Forbidden Cinema 80 - Vacation - Going Deeper

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02/12/23 • 62 min

Welcome back as we look at the questions nobody thought to ask about National Lampoon's Vacation. We find out more about the careers of the child actors that I could ever have imagined. BDA's (Beverly D'Angelo) history is so much more interesting than we would have figured. And we hit tangents on everything from Conan the Barbarian to Mr Mom.

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Forbidden Cinema 79 - National Lampoon’s Vacation

Pull over, folks... Zack has never seen this movie. We watched the original Vacation from back in 1983. Hold on, this movie has 80s racism, jokes about gun violence, animal cruelty, policing in need of reform, a lady we know only as a classic holiday film mom whipping her boobs out, cigarette machines, Harold Ramis as the voice of a moose, Anthony Michael Hall, Chevy Chase being mostly likable, a custom car build to be specifically ugly American, and a variety of roadside set pieces all across the American Southwest.

We get a classic road trip comedy, with a surprising amount of similarity to the script of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and we have a blast going along with the family. We also see the groundwork set for arguably the more successful Christmas Vacation. Hot take... Is that the best sequel ever filmed?

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Forbidden Cinema 81 - Red Shoe Diaries - s1e02 Double Dare

Alright people, it is time to get 90s horny.

That's right, Zack just left streaming on upstairs and the algorithm decided that we should watch Red Shoe Diaries. Did we mention that David Duchovny was in 6 seasons of this weekly erotica show at the same time he was in the X-Files. That is a thing that happened.

Get ready for sexy fax machines, ladies starting to wear black underwear, lots of pearls, the freaking Mummy!, sax music, and Stella who is such a good girl.

Do yourself a favor. Fire up Tubi (I'm pretty sure it is legit) and watch a couple of episodes. They are 30 minutes and kind of sexy in a weird way if you can get over the fast food commercials. This is everything Forbidden Cinema is all about.