National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & Commentary
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- SUCH a quotable movie! If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now.
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“Nobody looks that good coming out of a pool”
Phoebe Cates: Hold my beer
Another movie that she need to see, but it also makes me want Ashleigh to watch The Santa Clause with Tim Allen, because Judge Reinhold
I think a lot of guys thinking of wet women (*snicker*) disagree.
Even better Stacy's mom in the scene that does pheobe homage in the video: I'm in love with Stacy's mom.
Phoebe Cates: Hold my top
If you know, you know
That guy who plays Clark's boss, Ashleigh, is Brian Doyle Murray, Bill Murray's older brother. Yes, he played the Mayor in Groundhog Day.
He was also the boss in Caddyshack. And Noah Vanderhoff from Wayne’s World.
He was in Ghostbusters 2 as well
He also played Bill Murray's dad in "Scrooged" and also appears as Psychiatrist in "Ghostbusters 2" :)
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 And Bill Murray's other brother played Bill Murray's brother in Scrooged. And Bill Murray's other other brother was in there as well.
He also voiced the Mayor in Ghostbusters the Video Game.
Also, I died laughing at when they said
“Where do you think you’re gonna put a tree that big?”
“Bend over and I’ll show ya.”
“You got a lot of nerve talking to me like that Griswold”
“I wasn’t talking to you.”
That, Ashleigh, wasn't just "a CD player" - that was a Bang & Olufsen set, pretty much the most expensive manufacturer of hifi gear (high quality too, but a bunch of the price you paid didn't translate into better technology but bought you the honour of owning an effing Bang & Olufsen stereo). The design was quite unique and recognizable - after all there's no use to buy a B&O set and then nobody can recognize you're that rich from across the room, right? And yes, the Griswold's Yuppy neighbours totally were the kind of people who would own stuff like that.
Coincidentally, the first place I stayed in america as an adult was Chicago and there was a B & O store across the street from the hotel. So, in this universe, that store is probably where Griswold’s neighbours got the stereo.
But they were also stupid enough to buy Slim Suits. Take that for what it's worth
I have that same B&O cd player in storage!
Thank you for explaining what it was! I’ve watched this movie so many times through the years and I’ve always wondered exactly what it was.
"Nobody looks that good coming out of a swimming pool, nobody"
Phoebee Cates has entered the chat.
to be fair: also a fantasy sequence
Beat me to it...😂😂
Hi Brad
If this is a movie suggestion, I concur.
I will never NOT get horny during that scene. Those fast times at ridgemont high really pass by quick.
One of the best Christmas movies ever. The older I get, the more it feels like a documentary about how nuts the holidays are, and the more I come to the realization that, “Oh God, I grew up and became the Cousin Eddie of my family.”
Oh SH*T! I just realized I'm a cousin Eddie too.
Rubber sheets and gerbils?
Yes
It's ok. Eddie had one of my favorite lines out of the Vacation movies.
"I don't know why they call it Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by itself."
So, unless your Hamburger Helper flies solo, you still have bragging rights.
@Thomas Corp... Don't feel bad I am Aunt Bethany .
This is one of the only movies I can watch every year and never get tired of it. It's so damn classic! It's in my pantheon of all-time favorite comedies, along with Blazing Saddles and Caddyshack.
Christmas Vacation is a staple every year, even down here in Australia. You could set your clock to one of the free to air stations screening it in the evening of Christmas Day, every year at about 7.30pm. I still get a laugh out of it even after having it seen it once a year for the past 25.
All the Christmas movies are almost the best thing about the holiday. Elf, Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Scrooged, Die Hard....
@@jwbrkr21 It's like a reunion with old friends. I love the Christmas music too.
This is one of the most popular Christmas movies here in Germany! It's almost a tradition in my family for 30 years to watch this film at least once at Christmas time!
also here in Denmark, Great Xmas Movie :-D
Oh yes... aside from Gremlins and Die Hard, this is a must-see at Christmas with my family, too!
hey! I just ran into you on OGBojangles reaction vid for THIS MOVIE! I hope you have a great holiday!
When the Griswalds went to Germany, they looked for Sex.
I think its one of the most popular here in Sweden as well and i think it has been on TV every Christmas pretty much since it came out. I have seen it many many times myself.
Fun fact: Aunt Bethany was played by Mae Questel, who was the original voice of Betty Boop! This was her last movie, actually. Talk about going out on a classic!
I was just about to mention that!
Also the original Olive Oyl
Betty Boop and Olive Oil. She even briefly played Popeye while Jack Mercer was deployed in WWII.
I thought her last movie was voicing betty boop one last time in "who framed roger rabbit?"
Betty Boop's act was stolen from Helen Kane. (She lost a lawsuit, but you just have to listen to her sing and look at a picture of her.)
Every Christmas Eve this is a must watch for me
Honestly, this is one of the few sequels out there you can watch without having seen the original. There's a couple of references to the previous two films but not all that many (and I don't think there's any to European Vacation) and the only thing you're missing out on is a bit more context to who Cousin Eddie and his family are and that this isn't the first time the Griswalds have had a family bonding experience turn into a comedy of errors that ends in multiple felonies.
I was going to say the same thing about Cousin Eddie. He's a very memorable......character.
hold up...this is a sequel???
@@adamdolezalek9402 Yes, it's the third in the series. National Lampoon's Vacation (about a road trip to a Disneyland stand-in), National Lampoon's European Vacation (about a trip across Europe), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (this film), then followed by Vegas Vacation (about a trip to Vegas, not sure why they dropped "National Lampoon" from the title). There was a made-for-TV sequel that I don't think anyone's seen and a "soft reboot" Vacation that has Ed Helms starring as an adult Rusty taking his family on a road trip vacation.
There are a lot of call backs to the original. The singing in the car, the car going airborne and the kids ending up in the front seat, the end featuring a kidnapping and a SWAT team, Clark killing someone else's pet, etc.
I disagree. I think it will be enjoyed more in the first vacation is watched first.
I like how Ashleigh says "Nobody looks that good coming out of a pool” and basically everyone watching hears "Moving in Stereo" in their mind's ear.
Ooohhh too true
Daaaamn Right!!
And then do what Judge Reinhold's character did.....in our mind's eye, of course...not for real.
Or "Stacey's Mom".
the scene that wore out the VHS tapes in that exact spot.
Ashleigh "it's not something I'd ever watch again", while the rest of us watch it least once a year.
Everyone is different man. Just accept it and move on...
I always save it for Christmas Day, it's my #1 xmas movie, lol.
Have you not learnt yet that she has the worst taste in movies? Every movie she doesn't like is loved by the majority of the world and the films she likes are known as some of the worst films ever made. She's an idi0t.
@@alexfaye8799 Ok She's such an idiot So... How sad are you for getting on her TH-cam channel and leaving butthurt comments? Get a life buddy.
@@alexfaye8799 yet you've watched a lot of reviews from someone you don't like. Who's the idiot now?
"You got two hours til dinner"
That was too relatable. 😂 Some days they start whining WAY too early. Good luck with the weight loss, Beans!
This is and always will be a classic for so many. I miss this type of humor.
My Mom ALWAYS forgets about the squirrel part. And every year, she ALWAYS loses her shit when it happens. She usually has a rough year, so it's always great seeing her cry laughing.
"The lady at the jewelry store, like that scene felt forever to me."
Strange, it always felt too short to me as a teenage boy.
Is one of the sequels all about uncle Eddie? He was quite funny as a bit player, but a full movie,no fecking way.2 minute shtick about his plate in his head was enough for me, no Chevy chase= no national lampoon
Lingerie woman in a mall kiosk
PLEASE WATCH IT AGAIN!!! The timing of the jokes and one-liners are spot on. Love your channel
Forget it.
Forget it. Think she likes anything but comic book movies? Shiny fast and noisy? Think she's going to watch ANYTHING without getting paid for it? This is her boutique job.
Partial list of . movies she doesn't get:
Godfather
E.t.
Big Sleep
Beetlejuice
Fellowship of the Ring
three musketeers 1973
Two towers
Brokeback Mountain
Godfather 2
Laurel & Hardy
See, she's a Southerners and we are are pride of one thing lf any: our ignorance. We are dumb and proud of it. In fact, we we're no part of the u.s. These are foreign films to us.
This came out in 1989 and then was officially re-released in select theaters in 2019 for it's 30th anniversary. This is the only movie I've seen in theaters both as a kid and as an adult.
Also Cousin Eddie is my spirit animal.
See, you need to watch the first National Lampoon's Vacation to learn the origins of the Marty Moose cups. 🙂
Cast Trivia: Aunt Bethany was played by Mae Questel who was the original voice of Betty Boop and Popeye's main squeeze Olive Oyl in the 1930's. Rusty was played by Johnny Galecki from The Big Bang Theory.
And Uncle Lewis was played by Dr. Finkelstein from "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
23:02 Julia Louis-Dreyfus you may recognise her from such shows as Seinfeld, New Adventures Of Old Christine, or Veep.
😁
Julie Lois-Dreyfus was also in the movie Troll….I didn’t like the sequel.
I don't think she recognized her at all which is a travesty lol
Millennials didn't watch "Seinfeld''. I said the same thing when ever a movie with Michael Richards was reacted to. She knew nothing & no one.
Same can be said about the show "Everybody Loves Raymond" & Doris Roberts (Ashleigh actually did say that she looked familiar) & how about a VERY young Juliette Lewis in this movie?? Of course our Ashleigh didn't recognize her either.
Le sigh.🙄
@@LibraKing3121 I'm "technically" a millennial (graduated high school in 2002) but find that I relate to gen X a little more. Seinfeld was soul defining lol
@@SarahRichardsGraba True. I work with o few & they talk about how sexist and racist & "cringe-worthy" the show is. Yet some of them LOVE it. I dunno anymore. smh
I think my favorite aspect of this film is that the term "Griswold house" is a recognized reference to someone's house that is over-decorated with lights and things. (And applicable to ANY holiday, not just Christmas.)
Ashleigh: What're you doing?
Beans: I'm cleaning myself, do you mind?
Clark’s son Rusty is played by Johnny Galecki, best known for playing Leonard on “The Big Bang Theory.”
And David on "Roseanne" prior to that - ironically, he was Mayim Bialik's first kiss (ever) on "Blossom," as well.
He’s always gona be David
He was also the biggest asshole on the WB lot lol
*No way!* Wow, learn something new every day(:
I was wondering why he looked familiar.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the most accomplished comedic actresses of all time. She was the neighbor and was Elaine on Seinfeld, was lead on The new adventures of old Christine for 5 years, and the lead on Veep for 8 years. And no... she's not related to Richard.
I agree and feel similarly about Johnny Galecki.
... and now she's in the MCU!
Julia Louis Dreyfus is the recruiter of The Thunderbolts! 😏
We always had a real Christmas tree. My mom would go out and cut down the most deformed, scenery-ruining pines on our lot and ask us to pick the least hideous one.
"I enjoyed it, but I don't need to ever see it again" is a really good statement to attach to a 3 out of 5 rating. Good job on the scale.
This has been my family's annual Christmas movie for as long as I can remember. I think I have the whole thing memorized by now, lol. Also, I had my own live reenactment of the squirrel scene in this movie last Monday at work! A squirrel had gotten in the building over the weekend. They saw it on the security footage, so they were warning everyone. Not 30 minute later that thing crawls out from under a door across the hall from my office. Cue me shouting "Squirrel", the squirrel running off down the hall, then back up the hall, then down the hall again, bouncing in and out of open offices. Then people start chasing it out of the office space and into the stairwell. The end result was 5 people chasing it up and down the stairs and finally out the building. I'm pretty sure security has saved that footage and I would love to get my hands on a copy lololol.
Considering they never have the same children I really do feel they can be stand alone.
Yup indeed. That's what makes these movies so fun and easy to jump into without having seen the other movies before.
Yeah I'm forever trying to figure out why Rusty is younger here than in the OG
Chevy Chase told TIME that recasting the Griswold kids was a joke about Clark being such a family man , but not really knowing his own children .
Main focus is Clark and not the kids , they are more or less irrelevant to the story .
They joke about it in Vegas Vacay
@@dnish6673 "it's like I hardly recognize the kids." Lol
"Nobody look good coming out the pool"
Denise Richards: Hold my beer 🍺
Denise holds Phoebe Cates beer.
@@Reggie2000 yeah I didn't grow up in the 70's so, denise holds phoebe activea yogurt
Fast Times at Ridgemont High was in 1982. Phoebe is also just 8 years older, and she looks really good for an older women, which is what Denise Richard's is as well.
In fact, let me state a fact. There both in their 50's!
Yup! Deal with that brother! Lol
@@Reggie2000 lol dude phoebe is cute but denise is hot.. I'll take starship troopers over gremlins all day
@@trambo21 but what about Wild Things lol
My uncle died right before this movie came out and my whole family was a bundle of doom and gloom over Christmas. So my husband and I took a break and sneaked out to see this movie, and I don't know what it was, the dysfunctional family, getting too big of a tree (they really look smaller in the field) or the 80's staple of picking on Yuppies , or just Clark trying sooo hard to have a Merry Christmas - but whatever it was, we laughed until we cried. It was the best medicine for a dark, dismal week. I still to this day laugh every time I see the cat get fried, and still feel guilty for laughing every time.
Great movie, this is one i have to watch every year around Christmas time. 🎅🏻🎄
That's a large snow BLOWER, that's why it has blades. So places in the north and west the snow gets too deep to use a plow, so the snow blower is used to throw the snow 40-50' off of the roads. Otherwise you'd end up with an 8' wall of snow on the edge of the road...
Slot car racing😜
or on the edge of my driveway. Thanks, city plow guys.
@@silverfischdotnet or blocking your vision at any stop sign in the u.p, cause you definitely don't need to see anything from there
I have literally watched this every Christmas since it came out over 30 years ago!
Growing up in Eastern Canada, we went out and bought a real tree every year, and after we moved from the city, my dad and I would go out for a long walk in the woods and cut one down. It's such a nice part of Christmas, and the aroma from the balsam fir is amazing.
Ashleigh: Hello and welcome to our first day of Jingle Beans
Beans: *jingling sounds*
Ashleigh: HOW DARE YOU
With Beans messing with the Christmas lights let’s hope she doesn’t end up like Aunt Bethany’s cat!
(Zap!) (Meowrr!)
Might end up baked beans if that happens
If that thing had nine lives, he just spent 'em all. ;)
I hope she does, I can't stand that fuckin thing or hearing about it constantly!!!!!!!
@@HonRevPTB You do not talk about the hair baby like that! I was making a joke tying into the film and you are wanting someone’s pet to die. Do you have no shame?
I watch it every year for Christmas. You don't need to see vacation. There is little continuity. I just love the humor in this one.
Such a great Christmas movie, Chevy Chase Rules 🌭
My mom and I love the line “It’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.” We quote it to each other all month long. 😆
Our family always quotes "look around you, we're on the threshold of hell". lol Oh and "It's Good, It's good." when ever we drink something we like, just like how Clark says it when he's snapped and drinking the egg nog.
"Thith tree ith a thymbol of the thpirit of the Grithwold Family Chrithmath"
"If that cat had nine lives, he just spent them all".
Chevy Chase reminds me of my Dad…
And that’s why we watch it at least once a year.
I understand your 3 rating, a lot of the humor would hit differently if you were older or if you had grown up with the Vacation movies.
This is the kind of movie you might not totally like the first time you watch it but it gets better with repeat viewings. That’s why it’s a good holiday movie. It comes up every year. IMO.
The red headed lady is Doris Roberts from Everyone loves Raymond
And the boss is Bill Murray’s big brother! The mayor from Groundhog Day.
And Remington Steele.
Thank you so much for doing these reviews. I feel like I don't thank reactors enough for taking so much of their lives to make all of us watching our TVs or phones laugh and cry and enjoy a movie with someone. You're a great joy to watch and you make my rotten days better. ❤🙂🙂
I have never heard someone say they would not watch this film again!It is a classic!
A few things:
He broke his hand in real life when he punched the plastic deer.
The red head mother in law is the mom on everybody loves raymond.
The female neighbor played Elaine on Seinfeld.
His boss is Bill Murrays brother, that is why we was on groundhog day.
This is hands-down, the most mandatory Christmas movie of all time!
A Christmas Story has entered the chat.
Die hard I the biggest most watch xmas film
No.
Scrooge(1970) with Albert Finney and Alec Guiness, all other Christmas movies are just optional.
@@hollyodell4012 I believe that you meant to say Scrooged.
the son russell is Johnny Galecki, from Big Bang Theory.
Yup, he said he had learned a LOT about comedic timing from Chevy Chase.
and of course Margo is Elaine from Seinfeld
" 🎼 Grandma got run over by a reindeer , coming home from my house Christmas Eve. And if you think there's no such thing as Santa , well as for me and grandpa we believe !!! 🎼".
Ashleigh, your MMM upload and clocking out from work are the only two things that I look forward to on Monday. Thanks for making Mondays better.
“Why is the carpet all wet Todd?”
“I don’t KNOW Margo”
My favorite part of the entire movie and you skipped it 😭😂
my favorite too! lol
My niece's name is Margo and she has almost had it with me quoting that line to her!
Lol mine too and I thought the same thing
Ellen is just protecting what she finds most important in a high-stress situation.
Just so happens to be Clark's jingle jangles.
Or Jingle Balls… to each their own.
Or Clark’s Christmas package
How can u not watch this again and again? It's a classic. Smh.
"Merry Christmas"
"Mary, that's my name"......"No shit!!"
I love this movie. Never gets old, for me anyway
I've always wanted to do a Christmas Vacation themed holiday party where everyone dresses as someone from the movie and I call dibs on Uncle Eddy out by the curb.
Oh that would be fun!! I think I'd pick Audrey (fun 80s hair) or Margo (funniest female wardrobe)
We watch this every Christmas Eve; I can quote Clark's boss rant verbatim.
we too watch it at christmas, and we take turns quoting alone to the different characters. this year I'm Ellen :)
I’m so excited for this! Christmas Vacation is hands down my favorite Christmas movie ever! 🎄
"That guy" who was "the mayor in Groundhog Day" is Brian Doyle-Murray - Bill Murray's brother.
12:04 "WHY WOULD YOU SIT WHERE THE DOOR IS?"
Oh, you mean the guy that drove under a semi and stapled Christmas lights to their house?
Don’t apologize for any of your reviews. I know it’s disappointing for us who love these movies to hear you say it was just okay (cough Labyrinth cough) but I think we’d all rather you be honest than try to please your viewers by being fake. We love your fresh look on things! Never change.
Exactly. I don't want to be pleased by her final judgement. I too prefer an HONEST opinion rather than a crowd-pleasing comment. Why should everyone love the same movies equally anyway? I am already surprised at the amount of movies I felt are just "ok" and she gave them 5 our of 5 stars. I love that difference and how everyone sees differing qualities in movies :)
This is the quintessential Christmas movie for me and a family tradition every year. It thoroughly embodies the chaos that seemingly arises surrounding Christmas. There’s are some nuances, especially regarding Eddie, that you’d get by watching Vacation first, but I really do think this movie stands on its own just fine. I will never get tired of watching it.
My favorite scenes are with Lewis and Bethany. “The blessing” is an inside joke in my family, especially with my mom and my uncle, because neither one “could hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant” around this time of year.
I really appreciate the tweaks you've made to the channel, like the smaller circular frame and such. It doesn't ACTUALLY matter because I'll watch no matter what, but I wanted you to know it didn't go unnoticed haha
This is one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time. I hope you will be watching Bad Santa this season as I feel it's humor style will be up your alley. I feel the main reason people suggested watching Vacation first (besides it being great) is it would contextualize the "when have I ever overdone something" line and Cousin Eddie and his family are in Vacation and it would make his sudden arrival a bigger surprise. Eddie stole the show in Vacation and I remember going crazy seeing him back in Christmas Vacation.
I feel like Ashleigh would really enjoy Bad Santa.
The Grinch who Stole Christmas 2000 Jim Carey is my number 2
I'm low key kinda sad that you didn't love it as much as I do. But I also grew up watching it every Christmas. I lost my mom in 2018, and this was her favorite Christmas movie, so it's got a lot of sentimentality to it for me. 💙💙
Thanks for sharing about your Mom. Sorry for your loss. Keep remembering her, because nobody is ever truly gone, until they are forgotten.
Don't ever be afraid to give a movie a low grade. Not everybody loves every movie. If you didn't like a movie that I loved that doesn't make you wrong or me right. I'll still watch your reactions regardless because they're genuinely entertaining.
When aunt Bethany says "don't throw me down now clark!" I laugh so hard at that delivery and Clark's "I'll try not to aunt bethany" 😆
That moment needs an Aunt Edna callback.
every year when i walk in my grandma's house on Christmas i always say "is your house on fiah Clahk?"
@@markmac2206 "is rusty still in the navy?" 😆
Fun fact: played by the voice of Betty Boop.
The entire “Vacation” series of films would be a fun reaction at some point. Though you don’t need to watch them in order, it does kinda help.
Van wilder was better than xmas vaca
This 1 is like the 5th best lampoon's
...
In other words. I could not appreciate this movie because I had seen the others..
Vegas vaca was better than this 1 ffs
@@misterno-ice-guy8082 you really think European vacation is better?
I love that Russ and Audrey were recast in each one.
@@misterno-ice-guy8082 wow. Your rankings are....certainly rankings.
Skip European Vacation!! It's The Worst Of The Entire Series!! Instead Watch Euro Trip!!
something that flew over my head as a kid was how the tree went up so quick. then I saw it when i was older and remembered that Eddie's dog was drinking out of it, and Clark said it'd dry out.
I have a buddy who lived in the house he grew up in, and he took me through the yard to see all his childhood Christmas trees, because they had planted them after Christmas.
As a 14 year old boy seeing this in the theater I had a crush on Beverly d'angelo especially when I saw her in that white blouse at Christmas.
PS. As for what got destroyed by the large icicle through the window.
I believe it was a high end stereo amplifier of the day.
If you ever watched insanely old cartoons, Aunt Bethany was Betty Boop. The boss is actually Bill Murray's older brother. Sounds totally different, but when you look at a picture of his face the resemblance is spot on.
Yeah, Mae Questel even voiced Betty one last time a year earlier in "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" :) Bless her heart. Also Eddy's wife, who was played by Miriam Flynn, voiced Taz's Mother in "Taz-Mania".
She was also olive oil in the Popeye cartoons
Bill Murray's brother is in a lot of Bill Murray's movies. Well both brothers, but the older one (I believe he's older) is in the most.
IS YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE, CLARK?
I also know him as the voice for Captain Kcknuckles from FlapJack the cartoon.
if I woke up with MY head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now that this film only got a few points above E.T. in Ashleigh's book. I was expecting her to need oxygen before it was half over!
I will always remember 1991 (or 92?) walking on the sidewalk in East Hampton close to the A&P and a Chevrolet Blazer was pulling out of a parking ahead of me so I stopped to let them go. As I looked at the driver there he was, the one and only Chevy Chase (in his beige Chevy 😆) giving me that mischievous smile, signaling with his hand to go ahead. I freaked out internally and I waved back at him to say thank you and off I went probably with this dumb expression on my face... 🤪. My life for the most part has been a Lifetime movie of the week every freaking week but this memory I'll always cherish and makes me smile.
You really need to do A Christmas Story. You know, the one with Ralphie and his quest for a B B gun
Definitely needs to be seen by her.
But if she did she’ll shoot her eye out.
she did last year.
6:50 That was a playful nickname for Clark that I think D'Angelo and Chase came up with on their own. It's in all the Vacation movies.
This movie is a tradition for me. I don't know why I still laugh so hard at the squirrel in the tree, but I do. 🤣 I even wear my Christmas Vacation shirt when I watch it.
What a cast: Leonard from The Big Bang Theory, Elaine from Seinfeld, Marie Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond, the President from Superman II, and Pierce Hawthorne from Community, in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Also starring Flo from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the guy who blew up the aliens in Independence Day, and Woody Harrelson's partner in crime in Natural Born Killers.
And Dr. Finkelstein from "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Talking about Bud Luckey.
Also Aunt Bethany's voice is the voice of the animated "Betty Boop"
@@robertsmith3883 Yup, both in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ *and* back in the day!
When I was growing up we had a magic key that hung on the doorknob for Santa.
Mini rant: How has NO ONE reacted to Fletch yet? Arguably one of Chevy's best performances, and its a shame there are still no YT reactions of it. So I am asking you, Ashleigh....please be the first to react to Fletch (1985) :)
Fletch and Fletch Lives are both very funny.
I’ve brought up Fletch on a few reaction channels. I’m hoping that, as the years pass, more reactors will have to start digging into the ‘deep cut’ movies & end up getting to films like Fletch & some of the others I’ve recommended (Out of Sight, The Descendants, The Warriors, Sin City, Seven Samurai etc).
Fletch is so so so funny
Could not agree more!!
YES THANKYOU! Been suggesting it to lots of reactors for quite some time.
Saw it in the theater when it came out & was the first VHS i bought. Watch so many times.
IT'S ALL BALLBEARINGS NOWADAYS
I’ve found Christmas Vacation to be an acquired taste. When I first saw it in the 90s, I felt almost the same way Ashleigh felt but learned to love the film over the years.
On a side note, I’m disappointed the “It’s the season to be Mary” scene was not in the review video. That’s like the funniest line in the movie for me.
"No shit!" 😁
"Bend over and I'll show you." I steal that burn at least 5 times a year, so funny
His boss is played by Brian Doyle Murray, Bill's oldest brother.
Also, one of the second assistant directors is Frank Capra III, grandson of the famous director Frank Capra, director of It's A Wonderful Life.
Hey Ash, you can appreciate one without watching the other. However, please do check out the original Vacation. It is hilarious 😆
I saw this one before the others and loved it. It's still my favorite of the series. And yeah, she should check out, if nothing else, the original Vacation.
Actually, if you watch all of them, there are jokes that only land if you have seen the prior films. Vacation and European Vacation (in that order) are requirements to get some of the in-jokes here.
Yeah, this is a staple in my family every Christmas. I've still never seen the others.
@@fightingfaerie Oh man, you definitely need to at least watch the original Vacation movie. The European one isn't bad either, but I probably like that one the least out of all of them. Just avoid "Christmas Vacation 2" completely, lol.
All the 'Vacation' movies are hilarious.
Oh my God I couldn’t be more excited to watch this with you. One of my favorites.
love your reactions and reviews.
One of the best holiday movies ever!! I do recommend watching the original Vacation. It’s a classic.
Aunt Bethany was the voice for Betty Boop. When Chase punched the Santa, he actually broke his finger and that’s why he starts kicking it.
Loved you enjoyed this movie!
Yup and he kept going on doing the scene. What a trooper ^_^
Aunt Bethany also voiced Olive Oyl
Aunt Bethany ("Did I break wind") is played by an actress named Mae Questel. She's best known as the original voice of both Olive Oyl and Betty Boop. If you find a picture of her in her younger days, you'll see that Betty Boop was a caricature of her!
This movie I can watch over and over. And the dinner scene there is so much going on that each time I watch it again discover something new.
So, some fun facts.
The tree harvesting scene was filmed on the road I live on just a few miles from here tho now it doesn't look that way anymore (wider, more lanes).
The sledding scene in the trees was also in that same area tho up in mountains off the road.
The end of the sledding scene was filmed in the town of Frisco main street at our Wal-Mart.
The attic scene was filmed in the gym of the high school. They built a full attic inside the gym.
The shopping scene with the crazy amount of dog food was in our Wal-Mart.
That guy from Groundhog day is Bill Murray's brother Brian Doyle-Murray. 8)
We have one of those glass moose mugs cause it makes us laugh.
Fun fact. Aunt Bethanie was the voice for Betty Boop
I love that Ashleigh refers to Hubben by his full name. 😂😂
My family never had a real tree for Christmas either and I'm fine with that. For as far back I can remember, we had the same artificial tree with a wooden center pole and than limbs that were like giant bottle brushes that you had to place in the holes in the pole according to the color painted on the wire. And every year we'd try to figure out which color was which, since some of them had gotten worn off, or looked similar to other colors.
My grandfather also had only artificial trees, but he would buy a new one every couple of years. He was like that with almost everything, always looking for something new and better.
Honestly, I never saw the logic in killing a perfectly good tree just to have it inside for a couple weeks and then throw the dead, brown remains out on the curb to get hauled away. It always seemed like a waste to me.
Growing up in a Double-wide, my mom was always too worried about fire to get a real tree, so she created an "Invisible" Christmas tree...though in reality it was more see-though than invisible. She used a garden pole, aluminum wire & fishing line to make the "tree" itself. Then we covered every open space with tinsel, garlands, lights & decorations.
Ashleigh: DON'T BE DIRTY
Everyone: She's knows us so well
The moose cups are a nod to the first movie. You'll find out someday
Omg I just got that!
Loved this film since I first saw it & watch this every year; & yes I have a Wally World Eggnog glass (always minus the Eggnog 🤢).
Fun Fact: Mae Questel, who played Aunt Bethany was also known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop (from 1931) and Olive Oyl (from 1933).
A Christmas movie that I watch every year, when I can find it, is Dolly Parton’s “Smokey Mountain Christmas “ it’s cheesy but classic 😉
My grandmother *loves* that movie!
This is a yearly watch for me and sometimes I have to watch it in the summer when I miss Christmas time.