National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

The late, great John Hughes wrote this, the third Griswold family misadventure. This tinsel-trimmed installment finds Chevy Chase dreaming of using his year-end bonus to buy a swimming pool, and attempting to organize the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f-ing Kaye. It doesn’t go so well.