An Empire Christmas Gift: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Spoiler Special ft. Jeremiah Chechik

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Mele Kalikimaka, everybody. As part of Empire's Advent Calendar season, here's a little gift from us to you, as we temporarily break down the door of the Empire Spoiler Special subscription channel and bring you the retro spoiler pod we recorded a couple of years ago for one of the most beloved modern Christmas movies: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Featuring an in-depth deep dive with the film's director, Jeremiah S. Chechik (no, the S. doesn't stand for Santa), and a good old natter about the film and the Griswold family festivities between superfans Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and Nick de Semlyen. As the poster once put it, 'Yule love it!'. Thankfully, the jokes in the film are better. And if you like this, there's more where that came from for Spoiler Special subscribers. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello, Paul, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the latest in a series of retro spoiler
0:21.6	specials.
0:22.6	And this one, like our love actually, spoiler special, is Christmassy tinged and arrives
0:28.7	wrapped in a bow and a lovely ribbon just like Frank Shirley just in time for the festive
0:34.7	season, because we were talking today about one of my favorite Christmas movies of all
0:38.0	time.
0:39.0	And in fact, one of my favorite movies of all time, arguably the best in the vacation series,
0:43.2	it is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, oh yes indeed.
0:48.8	And joining me to discuss this over the next hour or so are two of my finest festive
0:54.1	colleagues of such lethal cunning Helena Harrah.
0:58.2	Hello.
0:59.2	A Nick DeSemlian.
1:00.4	Eat my road red liver lips.
1:04.3	It's the red that gets me like why red liver lips.
1:07.0	It's very specific.
1:08.0	Deliveries have lips.
1:09.9	Or are these lips like livers?
1:12.2	Lips like liver lips.
1:13.2	You want to go need livers?
1:14.2	Yes.
1:15.2	That would be terrible.
1:16.2	No, that would be terrible.
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