Aunt Edna (Imogene Coca) suffered a stroke about midway during filming. She insisted on completeing the work and much to their credit, Director Ramis and the production crew agreed and shot alternate scenes while she recovered AND had to relearn all her lines INCLUDING the scene where she took a bite out of sandwich that the dog peed on, which she IMPROVISED! Yes, after a stroke! She was a real pro! May she Rest in Peace.

@tenjed4224

2 ай бұрын

So right. She was a pro. RiP Imogene.

Clark’s rant in the car is one of the funniest things ever. “I think you’re all f***ed in the head!” 😂

@tiwagg5345

2 ай бұрын

His rant in Christmas Vacation is better imho. But they both usually have me rofl

@dtnetlurker

2 ай бұрын

We have all definitely been there at least once.

@brianvalencia7717

2 ай бұрын

"Don't TOUCH!" 😂😂😂😂 That one kills me every time.

@WinstonSmith19847

2 ай бұрын

I can't hear Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah without thinking of this film now which is probably the best way to remember that song.

@LubbockBabesFan

2 ай бұрын

@@brianvalencia7717 Same😄😄😄😄

"Then you just recast them to be younger..." The changing cast of the children, and their relative ages to each other, is one of my favorite running gags of the series. And that they call attention to Clark forgetting their names and ages 🤣🤣🤣

@MLJ7956

2 ай бұрын

They even poke fun at the changing kids in Vegas Vacation - "There's something different about you Russ...Who's that? Audrey? Her wearing that outfit I thought she was someone else". 🤣🤣🤣

@johncampbell756

2 ай бұрын

He forgets Audrey's name when he shares the beer with Rusty in this film.

If it makes you feel better. The TV version back in the day had her say "My Science Teacher says I'm the best at it" 😂

@Will-nn6ux

2 ай бұрын

That is so much better. 😂

@pete_lind

2 ай бұрын

This came in 1983 you could still drop f-bombs , Howard the Duck 1986 with few others caused new ratings on movies , Xmas vacation 1989 new movie rating. One reason 1980s was best decade for action movies , Die Hard , Predator, Lethal Weapon , Indiana Jones , Commando , Scarface a.s.o Sound tracks got better it was not anymore brass horn jazz like in 1970s actions.

Fun fact. When they are driving on the freeway leaving Chicago, some of those air shots were used in the opening credits of the TV show Married With Children.

"Hey, uh, excuse me holmes? Uh, what it is, bro?" I swear to god I've rarely laughed as hard at ANY line from a film as I did when I first watched this 😂

@LordVolkov

2 ай бұрын

"Roll em up!"

@tempsitch5632

2 ай бұрын

Are you witnessing all this plight ?

the "roll um up" has been used so many times since this movie and its always hilarious.

@johncampbell756

2 ай бұрын

When we would drive past the part of Jackson Heights, Queens, NY we lived in when I was born on the way towards my Uncle Tom's house, my dad would always say, "Lock the doors. Shut the windows. And that's where we used to live." He wouldn't even slow down as we passed by.

The “DON’T TOUCH!” line is my favorite line is still say today.

@MrRyguy2112

2 ай бұрын

I ALWAYS laugh at that! 😂 "You need an aspirin or something?"

Yeah but Daddy says I'm the best at it, your reaction plus his laughing at that line, was priceless.

@burnethedragon7065

2 ай бұрын

Plus that is a young Jane Krakowski.

This was HBO gold in the early 80s for us over 50 as kids. The second one, "European Vacation", was hilarious also. "Vacation", "Sixteen Candles", and the first "Revenge of the Nerds" were some my most favorite comedies growing up.

Matthew: Are you tired all the time?? I'm fucking dead!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Fun fact.when Chevy Chase was in college he was in a rock band and when he left the band to pursue acting the remaining members of the band formed a new band called steely Dan .

@billsimonis

2 ай бұрын

he described it as a bad jazz band

@0okamino

2 ай бұрын

Steely Dan. The band everyone _except_ Chevy Chase was in.

@vilefly

2 ай бұрын

He was holding them back. lol.

Just looking at the title got Holiday Road stuck in my head. And I ain't complaining bout it.

Great reaction. One thing I don't know if you noticed...Cousin Vicki, who grows the devil's lettuce, was played by Jane Krakowski in her film debut. The future 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Ally McBeal star was 14 at the time.

@johncampbell756

2 ай бұрын

Plus a lot of Broadway as well.

@FeaturingRob

2 ай бұрын

@@johncampbell756 One Tony for Nine, a Tony nom for Grand Hotel, and an Olivier for Guys and Dolls. Yep...a LOT of stage work. 🥰

@3DJapan

2 ай бұрын

I forgot she was in Ally McBeal.

@carlofaccini8034

2 ай бұрын

No shit, cant belive I never noticed that.

@carlofaccini8034

2 ай бұрын

No shit, I never noticed that

Catherine (Cousin Eddie's wife) is the same actress, she didn't change from movie to movie. Miriam Flynn.

@MLJ7956

2 ай бұрын

She was also very funny in Mr. Mom (1983) with Michael Keaton. 😉

Brian Doyle-Murray, who played the campground clerk, later played the role of Clark's cheapskate boss, Frank Shirley, in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989).

@tempsitch5632

2 ай бұрын

Previously wrote and acted in Caddyshack with Chase.

@chesteradams7423

2 ай бұрын

Who is also the brother of Bill Murray.

@JeremySeanA

2 ай бұрын

"We like to send out a mailer."

"She breathed on me! A dead person breathed on me!"

@dustman820

2 ай бұрын

One of my favorite lines that wasn't shown here. Also after the car crash in the desert when Audrey says "I think I got my period." Which in the TV version is changed to "I have to go to the bathroom."

@scottNNJ

28 күн бұрын

Audrey didn’t have many lines, but she got some of the best.

Christie Brinkley was the Biggest Supermodel in the early 80's until Cindy Crawford came on the scene and became the Highest Paid Supermodel.

One of the reasons why test audiences hated the original ending was because audience and the Griswold's didn't get to see what Wally World looks like. In the original ending, Christie Brinkley's character was Roy Wally's daughter and because of her is why Clark doesn't go to jail in that ending. The last photo in the ending credits of the Griswold's wearing Wally World hats taking an airplane home is from the original ending.

@DarkFortressPictures_Official

2 ай бұрын

Oh really?

To really appreciate Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy & John Candy, along with Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Martin Short, and Joe Flaherty, who we lost this past Monday (on April Fool's Day, no less), see a show called SCTV. It like SNL, only better.

The idea for National Lampoon's Vacation came to writer/director John Hughes during the Chicago Blizzard of 1979, when he began developing a short story titled "Vacation '58" for an issue of the National Lampoon magazine. Hughes eventually expanded the idea into a full screenplay, and also wrote another short story for National Lampoon called "Christmas '59" which Christmas Vacation was based on. Vacation was directed by Harold Ramis, and was Ramis' second directing job after Caddyshack. Hughes would make his directorial debut a year later with Sixteen Candles, but Vacation is technically Anthony Michael Hall's first appearance in a John Hughes project.

Chevy Chase hated the big roller coaster, that's why they put John Candy in front of him. If you watch closely, you can catch his face a couple of times and he's clearly not enjoying it.😂

Anytime something is closed I can’t not say “Sorry folks, the moose out front should have told ya” …and I agree with Matt that Beverly D’Anfelo had a profound effect on a whole generation of young men!

The Vacation series is one of the rare movie franchises, in which every entry is genuinely entertaining. And Randy Quaid just steals every scene he is in. Looking forward to watching you react to the sequels.

@misterkite

2 ай бұрын

Turns out Randy Quaid wasn't *acting* crazy...

"Fletch" is another old school Chevy Chase comedy you might like.

I'm honestly amazed Emily hasn't seen this.

No, that is actually the same actress who plays cousin Eddie's wife in Christmas Vacation. She only looks different here because she has shorter hair.

@MLJ7956

2 ай бұрын

She was also very funny in Mr. Mom (1983) with Michael Keaton.

@44excalibur

2 ай бұрын

@@MLJ7956 Yep, and Mr. Mom was also written by John Hughes, who was on a tear in the 1980s.

I've watched this movie in the theater, on home video, and on regular tv too many times to count. It it such a great film.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

2 ай бұрын

I remember the groans in the theatre after "Dad says I'm the BEST." It was this sinking "unnnnnghhhhhhh" LMAO

9:18 ,,,, poor Emily. She was so not ready for that!

European Vacation is also worth watching.

@Deathbird_Mitch

2 ай бұрын

The first 3 are worth watching.

@brianhansen6189

2 ай бұрын

Yeah there’s tiddies in that one too

@DarthMohammedRules

2 ай бұрын

European Vacation is great, just as good as Vacation and Christmas Vacation, criminally underrated and overlooked, nowhere near enough reaction vids here on YT for that one.

Before this movie there were other National Lampoon movies , but National Lampoons started off as a comedy comic magazine like MAD magazine or CRACKED.

Not just one of the greatest comedies of the 80s, but one of the greatest comedies ever made. Brilliant performances and one brilliant gag after another. My favorite will always be the legendary Imogene Coca as Aunt Edna pondering the dog piss sandwich for a second and then being like "Eh, f*ck it".

Wally World was played by Six Flags Magic Mountain.

@tempsitch5632

2 ай бұрын

From the inside. From the outside it’s a painting and the parking lot is in santa ana.

@themoviedealers

2 ай бұрын

Santa Anita horse racing track, which is not in Santa Ana. It's in Arcadia.

This is the best vacation movie. Easily.

@k.delpino1124

2 ай бұрын

Of course. There is no franchise like this, unless this first movie worked like it did.

That is Eddie's wife from Christmas vacation. I don't think they ever replaced her.

@MLJ7956

2 ай бұрын

She was same actress who was in most of the Vacation films.... She was also in Mr. Mom (1983) with Michael Keaton... She was also the voice of Taz's mom in the Tazmania cartoon series...

@dr.burtgummerfan439

2 ай бұрын

Another SCTV alumnus.

@chesteradams7423

2 ай бұрын

@@MLJ7956 She was also the voice of Grandma Longneck in the Land Before Time movies.

I have to tell this again because this movie popped up. My dad saw this when it came out...he loved this movie. Uncle Carl wore white shoes that looked like those Eddie gave Clark. Daddy was "bragging" on Carl's shoes at a family gathering. About a week later, a package came in the mail. Yep, a pair of cousin Eddie's shoes. The next weekend we went to Carl's house for a cookout. He asked daddy if he got the shoes. He told him he didn't even get to wear them and that my brother had worn them out in the horse barn while cleaning stalls. He RUINED them and how mad he was. A week later, a second pair of white shoes were on our front porch. Both pairs of shoes, new in the box, were in daddy's closet when he died in 2008.

The Cinema Sherpa had so much fun with this one! You guys are are always the best but the Sherpa is lovin this one!!

I hadn't noticed the connection to Christmas vacation, but right after Clark says "holy shit" Rusty offers him some aspirin. "Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?!?"

Chevy movies to watch: Fletch Three Amigos Spies Like Us Funny Farm European Vacation (Of course)

@mmmpotstickers8684

2 ай бұрын

Spies Like Us still makes me laugh.

@Dystopia1111

2 ай бұрын

​@@mmmpotstickers8684Doctor...

@markgettemeyer1145

2 ай бұрын

Every one of these!

@RideAcrossTheRiver

2 ай бұрын

You left out _Foul Play!_

Chevy Chase was on the Tonight Show when this came out and Johnny Carson said the scene with the dog and the cop just about killed him. Chevy said, being National Lampoon, they wanted to have a red streak behind the car and down the highway but realized that was probably going too far.

Matt & Emily - my wife & I love you both... strap yourselves in for this classic!! 🤣🤣🤣

This and Raising Arizona are probably my favorite comedies of all time.

Emily's face after the line - " but daddy says I'm the best at it" is THE BEST luv it Awesome reaction guys as usual :)

Harold Ramis said they called him to the studio one day to watch Christie Brinkley try on lingerie because they wanted to know what he wanted her to wear in the film. He thought I love my job and immediately went to the studio. Lol. They reshot the end of the film also and if you pay attention, Anthony Michael Hall is actually taller at the end than the beginning. He had a growth spurt in between shooting.

Great reaction you two...👍👍 If you want to see more funny Chevy Chase 80s flicks, then check out Fletch (1985) & it's sequel Fletch Lives (1989), as well as Funny Farm (1988), Seems Like Old Times (1980), Three Amigos! (1986), Modern Problems (1981) & Spies Like Us (1985). 😁

@SIMONATKINSON1980

2 ай бұрын

Love the Fletch movies..

I don't think i've had the pleasure of hearing Matt laugh so much. Right there with you at the subtle little comedy bits that sneaks in. LOL!!

I'm not sure what was funnier. The movie itself (which I've seen dozens of times, but it still cracks me up) or watching both of you cracking up over the movie! 🤣 I loved both of your reactions!!

I actually did go up in the St. Louis arch as a kid on vacation with my parents. It's actually really neat, especially the way the elevator works. Since it's traveling in an arch, it's made up of compartments that are able to rotate.

Roll em up.

FINALLY someone property reacts to the line "this is a Magnum PI"

You can tell that Beverly was about to break at the end of Chevy's eulogy. Perfectly natural reaction!

"DON'T TOUCH!" made me laugh so hard when I first saw this. I don't know why, but lord it did.

Harold Ramis was also the voice of the Marty Moose statue at the end.

@k.delpino1124

2 ай бұрын

And the offscreen voice asking Mr. Wally if he wanted the family arrested.

@themoviedealers

2 ай бұрын

Moose out front shoulda told ja.

Great reaction, trying to work out who requested it though. In terms of Matt's comment about how you can always find something new in it when you rewatch.....I have NEVER noticed him putting the plates straight in to the cupboard rather than the dishwasher in all the times I've watched this over 41 years until you guys pointed it out.

Are you gonna do European vacation? I know it’s not the fave, but I grew up on all these movies. Love them all

I remember at 7 and 9 years old, in the late 90s, my sister and I would be shown the TV edit of this movie ON REPEAT! It was a household classic.

Here's a NOTE that Y'all may or may-not have caught: the Talking Moose at the Park was Voiced by Harold Ramis! Loved this Reaction, Love this Movie but Like-Emily, I too saw "Christmas Vacation" first (long before this one) and I Love that one more TBH!👍

I remember what it was like to be a kid when movies like this were coming out or showing on pay cable channels, along with "Stripes," "Animal House," "Porky's." They were legendary in their glimpses at R-rated content and it felt special to be able to see them.

My favorite part about watching your reaction is the bonus banter between you two

One of the best comedies of all time, cool reaction as always Emily & Matthew, you both take care

When I hear Daisy say I don't want to hurt anyone, I get the same kind of feels when Jackie Chan says "I don't want trouble" then proceeds to wreck fools when they don't listen. And I'm getting the popcorn ready

DON'T TOUCH! Best line in the movie...

The same actress, Miriam Flynn, plays Catherine in this movie, Christmas Vacation, and Vegas Vacation.

I've seen this movie many times and just now noticed the unlocking of the car door after it had been smashed. Thank you for that.

So many great movies around this time. 9-5, Tootsie, Seems Like Old Times and Arthur. All great comedies.

I'm sad you edited out. "You like that girl, Clark?" "Who her? Noooo she's ugly!"

Chevy Chase going into profanity is hilarious because of how unflappably upbeat and overly optimistic Clark spends through the majority of the film leading up to his starting to crack. 🤣

Oh Please,Do The Sequels You Will Definitely Love Those One's Forsure, Great Reaction Guy's To One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's

"it doesn't kill you when I do it" almost almost brave last words

So the theme song "Holiday Road" was written and performed by Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac as a solo project. Still not sure how that worked out but its pretty cool.

@nintendianajones64

2 ай бұрын

Holy shit I had no idea.

Wow, legit blows my mind you haven't seen this one ever (considering you're a big fan of Christmas Vacation, lol). This oughta be fun, rofl.

This movie wins "Best Use of Vangelis in a Comedy".

@Dirkus17

2 ай бұрын

But third best use of Vangelis in _any_ movie.

Any time Beverly D’Angelo had a topless scene, they would close the set to make her more comfortable. But Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) got busted trying to sneak a peak, and Harold Ramos made him apologize to her as punishment.

OMG....total classic. One of the best comedies I can remember. A real thigh slapper for sure!!!

Please react to all of the National Lampoon Vacation movies!

1 night just before bed my mother did 1 final of the channels. This was around 91 in the UK so we only had 4 . The intro music was just starting . We decided to watch it and it became one of fondest memories.

9:12 that skit had the energy of Airplane skit wit' children.."just like my men."-Ernie Moore Jr.

Chevy Chase, Randy Quad, the woman that plays his wife and Beverly D’Angelo are the 4 main characters in almost all the Vacation movies. The kids are different in each movie because kids always eventually grow up.

Beverly D'Angelo may be in the car next to him, but thats Christie Brinkley in the ferrari

Harold Ramis does the voice for Marty Moose and also for the offscreen cop asking Mr. Wally what he wants to do with the Griswolds. This movie is my favorite of the series... with Christmas Vacation an easy second place. Both are a riot.

originally they wanted to film at disneyland but the disney said no. So they ended up created a disney like park. Roy Walley is basically Roy Disney. The road leading to Wally World is actually the road for Six Flags Magic Mountain. the pictures at the begining of the movie were all real tourist attraction that were taken from a tour guide book. Most the roadside attractions featured are no longer there. the off screen cop at the end "wer're all done here" is the voice of Harold Ramis based of a short story by John Hughes titled Vacation '58. Imogene Coco disliked working on the movie. theme song Holiday Road and Dancing Across The USA both written and performed by Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetword Mac This was Chrsitie Brinkley's first movie role. she was quite nervous and reluctant to show nudity. I believe they also banned the kids from the set on when they filmed the nude scenes. Anthony Michael Hall said later that he tried to sneak on the set during the filming of th nude scenes. several scenes with Hall were reshot and in soe of them he is noticeably taller as he experienced a growth spurt during reshoots. this also started a gag about the kids being different in subsquentially vacation movies, as neith Dana nor Anthony Micheal came back for European Vacation

@Will_Fly_the_YouTube_Guy

2 ай бұрын

I think you mean Walt Disney

@billsimonis

2 ай бұрын

@@Will_Fly_the_KZread_Guy according to Harold Ramis it is roy since he was the ceo at the time. even the name roy wally was a parody of troy disney

"Ye, though the Hindus speak of karma..." That's one of my favorite lines. That line, and "Excuse me, Holmes?" This is the first R movie that I saw in theaters; it's near and dear to my heart.

That's a young Jane Krakowski! I never realized

❤❤❤❤... PLEASE WATCH THE OTHER TWO VACATION MOVIES.

"Who is that?" "Christie Brinkley" Matt, the correct answer was, "I don't know, she's ugly."

@JoeMama410

2 ай бұрын

Mrs. Jerry Gergich

@0okamino

2 ай бұрын

Right? It seems like Billy Joel could never attract any good looking ladies. Well, that’s the price of being a successful musician, I guess.

Here's a lesser known bit of trivia: the police officer who threatens to use the butt of his revolver on Clark has worked in two movies with separate Bill Murray brothers- the other being the very funny Moving Violations

@jrod4344

2 ай бұрын

For some reason this reaction made me want to revisit, Modern Problems. Didn't think about Moving Violations, but now i want to watch that too. And then the Actors and type of movie that is, makes me want to watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High afterwards.

@dustman820

2 ай бұрын

If I'm correct, the cop was once married to Jane Seymour.

I hope one day you will watch Modern Problems, Chevy was great in that ✌💖☮

"Daddy says I'm the best at it." Matthew laughed the laugh of someone waiting for that line.... 🤣😂

This is exactly why I'm subscribed to this channel. So many other KZreadrs have reacted to this movie. But always cut out the f-bomb and I forgotten how much he or Chevy Chase actually uses the f bomb in this movie because I been seeing it lately on KZread or on TBS😂 But they always React to the movie as it is. Exact for nudity which is understandable.

I liked your Classic reactions to your movies you watch cause if the movies were from the 80's or even before it seems you could get away with stuff being said or things being done in movies then if it were done now days with all the stuff done or said in movies because of how it may offend others keep them movies a rolling out thank you.

Poor Imogene Coca. God bless that woman's soul. Everyone said she was the sweetest little old lady when the cameras weren't rolling. What no one was aware of while they filmed was Imogene dealt with a severe phobia of riding in cars due to a very bad accident she was in as a young woman. Road trip movies were nothing new in 1983, but _National Lampoon's Vacation_ was the first to actually take the cast and crew cross-country to shoot at the various locations. Matt's not the only one who admired Beverly D'Angelo's physique. Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) tried to sneak onto the set whenever Beverly filmed a nude scene. He didn't succeed.

My late dad and i watched this movie, and we laughed so hard that we got tears out of our eyes.

This film is high art and the "DON'T TOUCH!" line is painfully relatable

Also of note, the song that plays whenever Christie Brinkley shows up is not the original song that played during those scenes in the theatrical version. In the theatrical version 'I'm so Excited' by the Pointer Sisters was heard. It was changed for copyright reasons.

I actually built a full size rumning driving replica of the Truckster, complete with dinkys dog leash on the back bumper and a half mannequin wrapped in a tarp,strapped to the roof with good ole 70s Samsonite luggage

@Crolis

2 ай бұрын

I have an old Garmin GPS that has the Truckster as a vehicle icon. If you looked closely, there was a dog leash attached to the bumper.

We've had several family road trips to Disney World growing up, it was absolutely mandatory to quote Vacation. Hell, we had a trip to Gatlinburg last summer and we were quoting it!

Emily the St Louis Arch is pretty cool. The elevator is actually like the inside of a big dryer and seats 4/5 from what I remember. It kind of waddles back and forth up the arch to the top then there is an inside sky walk with tiny rectangle windows. It was cool to experience.

I saw European vacation before vacation. I got say I liked the former better.

"Deadna" 🤣🤣🤣

3:44 The look of horror and disgust on Emily's face is PRICELESS!!! 🤣🤣🤣