National Lampoon’s Vacation videos is one of the top selling DVD in the Lampoon DVD line-up.

Known by many fans as the original and best of the series, Vacation is director Harold Ramis’ comedic vision of the Griswold family’s hilarious vacation to the WallyWorld theme park. Mr. and Mrs. Lampoon, otherwise known as the head of the Griswold’s, are Clark and Ellen.

Clark and Ellen are played perfectly by Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo in side-splitting turns as the heads of a family that include two kids and a whole bunch of wacky members of the extended family. Imogene Coca plays Aunt Edna and Randy Quaid plays the annoyingly abrasive Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon’s Vacation, setting up set-up after set-up of laughter and hijinks for the viewer.

This film, and the others in the National Lampoon DVD series, is among the most popular comedy masterpieces of all time because of the tremendously funny delivery Chevy Chase and his family and the situations that they get into, offering gag after precious gag of slapstick and brilliance. Most people enjoy this film because they feel that they can relate to having moments like what the Griswold’s experience on vacation, where family just gets in the way and the eccentricities of your relatives really begin to grate on your senses.

This film is ideal for releasing that “vacation tension” that families so often find themselves in the middle of because, let’s face it, you can’t pick your family and you have to love them anyway regardless of what annoying habit or irritating idiosyncrasy they might exhibit on a regular basis. Quaid’s Cousin Eddie is a perfect example of this.

The Lampoon videos are a must for anyone looking to air out some of their own dirty family laundry and get a good laugh doing it. Living vicariously through the problems and incidents of the Mr. and Mrs. Lampoon can cause a great amount of stress to miraculously leave the body to never return, making a National Lampoon’s Vacation memory of its own.