The scene starts with Rusty's (Ed Helms) son James, in a not-so-subtle wink-wink-nudge-nudge to the original films, say,'I've never even heard of the original vacation. The latest installment of National Lampoon's Vacation franchise has the song first crop up when the Griswolds start their cross-country odyssey to Walley World, where patriarch Rusty Griswold spent a memorable childhood summer he hopes to recreate. So it's not a total shock that there's a scene in Vacation where 'Kiss From a Rose' plays. And that's more than 20 years after the song's initial release. I'm speaking from experience, having grown up listening to Fairfield County's WEBE 108, the Mecca of easy listening, on the way to school every morning. If you turn on the radio pretty much anywhere you go, there's a good chance that you'll hear Seal's 'Kiss From A Rose' at some point.
