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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:16 PM
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List Your Top 10 Film Comedies
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 03:43 PM by ZombyWoof
The order is subject to change without notice:

1. Duck Soup
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Airplane!
5. The Big Lebowski
6. Election
7. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
8. A Christmas Story
9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10. Grumpy Old Men
11. This is Spinal Tap
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patcox2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:23 PM
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1. We are from different generations.
You see, my friends and I can have entire conversations using nothing but quotes from Caddyshack and Animal House. (Did you know that the female love interest in both movies is played by the same woman?).

Here is the list for those around 45 years of age:

Animal House
Caddyshack
Revenge of the Nerds
Porkies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane
Dazed and Confused (thats in here because this depicts my high school experience so perfectly its mind boggling to me)
16 Candles
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:26 PM
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2. office space
the big lebowski
40 year old virgin
airplane
animal house
monty python and the holy grail
ferris bueller
clerks
annie hall
blazing saddles
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:27 PM
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4. I love Clerks
Damn, I wonder if I should edit my list again... x(
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:32 PM
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6. 10 is hard
i should probably have had dr. strangelove somewhere in my list too...
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:27 PM
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3. :
1. Where's Poppa?
2. Bowfinger
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Something About Mary
5. Our Relations
6. Harold and Maude
7. Mad World
8. A Christmas Story
9. Start the Revolution Without Me
10.Some Like It Hot
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:31 PM
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5. some of mine
contemporary:
1) The Producers
2) Groundhog Day
3) Annie Hall
4) A Fish Called Wanda
5) The Life of Brian

classics:
6) The General
7) Never Give A Sucker An Even Break
8) Holiday
9) His Girl Friday
10) The Gold Rush
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:33 PM
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7. Let's see. To watch again and again...
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Duck Soup
4. Arsenic and Old Lace
5. Young Frankenstein
6. A Christmas Story
7. The Ref
8. When Harry Met Sally
9. A Midwinter's Tale (In the Bleak Midwinter)
10. Ball of Fire

It's hard to come up with just 10, and I've left off a few favorites that are technically comedies, including Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, but that's my basic 10.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:34 PM
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8. OK:
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 03:36 PM by Richardo
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Duck Soup
The General
Office Space
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Love and Death
The Producers

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buddhamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:34 PM
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9. Mine:
(a lot of repeats of your list Zomby)

1. Animal Crackers
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Clerks
5. Clerks 2
6. Undercover Brother
7. Spaceballs
8. The Big Lewbowski
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. Duck Soup
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:37 PM
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10. Top 10

1-National Lampoons Vacation
2-Major League
3-Bevery Hills Cop
4-Fletch
5-Meet the Parents
6-Beverly Hills Cop II
7-Office Space
8-National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
9-Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10-Caddyshack
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:39 PM
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11. Here's mine (no particular order):
Clerks

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Office Space

Super Troopers

The Big Lebowski

Spaceballs

Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Airplane

Animal House
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:39 PM
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12. Okay...
1. Office Space
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Breakfast Club
4. High Fidelity
5. Caddyshack
6. Holy Grail
7. Rushmore
8. Fargo
9. Airplane!
10. Life of Brian
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 05:10 PM
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18. ah, I forgot High Fidelity!
I can watch that over and over and it's still hysterical.
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sir_captain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:51 PM
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13. Alrighty
I'm not sure I can give a real order, but here's an approximation

1) Dr. Strangelove
2) City Lights
3) Modern Times
4) Annie Hall
5) The Big Lebowski
6) The Apartment
7) Some Like it Hot
8) Young Frankenstein
9) Manhattan
10) Bananas
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SoyCat Donating Member (660 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:52 PM
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14. In no special order:
Raising Arizona
O' Brother Where Art Thou?
Blazing Saddles
History of the World Part I
Grumpy (and Grumpier) Old Men
Office Space
High Anxiety
Mediterraneo (I consider it a comedy)
The Last Supper (I consider it a comedy)
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 03:52 PM
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15. Here is my list...

1. Blazing Saddles

2. Spaceballs

3. Caddyshack

4. Monty Python Holy Grail

5. O Brother Where Art Thou?

6. History of the World Part I

7. Its a Mad Mad Mad World...

8. American Pie

9. National Lampoons Vacation

10. National Lampoons Xmas
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 04:11 PM
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16. Almost an impossible task but here is a shot at it
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 04:12 PM by WI_DEM
I can't put them in any order either:

The Awful Truth (1937) Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Grant to his soon to be ex-wife Dunne who is marrying sappy Ralph Bellamy: "So your moving to Oklahoma City, huh? well, if things get dull there you can go to Tulsa for the weekend."

A Night at the Opera (1935) The Marx Brothers at their zanniest but with a believable story line surrounding their antics.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)I don't know why but I can watch this film over and over.

The Freshman (1990) After a decade and a half of bored performances Brando is back in form with a parody of his "Godfather" role.

His Girl Friday (1940) Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and that poor sap Ralph Bellamy in the best newspaper comedy ever.

The Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis's masterpiece in which he analysis his two alter-ego's funny little professor with the squeeky voice and the egomaniac Vegas lounge lizard.

Harold and Maude (1971) The best black comedy ever made. Bud Cort's several attempts at suicide are hilarious.

Murder, He Says (1945) Fred MacMurray plays a pollster who has a run-in with a murderous hillbilly family led by Marjorie Main.

The Lady Eve (1941) My favorite Preston Sturges comedy with both Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in top form--if you didn't think Fonda could perform slapstick--think again.

Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder's best comedy with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in peak form.

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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 05:08 PM
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17. Harold and Maude
Annie Hall
Ed Wood
This is Spinal Tap
Young Frankenstein
Raising Arizona
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tampopo
Some Like It Hot
A Fish Called Wanda

i also like 40s screwball comedies.
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 05:18 PM
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19. Mine
In no particular order


McClintock (John Wayne)
Legally Blond
Monsters Inc
Anything you wanted to know about sex (Woody Allen)
Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Scary movie

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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 06:32 PM
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20. Mine....
Vacation

Sixteen Candles

Office Space

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Razin' Arizona

Groundhog Day

STRIPES

Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke

Arthur

Ghostbusters

:D :7 :rofl: :hi: :hug: :loveya:
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:06 PM
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25. Well DAMN...I gotta add one more....School of ROCK....
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 08:08 PM by jus_the_facts
:headbang:
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Mike03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 06:52 PM
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21. Hard to make a list, but
My two favorites are easy:

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Slapshot (hockey film with Paul Newman)

Others that come to mind:

Sherlock Holme's Smarter Brother
High Anxiety
National Lampoon's Vacation
Dazed and Confused
Spinal Tap
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 07:12 PM
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22. Here's my own personal 10:
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 07:12 PM by Lex

The Imposters - (Oliver Platt & Stanley Tucci)

Lost in America

Flirting With Disaster

Best in Show

Bob Roberts

Planes Trains and Automobiles

Manhattan

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

My Cousin Vinny

I Love You to Death / In and Out (a Kevin Kline tie)


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masshole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 07:31 PM
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23. 10
Slapshot
Dr. Strangelove
Raising Arizona
Airplane
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Office Space
Blues Brothers
Animal House
The Spy who Shagged Me
A Christmas Story
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 07:32 PM
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24. Otay
Sons of the Desert (Laurel and Hardy)
The Birdcage
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nothing to Lose
Scary Movie 1
Naked Gun
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
History of the World
Blazing Saddles
Airplane.

:hi:
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:23 PM
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26. Here's a few:
1 - Tootsie (w/Dustin Hoffman)
2 - The Closet (French comedy)
3 - Mrs. Doubtfire (w/Robin Williams)
4 - Altman's M.A.S.H.
5 - Annie Hall
6 - Life of Brian
7 - A Fish Called Wanda
8 - 9 to 5
9 - California Suite
10 - The Freshman (featuring Bert Parks singing "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more")
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:29 PM
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27. OK
No particular order:

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A Fish Called Wanda
Young Frankenstein
Sleeper
Raising Arizona
Adam's Rib
Revenge of the Nerds
Animal House
Jumping Jack Flash
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:36 PM
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28. I can't even come up with ten, but here's eight
and in no particular order:

Harold and Maude
40 Year-Old Virgin
Raising Arizona
Blazing Saddles
Fargo
Holy Grail
Clerks
The Gods Must be Crazy
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:39 PM
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30. oh! adding Being John Malkovich. nt
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:37 PM
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29. the princess bride
better off dead
real genius
trading places
Romy and Michelle's high school reunion
Splash
Josie and the Pussycats
One Crazy Summer
Dogma
Beverly Hills Ninja
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:39 PM
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31. Okay...
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 08:39 PM by Spider Jerusalem
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (directed by Luis Bunuel: highly surrealist--features a classic scene of people at a dinner party seated around a table on toilets, defecating; then they go to small rooms and eat in privacy, where no-one can see them)
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
Fargo
Bob Roberts
The Great Dictator
Dogma
Duck Soup
Withnail & I
Being John Malkovich
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:43 PM
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32. I like these:
Edited on Wed Sep-06-06 08:55 PM by ocelot
Airplane
This is Spinal Tap
Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dr. Strangelove
The Odd Couple
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Young Frankenstein

OK, so 10 isn't enough. There's also The Ruling Class, MASH, Good Morning Vietnam, Bedazzled (the original), Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Office Space, Harold and Maude.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 08:45 PM
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33. Love Story; Titanic; Top Gun; Footloose; Dirty Dancing; Battlefield Earth;
Rollerball (2002 version); Planet of the Apes (2002 version); Batman & Robin; Godzilla (1998); Independence Day; Natural Born Killers; Waterworld; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; MI-2; Day After Tomorrow; The Bodyguard; Robin Hood (Costner version)

and the list goes on...
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:13 PM
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34. Thank God nobody said Napoleon Dynamite!
Which means i get to say it first: Napoleon Dynamite!

I didnt see Tin Men noted either.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:18 PM
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35. I liked Tin Men
Although admittedly I have not seen it in years. Part of the legendary Baltimore series by Barry Levinson, I think.
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:22 PM
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36. In no particular order.
We share a few:

1. This is Spinal Tap
2. The Party
3. Dr. Stranglove
4. Duck Soup
5. Ninotchka
6. Hot Rods to Hell
7. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
8. Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster
9. A Night at the Opera
10. Friday

6-8 may not seem like comedies, but (trust me) they really are.
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:42 PM
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37. I had trouble coming up with 10
But here is my list:

Moonstruck
Emma
This Is Spinal Tap
Princess Bride
The Mummy (Brendan Fraser version- action comedy)
Caddyshack
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Four Weddings and a Funeral
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Clueless
Parenthood
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:48 PM
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39. Me too
I have seen many films listed which could easily make my list.

Keep that Windex handy. ;-)
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hotforteacher Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:43 PM
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38. Jesus is Magic
Grosse Point Blank
Better Off Dead
Real Genius
The Graduate
Heathers
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
Snatch
Legally Blonde
The Holy Grail

Special Mentions: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Girl Trouble, The Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, Best in Show, Citizen Ruth, Mean Girls, and Mr. Deeds.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 10:59 PM
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40. Clerks, Holy Grail, Pink Panther,Bad Taste, Airplane!,Baseketball,
Blues Brothers, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Ace Ventura, & Dumb & Dumber.

Not necessarily in that order.
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