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Snippet. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation just became a perennial favorite at the Thayer household as we were, as I was growing up. It was like every Thanksgiving night we would roll out National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We'd put up a few holiday decorations and we'd eat pumpkin pie and Cool Whip. How many one-liners do you think that you could quote off the top of your head from that film? Um, let's see. Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year. You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant. Where's the Tylenol? Merry Christmas! You watch it every single year. Yes. And sometimes a couple times in a year. And at one point you and I dressed up like them and sent out Christmas cards with our photo superimposed on their faces. I mean, it's like my favorites. I think, gosh dang, it's so hard to find, to think of your favorite scene in that movie. Like, because you've got so many great, you know, moments, like when he puts the, when he puts the spray on the sled. I don't know if I ought to go sailing down no hill with nothing between the ground and my brain but a piece of government plastic. You really think it matters, Eddie? What I love about that movie, okay, is some of the stuff that doesn't really get noticed but I've always, like, just tickled me. So, like, when he goes to drop off the Christmas gift with his boss and he turns around, everybody got the boss the exact same thing, you know, and it's just this oddly shaped package. Those little kind of things, like, or when Randy Quaid, what did they call that mock turtleneck? A dickie. A dickie, you know, they got the dickie on, right? And then they had that little wooden, that little wooden windmill thing that kind of, like, just spins because of the, yeah. I used to own one of those with the little candles. And he hits it and it just falls down.