It's a lot of work to make Christmas happen

Lemminary

For anyone curious, Chevy Chase was apparently awful to his coworkers, which caught up with him and squeezed him out of his career. This culminated during a roast to his name that celebrities actively skipped. What made him rethink his behavior was Steven Colbert's scathing but accurate remarks on the podium that haunted him, although his effort to change was too little too late.

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I just assume that is what middle class life looked like back then.

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Okay, but i still understand what this post is about.

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Well I wouldn't want to spoil too much if you wanted to watch. It's a comedy of errors movie, think like a Mr. Bean movie. Everything that could go wrong goes wrong. The family is all fighting, his Christmas lights outside are not working, his tree is burned, all host of crazy antics.

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Damn making me feel old over here with you not knowing Christmas Vacation. Great holiday movie. Worth a watch, a lot of people watch it as a tradition around Xmas time.

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Don't feel old. I'm an avid watcher of film older than this but somehow I miss this. I just checked the french (very memorable) name to be should and no, never watch it. Well... It's on my list now.

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Elaine and her husband were the real sympathetic characters.

Because it's a 1980s movie the fact they were a childless couple with a more modern home decor taste they were considered acceptable targets for comeuppance, despite having done nothing to anyone.

Clark is a self centered jerk. All of his action for the family were really more about keeping up appearances or being personally validated. He's awful.

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Chevy Chase

*watch a recent photo of him* Yeah... I think I recognised him from somewhere. It looks like I have many old-school comedy to watch There is worst way to build an education.

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He's an upper middle senior lower upper management type who is looking for a bonus payment (just for himself, not for his team) so he can improvement his anlready outlandish standard of personal living.

What's not to empathize with? I mean, we've all been there

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Many, many of us do recognize it. And I don't even watch a lot of movies. Also not your fault if you haven't seen it though.

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Chevy Chase very much was crazy

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They kidnap an exec though. At least a few bonus points for that.

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I thought it was the aliens.

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When I was a kid, I thought people who lived like that were just on TV. Middle class existence was as relevant to my experience as robot maids and talking cars.

Honestly I'm still a little suspicious. Hollywood contrivances are a history of how we think of ourselves, not of how we are.

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They basically mind their own business the whole movie until Clark busts up their dining room!

They are a bit snobby, but really…

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Cousin Eddy did that all on his own. Clark was too busy screaming at his family about not being able to pay for a pool.

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Ernest does Christmas is the superior Christmas comedy.

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Die hard and home alone 1/2 are the objectively superior Christmas movies

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I'm actually rewatching it now, and Clark was minding his own business after getting the tree and Todd makes a snide comment about the size of the tree unprovoked, and Clark just bounced back at em. Then their next scene when Clark is putting up lights they kinda low-key hope he hurts himself.

No idea who exactly started the illwill between the neighbors but the yuppie couple certainly aren't played as the innocent victims