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Speaker 1: Seasons.

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Speaker 2: Greetings Shirley fans.

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Speaker 3: This is Jeff Johnson from a film by podcast and

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nothing jingles my bells better than the Shiley you Can't

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Be Serious Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Happy holidays, folks, wherever you may be.

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Speaker 1: Here comes Sana Claus. Here comes Sana Claus.

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Speaker 2: 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. You are about to join the jolliest

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buns of acatoles this side of the North Fall.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Jason, roll over, let them scratch your belly?

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Speaker 2: Is that a shotgun in your pocket? You just have

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you to see?

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 1: A big matchup between.

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Speaker 3: Mister Bill Murray and mister Chevy Chase, who have been

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at odds since the mid seventies.

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Speaker 2: They got in a fistfight backstage is Saturday Night Live.

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

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Speaker 1: I'm calling bs.

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Speaker 2: 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 the lurch on Saturday Night Live. He's absolutely yeah,

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being mister movie star.

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Speaker 1: He thought he was going to be a star and

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he is.

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Speaker 2: He was, Oh yeah, he went off and made foul

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play with Goldie Han and he's out there just mooching

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Goldie Han while everybody's back there working at Saturday Night Live. Anyway,

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he came back to guest host Saturday Night Live in

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nineteen seventy eight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: 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. Oh okay,

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and 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 never 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 de bear. It's Okay.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome.

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Speaker 2: And then of course they did Caddy Shack and they've

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become friendly since then.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, I just got to mention.

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

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

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

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wanted to throw out there. And it's music cameos. As

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

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Murray is talking to John hn 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 times.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 1: He plays the saxophone.

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Speaker 3: He's got that wicked saxophone that you hear in all

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the Lethal Weapon movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the.

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Speaker 3: Third guy that's there is mister Paul Late Show Schaeffer

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playing the piano who. Of course he's gonna be there

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because he was the guy who would also play piano

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on Saturday Night Live when Bill Murray would do his

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lounge singer act star Woes nothing but star Wos.

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Speaker 2: Paul Schaeffer is the same person that Ronnie Spector called

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cutel like Woody Ellen. Remember that no, I don't Yes

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from our Dirty Dancing Soundtrack episode.

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Speaker 3: We'll be sure and go check that out Dancing versus

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Speaker 2: Yes, Paul Shaffer is like, thank you, 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.

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Speaker 1: Package under their tree.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but what they should be doing is trimming their tree,

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trimming their backage.

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Speaker 1: Yes. 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 2: 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 manscaped product. It cleans you up,

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it makes you smell good, It is totally worth it,

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and it is the perfect holiday package to get.

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Speaker 2: 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 1: Yeah, it's better than milk and cookies. Wack it, wack it.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the opening of these two movies. Okay,

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did you see these.

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Speaker 1: 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, did.

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Speaker 1: 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, number two, European number three, Christmas. But then

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years and years have passed since then, It's been over

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three decades now and Christmas Vacation has crept to the

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top of that trilogy list for me. Okay, interesting, it's

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just the rewatching, right, I mean, you know everybody knows

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it's a wonderful life because Frank Capra let the rights

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go too early, so it got to be on TV

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and it would show.

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Speaker 1: Up every year.

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Speaker 3: Every year you'd see it, right, and with Christmas Vacation

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is kind of the same thing. NBC would get the

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rights to broadcast Christmas Vacation in December every year, and

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so it was just something it was a go to.

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And by now it's, like I said, it's part of

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the lexicon. We quote it, we love it, and it's

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become near and dear to everyone's hearts and me too.

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I absolutely love it. I watch it every single year

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and I think it's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I did not see Scrooged in the theater, and

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I didn't see that until two, three or four years later,

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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. I think we went on a double

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date and I think, if my memory is right, we

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saw Tango and Cash on Friday night and Christmas Vacation

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on Saturday night and it was a great weekend. Scrooge

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was released November twenty third, nineteen eighty eight, which is

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notable because when Bill Murray looks at his watch when

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they go back in time, it does.

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Speaker 1: Mean fifty five.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Yes, hello, back to the future.

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Speaker 2: So when he looks it says November twenty third. It's

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kind of weird because it's supposed to take place on

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

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was the date that the movie was being released.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit okay.

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Speaker 2: I got you budget on Scrooge with thirty two million,

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and it made one hundred million dollars worldwide.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 2: 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 1: It didn't do as well.

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Speaker 2: 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 mad 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. I just you know, I'm willing.

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Speaker 1: To admit to it.

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

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thought this wasn't that great.

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Speaker 1: It's just something about the passage of time.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I've talked about this before, I'd love

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nineteen eighty nine. I think the movies released in nineteen

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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 1: Last Crusade.

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Speaker 2: 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 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't compete with that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, read Letter Day in History.

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Speaker 2: 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 maximum in the face with the door.

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Speaker 1: 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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actually you could peel the banana on that album. The

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only reason I know it is because we were talking

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about album covers a couple of weeks ago with our

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Speaker 1: Was like, oh, I recognize. I was like, wow, was

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Speaker 3: Velvet Underground album came out in sixty seven. This was

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nineteen sixty eight. It was absolutely the perfect album to

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stick up on the wall. Well done, SEC decorators.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Nice. By the way, I wanted to bring this

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up to you. I forgot to mention this to you. Yeah,

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when Lee Majors comes and the Night the Reindeer Died

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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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is the same gun that Jesse Ventroi uses in Predator.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Nice.

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

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the big action hero guys that were going on in

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the in the eighties. Oh wow, that's perfect. That's absolutely perfect.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: 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 that note, for just one more Kurt Russell

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connection if you will in Christmas Vacation at the very

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first scene the Hillbillies in the truck that's tailgating.

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Speaker 5: Nah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that truck is the same truck that's in

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Overboard with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

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Speaker 2: Dude, that is awesome. You're blow in my mind here. Thanks,

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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 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we have composers or something.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So do you know who the composer was four scrooged.

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Speaker 2: Actually, yes I do.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say you should because we've talked about

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him before. We talked about him in our Dark Night

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episode versus Batman.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 1: Want to hear.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I'm really enjoying the New Wednesday series.

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I think it's fantastic. Have you seen it?

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Speaker 1: I have no, Oh, it's great. I love it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, anyway, he is the composer in this one, and

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hear it. I don't hear it in this He even

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said he was kind of disappointed with the music in

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this one. He did find a sound that he ended

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up using a bunch and other stuff, but this isn't

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really his style. It's kind of just more generically Christmas.

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It's well placed, it's good. He's got the creepy tones down,

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as Danny Elfman would, of course, but it's barely noticeable.

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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

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Green who had been big in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: I got an album of his right over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he had stopped singing and become a preacher.

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that this movie comes out. But this is I mean,

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it's a happy Christmas song, but it's it's a secular song.

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making religious song. I don't really know what the deal

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was with that one, but huge hit from that time period.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this was an original song from nineteen sixty nine,

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sung by Jackie D. Shannon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so I went and.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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but definitely anti. Lynx and al Green gave it this

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boost of energy and it became a top ten hit

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in nineteen eighty nine. Okay, yeah, now then I'm fixing

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bow your socks off.

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Speaker 1: You're ready for excited? Okay?

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Speaker 2: So the top ten for January fourteenth, nineteen eighty nine,

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

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this on you? Ready for this? Number ten The Way

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that You Love Me by Karen White. I love Karen White,

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but just put her this side for a second, okay, okay.

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Number nine is put a Little Love in Your Heart

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by Annie Lys and Algreen. Okay, Number eight I remember

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Holding You by the Boys Club. We talked about them

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in our Jets episode. It's the Minneapolis Wham and number

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eight this is the one.

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Speaker 1: Where they earned the exclamation point exactly.

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Speaker 2: Number seven is Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson, Huge, number

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six in Your Room by the Bengals. Yeah, Number five,

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Armagednett by a def Leppard. Number four Don't Rush Me

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by Taylor Dane. Number three Every Rose has its thorn

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like poison.

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Speaker 3: What I would argue is the epitome of the rock ballad.

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Speaker 2: 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 3: Yeah, Phil Collins, you couldn't escape him in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: And number one My Prerogative by Bobby Brown.

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Speaker 1: Oh the huge.

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Speaker 2: That's a great top tip.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't he a new edition? He was there?

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Speaker 2: You go, Dave right.

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Speaker 1: It feels like he married somebody famous too.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, okay, now listen, I gotta throw this at you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This song has been covered by a bunch of people.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: 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 1: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Can we listen to that.

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Speaker 5: You're just played Another Day goes By and the Child

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and cry line your heart.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the seventies was a weird time.

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Speaker 5: 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 in the Sky

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with diamonds is something specialsh 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.

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Speaker 1: He was chosen for this movie.

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Speaker 3: It's Christmas movie, but they wanted to have him be

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able to add those kind of little dark comedy touches,

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and I think he does a great job with this one.

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Speaker 2: 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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it's 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 barrel,

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you know, you get those weird sound effects.

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Speaker 1: It's like the cartoon. It's like Chuck Jones and.

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Speaker 2: It is the cartoon sound effects and stuff like that. Yeah,

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

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so interesting.

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Speaker 1: 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 going to 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, time this time. Yeah, do you know

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what I thought of that? It has never occurred to

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me before. Starts off the same way that the movie

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that is our namesake starts off.

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Speaker 1: 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. Remember all this, Well,

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this one it starts off and it's in the clouds,

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and then it descends through the clouds and we arrive

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at the North Pole, and that's when you get the scene.

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Speaker 1: From the night the Reindeer died.

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Speaker 3: But I thought this has got to be a nod

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to airplane. Go watch the beginning of Scrooged again and

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tell me if I'm wrong. Okay, So there are a

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ton of great songs on this soundtrack as well. Yes,

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one of them is the Christmas Vacation's song that starts

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the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the soundtrack for Christmas Vacation didn't come out un

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till twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you mean like on an album, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You can buy everything had to be bootlegg Like if

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you had a copy of any of these songs, it

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

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CD or the album.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: 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 you,

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I was just like, it's so christmas y.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This was sung by Mavis Staples.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Released as a single December first, nineteen eighty nine. It

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doesn't chart. Here's the thing. This song was added to

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the last second that's why none of the words of

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the song go with the animation. Okay, they threw it

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in at the last second. No, 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 1: Did we mention that this you said it was by

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Mavis Staples.

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Speaker 2: Yes, tell me about her.

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Speaker 3: She had. She was with a group called the Staples Singers. Yeah,

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and they had a couple of hits. One was called

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I'll Take.

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Speaker 2: You There, I'll take you There, and the other.

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Speaker 3: One was Let's do It Again, Let's do again, Let's

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do it again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. She was real big in R and B.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of R and B, another great song from this movie,

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Ray Charles that spirit of Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Christmas is the time of being with the ones we.

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Speaker 2: Love 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, Yes, exactly.

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

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fined the old Christmas gift by the way, nineteen eighty three,

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the year that the Original Vacation came out, traffic right,

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and then he starts watching the old movies. It shows

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some of our actors in the movies as younger people,

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and Ray Charles is playing and it's so sweet and nostalgia.

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And then all of a sudden, she yanks the.

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Speaker 1: Attic door open and he comes tom Tum tumbling down.

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It's absolutely hysterical.

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Speaker 2: 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 turbine and like pink gloves and

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all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's hysterical.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: We've also got me is the thing? See that is.

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Speaker 3: Sung by Being Crosby and the Andrews Sisters Being Crosby

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throw back to our Stranger Things episodes. She 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, I

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told you my grandparents had this album. Oh yeah, we

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listened to it at Christmas time. It's funny because Rusty

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multiple times is like.

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Speaker 1: I knew we should have gone to Go White. That

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was where he wanted to be. There you go right.

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Speaker 3: And then as I mentioned before, you've got here comes

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Santa Claus by mister gene Autry, third cousin to Randy Quaid,

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uh huh, and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer by Johnny Marks.

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And then you have the Star Spangled banner written by

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mister Francis Scott.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's true. We also have Beverly DiAngelo 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 Russ Duck

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the holes when he's singing and oh come all you faithful,

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

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Speaker 1: I think you mean eat my dust and burn.

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Speaker 2: Red liver lips hey by the way, Yeah, one connection.

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Chevy Chase gives the flying Bird to the Hillbillies in

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the pickup truck Bill Murray. In one of the funniest

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scenes in Scrooge, he steals the lady's cab. He comes

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up behind her, says ma'am, I think you dropped something,

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and she's like what. Turns around, He jumps in her cab,

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steals her cab. When he shuts the door, she's like, hey,

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you're still in my cabin.

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Speaker 1: He's like, oh please please She.

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Speaker 2: Swizz gives her the biggest finger and she immediately flips

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and she's like, you is 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 mister Perry Como.

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Speaker 1: 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 1: 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.

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Speaker 2: The yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they both have a kind of a weird

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story behind him.

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Speaker 3: Right, Okay, So in I'm gonna have to read this

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because I can't I mean, I can't keep it in

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my head. Oh ready, Yeah, Okay, here goes and I

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want to look him straight in the eye. I want

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to tell him what a cheap, lying, no good, rotten

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four flushing low life snake licking, dirk eating inbread, over stuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking,

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dog kissing, brainlessless, hopeless, heartless, fat ass, bug eyed, stiff legs,

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00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,599
body lipped, wormheaded.

473
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,559
Speaker 1: Sack of monkey.

474
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,160
Speaker 2: He is hallelujah, Holy, where's the time on her?

475
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:57,559
Speaker 1: Now? That I had to read right?

476
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,279
Speaker 3: And you're thinking, wow, chevy Chase, to hold that in

477
00:21:00,319 --> 00:21:02,039
your brain or to even come up with it off

478
00:21:02,079 --> 00:21:03,880
the top of your right, right right and magic right.

479
00:21:04,039 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 1: Well, here's what happened.

480
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,440
Speaker 3: The cast members all had signs around their neck. You know,

481
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,079
they're all standing in the living room watching him go

482
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,920
on this rant. Well, when we see their backs at

483
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,440
wrapped around their necks are the signs with four flushing

484
00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:23,640
and monkeys and four flushing there signs up on the

485
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,519
walls behind him, so you'll see his eyes dart around.

486
00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:30,640
He's picking up those little cues. He delivers it masterfully.

487
00:21:30,799 --> 00:21:33,079
Speaker 2: He delivers it masterfully.

488
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,319
Speaker 1: Yes, he does a great job with it. And the

489
00:21:35,559 --> 00:21:35,920
end with.

490
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,519
Speaker 3: The where's the title and all, it's so funny.

491
00:21:39,559 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 6: Right.

492
00:21:40,039 --> 00:21:43,839
Speaker 2: We talked about how Bruce Willis drops the yipika mother

493
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,880
effort in Die Hard like it's a friggin nuclear bomb.

494
00:21:47,519 --> 00:21:51,359
Chevy Chase is the exact same thing. The Hallelujah Holy

495
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,640
where's the tile in all?

496
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, any of you are looking for any blast minute

497
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,920
gift ideas, right, I have one, like Frank Shirley, my boss,

498
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,720
right here tonight. I want them bought from his holiday

499
00:22:00,759 --> 00:22:02,680
slumber over there a melody lane with all the other

500
00:22:02,759 --> 00:22:04,960
rich people. And I want to book right here with

501
00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:06,759
a big ribbon on his head, and I want to

502
00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:08,319
look him straight in the eye. I don't want to

503
00:22:08,319 --> 00:22:11,839
tell him what a cheap lying, no good, rotten for flushing,

504
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,920
low life, snake licking, dirt eating and bread over stuff, ignorant,

505
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:22,000
blood fucking dog kissing, brainlessless, hopeless, heartless, fat ass, bug

506
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,039
eyed stiff leg It's funny.

507
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 2: We're ever headed sack.

508
00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 6: Of monkey sh he is, I know, Yah, where's the

509
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,480
title all?

510
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,160
Speaker 2: At that point, he is a deflated balloon, like it

511
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,720
all bubbled up Mount Vesuvius erupted. Where's the talent?

512
00:22:38,079 --> 00:22:41,039
Speaker 3: Well, he's kind of the golden retriever most of the time, right,

513
00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:44,799
He's always the guy who's like, just he's living the dream.

514
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,319
Speaker 2: We're gonna have the greatest, greatest Christmas ever.

515
00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:54,160
Speaker 1: Since being Cries danced with Danny Kay dance with Danny

516
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:54,640
e Kay.

517
00:22:54,799 --> 00:22:58,519
Speaker 3: Yes, so he's he's lost it at that point, completely

518
00:22:58,519 --> 00:23:01,160
lost it, yes, well, and he he's the upbeat who

519
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,160
loses it and completely falls on the flip side of that.

520
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,960
We have scrooged right right now. Mitch Glazer and o'donahue

521
00:23:09,039 --> 00:23:11,920
said that the end scene was the hardest scene for

522
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,680
them to write. The idea was, why can't every day

523
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,279
be like Christmas Day when people are nice to each other?

524
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 5: Right?

525
00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:18,799
Speaker 1: Right?

526
00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 3: And I mean if you're thinking, you think about the

527
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,799
guy who was righting Saturday Night Live and X rated

528
00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:29,000
cartoons probably writing a happy, you know.

529
00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:31,400
Speaker 1: Cheery little hard Yeah, it's a little hard, right.

530
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,400
Speaker 3: So they had a terrible time trying to write this thing.

531
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,559
And then when it comes time to shoot that scene,

532
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,960
Frank Cross has finally left sanity and everybody's right and

533
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000
he's been a little edgy if the whole movie, and

534
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,039
finally but then it's like this big moment where instead

535
00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:51,279
of being the grouch, he turns into the guy with hope,

536
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,319
the guy who's preaching the dream right right, Well, that

537
00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:58,200
scene Bill Murray decided, I'm not following the script at all,

538
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,039
he and so he wouldn't hit his marks. He randomly

539
00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:05,440
made up words and ideas, and.

540
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,519
Speaker 1: You can see the ramble. I mean, there's no question

541
00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:08,440
that there's a ramble there.

542
00:24:08,519 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 6: Yeah.

543
00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:10,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it fits the.

544
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 3: Moment, right, it fits Frank Cross just having had this

545
00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:16,880
revelatory moment. It's like Scrooge at the end of a

546
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,000
Christmas Carol where suddenly, hey, the lights have come on

547
00:24:20,039 --> 00:24:22,400
and I'm doing all this crazy stuff, giving away my money,

548
00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:24,319
promoting my partner.

549
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:24,759
Speaker 1: All this other stuff.

550
00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 3: Right, But he does all of that, and the rest

551
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,079
of the audience completely buys in, Like I would find

552
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,079
it hard to buy in, I gotta say, but the

553
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,319
rest of the actors on the set completely buy in.

554
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,319
And by the end, when he's done, the place erupts

555
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,079
in applause. The only guy who's not applauding is a

556
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:48,400
Donahue and he says, what was this Jim Jones hour

557
00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:52,880
and Donner, who is also bought in at this point,

558
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,200
is so irritated that he punches him in the arm

559
00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:57,160
so bad that he like it hurts for the next

560
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:57,680
three weeks.

561
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Donner says, this is that's perfect, This is

562
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,839
exactly what we need. It's a masterful ending. Yeah, what

563
00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:06,400
do you think you with it.

564
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,839
Speaker 3: It's like I said, if I was one of the

565
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,640
actors at the end of this thing, I'd be like,

566
00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:14,599
I don't know. At the time. First time I saw it,

567
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,000
I had completely bought in. You know, sure, exploding extrogen tank,

568
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,200
Sure sounds great.

569
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm in.

570
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, this time, this Marius.

571
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,039
Speaker 3: In time, I thought it was even funnier than I've

572
00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:26,440
ever thought it was before. But that last scene for me,

573
00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:29,640
I was just like, hm, I can tell that he's

574
00:25:29,799 --> 00:25:32,680
totally improvising everything that he's doing here, and I don't

575
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,599
know that it hits as well as I thought it

576
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,160
did back then.

577
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,559
Speaker 2: Okay, I think it's gold. I think it's gold. His

578
00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:42,839
flip happens a little bit quick for me. Yeah, it's

579
00:25:43,039 --> 00:25:45,359
not quite as quick, but similar to the flip that

580
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,960
Anakin makes in the episode three, all of a sudden

581
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,839
he's good and then he's bad. Right right, Well, he

582
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,480
goes from cynical, grumpy Frank Cross to explodes into joy

583
00:25:56,839 --> 00:25:58,680
and that's the whole point of the movie. I get it,

584
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,759
and it's great. I really wish I could have experienced

585
00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:05,599
it in the theater. Right left side now, okay, right,

586
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,720
so know, just the ladies right Okay, no, the real ladies.

587
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,839
That would have been a lot of fun. But I

588
00:26:10,839 --> 00:26:13,559
think it's Gold and Bobcat gold Wait holding the people

589
00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:17,000
hostage with the shotgun in the control room, the solid

590
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,559
Gold Dancers, the kissing under the mistletoe, Karen Allen peeking

591
00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:22,119
around the corner. It's Gold.

592
00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:23,279
Speaker 1: I love it. You bought it.

593
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for it.

594
00:26:24,519 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: You bought it.

595
00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, well good, I gotta tell you. Today, at

596
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,720
the office, like literally at my office, the guys were

597
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,720
talking Christmas bonuses and we're they're just talking. They're going

598
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:36,319
back and forth, and I'm like tw.

599
00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: Pow Powell.

600
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,519
Speaker 3: And by the end they were they were walking through

601
00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:45,559
the whole office going.

602
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: Towel vcr tow.

603
00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 2: That's fun. Your brother, your only brother, cow last year,

604
00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,400
I got a shark herd Okay, I got a few tidbits. Well,

605
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,359
we cover pretty much everything. Yeah, so just a couple

606
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,960
of tibbits from Scrooge, so flip the Scrooge.

607
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:06,079
Speaker 1: Yeah.

608
00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,039
Speaker 2: Carol Caine, when she first shows up as the ghost

609
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,240
of Christmas Present, she makes the comment she says, I'm

610
00:27:12,279 --> 00:27:16,000
a little muddled. Yeah, that's directly from the Wizard of Oz.

611
00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:19,240
The Good Witch she shows up and says, I'm a

612
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,640
little muddled. Yeah, that blew right over my head.

613
00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 3: The interesting thing we talked about how Bill Murray said,

614
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,640
I want you to go ahead and hit me as

615
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,880
hard as you can, right, you know, fight club, give

616
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,079
it to me, And she actually tore his lip. She

617
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,519
was broken up about this, like she would have crying

618
00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:36,240
fits that would go on for an hour or so

619
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,279
because she was so upset about the violence.

620
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:39,799
Speaker 1: I don't really understand that.

621
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,519
Speaker 3: Carol Caine's a different kind of animal, I guess, but

622
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,359
that was my other tibit.

623
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,759
Speaker 1: Oh, sorry that she No, it's okay.

624
00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:50,559
Speaker 2: She would have these manic episodes where she would cry

625
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:53,640
about the violence. Yeah, it was freaking funny as crap.

626
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,519
Oh so she stole the show, she did, And the

627
00:27:56,559 --> 00:27:58,240
fact that she tore his lip. They had to give

628
00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:00,200
him like three or four days off because she the

629
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,480
crap out of his lip. And when you watch him

630
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:09,240
in the movie, he's kind of like, you know, oh, man,

631
00:28:09,519 --> 00:28:12,000
her whole part, I just think his gold. I wanted

632
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,279
to bring up the audience participation, but you already did.

633
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,039
And then the fact that John Housman, the narrator, Yeah.

634
00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:19,319
Speaker 1: The old man from Paper Chase. Yeah.

635
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy who's narrating the actual Christmas story TV show.

636
00:28:23,759 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: We made it the old fashioned earned it. That's that guy.

637
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:33,799
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, put America's favorite old fart on TV.

638
00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:34,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

639
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: He died before he could watch the movie. Oh, he

640
00:28:38,599 --> 00:28:41,400
passed away before they could reach the movie. By the way,

641
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,599
I don't know if we covered this or not, but

642
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,240
I want to mention this. They started filming in December

643
00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:48,559
of nineteen eighty seven for this movie, So December of

644
00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:51,720
eighty seven to April of eighty eight, Donner went to

645
00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:54,039
the studio and said, hey, guys, I know it's a

646
00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:57,079
Christmas movie, but can we give everybody Christmas off right

647
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,000
like Christmas Day?

648
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: Yeah?

649
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,039
Speaker 2: And they're like no, sorry, keep going Scrooge right right

650
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,960
by Humbug, which Bill Murray does work in, which is

651
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,920
perfectly dropped. But Donner worked out this deal where he

652
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,920
fired everybody for one day. I love it, and the

653
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,559
studio is like wait what. Yeah, He's like, sorry, I

654
00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:21,799
fired everybody, and then he re hired them on December

655
00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:22,480
the twenty sixth.

656
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,799
Speaker 3: It's brilliant. You gotta love Richard Donner. God rest his soul.

657
00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:26,400
That was awesome.

658
00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:30,599
Speaker 2: What a stud Okay, Christmas Vacation hit me. Okay, I

659
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:33,319
think we mentioned this, but Uncle Lewis, the actor who

660
00:29:33,359 --> 00:29:36,400
played him, was aged sixty two when they filmed this. Yes,

661
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,680
Aunt Bethany.

662
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, in her eighties eighty one.

663
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then we talked about it, you know, Chris

664
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,480
Columbus said, I can't do this. I really want to

665
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,240
do this movie. I cannot work with this guy. Chevy

666
00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:54,359
Chase is not going to work. And so John Hughes said, hey,

667
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,960
slide over to Home Alone. Home Alone did six times

668
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,480
the business the Christmas Vacation on a smaller budget, on

669
00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:02,480
ten million dollars less.

670
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

671
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:05,839
Speaker 3: The thing to remember about that is there will be

672
00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:11,519
moments in your life that you're like, I've just lost

673
00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:16,000
the Golden Ring, like I just missed out. Everything is ruined,

674
00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:19,559
and then less than a year later, it's like, oh

675
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,079
my goodness, I've totally gotten something so much better that

676
00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:24,640
has entirely changed my life.

677
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: So de believes in the Christmas miracles.

678
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,319
Speaker 1: It's all a part of the big plan.

679
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,599
Speaker 2: Okay, two other tidbits on Christmas Vacation. One that I

680
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:38,519
have never got fully until last Christmas. Okay, oh gosh, okay,

681
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,359
all right now, you know about this, and most everybody

682
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,359
in our audience knew about this except for me.

683
00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:44,079
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.

684
00:30:44,119 --> 00:30:46,079
Speaker 2: And the reason why it is because I had never

685
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:51,559
watched It's a Wonderful Life until last Christmas. Oh right, Yeah,

686
00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:54,119
So we did a podcast with the thirty something guys

687
00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:56,759
where they had me on. They wanted me Jason's never

688
00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:00,319
seen yeah right, ye, and so they had me. I

689
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:02,400
watched it and then I did a podcast with him,

690
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:04,599
and of course, I mean I loved it. I was

691
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,279
under the spell.

692
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,039
Speaker 1: It was amazing.

693
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: But the broken nule on the staircase and Christmas vacation,

694
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,319
when chevy Chase loses his mind, it wobbles, He's like

695
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,640
fired up the chainsaw. What takes it right off is

696
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,440
like fix the Knoll.

697
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

698
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,839
Speaker 2: And it was funny, yeah, but it's also symbolic for

699
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:25,960
what happens, and it's one of.

700
00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: Fact to Frank Capra.

701
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,039
Speaker 3: Speaking of Frank Capra, this movie was very Frank Capra esque.

702
00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 5: Right.

703
00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 3: They're trying to not only get this ridiculous comedic stuff

704
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,519
going on, but they're trying to get that Frank Capra feel.

705
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 6: Right.

706
00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking this as I'm watching it. I hear

707
00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:46,400
even the people on the commentary saying I think that

708
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,000
Frank Capra even comes up at some point, and then

709
00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:51,279
they keep talking through the credits, and all of a sudden,

710
00:31:51,319 --> 00:31:55,680
I'm like, holy crap, Frank Capra, the third was the

711
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,559
second assistant director on this movie.

712
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 5: Wow.

713
00:31:58,079 --> 00:31:58,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.

714
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: Now you might tell everybody who Fink Capra is.

715
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: Frank Capra is the guy who directed its Wonderful Life Okay.

716
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 7: Fantastic, Yeah, okay, we just needed a new cough I

717
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:16,279
mean tree at the end when the Chicago p D

718
00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:19,480
breaks into the house, busts in flies in the windows,

719
00:32:19,559 --> 00:32:21,519
and the Grizzwolds are under attack at that.

720
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 8: Moment, the Battle of Algiers ahead. If you notice, you

721
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,039
may I noticed, Yeah, I noticed where Ellen's hand is.

722
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,599
Ellen's hand is on Clark's balls.

723
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,599
Speaker 1: Yep, she's she's holding this croutch.

724
00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:39,799
Speaker 2: You're watching it, and he's like, she's got his hands up.

725
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, her hand is on his balls. She said they did.

726
00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:44,240
I mean, they did that take over and over again.

727
00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:47,920
She said she only did it on one take, but

728
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,200
that was the take that they kept.

729
00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:50,039
Speaker 2: It was so funny.

730
00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:51,839
Speaker 1: Then it beautifully.

731
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 3: As the boss is introducing his wife, she takes her

732
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,240
hand to shake her hand and then.

733
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:01,759
Speaker 8: Put brilliant gold, brilliant love it.

734
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: Okay, that does it for tidbits for me. Okay, so

735
00:33:05,319 --> 00:33:06,839
just a couple of quotes I wanted to talk about

736
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:07,599
from both movies.

737
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Yeah, we.

738
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,599
Speaker 2: Talked about the how you can barely see them nipples

739
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,079
r Yes, ad libbed, he's really looker and then you

740
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,519
are an hallucination brought on by alcohol Russian vodka poisoned

741
00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:24,279
by Chernobyl. Yes, kind of a current event at the time, righte,

742
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,880
my current event, but really where he walks up to

743
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,400
the waiter and douses him with water and says, I'm

744
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:30,960
so sorry I thought you were a Richard Pryor.

745
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: Yes, funny line of the movie.

746
00:33:32,519 --> 00:33:34,279
Speaker 2: It's the funniest line of the movie. And I didn't

747
00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:36,440
know what that meant until later on in life.

748
00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:37,359
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

749
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,279
Speaker 3: So And just for people who don't know, Richard Pryor

750
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:42,519
set himself on fire with a crack pipe.

751
00:33:43,599 --> 00:33:45,279
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just no simpler way to put it.

752
00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 2: He was doing drugs and had alcohol and it caught

753
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,880
fire and it nearly killed him, nearly killed it.

754
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 3: Nearly drugs nearly killed him, and not the fun way right,

755
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,160
that's right in.

756
00:33:56,079 --> 00:33:57,079
Speaker 1: The painful way.

757
00:33:57,279 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 2: Yes, let me tell you a line that cracks me

758
00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:01,160
up every time. Okay, okay, and as a father, you

759
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,160
can appreciate this, right, Yes, when you're trying to do something,

760
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,920
talk to someone, you're at church, you're at the house,

761
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,280
you're doing something, and there's this weird noise going on

762
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,960
that will not stop. Will you please stop with the

763
00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:21,239
g D paving whatever? He does that like five times

764
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,519
and it just busts me up. What's your playful?

765
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 6: God damn?

766
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 5: Now?

767
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:28,679
Speaker 1: Okay.

768
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 3: So there's one other thing, when the homeless people come

769
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,639
to him and they're and they're like, oh, mister Burt,

770
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,039
could you please do something like that? Was completely ad live,

771
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,880
like he did not know that they were going to

772
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,800
start doing that. And by the way, we totally missed

773
00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:45,360
throw Mama from the train, the Gooni's mom. She was

774
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,800
there last performances. But she's there with these guys.

775
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 2: Her husband is the other homeless guy.

776
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 3: Oh really, okay, that's great, that's great. So they're in

777
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,079
there and they're they they're acting like they think he's

778
00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:00,920
Richard Burton, right, which doesn't.

779
00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: Make any sense.

780
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: It never made any sense to me because Bill Murray

781
00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:09,159
looks nothing like Richard Burton, but somehow he goes into

782
00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:11,039
this perfect Richard Burton.

783
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: Please just throw a couple of lines from him, clean.

784
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 6: Or leave me alone, use me for me, believe, please

785
00:35:25,639 --> 00:35:29,679
do it for Eva. I am coming at me.

786
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,199
Speaker 5: Hold oh no, you go.

787
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:34,599
Speaker 1: You know my whole night hold him.

788
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 4: I swear by day, I full swam.

789
00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:41,159
Speaker 2: It's part not beat it.

790
00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: Before I creak yours.

791
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 3: It was a Saturday Night Live bit that he did.

792
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,199
I had no idea until we started to look at this.

793
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,519
I was like, oh, well, there you go. Like god,

794
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:52,840
they had seen the Saturday Night Live bit. He didn't

795
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,960
know it was coming, but he melted right in.

796
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 2: With them and they gave him something to drink and

797
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,679
he's like no and then he he he pours it

798
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,880
and it just pours on the floor. He's thank you.

799
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,840
So funny. Yeah, okay, let's put back to Christmas Vacation.

800
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,760
Talk about some of our favorite coaches from that movie,

801
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:13,679
which we drop all the time. Absolutely anytime I'm in

802
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,159
a room and it's cold. Yeah, everybody I'm around, who's

803
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,559
basically our age says, it's a bit nippley in here, right.

804
00:36:20,199 --> 00:36:23,880
It's part of the did I say, Neville, it's part

805
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,079
of the lexico now right, everybody just says.

806
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: It absolutely a funny line.

807
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,039
Speaker 2: And you and I talked about how why is the

808
00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:31,760
carpet all at Todd.

809
00:36:31,679 --> 00:36:35,679
Speaker 3: I don't know, Margo, Lily, they literally have that on

810
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,039
streets and why is the road all I see?

811
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,079
Speaker 1: I don't know, Margo.

812
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 2: One line that always cracks me up is when cousin

813
00:36:43,639 --> 00:36:46,440
Eddie said, every time Catherine revved up the mircowave I

814
00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:48,719
pissed my pants. I forgot how I was for half

815
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:49,039
an hour.

816
00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 3: Okay, can we talk about that scene for just a second.

817
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,760
So that's the scene where they're sledding right, right, and

818
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:54,639
he's talking about the.

819
00:36:54,639 --> 00:36:56,599
Speaker 2: Plate in his head and my part just ain't gonna

820
00:36:56,639 --> 00:36:57,159
look good.

821
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 3: Right, And then Clark shoots down the hill on this

822
00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:07,079
sled and goes skimming along and it's crazy for a bit. Yeah,

823
00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:10,599
not super funny, Okay, just kind of okay funny. And

824
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,320
at the very end, cousin Eddie goes bingo. Yeah, and

825
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,639
it's not funny at all. It's completely meaningless. Do you

826
00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:20,119
have any explanation for that?

827
00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 6: No?

828
00:37:21,079 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 3: Okay, No, I don't know why that scene's in the movie,

829
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,199
Like I literally, I'm like, because they had a scene

830
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,800
where like Julia Louise Dreyfus comes into the r V

831
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:35,679
and confronts Beverly di'angelo and missus Key, and I could

832
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,360
like that would have been a great scene to have

833
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,320
in it. I don't understand why that sledding scene is

834
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,400
there at all. As my dad's favorite scene.

835
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 2: Get out of two loves that scene, and to me,

836
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,159
it's I'm with you. It's over the top. Like he

837
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:50,480
he gets on this, you know, he puts that stuff

838
00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:53,679
that's supposed to make it super slick, and it shoots

839
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:56,199
off like a rocket. I'm like, it's a little bit.

840
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,239
It's cartoon it's cartooning. I wish they could tone down

841
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:04,239
the cartooning and h maybe raise the PG thirteen level

842
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,599
up just to touch. We'll talk about our final judgment

843
00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:07,119
here in a minute.

844
00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:10,119
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yep, we're talking about quotes right now. Yes,

845
00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:12,039
and we cannot reach the end. I'm gonna let you

846
00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:13,800
keep going, but we cannot reach the end without the

847
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,800
greatest quote of the movie.

848
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: Okay, what's it?

849
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: Hey, Griswold, where do you think you're gonna put a tree.

850
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,079
Speaker 2: That big Ben over and I'll show you.

851
00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:24,159
Speaker 4: You got a lot of nerve talking to me like that,

852
00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:29,840
grizz I'm talking to you. Best line in all of

853
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,039
the Vacation movies, in all of the Saturday Night Live movies.

854
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,519
I mean, that is not only hysterical, it is, if

855
00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:40,760
not the most quoted line of all time, definitely the

856
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,519
most quoted Christmas line of all time.

857
00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:54,559
Speaker 9: I don't know, man, the cousin Eddie line.

858
00:38:54,719 --> 00:39:02,039
Speaker 1: Do you hear that? You couldn't hear a dump truck

859
00:39:02,119 --> 00:39:03,719
driving through a nitro?

860
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,679
Speaker 2: What's that noise? One of the scenes I wanted to

861
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,480
mention to you that I think is just hilarious is

862
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:12,760
the tree when it catches The tree catches on fire.

863
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,039
Uncle Lewis catches on fire. Yeah, and it's subtle comedy, right.

864
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,880
So he's in there and you hear this like offscreen

865
00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:22,599
was like yeah, and then you look in there and

866
00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:26,480
everything's smoking. Look what you've done on my twe super funny.

867
00:39:26,679 --> 00:39:30,039
Speaker 3: So and then there's also, of course the cat and

868
00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:31,559
Bethany wraps her cat up.

869
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,159
Speaker 1: So the catch with that, right, Yeah?

870
00:39:34,199 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 3: And what a beautiful ad lib moment where Beverly DiAngelo

871
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,480
puts her finger in the goo. In the other package

872
00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:45,760
and Randy Quaid licks it off. Classic moment, but the

873
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,719
cat is chewing on the cords and then Clark plugs

874
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:55,920
the cords in and you hear and there's nothing but

875
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:58,719
a cat shaped burn mark underneath the chair.

876
00:39:58,880 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 5: Right.

877
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: That thing had nine lives, she just spent them all.

878
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,519
Speaker 3: So the producers are like, we cannot put that in

879
00:40:06,559 --> 00:40:09,760
the movie, and the director was begging them. He's like,

880
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,480
you cannot, you cannot take this out of I think

881
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,559
when they got done with their screening it was the

882
00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:20,000
audience's number one pick as the funniest scene in the movie.

883
00:40:20,119 --> 00:40:23,360
Oh okay, it's a whatever for me, But I think

884
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:26,239
at that time actually having an animal die. And here's

885
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:30,599
another stream of events on the National Lampoons movies, National

886
00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:37,039
Lampoon Animal House, horse Dies, the National Lampoon Vacation, the dog,

887
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,679
the crying police officer, the.

888
00:40:40,639 --> 00:40:46,519
Speaker 1: Retching deacons, poor guy in European Vacation.

889
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:48,559
Speaker 3: I think, like a dog jumps off of a building

890
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,679
or something. I mean, it's it's a theme throughout all

891
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,079
the National Lampoon movies.

892
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:55,599
Speaker 2: A dog jumps off the Eiffel Tower. Oh yes, thank you,

893
00:40:56,159 --> 00:41:00,800
he doesn't die, but close yeah, left you drank a

894
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,119
half a quarter of pens oil, but he lifted his

895
00:41:04,199 --> 00:41:08,880
leg the next morning. Okay, so are we ready for

896
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:09,559
final judgment?

897
00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:11,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do it. You go, me go first, You

898
00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:12,000
go first.

899
00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 2: Okay. So when we came up with this, I was

900
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,039
way more familiar with Christmas Vacation than I was Scrooge.

901
00:41:18,079 --> 00:41:21,039
I think I had seen Scrooge like twice, and once

902
00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:24,039
as a teenager and once maybe as a twenty something,

903
00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:25,440
so it had been a long time. So when I

904
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,519
watched it again as an older man, I identified a

905
00:41:28,559 --> 00:41:31,440
lot more with the Bill Murray character. He's career driven,

906
00:41:31,679 --> 00:41:35,199
he's got these issues, he's got anger, he's got regret,

907
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,199
he's got guilt, but he's powered through all this because

908
00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:40,880
that's what he's supposed to do. And he's sarcastic and

909
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,480
he's jaded, and then the joy comes through. Okay. So

910
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:50,280
I absolutely loved Scrooged. Christmas Vacation has been a family

911
00:41:50,519 --> 00:41:54,199
Christmas holiday tradition for me forever. I know every line

912
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,480
in the movie like I know it backwards and forwards.

913
00:41:57,119 --> 00:41:59,800
There are some things that are too cartoony for me.

914
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,760
We talked about how when he forgets the saw to

915
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,360
pull out the Christmas Tree. Then you get that boil oiling,

916
00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:08,719
you know, when Santa catches on fire at the very

917
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,480
end and the rocket's red glare and it's flying around.

918
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:14,079
So there are parts that are too cartoony, too buffoony

919
00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:18,639
for me, but this is still undeniable. Christmas Vacation Scrooge

920
00:42:18,679 --> 00:42:21,119
was better and kind of rose in the ranks for me.

921
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,159
Christmas Vacation held steady. But for me, it's Christmas Vacation

922
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:25,800
all day long.

923
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,039
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, this is really hard for me.

924
00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 5: Okay.

925
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,159
Speaker 3: When I very first saw both of the movies, easy Choice,

926
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:35,440
it was scrooged, Okay, because it's a better movie. Bill

927
00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:39,320
Murray is funnier, it's better directed, better effects, doesn't have

928
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,880
the cartoony nonsense. I mean, you've got some supernatural stuff

929
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,119
going on, but it's the understanding that this is crazy.

930
00:42:46,159 --> 00:42:48,920
I mean, it's like unbelievable, what's happening to this guy?

931
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,920
And that's a part of the movie, Whereas with Christmas Vacation,

932
00:42:52,039 --> 00:42:54,480
it was kind of just a bunch of dumb, sticky

933
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,559
Saturday night live bit kind of things, and this very

934
00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:01,400
thin story about this whimming pool and the boss and

935
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,239
the bonus, I mean, paper paper thin. But what's happened

936
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,840
over thirty three years. I quit watching Scrooged, but I

937
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,639
kept watching Christmas Vacation. Okay, over and over it became

938
00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:18,840
funnier and funnier, and I think that it's just one

939
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of those movies.

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Speaker 1: Number One, it wins on the.

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Speaker 2: Rewatchability scale, definitely.

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Speaker 1: It just does.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to think, you don't have to do anything,

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You just get to sit there and just have a

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great time with this ridiculous movie, which is why I

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think is probably more popular than Scrooge does.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: I will say this, when I went back to Scrooged,

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holy cow, it was just as it was better than

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it was that I.

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Speaker 1: Saw it the first time.

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Speaker 3: It was better, Like I like it better now than

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back when I saw it. When I liked it better

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than Christmas Vacation. Me do totally brilliant movie. I will

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start watching it again every single year. But you and

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I are in the same page on this one, all right,

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Christmas Vacation it just wins out. It's not as good

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of a movie, but it's just means more to me.

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Speaker 2: Perfect Okay, Wow, so we're in agreement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that happens sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, it does happen, not very often. We would

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love to hear from you, guys. What do you think

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Christmas vacation scrooged? Is this Chevy Chase at his best?

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Is this Bill Murray at his best? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Guys?

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Speaker 3: Be sure and go check out our friends at the

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Thirty Somethings podcast. They check out movies that are thirty

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years old.

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Speaker 1: We love them. We've done a show with them on the.

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Speaker 3: Star Wars Holiday Special, which is a fantastic holiday listen.

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Speaker 1: If you want to go do that.

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Speaker 3: Also, go check out our friends at a Film Buy.

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We just did a bit for them where we ranked

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our favorite movies of nineteen eighty six. They have a

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whole series on those movies from nineteen eighty six that

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is an absolute joy to listen to. Be sure and

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check them out as well. Guys, We love you. Merry Christmas.

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Thank you for sticking with us through one more season again.

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And I think there's only one way that we can

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end this.

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Speaker 1: I pledge allegiance to the.

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Speaker 3: Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic.

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Speaker 2: For which it just stands One nation under.

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Speaker 3: God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all play ball.

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Speaker 1: I mixed my metaphors there, but.

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Speaker 2: That's a yeah, okay D. So that wraps it up

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for Christmas Vacation and Scrooge for us. If you enjoy

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our holiday episodes, We've done Christmas Vacation now in Scrooge.

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Last season we did Home Alone and a Christmas Story.

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The year before that, we did Diehard and Lethal Weapon.

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We've also done the Star Wars Holiday special. So that's

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seven Christmas episodes that you can listen to. It's a

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lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: And easier to do within your family.

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Speaker 2: What's your playful? God damn every now