@@erikzurbruegg9416 that's not it... the joke is that dad's basically want to forget their daughters when they become teenagers... I remember my dad doing it when my sister and her friend had bikinis on on his boat...
This entire scene just reminds me so much of my own dad's heartfelt but awkward attempts to bond. What I wouldn't give to share one last beer with him.
This is the best scene in any movie! My dad shared a beer with me when I was 14! Greatest thing in the world! And he also told me not to let my mom smell it on my breath either! Classic stuff.
Anthony Michael Hall always amazes me in this film, especially this scene. The fact that a kid that age can keep a straight face during the scene while Chevy Chase is doing his thing (I've seen this hundreds of times over the past 25 years of so and still can't keep a straight face) is tough enough. But for the kid to hold his own in a scene with Chevy and manage to get his own laughs is double tough.
For me that early in the day and with the beer being at room temperature and no citrus juice and chugging like that would make me vomit in it instant. That is very extreme for the stomach
This is comedic gold. There are countless laugh-out-loud moments in this movie. It never gets old. My Dad shared a beer with me when I was 7, and I thought it was great. A few days later I went in the car with him to the grocery store. I wanted to share another beer with him, got one and hid it under the car seat. I grabbed it, popped it open, took a drink, and handed it to him while he was driving. He got a little freaked out because he had an open beer can in his '63 Impala with his 7 year-old son.
My dad loves this scene , he asked me to share a beer with him like this and he acts like Chevy Chase ( hell , he even looked like him back in the 80's ). Great movie!!! The scene with the grand canyon is also like him too.
Have you too been a victim of small town, mechanic-sheriff lopsided, oblong wheel hustle? Seriously though, sad is not on my radar with this gem. The beer chug by itself is silent slapstick gold. Clark's glasses disintegrating, much like his car and the entire vacation. His missed opportunities with his family bc he had to work to earn the money for the vacation, that ironically is taking him even further away from his family now. The beautiful lesson of remembering to slow down sometimes and not being such an optimistic over achiever trying to keep up with/surpass the Jones' (as his family was towed to the gas station just after he left). All of it adds up to funny.
Damn ! You missed the bit where the two native indians on horseback were watching Clark crashing about in the desert from a distance and one of them says "What an asshole." :D :D
I was stuck far out in a desert once having ran out of gas while riding a quad. It was a blazing summer day in Palm Springs and let me tell you something, it was miserable.
...... in 18 years.... We never had fun....... That is so relatable. Family vacations can be trips from hell... Problems and unexpected expenses get Mom and Dad upset and interfere with plans....... Usually not with just your nuclear family but when you involve extended relatives and stuff omg. Was forced to vacation at Disney with my wife's family once.... Her parents gave all their grandkids Disney world tickets for Christmas..... A tiny portion of the overall cost of the trip by the way.... They're $300 gift to kids cost me several thousand dollars...and . We had just been to Disney world 9 months before......... They wanted to save money and all stay in a big house off site.. Cook meals for everybody there etc... but it wasn't like they were paying for it they wanted everybody to chip in and split the costs evenly ....... But some people didn't want to do that .... They had two kids while somebody else had seven and was going to use more rooms of the house.....and some people didn't want to pay for food that they weren't going to be there to eat because they were eating out......... Some people had never been to Disney before and wanted to stumble their way through the experience themselves without any advice from anybody........ Some people wanted to do certain things for their kids but other people didn't want to spend the money to do it...... Or didn't have the money to spend...... To make a long story short nobody was speaking to anybody else after a couple of days..😅... Everybody just went and did their own thing as their own budgets allowed The take away from that is you cannot vacation with people who do not have the same budget as you do.... Especially not family
Anthony Michael Hall was a young hamsome young kid when he was thin & young. But he aged a lot & when he buff up. He wasn't as good looking as he was as a kid.
He was really cute in 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. He got kind of ugly when he did Edward Scissorhands. But in the end, he filled out nicely when he did The Dead Zone. He is also in The Dark Knight, War Machine, and Community. He did voice work on American Dad!
@ gbob63 WOW! I'm so glad you reminded me of that! I had no idea he drank the whole beer! You are such an astute observer! I went back and watched it again to see that! OMFG! I thought he was just looking at the bottom of the inside of the can for the past 20 years!
