Watching Christmas Vacation in April is even weirder than watching Bad Santa in February. We rarely watch Christmas Vacation any other time besides, well, Christmas vacation, and that's okay. Thinking about it in April is nice though. Weird, but nice.
Holly and I spent a good part of our first Christmas Eve together at my dad's place, as has become the tradition since we got together. On the way home, we got hungry, but didn't get back to Indianapolis until after everywhere had closed.
We got home hungry and had to raid the cupboard, but we were so tired, and it was so late, who wants to start a big dinner? We ended up eating mac and cheese and watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We also listened to the Vince Guaraldi Trio's soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas — on vinyl — while we opened presents.
Nothing beats those two things on Christmas Eve. Nothing.
That started a family tradition for our household. Every Christmas Eve since, we've come home from Dad's, put on Vince Guaraldi, opened our presents to each other, eaten mac and cheese, and watched this film.
"You serious, Clark?" has become my catch-all phrase for when I don't believe someone (regardless of the time of year).
In fact, all of these are useful for a variety of situations the whole year:
"Kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss your ass, Happy Chanukah."
"Clark, that's the gift that keeps givin' the whole year."
"Real nice, Clark."
"The BLESSING!!!"
"Don't piss me off, Art."
"He's just yacking on a bone." (retch) "He got it up!"
...and about 200 other lines from this movie. My vocabulary is made up almost entirely of movie quotes. I don't care. It's a thing.
I like things. I like our Christmas thing. It's not just a movie. It's a funny dinner. It's presents to each other. It's our pet rabbit chewing on torn wrapping paper. It's Vince Guaraldi on vinyl. It's happy. It's just perfect.
i think my life would be complete if i had a charlie brown christmas on vinyl.
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