She at least ruled the parts of the Earth that were sandy and touched the ocean.

She must be financially strapped, so I guess all of us could pitch in. I have $20 on me. What's in your wallet?

Hopefully Marino will last through at least the second commercial break of the first episode.

Since you have done your do diligence, you have peaked my interest. By in large I don't usually call for such things, but I think you are a shoe-in for some sort of award. I don't mean to wet your appetite, and I am sure you are waiting with baited breath, but I guarantee it will bring you piece of mind.

I see you have a deep-seeded need to chime in. Well, I could care less, as I will extract my revenge.

Well, the judge recused himself from the case, so that will sadly deprive us of round two of their double act, and no doubt delay the next time Mr. Allen sees the inside of a courtroom.

Didn't mean to bury the lead. I think we should just tow the line, it's going to be a tough road to hoe.

Yeah, a creepy old granddad-age character is something that the kids would appreciate. That and Jamie Farr as an Arab Sheik or something, or Tony Danza with a monkey? I'm starting to remember more of this than I ever wanted to. Damn you, Internet!!

"I hollered, "Don't look, Ethel!" But it was too late. She'd already been mooned. Flashed her right there in front of the shock absorbers."

So she was like, what, 40?

It's champing at the bit. For all intensive purposes.

"Blow it out your ass Howard."

That would have been cool. Similarly, his Blazing Saddles co-star John Hillerman would make for a good RR. He is alive, but he's 83 and has been retired and completely out of the public eye for 20 years or so, so I doubt he'd be up for it either.

"Far out."

I don't remember much about Cannonball Run II other than the fact that most of the actual race takes place off screen (did the plot get bogged down in a kidnapping or something?), and that they spliced some footage of Frank Sinatra sitting at a desk into it.

"There's no way, no way that you could come from my loins."

"The fact that you are a sheriff is not germane to the situation."
"THE GODDAMN GERMANS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!"

Whenever someone mentions Cannonball Run I'm always reminded of the fact that Jackie Chan was in it. This was 1981.
I had no idea who he was at the time, though I suppose he had a following of some sort back then. (I imagine the idea of having Chan in the film, as well as Roger Moore, was a way of goosing the worldwide…

I agree wholeheartedly. Hooper strikes a pretty good balance between the serious and the silly, nicely laying out the idea that stuntmen can be pretty fucked up and self-destructive like anyone else in such a high risk job.

The characters are clearly meant to be messed up. For one thing, at the beginning Cledus pretty much walks out on what is I presume to be his wife (nagging and wearing curlers, straight out of Comedy Wife 101) and kids to join the Bandit.