All in all it was a pretty exciting Christmas, what with the relatives and the presents and the fun and the cops and Aunt Hazel’s dog blowing up in our living room. Mom and my Aunt Martha wanted to have one of those fun old-fashioned Christmases that people on TV have, where everybody wears ties…
Read John Hughes’ Original National Lampoon Vacation Story That Started the Movie Franchise In 1979, National Lampoon magazine published the future director’s fictitious tale of a family trip gone horribly awry. THR reprints the tale that launched an iconic movie series … “If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been…
Come with us back to 1964… Edited by P. J. O’Rourke and Doug Kenney, National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody was first published in 1973. Although it was a parody, the original publication actually appeared to be a real yearbook from C. Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio. Of course, there is no…
You may have seen the new movie on Netflix. Now, read the book… In the 1950s, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was the kind of place where Americans believed that Father Knows Best patriarch Jim Anderson could raise Kitten, Bud, and Princess in a big fine home with total comfort and domestic bliss on an insurance…
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