Jolly Jerry was played by my husband’s grandfather, Marshall Papke. For years he received Christmas cards from Chevy Chase. It’s the favorite story of Grandpas history, with the exception of his service in WWII.
Wow! That's awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this information. Can you elaborate any further? The OP doesn't seem to come around so I'll ask. Lol
Is all we have is a picture of him and Chevy Chase together and then I found his lines, and then finding the picture of Grandpa on the back of the Anniversary DVD. He used to tell us he was in one of the most famous Christmas movies, and was left on the cutting room floor.
@@AnnaChavez-y1e I'd love to hear more about him and how he came to be involved in the movie! Would you willing to share more information and potentially the photo of he and Chevy? I'd love to make a post that credits him with playing the role. My email is available in my channel description.
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 =)
@@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!
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. 😑
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.
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.
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. 🌟✨🎄🎆
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 🤣
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 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.
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!)
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
Your comment was 3 years ago, but hopefully you get a notification that someone responded. There is another comment, by the actor's granddaughter, telling his name. Edit. Her husband's grandfather, Marshal Papke.
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."
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 !" 🤣
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.
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.
Here faster then Snots at a full garbage can! You are my absolute favorite movie and actor review channel since I found your video on Sinbad in Houseguest. I wish more people would find your channel!
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.
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 remember the DVD extra scenes and thought when I saw that I'd finally found the list/cut scenes. I was disappointed to find out they weren't on there. I believe there was also version of the DVD that asked for a code to see the deleted scenes. I've never found it. I've searched high and low for these cut scenes. Thank you for bringing them to light.
Todd and Margo are snobs, but I do not feel they deserve the abuse they got. I actually feel sorry for them. I understand that there is a deleted scene where Todd is responsible for Clark not getting the bonus. That scene would make me less sympathetic towards them.
I love Christmas Vacation it's not only my favorite Christmas movie but one of my favorite movies of all time including the first vacation. Everything about it is great from writing to the acting to the funny as hell jokes. I do hope one day WB will release the deleted scenes.
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 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.
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)
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
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
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!
WHAT A FANTASTIC JOB YOU DID WITH THESE EXPLANATIONS ~ NEVER KNEW ANY OF THIS STUFF ~ VERY IMPRESSED ~ DEFINITELY GOING TO SHARE THIS ON FB AS IT'S OUR #1 FAVORITE FAMILY'S HOLIDAY MOVIE ~ THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!
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 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.
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 always wondered what was in that jello, but I paused a youtube video of the shot showing the green jello at the dinner table and looked closely. It's dry cat food lining the top of it like a cake decoration. 🤣
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.
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
never knew there was cut/deleted scenes…. Another outstanding video! i don’t think i’ve ever heard of any John Hughes film have a workprint leak out into the wild (which is interesting) 👍
Would love to see a John Hughes Box Set with deleted scenes from many of the movies that he directed, produced and/or wrote. I would pay great money for it and there would be so much great material to see!
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.
Top 5 Christmas movies 1. Home Alone 2. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 3. Christmas Vacation 4. How the Grinch stole Christmas (1966) 5. Jingle all the way/ A Christmas story
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.
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.
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 do kinda remember that guy saying i have a shovel but not the whole seen as you describe , and i've been watching it from the beginning lol i'm old so 🤷♀
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.
I never sat and watched this movie with out laughing most of the way through it, and yes the old way of putting up outside Christmas lights used to take me all weekend , used to be my dad that did it but sense it was his birthday on Christmas Day I took charge of doing it , things were grand growing up for me I’m a kid born in 61 and I miss those great times
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.
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 think the end scene with Todd and Margo definitely should be put in future video releases. I burst out in laughter when I heard how this would have played out!
Jolly Jerry was played by my husband’s grandfather, Marshall Papke. For years he received Christmas cards from Chevy Chase. It’s the favorite story of Grandpas history, with the exception of his service in WWII.
Wow! That's awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this information. Can you elaborate any further? The OP doesn't seem to come around so I'll ask. Lol
So does someone in your family have a cut of the scene or anything like that?
Wow that's incredible. What a great family legacy you have there. Thank you for sharing!
Is all we have is a picture of him and Chevy Chase together and then I found his lines, and then finding the picture of Grandpa on the back of the Anniversary DVD. He used to tell us he was in one of the most famous Christmas movies, and was left on the cutting room floor.
@@AnnaChavez-y1e I'd love to hear more about him and how he came to be involved in the movie! Would you willing to share more information and potentially the photo of he and Chevy? I'd love to make a post that credits him with playing the role. My email is available in my channel description.
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 =)
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.
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
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!
Yes!!!
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. 😑
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.
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.
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.
“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
idk the "room service" rant from Johnny Mnemonic is right up there.
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
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
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
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.
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.
This movie is hilarious. My family and I watch it every Christmastime.
@matt allen your loss
@matt allen And your opinion matters....how?? #FJB
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
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
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.
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 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
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 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.
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!)
12:22 smashing the light bulbs is one of my favorite details!! It’s quick- beautifully timed.
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.
We need a extended version of the movie!
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.
Less than two minutes in and your clever editing has already made me laugh a few times. Love all these videos.
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.
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.
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
Your comment was 3 years ago, but hopefully you get a notification that someone responded. There is another comment, by the actor's granddaughter, telling his name. Edit. Her husband's grandfather, Marshal Papke.
@@garyszewc3339 Thanks so much for alerting to the comment regarding the Jolly Jerry actor.
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."
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 !" 🤣
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.
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.
At the pool dream sequence the underwear hitting the window is brilliant!! I wonder of Hughes wrote that too?
The content on this channel is fascinating. This is some real Xmas sleuthing to get me ready for the holidays.
@5:10 - Eddie's visible Dickey under his sweater is just the pinnacle . . .
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.
Here faster then Snots at a full garbage can! You are my absolute favorite movie and actor review channel since I found your video on Sinbad in Houseguest. I wish more people would find your channel!
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
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!
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
I remember the DVD extra scenes and thought when I saw that I'd finally found the list/cut scenes. I was disappointed to find out they weren't on there. I believe there was also version of the DVD that asked for a code to see the deleted scenes. I've never found it. I've searched high and low for these cut scenes. Thank you for bringing them to light.
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
Todd and Margo are snobs, but I do not feel they deserve the abuse they got. I actually feel sorry for them. I understand that there is a deleted scene where Todd is responsible for Clark not getting the bonus. That scene would make me less sympathetic towards them.
@@jongilbertson2106 They're not really nice to each other, thought, so it kinda evens out.
I love Christmas Vacation it's not only my favorite Christmas movie but one of my favorite movies of all time including the first vacation. Everything about it is great from writing to the acting to the funny as hell jokes. I do hope one day WB will release the deleted scenes.
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?
THIS should be an extra on one of the (many) future releases, superbly done Joe.
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.
Always excited when my favorite channel uploads a video
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?
In 1987 I was working in the National Lampoon office and typed the script of "Christmas Vacation" for Matty Simmons.
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)
Have watched this EVERY year, for at least the last 20 year, and STILL LOVE IT!!! Best Christmas movie EVER made!!!
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
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.
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.
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!
I vividly remember seeing the drunk Santa clause on tv only like 4 years ago
Next to Die Hard... Christmas Vaca has got to be one of my must see movies during the holidays!
Thanks for sharing and the insights!
Dude, you're videos are amazing. Keep em coming. Thanks!
WHAT A FANTASTIC JOB YOU DID WITH THESE EXPLANATIONS ~ NEVER KNEW ANY OF THIS STUFF ~ VERY IMPRESSED ~ DEFINITELY GOING TO SHARE THIS ON FB AS IT'S OUR #1 FAVORITE FAMILY'S HOLIDAY MOVIE ~ THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!
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.
BROOKLYN NY, Best Holiday Movie Ever,I Remember seeing it when it first came out, & Every Xmas After,Such Great Memories, Thanks for Posting 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.
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".
Probably my favorite Christmas movie. I seen this in the theater back in the day.
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."
Love your work dude !!
I always wondered what was in that jello, but I paused a youtube video of the shot showing the green jello at the dinner table and looked closely. It's dry cat food lining the top of it like a cake decoration. 🤣
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.
You're telling me they cut Rocky's only line! At least we know he can talk lol!
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
I've heard there where cards placed all over for Clark's boss monolog so Chevy Chase didn't have to remember the entire thing.
never knew there was cut/deleted scenes…. Another outstanding video! i don’t think i’ve ever heard of any John Hughes film have a workprint leak out into the wild (which is interesting) 👍
I love your channel man.
When he drinks the eggnog and says "It's good, it's good", I crack up every time..
Would love to see a John Hughes Box Set with deleted scenes from many of the movies that he directed, produced and/or wrote. I would pay great money for it and there would be so much great material to see!
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
Top 5 Christmas movies
1. Home Alone
2. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
3. Christmas Vacation
4. How the Grinch stole Christmas (1966)
5. Jingle all the way/ A Christmas story
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.
Lmao aunt Bethany and Lewis dialog made me laugh so hard. You read it great!!!
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.
As a long time Christmas Vacation viewer a "uncut" version would make a ton of $$$
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.
During the holidays I can watch it one after the other and it never gets old.
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.
I do kinda remember that guy saying i have a shovel but not the whole seen as you describe , and i've been watching it from the beginning lol i'm old so 🤷♀
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.
I never sat and watched this movie with out laughing most of the way through it, and yes the old way of putting up outside Christmas lights used to take me all weekend , used to be my dad that did it but sense it was his birthday on Christmas Day I took charge of doing it , things were grand growing up for me I’m a kid born in 61 and I miss those great times
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.
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 think the end scene with Todd and Margo definitely should be put in future video releases. I burst out in laughter when I heard how this would have played out!
I've looked for years and I mean years for that Damn Tree lot scene and always thought I was crazy, thank you so much