Next up on the DVD front was National Lampoon's CHRISTMAS VACATION.
Chevy Chase was so alternately goggled eyed over-the-top and then sad sack non-emoting that the film was pretty unbearable when he was on-screen (which was most of the film). I remember thinking the first VACATION was pretty funny (the one where Imogene Coca dies), but this one wasn't. Interesting that the actor who plays his son in CHRISTMAS VACATION plays Andrew on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES now. The daughter, of course, was Juliette Lewis before her breakthrough Oscar-nominated performance in CAPE FEAR.
The transfer was pretty lacking, too, though this was the first DVD release of the film, not the remastered version currently in stores.