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In no particular order,
Galaxy Quest ("You can't believe Gilligan's Island is real!" "Those poor people.")
Young Frankenstein ("Damn your eyes!")
Arsenic and Old Lace (the Gold standard of black comedy)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (we trot out "I'm not dead yet" for zombie movies)
Ghostbusters ("What about the twinkie?")
Airplane (never had a movie packed so many jokes into 90 minutes)
Murder By Death (old campy comedy that still makes me laugh)
Spaceballs (but only for the John Hurt cameo)
Galaxy Quest ("You can't believe Gilligan's Island is real!" "Those poor people.")
Young Frankenstein ("Damn your eyes!")
Arsenic and Old Lace (the Gold standard of black comedy)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (we trot out "I'm not dead yet" for zombie movies)
Ghostbusters ("What about the twinkie?")
Airplane (never had a movie packed so many jokes into 90 minutes)
Murder By Death (old campy comedy that still makes me laugh)
Spaceballs (but only for the John Hurt cameo)
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Ferris Buhler's Day Off.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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Hell, Murder By Death was dated when it came out in '75. Nick Charles, Charlie Chan, Sam Spade were just names. I learned about them later, which increased my appreciation of the movie. Even with the silliness. Especially with the silliness.Usivius wrote:LOL... I almost put that on my list. But I think it's a little dated now.Murder By Death
Peter Falk did Bogie better than Bogie.
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"Murder By Death" was really funny the last time I saw it, but that was easily 15 years ago. I doubt it's aged well.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I have to throw in:
PORKEY'S
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Kingpin
PORKEY'S
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Kingpin
Have you hugged your arghule today?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
Oh Hell yeah. "Porky's" was great.
And I may be alone on this, but "Tapeheads" is an unknown classic.
Speaking of John Cusak, don't forget "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer", with an awesome cameo by Count Floyd (cannot remember the actor's name, he'll always be Count Floyd).
And I may be alone on this, but "Tapeheads" is an unknown classic.
Speaking of John Cusak, don't forget "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer", with an awesome cameo by Count Floyd (cannot remember the actor's name, he'll always be Count Floyd).
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Count Floyd was played by Joe Flaherty. SCTV had so many memorable characters. 
The original Airplane! has been mentioned often, and I love it, but if anything, Airplane II: The Sequel made me laugh even harder. Anyone else think the second film is funny? Hello? Testing, testing...
Top Secret! and the first Naked Gun round out the Abrams-Zucker zaniness on my list.
Galaxy Quest belongs on my list, too (no doubt much to the annoyance of dlbpharmd).
Guess not too many Woody Allen fans here. His Manhattan Murder Mystery was the most laugh-out-loud funny film of his I've ever seen. Mighty Aphrodite was pretty funny as well, though one might say it had a mean edge to it.
Whit Stillman's Metropolitan is an overlooked gem. Brilliant, "talky" humour.
If I'm including a sci-fi comedy like Galaxy Quest, then I must include a supernatural comedy like Ghostbusters as well. But I can't leave Groundhog Day and Stripes out in the cold, so that's 3 Bill Murray films on my list.
The original Airplane! has been mentioned often, and I love it, but if anything, Airplane II: The Sequel made me laugh even harder. Anyone else think the second film is funny? Hello? Testing, testing...
Top Secret! and the first Naked Gun round out the Abrams-Zucker zaniness on my list.
Galaxy Quest belongs on my list, too (no doubt much to the annoyance of dlbpharmd).
Guess not too many Woody Allen fans here. His Manhattan Murder Mystery was the most laugh-out-loud funny film of his I've ever seen. Mighty Aphrodite was pretty funny as well, though one might say it had a mean edge to it.
Whit Stillman's Metropolitan is an overlooked gem. Brilliant, "talky" humour.
If I'm including a sci-fi comedy like Galaxy Quest, then I must include a supernatural comedy like Ghostbusters as well. But I can't leave Groundhog Day and Stripes out in the cold, so that's 3 Bill Murray films on my list.
