In the film, Chase & D'Angelo portray the married few (Clark & Ellen Griswold) by using deuce babies (Rusty & Audrey), dwelling inside Chicago, who decide to take a cross-united states hike to an amusement park (Wally World) within California with a side hike to the Kansas farm in which Cousin Eddie (Quai500) spends, where a few agrees to cause D'Angelo's ornery auntie to Phoenix. Therein film, all but everyone in the Griswold personal (minus Audrey) get into Lacoste polos.

A screenplay, written by John Hughes, is reportedly about his have personal's ill-ill-omened hike to Disneyland when he was a son. A profits of the moving picture helped launch his screenwriting career.