He wants extravagance a grand tree and a lighting display to give Rockefeller Center a run for its money.
The movie boasts timeless themes, ultra-relatable humor, and John Hughess signature imprint.
Clark: Can I refill your eggnog for you?
Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Diane Ladd, Doris Roberts, E.G. Marshall, and John Randolph in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) | IMDb
Get you something to eat?
Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
Clark: Oh, Eddie… Ellen: Sweetheart, its Christmas, and were all in misery.
Audrey: Would it be indecent to ask the grandparents to stay at a hotel?
How could things get any worse?
Take a look around here, Ellen.
Were at the threshold of hell.
Clark: My cousin-in-law, whose heart is bigger than his brain.
Ellen: Clark, stop it.
I dont want to spend the holidays dead.
Grandma Nora: Your grandmas got a real painful bur on her heel.
If you rub it for me, Ill give you a whole quarter.
Uncle Lewis: You couldnt hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant.
Art: What is it?
A letter confirming your reservation at the nuthouse?
Clark: Yes, its a bit nipply outI mean nippy out.
Clark: Wouldnt be the holiday shopping season if the stores werent hooter than theyhotter than they are.
Ellen: Clark, Audreys frozen from the waist down.
Ellen: Im sorry, this is our familys first kidnapping.
Clark: Wheres Eddie?
He usually eats these things.Catherine, Eddies wife: Oh, not recently.
He read that squirrels are high in cholesterol.
Rusty: Whoa, geez!
Look at the time.
Ellen: Is it plugged in?
Ruby Sue: I love it here.
Art: Yeah, I saw it in the car.
Clark: Where do you think youre going?
Nobodys walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.
Were all in this together.
This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here.
This box is meowing.
Cousin Eddie: Merry Christmas!
