History Film / VegasVacation

* MileHighClub: Clark and Ellen try this, with predictably bad results, leaving Clark covered in blue airplane-toilet fluid.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: While most of the games seen when Clark first arrives at the casino would never be allowed in a real casino (this appears to be a deliberate effort by the writers to invoke RuleOfFunny), the card game War is actually allowed in certain casinos.

* HollywoodLaw: The under-21 Rusty obtains a fake I.D. so he can gamble. It might slip past the guards and pit bosses if he was interested in playing nickel slots, but then he starts winning cars, and then he has the cars sent to a random outskirt motel.
Ironically, Ethan Embry wasn't of legal age either, but Marisol Nichols (Audrey) was.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Ellen's Wayne Newton top, to the point Clark uses his hand to shield her cleavage in public.

''Vegas Vacation'' is the fourth film in the ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' series, and the first one not to bear the ''National Lampoon'' name in the title and the first film without Creator/JohnHughes' involvement. In this 1997 film, Clark Griswold (Creator/ChevyChase) takes his family to UsefulNotes/LasVegas. HilarityEnsues.

-->'''Rusty''': Dad? You see those four cars over there? ''They're mine''.

* EarlyBirdCameo: A strip-club advert with cousin Vicki is seen before she shows up in the movie and is identified as such.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why Mr. Ellis gave his winning Keno ticket to Clark right before dying.

* LighterAndSofter: Unlike the previous films, it's rated a family-friendly PG. It still has its share of crass humor and language, but nothing on the level of the famous f-strikes in the first ''Vacation'' and ''Christmas Vacation''.

* SilentWhisper: How the elderly Keno player [[spoiler: tells Clark to take his winning ticket, as he's about to die.]]

* {{Your Cheating Heart}}: Ellen begins seeing [[spoiler:Wayne Newton]] after he shows interest in her.

-->'''Clark''': He said [[spoiler: take the money.]]

* LonelyTogether: The Griswolds, on the brink of being broke, befriend an elderly man named Mr. Ellis in the Keno area, who is friendly but alone, and Clark says that for the duration, he can be part of their family. This leads to [[spoiler: the man giving his winning ticket to Clark with his dying breath, with the medics on the scene noting Ellis was a frequent guest in the hopes someone would just say "hello" to him.]]

** Rusty's prize cars. After he wins a couple in the second act, they're not seen again until the movie is about to wrap, when Rusty interrupts Clark's ending aesop about family to point out he has a few more belongings than he arrived with. The family ends up drives each one home.

* DarkestHour: Clark winds up gambling away ''all'' the family's bank account, leaving them with nothing but the couple of dollars Ellen has on her. In desperation, they put it all on a Keno lottery ticket [[spoiler: and predictably lose. However, the elderly man they've befriended next to them has the winning numbers, and gives them the ticket as a LastRequest in the middle of a fatal heart attack]].

* LonelyTogether: The Griswolds, on the brink of being broke, befriend an elderly man in the Keno area, who is friendly but alone, and Clark says that for the duration, he can be part of their family. This leads to [[spoiler: the man giving his winning ticket to Clark with his dying breath, with the medics on the scene noting he was a frequent guest in the hopes someone would just say "hello" to him.]]

* NoNameGiven: Sid Caesar's Keno player in the climactic scene is simply credited as "Old Guy".

* BareYourMidriff: Audrey after a night out with Cousin Vicky.

* EarlyBirdCameo: A strip-club advert with cousin Vicky is seen before she shows up in the movie and is identified as such.

* BareYourMidriff: Audrey.

* LonelyTogether: The Griswolds, on the brink of being broke, befriend an elderly man in the Keno area, who is friendly but alone, and Clark says that for the duration, he can be part of their family. This leads to [[spoiler: the man giving the winning ticket to Clark with his dying breaths, with the medics on the scene noting he was a frequent guest in the hopes someone would just say "hello" to him.]]

* LighterAndSofter: It's rated PG. That explains it all. However, some home media prints for a period of time had it re-rated to PG-13. It has since been reverted back to PG, as evidenced on a DVD box set containing all five theatrical entries.

* {{Big Eater}}: Ellen, after she refuses [[spoiler: Clark's proposal to get remarried]].

* ContinuityNod: In each of the movies, Clark is flirting or distracted by another woman. In ''Vacation'' it was the girl in the Ferrari. In ''European Vacation'' it was the dancing girls at the French Burlesque show. In ''Christmas Vacation'' it was the sales girl. In this movie, it's Lady Luck herself (and, briefly, the girl in the Ferrari again).

* LighterAndSofter: It's rated PG. That explains it all. However, some home media prints for a period of time
had it re-rated to PG-13. It has since been reverted back to PG, as evidenced on a DVD box set containing all five theatrical entries.

* LighterAndSofter: It's rated PG. That explains it all. However, it was re-rated to PG-13 when the DVD was released.