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During all this you have to picture the pitch fork stretching the skin on Danny's neck....


"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas."

A looper?

"A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
 
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Desert Whaler said:
"It's easy to grin
when your ship comes in
and you've got the stock market beat.
But the man worthwhile
is the man who can smile
when his shorts are too tight in the seat".
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I read that speech to my Middle son and DIL #2, during their rehearsal dinner...

ps..my son was a 2nd stage apprentice golf pro at the time...
 
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Who's you decorator? Benihana?

No, I brought most of that stuff back with me from Vietnam.

You were in the war?

No... homo. Much better now, though
 
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OCMerrill said:
During all this you have to picture the pitch fork stretching the skin on Danny's neck....


"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas."

A looper?

"A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
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That wasn’t Danny.

 
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thetub said:
imagine the drugs flying around on that set ...
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That's kinna what this documentary was about...

Not everyone was down with it! Lots of backstories I'd never heard before.

Good watch. 👍🏼
 
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OCMerrill said:
I dont think anybody cares that much.

I had that whole spiel's text saved in my phone from years ago. One of my childhood favorites.

They don't make any movies like that these days....National Lampoon or otherwise.
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The death of Doug Kenney (Stork) marked the shift of National lampoon.

As far as that scene, to purists, it matters who is in it.
You won’t see a “random” character (Karl) interacting with the starring character.
The kid in that scene was Peter Berkrot, a 19 year old kid from a Queens NY theatre troupe. His face is 100% genuine terror and wonder as a BIGTIME Hollywood star teases his jugular with a pitchfork. He’d never been in any movie or around any stars. He couldn’t even know if Murray was in character or not, all he knew was that a crazy famous grown man had a pitchfork at his throat and had no idea what was happening.
That’s why Murray did that with him and not a Hollywood actor like O’Keefe. It would not have been the same.
Murray showed up strictly to hit his scenes and get the fuck away from Chase, who he hated.
It’s these small nuances that makes the movie so good and unique. It’s what sets these films from back then apart. So it matters.
Ramis expanded Murray’s role and added stuff to capitalize on Murray’s improv.
That entire scene is 100% adlib from Murray.
It’s not even in the script.
Murray just did it all on his own.
In fact, there is no scene in the entire movie with both Murray and O’Keefe (Danny).
The scene with Murray and Chase was written in by Ramis as well. The context was merely suggested and those 2 did the rest.
Murray was on location a total of 6 days.
He flew in, killed it, added an entire layer to the production, then left.
That’s how good he really was.

But the entire movie was a drug fueled improv.
Ted Knight was ready to bail on day one over the debauchery.
The studio was ready to pull the plug and fire Ramis the very first week. Lol
The complete and total free for all was the hallmark of NL back then.
A movie could never be made like that today, and that’s one reason why today’s comedy’s are so cookie cutter in nature, and why remakes are the norm.

(Please excuse my movie nerd moment!)
 
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was thatguy said:
The death of Doug Kenney (Stork) marked the shift of National lampoon.

As far as that scene, to purists, it matters who is in it.
You won’t see a “random” character (Karl) interacting with the starring character.
The kid in that scene was Peter Berkrot, a 19 year old kid from a Queens NY theatre troupe. His face is 100% genuine terror and wonder as a BIGTIME Hollywood star teases his jugular with a pitchfork. He’d never been in any movie or around any stars. He couldn’t even know if Murray was in character or not, all he knew was that a crazy famous grown man had a pitchfork at his throat and had no idea what was happening.
That’s why Murray did that with him and not a Hollywood actor like O’Keefe. It would not have been the same.
Murray showed up strictly to hit his scenes and get the fuck away from Chase, who he hated.
It’s these small nuances that makes the movie so good and unique. It’s what sets these films from back then apart. So it matters.
Ramis expanded Murray’s role and added stuff to capitalize on Murray’s improv.
That entire scene is 100% adlib from Murray.
It’s not even in the script.
Murray just did it all on his own.
In fact, there is no scene in the entire movie with both Murray and O’Keefe (Danny).
The scene with Murray and Chase was written in by Ramis as well. The context was merely suggested and those 2 did the rest.
Murray was on location a total of 6 days.
He flew in, killed it, added an entire layer to the production, then left.
That’s how good he really was.

But the entire movie was a drug fueled improv.
Ted Knight was ready to bail on day one over the debauchery.
The studio was ready to pull the plug and fire Ramis the very first week. Lol
The complete and total free for all was the hallmark of NL back then.
A movie could never be made like that today, and that’s one reason why today’s comedy’s are so cookie cutter in nature, and why remakes are the norm.

(Please excuse my movie nerd moment!)
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Pull your pants up there Siskel...

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Danny, the world needs ditch diggers also...
 
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