Do these mistakes include peculiar use of quotation marks?

There weren't any mistakes in this sequence. The link-chum circle is supposed to make us think there's something naughty in the background. Maybe a hanging munchkin. (Note: if the image is poorly sized, it's not my mistake. The blog software is responsible.) Not to say the movie isn't full of errors; this site counts 71 mistakes. For example:

Oh, there's more:

Who takes the time to notice these things? Who's going over "Christmas Vacation" frame-by-frame, taking notes?

Here's my favorite: "Continuity mistake: After Clarke falls in the bush, the gutter repairs itself."

MOVIES Chaplin's "Freak," the "masterpiece that never was."

Why wasn't it made? Because he was old and his health couldn't take it. You get the sense that any work done on the film was intended to indulge him, to pretend there was a chance he could still work. Just as well. Latter-day Chaplin taxed the goodwill of his admirers, as this NYT review of "Countess" demonstrated. It includes this curious line: "Old-timers will know what I mean when I say that the title of this fiasco should be 'Up in Ogden's Room.'" The phrase generates two results in Google, both of which are the NYT review. It's probably that the critic - Bosley Crowther, if you're curious - is referencing some old sex farce from the silent days, or burlesque. If you could slip that reference into the Times, it probably meant something to enough of the audience. Now? Nothing.

Related: here's an art form that's tiresome and debased: the movie trailer.

I saw three trailers yesterday that were guilty of most of these cliches. Seeing a movie over the Christmas holiday? Prepare yourself for the FOGHORN OF DOOM.