Still Buffering: "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989)

Still Buffering

Sydnee McElroy

Comedy

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the Smirl family, there are very few holiday traditions, but watching Christmas Vacation and knowing every single word is the most important of the ones we do have. But also, it's 2020, so we have too much time on our hands and it has us thinking (probably too hard) about all the deeper societal implications of the characters and their families so....let's get into THAT.

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0:00.0	And then.
0:01.0	You're going to.
0:02.0	Maybe.
0:03.0	Maybe.
0:05.0	Maybe. Maybe you change your mom,
0:14.0	or too many times, over and over again,
0:18.0	over and over again.
0:20.0	Maybe you change your mom for too many times over and over again.
0:27.0	Over and over again.
0:30.0	O over and over again. O over again. O'
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to still buffering a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us. I am Riley Smurrell.
0:38.0	I'm Sidney Mcroy and I'm Taylor Smurrell.
0:41.0	So everybody getting excited for the season holiday? Yeah, yeah. Season. I guess.
0:49.1	Vaccine season is upon us. Oh yeah that's what I'm most excited for.
0:54.0	Oh, yeah, I'm excited for that.
0:56.0	Yeah, that season.
0:58.0	The vaccine season?
0:59.0	Yes.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	I don't, I kept trying to work and I I found that all I was doing was sitting there watching videos of people getting vaccinated and crying. Yeah. Like I was just sitting there. I was, look at that. It's so great. We've waited so long. Oh, there's another one. Oh, it's so good.
1:19.0	It was, uh, it was on the news when the vaccine first came out obviously in the first people in the country
1:23.9	were getting it and I was watching with mom and dad and dad was like this is history.
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