It's a lot of work to make Christmas happen

The Picard Maneuver

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MrGerrit

I love the national lampoon's movie!

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I can't handle any comedy where the punchline is hicks, because the cringe is too real for me. Can't watch Letterkenney either unfortunately. Spent too long growing up around those people to see them as funny rather than hateful

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Van Wilder?

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Every time we watch this, my husband and I agree that doing the holidays with our families feels exactly like this.

MrGerrit

Oh man, one of Ryan Reynolds best roles. Also starring a very young Aaron Paulaka Jesse Pinkman.

Clay_pidgin

He invited everyone and left his wife to do all the work while he toiled away on his vanity projects! I really sympathized with her.

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I didn't know that! I guess now I have to watch the movie again. What a shame.

That movie is also how I discovered Jimmy Eat World, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds' ass, and - as I was just entering manhood at the time - quite a lot of other things.

MrGerrit

I miss the casual nudity in movies. Not that I want to movies to be overloaded with but when it's appropriate. Just have it because it's just part of normal life and often funny.

Blood and gore is okay but the world ends when you show a tit on screen.

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Shitter was full!

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also in that movie, the joke is that his neighbors are yuppies or something. So they aren't bothering him or do anything that warrants revving a chainsaw threateningly at them

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If you can't distinguish between racist trash rednecks and hicks or other country folks... You haven't been around them enough. Letter Kenny is to duck dynasty as judge Judy is to dog the bounty hunter.

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but the world ends when you show a tit on screen

Speaking of, I think my world started with seeing a casual Beverly D'Angelo tiddie in one of the National Lampoon vacation movies.

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I spent the first 24 years of my life living in rural northern Michigan, where they have more Confederate flags than the Confederacy did.

MrGerrit

Back in the day before the internet, it was a nice gentle way to discover as a young person the other sex and get curious about more.

Now you open your phone and get dragged in to a cesspool that your young mind isn't ready for.

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Summer Vacation to be exact.

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At face value, no. But we've all had those asshole neighbors who can never mind their own business.

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Michigan is so wild lol

HobbitFoot

He was chasing status no matter what, something that is a common thread throughout most of the Vacation movies. Him hosting for Christmas is part of that status chasing.

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This man owns a two story home in the Chicago suburbs with an attic and a basement. He works a job that can provide all this, plus a bonus that can pay for an in ground pool. He lusts after some random girl at the mall when Beverly DiAngelo is right there.

I will never relate to this man.