When I was little, my parents were pretty cool about what they would let me watch. They weren’t super strict about adhering to movie ratings and barring me from seeing anything that didn’t exactly fit my age range. They liked to evaluate individual movies on their own and figure out whether my viewing them would forever dement me, and I think they were pretty successful in ushering me out of childhood mostly hinged. Their intelligent lenience is how I got to see a whole bunch of movies before my friends did, and Vacation is one of those special R-rated flicks that I consumed long before I technically should have. As such, I’ve always had a soft spot for the franchise and, by extension, Chevy Chase. Sure, he’s turned out to be a Community-ruining crotchety old cuss, but my nostalgia for movies like Vacation, Fletch, and Caddyshack allows me to excuse him for most of those transgressions. I know I’m not alone in my Vacation nostalgia, because Lauren wrote an article specifically about her own attachment to the Griswold family last year.
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