(FOX NEWS) -- Chevy Chase is simultaneously returning to Saturday Night Live and to his Clark Griswold character, courtesy of Ford. Sort of.
As Fox News reports, the actor is starring in a "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" themed commercial for the electric Ford Mustang Mach-E along with on-screen wife Beverly D'Angelo that will run during the primetime re-airing of the "Saturday Night Live Christmas Special" on Dec. 22.
The spot is already on YouTube, however, and reimagines the film's famous scene where Griswold illuminates his home with a blinding array of Christmas lights after his wife, Ellen, flicks the power switch.
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The twist this time is that she's turning on the juice to charge a Mustang Mach-E, which gets more attention from his family than the light display.
Griswold's father-in-law calls it a "nice whip" as they gather around it and then says that he used to have a Mustang "back when cars made sounds."
While the Mach-E is a lot quieter than a Mustang coupe, it does emit a hum at speeds under 20 mph to alert pedestrians to its presence and can fill the cabin with a digital recreation of a V8 engine.
Chase, an SNL legend, last appeared on the actual program during its 40th anniversary special in 2015 and is reportedly banned from ever hosting it due to past questionable on-set behavior. The now 77-year-old blasted the show's recent form in a 2018 Washington Post interview, calling it the "worst f-----g humor in the world," but the commercial was produced by SNL producer Broadway Video, so the holiday spirit seems to be alive and well.
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