Dec

07

My Yearly Must-See Christmas Movies. #1: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

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I know you’ve all been on pins and needles all weekend waiting for my #1 yearly must-see Christmas movie. Heck, this is one of my favorite movies period. The #1 must-see Christmas movie on my list every year is: National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. This year is actually the 20th anniversary of the movie.
This might be the funniest movie ever produced. I love this movie for so many reasons. It’s become a definite part of our family tradition to watch this movie during the Christmas season, but we quote this movie year-round! Cousin Eddie is definitely one of the highlights of the movie. Cousin Eddie is the bumbling, redneck cousin who doesn’t really fit in and has no filter on his mouth. I laugh just looking at the stuff he wears. Check out the Dicky he’s wearing in this clip:
I also LOVE the bathrobe he’s wearing in this picture as he empties the sewage from his RV into the sewer:
I keep threatening to show up to a family Christmas function in a dicky or a bathrobe.
I also love this movie because I identify with Clark W. Griswold (played by Chevy Chase). Clark is the patriarch of the family, and loves family events. He always has these visions of family grandeur in his head, but they never work out quite like he plans, usually because he manages to get in the way of his own plans. Like showing up in the middle of the woods to get the perfect Christmas tree but forgetting to bring a saw. Like decorating his house in 25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights and taking forever to figure out how to get them to light up. And like putting an advance down on a pool with a Christmas bonus that doesn’t turn out to be a Christmas bonus. Check out “the gift that keeps on giving” scene:
In honor of my love for this movie, I’m going to have a daily quote from Christmas Vacation on my facebook. If you’re not my friend on facebook, CLICK HERE to add me as a friend and get a daily Christmas Vacation quote!

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1 Comments

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the mother-n-law
December 7th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

I have already seen you in the bathrobe and that’s pretty funny so I suggest you wear the white sweater and dicky instead!!!

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