The amusement park is Six Flags Magic Mountain. The white wooden roller coaster is the Colossus. I was a ride operator on the Colossus form '79-'81. This was filmed after I left, but my friends were the ride operators for "Vacation".
In the 80s almost every teenage boy had a poster of Christy Brinkley (Ferrari girl) on their bedroom wall. They also had Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek posters on their walls.
That girl in the red sports car is Christie Brinkley, one of the top models in the US at the time, and probably elsewhere, as well. The whole audience would have recognized her back in the day, because her face was everywhere.
A lot of people prefer Christmas Vacation, but this one will always be my favourite. Couldn't even guess how many times I've seen it since I was a kid. Another awesome reaction, you rock Addie. 👍✌❤
Fun fact: In the original version of the movie, when it shows the Griswolds crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Missouri and Ellen says "I don't think this is the right exit," Clark then says "What does it matter as long as we get across the river?"... in the very next scene when they're lost in the bad neighborhood there was a caption at the bottom of the screen that said "East St. Louis". This made no sense because East St. Louis is in Illinois. They later edited it out.
"Yeah but Daddy said I'm the best at it" That reaction to that line is the best reaction I've ever seen you give Addie! It made me laugh for so long. Thanks 🤣
A few months ago, when I drove to Orlando, and I saw the sign "Walt Disney World -- Next Two Exits," I immediately thought of Clark going "Walley World -- Next Three Exits". I love this movie.
This movie is older than I am and I JUST noticed that when he leaves Wally world to go to the sporting goods store, the car he cuts off is the same model, but in the blue colour he said he ordered at the beginning of the movie.
Those were FUN movies for their day. I was a teenager when these came out and me and my friends laughed our butts off and talked and talked about these movies for years.
I just watched Across the Spiderverse and havent gotten nearly enough reactions and reviews in. While binging, I saw your video and at that moment I realized how much Ive come to enjoy and look forward to your reactions! They mean something to me. I dont know how we got here, but were here. So cheers to you and all the other viewers and thank you. Ill get back to the Spider-Man stuff after your video.
Fun reaction, Addie. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) looks like so much fun and I'm so glad that you enjoyed this movie. My favorite scenes were when they made it to Walley World, only to discover that it was closed, and when they went on all of the rides with Clark holding a BB gun to the security guard.
I cant believe that the kids were actually 15 and 17 when this movie came out. Anthony Michael Hall looks about 13, but he was 15, and the actress who played his sister looks 12. She's actually 17.
A tiny fact about this movie during the scene where Clark gets pulled over by the cop and while they are both talking about the dog if you notice neither of them can keep a straight face
This one follows a lot of the same beats as Christmas Vacation just on a road trip. The guy who was at the camp played the boss in Christmas Vacation, Bill Murray's brother.
2:43 if you watch this scene again in full you'll notice Ellen is scraping food off the plates, handing them to Clark who proceeds to wipe them with a towel and put them directly away instead of the dishwasher which is open for that reason. Took me 30 years to notice that
Word. As much as it sucked to be packed into a car for miles (Dad eventually upgraded to Van) these Family movies make you appreciate those times. You suffered. But you suffered as a family. 😂
Watching this one sets the tone for the rest and you know all the inside jokes. We watch Christmas Vacation every year as well. Also the music in this is so good, Lindsay Buckingham's song Holiday Road is perfect.
My craziest family vacation was when I was 18 and had a 6mo old sister! We rented an RV and pulled a boat 600 miles to a lake. Starting with a 2 hour delay getting the trailer lights fixed, a 12 hour drive to start the trip, my dad hitting his head on the RV bunk ceiling, a wrong turn and detour, 4 days straight of rain, and a leaky water system in the RV that soaked the carpets. Fortunately my father could fix it. We finally did have a few days of fun on the lake, only to have a 600 mile drive back home.
Great reaction, Addie, glad to see you had fun watching this one, and may I say you're looking fantastic in this video as always! When you said early on "that poor dog" and "at least we found the motel and no-one died" I was probably not alone in thinking: "Lady, you ain't seen nothing yet!" 😂 Then the penny dropped as to the kind of comedy you were watching by the time you said "At some point are we going to end up dragging the dog?" and you had it sussed from there on!
Yes, that is Brian from Breakfast Club. Aunt Edna made it in one piece but the dog didn't 😳😉 And my favorite thing in the whole movie is watching people react to the girls talking about french kissing and the cousin says "Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it"🤣🤣🤣
The woman in the red car is supermodel Christie Brinkley. They changed the music for whenever Clark sees her. Originally they used "I'm So Excited", but copyright got in the way, so they had to change it for the video release. I'm pretty sure that the version on pay cable had the original soundtrack.
"It think you're all @#$%ed in the head!" That's a sure sign the vacation has turned a corner. There's of course a similar meltdown/monologue in Christmas Vacation.
This brings back all my memories of our family vacations... 😊 Similar events in a similar vehicle! Luved the rumble seat in the back for the kids. 😂 Saw many roadside oddities and luved every one!😅ill never do that again!😂😂❤
@@yournamehere6002 the second one has more of Michael Winslows sound affects like when he is eating and this couple sits near him and he makes it as though they are eating loudly lol ruins a relationship in record time. Plus Bobcat is always funny.
If you take everything that went wrong on every vacation you've ever taken combined... then match it with things that (hopefully) never happened... you have half this movie. One of the all time classics.
Yes. Michael Anthony Hall did the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Chevy Chase has a number of movies under his belt including Caddyshack playing opposite of Bill Murray. Christie Brinkley ( The Blonde ) was a super model back in the day. The Late an great John Candy did The Great Outdoors playing opposite Dan Aykroyd, Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, And Automobiles playing opposite Steve Martin. He was also in Home Alone.
The Family Truckster was meant to be a freakshow combination of all the ugly parts of 1970s stationwagons. If you've seen Parks&Rec you should recognize the blonde in the Ferrari. 40 years later Christie Brinkley still looks AMAZING.
IRL, Imogene Coca (Aunt Edna) was a dear, sweet little old lady, as everyone called her. This is one of the first movies to actually go cross-country and shoot along the way. The shoot wasn't nearly as arduous as the Griswold family trip. However, director John Hughes didn't find out until after they began filming that Coca had a huge phobia of going long distances by car related to a serious accident she'd been in when she was younger. Everyone felt terrible for her having to live her greatest fear for the whole shoot. The stunt people did set a world record for distance traveled through the air in a station wagon.
While my family managed to avoid killing anything on our driving vacations, but we had our share of disasters. And many years later, looking back, they made the trips better.
I enjoy all of the original Vacation movies, but European Vacation is probably my fave. For a movie with John Candy and Eugene Levy (the car salesman) - Armed & Dangerous, with Meg Ryan
I originally saw all of the Vacation movies in one marathon on one day. I remember liking "European Vacation" the best at the time. But I've seen so many reactions to this and to "Christmas Vacation" and never saw a reaction to "European Vacation." I'd love to see a reaction to it just to see if I still like it. I barely remember it now.
Another funny 80s 'vacation' movie is "The Great Outdoors", which stars John Candy and Dan Aykroyd. I think you'd like that one, too. About the poor dog - If it helps, consider the possibility that the dog did indeed slip out of the leash right away, and that the police officer was only assuming there would be a carcass, and that all he saw was the leash and jumped to conclusions.. By the way, I don't know if you already know this, but National Lampoon is the name of a comedy magazine that spoofs/parodies pop culture, current events, etc, hence the word 'lampoon'. It was started by a couple of Harvard grads who previously worked on a similar publication at the university, called The Harvard Lampoon. Apparently, that one has been around since the 1870's. Not a typo. It's that old.
Nice reaction. But, you missed the very subtle joke at the beginning where Ellen is scraping the food off the plates, and Clark just then wipes them with a towel and puts them away in the cabinet... as if they are clean!!! And, it was another Aunt (Bethany) in Christmas Vacation.
You might have missed the subtle (for this movie) gag with the dishes. Ellen thinks Clark is helping her LOAD the dishwasher. Clark thinks he's helping Ellen UNLOAD it so he's just wiping the unwashed dishes with a filthy rag and putting them in the cabinet.
I can't imagine a theme park would ever shut down in the middle of the busy season for repairs. If I ride needed repairs they're shut down just that ride.
A bit of trivia about this move … the original ending had Clark kidnapping Roy Walley at his home (something they later used in Christmas Vacation), but that ending didn’t do well with test audiences … so months after the original ending was filmed, they re-filmed the ending at the amusement park … during the break between filming the original ending and the new ending, Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) had a growth spurt … throughout the entire movie he was shorter than his mom, Ellen (Beverly DeAngelo), but in the ending scene at the amusement park, he’s taller than Ellen.
Did you notice Clark's old car that got crushed was a Vista Cruiser? If you're a fan of That '70s Show, you know the car. Yes, Rusty in this one was in The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Edward Scissorhands, and on TV's The Dead Zone, and Rusty in the Christmas one was on Roseanne, The Conners, and The Big Bang Theory. As you might guess, European Vacation and Vegas Vacation have different Rustys too. And Audreys. And they celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary in 1997 in Vegas. John Hughes wrote this based on a childhood vacation - 1959, I think.
1. FACT: They don't crush cars right away. They will resell them and then sell the parts. 2. My favorite part is when the ALL fall asleep in the car while it's still rolling. 🤣 3. There's no way he would have gotten a parking place right in front of the "Long Branch" saloon. 4. "Bop your baloney"="Spank your monkey"🤣🤣 5. The guy at the campground is Brian Doyle-Murry (Bill Murry's Brother) and he played Clark's boss in "Christmas Vacation". 6. He's crazy. I'd take Beverly DeAngelo 😍😋over Christy Brinkley any day. 7. Who didn't love John Candy? 8. Mr. Wally/Eddie Bracken played the toy store owner in "Home Alone II". Do the rest of the Vacation movies. Especially Christmas Vacation.
I saw this movie for the first time, ironically, on a family vacation (road trip) just like this in 1984 or 1985. I was 12 or 13, and we were visiting a friend of my mother's in Malibu, CA. We had already driven like 3000+ miles and had 3000+ more to go to get home to Philadelphia. I think I sang Holiday Road for the rest of the trip. 😆
Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty/Brian) also plays Gary in Weird Science along with Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, and Robert Downey, Jr. If you've never seen it you HAVE TO react to it. You can't go wrong with any John Hughes movie.
I don't remember whether it was Addie or someone else I saw wearing a Ferris Bueller shirt, but I received an email about a half hour ago from La-La Land Records concerning the fact that they are currently having a flash sale on the limited edition Ferris Bueller CD soundtrack, in case anyone is interested.
Does Clark have a song about being in the wrong part of Chicago? I used to live there. The cops told me not to go to certain places, because they didn't go there, either. 🥺
"Rusty" went on to be in a series of teen movies in the 80s, most notably, the Breakfast club, and Pretty in Pink. Later see him in the movie "ThE Dark Knight" as a pain in the butt reporter.
By chance have you ever watched that 80s comedy romance splash starting Tom Hanks it's the movie about a mermaid in New York,, inspired Disney to make the cartoon
"Daddy says I'm the best at it" was too naughty for tv in the 80's so that line is changed to "My Science Teacher says I'm the best at it" 🤣
Yeah " F yo mama" became " who do I look like Christopher Columbo?"
The TV/Airplane version says "My Science Teacher..."; but the theatrical/unedited version says, "Daddy says..."
The amusement park is Six Flags Magic Mountain. The white wooden roller coaster is the Colossus. I was a ride operator on the Colossus form '79-'81. This was filmed after I left, but my friends were the ride operators for "Vacation".
Thanks for telling me that, for forty years I've always wondered, Who the hell was running those rides.
In the 80s almost every teenage boy had a poster of Christy Brinkley (Ferrari girl) on their bedroom wall.
They also had Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek posters on their walls.
Sports illustrated cover 1981
And for about 10 years in 80s-90s Billy Joel had the pleasure of being married to the real one!
8:25 best double take ever 🤣 🤣 🤣
"I'm not your ordinary, everyday fool." That's right, Clark, you are truly one heck of a special kind of fool! 🤣
That girl in the red sports car is Christie Brinkley, one of the top models in the US at the time, and probably elsewhere, as well. The whole audience would have recognized her back in the day, because her face was everywhere.
Also married Billy Joel who everyone should also know
She was his uptown girl
I love the "you think you hate it now, just wait 'til you drive it" line, because it's a car salesman *actually telling the truth*.
Please watch the John Candy movie "Uncle Buck".
I hope she watches the Resident Evil Movies with Milla Jovovich
Also The Great Outdoors with John Candy. Funny movie.
@@aramire7also 'Only the Lonely' underrated John Candy film
A lot of people prefer Christmas Vacation, but this one will always be my favourite. Couldn't even guess how many times I've seen it since I was a kid.
Another awesome reaction, you rock Addie. 👍✌❤
yea this is by far my favorite of the NL films
I like Christmas Vacation, but this one is WAY better! An absolute classic!!
Christmas Vacation really needs this as a foundation.
I agree, this is the best of the series. And Dana Barron was the best Audrey too, IMO.
Christmas vacation and vacation from 1983 are the funniest in my opinion 😊
Your facial reactions in this are hilarious!!! Thanks!!! 🤣
The French kissing reaction was GOLD!
Frank Jane krakoski no less.
Eddie's son is the first person to utter a line on the sit com "Cheers"
I love the songs Holiday Road & Dancin Across the USA 🎵.
I've seen this movie so often but right now I just realized that the car salesman at the beginning is the dad from American Pie.
Don't forget the fried cat in Christmas Vacation.
That kind of dark humor was on-brand for National Lampoon, the magazine that branded these movies.
Fun fact: In the original version of the movie, when it shows the Griswolds crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Missouri and Ellen says "I don't think this is the right exit," Clark then says "What does it matter as long as we get across the river?"... in the very next scene when they're lost in the bad neighborhood there was a caption at the bottom of the screen that said "East St. Louis". This made no sense because East St. Louis is in Illinois. They later edited it out.
"Yeah but Daddy said I'm the best at it"
That reaction to that line is the best reaction I've ever seen you give Addie! It made me laugh for so long. Thanks 🤣
A few months ago, when I drove to Orlando, and I saw the sign "Walt Disney World -- Next Two Exits," I immediately thought of Clark going "Walley World -- Next Three Exits".
I love this movie.
Randy Quaid is so brilliant as Cousin Eddie, in this movie and others. I just love him all around, but never moreso than in that role.
Harold Ramis direct this movie. The same man directed Groundhog Day & play as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters trilogy.
There are only two Ghostbusters movies.
Yes there is, third sequel called Ghostbusters Afterlife.
This movie is older than I am and I JUST noticed that when he leaves Wally world to go to the sporting goods store, the car he cuts off is the same model, but in the blue colour he said he ordered at the beginning of the movie.
Those were FUN movies for their day. I was a teenager when these came out and me and my friends laughed our butts off and talked and talked about these movies for years.
He's Farmer Ted in sixteen candles, what a great movie that is.
I just watched Across the Spiderverse and havent gotten nearly enough reactions and reviews in. While binging, I saw your video and at that moment I realized how much Ive come to enjoy and look forward to your reactions! They mean something to me. I dont know how we got here, but were here. So cheers to you and all the other viewers and thank you. Ill get back to the Spider-Man stuff after your video.
Fun reaction, Addie. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) looks like so much fun and I'm so glad that you enjoyed this movie. My favorite scenes were when they made it to Walley World, only to discover that it was closed, and when they went on all of the rides with Clark holding a BB gun to the security guard.
Speaking of John Candy, I also suggest Spaceballs: The Movie (1987).
I had a friend in college, when she was a kid, the lady in the red Ferrari (Christie Brinkley) used to babysitter her.
I cant believe that the kids were actually 15 and 17 when this movie came out. Anthony Michael Hall looks about 13, but he was 15, and the actress who played his sister looks 12. She's actually 17.
A tiny fact about this movie during the scene where Clark gets pulled over by the cop and while they are both talking about the dog if you notice neither of them can keep a straight face
This one follows a lot of the same beats as Christmas Vacation just on a road trip. The guy who was at the camp played the boss in Christmas Vacation, Bill Murray's brother.
"Getting there is half the fun, you know that." Such ominous words.
2:43 if you watch this scene again in full you'll notice Ellen is scraping food off the plates, handing them to Clark who proceeds to wipe them with a towel and put them directly away instead of the dishwasher which is open for that reason. Took me 30 years to notice that
haha, I just mentioned the same thing, but I think I picked up on this gag after about 25 years!! 🙃
@@PatrickWagz haha it's amazing how many times we can watch something and still miss things. But that's what makes it so great!
This brings back memories.
This has a funny title in Norwegian.
"Hjelp, vi må på ferie!" which translates to "Help, we gotta go on vacation!" 🤣
This is still my favourite of the Vacation movies, back when they still had a little edge to them.
Word. As much as it sucked to be packed into a car for miles (Dad eventually upgraded to Van) these Family movies make you appreciate those times.
You suffered. But you suffered as a family. 😂
Notice the photo that shows that the family flew back home. Wow, they actually learned something.
25:24 Don’t forget the dog.
Watching this one sets the tone for the rest and you know all the inside jokes. We watch Christmas Vacation every year as well. Also the music in this is so good, Lindsay Buckingham's song Holiday Road is perfect.
Merry Christmas! Shitter was full!
@@wyrmshadow4374 have you checked your shitter?
RE Christie Brinkley: "She's ugly" LOL
Thank you for making me happy for 31 minutes and 41 seconds!!!
My craziest family vacation was when I was 18 and had a 6mo old sister! We rented an RV and pulled a boat 600 miles to a lake. Starting with a 2 hour delay getting the trailer lights fixed, a 12 hour drive to start the trip, my dad hitting his head on the RV bunk ceiling, a wrong turn and detour, 4 days straight of rain, and a leaky water system in the RV that soaked the carpets. Fortunately my father could fix it. We finally did have a few days of fun on the lake, only to have a 600 mile drive back home.
Ah yes, the 1980s....when you could always count on seeing some tiddies in a family comedy.
Great reaction, Addie, glad to see you had fun watching this one, and may I say you're looking fantastic in this video as always!
When you said early on "that poor dog" and "at least we found the motel and no-one died" I was probably not alone in thinking: "Lady, you ain't seen nothing yet!" 😂 Then the penny dropped as to the kind of comedy you were watching by the time you said "At some point are we going to end up dragging the dog?" and you had it sussed from there on!
Look at rusty’s height difference from beginning and at the end. He grew 6 inches while filming.
Yes, that is Brian from Breakfast Club.
Aunt Edna made it in one piece but the dog didn't 😳😉
And my favorite thing in the whole movie is watching people react to the girls talking about french kissing and the cousin says "Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it"🤣🤣🤣
One of those movies thats just fun!
The woman in the red car is supermodel Christie Brinkley. They changed the music for whenever Clark sees her. Originally they used "I'm So Excited", but copyright got in the way, so they had to change it for the video release. I'm pretty sure that the version on pay cable had the original soundtrack.
And now for _European Vacation_ (second movie) and _Vegas Vacation_ (fourth and final movie; _Christmas Vacation_ was the third).
"It think you're all @#$%ed in the head!" That's a sure sign the vacation has turned a corner. There's of course a similar meltdown/monologue in Christmas Vacation.
When he shouts for Russ but Russ is standing right next to him :) Love your reactions in this one
This brings back all my memories of our family vacations... 😊 Similar events in a similar vehicle! Luved the rumble seat in the back for the kids. 😂 Saw many roadside oddities and luved every one!😅ill never do that again!😂😂❤
Another great job.
@30:15 Thank you so much Addie, we need more positive thinkers in the world like you 🙂
I love how its storming when they get into phoenix, I lived there for 17 years, and an Arizona super storm lasts only about 10 mins.
If you love 80s comedies you can’t go wrong with Police Academy 1 and 2
Just Police Academy. The sequels are awful, including 2
My favourite is Citizens on Patrol.
@@TheYoungDoctor meh
@@yournamehere6002 the second one has more of Michael Winslows sound affects like when he is eating and this couple sits near him and he makes it as though they are eating loudly lol ruins a relationship in record time. Plus Bobcat is always funny.
@@andrewft31 not a Bobcat fan
Hahaha your facial expressions are priceless! Great reaction... Love the Griswalds!
If you take everything that went wrong on every vacation you've ever taken combined... then match it with things that (hopefully) never happened... you have half this movie. One of the all time classics.
Yes. Michael Anthony Hall did the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Chevy Chase has a number of movies under his belt including Caddyshack playing opposite of Bill Murray. Christie Brinkley ( The Blonde ) was a super model back in the day. The Late an great John Candy did The Great Outdoors playing opposite Dan Aykroyd, Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, And Automobiles playing opposite Steve Martin. He was also in Home Alone.
It is a crime that Addie does not have over 100k subscribers.
The car salesman is Jim's Dad from "American Pie" and Johnny Rose from "Schitt's Creek"
The Family Truckster was meant to be a freakshow combination of all the ugly parts of 1970s stationwagons.
If you've seen Parks&Rec you should recognize the blonde in the Ferrari. 40 years later Christie Brinkley still looks AMAZING.
IRL, Imogene Coca (Aunt Edna) was a dear, sweet little old lady, as everyone called her.
This is one of the first movies to actually go cross-country and shoot along the way. The shoot wasn't nearly as arduous as the Griswold family trip. However, director John Hughes didn't find out until after they began filming that Coca had a huge phobia of going long distances by car related to a serious accident she'd been in when she was younger. Everyone felt terrible for her having to live her greatest fear for the whole shoot.
The stunt people did set a world record for distance traveled through the air in a station wagon.
13:10 Your editor is my spirit animal.
While my family managed to avoid killing anything on our driving vacations, but we had our share of disasters. And many years later, looking back, they made the trips better.
Same. And those disasters are the memories my family still talks about
The mechanic/sheriff in a ton of movies and an original member of, The Band. His partner also in a bunch of movies and the TV show, Miami Vice!
"You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it." Yeah, Clark will hate it even more--that's what he meant!
This actually happened to me and a friend. We went to Magic Mountain on a beautiful sunny day in September.
It was closed for the season. 😐
I enjoy all of the original Vacation movies, but European Vacation is probably my fave.
For a movie with John Candy and Eugene Levy (the car salesman) - Armed & Dangerous, with Meg Ryan
To bad so few reactors watch European Vacation. Most just watch the first one or Christmas Vacation.
I originally saw all of the Vacation movies in one marathon on one day. I remember liking "European Vacation" the best at the time. But I've seen so many reactions to this and to "Christmas Vacation" and never saw a reaction to "European Vacation." I'd love to see a reaction to it just to see if I still like it. I barely remember it now.
John Candy and Eugene Levy are also in Splash which is some of the best of Levy.
Fletch and Fletch Lives are also very good Chevy Chase films.
Another funny 80s 'vacation' movie is "The Great Outdoors", which stars John Candy and Dan Aykroyd. I think you'd like that one, too.
About the poor dog - If it helps, consider the possibility that the dog did indeed slip out of the leash right away, and that the police officer was only assuming there would be a carcass, and that all he saw was the leash and jumped to conclusions..
By the way, I don't know if you already know this, but National Lampoon is the name of a comedy magazine that spoofs/parodies pop culture, current events, etc, hence the word 'lampoon'.
It was started by a couple of Harvard grads who previously worked on a similar publication at the university, called The Harvard Lampoon. Apparently, that one has been around since the 1870's. Not a typo. It's that old.
Nice reaction. But, you missed the very subtle joke at the beginning where Ellen is scraping the food off the plates, and Clark just then wipes them with a towel and puts them away in the cabinet... as if they are clean!!!
And, it was another Aunt (Bethany) in Christmas Vacation.
FYI, That's always what we're thinking.
I think you Awkward Ashley Burton and Mary Cherry would be an awesome reaction team.
I have never seen a movie show how airbags work or what they look like correctly.
You might have missed the subtle (for this movie) gag with the dishes. Ellen thinks Clark is helping her LOAD the dishwasher. Clark thinks he's helping Ellen UNLOAD it so he's just wiping the unwashed dishes with a filthy rag and putting them in the cabinet.
In my opinion this is the best Vacation by far.
I can't imagine a theme park would ever shut down in the middle of the busy season for repairs. If I ride needed repairs they're shut down just that ride.
Aunt Edna is Ellen's aunt. The aunt that was in Christmas Vacation was Clark's Aunt Bethany
The boy is Anthony Michael Hall from many things around that time. Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science....
Addie predicted the dog being dragged and Aunt Edna being left on the patio. Maybe she has a darker sense of humor than she lets on.🤔
yes Rusty is played by Anthony Michael Hall who plays Brian in Breakfast Club. well spotted.
A bit of trivia about this move … the original ending had Clark kidnapping Roy Walley at his home (something they later used in Christmas Vacation), but that ending didn’t do well with test audiences … so months after the original ending was filmed, they re-filmed the ending at the amusement park … during the break between filming the original ending and the new ending, Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty) had a growth spurt … throughout the entire movie he was shorter than his mom, Ellen (Beverly DeAngelo), but in the ending scene at the amusement park, he’s taller than Ellen.
Did you notice Clark's old car that got crushed was a Vista Cruiser? If you're a fan of That '70s Show, you know the car.
Yes, Rusty in this one was in The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Edward Scissorhands, and on TV's The Dead Zone, and Rusty in the Christmas one was on Roseanne, The Conners, and The Big Bang Theory. As you might guess, European Vacation and Vegas Vacation have different Rustys too. And Audreys. And they celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary in 1997 in Vegas.
John Hughes wrote this based on a childhood vacation - 1959, I think.
Your heart didn't lie. Leave it to Clark to make good on a flippant promise (to kill the dog) by accident, and in about the most horrific kind of way.
I love her movie selections !.
Great reaction like always I realy love this and Chevy chase 😊 keep Up the amazing work.
Great reaction! 😂 Hoping you watch European Vacation next
Great Reaction To One Of My All Time Favorite Movies Sweetheart ❤❤
1. FACT: They don't crush cars right away. They will resell them and then sell the parts.
2. My favorite part is when the ALL fall asleep in the car while it's still rolling. 🤣
3. There's no way he would have gotten a parking place right in front of the "Long Branch" saloon.
4. "Bop your baloney"="Spank your monkey"🤣🤣
5. The guy at the campground is Brian Doyle-Murry (Bill Murry's Brother) and he played Clark's boss in "Christmas Vacation".
6. He's crazy. I'd take Beverly DeAngelo 😍😋over Christy Brinkley any day.
7. Who didn't love John Candy?
8. Mr. Wally/Eddie Bracken played the toy store owner in "Home Alone II". Do the rest of the Vacation movies. Especially Christmas Vacation.
Fun fact. Holiday Road was written and performed by Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac.
In the original story, which was in a single dedicated issue of National Lampoon, Clark ends up going to prison for shooting Walt Disney.
I saw this movie for the first time, ironically, on a family vacation (road trip) just like this in 1984 or 1985. I was 12 or 13, and we were visiting a friend of my mother's in Malibu, CA. We had already driven like 3000+ miles and had 3000+ more to go to get home to Philadelphia. I think I sang Holiday Road for the rest of the trip. 😆
There was a movie about flying somewhere for a family vacation. It was call Die Harder (Die Hard 2). Not sure the outcome was better!
The St Louis scene is hilarious to me. I live in St Louis
Anthony Michael Hall (Rusty/Brian) also plays Gary in Weird Science along with Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, and Robert Downey, Jr. If you've never seen it you HAVE TO react to it. You can't go wrong with any John Hughes movie.
I don't remember whether it was Addie or someone else I saw wearing a Ferris Bueller shirt, but I received an email about a half hour ago from La-La Land Records concerning the fact that they are currently having a flash sale on the limited edition Ferris Bueller CD soundtrack, in case anyone is interested.
The look on ppls face the first time they hear the French kiss joke. Lmao 😅
joke is equally cringy as it is funny
500 dollars for a tow and 4 tires would b a steal nowadays
Another great John Hughes movie! The son also in his movies, Johnny B Goode and Breakfast Club!
Does Clark have a song about being in the wrong part of Chicago? I used to live there. The cops told me not to go to certain places, because they didn't go there, either. 🥺
"Rusty" went on to be in a series of teen movies in the 80s, most notably, the Breakfast club, and Pretty in Pink. Later see him in the movie "ThE Dark Knight" as a pain in the butt reporter.
Welcome to the Griswold era of the "National Lampoon" movies!
By chance have you ever watched that 80s comedy romance splash starting Tom Hanks it's the movie about a mermaid in New York,, inspired Disney to make the cartoon
You screamed that's a lot of money when he asked for *$52,000* well in today's money that's *$160,000*