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3''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. In this 1997 film, Clark Griswold (Creator/ChevyChase) takes his family to UsefulNotes/LasVegas.
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8* AdamWesting: Wayne Newton, who in this movie uses his ladykiller singer persona to disguise being a HandsomeLech, and has no qualms about trying to steal away Ellen from Clark.
9* ArchEnemy: Marty the TabletopGame/{{blackjack}} dealer is this to Clark.
10* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why Mr. Ellis [[spoiler: gave his winning Keno ticket to Clark right before dying]].
11* TheBadGuyWins: in part thanks to Marty's smug behavior, Clark is goaded into gambling away the family's bank account trying to one-up him.
12* BigEater: Ellen, after she refuses [[spoiler:Clark's proposal to get remarried]].
13* BrickJoke: During the tour of Hoover Dam, Clark plugs his chewing gum into some of the holes spouting water in the rock walls. A few scenes later at their hotel room, a newscast can be briefly heard on the TV talking of a flood at the dam.
14** 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 driving each one home.
15--->'''Rusty''': Dad? You see those four cars over there? ''They're mine''.
16* TheCameo: The family takes in a Siegfried and Roy show, where Clark is brought up on stage for part of an act.
17* 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).
18* CoolCar: Thanks to dumb luck, Rusty wins not one, but ''four'' of these at various slot machines. The film ends with the family each driving away in one.
19* 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, leaving them completely broke and away from home. 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]].
20* FunnyPhotoPhrase: Rusty obtains a fake ID from a Creator/FrankSinatra impersonator who pulls out a giant driver's license-printed board with a cutout and an old camera. He hands the board to Rusty and says, "Just stick your head in the hole and say 'Joey Heatherton.'"
21* EarlyBirdCameo: A Club Areola advert with Cousin Vicki is seen before she shows up in the movie and is identified as such.
22* HairMemento: Wayne Newton gives a lock of hair to Ellen Griswold.
23* HeatWave: Cousin Eddie and his family live in the Nevada desert, where it's so hot he doesn't even need a grill to cook chicken, he simply throws it on a rock.
24-->'''Eddie''': Chicken's almost ready!
25* HelpImStuck: Audrey, annoyed that the family is taking up all the limo windows, uses the sunroof to take in the Vegas Strip, only for Clark to accidently close it on her. By the time they free her, she has a giant welt across her stomach.
26* 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.
27* IronicEcho: The girl in the Ferrari returns. Clark flirts with her once more...until he looks in the back seat and sees she has a baby in the backseat. She shrugs, and drives off.
28* JustHereForGodzilla: In-Universe example. Although Clark tells his family Vegas would be a fun place for a vacation because of the shows and sights, really he just wants to go there to gamble.
29* LampshadeHanging: "You kids are growing up so fast, [[TheOtherDarrin your mom and I don't even recognize you anymore!]]"
30* LighterAndSofter: Unlike the previous and subsequent ''Vacation'' films, ''Vegas'' is notable for being the only installment to be 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 original film and ''Christmas Vacation''.
31* 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 personnel on the scene noting Ellis was a frequent guest in the hopes someone would just say "hello" to him.]]
32* MessOnAPlate: Eddie takes a broke Clark to a cheap Vegas buffet, filled with low-grade food including a vat of blue-colored and yellow-colored gruel, somehow distinguished as "chicken" and "beef". Cousin Eddie is apparently a fan.
33-->'''Eddie''': I'll have some of the yella, and don't get cheap on me.
34* MileHighClub: Clark and Ellen try this, with predictably bad results, leaving them covered in blue airplane-toilet fluid.
35* MinorWithFakeID: Rusty gets a fake ID so he can gamble.
36* MundaneMadeAwesome: Clark Griswold getting money out of an ATM. Filmed in such a way it looks like he's getting money out of a slot machine.
37* SchmuckBait: The "Guess the Number" table that Cousin Eddie takes Clark to. Really, the person running that table can easily lie about what number he's thinking.
38* SilentWhisper: How the elderly Keno player [[spoiler:tells Clark to take his winning ticket, as he's about to die. He then winks at Clark before finally keeling over.]]
39-->'''Ellen''': What did he say?
40-->'''Clark''': I think he said [[spoiler: take the ticket.]]
41* SunroofShenanigans: Audrey gets stuck in the sunroof after Clark tries to roll his window down, unknowingly pressing the button that makes the sunroof close. She tries to wave down other drivers for help, but they assume she is waving at them or dancing.
42* TheCasino: Clark is immediately enthralled by the casino and gets addicted to gambling. Even when strapped for cash, Eddie takes him to a dollar casino with games such as War, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Which Hand? and Guess The Number.
43* TheTalk: Subverted.
44-->'''Rusty:''' "Dad, if this is about sex, I already know."
45-->'''Clark:''' "Oh... good talk."
46* {{Twincest}}: Rusty takes note of Audrey in a miniskirt. "Who'd have thought my sister had the legs of a purebred!" Clark is understandably [[{{Squick}} disturbed]] by that and tells him to shut up.
47* VivaLasVegas: With no standards of the trope unturned, right down to Wayne Newton doing more than just a mere cameo.

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