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- First time watching and reacting to _National Lampoon's Vacation
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Christie Brinkley (the "stalker chick" as you called her) was one of the most popular swimsuit models in the world at the time and my brother had posters of her all over his bedroom.
And 40 years later she still looks ridiculously amazing. Plastic surgery, skin care and supreme genetics.
She was married to the pop singer Billy Joel.
@@frugalseverin2282 Until, as Norm McDonald said, she realised that she was Christie Brinkley and she was married to Billy Joel.
I'd bet he "Bomped his Bologna" to those Christie Brinkley posters more than once 🤣
I would prefer to see Dasha in a swimsuit
National Lampoon is a magazine that was created at Harvard University by comedy writers Doug Kenny, Henry Beard, and Robert Hoffman. It ran from 1970-1998.
Those were the days. I had a couple issues
I have been trying to collect copies. You can still find them for pretty cheap online. Some at least.
They are crazy funny and subversive and edgy and everything you want from comedy.
Even Harvard was better in the 70s
Yes lampoon is to make fun of something
"Lampoon" is a somewhat unusual English word that means "to mock something." The National Lampoon was a humor magazine where the original story that became this movie was published.
I love how Dasha has clearly never been on a road trip with kids in a hot climate before
I remember seeing this in 1983, when it was released, saw it at the drive-in movie theater, with my best friend and his mom, we laughed our butts off!!! Absolute classic! Love these movies! Hope you will react to the rest!..👍👍👍👍👍
Always thought Christmas Vacation was the best...
The movie is always funny. But what's funnier is someone watching it, not understanding 75% of the jokes and trying to find reason in something that is meant to be absurd!🤣🤣🤣👍
How the times have QUICKLY changed.
It's so true, and semi-common among some reactors. We really had an industry-wide affection for deadpan, the tone is now completely gone from any modern comedies. It's the emphasis on trying to pretend that Everything Is Normal, most of the time.
@@OneThousandHomoDJs most of the time? in this crazy new world we live in that's generous.
@@thegladve Yep, I think so, too.
It IS fascinating how people who have grown up on reality TV have trouble discerning when a joke is being made, or why a character might choose a course of action that they, the viewer, would NEVER choose. They're baffled, sometimes. And the simplest explanation for a character's odd actions or words or mindset (i.e., in order to serve the story) never dawns on them.
It all boils down to them not being exposed to as much fiction as previous generations. They've grown up on "here's what rich people did this week," "who wants to be my spouse?" and "watch the has-beens have a dance-off." Oh, and their own generation's version of video games, which we also had, to be fair. But what do *they* know about story or motivation or theme or tone? The first time(s) many of them are seeing movies and TV shows from the past is literally their first exposure to that sort of entertainment.
I know EVERY generation says they feel sorry for younger generations. For that reason alone, I hate to say it, but doggone if it isn't exactly how I feel, as well.
@@OneThousandHomoDJs well I'll be the original to say that I don't feel sorry for them as much as I'm sorry that every generation proclaims to write themselves into history when all they really do is keep the cycle of history repeating itself, oh and here's the biggest kick in the balls just for laughs, Reality TV shows are no different whatsoever from fiction, it's even more scripted than what passes off as fiction.
To be fair, it wasn't her society to begin with!
All the Vacation movies you can basically watch endlessly and never get tired of them! Best Family in the World!
Oh and cmon! The dog was an asshole!!
If you belonged to Edna, you would be too.
@@Cheepchipsable hahaha that made me giggle more than I likely should....
" National Lampoons " started off as a comedy comic magazine in the early days. Then they went out and started making movies like : Vacation - Animal House and others.
The bit when Clark says "I think you're all f***ed in the head!" is a laugh out loud moment for me. What a thing to say to your wife and kids! 😂
I think postcards have been mostly replaced by selfies. What a shame.
Thanks for your reaction, Dasha. That was fun. 🤗
OK, I was 11 years old in 1966, and my family took this kind of road trip vacation to Disneyland in a station wagon similar to this one. I was the oldest of 4 kids, and our parents bought us all these "travel games" to play in the car to keep from getting bored. And yes, we stopped at many tourist traps along the way, and stayed in motels. We also visited friends in Phoenix, AZ instead of visiting the Grand Canyon (Big mistake, long story).
It wasn't nearly as crazy as this movie of course, but this kind of movie is the kind you love because it makes crazy satire out of a real experience you actually had.
My family took this same trip in '69. And yes, the station wagon was green. From Cleveland to Disneyland with every tourist attraction in between. Yellowstone, Wisconsin Dells, The Corn Palace, Wall Drugs. . . On the way back we stopped in Las Vegas, which is where I watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon. There were no deaths, however. I was Rusty's age. I still remember it like it was yesterday.
Hi Dasha, yeah, that old 80's humor certainly could be off color sometimes. FYI, the wheel covers that were stolen from their station wagon in St. Louis were called "hubcaps" back in the 80's. And the single long seat across the car was known as a "bench" seat and was common in cars from the 20th century. My dad had 1959 and 1970 Ford station wagons which had bench seats in front and back.
Eugene Levy here is the best car salesman ever. Please watch all the other Vacation movies as well. Even the 2015 movie is worth watching at least once.
Selling a new car to someone about to leave on a road trip becomes significantly easier after their old car has been flattened like that.
You may think you hate it now, but wait til you drive it!
So this humor is called "absurdity" you're not supposed to "get it" you just laugh at. But yeah dasha knows how to keep a functioning relationship, you go girl
When I was 14, my family took our last vacation together, it was 1972. Our car broke down in a desert that looked exactly like the one In Vacation. How the times have changed. My Dad allowed my 15-year-old brother to take a ride from a complete stranger to a gas station we didn’t know of for the part we needed to fix the car. Oh yeah, my brother did come back.
That sounds too much like The Hills Have Eyes 😂
That ending was anticlimactic.
@@DustinHawke Oh, I guess you wish my brother would have been kidnapped and killed. I’m so sorry that you were disappointed. What a sicko!
Fact is, people used to help each other out. In ‘76 I borrowed my friend’s Econoline van to drive way up north to visit my old college buddies. I picked up a hitcher who helped me discover I had a gas line leak. Later that night, in a nasty blizzard, we came upon two guys staggering out of the woods -their car had gone off the road and was completely invisible in the deep snow. I gave them a ride to the college town I was going to. Another time up there I was in a 25-car pile-up that blocked the highway (again in a blizzard). We all thought we could die out there that night, but local folks and cops eventually got everyone to safety and a very small town hospital for stitches, meals and places to stay. These experiences built my trust that people will help each other in times of need. Right now, I don’t know if people would do the same-but I like to think they would still come through for each other rather than turn on each other in dire straits.
@@R._ThornhillRight?? “Cool story bro, but it needs more doom and gloom and depressing shit because we’re not already inundated with enough of it by news, social media, and entertainment media.” What an edgy prick. I mean, I suppose it’s possible we’re both off and that wasn’t what they were going for, but it was still a really weird response regardless, and I suspect they *were* waiting for bad news.
"No one got hurt except one person died and a dog died too innocently in a brutal accident" Great summary
"no one got hurt, except 1 person died, and a dog died too". hahahaha
good pick up with the washing of the dishes at the beginning. a lot of people don't even notice that joke lol
Don't worry the dog didn't die. He just... He just slipped out of his collar and ran away to start a happy puppy family. :) yeah, that's it.
Good thing that carcus was cleaned up so we can beleive that
Between this movie and “The Big Lebowski” you have a lifetime of quotable quotes. Half this movie is my family’s mission statement. “Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?” “Nothing but the best!”
In Clark's defense, it was Christie Brinkley. I mean, c'mon.
4:50 Yes, it's absolutely possible for gas tank access to be in strange places in older cars. The one I learned to drive in had its gas cap hidden behind its license plate, just like the neighboring one in this film.
Some cars had then behind tail lights
A lot of cars through the 1970’s had the gas caps in the rear often behind the license plate.
Cars set up like that had issues with catching on fire in a rear end. The designers of the cars thought having a gas fill on the side of the car ruined the lines of the car and putting it the back his it.
They pretty much disappeared after the Ford Pinto fires.
I had a Daimler V12 in the UK that had two gas tanks, one filler cap on each side just behind the rear window. As you drove you could use the dashboard switch to change from one to the other.
Other cast members Christy Brinkley and Beverly D'Angelo. Brinkley was a super model at the time. Beverly was...well...WOW!
Fun Fact: This movie is based on a short story... "Vacation '58"... written many years before by the director, John Hughes. Originally published in National Lampoon, it differs from the movie in a few ways: As the title suggests, it's set in 1958. The Griswolds live in Michigan, they have three children and their destination is Disneyland. When they arrive and find it closed, Clark goes insane, buys a gun, goes to Walt Disney's house and shoots him... in the leg. The story ends with the rest of the family flying back home.
If you'd like to read it, look up this movie on Wikipedia, then scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you'll find an online link to it.
It's hard to pick a favorite moment but I like the scene where Rusty just chugs the beer like he's been drinking for years.
I think after the jump into the Grand Canyon, the daughter's line about her period.
This is by far the best of the Vacation movies. IMO.
Easily
If you ever visit Washington DC, the Queen Truckster is in the American History Museum. My family had a station wagon (estate) car and after this we called it the Queen Truckster. We had a picnic with my Aunt in Hawaii in 1986 where everything went wrong, we called it our Aunt Edna picnic.
A great John Hughes film! He actually did many 70s and early eighties movies, he helped write, he never got credit for.. Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, and a few others
To "lampoon" something is to satirize or make fun of it. Thus the name of "National Lampoon" magazine, which, as others have said, was the origin of this film. John Hughes, who directed "The Breakfast Club", Ferris Bueller's Day Off", etc. wrote a story for the Lampoon about his family vacation to Disneyland in 1958. That story was the basis for this film.
Many people have brought up the credits of the main cast and other movies they've been in, but to shine a light on a couple of the older actors -
Imogene Coca, who plays the aunt, was the co-star of a very influential sketch comedy show in the early days of television, "YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS," whose writing staff included Carl Reiner, the father of actor/director Rob Reiner, Mel Brooks, whose films you've done reactions for previously, and Neil Simon, who became a very revered comedy playwright and many of his plays were turned into films.
Eddie Bracken, who plays the owner of the amusement park Roy Wally (basically a stand-in for Roy Disney), was a versatile comic actor and dancer from the '30s all the way to the '80s. He was best known for doing several films with writer/director Preston Sturges, including THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN CREEK in 1948, which was a very controversial film at the time because it was a comedy about out-of-wedlock pregnancy, a huge societal taboo back then.
They actually had an agreement to use Disneyland as the park they were travelling to, but when Disney learned the plot depended on the park being closed, they backed out. Disneyland NEVER closed until 2020.
I wonder how many families drove to the parks they used, just to see a sign "Closed 2 weeks for filming"
I did a road trip with 2 friends when we were around 20, driving in a Geo Metro(60mpg) from Tacoma, WA to LA. Our ultimate destination was my friend's girlfriend's parent's house in Palos Verdes. Magic Mountain was our first stop in the area. It was exactly like in the movie. Only open on weekends at that time of year. Vacation happened to be my friend's favorite movie as well. He was good at voices, so "Sorry Folks, were closed" became a running joke. In a way it was perfect. Such a fun trip. My other friend drove the whole way back in one shot, 19 hours.
Disney closed twice;
2001 - 9/11
2020 - COVID
The roller coasters here are at Six Flags Magic Mountain, north of Los Angeles. They were the original {wooden} Colossus and Revolution (the first looped coaster). Both have been modernized and both are great (before and after the update.) Just in case you find yourself in Southern Cali. There's a lot of options for theme parks (like DIsneyland or Universal Studios) and coasters parks (like Knotts Berry Farm and Six Flags).
This movie is about the worse things that can happen to a family going on vacation turns into a disaster. Most families & couples have been through bad roads trips once😂😂
It's kind of a running joke in the Vacation movies, that Clark can never remember his daughter's name.
"Animal House" was the first 'Poon movie, also a classic.
National Lampoon used to be a humorous magazine that was aimed at young males. The woman in the red Ferrari is Christy Brinkley, who was a super model in the 80's and 90's and many teen boy's fantasy. Dumb and Dumber also used the Mockingbird song as a reference to this movie.
"I can't believe that they all made it alive... well, no" - had me laughing!!!
“Road trips with kids. Probably even more fun.” Hahahahahaha oh Dasha you sweet innocent thing. You have no idea the nightmare that is a road-trip with kids.
Now Dasha really needs to watch Spies Like Us! Lots of bad Russian language in it for her to cringe on...
Im just looking for the burt reynolds theater.
Loved that movie. Haven't watched it in a long long time. Maybe a weekend popcorn flick since it's supposed to get cold this weekend
The amusement park used in the movie is Six Flags "Magic Mountain", about 30 miles north of Los Angeles. Most if not all of the rides in the movies are still there.
The "hick" guy renting the tents is Brian Doyle-Murray, one of Bill Murray's several siblings. He co-wrote Caddy Shack and played the manager of the caddy shack in the movie, and he also played the mayor in Ground Hog Day, which of course starred his brother Bill. You'll also recognize him from Wayne's World as the older guy who owned "Noah's Arcade" and was sponsoring the new (fake) Wayne's World show until Wayne insulted him by writing on the cue cards.
The car salesman is Eugene Levy, who you will know as the father from the American Pie series, and more recently was in the TV show Schitt's Creek. He also wrote/co-wrote a number of comedy movies along with acting in them.
The fat security guard was of course the late John Candy, who you've seen in other things. He played Barf in Spaceballs, and was Uncle Buck in the movie of the same name, and was in Planes, Trains, And Automobiles as well as The Great Outdoors, among many others.
The mechanic/sheriff was played by Mickey Jones, who always plays a tough biker-type character, and his sidekick was played by John Diehl, who had starred with Bill Murray in Stripes and would become VERY famous the following year (1984) playing major supporting character Detective Larry Zito in "Miami Vice" - the most influential TV show in the 1980s - and has had a pretty busy career since then. His "Miami Vice" cop partner Michael Talbott also appears in Vacation as the cowboy - he went on to play Detective Stanley Switek in the show.
And the writer and director of the movie is Harold Ramis, who you know from Ghostbusters - he played Egon.
Many of the people mentioned here were sketch comics who got their start in either Canada's "Second City Television" (SCTV) or in the America's "Saturday Night Live", which were both sketch comedy shows.
The car salesman at the beginning of the movie is the dad from American Pie
"Road trips are so fun though. I'm not surw how it is with kids, probably even more fun." 👀👀 🤣
The word "lampoon" mean "to publicly criticize someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm."
The next film in the series is "European Vacation," not "Christmas Vacation." A lot of reactors seem to forget that one.
Trivia: Chevy Chase actually has perfect pitch. This means he can sing any note, on pitch, without hearing it first.
National Lampoon was a comedy magazine in the US. They produced some crazy comedy movies in the 80s. Big with younger males, mailnly!
Those are hubcaps they were stealing on the car, they are made of snap on plastic now
Can't tell if you recognized the actor who played Rusty. Anthony Michael Hall. He was the geek Brian in Breakfast Club. And almost every John Hughes movie. If you haven't seen Weird Science yet, there's no better time than right now. lol
I like how the whole SWAT team were riding the roller coaster with the family at the end. 😆
*At **23:01**, check out the gas prices: 21¢, 31¢, and 42¢ a gallon.* And my parents would complain that gasoline was expensive.
Definitely check out Vegas Vacation and Christmas Vacation.
I saw this movie in the theater with my older brother and sister. We couldn't stop laughing
9:32...I laughed my ass off!!!! Thank you so much for enjoying and reacting to an 80's movie classic!!!
John Candy in the glasses! All the vacation movies should be watched!
Clark is right that he is no ordinary fool. He is, in fact, a very rare and exceptional fool. 😁
I like watching these old movies it takes me back to my childhood in the 80s. Some cars had the tank in the rear but after so many rear ending accidents the tanks would leak fuel and catch fire the Ford pinto became what you would call a meme today as a joke in the 80s for blowing up. You should watch Christmas vacation cousin Eddie scenes are some of the best.
This is a classic,,have watch it probably 10 times but never get's old,,😀 great reaction,,👍
A road trip is "probably even more fun" with kids? That's even funnier than the movie. 😉
During Christmas season you should definitely check out Christmas Vacation. I think it is funnier than this movie personally but both are hilarious. The fourth movie in this series Vegas Vacation is hilarious as well. The second one European Vacation is funny but not as funny as the other three.
European Vacation was my least favorite of the "Vacation" movie,
@@j.woodbury412 yes, I don’t think it is a coincidence that it is the only one not to have Cousin Eddie and is the worst one. It is still better than a lot of comedies but lacking when it comes to the other Vacation movies in my opinion
Road trips are fun, but you have to remember the distances in the US. It is over 2000 miles (3300 km) from Chicago to Los Angeles. You are going to spend most of your vacation driving.
The director of this movie also did : Ghostbusters - Caddyshack - and many other comedies.
Actually fish have pretty good memories. The myth that fish have short memories has been debunked by research which showed they respond to training after months in the wild. While it was previously believed that a fish's memory span was only three seconds, scientists now believe they can remember for up to five months, for example, science has found that Goldfish have quite impressive memories. They are able to remember where in their tank they are usually fed, can correlate a particular action to a reward, can escape nets and navigate mazes, and remember other individual goldfish, even after long periods of separation.
Researchers studying archerfish found the fish can tell a familiar human face from dozens of new faces with surprising accuracy. So saying you have a fish memory is not necessarily a bad thing.
I'm a dog person too....they are wonderful!
I didn't like how they killed the dog, either. I know the dog was vicious, but still, that was pretty vicious.
Trivia: The crooked mechanic was played by Mickey Jones, who was an actor and musician. He played drums in Kenny Rogers' The First Edition. He once said in an interview that after this movie came out, every time he'd run into his fans, they'd ask him to say his line, "All of it, boy!"
18:04 lol no more social security check for the other family
Oh, you've gotta continue with the Vacation series... next one is European Vacation. Loved your reaction!
In the 50’s there were car with a hidden gas inlet. I heard a story about a Chevrolet where you had to move the taillight to put in the gas. The owner found that some hooligans had stolen the car but ran out of gas and couldn’t figure out how open it up. They abandon the car. The police called him and went out with a gas can and drove away!
Chevy Bel Aires and a number of other 50's GM cars (Cadillacs in particular) had the fuel filler behind a flip-up or flip-down tail light, yes.
“If it’s weed, that’s a lot of weed.”
Believe me when I say that in rural Kansas, there’s not much else to do…except for French kissing your daddy. Lol
Wally World is Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia,CA. Grew up going there in teen, then took my niece there for rides, she was from Alaska, nothing there like this. Holiday Road song, is solo song of Lindsey Buckingham, from band Fleetwood Mac. The wife actress is a great singer, should watch and react true story movie Coal Miner'sDaughter. She plays Patsy Cline and sings her songs. Sissy Spacek plays Loretta Lynn, and sings her songs.
Clark is Chevy Chase, is known from a star of Saturday Night Live, then , then a comedy actor, like in this one. Before this, a cop with Goldie Hawn, in a thriller 1979 Foul Play.
Love Ya ❤💋❤
Out of the “Vacation” movies, Christmas Vacation is my favorite.
The Family Truckster was a fake vehicle specifically built for the movie.
National Lampoon was a humor magazine (spin-off of the Harvard Lampoon) that went on to produce movies.
Yes, Ellen is a true saint for sticking with Clark and not even being that mad at him. She has to be for the sake of the sequels, of which there have been three. The best sequel and, in most people's opinions, the best movie in this series is the second sequel _Christmas Vacation_ (1989).
1 cannot change the past, but knowing the past, 1 can change the future!
Ahh, you have a fishmemory? Dont put yourself down :-) Fun films these, classic one could say today, I feel.
That shotgun was probably a real one, but obviously the bartender was shooting blanks that only made noise (or else Clark would have been killed). It's all part of the Old West theme, of course. In real life, though, people in the Old West didn't really shoot each other all the time for minor reasons.
Accurate depiction of St. Louis lol
The magazine article this is based on the go to Disneyland and Clark punches Walt Disney
Inthe western city Clark was trying to use western slang but wasn't doing it good so the bartender played along with the shotgun
Yes, at least in America there were some cars back in those days that were refueled under the license plate. I don't know of any cars today that are like this, though. Virtually every car these days is refueled on either the left or right side, near the rear.
One of the best comedies of all time, cool reaction as always Dasha, you have a nice day sweetie 🥰❤️
Lindsay Buckingham's theme song is so catchy.
I believe the poster shows not an eagle, but likely a vulture... a vulture circle an anticipated meal once it perishes in the desert heat.
Those things covering the wheels are called "hubcaps" in American English.
Yes many cars back in those days had the gas under the rear license plate
Lampoon is not a person it’s a series of movies called National Lampoon. They have all the national lampoon holiday movies plus they have national lampoon, Van Wilder, and several other national movies.
Lampoon: publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
If you enjoyed this, the sequel Vegas Vacation is pretty funny.
A lot of people down that one but I think it’s pretty good. I’ve only watched EUROPEAN VACATION once.
Vegas was the best of the sequels by far
There are multiple sequels: European Vacation. Christmas Vacation, and Vegas Vacation.
The old man at the end of Vegas vacation was Sid Caesar he was aunt Edna real life husband, it's an amazing call back if you knew that
@@Raven5150im not sure he was aunt ednas real life husband but she was a regular cast member on his show called your show of shows. Mel brooks was also one of the writers
This movie definitely has a lot of "dark" humor that some people enjoy, myself included. In real life, I think I might want to strangle a guy like Clark. 😄
You’re like the first reactor to notice he was putting away dirty dishes. You’ll the dishwasher was open and he was supposed to be putting them in there. It’s just Chevy Chase’s goofball humor he’s famous for.
Iconic road trip/vacation movie! (2023.10.29)
My first question "Who is Lampoon?". This is the best start a reaction has ever got, this one is gonna be great. I am not making fun of Dasha, I had no clue what Lampoon was when I was her age so....
I only knew it was a satire magazine because I watched Animal House way too young 😅
Young people will never know that the song playing as they ran through the parking lot was from Chariots of Fire, the story of 2 runners in the 1924 Olympics. That song ruled the airwaves in the early 80s and was used a a theme for the 80s Olympics.
If I were married to Beverly D’Angelo, I definitely wouldn’t cheat on her 💕
Loved all the NL movies.. Gotta watch ‘National Lampoons European Vacation’ next 😄
An old favorite movie of mine. I do personally prefer Christmas Vacation though. I watch it every year haha
That was a real shotgun, but it was a real shotgun shell that was in it. It was blanks.
Loved this reaction.💗💗🙂
🤣😂🤣😂…who is Lampoon and why is his vacation National? …🤣😂🤣😂 quotes like that are why I watch you, you are wonderful
You should watch “A crazy futile gesture” it’s about making the National Lampoon. Will Forte plays lead role