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Speaker 1: Happy holidays, folks, wherever you may be. Here comes Sana Claus.

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Speaker 2: Here comes Sana Claus.

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Speaker 1: Right down, Sana Claus.

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Speaker 3: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You can't

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be serious Podcasts.

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Speaker 2: You were about to.

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Speaker 3: Join the jolliest bunch of apatolls this side of the

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North fall. Okay, Jason roll over, let them scratch a belly?

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Speaker 1: Is that a shotgun in your pocket? You just have

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you to say?

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: We are back today with part two of our comparison

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of the movie Scrooge from nineteen eighty eight and Christmas

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Vacation from nineteen eighty nine. A big matchup between mister

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Bill Murray and mister Chevy Chase, who have been at

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odds since the mid seventies.

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Speaker 1: They got in a fistfight backstage and Saturday Night Live

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I watched a video on this. They've become friendly since then.

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Speaker 2: I'm calling bs.

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Speaker 1: According to Chevy Chase, they've gone golfing together. That's water

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under the bridge. But Bill Murray replaced Chevy Chase. Chevy

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was gone out making you know, he left all those

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guys in a lurch on Saturday Night Live's yeah, being

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mister movie star, he.

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Speaker 2: Thought he was going to be a star, and he is.

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Speaker 1: He was, Oh yeah, he went off and made foul

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play with Goldiehan and he's out there mooching Goldiehn while

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everybody's back there working at Saturday Night Live. Anyway, he

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came back to guest host Saturday Night Live in nineteen

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seventy eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, it turns out John Belushi was a little bit

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jealous of his success, and so found out later that

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John Belushi had been kind of stoking the fire about

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Bill Murray about Chevy Chase being a freaking jerk.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, and.

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Speaker 1: So when he came back, they had some words. Anyway,

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Chevy Chase went to the dressing room right before the

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show goes on live TV and told Bill Murray said,

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don't ever talk to me like that again if you

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don't knock your head off, And Bill Murray got up

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and charged him, and it was on like donkey Kong.

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Speaker 3: I'm from Chicago, jerk, we are the Bears, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Then John Belushi actually had to wedge between them. This

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is five minutes before you go live from New York

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and Saturday Night That is awesome. And then of course

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they did Caddy Shack and they've become friendly since then.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, I just got to mention.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked in our last episode about casting, and

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there's and we talked about cameos. But there's just a

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couple of cameos, not really acting cameos, but cameos that

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I wanted to throw out there, and it's music cameos.

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As they're walking through the street and talking in scrooged,

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Bill Murray is talking to Johnsohn Murray. They're brothers, right,

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And they go past these street musicians right. Well, the

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first one you see is Miles Davis, I mean icon,

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like maybe the most famous jazz musician of all time.

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Speaker 2: He's playing with a few other guys.

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Speaker 3: One of those is David Sanborn, who does all of

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the music for the Lethal Weapons. He plays the saxophone.

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He's got that wicked saxophone that you hear in all

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the Lethal Weapon movies.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: And then the third guy that's there is mister Paul

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Late Show Schaeffer playing the piano, who, of course he's

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gonna be there because he was the guy who would

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also play piano on Saturday Night Live when Bill Murray

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would do his lounge singer act star wo nothing but

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star wos.

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Speaker 1: Paul Shaffer is the same person that Ronnie Spectra called

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cute light Woody Ellen remember that No, I don't. Yes,

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from our Dirty Dancing Soundtrack episode.

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Speaker 2: We'll be sure and go check that out for Dancing

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versus Saturday Night Fever.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Paul Shaffer is like, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Jason.

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Speaker 1: It is Christmas time.

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Speaker 3: It is Christmas time, and there are some folks out

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there looking for the perfect package under their tree. Yes,

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but what they should be doing is trimming their tree,

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trimming their baggage.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Well, guys, here's the deal.

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Speaker 3: If you've got a present, it looks a lot bigger

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when your tree is properly trimmed.

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Speaker 1: Hey, missus, Klaus will appreciate you keeping your tree trimmed.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So this holiday season, be sure and get yourself

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or your loved one a man skin aped product. It

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cleans you up, it makes you smell good, It is

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totally worth it, and it is the perfect holiday package

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to get.

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Speaker 1: That's right. All you gotta do is go to manscape

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dot com and put in the code serious twenty to

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get twenty percent off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's better than milk and cookies.

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Speaker 1: Whack it wack it. Let's talk about the opening of

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these two movies. Okay, did you see these in the theater?

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Speaker 3: I can say with some firmness that I saw Scrooged

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in the theater. I remember seeing that one in the theater. Okay,

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Christmas Vacation, I think I saw in the theater. I

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will tell you this. When I first saw Scrooged, loved it. Yes,

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when I first saw Christmas Vacation.

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Speaker 2: Did not like it. Really, I did not like it.

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Speaker 3: For the longest time, I would be like, it's number

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three out of those first three, right, I mean number one,

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Original Vacation, right, number two European number three Christmas. But

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then years and years have passed since then. It's been

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over three decades now and Christmas Vacation is crept to

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the top of the trilogy list for me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, it's just the rewatching, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, everybody knows it's a wonderful life.

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it got to be on TV and it would show

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up every year. Every year you'd see it, right, and

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with Christmas Vacation was kind of the same thing. NBC

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would get the rights to broadcast Christmas Vacation in December

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every year, and so it was just something it was

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a go to and by now it's, like I said,

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it's part of the lexicon. We quote it, we love it,

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and it's become near and dear to everyone's hearts and

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me too.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love it. I watch it every single year

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and I think it's great. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I did not see Scrooged in the theater, and

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maybe five years later. I didn't see that until much

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much later. Christmas Vacation, I know. I saw that with

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Patreon member Chris Bauer.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: I think we went on a double date and I think,

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if my memory's right, we saw a Tango and Cash

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on Friday night and Christmas Vacation on Saturday night, and

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it was a great week. Scrooge was released November twenty third,

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nineteen eighty eight, which is notable because when Bill Murray

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looks at his watch when they go back in time,

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it does mean.

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Speaker 3: Fifty five by the way, yes, hello back to the future.

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Speaker 1: No ninetif so when he looks it says November twenty third.

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on Christmas Eve. Okay, it says November twenty third, Well,

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that was the date that the movie was being released.

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Scrooge with thirty two million, and it made one hundred

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million dollars worldwide.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: It's a big hit. Yeah, it's pretty good, okay, but

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it's not regarded in the same way that Christmas Vacation is.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, it's about the test of time and

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the rebroadcast over and over again.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. So Christmas Vacation budget twenty eight

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million worldwide, seventy four million dollars.

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Speaker 2: It didn't do as well.

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Speaker 1: It did not do as well.

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Speaker 3: So people are basically in my same camp. Like for

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all of you who at the point that I said

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this was kind of math for me or I didn't

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like it as well, Hey, guess what I was in

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the majority on that one.

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Speaker 2: I just you know, I'm willing to admit to it.

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Speaker 3: That was which just something that I think kind of

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everybody thought this wasn't that great. It's just something about

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the passage of time.

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Speaker 1: By the way I've talked about this before. I'd love

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eighty nine stack up pretty well with everything, but maybe

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nineteen eighty four. Christmas Vacation came in at number two

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in the box office for two weeks before it reached

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the number one spot. Any idea what the number one

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movie was? This is December of nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: Last Crusade.

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Speaker 1: Nope, good guess though. Back to the Future two was

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released on Thanksgiving of nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't compete with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, read Letter Day in History.

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Speaker 1: I told you that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: By the way, just real quick, as long as we're

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talking those dates, the next date that you see after

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that nineteen fifty five is nineteen sixty eight. Yes, And

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he's walking down the sidewalk and Karen Allen comes out

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of the store and its Maxim in the face.

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Speaker 2: With the door. You remember that part, yeah, I do. Well.

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Speaker 3: If you look in the store very prominently, you can

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see a velvet underground album. It's the white one with

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the banana on it. It's the Andy Warhol album, which

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is it out Yep. Velvet Underground album came out in

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sixty seven. This was nineteen sixty eight. It was absolutely

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the perfect album to stick up on the wall. Well done,

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Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. By the way, I wanted to bring this

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takes over and shoots bad guys and protects Santa and

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the elves in the north Pole. That gun that he uses, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Wow. Nice.

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Speaker 3: It's obviously a throwback to that that whole concept of

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's perfect. That's absolutely perfect. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I wish he would have said that he didn't have

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time to bleed, but yeah.

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Speaker 3: So on the note for just one more Kurt Russell connection,

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if you will. In Christmas Vacation, at the very first

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scene the Hillbillies in the truck that's tailgating. H Yeah, yeah,

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that truck is the same truck that's in Overboard with

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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

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Speaker 1: Dude, that is awesome.

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Speaker 2: You're blow in my mind here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, that's fantastic. Yeah, all right, before we get into tidbits,

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I want to talk about the songs for just a second.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, we have composers or something. Okay, So do

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you know who the composer was? Four scrooged.

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Speaker 1: Actually, yes I do.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say you should because we've talked about

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Speaker 3: We talked about him in our Dark Knight episode versus Batman.

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Speaker 2: Batman.

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Speaker 3: It is mister Danny Elfman himself, mister Simpson's mister anything

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Tim Burton that you want to hear. By the way,

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Have you seen it?

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Speaker 1: I have none?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's great. I love it.

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this one. He did find a sound that he ended

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as Danny Elfman would.

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Speaker 3: It's barely it's barely noticeable, as Danny Elfman right now.

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come out with Annie Lennox and Al Green. Mister al Green,

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who had been big in the seventies.

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Speaker 2: I got an album of his right over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but he had stopped singing and become

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a preacher. Oh yeah, Okay, he was a preacher at

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this point that this movie comes out. But this is

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secular song. He actually caught flak for doing it, like

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for not making a religious song. I don't really know

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what the deal was with that one. But huge hit

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from that time period.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this was an original song from nineteen sixty

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nine sung by Jackie D. Shannon.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so I went and.

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Speaker 1: Listened to hers it's it's great, you know, but you

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know it's kind of folksy. It sounds like the lady

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with the guitar and airplane, you know. It's a little bit,

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you know, just kind of older sounding, but definitely anti.

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and it it became a top ten hit in nineteen

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eighty nine. Okay, yeah, now then I'm fixing blow your

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socks off.

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Speaker 2: You're ready for excited? Okay?

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Speaker 1: So the top ten for January fourteenth, nineteen eighty nine,

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when this song peaked at number nine, I'm gonna drop

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this on you.

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Speaker 2: Ready for this?

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Speaker 1: Number ten The Way That You Loved Me by Karen White.

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I love Karen White, but just put her this side

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for a second, okay, okay. Number nine is put a

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Little Love in Your Heart by Annie Lynx and Algreen. Okay,

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Number eight I Remember Holding You by the Boys Club.

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We talked about them in our Jets episode. It's the

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Minneapolis Wham and number.

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Speaker 3: Eight this is the one where they earned the exclamation

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point exactly.

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Speaker 1: Number seven is Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson. Number six

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in Your Room by the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Number five Armagednet by Def Leppard, Oh my gosh. Number

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four Don't Rush Me by Taylor Dane. Number three every

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Rose has its thorn like poison.

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Speaker 2: What I would argue is the epitome of the rock ballad.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. We're gonna cover that album next season. Number

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two Two Hearts by Phil Collins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Phil Collins, you couldn't escape him in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: And number one My Prerogative by Bobby Brown.

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Speaker 2: Oh the huge that's.

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Speaker 1: A great top tip.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't he a new edition? He was there?

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Speaker 1: You go, Dave right.

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Speaker 2: It feels like he married somebody famous too.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, okay, now listen, I gotta throw this at you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This song has been covered by a bunch of people. Okay.

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It's been covered by the Isley Brothers, It's been covered

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by the Circle Jerks. It's certainly been sung by Bill Murray.

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We know that, Dolly Parton and get this Leonard Nimoy

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on his nineteen seventy four album Outer Space Inner Mind

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covers put a Little Love in Your Heart Leonard Nimoy.

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Can we listen to that?

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Speaker 3: You're just playing?

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Speaker 4: Another day goes by and still the children and cry.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you. The seventies was a weird time.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: You had Spock and Captain Kirk coming out with albums.

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Man here and William Shatner singing Lucy and this Skuy

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with diamonds is something specials Okay, So let's jump over

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to Christmas Vacation. So in this one, we've got a

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composer that probably most people haven't heard of. His name

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is Angelo Battlamenti. Okay, not super well known. Yeah, big

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four David Lynch movies. He was the composer for Muholland Falls,

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Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, all of those David Lynch which

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are all very kind of eerie, creepy music, which is

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specifically why he was chosen for this movie.

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Speaker 2: It's Christmas movie.

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Speaker 3: But they wanted to have him be able to add

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those kind of little dark comedy touches, and I think

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he does a great job with this one.

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Speaker 1: Let me just tell you, the score for Christmas Vacation

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is the one thing that brings this movie down in

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my opinion. Oh okay, I feel like it's too goofy,

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is too over the top. When Clark's hanging the Christmas

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lights and he stables his shirt to the house. It's

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like carnival music. There are times when this movie kind

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of goes over the top and you get the barone,

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you know, you get those weird sound effects.

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Speaker 2: It's like the cartoon. It's like Chuck Jones.

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Speaker 1: And it is the cartoon sound effects and stuff like that. Yeah,

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to me, that's where it kind of loses. Yeah, yeah,

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so interesting.

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Speaker 2: We didn't mention this.

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Speaker 3: I have no idea where to throw it in, so

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I'm just gonna throw it in now, go for it.

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The beginning is scrooged whenever I sit down and I'm

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watching this again for the first time this time, Yeah,

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do you know what I thought of that? It has

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never occurred to me before. Starts off the same way

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that the movie that is our namesake starts off.

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Speaker 2: Airplane.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's above the clouds. It's like your cruise and

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above the clouds and an airplane. You hear the Jaws

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theme and the airplane fin goes by.

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Speaker 2: You remember all this, Well, this.

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Speaker 3: One it starts off and it's in the clouds, and

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then it descends through the clouds and we arrive at

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the North Pole and that's when you get the scene

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from the night the Reindeer died, but I thought this

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has got to be a nod to airplane. Go watch

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the beginning of Scrooged again and tell me if I'm wrong. Okay,

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So there are a ton of great songs on this

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soundtrack as well. Yes, one of them is the Christmas

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Vacation's song that starts the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the soundtrack for Christmas Vacation didn't come out till

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twenty eleven.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you mean like on an album, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could buy everything had to be bootleg Like

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if you had a copy of any of these songs,

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it was bootlegged or napster or whatever. You couldn't buy

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the CD or the album.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So the song Christmas Vacation, which to me has all

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sort of those Christmas nostalgic vibes to it.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was a Mariah Carey song. I told

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you it was just like It's so Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: This was sung by Mavis Staples. Yeah, released as a

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single December first, nineteen eighty nine. It doesn't chart. Here's

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the thing. This song was added to the last second.

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That's why none of the words of the song go

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with the animation. Okay, they threw it in at the

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last second. You know, you look around, you're like, man,

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we don't have a holiday road, we don't have anything

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to kind of make it more modern. Poppy top forty

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feeling right. So they whipped this one up real quick,

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dropped it in over the animated shorts.

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Speaker 3: Did we mention that this you said it was by

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Mavis Staples, Yes, tell me about her. She was with

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a group called the Staples Singers. Yeah, and they had

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a couple of hits. One was called I'll Take You.

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Speaker 1: There, I'll take you There, and the other.

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Speaker 2: One was Let's do it Again, Let's do it again,

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Let's do it again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. She was real big in R and B.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaking of R and B.

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Speaker 3: Another great song from this movie, Ray Charles that Spirit

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of Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Most is the time movie.

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Speaker 2: With the ones We love.

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Speaker 1: Ray Child.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's so perfect, and it's again it's one of

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those things that John Hughes does so well where he

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makes you like buy in with your heart and then

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he rips the carpet out from under you and you

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fall on your face.

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Speaker 2: And it's hysterical.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 3: So you've got Clark getting trapped upstairs and he gets

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fined to the old Christmas gift, by the way, nineteen

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eighty three, the year that the original Vacation came out

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perfect right, And then he starts watching the old movies.

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It shows some of our actors in the movies as

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younger people, and Ray Charles is playing and it's so

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sweet and nostalgic, and then all of a sudden, she

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yanks the attic door open and he.

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Speaker 2: Comes Tom Tum tumbling down. It's absolutely hysterical.

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Speaker 1: That part is really funny. One of the things I

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like about that part is upstairs and he's cold and

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he finds like a bin of old clothing and he

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puts on like a turban and like pan gloves and

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all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's hysterical. Yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 3: We've also got Me is the thing see that is

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sung by Being Crosby and the Andrews Sisters Being Crosby

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throw back to our Stranger Things episodes you just got

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finished with. Yeah, fantastic White Christmas on that one. But

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this one is the Hawaiian Christmas If you will.

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Speaker 1: I told you my grandparents had this album.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we.

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Speaker 1: Listened to it at Christmas time.

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Speaker 3: It's funny because Rusty multiple times is like I knew

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we should have gone to go White.

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Speaker 2: That was where he wanted to be.

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Speaker 3: There you go right, and then as I mentioned before,

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you've got here comes Santa Claus by mister gene Autry,

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third cousin to Randy Quaid uh huh, and Rudolph the

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Red Nose Reindeer by Johnny Marks. And then you have

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the star spangled banner written by mister Francis Scott.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. We also have Beverly D'Angelo and chevy

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Chase singing Deck the halls, Oh come all you faithful,

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and we wish you merry Christmas. Take it.

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Speaker 2: Russ duck the holes with.

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Speaker 1: When he's singing and oh come all you faithful, and

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that oh come let us. Uh yeah, that's so funny.

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Speaker 2: I think you mean eat my dust and burn.

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Speaker 1: R Red Liver lips.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, one connection. Chevy Chase gives the

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flying Bird to the Hillbillies in the pickup truck Bill

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Murray in one of the funniest scenes and Scrooge, he

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steals a lady's cab. He comes up behind her says ma'am,

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I think you drop something, and she's like, what, turns

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around He jumps in her cab steals her cab. When

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he shuts the door, she's like, hey, you're still in

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my cab.

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Speaker 2: And he's like, oh please please she so Swizz.

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Speaker 1: Gives her the biggest finger.

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Speaker 2: And she immediately flips and she's.

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Speaker 1: Like you it's so funny. I love that scene.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So Christmas Vacation, you've also got Silent Night and

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the Twelve Days of Christmas performed by Miss Perry Koma.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So that does it for the soundtrack. Now, there's

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a couple of interesting kind of comparisons that.

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Speaker 2: We can do on this movie.

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Speaker 3: But one of the key parts of both of these

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movies is a rant at the end of the yeah

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for sure. Yeah, and they both have a kind of

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a weird story behind him, right, Okay, So in I'm

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gonna have to read this because I can't. I mean,

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I can't keep it in my head. Oh ready, Yeah, Okay,

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here goes And I want to look him straight in

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the eye. I want to tell him what a cheap, lying,

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no good, rotten, four flushing, low life, snake licking dirt,

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eating inbread, over stuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking dog kissing, brainlessless, hopeless, heartless,

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fat ass, bug eyed, stiff legs, body lipped, wormheaded, sack

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of monkey.

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Speaker 1: He is Hallelujah, Holy, where's the title of him?

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Speaker 3: Now that I had to read right, and you're thinking, wow,

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chevy Chase, to hold that all in your brain or

472
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,599
to even come up with it off the top of

473
00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:53,799
your eade, right and magic?

474
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,160
Speaker 2: Right, Well, here's what happened.

475
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,640
Speaker 3: The cast members all had signs around their neck. You know,

476
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,160
they're all standing in the living room watching him go

477
00:21:01,319 --> 00:21:04,680
on this rant. Well, when we see their backs are

478
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,039
wrapped around their necks, are the signs with four flushing.

479
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:13,759
Speaker 1: And monkeys and four flushing signs.

480
00:21:13,519 --> 00:21:16,359
Speaker 3: Up on the walls behind him, So you'll see his

481
00:21:16,559 --> 00:21:19,400
eyes dart around. He's picking up those little cues. He

482
00:21:19,519 --> 00:21:20,839
delivers it masterfully.

483
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 1: He delivers it masterfully.

484
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 2: Yes, he does a great job with it. And the

485
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:26,079
end with.

486
00:21:26,079 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: The where's the title and all? It's so funny.

487
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 4: Right.

488
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,039
Speaker 1: We talked about how Bruce Willis drops the ypika mother

489
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,400
effort in Die Hard like it's a friggin nuclear bomb, right,

490
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,519
chevy Chase is the exact same thing. The Hallelujah, Holy,

491
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:42,559
where's the tile?

492
00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:42,839
Speaker 2: In all?

493
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, any of you are looking for any last minute

494
00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:46,640
gift ideas for me, I have one.

495
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 2: I like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight.

496
00:21:49,079 --> 00:21:51,519
Speaker 4: I want him bought from his happy holiday slumber over

497
00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:53,400
there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people.

498
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 2: And I want to bought right here with a big.

499
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,279
Speaker 4: Ribbon on his head, and I want to look them

500
00:21:57,279 --> 00:21:58,839
straight in the eye. I don't want to tell him

501
00:21:58,839 --> 00:22:02,279
what a cheap line, no good rotten for flushing, low

502
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,079
life snake locking, dirt eating and bread over stuffed, ignorant,

503
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:11,880
blood sucking, dog kissing, brainlessless, hopeless, heartless.

504
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,599
Speaker 5: Fat ass, bug eyed stiff leg. It's funny that we're

505
00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:21,119
headed sack of monkey. He is he Loyalli, where's the

506
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:21,720
title all?

507
00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 1: At that point, he is a deflated balloon, like it

508
00:22:24,599 --> 00:22:27,880
all bubbled up Mount Vesuvius erupted. Where's the talent?

509
00:22:28,279 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 3: Well, he's kind of the golden retriever most of the time, right,

510
00:22:31,279 --> 00:22:34,960
He's always the guy who's like, just he's living the dream.

511
00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:39,519
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the greatest greatest Christmas ever.

512
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 3: Since Bing Crosby danced with Danny Kay, dance with Danny

513
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:44,880
evn Kay.

514
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 1: Yes, so he's he's lost it.

515
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,039
Speaker 2: At that point, completely lost it.

516
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 3: Yes, well, and he's the upbeat who loses it and

517
00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:54,599
completely falls on the flip side of that. We have

518
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,480
scrooged right right now. Mitch Glazer and o'dona hugh said

519
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,720
that the scene was the hardest scene for them to write.

520
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,920
The idea was, why can't every day be like Christmas

521
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,480
Day when people are nice to each other?

522
00:23:08,559 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 2: Right, right?

523
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 3: And I mean if you're thinking, you think about the

524
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,000
guy who was righting Saturday Night Live and X rated

525
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,119
Cartoons probably writing a happy, you know.

526
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: Cheery little hard Yeah, it's a little hard, right, So

527
00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:24,599
they had a terrible time trying to write this thing.

528
00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:26,759
Speaker 2: And then when it comes time to.

529
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 3: Shoot that scene, Frank Cross has finally left sanity and

530
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,400
everybody's right and he's been a little edgy if the

531
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,279
whole movie, and finally but then it's like this big

532
00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,640
moment where instead of being the grouch, he turns into

533
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,200
the guy with hope, the guy who's preaching the dream

534
00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:47,200
right right. Well, that scene, Bill Murray decided I'm not

535
00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:51,039
following the script at all, he and so he wouldn't

536
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,200
hit his marks. He randomly made up words and ideas

537
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,240
and you can see the ramble I mean, there's no

538
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:58,640
question that there's a ramble there.

539
00:23:58,720 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

540
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it fits the moment, right, it fits Frank

541
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,480
Cross just having had this revelatory moment. It's like Scrooge

542
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,240
at the end of a Christmas Carol where suddenly, Hey,

543
00:24:09,279 --> 00:24:10,880
the lights have come on and I'm doing all this

544
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,400
crazy stuff, giving away my money, promoting my partner, all.

545
00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 2: This other stuff.

546
00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:17,559
Speaker 3: Right, But he does all of that and the rest

547
00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:21,240
of the audience completely buys in, Like I would find

548
00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:23,240
it hard to buy in, I gotta say, but the

549
00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:26,480
rest of the actors on the set completely buy in.

550
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,519
And by the end, when he's done, the place erupts

551
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,960
in applause. The only guy who's not applauding is a Donahue,

552
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:41,400
and he says, what was this Jim Jones hour And Donner,

553
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,319
who is also bought in at this point, is so

554
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,839
irritated that he punches him in the arm so bad

555
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,880
that he like it hurts for the next three weeks.

556
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Donner says, this is perfect. This is exactly

557
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,119
what we need. It's a masterful ending. Yeah, what do

558
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,559
you think you with it?

559
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 3: It's like I said, if I was one of the

560
00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:00,799
actors at the end of this thing, I'd be like,

561
00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:04,799
I don't know. At the time. First time I saw it,

562
00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,200
I had completely bought in. You know, sure, exploding oxygen tank,

563
00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:09,880
Sure sounds great, I'm in.

564
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:10,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

565
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,279
Speaker 3: This time, this Mauricent time, I thought it was even

566
00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:15,359
funnier than I've ever thought it was before.

567
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,839
Speaker 2: But that last scene, for me, I.

568
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 3: Was just like, Hm, I can tell that he's totally

569
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,960
improvising everything that he's doing here, and I don't know

570
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,960
that it hits as well as I thought it did

571
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:25,359
back then.

572
00:25:25,519 --> 00:25:29,759
Speaker 1: Okay, I think it's gold. I think it's gold. His

573
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,920
flip happens a little bit quick for me. Yeah, it's

574
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,519
not quite as quick, but similar to the flip that

575
00:25:35,599 --> 00:25:39,119
Anakin makes in the episode three, all of a sudden

576
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,000
he's good and then he's bad. Right, right, Well, he

577
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,680
goes from cynical, grumpy Frank Cross to explodes into joy

578
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,839
and that's the whole point of the movie. I get it,

579
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,920
and it's great. I really wish I could have experienced

580
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,759
it in the theater right left side now, okay, right,

581
00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:58,200
so I know, just the ladies, right, Okay, No, the

582
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,559
real ladies. That would have been a lot of fun. Yeah,

583
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,440
but I think it's Gold and Bobcat Goldthwaite holding the

584
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,799
people hostage with the shotgun in the control room, the

585
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,160
Solid Gold Dancers, the kissing under the mistletoe, Karen Allen

586
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,920
peeking around the corner. It's gold. I love it.

587
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 2: You bought it.

588
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for it.

589
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 2: You bought it.

590
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, well good.

591
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 3: I got to tell you today at the office, like

592
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,319
literally at my office, the guys were talking Christmas bonuses,

593
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:24,400
and we're They're just talking.

594
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:31,079
Speaker 2: They're going back and forth, and I'm like, two, how howell.

595
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 3: And by the end they were they were walking through

596
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,000
the whole office going tow.

597
00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: Vcrwe that's fun.

598
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 2: Your brother, your only brother, cow.

599
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: Last year, I got a shower, Curt. Okay, I got

600
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,440
a few tidbits just when we cover pretty much everything. Yeah,

601
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,319
so just a couple of tidbits from Scrooge, so flip

602
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,839
the Scrooge. Carol Caine, when she first shows up as

603
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,200
the Ghost of Christmas pres she makes the comment she says,

604
00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:05,799
I'm a little muddled. Yeah, that's directly from the Wizard

605
00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:09,160
of Oz. The good Witch. She shows up and says

606
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,079
I'm a little muddled.

607
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

608
00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:11,839
Speaker 1: That blew right over my head.

609
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 2: The interesting thing.

610
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 3: We talked about how Bill Murray said, I want you

611
00:27:14,839 --> 00:27:16,759
to go ahead and hit me as hard as you can, right,

612
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,759
you know, fight club, give it to me, And she

613
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,000
actually tore his lip. She was she was broken up

614
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:24,559
about this, Like she would have crying fits that would

615
00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:27,200
go on for an hour or so because she was

616
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,000
so upset about the violence. I don't really understand that.

617
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,759
Carol Kane's a different kind of animal, I guess, but.

618
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,519
Speaker 1: That was my other tibot.

619
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 2: Oh sorry that she No, it's okay.

620
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: She would have these manic episodes where she would cry

621
00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:44,039
about the violence. Yeah, it was freaking funny as crap. Oh,

622
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,960
so she stole the show, she did, And the fact

623
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,640
that she tore his lip. They had to give him

624
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,400
like three or four days off because she wrote the

625
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,640
crap out of his lip. And when you watch him

626
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:59,400
in the movie, he's kind of like, you know, oh man,

627
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,160
her whole apart. I just think his gold. I wanted

628
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,440
to bring up the audience participation, but you already did.

629
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,279
And then the fact that John Housman, the narrator.

630
00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, the old man from Paper Chase.

631
00:28:09,279 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the guy who's narrating the actual Christmas story

632
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,160
TV show.

633
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: We made it the old fashioned earned it.

634
00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:23,519
Speaker 1: That's that guy. Yes, yeah, put America's favorite old fart

635
00:28:23,559 --> 00:28:28,160
on TV. Yeah, he died before he could watch the movie. Oh,

636
00:28:28,599 --> 00:28:31,279
he passed away before they could reach the movie. By

637
00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:32,720
the way, I don't know if we covered this or not,

638
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,440
but I want to mention this.

639
00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:33,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

640
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,599
Speaker 1: They started filming in December of nineteen eighty seven for

641
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,119
this movie. So December of eighty seven to April of

642
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,319
eighty eight, Donner went to the studio and said, hey, guys,

643
00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:45,480
I know it's a Christmas movie, but can we give

644
00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:48,200
everybody Christmas off right, like Christmas Day?

645
00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:48,839
Speaker 2: Yeah?

646
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: And they're like, no, sorry, keep going Scrooge right right

647
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,160
by humbug, which Bill Murray does work in, which is

648
00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:02,000
perfectly Oh dropped. The Hunter worked out this deal where

649
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,960
he fired everybody for one day. I love it, and

650
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,640
the studio is like wait what. Yeah, He's like, sorry,

651
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,559
I fired everybody, and then he re hired them on

652
00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:12,680
December the twenty sixth.

653
00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 2: It's brilliant. You gotta love Richard donnerd God rest his soul.

654
00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:16,599
That was awesome.

655
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,759
Speaker 1: What a stud Okay, Christmas vacation hit me? Okay, I

656
00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:23,480
think we mentioned this but Uncle Lewis, the actor who

657
00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:26,480
played him, was aged sixty two when they filmed this. Yes,

658
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:27,799
Aunt Bethany.

659
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 2: Yeah in her eighties eighty one.

660
00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then we talked about it, you know, Chris

661
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:37,640
Columbus said, I can't do this. I really want to

662
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,400
do this movie. I cannot work with this guy. Chevy

663
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,519
Chase is not going to work. And so John Hughes said, hey,

664
00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:48,119
slide over to Home Alone. Home Alone did six times

665
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,559
the business that Christmas Vacation did on a smaller budget,

666
00:29:51,599 --> 00:29:52,680
on ten million dollars less.

667
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:53,079
Speaker 2: Yeah.

668
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,039
Speaker 3: The thing to remember about that is there will be

669
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,680
moments in your life that you're like, I've just lost

670
00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:03,119
the Golden Ring.

671
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 2: I just missed out.

672
00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 3: Everything is ruined, and then less than a year later,

673
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,200
it's like, oh my goodness, I've totally gotten something so

674
00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:14,799
much better that has entirely changed my life.

675
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:16,839
Speaker 1: So D believes in the Christmas.

676
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,519
Speaker 2: Miracles all a part of the big plan.

677
00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:22,759
Speaker 1: Okay, two other tidbits on Christmas Vacation. One that I

678
00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:28,680
have never got fully until last Christmas. Okay, oh gosh, okay,

679
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,599
all right, now you know about this, and most everybody

680
00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:34,400
in our audience knew about this, except for me. And

681
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,079
the reason why it is because I had never watched

682
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,759
It's a Wonderful Life until last Christmas. Oh right, Yeah,

683
00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:44,279
So we did a podcast with the thirty something guys

684
00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:48,920
where they had me on. They wanted me Jason's seen right,

685
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,319
and so they had me. I watched it and then

686
00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:53,759
I did a podcast with them, and of course, I mean,

687
00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:56,240
I loved it. I was under the spell. It was amazing.

688
00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:02,559
But the broken nule on the staircase in Christmas Vacation,

689
00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:05,480
when chevy Chase loses his mind, it wobbles, He's like

690
00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:09,799
fired up the chainsaw. What takes it right off is

691
00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:13,359
like fix the knoll. Yeah, and it was funny, yeah,

692
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,400
but it's also symbolic for what happens in It's wonder.

693
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: Back to Frank Capra.

694
00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: Speaking of Frank Capra, this movie was very Frank Capra esque, Right.

695
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,119
They're trying to not only get this ridiculous comedic stuff

696
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,720
going on, but they're trying to get that Frank Capra feel.

697
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:30,079
Speaker 2: Right.

698
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking this as I'm watching it.

699
00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:36,319
Speaker 3: I hear even the people on the commentary saying, I

700
00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:38,319
think that Frank Capra even comes up at some point,

701
00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:41,000
And then they keep talking through the credits and all

702
00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:44,559
of a sudden, I'm like, holy crap, Frank Capra, the

703
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,759
third was the second assistant director on this movie.

704
00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, there you go.

705
00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:51,319
Speaker 1: Now you might tell everybody who Frank Capra is.

706
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: Frank Capra is the guy who directed its Wonderful Life.

707
00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:55,799
Speaker 1: Okay, fantastic, Yeah, okay, we.

708
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:07,599
Speaker 2: Just needed a new coffin, I mean tree.

709
00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:07,359
Speaker 1: At the end when the Chicago p D breaks into

710
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:10,200
the house, busts in, flies in the windows, and the

711
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:11,680
Grizzwolds are under attack at.

712
00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: That moment, the Battle of Algiers.

713
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: If you notice, you may I noticed, Yeah, I noticed

714
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,759
where Ellen's hand is. Ellen's hand is on Clark's balls.

715
00:32:24,079 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: Yep, she's She's holding this scroutch.

716
00:32:27,559 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: You watching it, and he's like, she's got his hands up.

717
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, her hand is on his balls. She said they did,

718
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:34,440
I mean, they did that take over and over again.

719
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,119
She said she only did it on one take, but

720
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,359
that was the take that they kept.

721
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: It was so funny.

722
00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:46,279
Speaker 3: Then beautifully, as the boss is introducing his wife, she

723
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:51,000
takes her hand to shake her hand and then puts, yes, gold,

724
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:51,960
brilliant it.

725
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: Okay, that does it for tidbits for me, okay, So,

726
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,000
just a couple of quotes I wanted to talk about

727
00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:59,680
from both movies. Okay, all right, Yeah, we talked about

728
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:03,319
the how you can barely see them nipples? Yes, ad lived,

729
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,759
he's really looker. And then you are a hallucination brought

730
00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:12,200
on by alcohol Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl. Yes, kind

731
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,720
of a current event at the time, right, a semi

732
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,160
current event, but really where he walks up to the

733
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,680
waiter and douses him with water and says, I'm so

734
00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:21,160
sorry I thought you were a Richard Pryor.

735
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: Yes, fine line of the movie.

736
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: It's the funniest line of the movie. And I didn't

737
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,640
know what that meant until later on in life.

738
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,559
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

739
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 3: So, And just for people who don't know, Richard Pryor

740
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,680
set himself on fire with a crack pipe.

741
00:33:33,799 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just no simpler way to put it.

742
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,599
Speaker 1: He lives doing drugs and had alcohol and it caught

743
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,920
fire and it nearly killed him, nearly killed it.

744
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 2: Nearly drugs nearly killed him.

745
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,319
Speaker 1: And not the fun way, right, that's right, in the

746
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,759
painful way. Yes, let me tell you a line that

747
00:33:48,799 --> 00:33:51,200
cracks me up every time. Okay, okay, And as a father.

748
00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:53,759
You can appreciate this, right, Yes, when you're trying to

749
00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:56,680
do something, talk to someone, you're at church, you're at

750
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,880
the house, you're doing something, and there's this weird noise

751
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:05,359
going on that will not stop. Will you please stop

752
00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:10,719
with the d D having whenever he does that, like

753
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,920
five times and it just busts me up. Would your

754
00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:14,880
play hold on?

755
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 5: God damning now?

756
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,599
Speaker 3: Okay, So there's one other thing, when the homeless people

757
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,880
come to him and they're and they're like, oh, mister Burton,

758
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,280
could you please do something like that was completely ad lived,

759
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,039
like he did not know that they were going to

760
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:32,000
start doing that. And by the way, we totally missed

761
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,519
throw Mama from the Train, the Goonies Mom, she was

762
00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:40,000
there last performances. But she's there with these guys.

763
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:42,039
Speaker 1: Her husband is the other homeless guy.

764
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 3: Oh really, okay, that's great, that's great. So they're in

765
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,239
there and they're they they're acting like they think he's

766
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,880
Richard Burton, right, which doesn't make any sense. It never

767
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,519
made any sense to me because Bill Murray looks nothing

768
00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:59,960
like Richard Burton, but somehow he goes into this perfect

769
00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:01,199
Richard burden.

770
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: Please just throw a couple of lines from him, please.

771
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 5: Before the same, leave me alone, give me, imagine for me, leave.

772
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,599
Speaker 1: Me, please do it for Eva.

773
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 4: I am coming out me hold you.

774
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,599
Speaker 5: Oh no, you go. You know my whole night hold

775
00:35:26,039 --> 00:35:29,639
I swear by day, I full swear it's not.

776
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: Beat it before I creak.

777
00:35:33,519 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 3: It was a Saturday Night Live bit that he did.

778
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,360
I had no idea until we started to look at this.

779
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,719
I was like, oh, well, there you go. Like my god,

780
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,000
they had seen the Saturday Night Live bit. He didn't

781
00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:45,159
know it was coming, but he melted right in.

782
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: With them and they gave him something to drink and

783
00:35:49,039 --> 00:35:51,599
he's like no, and then he pours it and it

784
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:56,519
just pours on the floor. He's like, thank you. So funny. Yeah, okay,

785
00:35:56,639 --> 00:35:58,679
let's flip back to Christmas Vacation. Talk about some of

786
00:35:58,679 --> 00:36:01,400
our favorite coaches from that movie, which we drop all

787
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,119
the time. Absolutely, anytimes I'm in a room and it's cold. Yeah,

788
00:36:05,159 --> 00:36:07,679
everybody I'm around who's basically our age says, it's a

789
00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:12,400
bit nippley in here, right, It's part of the did

790
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,079
I say Neville, It's part of the lexicon now right.

791
00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:16,199
Everybody just says.

792
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,639
Speaker 2: It absolutely a funny line.

793
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,199
Speaker 1: And you and I talked about how why is the

794
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,519
carpet all at Todd?

795
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: I don't know, Margo.

796
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 3: They literally have that on streets. Why is the road

797
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,280
all icee? I don't know, Margo.

798
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: One line that always cracks me up is when cousin

799
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,639
Eddie said, every time Catherine reved up the microwave, I

800
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,920
pissed my pants and forgot how I was for half

801
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:39,199
an hour.

802
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 3: Okay, can we talk about that scene for just a second.

803
00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:43,960
So that's the scene where they're sledding right right, and

804
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:44,880
he's talking about the.

805
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: Plate in his head and my part is ain't gonna

806
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:47,199
look good?

807
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,519
Speaker 3: Right, and then Clark shoots down the hill on the

808
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,079
sled and goes skimming along.

809
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:55,639
Speaker 4: Yeah.

810
00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 2: And it's crazy for a bit.

811
00:36:57,039 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, not super funny, okay, just kind of funny. And

812
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,519
at the very end, cousin Eddie goes bingo. Yeah, and

813
00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:07,880
it's not funny at all. It's completely meaningless.

814
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,519
Speaker 1: Yeah.

815
00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 2: Do you have any explanation for that?

816
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 4: No?

817
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,519
Speaker 3: Okay, No, I don't know why that scene's in the movie. Like,

818
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:16,719
I literally, I'm like, because they had a scene where

819
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:21,599
like Julia Luis Dreyfus comes into the RV and confronts

820
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,239
Beverly DiAngelo and missis scanny and I could drum like

821
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,800
that would have been a great scene to have in it.

822
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,239
I don't understand why that sledding scene is there at all.

823
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: As my dad's favorite scene. Get out of two loves

824
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,280
that scene, and to me, it's I'm with you. It's

825
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,559
over the top. Like he he gets on this, you know,

826
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:41,880
he puts that stuff that's supposed to make it super

827
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,199
slick and it shoots off like a rocket. I'm like,

828
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,400
it's a little bit. It's cartoon it's cartooning. I wish

829
00:37:48,519 --> 00:37:52,760
they could tone down the cartooniness and uh maybe raise

830
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,760
the PG thirteen level up just to touch well. We'll

831
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,280
talk about our final judgment here in a minute.

832
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, we were talking about quotes right now. Yes,

833
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,239
and we cannot reach the end. I'm gonna let you

834
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,000
keep going, but we cannot reach the end without the

835
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,360
greatest quote of the movie. Okay, what's hey, Griswold, where

836
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,760
do you think you're gonna put a tree that big

837
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:10,800
ben over?

838
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: And I'll show you. You got a lot of nerve

839
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,119
talking to me like that. I'm talking to you.

840
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 2: Best line in all.

841
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 3: Of the vacation movies in all of the Saturday Night

842
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:28,320
Live movies. I mean, that is not only hysterical, it is,

843
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:30,840
if not the most quoted line of all time, definitely

844
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,679
the most quoted Christmas line of all time.

845
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, the cousin Eddie line.

846
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,119
Speaker 2: Do you hear that?

847
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitro?

848
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:57,840
What's that noise? One of the scenes I wanted to

849
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,639
mention to you that I think is just hilarious is

850
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,960
the tree when it catches. The tree catches on fire.

851
00:39:03,039 --> 00:39:06,199
Uncle Lewis catches on fire. Yeah, and it's subtle comedy, right,

852
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:08,760
So he's in there and you hear this like off

853
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,639
screen was like yeah, and then you look in there

854
00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:15,400
and everything's smoking. Look what you've done on my twee.

855
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:16,639
Speaker 2: Super funny.

856
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 3: So and then there's also, of course the cat and

857
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,440
Bethany wraps her cat up and.

858
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: Catch with that right there.

859
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what a beautiful ad lib moment where Beverly

860
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:30,159
D'Angelo puts her finger in the goo in the other

861
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,599
package and Randy Quaid licks it off.

862
00:39:33,199 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: Classic moment.

863
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 3: But the cat is chewing on the cords and then

864
00:39:40,199 --> 00:39:45,000
Clark plugs the cords in and you hear it and

865
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:48,880
there's nothing but a cat shaped burn mark underneath the chair.

866
00:39:49,039 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 4: Right.

867
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:53,079
Speaker 2: That thing had nine lives, she just spent them all.

868
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 3: So the producers are like, we cannot put that in

869
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,840
the movie, and the director was begging them. He's like,

870
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,599
you cannot, you cannot take this out of I think

871
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:06,760
when they got done with their screening, it was the

872
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,760
audience's number one pick as the funniest scene in the movie. Okay,

873
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,440
it's a whatever for me, but I think at that time,

874
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,239
actually having an animal die. And here's another stream of

875
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,840
events on the National Lampoons movies, National Lampoon Animal House

876
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:28,159
horse dies, the National Lampoon Vacation, the dog, the crying

877
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:37,000
police officer, the wretch Deacons in European Vacation. I think,

878
00:40:37,039 --> 00:40:39,400
like a dog jumps off of a building or something.

879
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,480
I mean, it's it's a theme throughout all the National

880
00:40:42,519 --> 00:40:43,280
Lampoon movies.

881
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: A dog jumps off the Eiffel Tower. Oh, yes, thank you,

882
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:50,880
he doesn't die. But yeah, before we left, you drank

883
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,280
half a quarter of pens oil when he lifted his

884
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:59,119
leg the next morning. Okay, so are we ready for

885
00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:00,360
final judgment to do it?

886
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,199
Speaker 2: You go me go first? You go first.

887
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: Okay, So when we came up with this, I was

888
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,239
way more familiar with Christmas Vacation than I was Scrooge.

889
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,199
I think I had seen Scrooge like twice, and once

890
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,280
as a teenager and once maybe as a twenty something,

891
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:15,639
so it had been a long time. So when I

892
00:41:15,679 --> 00:41:18,719
watched it again as an older man, I identified a

893
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,599
lot more with the Bill Murray character. He's career driven,

894
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,360
he's got these issues, he's got anger, he's got regret,

895
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,360
he's got guilt, but he's powered through all this because

896
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,079
that's what he's supposed to do. And he's sarcastic and

897
00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:34,599
he's jaded, and then the joy comes through. Okay, So

898
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:40,440
I absolutely loved Scrooged. Christmas Vacation has been a family

899
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:44,440
Christmas holiday tradition for me forever. I know every line

900
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,639
in the movie like I know it backwards and forwards.

901
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,000
There are some things that are too cartoony for me.

902
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,920
We talked about how when he forgets the saw to

903
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,519
pull out the Christmas tree, then you get that boy oling.

904
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,119
You know, when Santa catches on fire at the very end,

905
00:41:59,159 --> 00:42:01,800
and the rocket's read glare and it's flying around. So

906
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,559
there are parts that are too cartoony, too buffoony for me,

907
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,320
but this is still undeniable. Christmas Vacation Scrooge was better

908
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,840
and kind of rose in the ranks for me. Christmas

909
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,519
Vacation held steady. But for me, it's Christmas Vacation all

910
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:15,960
day long.

911
00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:18,599
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, this is really hard for me. Okay.

912
00:42:18,679 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 3: When I very first saw both of the movies, easy choice,

913
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,000
it was Scrooged, Okay, because it's better movie. Bill Murray

914
00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:29,639
is funnier, it's better directed, better effects, doesn't have the

915
00:42:29,679 --> 00:42:33,519
cartoony nonsense. I mean, you've got some supernatural stuff going on,

916
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:36,519
but it's the understanding that this is crazy. I mean,

917
00:42:36,559 --> 00:42:39,480
it's like unbelievable, what's happening to this guy? And that's

918
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,320
a part of the movie, Whereas with Christmas Vacation, it

919
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,480
was kind of just a bunch of dumb, sticky Saturday

920
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:49,000
Night live bit kind of things and this very thin

921
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,199
story about the swimming pool and the boss and the bonus,

922
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,079
I mean, paper, paper thin.

923
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 2: But what's happened over thirty.

924
00:42:56,519 --> 00:43:00,679
Speaker 3: Three years I quit watching Scrooged, but I kept watching

925
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:07,079
Christmas Vacation. Okay, over and over it became funnier and funnier,

926
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:08,239
and I think.

927
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 2: That it's just one of those movies.

928
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 3: Number one, it wins on the rewatchability scale, definitely.

929
00:43:13,079 --> 00:43:13,679
Speaker 2: It just does.

930
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: You don't have to think, you don't have to do anything,

931
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,679
You just get to sit there and just have a

932
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,400
great time with this ridiculous movie, which is why I

933
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,320
think is probably more popular than Scrooge does now. I

934
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,079
will say this, when I went back to Scrooged, Holy cow,

935
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,480
it was just as it was better than it was

936
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that I saw it the first time. It was better,

937
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Like I like it better now than back when I

938
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saw it. When I liked it better than Christmas Vacation.

939
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They do totally brilliant movie. I will start watching it

940
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again every single year. But you and I are on

941
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the same page on this one, all right, Christmas Vacation

942
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,960
it just wins out. It's not as good of a movie,

943
00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:51,599
but it's just means more to me.

944
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Speaker 1: Perfect. Okay, wow, so we're in agreement.

945
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens sometimes.

946
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Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, it does happen not very often. We would

947
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,559
love to hear from you, guys, what do you think

948
00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:05,719
Christmas Vacation? Scrooged is this Chevy Chase at his best

949
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,119
is this Bill Murray at his best.

950
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Speaker 2: What do you think?

951
00:44:08,519 --> 00:44:10,679
Speaker 3: Guys, Be sure and go check out our friends at

952
00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:13,639
the Thirty Somethings podcast. They check out movies that are

953
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:16,599
thirty years old. We love them. We've done a show

954
00:44:16,599 --> 00:44:20,119
with them on the Star Wars Holiday Special, which is

955
00:44:20,159 --> 00:44:21,599
a fantastic holiday listen.

956
00:44:21,679 --> 00:44:22,519
Speaker 2: If you want to go do that.

957
00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 3: Also, go check out our friends at a Film Buy.

958
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,320
We just did a bit for them where we ranked

959
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,599
our favorite movies of nineteen eighty six. They have a

960
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:34,079
whole series on those movies from nineteen eighty six that

961
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,400
is an absolute joy to listen to. Be sure and

962
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,679
check them out as well. Guys, we love you. Merry Christmas.

963
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,519
Thank you for sticking with us through one more season again.

964
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And I think there's only one way that.

965
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,119
Speaker 2: We can end this. I pledge allegiance to.

966
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,119
Speaker 3: The flag of the United States of America and to

967
00:44:54,199 --> 00:44:55,360
the Republic, for.

968
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Speaker 1: Which it stands, one nation under.

969
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:05,199
Speaker 3: God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all Playball.

970
00:45:06,679 --> 00:45:08,199
Speaker 2: I mixed my metaphors there, but that's a.

971
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Speaker 1: That's a good yeah, okay. D So that wraps it

972
00:45:10,599 --> 00:45:13,239
up for Christmas vacation and Scrooge for us. If you

973
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,119
enjoy our holiday episodes. We've done Christmas Vacation Now in Scrooge.

974
00:45:17,199 --> 00:45:19,320
Last season, we did Home Alone and a Christmas Story.

975
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,800
The year before that, we did Diehard and Lethal Weapon.

976
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,679
We've also done the Star Wars Holiday special, so that's

977
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seven Christmas episodes that you can listen to.

978
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun and easier to deal within

979
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:29,280
your family.

980
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Speaker 5: Would your playfauld on, God damn covering now