Clark Griswold

Clark Griswold is the main protagonist of the National Lampoon's Vacation series and the overreaching protagonist of the 2015 film Vacation. He is a father who plans vacations for his family and to have a good time with them.
He is portrayed by Chevy Chase, who played Dr. Grant in Zoom (2006) and Pierce Hawthorne in Community.
== Personality ==
Clark Griswold is a father who plans vacations to spent time with his kids. He is very forgetful person, when Eddie's dog Dinky was left tied to the car he drove off as Dinky chocked and died. He comes off as a bit of a jerk and very short-tempered whenever his vacations don't how he wants them to be. Despite being married he flirts with attactive women he comes across.
== Biography ==
=== National Lampoon's Vacation ===
Clark brings his son Rusty at a car rental to get a new car go to California for their vacation to Walley World. His old car ends up getting crushed and was offered different car that was not the car he ordered. He drives the new car home and he and his family pack up and starts driving and head outta town.
In St. Louis, Missouri, He takes a wrong exit which lead to a bad neighborhood. When he got back onto the freeway, he falls asleep driving nearly running people over before waking up and stops safely at a hotel parking lot.
In Dodge City, Kansas, They stop at western themed restaurant for drinks before going to Cousin Eddie's house and had a barbecue before they decided to stay the night. Before they left Cousin Eddie's house Clark brings Aunt Edna and her dog Dinky to drive them to Phoenix. They head over to a nearby park where they had a picnic together before he secretly begins flirting with the Girl in Ferrari.
In South Fork, Colorado, Clark takes his family to a Kamp where they stayed in big tents for the night. The next morning, They packed their luggage together and drives off before Clarl got pulled over by a cop. The cop informs him that he killed a dog on accident. Clark was off the hook and continued his trip. While one the road, he finds an attractive woman driving a ferrari and starts flirting with Clark. 
In Phoenix, Arizona, Clark drives in a closed road which lead him to the desert and was stuck there and searched through the desert for a gas station. He car gets fixed and drives to Phoenix, Arizona after finding out that Aunt Edna is dead and dropped off her body at Cousin Normie's and drove to a hotel where he finds the girl in the ferrari and skinny dripped together in a pool. Clark apologizes to Ellen and then Clark skinny dipped in the hotel pool with Ellen.
In Los Angeles, California, Clark finally makes it to Walley World as he and his family celebrate before they find out that Walley World was closed for repair. Clark has a small meltdown before driving to a nearby sporting goods store for a BB gun. As Clark and his family snuck into the park they were stopped by a security guard there before Clark aims the BB gun at the security guard and forced him to go on rides with them before the Police came and the Griswolds were cuffed but were let free by Roy Walley. Clark, his family, Roy Walley, the security guards, and the police ride the biggest rollercoaster at Walley World together and had a good time.
=== European Vacation ===
The films with Clark and his family as contestants in a game show known as 'Pig in a poke' and was challenged against a family known as the Frogers. He and his family wins by an unintentional guess and won a European Vacation.
===== United Kingdom =====
Clark and his family take a flight to UK and checked in a hotel in England. Clark drives around England 
===== France =====
He drives to Paris, France and decided to take a family photo and Clark hands his camera to a man who ran off stealing his camera. Afterwards they ate at a restaurant and decided to explore the Eiffrel Tower. 
===== Germany =====
Clark and his family watch a German dance performance while in a yodeler outfit. He participates in the performance before he unintentionally starts a fight before they were chased by an angry mob and ran to a train and traveled to Italy.
===== Italy =====
Clark and family arrive to Italy and went to a building where he was given $10,000 from a businessman who is secretly a kidnapper. After Clark and his family drove off they went shopping for fancy clothes. They were walking around Rome and Ellen finds film poster of her nude in a towel which makes Ellen upset and yells Clark and walks away. Ellen gets kidnapped by the Thief and Clark chases him down on a bike before The Thief crashes his car on a fountain and Clark fights the Thief and the Thief gets arrested. Clark and his family take a flight back home to Chicago.
=== Christmas Vacation ===
Clark drives his family on his way to his house before he gets stuck diving underneath a large truck before crash landing near a nearby forest where he and his family finds a big tree and pulls it of the ground and ties up to his car and drives it home. Afterwards he cuts the tree up to make it short before he puts it into his living room. 
He walks around a mall for Christmas shopping and flirts with a woman at a jewelry store before his son Rusty on walks in on him flirting with her. Afterwards Clark's and Ellen's parents show and stayed at their house for Christmas. He sets up a ladder on his house to staple Christmas lights. He accidentally staples his sleeve and tries to get if off before he back to tree and lands back to the house before he begins stapling lights on the roof of his house shortly before he slips and falls off the roof and lands into a bush. He and his entire family gather round to see him turn on all the Christmas lights he had stapled to his house which did not go successful.
He walks over to his attic to look at gifts that he put up there. He then finds a film and watches an old tape that shows footage of his young self while sitting on the attic door before his wife Ellen opens the attic door causing him to fall. Clark checks the lights before Ellen walks over to the garage and flips on the switch which turns on all the Christmas lights and Clark yells and tells everyone look at the lights before they abruptly shut off which makes him angry and begins wresking the Christmas decorations until he gets the lights to turn on which makes both his parents and Ellen parents impressed by the beautiful lights. Before he runs into Eddie and finds that he and his family surprised him and they decided to stay with him to celebrate Christmas with him.
Clark and Eddie go sleding on a metal plate. Clark goes sleding down a steep slowly hill and sleads all the way across the forest and crashes infront of a Walmart. Later, Clark begins stearing outside of his window begins fantasing a pool in his backyard and starts fantasing Merry stripping at front of him.
Christmas day comes and Clark and his whole family sit a table and ate dinner together. He walks over finds the christmas tre lights unplugged before he puts both plugs back in before it accidentally electrocutes Aunt Bethany's cat to death. Afterwards Lewis burns down his Christmas tree with his cigar. Clark gets a letter delivered to him thinking it's his Christmas bonus and opens it at front of his family which was instead a membership of the jelly of the month club. He has a big breakdown and starts yelling and swearing about his boss. Out of anger he walks outside and grabs a chainsaw cuts down another tree as a replacement. He then sets grifts under the new tree. He a squeaks coming from the tree and looks and finds a squirrel and begins running around the house. As Clark was looking for the squirrel until his father finds the squirrel on his back until the squirrel gets chased by Eddie's dog Snots until Clark opens the front and his grumpy neighbor Margo Chester gets attacked by the squirrel and Snots.
Clark and Ellen's parents attempt to leave the house until Clark stops them and tells them that they're staying. Clark and his family gather around the living room as Clark reads The Night Before Christmas to them. Before Eddie brings his boss Mr. Frank Shirley and his boss apologizes and adds 20% to his Christmas pay. Clark faints forward in shock before the police shows at his house. Mr Shirley's wife walks in and he tells her that it was a misunderstanding. And Clark and his whole family, Mr and Mrs. Shirley, and police Celebrate Christmas together and sang songs together.
=== Vegas Vacation ===
Clark Griswold drives home after getting a big promotion from his job which was brochure to go to Vegas. He tells his family the news about his promotion and that he planned on going Las Vegas with them. When they arrives to Las Vegas, They rid in a limo to the Marouge hotel as Clark and his family look around in excitement. The next day, Clark drives to a dry desert where he finds Cousin Eddie. Clark brings along Eddie and went on a tour known as 'Dam Tour'. Clark accidentally gets lost and tries to look for his group tour before getting locked outside of the dam where gets locked out and tries to find a way to get back. Clark finds a transmission tower and climbs it before falling and holds into a telephone wire before it snaps off causing Clark to swing across the water of the dam and crashing into the it and successfully climbs his a way out before his family runs over worried.
Later, Clark receives a letter from a hotel employee which 4 tickets to Wayne Newton's performance. Clark and his family go to the performance to watch Wayne Newton sing before Wayne Newton begins flirting with his wife Ellen. After the performance, Clark begins playing craps. He then plays black jack with skilled dealer named Marty before quitting the game and finds his wife Ellen sitting at a table with Wayne Newton. Later, Clark and Eddie eat at the all you can eat buffet before he reveals to Eddie that he lost a bet of $22,600 before they went back to Eddie's trailer and gathered money buried in the sand. When they gathered enough for bets they went to the nearest casino before he fails at attempts of getting his money back and walked away with some money left. Clark and Eddie walk around Vegas before Clark gets really worried about his family and Clark and Eddie hijack a tour bus and crashed into Wayne Newton's house and Clark stops Wayne Newton from taking his away from him. He and Ellen rans back to Vegas and found Rusty at a hot tub full of women and finds Audrey with Vicki at a strip club.
They finally reunite and participate in a Keno lottery before meeting a nice elderly man known as Mr. Ellis. Their lottery ticket wasn't a win until Mr. Ellis celebrates that he won $30,000 before he unexpectedly died, However, shortly before he died he tells Clark to take his ticket and have the money because he had nobody to share it with. The paramedics came and took him before Clark and his family left the place and Clark and Ellen got remarried before The Griswolds drives away in nice cars.
=== Vacation (2015) ===
Rusty and his family drives over to Clark's house where he started BNB business they came visit him and had breakfast together and stayed their for a while. Afterwards, Clark influences his son Rusty to never give up on the dream of taking his family to Walley World before he loans his old car which was the same he used to take his family to Walley World.
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