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    Dean Wormer, is that you?

    Ramis didn't think of it. He didn't think of anything. It was Ray!

    You had me, then you lost me.

    It used to happen all the time. "It Happened One Night," in fact.

    THAT'S THE FACT, JACK!

    Vacation is pretty funny, yet I can't help but agree with Nabin here. There's definitely a crassness to it that gives me a sour aftertaste. For one thing, Imogene Coca deserved better.

    This doesn't explain why Groundhog Day was passed over for awards.

    "Convicted? No, no, not convicted."

    We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on Mars!

    "They moved on in the friscillating dusk light."

    Everyone knows the '80s were the Al Franken decade.

    I could never understand what Akeem was doing on that play. In the film he says he didn't want to reach for the ball for fear of goaltending, which is fair, but why didn't he box out? WHY?

    You could have done a variation on that line from the movie…

    The film makes clear that it was a mix of preparation (Valvano telling his guys to always foul rather than give up a dunk), timely outside shooting by Whittenburg to get State within striking distance, and a lot of luck (bad coaching decisions by Guy Lewis, Akeem having trouble with the altitude, terrible charge call

    The person you're trying to think of is Dave Odom, who was an assistant coach for Virginia, the opponent. So that certainly lends credence to the idea that the other team was indeed psyched out by Valvano's tactics.

    As I've mentioned before, I love Buzz Aldrin's comedy pedigree — Monty Python, The Simpsons, 30 Rock…

    I thought the review was more or less on-the-mark, although I don't agree about Valvano — the more candid footage of him goofing off, the better.

    I have to say I was quite impressed at the part where Valvano told his guys to foul in a TIE GAME. That really WAS a Jedi mind trick. I don't think I've ever seen that before in years of watching basketball.

    Yes, it was a sad day when Carter surrendered to Brezhnev and the Ayatollah and then committed suicide in his underground bunker.

    Hey, who among us hasn't done those things?