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Nicholas Guest Answers Every Question We Have About Christmas Vacation
How he and Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped create the quintessential yuppie couple: Todd and Margot Chester.
With a few snooty glances and snide rejoinders, Todd and Margo Chester — the Griswalds’ ultra-hip Chicago neighbors — epitomize the sort of detachment that’s too chilly for the holidays, too cold for friendship. In addition to causing a citywide power outage, Clark Griswald (Chevy Chase) accidentally breaks one of Todd and Margo’s windows, drenches their carpet in melted icicles, and damages their expensive stereo, all so he can string up some lights. Now that the movie airs relentlessly during the holiday season, new generations of Griswald admirers have come to treasure Todd and Margo’s extremely late-’80s airiness.
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