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2nd best thing about Jen's reactions. She doesn't make you sit through 3 minutes of introductions. Get's right into it.

Fun fact you might not be aware of Jen, the actress playing aunt Bethany was the original voice of black and white cartoon character, from the 1940s through 1960s, Betty Boop. She also provided the voice of Olive Oil among her many other credits during her film and tv career.

This is one of the most popular Christmas movies here in Germany! It's almost a tradition in my family for over 30 years to watch this film at least once at Christmas time!

As many times as I have seen this movie, I just now realized that the granny was the only one to hear the squirrel. They had to yell at her for everything else. It's pretty funny.

Aunt Bethany was also the original voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oil. When she was younger, she was a famous radio show voice actor.

"It's Christmas and we're all in misery." This is the Vacation movie I watch the most, no matter what time of year it is. "Hallelujah! Holy shit!"

Saw this in the theater when I was a kid, and it’s been a yearly tradition. As the years go by I empathize with Clark more and more.

Jen: ""You guys know I love when stuff goes underneath trucks!" 🤣 LOL! I loved when you said that Jen!

This one and Die Hard are my absolute go-to Christmas movies. This movie always get me into the mood, its just fantastic.

We had real trees when we were kids, then fake one later. Think everyone should try to have a real tree at least once to experience the smells you get in your home. It is a full on nostalgia trip for me whenever I walk in and that smell of cookies, tree, etc all hit me.

This movie was an absolute instant classic! It's my go to Christmas movie. Beverly D'Angelo is just incredible in the role as Ellen. I had a crush on her instantly from the first moment I saw her in the original vacation when I was like 11 or 12 when it came out. Lol

The music in this is an early score by Angelo Badalamenti, a remarkable composer who just passed away this week. He became best known for his work with David Lynch, but he has many fantastic scores under his belt. RIP to a great one

You can always count on Clark losing his temper while his relative casts explosion spells on Christmas 💥 🌲

Loved Jen’s squirrel story haha 🍎 🐿️

I’ve loved this film, ever since I first saw it. A few years back, I actually managed to finally buy one of the Wally World Moose mugs…..still on the hunt for the rest of the set & the bowl. Aunt Bethany was played by Mae Questel who was best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop (from 1931 & in over 50 animated short films….the longest stint for any actress in that voice role) and Olive Oyl (from 1933). In 1988, she reprised her role as Betty Boop one final time, for a cameo appearance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Her final on screen appearance of her 67 year career, was as Aunt Bethany in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation….& what a way to round off a career!!! Clarks boss was played by Brian Doyle Murray…..Bill Murray’s brother!! Brian Doyle Murray also plays Noah Vanderhoff in the incredibly funny Wayne’s World!!! Love how so many people watching this for the first time aren’t recognising Johnny Galecki (Russ Griswold). Galecki is most recognisable today for his role as Leonard in The Big Bang Theory.

Great reaction. I watch this movie every christmas. Fun fact...Clark's son Rusty is played by Johnny Galecki...yes Leonard Hofstadter from BBT. 🙂

Fun fact. The house that "Elaine" lives in was Murtaghs from Leathal Weapon.

Jen, your spoiling us! More back to back reactions! I guess that you truly have the spirit of giving this holiday season. And again, another great choice! Thanks you for all your reactions this past year. Looking forward for your new endeavors. Thank you and MERRY CHRISTMAS! P.S Give Steph and Tara ,big hugs and maybe even some heavily spiked eggnog! Your fan Eric.

“Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead?"

"And why is the carpet all wet TODD?" "I don't know MARGO!"

During the scene where Chevy Chase throws a temper when the lights don't work and he starts punching and kicking the Santa/reindeer decorations. There's a shot where he grabs and holds the Santa, punches it, and kicks it into the bushes. Chevy actually broke his pinky finger from punching the Santa decoration too hard. Chevy kicking the reindeer is actually him kicking in pain. And they kept that take in the movie.

Of all the times I've watched this, I don't think I've ever noticed that was Johnny Galecki playing Russ before.

We always watch this movie the day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. as it does get the Christmas season kicked off with the opening song. Great fun movie, the home movies give it a lot of heart as I think we've all watched old home movies of previous Christmases.

The actor who played his boss, his name is Brian Doyle Murray he is the older brother of Bill Murray and Joel Murray, rip John Randolph, E G Marshall, Doris Roberts, William Hickey and Mae Questel

Watching my new favourite reactors watch 'Christmas Vacation' has become my new favourite Christmas tradition!

This movie is my oldest Christmas tradition. Love watching it once a year to get in the spirit. Clarks rant while he’s drinking the egg nog gets me every time. Thanks for the wonderful reaction!

As a child we always went & picked out a Christmas tree at a tree lot. Not out in the wilderness like this but this real tree🎄 smell can't be beat.

One of my favorite Christmas films that I have to watch every year! So fun story, when I was a kid I happened to catch this on tv and thought the pledge of allegiance scene was absolutely hysterical (still my favorite scene) so when my family and I sat down for Christmas dinner, I volunteered to say grace and did exactly that. Needless to say my father didn't think it was funny lol!

SH!TTER'S FULL! Best christmas movie quote of all time.

In case no one knows this, the kid playing Russ was also Leonard in The Big Bang Theory.

Another great video. Chevy Chase face expressions just kill me, I know every dialogue. My fav Christmas movie. 🎄⛄ 🎅❤️❤️

The one thing that is different in all of the vacation movies is that all the Griswold kids are all different.

My older brother moved to Chicago in the late 00s/early 10s for a job that was pretty much the exact same job Clark has. We joked that he better have a humongous framed picture of Clark Griswold in his office and the custom Blackhawks jersey. He settled for just the Clark Funko pop. He still works in a similar type of job in LA now but still has the Clark Funko on his desk.

I can re watch this movie millions of times. Great reaction Jen!!

Happy Holidays to all! The boss is Brian Murry Bill’s brother. Go call your mother ☺️🎄

Love ya, Jen!! Thanks for the “put the darn tree up, Mark” inspiration!!

So glad you reacted to this one. One of my all time favorites easily

Merry Xmas Jen, thanks for all your great reactions. Compliments of the Season to all the other Subscribers & commentators !!

Eddie was unsung hero he saved the Griswold Christmas

Thank you for reacting to this one!! Much love to Canada from the USA!!

"You know I love when stuff goes underneath trucks". LOL 🤣

The lady who played Great Aunt Bethany is the original voice actress for Betty Boop.

My parents never had a live Christmas tree. One year when I was in college and didn't go home for Christmas, my roommates and I went out in the woods, dug up a tiny sapling, put it in a bucket of dirt, and had a live tree. Then after Christmas, we took it back out and re-planted it. Nowadays, I don't really do much for Christmas, as it's just me. I don't really celebrate (other than watching Christmas movie reaction videos.) I'm a bit of a Grinch.

Great Christmas movie. One of my favorites. I highly recommend "It's a Wonderful Life".

Today I learned that Leonard Hofstader played Rusty Griswold in Christmas Vacation. 🤯

John Hughes was obsessed w/ Chicago. I think all his movies are set there (as much as was possible).

We never had real trees either, and I prefer it that way. Assembling the artificial tree was always a Christmas tradition. We had an old one with limbs that were like green bottle brushes, with bare wire on the other end. You poked them into holes on a wooden pole based on the colors painted on them. Only the tree was so old that half the colors were faded/scraped off, so we'd have to compare their sizes to determine which ones were next. I never saw the point of killing a live tree just to have it in the house for a month or so. Not to mention the fire hazard. BTW, in this movie, Rusty (the son) was played by a young Johnny Galecki, who is now best known for playing Leonard on The Big Bang Theory, and David on Roseanne.

National Lampoon's Christmas 🎄 Vacation is one of my all-time favorite Christmas movies! A must watch each and every year! 👌 -OG

Something I had never thought of before was the clever way they began the movie with the Griswolds on a crazy road trip in the station wagon, probably as a nod to the first movie. Fun Fact: The poster above the bunk bed was of a model named Carre Otis and it was actually an ad. It originally said in cursive "Guess Swim". The filmmakers altered the poster, so it looks like it says Glorges Bnumfum or something.

I've got the best animal in the house story. My roommate wakes me up at 6am "Russ there's a wild animal in the house!" In the heaviest Brooklyn accent you can imagine. I'm like "dude I don't care I'm trying to sleep" but then thoughts of our dogs chasing this animal around, destroying the place and the animal and getting rabies runs through my head. So I get up and I see just the tiniest bit of its butt sticking out behind the sofa but can't tell what it is. I see my neighbor coming to the house carrying a cricket bat. Apparently my roommate and him thought it would be necessary to kill the thing. So I explain all we have to do is open the door, pull the sofa out a bit and it'll run out the door. Now my roommate was a UFC fighter, 6'2" 225lbs, covered in tatoos. Like the manliness scariest looking guy. Hes standing on the stairs petrified it going to leap at his neck and drink his blood. One of those City people that doesn't understand how animals work. So I pull the sofa out and it stars scurring around in circles on the tile floor and I hear the banister snap in half. My roommate, the big tough guy, so startled while holding the railing just broke the thing in 2 in terror. In terror over this tiny 3" baby bunny that finally managed to make it out the door. Lol

All I want for Christmas is to watch Jen's reactions over and over

Heartened you not only know The Simpsons well enough to reference but to turn 'the Sideshow Bob' into a verb!

If anyone was wondering why the tree went up in flames like that it’s because of all the sap in the tree sap has sugar in it and sugar is extremely combustible. Loved the reaction btw.

My 2nd favorite Christmas flick behind Bad Santa.

this one and The Grinch are my favorite christmas movies

I was lucky enough to see this at the theater when it came out and the following year was Home Alone. Two holiday classics! Enjoyed your reaction Jen!

"Is it like the same wife and everything?" Chevy and Beverly will always Clark and Ellen, but Rusty and Audrey are never the same 🤣🤣🤣 (Johnny Galecki is the youngest Rusty in this, I think) This is the 3rd actually, so I hope you will check out European Vacation (it pairs very well with 2004's Eurotrip 🥂) and eventually also #4 Vegas Vacation.

The Christmas Vacation movie is my favourite of all the Vacation movies even though they are all good as well. Love the reactions Jen and I hope you have a great Christmas but maybe not quite as chaotic as the Griswalds though :)

Bethany and Louis are only in the last quarter of the movie and they absolutely steal the movie.

My favourite Christmas movie is Jim Carey's version of the Grinch. Although not actually a movie, sometimes it's nice to watch some version of 'The Nutcracker' at Christmas time, I have the Australain Ballet version on DVD.

I've always had a fake tree because my mom is allergic to real ones.

Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet but. Chevy Chase actually broke his pinky punching the Santa in the yard.

"We're gonna have the hap hap happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby danced with Danny fu**ing Kaye!"😀

That was a great time. Nice reaction. Also, I haven't heard "grody" in a many decades, that really made it for me!

Every family has a cousin Eddie, somewhere

You can actually buy the moose eggnog cups. Which were a mood to Marty Moose.

Russ is Leonard from the Big Bang theory also when Clark blows up after not getting his bonus, some of the people were wearing cue cards around their necks. That’s why they don’t show their face.

I like the Wallyworld reference. Notice the glasses they drink eggnog out of 🙂

Didn't get to watch Lethal Weapon 4 yesterday so just watched it, went to subscriptions and Jen's back! Jen double feature!

Thanks Jen, I know we are past Christmas but I loved this movie and watching it with your video is almost as good as with real people in the home for the holidays! This and Scrooged with Bill Murray are my 2 favorite Xmas comedies! Have a Happy 2023!

I’m here on Xmas eve to watch because I have nothing going on. Happy Holidays y’all!

Impressed! You even know our Pledge of Allegiance.

clarks boss in this film is the guy who ran the tent camping place in the first movie...and is bill murrays older brother

I don't know if you noticed it or not, but the neighbors house is the same one the Murtaugh has in the Lethal Weapon movies.

I always liked these movies when I was a kid. Now, 30+ years later, one line always gets me: "I guess a healthy bottom line doesn't mean much if to get it you have to hurt the ones you depend on". This would have been rare back in the 80s but today?! Pretty much impossible after the strife for profit margins and lack of respect for employees skyrocketed since then.

The actor who plays Rusty is Johnny Galecki, who played Leonard on Big Bang Theory.

A guy in our neighborhood had a cousin Eddie mannequin he would put out at the storm sewer as a Christmas decoration. It had the short robe, weird hat, and a hose going into the sewer. We always got a chuckle out of it. (at Halloween he would put a Pennywise the Clown mannequin in the sewer. I always thought he should combine the two mannequins)

I just realized that those eggnog glasses are from Wally World.

15:42 the look an Jen's face, "will it exploded?" And again at 23:18

All the Vacation movies have different actors for the kids.

The parents are always played by the same actors but the children are played by different actors.

Surprised you didn't notice new actors for the Gris kids (which is a running gag in the franchise) for the record I've only seen this & the original (IMO all you neeed) . :D Love the squirrel apple story Jen!

The counter girl who was in Clark's fantasy on the diving board was Nicolette Scorsese (no relation to the famous director). She was in several other movies and TV shows. So no Jen, I wouldn't say you should know her! 😊

The super speed sled ride is one one of the funniest in movies. My side hurts every year watching it. I don’t know know how many times I saw this movie before I realized Russ was Johnny Galeki from Big Bang Theory

I love this movie it's a classic but my favorite out of all three of them is the last one when they go to Vegas

I just love how it's a comedy of errors, one it after another. lol

Classic flick, fun reaction! Hey, im suggesting, not for a reaction but a Christmas "watching" sabaton - Christmas truce. Its a band that makes songs about historical events, and this was during WW1 where both sides called a truce. Thanks again!

The Griswolds neighbors house is the same house as the Murtaugh’s house in the Leathal Weapon films. The house is at one of the studios in California

Clark sitting in the attic watching old home movies and while Ray Charles "Spirit of Christmas" plays always tears me up and makes me think of loved ones that are no longer with us.😢😢😭 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qcx8oNN8udfZl4E.html When Clark cuts off the newel post is a nod to "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Aunt Bethany is played by Mae Questel who voiced Betty Boop and Olive Oyl in the 1930s. She voiced Betty Boop in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) Christmas Vacation was her final film. She passed away in January, 1998. R.I.P. "HEY GRIS!? If you're not doing anything constructive, run into the living room and get my stogie!" Uncle Louis played by William Hickey R.I.P. Merry Christmas Jen. And everybody! Don't let your SHITTER's get full!

1. If you need someone to screw it up just call Clark. 🤣 2. GOOF: The lights outside the attic window don't match the pattern with the rest of the house. 3. My favorite part is when Ellen pulls the chain on the trap door. 🤣🤣 4. Mae Questel played Aunt Bethany. She was the original Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, This was her last gig.😇 5. In the big rant scene the other actors had Chevy's lines written on placards so he wouldn't get his lines out of order. 6. Living next door to them must be kind of like living next door to the Bundys. 7. Fun fact; Chase actually hurt his hand karate chopping the reindeer. 8. Clark's boss is Brian-Doyle-Murphy (Bill Murry's brother) calls him greaseball when he drops off his gift.🤣 He doesn't get his name right until the end. 9. Ellen is played by Beverly DeAngelo. She also played in "Every Which way but Loose" with Clint Eastwood and in "Hair". EWWBL would be a great first time share but "Hair" would give you copywrite issues. Finally, she has a couple of kids with Al Pacino. I like her better than the sales girl.😍😋🥰 10. This IS my Christmas movie every year 11. Fun fact: This is the only Vacation where Audrey is older than Rusty. 12. My picks in order: Christmas, Vacation, European and finally Last Wages.

I am my family's Cousin Eddie and I approve of this reaction.

Thanks Jen, enjoyed that❤❤

You must check out the ultimate road action comedies Smokey and the Bandit and the Cannonball Run

That was a joyful reaction from Jen. One of my favorite Christmas movies ever, looking forward to more xmas movies. 🎅🎄⛄

Enjoyed the squirrel story 😂😂😂

1:52 Omigod did Jen flip me off?! So much for feeling Christmassy. 😆😆 And yeah 13:03 is half the reason 19:00 happened. Because Snots drank all that water, it dehydrated the tree which is why it so easily went to cinders. Fun fact: Aunt Bethany is played by Mae Questel, the original voice of Betty Boop. Can't wait to see your reactions to other Chevy Chase classics like Three Amigos!(1986), Caddyshack(1980) and Fletch(1985)

Classic. Jen: Christy squirrel! Lol

Randy Quaid is... Unsettling!

This movie was a holiday tradition with my family growing up. Die Hard as well. Hope you enjoyed it Jen!