National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

[nina]

When Clark and Rusty are taking the Christmas decorations boxes from the garage, the station wagon from the first vacation movie can be seen covered with dust.

[kenneth]

When the garage door opens and Clark is walking outside with a chainsaw, his mannerisms obviously resemble that of Leatherface. Except he is wearing a Jason Voorhees hockey mask. This could have very well been purposely done as a joke seeing as Clark's character may not have known the difference between Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th.

[clayton]

At 48:12 in all of the employees' gifts to Mr. Shirley are sitting on a table in the conference room. They each appear to be 2 packages wrapped together. The only differences between them are the paper & ribbons used to wrap them.

[sandra]

It was rumored that Clark's rant about his boss Mr. Shirley was ad libbed. This is somewhat true. However what the audience doesn't see is that each cast member of the film facing Chevy had a sign hanging around their necks that had one word written in them. These were some of the adjectives Clark used to describe his boss.

[francisco]

When Clark and Ellen discuss their concerns over Eddie and Catherine not having any Christmas presents for their kids, Ellen says that Eddie has "been out of work for close to seven years." In National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Eddie mentions having been laid off from an asbestos factory, which would have been nearly seven years before this movie takes place.

[kenneth]

The three bells on Clark's Santa hat suggest a medieval jester. These jesters had often been thought to be somewhat unhinged, if not acceptable levels of mentally challenged.

[ava]

The glass that Clark drinks eggnog out of towards the end after his breakdown, is shaped like a cartoon moose head, which is no doubt a reference to Wally, the fictional mascot from Wally's World, the theme park that was the Griswald's destination in the first movie.

[fred]

When Clark was going to look out the vent in the attic as the family was getting in the car, a plaque with Yellowstone Park was seen just above the attic vent. The Griswold's visited Yellowstone on their way out to Walley World in "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983).

[jim]

Despite being a "Christmas movie", Christmas Day is never actually seen. The film ends on Christmas Eve.

[aaron]

Clark emulated horror icons Jason Voorhees (hockey mask) and Leatherface (chainsaw and overhead chainsaw pose) simultaneously when he comes outside to trim the huge tree.

[aaron]

Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki play brother and sister but then last year in 2018-2019 on the Conners they played a couple . This is also one of Johnny Galecki's first movies

[cassandra]

The messenger who delivers Clark's Christmas "bonus" is wearing a jacket that reads "Speed Ball Messenger Service". "Speedball" is a street term for a drug cocktail of heroin and cocaine, the same mixture that killed John Belushi.