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Es Muy Bueno: Better Off Dead

“He keeps putting his testicles all over me.” The cameo by Barney Rubble. The embedded Van Halen video featuring a claymation hamburger. “Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.” “I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy.” The aardvark coat. The drag races. The presence of Porky (from Porky's) as the owner of of Pig Burger. “I think I just froze the left half of my brain!” Charles De Mar doing a line of jello. How to Pick Up Trashy Women. French bread, french dressing, and french fries. “Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.” The international language. “I want my TWO DOLLARS!” The archetypal 80s blond teen villain. “I skate. You skate. Maybe we could get together and be, um, a skating team.” A high school whose entire social hierarchy is based on skiing ability. Ricky getting distracted from a confrontation by a passing balloon. “It's a Christmas miracle.” The TV sitting in the fireplace, showing a burning Yule log. TV dinners, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving (and they even show up later in the movie!). “Girls'll go sterile just looking at you.” The pointless-but-awesome animation. Layne's homemade kimono for self-immolation. Layne and Beth losing their virginity in a station wagon while the wheels are being stolen.

“Language lessons. Inspired words from a man who knows how to ski.”

Man, that movie has everything.

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