Edward Leo Peter "Ed" McMahon, Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009) was an American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He also hosted the original version of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995. He co-hosted TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes with Dick Clark from 1982 to 1998. He also presented sweepstakes for the direct marketing company American Family Publishers (not, as is commonly believed, its main rival Publishers Clearing House).
McMahon annually co-hosted the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. He performed in numerous television commercials, most notably for Budweiser. In the 1970s and 1980s, he anchored the team of NBC personalities conducting the network's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. McMahon appeared in several films, including The Incident, Fun With Dick and Jane, Full Moon High, and Butterfly, as well as briefly in the film version of Bewitched. According to Entertainment Weekly, McMahon is considered one of the greatest "sidekicks".
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
Although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s Carson became an American icon and remained so until his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Late night hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Fallon have all cited Carson's influence on their late-night talk shows, which resemble his in format and tone.
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in the year 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson, who was of Irish descent. He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight. At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at fourteen and was paid $3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno /ˈlɛnoʊ/ (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host.
From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time, UTC-5), also on NBC. After The Jay Leno Show was canceled in January 2010 amid a host controversy, Leno returned to host The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 1, 2010.
James "Jay" Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1950. His mother, Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993), a homemaker, was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to the United States at age 11. Leno's father, Angelo (1910–1994), who worked as an insurance salesman, was born in New York to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, and although his high school guidance counselor recommended that he drop out of school, he later obtained a Bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973. Leno's siblings include his late older brother, Patrick, who was a Vietnam veteran and a lawyer.
Plot
The witch Isabel Bigelow arrives in California with the objective of having a normal life without spells. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the egocentric actor Jack Wyatt is trying to retrieve his former prestige in the cinema industry playing Darrin in a remake of the successful TV Series "Bewitched". When Jack meets Isabel by chance and sees her moving her nose, he immediately decides to invite her to perform Samantha. His second intention is to cast an unknown actress and overshadow her performance. When Isabel finds his real intention, she becomes upset and her aunt puts a hex on Jack. But Isabel is in love with Jack and decides to tell him the truth about her.
Keywords: actor, actress, agent, aquarium, audition, aunt-niece-relationship, based-on-tv-series, bicycling, box-office-flop, cafe
Be warned. Be ready.
Isabel Bigelow: You're sweating again - I love it when you sweat!
Ritchie: That's it. You're fired.::Isabel Bigelow: Doesn't matter... I quit! Yeah, so you better call my agent.::Jim Fields: You don't have an agent.::Isabel Bigelow: Then call my cable man!
Girl: [Nigel Bigelow does a double take at a pretty girl] Hey there! I have Hepatitis C!
Jack Wyatt: How would you like to be on a television show?::Isabel Bigelow: An actress?::Jack Wyatt: Yeah, if *I* can act, *you* can act.::Book Soup Cafe Waitress: Amen.::Jack Wyatt: [to girl] You know what? I think those people over there just finished their plate of *hummus*.
[from trailer]::Isabel Bigelow: I am through with just snapping my fingers and getting my way.::Coffee Shop Waitress: Uh, no breakfast after 11.::Isabel Bigelow: Oh. [snaps fingers and clock turns back from 11 to 10:55] My absolutely last thing!
[from trailer]::Maria Kelly: I love that show! Is that the one with the genie?
[from trailer]::Isabel Bigelow: Guess what? I'm a witch!::Jack Wyatt: Guess what? I'm a Clippers fan!
[Isabel changes a tarot card into a Visa Platinum Card to pay at Bed, Bath, and Beyond]::Isabel Bigelow: That was my last thing as a witch!
Jack Wyatt: Your home... is with me.
Uncle Arthur: Run, you idiot.
Plot
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life -- his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children -- is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.
Keywords: archery, archery-lesson, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, black-comedy, box-office-flop, boy, breasts, calla-lily, camel-toe
In life, accuracy counts.
Dave Spritz is about to take his best shot . . . at life.
... bring an umbrella
[from trailer]::Dave Spritz: People don't throw things at me any more. Maybe because I carry a bow around.
Dave Spritz: We both just think it's better for the kids.::Robert Spritzel: David, sacrifice is... to get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.::Dave Spritz: I know that dad, but I think that if we continue down this road, it's gonna be too detrimental for the kids. It's just too hard.::Robert Spritzel: Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. "Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
Dave Spritz: Always fast food. Fast food. Things that people would rather throw out than finish. It's easy, it tastes all right, but it doesn't really provide you any nourishment. I'm fast food.
Dave Spritz: The first time I was struck with something, a chicken breast from Kenny Rogers. I was standing next to a garbage pail. I thought it might've been an accident, that they were throwing it out. The second time, it hit me square on the chin, a soft taco. Then, pop. A falafel. McNuggets. Always fast food. Fast food. Shit people would rather throw out than finish. It's easy. It tastes all right, but it doesn't really provide you any nourishment [pause] I'm fast food.
Dave Spritz: Here's something that if you want your father to think you're not a silly fuck, don't slap a guy across the face with a glove because if you do that, that's what he will think. Unless you're a noble man or something in the nineteenth century. Which I am not.::Dave Spritz: It was a McDonald's hot apple pie. They're not kidding. It was hot.
Dave Spritz: The other thing that gets to people, that leads to pies, I guess are these catch phrases we're required to use to single the program out. It gets under people's skin. Spritz Nipper. But the whole thing about all of it, all the getting hit with stuff, the whole thing is, who gets hit with a fucking pie, anyway? Did anyone ever throw a pie at Thomas Jefferson? Or Buzz Aldrin? I doubt it. But this is like the ninth time I got [pause] Clowns get hit with pies.
Dave Spritz: I mean, I'll bet no one ever threw a pie at, like Harriet Tubman, the founder of the Underground railroad. I'll bet you a million fucking dollars.
Dave Spritz: Man, I'd like to put my face in there. Right in there. Tartar sauce. My hips are cold. Tartar sauce. That's when you know its cold. I like eating pussy. Tartar sauce. A lot of guys don't. Well maybe they do. Maybe that's just black guys. Tartar sauce. What happened to the guy who was trying to fly around the world in a balloon? Did he make it? I should put some espionage or stolen plutonium in my novel. Tartar sauce. Spice it up. Neil Young. Fuck, its cold. Neil Young. Wh-why am I thinking about Neil Young. Neil Diamond. Neil... Theres not a lot of famous Neils. Is this Wednesday? I wish I had two dicks. I thought the whole family was going to learn Spanish together this year. That never really happened. I haven't had a Spanish omelette in a long time. Here we go.
Dave Spritz: [thinking] I wish I had two dicks.
Robert Spritzel: This shit life... we must chuck some things. We must chuck them... in this shit life. There's always looking after.
Plot
Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun. Buster and Babs Bunny turn a water fight into a white-water rafting trip through the dangerous Deep South; Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig share the most impossibly awful car journey imaginable on the way to HappyWorldLand; Fifi's blind date becomes a "skunknophobic" nightmare; and a safari park is turned upside-down by Elmyra's search for "cute little kitties to hug and squeeze".
Keywords: alligator, amusement-park, animal-abuse, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, anxiety, autograph, basset-hound, beach, breaking-the-fourth-wall
Plucky Duck: I'm gonna go on every ride 'til I barf twice!
Buster Bunny: Babs, grab the life saver!::Babs Bunny: Who can think of candy at a time like this?
[Byron the Basset Hound saves Babs and Buster by flying]::Buster Bunny: Hey, Byron can fly!::Babs Bunny: Who knew?
[after doing an obscenely loud sound demo prior to the movie]::THUD announcer: The audience is now deaf.
[after a long, toon-type, water battle]::Buster Bunny: I do this water thing to Babsy through the entire video.
[Buster is forced to marry Big Daddy Boo's daughters]::Buster Bunny: I can't marry all three of them, that's bigamy!::Big Daddy Boo: No, that's big o'me!
[Sitting at the drive-in with Hampton's family]::Plucky Duck: They bring their own food to the drive-in. I don't believe this family.
[Plucky just got ran over by Hampton's family]::Plucky Duck: I think the left front tire is a little low.
[Fowlmouth butted in the movie concession line and is deciding what snack to get]::Fowlmouth: Let's see, Goobers or Raisinets... Goobers or Raisinets... You got a reccommendation?::[Guy he butted throws him into theatre]::Fowlmouth: Guess I'll never know the eternal answer!
[Fowlmouth got "thrown" into the movie]::Actress: At this rate, we'll NEVER get to my scene!::Fowlmouth: Then the crowd should thank me, you no good dadgum excuse for a dadgum actress!
Plot
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee. The townspeople are hostile to the outsiders at first, but seem to accept them once they've killed a couple of people. After a while, a mysterious man named Dade arrives, who seems to have unpleasant business to settle with the robbers. A free-for-all shoot-em-up ensues.
Keywords: coffee, drugs, hanging, independent-film, neo-western, nihilism, rock, spoof, street-shootout
A story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension.
Norwood: Synchronize your watches. Ten o'clock.::Willy: Ten-thirty.::Simms: One minute to nine.::Norwood: Close enough.
Amos Dade: [before getting shot] Watch the suit, Norwood.
Chuch: This place is full of bad men who'll kill anyone who crosses their path or even shows their face... know what I mean?::Velma: No. I don't see any bad men.::Chuch: That's 'cause they're all out, but they'll be back...
Karl: Salsa y ketchup, you tell me and I'll fetch up, K A R L S Disco Wiener Haven, salsa y ketchup, salsa y ketchup
Willy: Women, man.::Simms: Sometimes you gotta kill 'em.::Norwood: Who, the women?::Simms: No, their husbands.
Angel Eyes McMahon: These strangers just saved our lives!::Lance McMahon: Let's kill 'em!
Norwood: They look like coffee addicts to me, boys.
Norwood: It's gettin' kinda hot back here.
Amos Dade: No, you cops'll have to use rocks.