Call for Submissions: Holiday Movies/TV
Share a memory about a holiday movie or TV show.
In graduate school, I took a class on American Film Comedies. On the first day, the professor asked each student, “What film makes you laugh no matter how many times you’ve seen it?”
My response: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989).
Yes, after 26 years, Christmas Vacation’s animated opening credits, Cousin Eddie’s shitter, and Clark W. Griswold’s rant (ending with Bing Crosby’s tap-dancing with Danny fucking Kaye) still make me laugh. And I haven’t even mentioned my most favorite bits of dialogue, some of which are less than kosher.
In the early 1990s, I bought National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation on VHS, and later, I bought it on DVD. Virtually every Christmas since then, the movie has played in the background as our family eats dinner and/or opens presents. This motion picture is probably not the most appropriate to show during so-called “family time,” but hey, when your family resembles the Griswolds…
When you think of holiday movies or TV shows, what memory comes to mind?
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