Wealth & Money Quote by Chevy Chase

"Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

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Chevy Chase isn’t praising Hollywood so much as puncturing it with a grin. The line lands because it’s built on a fake distinction: “didn’t just make the studio money” sets up the expectation of nuance or artistic justification, then the second sentence swerves into blunt redundancy. It’s comedy by deflation. Any romantic notion that the Vacation films mattered for cultural reasons gets replaced with the only metric Chase is willing to treat as “the truth”: they were cash machines.

The intent feels twofold. On the surface, it’s a brag delivered in the most unglamorous way possible, the kind of brag a comedian can get away with because he makes it sound like an accountant’s memo. Underneath, it’s a jab at the transactional nature of franchise filmmaking, especially in the era when “hits” quietly became “repeatable product.” Chase’s persona has always carried an edge of smugness and self-awareness; here, he leans into that by implying that artistic legacy is secondary, maybe even irrelevant, compared to profitability.

Context matters: the Vacation series is emblematic of studio comedy at its most scalable - broad premise, reliable star, seasonal reruns, sequel potential. Chase’s comment reads like an actor remembering exactly how he was valued: not as a delicate instrument of craft, but as a dependable revenue stream. The joke is that he’s not even pretending to be offended. That’s the cynicism - and the honesty - that makes it stick.

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Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is a Comedian from USA.

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