hey michelle how's it going today hey lindsay i'm good i'm good how are you good i'm excited to be
here in this youtube only series that we're doing talking about holiday movies what movies should
we be watching around the holidays right that is right that is right oh my gosh i'm excited because
one of the movies we're gonna be talking about today is one of my favorite movies of all time
yeah michelle when you were a kid did you used to watch the same holiday movies over and over again
when i was a kid and i mean now i still like i pretty much watch the same ones every year
i love that i love that i do that too i used to have a tradition
where i would watch home alone everything at thanksgiving because that would officially ring in
the holiday season for me and it just reminded me of being a kid you know uh yeah home alone is
such a great one um but we're gonna be sharing the top three christmas eighties movies yes yeah let's
just go right into that michelle cause i know one of these is something that you are really excited
about uh so what's the first one for our listeners that they should be watching during the holidays
okay so the first one is national lampoon's christmas vacation and this came out in 1989
so national lampoons these are it's a series of movies with chevy chase um and he's basically
his clark griswold and actually guys this is very important because like to know these references
because i will say i knew that we were going to be recording this and i knew i was going to talk
about this and i happened to have ellen degeneres uh her show on in the background today and there
was ewanda likes the comedian oh my god she's hilarious she's so funny she's amazing and but
she was talking about some story and i wasn't i wasn't really listening i was doing something else
but all of a sudden she was like oh that somebody said something about clark griswold and everybody
laughs oh yes and this is because it was a reference so that's like the main character that's
chevy chase's name clark griswold and he's known for being like the real cheesy dad but everything
goes wrong for him so like knowing that reference is super important right so guys now you know
about clark griswold but definitely watch that movie and the other movies in the series maybe
once we'll talk more about the other ones as well yeah i love it you guys gotta go and check these
out i mean i think the we've used quotes on the although's english podcast we've talked about the
quotes like good talk good talk good talk right so there are famous quotes that you know people drop
references a lot and you may not know that it's even a reference if you don't see these movies
right exactly what's your favorite part in that movie by the way what is it oh the christmas
lights event or oh the christmas lights oh they're so oh there are so many i i don't know why right
away i'm thinking i don't think this is my favorite part but it's like the image that
comes to my mind just he they he has the turkey and he's so proud like this is his moment and
he like cuts into the turkey and it's all air and do you remember yeah yeah yeah and and he doesn't
want to ruin it he always wants to make everything positive so instead of just like oh my gosh it's
ruined he starts eating it and everybody's just like eating it and he's trying to make it seem
good but it's totally hard he can't even eat it and it's just a very funny scene i think that
clark is very endearing because he does just want to make it work he's just trying to make it work
as we say right he just wants to be positive wants to bring the family together and do the whole
thing do the lights do the turkey but things just don't work out for him and so i think a lot of
people maybe identify with clark in a way yeah he never loses a top well sometimes he does and then
yeah and then his brother right he has his brother that comes and
oh my god eddie eddie and then his kids one of the one of the funny like things is that his
kids are always played by different actors like from movie to movie i don't think they're ever
the same actor i don't think interesting kind of that's that's a good little trivia fact isn't it
yeah that is so guys that's our main recommendation and we do have two
other recommendations that are really classic right michelle what are those
well the first one is scrooge and that's from 1988 and then the second one is a christmas
story from 1983. yes i love it so let's get into some vocabulary because then you're gonna know
some great words guys that might come up when you're having a conversation about
these movies right exactly all right michelle so what's the first one the first one is a scrooge
so if you say someone is a scrooge they're kind of like an old man like like scrooge from dickens
right just a person that they don't like christmas very grumpy yeah you know like
don't be such a scrooge right yeah exactly someone that complains about things and kind
of just negative all the time that is a scrooge and we do say this in english don't we with native
speakers we say don't be a scrooge right and we might not we might not always it doesn't do you
think it always has to be like about christmas when we use this or you think it's just kind of
used as kind of a yeah that's interesting that's a good question i feel like it's
more often around the holidays it doesn't have to be specifically about christmas it could be
but i think we tend to use this more when we enter that like november december
january what do you think would you use this in the summer that's actually a great question i
don't think that i would think to use it in the summer i do agree with you that it kind of like
there's like a time and there's a season for the word screw yeah that's real so maybe we should do
a pod guys if you are not subscribed to the all ears english podcast make sure you go over go
to apple podcast spotify wherever you listen and hit subscribe because we may try to do an episode
in the future about phrases that are only used during certain seasons seasonal phrases but yeah
i gotta think about that but the ones that are not so obvious like don't be a scrooge we had to
think about that for a minute right so very high level for our listeners yeah definitely definitely
all right so uh another word is idyllic this means perfect extremely happy and peaceful like i feel
like clark griswold always wants things to be idyllic yeah exactly and what do you think in
the united states the typical uh if you celebrate christmas you that you would think a typical
idyllic christmas would look like right what is your in your mind the images we get from
the media from the movies what are we kind of fed as the perfect christmas what do you think
uh well i would say there's a big christmas tree with lots of ornaments and there's a lot
of presents under the tree and the family's all around someone's wearing a santa hat
um there's a dog right there's a dog people yeah there's a dog people are cuddling and they're open
everybody's having that moment where everybody opens the presents that's what i would say
what do you think anything you want to add no i think i may be a little eggnog sipping
eggnog there's a fire i mean we could go on and on there's a fire eggnog someone's smoking a pipe
no um so and i think that's that was clark griswold's problem right he was trying to
recreate that he was trying to create that uh so that's idyllic guys it's the it's really a
fantasy right idyllic situations are never true but when we can be present and embrace what's
actually present what's actually happening we can enjoy it more we can enjoy our lives more
you know exactly what's the last okay hold up right so this is something from the past that
is still good today so does it hold up this is a really interesting colloquial way to say
has it maintained its meaning right last value yeah it's like lasting yeah
so that is a good one so you can use that right because these are from the 80s so now
they're the 80s are old right so these have held up over time yeah you could talk about songs like
i personally think that whitney houston's music will always hold up because she's such an artist
right right right right wendy houston um so you know definitely people people or movies
or works of art that are still good today through the through the exactly so guys now we're gonna
we know you guys love role plays we're gonna go into a role play today for our listeners
watching in youtube and we're going to show you how to use this vocab are you ready michelle
i'm ready you want to start it off here we go i can't believe it's almost the end of the year
yup time to watch all my favorite christmas movies yes all right what is your number one best ever
christmas movie ooh honestly i still love a christmas stone seriously why does it hold up
i haven't seen it in years oh it totally holds up you know it's like this idyllic family movie to
me sort of stuck in the 50s forever but of course it's still super fun oh cool
i want to see it again my partner is a bit of a scrooge and doesn't really get into christmas but
they'll want to see this movie i think nice nice yeah movies from the 50s such a different time
the 1950s right michelle exactly oh my gosh um so this is a very realistic conversation um yeah so i
mean guys let's go through it and see the vocab all right so i think the first one well we used
hold up and holds up right yeah yep and you said why does it hold up right is it still popular
is it still good after all these years and then i said it totally holds up so i'm agree it's saying
yes it does it did last it's still going yeah and this one's really good i'm glad we're talking
about this phrase because i i would think students might think it means does it like can you hold it
up on your arms right in the physical meaning so guys this is a whole other meaning for this
so pay attention write this one down and then i said you said it totally holds up you
know it's like it's like this idyllic family movie right idyllic perfect yeah perfect yes
yes and then you said my partner is a bit of a scrooge so like and doesn't really get
into christmas so grumpy person who's not into christmas i think it's good to have kids around
when it comes to christmas right because you could see the joy that they have the holidays
finding a tree opening presents and you know children like the the joy of christmas in a
child's heart that's why i like spending christmas with my niece you know it's so true it's so true
yeah as we get to be adults we might take it for granted i think because we've done so many of them
no it's definitely it's so nice to see things through a child's eyes it makes
everything completely different and fresh yeah yeah so it's definitely it's definitely
very very special so yeah oh my gosh this was fun yeah good stuff guys make sure you go ahead
and hit subscribe on youtube because in the next version in the next episode in this holiday movie
series we're going to be talking about new year's movies and around new year's we want
to party we want to celebrate and we want to set our intentions for the new year right michelle yes
exactly and i just want to add uh if you haven't seen love actually that's another christmas
one that we didn't mention so love actually uh we that's a that's a favorite how did we miss
that how do we miss that i don't i am definitely going to be watching love actually probably in the
next few weekends at some point so i know that's when i watch every video so watch that one guys
and yeah enjoy these movies all right take care michelle talk soon bye all right bye
you