Bad Movie Thursday

Date Watched: 8/8/19

Starring: Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, lots of 80’s actors who always played military personnel.

Plot: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Rules

• 80’s cliches
• Spy cliches
• Ronald Reagan sightings
• Don’t forget house rule #11, mustaches.
• Ace Tomato Co.

Quotes

• “Done?  That was a static filled triple scrambled microwave transmission between two soldiers talking in Mandarin Chinese.”  –  “The Chinese were only using a simple poly-phonetically grouped twenty square digit key transposed in booster-prodomic form with multiple nulls.”
• “You just watch your moooouuuttthhhhh, mister.  The departments laying off civilians left and right.”
• “Can you hold my wallet for me.  There’s 1000 dollars in there… or maybe there isn’t.”
• “What was that?”  –  “It’s a dickfir.”  –  “What’s a dickfir?”  –  “It’s to pee with.”
• “You see this?  That’s my sister.  You can all have her.  I hear she’s really good.”
• “Thanks for the bruises, and you can keep the stool samples.”
• “I guess we’ll be heading back to the ol’ UN, and of course we’ll be telling them what a great job you’re doing here.”
• “I was probing to determine muscle tone and girth.  We mock what we don’t understand.”
• “I was just looking for the Burt Reynolds Theater.”
• “It’s Soul Finger, by the Bar-Kays.”  –  “They must be having trouble getting gigs!”
• “Do you know what those things can do?  Suck the paint off your  house and give your family a permanent orange afro.”

Things We Learned

• A weapon unused is a useless weapon.
• When you’re pairing off at the end of the world, sometimes it works out for you.
• If you only have a few minutes to live, find the nearest partner (whatever that means)

Final Take: A classic 80’s comedy, one of the few with both Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase.  It starts better than it ends.  By the end, you are definitely ready for it to be over.