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You can find them in the ringer verse through the midnight boys and prestige TV a little bit there too. Yeah, hijack one of the great shows ever made hijack how do they do seven seasons.

Can you just keep getting hijack would you rather see address Elba keep getting hijacked on planes or should he get hijacked on different modes of transportation. Oh, like a train the next one cruise ship. They did it with die hard and I bought into it until like die hard five as I are at this can't get happening. This guy Chris Ryan is here as well. Yeah, a long time ago almost 299 movies ago. We did the first rewatchable. And now we're back. This is the 300th. I thought about doing 300

for the 300. But I don't really like that. We're doing an all-time classic National Lampons vacation, which came out 40 years ago for vacation bill for vacation bill. And it's next. Russ, you're you feet. Russ, Russ, Russ, this summer when you think vacation, think National Lampons vacation. See the real America.

It's hey. It's friendly. Okay. Don't you want to look at the Grand Canyon. It's educational. And most of all, it's fun.

The dog went on the picnic basket.

But Chibi Chase, Beverly DeAngelo, Imagine Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy and Christy Brinkley. Well, are you going to go for it?

This is crazy. This is crazy. This is crazy. Take you for a ride. This summer when you think vacation, think National Lampons vacation.

I'm going to check under the hood.

All right. One of the reasons we're doing this 40th anniversary, 300 through watchable movie that we've done, but also sets up Christmas vacation for Christmas.

Wait, you can't do Christmas vacation before doing National Lampons vacation. Should we go to Paris in between and do European? I mean, I could be talked into it. My arm could be twisted.

You love this movie. I think the most out of three of us are it might be a tie because this is a top 20 for me. I really, really love the movie Christmas vacation. I probably watch more just because it's a number of the best Christmas movies.

To me, I'm not saying that this is the funniest movie ever made. I'm not saying it. But what I am saying is joke for jokes scene for scene. Funny stuff happening. It's so dense. This is a movie that is like dense with comedy. Something funny is always happening, talking to us.

It's glasses are falling off. You know, something is always there's always there's no P brick. Yeah, it just comes from the beginning all the way to the end.

You're getting sometimes really devastating obvious comedy and sometimes like really subtle stuff is hilarious too.

I think the comedies from this era from like 82 through 87 other movies. I've probably seen the most of my life.

I go 80 to 87, but I'm with the national ampune stripes. And even down to like summer rental and the volunteers and summer school and stuff like that.

But every time I watch this movie, I laugh at a different part. Like Chevy Chase is honestly like this is one of the great comedic performances. There's like not a dead part of this movie where you're not like, holy shit, I never noticed he said that.

I never noticed he like, like every time he faked cries and he jokes up and he's like, no, he just walks away. Is there anybody funnier than this guy?

It also, I mean, so many jokes from the movie that just filtered in everyday life. But the big thing was just the griswolds and the concept of a family going on vacation became like my dad's family, Michael Greg, who had a son and a daughter.

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