'Vacation' Reunion: Beverly D'Angelo, Chevy Chase, and Griswold Gang Get Together 30 Years Later [VIDEO]

Beverly D'Angelo and longtime cinema hubby Chevy Chase reunited with their original Giswold gang for a fun and long-overdue "Nation Lampoon's Vacation" reunion. The originally-cast Giswold children Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall were also there, as "Good Morning America" chatted with the dysfunctionally-hilarious crew for Entertainment Weekly's Reunion Issue (released last month). And it looks like the chemistry still brews between Clark, Ellen, Rusty, and Audrey Griswold even 30 years later.

1983's National Lampoon's "Vacation" followed the Griswold family's epic cross-country quest to get to the family-fun Walley World theme park. The hit film sparked a number of spoofs, but the original "Vacation" came to define 1980s America and went on to become a true Chevy Chase classic. While Chase, D'Angelo, Barron, and Hall all went their separate ways in pursuits of different roles, they still look back on "Vacation" as one of the best and most fun times of their lives.

D'Angelo, who went on to star as Clark Griswold's backbone and sidekick for many "Vacation" films, said during the interview reunion, "It wasn't presenting the nuclear family as perfect and it wasn't presenting America as perfect either. It was presenting it as funny. But it wasn't like a damning indictment."

For Barron, who played teenage daughter Audrey: "For me it was always laughter and listening going, 'Oh my goodness, did [he] just said that?' ... Always a really good time. It was classic, but it was also a family experience for me because we were all on vacation together, literally. So, it became its own film within its film."

"I had no idea [how] to even have a career. This movie gave me a start," said Hall, who played youngster Rusty. "I just remembered laughing and having a great, great experience the whole summer."

All the laughter and joking aside, the Giswold gang did truly hold a strong and passionate bond (even for a movie fam):

"Chevy's a genius, and my dear friend, and I love you, and I am so glad that the four of us can all be together at the same time to celebrate a special time in everybody's life," D'Angelo gushed. "What's happened is that generations have watched it now and they've given us back something. You kind of hope that you can touch somebody's life in some way, and you don't think you're going to do it unless you're getting an Oscar for it. But this movie really - "

"No, I did it for the Greeks and the Chinese," Chase butts in. Leave it to Clark Griswold to always get in the last laugh.