Clark Griswold

Clark Griswold AKA Sparky

“Film: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

Played by: Chevy Chase

Distinguishing features: Tendency to make large investments before actually receiving his Christmas bonus cheque; near-terminal enthusiasm; a breaking point.

Sample quote: “Merry Christmas! Holy shit, where’s the Tylenol?”

What we’d get him for Christmas: The ability to tell that his children, Rusty and Audrey, are played by different people in each movie (in this case, Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki).

Every dad just wants to get Christmas right. Chevy Chase’s Clark W. Griswold is no different. He just wants to get it so right that he has a brief psychotic episode, not helped by the fact that everything, but everything, in his life goes so spectacula” read more