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Two gross parts I don't like in this movie


1. Eddie emptying out the toilet while burping in his bathrobe.
2. Eddie licking the lime jello off of Ellen's finger. Ewwwwwwwwww!

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The part I always found gross was when Eddie tries to kiss Ellen and she keeps turning away. Aren't they cousins? Ew.

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Eddie is Ellen's cousin-in-law so they're not blood. Katherine is blood.

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Ah okay. Still not cool though, poor Ellen.

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Actually he's Clarke cousin-in-law. Clark tells his boss that when he's apologizing for the kidnapping

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Catherine and Ellen are blood cousins. Eddie and Catherine are Clark's cousins-in-law.

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So yeah it was gross when Katherine kissed Ellen upon greeting.

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That is a running gag that Beverly D'Angelo and Randy Quaid kept throughout each of the Vacation movies they were in together. In each story he always tries to hug her at one point and she always manages to squirm away from him just in time. It's visually hilarious because he's so much taller than she is and she literally just slips away out from under his arms every time 

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I think the scene where Clark is imagining seeing that sales lady in a pool was gross!

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It seems many people dislike the pool fantasy scene but all that the National Lampoon's group is doing is mimicking that scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High in essence. The scene isn't funny, that's for sure, which is what you hope for in these style movies - non-stop hilarity.
I'm not saying that's a scene I like, I just think they are trying to play off a scene from an older and just as funny (if not funnier) movie.
The scene with the YUPPIE neighbors after the jog is pointless. "After a shower of course." "Of course."

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I didn't find that scene gross per se, but I did find it incredibly dragged out and boring. It isn't funny, it adds nothing to the plot, it's just bland filler.

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Nicolette Scorsese is not bland filler.

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Agree to disagree.

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I think the scene where Clark is imagining seeing that sales lady in a pool was gross!


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Some people are just too touchy.

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Or when Clark is at the mall and meets her at the counter and she pulls up her skirt to show her underwear.

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The part I thought was gross was the dog throwing up under the table while they were eating.

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I loved the scene with Eddie emptying the holding tanks into the storm sewer, but thought the jello licking scene was gross. But that was just Eddie being Eddie.

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All this talk about things being gross and people mention the hot chick in the pool and not the dog's mucus?

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Yeah I agree, Eddie licking jello off Ellen's finger was really gross. Her face said it all.

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I always found the green cat-food jello particularly disgusting.

However, the RV toilet scene is one of the jewels of this film. Even if it is nasty, it's hilarious at the same time, and necessary to help culminate part of the chaos at the end of the film...

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The incredibly overcooked turkey burst open at the dinner table was also really awful to look at, in my opinion 

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>However, the RV toilet scene is one of the jewels of this film. Even if it is nasty, it's hilarious at the same time, and necessary to help culminate part of the chaos at the end of the film...

It would have been just as funny, and a lot less disgusting, if they didn't show a closeup of it.

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LOVE the Vacation movies and John Hughes but not a fan of their penchant for a bit of animal cruelty. The cat scene in this one was unnecessary and could've been cut but the dog in the first movie?..... awful. I don't know what they were thinking there. 😠

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It seems that they have a penchant for animal cruelty in ALL of the Vacation movies.
1. The dog tied to the bumper
2. Throwing the hat off the the Eiffel Tower and the dog chasing it. The dog is okay, but still
3. The cat
4. Vegas Vacation: When they used the snakes as babysitters.

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Well I'm sleeping with your father. Don't be so dramatic.

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