Also worth noting, it included an incredible cameo appearance by Ian McKellen:

Seeing it as a fully-immersed-in-the-genre 24 year old, I was more ‘meh’ on it at the time, because it felt like the whole was less than the sum of its parts. THe chemistry between Danny and Arnold was non-existent. It just didn’t ‘work’ even though I could appreciate the gags.

What it *wasn’t* was the huge pile of…

It took almost 30 years for pop culture to catch up to 14 year old me.

This movie is BRILLIANT!

“I just shot a guy!”

Charles Fucking Dance.

I haven’t watched this since I was a kid, definitely never noticed that Jack Slater was a Franco Columbu film

Loved this movie when it came out, still love it. The movie literally makes fun of it’s own genre. So many cameos, so many great one liners

I wen to the local Plymouth dealership, they’re fresh out of Valiant’s due to chip shortage.

“It felt almost new, which is absurd thing to say given the car’s age and price.”

Gets my vote for greatest production car engine ever. For more about the slant checkout Uncle Tony’s Garage, the man is a living encyclopedia of anything slant six.

It almost would have been better if he hadn’t found that—for the readers, anyway. Then he would have MacGuyvered something using the junk laying around in a bank parking lot.

I’ll admit some smugness by association for how it was a Sixties Mopar that got you there and back with no muss, no fuss.

Lolz, not sure why I wrote that. I’ve marveled at the beautiful torsion bars on multiple occasions. 

David was being followed by the Ghost of Slant Six Afficionados Past.

Your Valiant doesn’t have coil springs up front.

Yeah, wouldn’t have been a big deal. Just needed something to hold the shoe against the backing plate.

So are we all going to ignore that David would have been pretty much dead in the water if he hadn’t magically found the exact brake spring he needed in the glovebox?

“M*A*S*H* is the story of a man who’s constantly depressed because he saw a chicken die on a bus this one time”.
-Sammy B

You keep leaning into the idea that the show was supposed to offer standalone stories, even though the ENTIRE PREMISE is that it’s riffing on movies we’ve already seen.