The elderly creator of a famed Christmas lights display fell to his death as he inspected his own festive handiwork this week in Canada.

Doug Musson, 82, was on a ladder looking at his rain gutter when he fell and injured himself outside his Burlington, Ontario, home on Monday, CTV News reported.

“I looked behind me and I saw a ladder, so I thought, the ladder fell,” his son Robert Musson told the outlet. “Next thing I know, I look down and he’s two feet from me, lying on the ground.”

The elder Musson died later that day in the hospital.

Musson’s decorative home — celebrated in his community as a holiday tradition — has been dubbed “The Griswold House” after the brightly lit home in the film “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” according to the report.

Doug Musson’s wife, Joanne, said her husband’s extravagant display has been a tradition for 30 years.

“Doug and I both liked to stand up in the window upstairs and watch the faces of the little kids,” she told CTV.

“He liked to see the people smiling,” Robert added.

Though the family considered turning off the lights after this week’s tragedy, they decided Doug wouldn’t have wanted that.

“He’s put all this work into things,” Robert told the outlet. “We need to show people.”