[For this year’s
April
Fool’s series, I decided to AmericanStudy a handful of classic 1980s comic films. This crowd-sourced
post is drawn from the responses and nominations of fellow ComedyStudiers—add
yours in comments, please!]
Responding to Monday’s
Airplane! post, Irene
Martyniuk shares, “Airplane!
A huge family favorite. Explains Autopilot perfectly. J”
Other 80s (or
80s adjacent) comedy nominations:
Andy Cornick rants, “I could lecture an entire semester on the nonsensical depiction
of the 1984
All-Valley Karate Tournament final round. It is so
patently obvious that Johnny Lawrence of the Cobra Kai dojo won.” In terms of
the film’s genres, he adds, “Of late, the funniest part of watching most of
those movies is realizing how far societal standards have come since they were
funny and not cringe-worthy.”
Andrew DaSilva writes, “I didn't grow up in the 80's but my brother
did and he shared those comedies with me as every older brother should. The
ones that come to mind are Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, gotta love that John Hughes he was big in the 1980's; Honey, I Shrunk The Kids; and of course it wouldn't be the 1980's without the 3 Amigos!, the SNL tri-fecta Martin, Chase and
Short! Yet none of those compare to Paul Reubens in the PEE WEE HERMAN Show!”
Tim
McCaffrey shares, “Rewatching Revenge of the Nerds and realizing that there is a
blatant rape in the movie...well, let's just say that it
doesn't stand up.”
And on Twitter, Mark
Helmsing writes, “Deconstruct ‘the city as garden
of earthly delights’ theme in Adventures in Babysitting and maybe
read The Great Outdoors via Roderick
Nash and theories of American wilderness and pastoralism vs. ‘the big
city.’”
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Other 80s comedies (or other comic films) you’d highlight?
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