National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: [Clark and Eddie are carrying the chair outside after the cat was electrocuted] You smell something?
Eddie: Fried pussycat.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: [Clark looks down at the jello and sees that it's trimmed with cat food] Aunt Bethany, does your cat eat jello?
Eddie: I don't know about the cat, but *I* sure am enjoying it.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Audrey: [Commenting on sleeping with her brother] I have nightmares about what he does when I'm NOT lying next to him.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: Later dudes! Let 'er rip, hang ten!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Eddie: Don't forget the rubber sheets and gerbils.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: I can't believe you're standing here in my living room, Eddie. Never thought the day would come.
Eddie: Yeah I'm excited about it too.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Mary: These are cut really high in the hip. Look, I'm wearing something similar. See, you can't see the line.
Clark: Can't see the line, can you Russ?
Rusty Griswold: Nope.
[Clark stares at Rusty in shock]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Uncle Lewis: [Everyone goes outside to look at the 'Christmas Star"] That's not the friggin' Christmas Star, Gris... Its the light at the sewerage treatment plant.
Clark: [Realizing that there is gas in the storm sewer, and Uncle Lewis is lighting a cigar] Sewer gas!... NO DON'T LIGHT THAT!
[There is an explosion, and Uncle Lewis is thrown clear]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: Ooh the Crunch Enhancer? Yeah, it's a non-nutritive cereal varnish. It's semi-permeable, it's not osmotic, what it does is it coats and seals the flake and prevents the milk from penetrating it.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Ellen: I have this terrible suspicion that Catherine and Eddy don't have presents for their kids. Rocky said something about Eddie telling him that Santa Claus wasn't coming this year.
Clark: Yeah, Ruby Sue said something like that last night. How can they have nothing for their children?
Ellen: Well, he's been out of work for close

to seven years.
Clark: In seven years, he couldn't find a job?
Ellen: Catherine says he's been holding out for a management position.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Audrey: [Peeling a carrot] Would it be indecent to ask the grandparents to stay at a hotel?
Ellen: Audrey!
Audrey: Well can we at least forbid them to answer the phone? Alexander called this morning and grandpa Clark told him... I couldn't come to the phone 'cause I was going to the bathroom.
Ellen: We're all

making sacrifices, Audrey.
Audrey: Everybody? Do you sleep with your brother? Do you know how sick and twisted that is, mom?
Ellen: [Grabs a box of matches off the fridge] Well, I'm sleeping with your father. Don't be so dramatic.
Audrey: I have nightmares about what he does in his bed alone when I'm not lying right next to

him.
Ellen: Well, I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
[Lights up a cigarette to smoke and Frances calls out from the next room]
Frances: Ellen, are you smoking again?
[Ellen puts out the cigarette]
Ellen: No!
[Grabs a cabbage and chops it in half]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: Dad, you taught me everything I know about exterior illumination.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark Sr.: SQUIRREL!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

[the Griswolds are unaware that Clark is trapped in the attic]
Ellen: Daddy, is Clark coming?
Art: How would I know?
Ellen: Is he in the house?
Art: If he isn't farting around with his lights, he must be inside.
Ellen: I'm sure he wants to come shopping and have lunch with us.


[walks back to the house, but Art pulls her back to the car]
Art: He's got another car; he can drive. I have to eat - so I can take my back pill!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: I did it

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Uncle Lewis: What is that?

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Audrey: Would it be indecent to ask the grandparents to stay at a hotel?

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: I simply solved the problem. We needed a coffin... Er, a tree. There are no lots open on Christmas Eve. Lewis burned down my tree so I replaced it as best I could. VoilĂ .
Ellen: Are you okay?

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Eddie: [to Clark after they discover that the cat was electrocuted] If that cat had nine lives, he just spent 'em all.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Clark: [Just veered into the left lane and got stuck under a log truck] We're alright! Thank God we're alright!
Ellen: Clark, we're stuck under a truck!
Clark: Do you honestly think I don't know that?
Rusty Griswold: Come on you guys, don't fight!
Clark: Oh for Christ's sake, I didn't

do this on purpose!
Ellen: [Praying] Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, and forgive my husband, he knows not what he does.
Clark: [Before swerving out] Amen!