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Movie secrets you missed in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation may look like the warmest, goofiest holiday comedy ever made — a snow-covered world filled with blinding Christmas lights, exploding turkeys, deranged squirrels, and one man desperately trying to create the perfect family Christmas. But behind the laughter and chaos was a production just as wild as Clark Griswold’s holiday meltdown. Injuries, electrical disasters, last-minute rewrites, arguments, failed props, and completely improvised scenes shaped the movie into the chaotic Christmas masterpiece millions watch every year.

These are the 20 secrets they never told you about how this Christmas legend was really made.