This week in the Deep Hurting Project is not Home Alone 4, but National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure.
- It's weird, but I can't look at this scene where scientists are giving Cousin Eddie nuclear waste to see how it effects his intelligence without thinking about how Randy Quaid lost his mind a few years later, and started going on about star whackers.
- How is it possible for the monkey to beat Cousin Eddie at tic-tac-toe? Because you let the monkey play X.
- So, he accidentally unscrewed one of the faucet taps, and this apparently was the cue for the others to pop off and start spurting water?
- Has Cousin Eddie not figured out that automated menu calls are a thing? It's been donkeys since I saw the original Vacation movies, was Cousin Eddie's level of stupidity always that high?
- So, Audrey's made it. Two questions: Why, of all the Vacation movies for the actors for the kids to reprise their roles, is this the only one to do so? And why did she cross several states to get to Cousin Eddie?
- So, they're given a Christmas cruise to Hawaii. So why are they on a plane? Maybe if it was just to get to the boat, but there's no cruise. It's just a plane ride to the island where they're supposed to be staying.
- So, they're on an island with 600-foot wild boars. There had better be 30-50 of those wild hogs or I'll be pissed.
- And it turns out that it's less of a Vacation movie and more of a remake of The Swiss Family Robinson that just so happens to have an 80s IP attached to it. And occasional references to Christmas.
- Also, for a Vacation movie, I'm noticing a distinct lack of the sort of shenanigans that made those movies interesting. I mean, sure, they managed to get stranded on a tropical island, but they're doing pretty good for themselves. Except for them briefly building a house and then having it fall down. And they're still adapting remarkably well.
- Why do I get the feeling that "Oyeoholllola" is actually closer to Tarzan's book-accurate yell than the famous one?
- Well, that scene with Eddie trying to land the seaplane is giving shocking 9/11 vibes. Maybe the fact that he doesn't actually crash the plane into the radio tower is the only reason they approved this.
- And we leave on Randy Quaid riding a plane upside down like Denzel did in Flight.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.