Agreed! I loved that era so much—remember when the running Old Turkey Buzzard gag culminated with Jose Feliciano playing it live?

My dad and I saw one commercial for Pirate Master once, and to this day we use it about once a month as shorthand for a ludicrous and disastrous idea. So few people remember its existence that even in public, it could basically pass as an inside joke.

It's basically Blood Simple, but more overtly humorous.

Ha. Figured there wasn't gonna be a way to ask that without sounding like a dick, but figured I'd ask anyway just in case you were interested. Anyway, it's from Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be—not really much of a film, especially for him, but I was interested (and surprised) to hear it there when I watched it.

Do you know that it didn't originate in The Producers?

I saw "Burn After Reading" opening night. Dead silence other than me cracking up alone in the front row.

My favorite thing about that trailer is that because trailers weren't allowed to show blood at the time, Kubrick argued (successfully, obviously) to the MPAA that it was rusty water that was coming out of the elevators.

Probably the best actor in the cast right now, but not hammy enough right now (and may not ever be willing to be) to ever really break out.