lot of the inspiration for his short stories and adaptations come from his real-life family experience growing up. 'Christmas Vacation' was a screen adaptation of his short story _'Christmas '59'_ that was published in 'National Lampoon' magazine in 1980.
Even though it makes sense that these scenes were cut, I’d still like to see a fully restored directors cut. Honestly, that’s what studios should do now if they have enough deleted footage to release a directors cut for it like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Batman Forever
As far as I know the theatrical release was the director’s cut. I never heard Hughes was forced by the studio to cut anything he didn’t want to.
I wish one day they would release the original ending of the Vacation movie from 1983. It has a completely different ending at Roy Wally's mansion and all this crazy stuff happens. I heard even Christie Brinkley shows up as Roy Wally's daughter and that is why she is in the movie to begin with. It has been said that Chevy Chase has a copy of it and the Vacation fans would love to see it.
Quite a few scenes including the opening car and truck scenes, the searching for the Griswald Christmas tree scene, Clark and Cousin Eddie shopping scene, the sledding scene and Clark in the attic scene were filmed in Breckenridge, CO. There is an article about the movie on the GoBreck blog. A lot of their information came from Ann Lukacs who is a Breckenridge local and was part of the camera crew for Christmas Vacation. She might know who "Jolly Jerry" is or at least she might have more info on that particular scene as that would have taken place there in Breckenridge as well.
The entire car and truck scene did not look anything like a place on Illinois. I noticed that as a kid but never looked it up.
I've been in Breck a few times and love it there.
I was watching the movie one time and noticed the area in the movie.
I thought to myself that it looked like the Breck area.
In fact, I thought I recognized exact locations.
So, went to the credits to see filming locations and sure enough, Breckenridge was mentioned.
@@braysfinds7479 It probably was though. John Hughes love that place
My family tries to watch this movie every Christmas eve, yes we have the VHS and we seem to be able to quote this movie every day. This and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles have apparently lost of deleted scenes and i would be delighted to see both of them.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles was actually reduced from a 4 hour film. Sadly, most of the original footage has deteriorated beyond the capacity for restoration so we'll probably never get to see it.
Fun Fact: after the part where Clark is screaming about his boss saying “with a big ribbon on his head” and started cussing out his boss, all of the cast members had signs around their neck with the cuss words he was supposed to use. During the part, the camera cuts back to the family watching him cussing, but for those takes they weren’t watching him. They were taken beforehand and then added so you could see the family reaction without the signs.
Wow!
The musical score makes the movie ten times better. It’s absolutely perfect in every way. Every scene is complemented perfectly.
Except for the sledding music
@napalm5 in the commentary they talk about the original song being removed and replaced with the track that's showhorned in. They couldn't get the rights, but I forgot what song it was supposed to be.
As someone who’s into lost/unreleased media, it’s always interesting to hear about lost cuts and deleted scenes popular films that you wouldn’t have even thought twice about. It’s relieving to hear that the cut scenes didn’t effect the story too much and didn’t change the key elements we know and love today (especially since John Hughes has a history of story-altering lost cuts).
The Christmas tree farm scene in particular is interesting to me as there’s a good chance that it’s out there somewhere if it appeared in early television airing of the film. That Lost Media Wiki might need to be consulted about this as I’d love to see it surface one day.
And as a final side note: I’d love to see you cover the lost deleted scenes of ‘A Christmas Story’ one day. They’re pretty interesting and would’ve added some great scenes to the film, even if they didn’t necessarily contribute to the story.
I Didn't think this movie could been any funnier but that line about the squirrel is hilarious 🤣
But the biggest mystery of the movie remains... Why was everyone sooo deathly afraid of the squirrel?
You're telling me they cut Rocky's only line! At least we know he can talk lol!
One of my favourite top ten Christmas comedy films to watch, not just at Christmas time but anytime of the year. So many classic scenes and one liner comic genius lines. Still looks a bit nipply out.
Oh my GOD Joe, I've always been mystified by that DVD photo and also wondered how the heck they dug up the tree. Thank you for this, I will sleep a little better tonight. (Great video as always!)
I really wish the full uncut version was available... I'd love to see it as it was edited for the original release. I've watched this movie at least 100 times and can recite it almost line for line.
I saw the movie at the theater back in 89 and have been looking for an uncut version since the DVD version came out.
Happy Honika,Merrychritmas,HappyNewyear, AND GO FUCK YOURSELF 🤣😂🤣😂
Best Deleted scene.....Presents and Farewell to other Employees
@@dirk4926is the VHS version uncut?
There's a 4K Blu-ray coming next holiday. Fingers crossed that it'll have the omitted footage.
Been watching this movie every christmas for about 20 years and each time I watch I feel like I laugh at a joke I didn't previously get.
Less than two minutes in and your clever editing has already made me laugh a few times. Love all these videos.
When he drinks the eggnog and says "It's good, it's good", I crack up every time..
As much as I love Chevy Chase, I feel he has never given John Hughes the credit he deserves when it comes to these films and prefers to take most of the credit for himself. Its a shame.
That's the problem with streaming: no special features.
I’ve never thought about the cut footage. This was really interesting. I think they made good choices on what to cut with one exception. The Todd and Margo epilogue scene should have been in the finished movie in some form, perhaps as a post credits clip.
These videos are really awesome and fascinating! Another John Hughes ‘lost cut’ that I find interesting is the 2.5 hour cut of one of my favourites the Breakfast Club.
One deleted scene that I have seen once but can't seem to find again is earlier in the movie with Clark and a few of his coworkers talking about what to get their boss for Christmas. One of them says what he likes. Sorry I forget what it exactly was. later in the movie when Clark is giving his boss his gift explains why all the gifts are the same.
Wow, I didn't know so much was omitted from this gem and it is still one of my favourite Christmas films. Thank you so much for putting this together. John Hughes really was in his element with this and Home Alone at the time. I can see why Chris Columbus opted out of this film (Chevy didn't help matters) and went to Home Alone. I also am amazed how well Chevy did with his ranting scene that wasn't adlibbed. I have no idea who played the tree seller but knowing Hughes, it might have been a Chicago regular from one of his other films, that's my guess. Lots of great moments and still my favourite of all the Vacation films.
I assumed they pulled the tree out of the ground using the rope attached to the tree
This movie is a dear family tradition. I just love to hear my Mum laugh as loud as she does watching this stupid film every year. Merry Christmas y’all 🎄
I think I've seen this movie at least 2 dozen times.
I've watched it in the middle of summer just to feel a little Christmassy.
EVERY time I see just a still from it, it brings a smile to my face.
EVERYTIME I watch it I anticipate certain scenes or lines and still laugh at them.
Only one other movie does that to me the same way, the original Home Alone.
I don’t need to waist time seeing Christmas Vacation 2! The Original was a trip & like so many fans we’d love to see the deleted scenes!
I watch this film every Christmas
It would be great if we were all able to see these deleted scenes, same if we were able to see the deleted scenes of other films that John Hughes had either written, produced and/or directed.
Well you also run into the problem that in the 80s pretty much up until the early 2000s studios didn't make it a habit to hang on to all their cut footage. They might store it for a bit, but eventually everything was going to get destroyed because there was no need to keep hanging on to that stuff back then...
And even then thats IF there isn't something that happens at the studio. Like the Friday the 13th unedited cuts, which have only ever been released on VHS and, never been remastered or re-released because a fire at the studio destroyed the footage...Universal has had a few studio fires that may have destroyed some footage to some of their movies, a studio fire destroyed the original King Kong attraction from the studio tour.
I heard that the whole side of the house at the end was supposed to blow off in the explosion. There was concept art (maybe storyboards) that recently sold on Ebay.
This year I went out an did the Clark Griswold thing and cut my own Christmas Tree from the forest (with the proper permits of course) and luckily remebered to bring my saw!
Kind of sad they never put all of these deleted scenes on the DVD in the initial releases of it, when Bonus Features were a huge selling point for DVDs.
I do see why most of these were cut. However, I think it's a huge sin that they got the post-credits scene as it's hilarious, wouldn't mess with the pacing, and actually sort of brings the Todd/Margo subplot to a hilarious conclusion. Plus, if I had one very minor criticism of the movie, it's that it needed one final laugh after the whole national anthem bit. Those post credits bit would've provided that and I think it's the one deleted gag that would've strengthened the movie. I can only hope they filmed it and eventually put it out.
John Hughes 3 hour cuts of many of his movies are all locked up, in A basement somewhere. Some over 3 hours. Breakfast club, Home Alone, planes,trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck. So sad we may never see them.
A lot of those deleted scenes don’t exist anymore. They end up on the floor, and the in the garage.
@@barryfields2964 john hughes took a lot of his secrets of his movies to the grave
This is gonna be good
UPDATE: It was. Merry Christmas everyone!
I always assumed that, somehow, Clark got the station wagon back to the tree and ripped the thing out by its roots with the car. A shovel makes much more sense.
Dickster. _snicker_
I would've paid more for more Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany. William Hickey is one of those great, "Look, it's _that guy!"_ actors, and Mae Questel killed it as batty Aunt Bethany.
Major props to both John Hughes for scripting Clark's freak out and Chevy Chase for delivering it in a way that makes me cry from laughing so hard.
Oh, that post credits scene would have been superb.
It's a shame John Hughes isn't around anymore. I'd love to pick his brain about other situations he would've put Clark and the rest of the Griswolds into.
Same I’ve always thought that they just put a chain around the trunk and use the car to pull it straight up out of the ground! I don’t know why I thought that, but in my head it’s canon
As I saw the picture I remembered that scene and some others from the 90s that I have not seen the 3 or so times I've seen this movie in the past 20 years
According to actor Zach Galligan during the Gremlins DVD commentary, he said Gremlins was shown in the background in Christmas Vacation and Zach was getting residual checks.
Years ago, I tweeted to him to ask about that telling him I have never ever seen a scene with Gremlins and it and he replied they must have deleted it. Maybe a TV cut?? But I have never seen that. They are both WB movies so I can see why they would put it in there...but never seen it!
God, I love those films! Chevy Chase was such a funny actor back then 😆❤️
I love Vacation. Watched it every year since it came out. I also read that shooting script-or an early draft-back in February. One thing I noticed was how many of Margo’s lines in the movie were originally Todd’s.
So I might actually have a vhs recording of the old TV version with the deleted scene. I’ll dig out the tape and see if it’s on there
Unfortunately its not on there. I have an old airing from the 90s as well. Sorry
I think it would be pretty cool to see an extended version of the movie
This movie is a Christmas tradition for my family... we know every line. Even though I'm writing this on the day after Christmas... your video officially made my Christmas a little bit brighter. Thank you!!
Every Christmas my sister text me "What's that sound? You hear it? It's a funny squeaky sound."
And I reply "You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant."
My old man used to tell me about all the deleted scenes they cut out of the original jaws when I was a kid. Never believed him until I found them, and honestly, they add so much more to the movie that I’d love to see an uncut edit
"If you want more Christmas Vacation, watch the sequel"
N-no thanks.
I don't remember the tree salesmen. And I seen this in the theater.
The Three Stages of Life:
Stage 1: When you're a kid, you make fun of confused old Aunt Bethany and musty old Uncle Lewis.
Stage 2: When you're grown up, and they die, you miss them.
Stage 3: You BECOME Aunt Bethany or Uncle Lewis.
I am nearly at Stage 3. Fortunately, I have not yet begun wrapping my garbage as presents, or making Jello with dry cat food garnish.
People always thought I was crazy! I would describe scenes from movies that I saw on cable that everyone swore to me never existed. Then I'd watch the blu ray or DVD and the scene wasn't there lol. I thought it to be some kinda Mandella Effect. I don't understand why the cable tv versions with the extra scenes were never used again....and many probably lost forever.
I had a similar situation. I have watched How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) for 20 years and was familiar with the movie. I then watched the movie on Freeform and there were about 5 scenes that I have never seen before. What a surprise! I have no idea why that wasn't included in the dvd. Those are not considered deleted scenes either. I would think that the cable version cut parts to save time... instead of the dvd.
The vacation movies were always on during their respective seasons in my house
I had one of those early dvd's. It came with a cardboard ornament you could hang on a tree. It read. "Merry Christmas from the Griswalds".
“BUYER PROVIDES OWN DAMN SAW” made me laugh way harder than it should have.
Where’s the Tylenol
I watch this movie a few times each Christmas, and also ALWAYS when wrapping Christmas gifts. It hits true because the company I worked for in Durham, NC did this to us one Christmas. Thankfully though one high ranking guy talked the VP into announcing it a few weeks early instead of making it a surprise no bonus. And true enough, we didn't even get a jelly of the month club. But at least my kids were toddlers and didn't know they got cheaper gifts that year.
As a long time Christmas Vacation viewer a "uncut" version would make a ton of $$$
The content on this channel is fascinating. This is some real Xmas sleuthing to get me ready for the holidays.
I swear you're me, man, with the movies you love. This is even the first DVD I bought as an adult. Amazing as always.
I remember seeing the tv version of National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 and was surprised at how different it was from the official release. It rearranged whole parts of the movie. If memory serves it was probably 15% different.
All the scenes from TV version of Loaded Weapon 1 are on TH-cam th-cam.com/play/PLNatKMBfgVfgZ7yz-gaYWtaQ7AU93ZZhc.html
@@Calculon1712 sainthood (you)
Oh, really? I love that movie!
@@ashleytuchin7693 yeah I mean it's mostly the same movie but there were definitely some things they threw in that caused them to have to rearrange some parts. Definitely gives it a different feel.
@@SeveredLegs Saw that movie at the theatre when it came out. Another comedy gold.
Just because people "remember" seeing something doesn't mean it actually aired.
False memories. Happens to everyone.
@@ianfinrir8724 It reminds me how, a few years ago, people asked Sinbad if he ever played a genie in a film back in the 90s. These people were confusing him with Shaq, who did play such a role (in a film called Kazaam.)
@@IsmailofeRegime Sinbad did dress sorta like a genie when hosting a marathon of Sinbad the Sailor films. Most likely where that came from.
Would absolutely love to have a version that has the deleted scenes being my favorite Christmas movie but I personally love the ending, so perfect and simple "I did it."
I was sure Chevy's rant was scripted, if only because of the term "Four Flushing, or Four Flusher." John Hughes loved that term. He uses it in Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Dutch, and of course Christmas Vacation.
I’m watching this video wondering why do I recognize that poster and yet I don’t think I saw this movie and I realize the movie I’m thinking of is “I’ll be home for Christmas”
"Nothin goes up there and lives to tell about it...'!!!!! OH MY GOSH, HYSTERICAL!!!!!
Dude, you're videos are amazing. Keep em coming. Thanks!
Most of these scenes were in the original 1988 theater release. There are four different released VHS released versions one of them does have all of the theatrical scenes, others have had the scenes altered or deleted. There was a test re-release in theaters in 2019 that had all of the original deleted theatrical scenes removed to see how the public would react.
I'm just glad some of this Stuff never got put into the Final Movie and this is someone who owns the Movie Today on DVD but also had the Movie back then in the Early 90's too!
Oh no. Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. You're not going to do that to yourself, are you?
Watching this movie has been a yearly family tradition for at least the last 15 years ever since i was considered old enough to watch it (i was 8 at the time), though its possible we’ve watched it longer as my father adores this movie. Never knew there were so many deleted scenes, also since when has there been a sequel?
I saw this movie with friends in 1989 during opening weekend for my birthday (11 years old), and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. I'm certain I don't remember seeing any of these deleted scenes. Not even the first one at the Christmas tree farm, and not even at a time when it was newly in theaters. I suspect the cuts may have had as much to do with helping maintain a PG-13 rating (or at least bias it toward a more family friendly PG-13) as with tightening up the story/timing. There are plenty of jokes and visual gags in those deleted scenes that wouuld probably have made quite a few parents wince.
When John Hughes left us , he left a lot of doors open .
I thought i seen him keep finding her lost gifts a long time ago.... Am i losiny my mind?
Santa going through the roof at the end of the film should have been left in or at least been included on DVD ,it would have made the ending even more special and receive more laughs.
I remember seeing this at the theater in grade school. I've seen it pretty much every year since. Its the only christmas movie I care about.
Years ago I read an article that said were some of these scenes were shown, alot of the people who said they saw it were in Europe and it was when they showed the movie on what is like basic cable here back then. Edited for TV and time kinda channels but in Europe. Years ago someone from Europe recorded a tape recording he found in storage and uploaded here to TH-cam, im guessing it got pulled along time ago if it's still not here cause that's how I saw them
Agreed, end scene with Todd and Margo should've been in, perhaps, after they started rolling credits.