Sometime after their trip to Wally World, the Griswold family competes in a game show and win an all-expense-paid trip to
Europe. They first stay in a sordid
London hotel. While in their English rental car, Clark's tendency to drive on the wrong side of the road causes frequent accidents. Later, Clark drives the family around the busy
Lambeth Bridge roundabout for hours, unable to maneuver out of the chaotic traffic. At
Stonehenge, he accidentally backs the car into an ancient stone monolith, toppling all but one of the stones like
dominoes. In
Paris, the family's
camcorder is stolen by a passerby whom Clark had asked to take a picture of the family. Clark is also mocked by a French waiter for his terrible French, although he is oblivious. The family wears stenciled
berets, causing Rusty to be teased by young women at the
Eiffel Tower observation deck. Clark offers to get rid of the beret for Rusty, but when he throws it away, another visitor's dog jumps off the tower after it, landing safely in a fountain. Later, Clark and Ellen visit a bawdy Paris can-can dance show, finding Rusty there with a
prostitute. Next, in a
West German village, the Griswolds burst in on a bewildered elderly couple, whom they mistakenly think are relatives due to misreading the address, but the couple provides them dinner and lodging anyway, neither family understanding the other's language. Clark turns a lively
Bavarian folk dance stage performance into an all-out street brawl, which he flees, hastily knocking down several street vendors' stands and gets their car stuck in a narrow medieval archway. In
Rome, the Griswolds rent a car at a travel office, unaware that the men in charge are thieves holding the real manager captive. The lead thief gives them a car with the manager in the trunk, claiming he lost the trunk key. The next day, a humiliated Ellen discovers that private, sexy images of her from the their stolen camcorder have been used in a
billboard advertising porn. After screaming at Clark, who lied about erasing the video, she storms off to their hotel and encounters the thief who rented them the car. She confesses her troubles, unaware he is a criminal. When the police arrive at the hotel, he kidnaps Ellen and takes her away in the car. Clark chases the thief and he is eventually arrested. On the flight home, Clark tries to find a
WC, but falls into the pilot's cockpit and accidentally forces the plane to drop altitude, knocking the
Statue of Liberty's torch upside down as Rusty declares "Yep, the Griswolds are back." ==Cast==