National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) – IMDb

Trivia

Originally, the producers wanted Christie Brinkley to appear naked in the film, but she refused. A compromise was reached, where she stripped down to her bra and panties before jumping in the pool with Clark. See more »

Goofs

When Ellen sniffs the sandwiches and realizes the dog had peed on them, the lights used for the scene are reflected in her sunglasses. See more »

Crazy Credits

During the credits, you see snapshots of group photos of where and who the Griswalds met on the vacation. The last photo shows you how they got home, on a plane. See more »

Alternate Versions

When aired on Comedy Central, these scenes were deleted and/or altered.

• When Clark asks a pimp for directions and he tells Clark a dirty response was cut.
• Clark and Ellen’s conversation in the car about what they did during a trip to Florida in college was cut and just lead to Clark saying “the damn wheel’s all screwed up”.
• Ellen coming out of the shower now shows her buttoning up her shirt where in the video release, her breasts were visible, but not here.
• The scene where Dale shows Rusty his stack of nudie books “this high” was cut, as was the scene where Vickie showed Audrey her shoe box of weed, including the part where Vickie gives Audrey a few joints before letting her in the Truckster.
• After Clark forgot to untie Dinky from the bumper and the cop found out, his response of “explain this you son of a bitch” was changed to “explain this you sedistic bum”.
• The scene where Clark and the family pull into a cafe that delivers food to the car and Clark takes the tray, hits it against the window and drops it onto the pavement was cut.
• When Clark trots through the desert, the watcher’s comment of “what an asshole” was changed to “what an airhead”.
• Clark’s speech of the trip to Walley World was now a quest was altered to remove the words ‘fuck’ and ‘assholes’ and ‘shit’.
• The scene where they have just left Chicago and Clark sings “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” was cut and just lead to the scene at the gas station where Clark tried to find the gas tank.
• And the original song that plays whenever Christine Brinkley drove by was changed to “I’m so excited” in all encounters, except when the family is eating at a picnic and Clark spots her at a truck stop.
• When aired on Fox Family, all profanities including ‘hell’ and damn’ were removed and some scenes not in the above version were still intact and some were intact but altered.

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Release Date:

29 July 1983 (USA)

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Color:

Color
(Technicolor)