Everything goes wrong and they hastily make their way to Rusty's rental. The film was a campaign ad for HomeAway that originally aired in part during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV and in entirety on Homeaway.com. While it was sanctioned by Warner Bros., it was not sponsored by the National Lampoon label. "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure" is a made-for-TV spin-off film directed by Nick Marck and written by Matty Simmons. After a workplace accident involving a monkey, Eddie Johnson is given a free vacation for him and his family to an island in the South Pacific. But when he tries to catch a shark during a family boat trip, they become lost and eventually shipwrecked on an isolated island. It can be considered a sequel to "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", although it is more of a spin-off than a direct chapter in the "Vacation" series, because Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo do not appear. It stars Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn, reprising their roles as Cousin Eddie and Catherine, with Dana Barron returning as Audrey Griswold. Ed Asner appears as Eddie's uncle Nick. Christie Brinkley reprised her role as the Girl in the Red Ferrari, while Anthony Michael Hall played a theme park security guard in the seventh season of the television series "The Goldbergs". In December 2019, a television spin-off series entitled "The Griswolds" entered development. The series is set to be aired on HBO Max, though it has not been officially picked up, with former Rusty Johnny Galecki serving as executive producer. Key  After the success of "National Lampoon's Animal House" in 1978, it was decided that another story from the "National Lampoon" magazine should be adapted into a film. One of such stories chosen for development was John Hughes' "Vacation '58" that was originally published in the September 1979 issue of "National Lampoon". Hughes wrote the screenplay for the first "Vacation" film as "a fairly straight adaptation of the short story", with the exception of the ending that was rewritten and reshot after being "thoroughly despised by preview audiences". In addition to Hughes, "Vacation" involved the crew of many people connected to "National Lampoon". The film was produced by "Lampoon" co-founder and "Animal House" producer, Matty Simmons, and directed by "Lampoon" alumnus and "Animal House" co-writer Harold Ramis.