{"id":11987,"date":"2023-06-08T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=11987"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:02:08","slug":"ranking-shit-most-watched-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/ranking-shit-most-watched-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Shit: Most Watched Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I watched part of Real Genius<\/em> a week ago, it got me thinking about the movies I watched the most between 1985 and 1994.[1]<\/a> These were the glory days of movies on TV, a time when there was a great chance you would find one of, say, 40 different movies playing on one channel or another. There was no better way to waste time than flipping through your cable dial to find one of your favorites, then not moving until it was over.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always argued that was cooler than today, when you can stream pretty much any movie you want at the time of your choosing. There was the sheer randomness of coming across Just One of the Guys<\/em> or Airplane!<\/em> on a rainy Saturday afternoon. There was the joy of tuning in just in time for your favorite scene, or the agony of missing the line you love the most by a few minutes. And then the utility of knowing that Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em> was on TBS while you were watching football on NBC, allowing you to flip over during commercials.[2]<\/a> <\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s my best guess at the movies I watched the most during this period. Once again I\u2019m wishing we could access the metadata in our brains so I could get exact counts. I will include one of my most quoted lines from each movie as a little bonus content.<\/p>\n

Beverly Hills Cop
\n\u201cIs this the man who wrecked the buffet\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Real Genius
\n\u201cYou know, you\u2019ll rue the day!\u201d
\n\u201cRue the day? Who talks like that?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Naked Gun
\n\u201cNice beaver!\u201d
\n\u201cThank you. I just had it stuffed.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Sixteen Candles
\n\u201cNo he\u2019s not retarded.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Better Off Dead
\n\u201cNow that\u2019s a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGee I\u2019m sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.\u201d
\n\u201cLane Meyer, the kid from Green Bay\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll make a fine little helper, what\u2019s your name?
\n\u201cCharles DuMar.\u201d
\n\u201cShut up, geek!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Caddyshack
\nMy top two picks are very tough to select a quote from, as I recited damn near every line of them endlessly with my fellow cinema aficionados. It seems like this is the one we did most from Caddyshack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to kill every gopher on the course.
\n\u201cCheck me if I\u2019m wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they\u2019re going to lock me up and throw away the key.\u201d
\n\u201cGOPHERS YOU GREAT GIT, NOT GOLFERS. THE LITTLE BROWN FURRY RODENTS!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Fletch
\nMy unobtainable metadata might show that I quoted another movie more (although not much more), but I would almost guarantee I watched no movie more during those ten years than Fletch. This quote is the one that even people who never saw the movie used on a regular basis. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all ball bearings nowadays.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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    I pick that range because we first got cable in 1985, and capping it at ten years seemed about right. Swingers and Office Space would enter the conversation if we extended the range out further. And I\u2019m obviously not including Christmas movies.  ↩<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    RIP Picture in Picture, one of the greatest inventions ever that was, for reason, largely killed off when the world moved to digital cable. Now PIP means being able to watch the NCAA tournament while still working on your TPS reports on your work computer.  ↩<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When I watched part of Real Genius a week ago, it got me thinking about the movies I watched the most between 1985 and 1994.[1] These were the glory days of movies on TV, a time when there was a great chance you would find one of, say, 40 different movies playing on one channel or another. There was no better way to waste time than flipping through your cable dial to find one of your favorites, then not moving until it was over. I\u2019ve always argued that was cooler than today, when you can stream pretty much any movie you want at the time of your choosing. There was the sheer randomness of coming across Just One of the Guys or Airplane! on a rainy Saturday afternoon. There was the joy of tuning in just in time for your favorite scene, or the agony of missing the line you love the most by a few minutes. And then the utility of knowing that Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off was on TBS while you were watching football on NBC, allowing you to flip over during commercials.[2] Anyway, here\u2019s my best guess at the movies I watched the most during this period. Once again I\u2019m wishing we could access the metadata in our brains so I could get exact counts. I will include one of my most quoted lines from each movie as a little bonus content. Beverly Hills Cop \u201cIs this the man who wrecked the buffet\u2026\u201d Real Genius \u201cYou know, you\u2019ll rue the day!\u201d \u201cRue the day? Who talks like that?\u201d Naked Gun \u201cNice beaver!\u201d \u201cThank you. I just had it stuffed.\u201d Sixteen Candles \u201cNo he\u2019s not retarded.\u201d Better Off Dead \u201cNow that\u2019s a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.\u201d \u201cGee I\u2019m sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.\u201d \u201cLane Meyer, the kid from Green Bay\u2026\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ll make a fine little helper, what\u2019s your name? \u201cCharles DuMar.\u201d \u201cShut up, geek!\u201d Caddyshack My top two picks are very tough to select a quote from, as I recited damn near every line of them endlessly with my fellow cinema aficionados. It seems like this is the one we did most from Caddyshack. \u201cI want you to kill every gopher on the course. \u201cCheck me if I\u2019m wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they\u2019re going to lock me up and throw away the key.\u201d \u201cGOPHERS YOU GREAT GIT, NOT GOLFERS. THE LITTLE BROWN FURRY RODENTS!\u201d Fletch My unobtainable metadata might show that I quoted another movie more (although not much more), but I would almost guarantee I watched no movie more during those ten years than Fletch. This quote is the one that even people who never saw the movie used on a regular basis. \u201cIt\u2019s all ball bearings nowadays.\u201d I pick that range because we first got cable in 1985, and capping it at ten years seemed about right. Swingers and Office Space would enter the conversation if we extended the range out further. And I\u2019m obviously not including Christmas movies.  ↩ RIP Picture in Picture, one of the greatest inventions ever that was, for reason, largely killed off when the world moved to digital cable. Now PIP means being able to watch the NCAA tournament while still working on your TPS reports on your work computer.  ↩<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,29],"class_list":["post-11987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lists","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11988,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}