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How old were you when you first saw this film?


I was about 11 or 12, saw it on tape at home- one of those movies that I "liked" but kinda forgot about, then saw it years later and a lot more made sense, LOL!

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I was 10 and remember thinking why did my parents take me to see this? It just showed some boobs! Lol I wasn't complaining just surprised they took me.

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11. when it premired on cable.

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I was 5 or 6 the first time I saw Vacation and I enjoyed it many times as a child. But I only ever saw the television edit. We had taped it from network TV in 1986 or 1987. I didn't even know that it was an R rated film until I was 12 or 13 and saw it on HBO at a friend's house.

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Similar. I originally watched it when I was 4 or 5. 1986 or 1987.

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Same here, I was around 5 or so when I saw it. My parents rented it from the video store and then my mother recorded it for me when it was broadcast on TV because I loved it so much. My parents were very lax about what they let me watch.

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I was born in 1985. But have been watching this for so long that I don't even remember the first time I saw this.

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Probably like 7...possibly tv edits...I just always loved watching it because I love amusement parks and had been to "wally world " .lol

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15!!!!

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I probably first saw it around 5 or 6. I loved it back then, but now as an adult I get so much more of the humor.

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TV edit here too, age 11. Saw pieces of it at friend's houses that had cable but distinctly remember seeing it all the way through it in a motel with my family when we were going to a wedding. Thought it was funny and then I saw the R-rated complete version when we rented it about a year later and was even funnier.

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I was 17 when it was in theatres, so I would have been 18 when I saw it on cable.











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Saw it at age 18 when it was in theatres. I saw it the first weekend with some of the guys. I was the only one into National Lampoon Magazine then, and I had read the original John Hughes story, "Vacation '58."




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I was 9.

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It was released when I was 5 (1983), so I saw it not long after it was released. I never get tired of it or Christmas Vacation.

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I was 15 too. In 1995.

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I was about 8-ish. There were two tapes of this movie in my household. One taped off cable and one from broadcast tv. The kids in the household were only aloud to watch the clean version. One time when no one was around I decided to sneak a peak at the adult version and found it had been taped over with episodes of Jeopardy and Golden Girls reruns.

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