Hi I’m back on the wonderful Blank Check podcast with Griffin and David (and Ben!) today talking about Johnny Dangerously, a movie I enjoyed very much!
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Great stuff! Just finished listening and had so much fun. I have a vague memory of seeing this in the theatre because I loved Fast Times. Can’t remember much (it’s been a long time) but I loved the cast. Just put it on hold at the library.
This movie was one of my favorites growing up. Honestly when the Amy Heckerling schedule dropped, I said “holy shit Amy Heckerling has been my favorite director my entire life and I had no idea”
When I was in the 4th grade, my older siblings rented this movie along with Fletch. They went back to college and forgot to return them. I watched them both 40 plus times. It was a confusing time for 8 year old me😆
Well, I was already telling @emmasandoe.bsky.social that she'd need to be ready for the Clueless episode in a few weeks, guess we're starting early here!
It's really one of the best Weird Al songs. I had something as a kid called The Movies Channel which meant all the 2 or 2.5 star PG and PG-13 movies I could watch in the mid-80s, so I saw this, Clue, The Last Starfighter, Clue, Night of the Comet dozens of times.
We named our youngest cat Farlig ("far-lee" 🇧🇻 dangerous, dangerously). It's representative of his personality and alliterative to our older cat's name, but most importantly I get to ask him "dja know your first name is an adverb?" 😁
I would like to suggest STRANGE BREW as another comedy from the era that might hold up surprisingly well
(or might not! I haven't watched it in a *really* long time. but I loved both JD and SB in high school, and remember both of them as being basically good-natured, so 🤷♂️)
People in my generation talk about how they grew up with a random VHS that they watched a lot, and so thought that film was a pillar of culture, and only later learned that it was considered a failure.
I didn’t think this movie was real, I only thought of it as a movie Jimmy Pesto references on Bobs Burgers and after listening to this episode I’m no closer to being convinced it’s real
“It shoots through schools,” was such a wonderfully messed up line when the movie came out. Now, people will just wonder why that dark statement is in the middle of an absurd comedy. I’m a big Johnny Dangerously fan. Keaton at his peak before everyone knew that he was capable of so much more.
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(or might not! I haven't watched it in a *really* long time. but I loved both JD and SB in high school, and remember both of them as being basically good-natured, so 🤷♂️)
Johnny Dangerously is that movie for me.