Best 80s Teen Sex Comedies!

They're running a whole season of these films on Paramount Comedy, but I'll have to wait till July 20th to find out whether Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise should go on this list.

I nominate Real Genius. Or maybe Meatballs III.

From that horrible subgenre of '80s Teen Sex Comedies Set In The Fifties To Appeal To A Wider Demographic'.

"Talking? During horsehead bookends? There's no talking during horsehead bookends!"

(*the only one to actually "score")

Wired Science TV show SuXoR. Really really SuXor.

Due to my unending teenage obsession with Molly Ringwald I would say Pretty in Pink. Nonsex though, Feris Bueller is hard to beat. All it need was Low Rider instead of Yellow.

surveying board for interest in a ballot teen sex comedy poll (not limited to the 80s)

nah

:(

14 years pass.. jeez.

This thread is now old enough to be a horny teenager.

I look forward to hearing about this thread's wacky misadventures trying to score with a sexy substitute teacher all while ignoring his loyal, but pretty, best girl friend.

I'd vote

this is such an interesting genre to me, it's the result of such a specific set of cultural and economic factors - sure most of the movies are formally inept and/or poorly executed but so evocative of their era.

ie post-sexual revolution but pre-internet, and in contrast/conflict with puritanical Reagan era (while nonetheless often sharing Reagan era's nostalgia for and fascination with the 50s/early 60s)

You need to include the plotless teen sex films of Crown International Pictures that have obvious influenced Tarantino and Linklater, titles such as The Pom Pom Girls, Malibu Beach, and Van Nuys Blvd. They're so purely and non-intellectually escapist they make films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Risky Business, and Pretty In Pink look way too serious and artsy.

huh never heard of those - I do know My Tutor and My Chauffeur

Hardbodies vs Joysticks. the golden years were that decadent new wave era from 79-83 which Reagan Values were a reaction too, before Just Say No and AIDS

surely risky business wins this one clear

I hate that movie

offhand I'd put Last American Virgin at no. 1

you have terrible taste! :)

The Pom Pom Girls has a lot of similarities to Linklater's Dazed and Confused, in tone and structure for instance. They are both set in the same year (1976), the difference being Pom Pom Girls was also made in that year.

The actress who played the Mexican hooker in Last American Virgin is now one of the OJ Simpson accusers. Fun trivia.

trying to put my finger on why I don't like Risky Business, beyond just knee-jerk Cruise hatred. I find him really unlikable and that's hard for me to get past. Worse is perhaps that the movie isn't fun or funny, generally it's tone is moody and subdued.

I liked The Wild Life at the time. I am offering no guarantees 30+ years later.

Not to get all Chuck Eddy, but the abortion subplot in Fast Times is better art than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

...and soundtracking the abortion scene in The Last American Virgin with "I Will Follow" is bad taste at it's finest

Malibu Beach is so good and Ted Cruz talks about it in this clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-vG_TdOT4

I'm not gonna lie: the greatest appeal of most of these movies for me was the man-candy they offered in the likes of Matt Lattanzi, Steve Antin, Christopher Atkins (who never did a teen sex comedy per se, but a fan edit of The Blue Lagoon, The Pirate Movie and A Night in Heaven could probably cobble together a decent one) and countless anonymous others. Yes, these films were aggressively geared towards the hetero-male gaze, but they weren't all that shy about showing male flesh either, albeit usually incidentally.

actually he's probably talking about this one

http://impdb.org/images/thumb/7/7e/TMBS_Poster.jpg/350px-TMBS_Poster.jpg

The fella with the red towel is Bill Adler, who starred in many of the Crown International flicks:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0LoTWhzoRtM/TElyar8J5JI/AAAAAAAALvQ/0HpJzeULH3Y/s1600/Van-Nuys-Blvd.-Melissa-Prophet-Dennis-Bowen-Bill-Adler-Cynthia-Wood-8.jpg

never saw this one but i think the female lead(?) is a Cosby victim

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/1985_film_Hot_Chili.jpg

never saw it so i'm not sure if it technically qualifies as a "teen sex comedy". always been curious as it was mostly shot at Rhodes College in Memphis and features some scenes in the Peabody Hotel lobby.

Making the Grade

wow @ this POS. super young Andrew McCarthy shtupping Rob Lowe's mom (Jacqueline Bisset), supporting cast features John Cusack & Alan Ruck

Class

haha waht I have never heard of that one

never heard of this one before either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQQVXmOjj8

The first male stripper flick directed by an Oscar winning filmmaker.

The actress who played the Mexican hooker in Last American Virgin is now one of the OJ Simpson accusers

Will's post about Hot Chili made me realize I meant to say Cosby accuser here! Oops! (I was distracted by "The Rolling OJ Simpson Legal Thread")

In fact, we may be talking about the same actress, because the hooker in Last American Virgin is also in the cast of Hot Chili

so I count 7 potential voters here, kinda not enough to warrant a ballot poll :(

If there's a chance of any Patrick Dempsey movie ("Loverboy" or "Can't Buy Me Love") winning, I'm in.

is there any actual sex/nudity in Can't Buy Me Love? I remember that being PG

IIRC Devin Devasquez shows her boobs in one scene but I see it was PG-13 so maybe I'm mis-remembering? Not like I couldn't see her boobs in tons of other places in the 80s.

we sometimes get boobs in pg13. titanic and doc hollywood for example.

Not the winner: https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUSs2HosObmLB0nKzsvq1kkaTK5hXhU55_yuZv2QMhBvspfFxVfQ

Apparently, whether or not there are boobs in Can't Buy Me Love is a matter of some consternation: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=747573

So it appears I am indeed misremembering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZuU6oboy5U

this is such an interesting genre to me, it's the result of such a specific set of cultural and economic factors - sure most of the movies are formally inept and/or poorly executed but so evocative of their era.

truly otm.

another interesting genre are the darker teen sex/drugs/delinquency dramas from roughly the same era (Foxes, Over the Edge, etc)

lol important research!

I'm inclined to disqualify any film that does not include some nudity of some kind, however brief. That's like a key criteria.

another interesting genre are the darker teen sex/drugs/delinquency dramas from roughly the same era (Foxes, Over the Edge, etc)

yeah I love these too. Foxes is so weird - iirc the plot is basically "closeted lesbian Jodie Foster plays surrogate mom for her secret girlfriend crush who is a total drug addled mess"

Over the Edge is incredible tho, a legit good film imo

yup.

not to derail the thread or anything, but recommendations in this vein are appreciated. full versions on youtube a huge plus.

Interesting thing about "Porky's," irc - and not that it is a tonally weird hunk of strange garbage - is that the naked girls in it are really (and I think by design) sort of plain looking, as opposed to some naked supermodel ringer or something.

Didn't realize until the doc that "Last American Virgin" was part of the Canon films, er, Canon, and in fact was more or less a shot for shot remake of that guy's Israeli film.

as opposed to some naked supermodel ringer or something.

are you calling Kim Catrall "plain looking"

Honestly, I don't remember her naked in it! I'm thinking more of the shower scene.

she's the only one that actually has sex w one of the guys iirc

which I may not I haven't seen it in awhile and I find the film generally joyless and offputting. It's definitely a milestone in the genre just in terms of its popularity and impact but it lacks jokes and appealing characters.

"tonally weird hunk of strange garbage"

yeah this. i didn't see Porky's until i was in my 20s and was really surprised that it had been (or had seemed to me when i was a little kid) such a massive cultural touchstone. it's just sort of weird and dumb, especially when compared to say Animal House, which i believe holds up really well.

yup. it feels genuinely mean and ugly. Animal House is a masterpiece by comparison.

Porky's: Animal House :: American Pie: Superbad

(even if SB came like 10 years later or whatever)

Just looked it up on The Internet, and nope, you see her butt for a second, but Kim essentially keeps her clothes on!

Bleh, Porky's. I interviewed Bob Clark once, and he said Porky's was basically the same kids in A Christmas Story, but grown up.

Kim essentially keeps her clothes on!

and gets a sock stuffed in her mouth, apparently? this fuckin movie.

(not so much that American Pie is as much of a bummer as Porky's, rather that i just do not understand why it's so popular)

Didn't realize until the doc that "Last American Virgin" was part of the Canon films, er, Canon, and in fact was more or less a shot for shot remake of that guy's Israeli film.

Ah yes, Lemon Popsicle. It used to be up on Netflix Instant, and it's about 90% the same film as TLAV. They substitute a couple major set pieces, and the original is set in the 50s (with a corresponding soundtrack of Oldies).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwsy2VRXsmk

Ebert on Porky's: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/porkys-1981

In “Porky’s”, the male characters are neurotic about the usual three subjects: the size, experience, and health of their reproductive organs. The female characters, on the other hand, are seen almost entirely as an undiscovered species from a lost continent. They're whispered about, speculated about, spied upon, victimized, and, in general, feared. And it's not only Ms. Balbricker, the juggernaut gym coach, who's a heavy. All of the women in this movie are weird. One howls like a dog during sexual intercourse. Others lure unsuspecting horny teenage boys into rooms with trapdoors, and dump them into alligator-infested waters.

In fact, the strangest thing about “Porky’s” is how much it hates women. The only close friendships in the movie are between men. The movie even takes certain scenes that are usually cliches for female characters and assigns them to men. For example, you can hardly make a movie like this without a scene in which someone's caught nude in public. Remember "Hot Lips" in “MASH”? In “Porky’s,” it's a kid named Pee Wee. He's caught with his pants down, chased into the woods, picked up by the cops, and deposited at the local drive-in hamburger stand, where he poses like September Morn.

and it's about 90% the same film as TLAV

wow this is nuts! they even got similar looking actors in the lead. how weird. 80s new wave sdtk is a vast improvement though

Ebert v otm there

xp

haha wow. some big names on this soundtrack. and 'TV's Johnny Fever'!

Private Lessons

and the follow up...

Private School

looks like the full versions are on the 'tube

I won't pretend that Porky's isn't bad and hated but as teens my friends and I watched it every time it was on HBO. (Like probably most teens of my era.) Even then, though, it was laughable how obviously all these "high schoolers" were in their 30s.

The oldies s/t in Lemon Popsicle is problematic--the Billy Haley stuff are those 60s re-records that pop up on sketchy budget comps, and iirc some of other stuff has a similar heritage.

lol I totally remember Private Lessons

saw Private School awhile ago on cable and was surprised I hadn't heard of it before given the cast. Enjoyably stupid.

Where the Boys Are '84

is that worth watching? I never saw it.

It will certainly test your tolerance for the genre, that's for sure. My threshold must be pretty high, because when I caught it on Comedy Gold (cable channel here in Canada that may or may not still exist) a few years back, I sat through the whole thing (with commercials) even though there was never a moment where I thought it was anything but terrible.

sounds right up my alley

ha i've actually seen very few of these, certainly none of the more obscure ones. nice to know so many are on youtube in their entirety though. next time i'm stuck with a "hurry-up-and-wait" project at the office i'll have a nice time-killer.

that trailer suggests some sex-posi feminism, 80s teen sex comedy style.

i think the original "Where the Boys Are" have a rape scene? never saw it either. i worked temporarily in an office in Ft Lauderdale that had about 10 awesome framed still shots from the set of the 60s version.

xpost

*has

Private School has some sex-posi feminism in it too, which was kinda refreshing. Or, at least, the female characters are treated with about the same level of depth and attention as the male characters, with agency/desires/schemes of their own - which is a bit of a departure from the usual "teenage male is confused and enchanted by unearthly mythical creature known as the human female, who exists solely to tease and frustrate and occasionally satisfy them" scenario.

I can never keep the Privates straight. All I know is that one had Johnny Depp and another had Matthew Modine (and Phoebe Cates?).

Private School is the Modine/Cates one - where they spend most of the movie figuring out the most romantic way to lose their virginity to one another

Private Resort was the Depp one apparently? I haven't seen it. So many of these I haven't seen! It's insane how many there were.

Right, and right.

Private School ends, iirc, with a slo-mo lovemaking montage (on a beach?) that, as I recall, is actually quite legit sexy.

If you told someone to watch this game play and then say what the movie is about they'd have no idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiI2yrT5I-o

Btw, there's this recent blu release:

http://images2.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/146278_large.jpg

As I (very distantly) recall, Spring Break is one of the more entertaining entries in the genre, while Hardbodies deals with a bunch of middle age dudes trying to score with young women, and is just as scuzzy as it sounds. Perfect is the Travolta/Curtis flick that includes a scene of Jann Wenner mugging for the camera while working out, and has nothing at all to do with this genre other than being from the mid-80s.

well I guess there's a lot of sweat in "Perfect"

technically speaking

I quite like Porky's, or at least parts of it. I thought the scene in the principles office about identifying the penis was hysterical first time I saw it. The films are a bit grotty and unpleasant at times. I recall some stuff about anti-semitism in the first then there's a lot more in the second about native americans getting revenge on white supremacists.
My sister liked the films because she thought the girls were fun (moreso the second film) and contrasted with the dull girls in modern teen films.

I suspect we'd both like them less if we saw them again. It's been years.

I found Animal House a bit annoying with the constant "we just wanna have fun, you killjoy adults"

Animal House is rapey and overrated.

many many xposts, but the dark, lyrical quality of RISKY BUSINESS is exactly what makes it so memorable and so different than almost any other teen-sex comedy (or comedy, period) of its era. (FERRIS BUELLER bites the plot of R.B. hard but doesn't attempt to go for the satirical, plangent tone.)

and tom cruise is incredible in it. a perfect match of star and role. and he wasn't trying too hard yet... that would come a few years later.

Yeah it has a disorienting dream/nightmare vibe, especially in its second half. Rebecca De Mornay is extraordinary in it also. Cruise really looks like a high school guy too (and ate a high-carb diet before shooting to add some baby fat)

worst film genre

"genre"

Boobs film genre

"Risky Business" is perfect and transcends its slotting on this thread. Said it before, it's like a Michael Mann sex comedy, light on the comedy and dark on the sex.

Ooh that is a good comparison

this might be the only movie poll I ever vote in, if you run it; certainly the only one where I've seen enough films to have an opinion.

I remember one from probably the end of the 80s, with two male characters, Adam and Hadam, and the expected shenanigans. Any idea of what this was?

wow i had no idea RB was so highly regarded, i must see it.

It's a moody masterpiece.

How can anything that sounds like this be anything less?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ2OE_Vodgw

don't like Tangerine Dream

When I was in 6th grade, my Unitarian Sunday school class got to vote on what movie we should go to as a year-end treat. There were nine votes for "Risky Business" and one vote for "Terms of Endearment."

Like "Fast Times" it does have some dramatic elements; it's not as lightweight or as manically comedic, start-to-finish, as "Porky's," "Animal House," "Private School," or "Revenge of the Nerds."

I have soft spots in my memory for "The Sure Thing" and "Gotcha."

I love TD's '90s scores. Thief, Sorcerer (late '70s, I guess), Risky Business, Near Dark are all really memorable. Huh, they did Vision Quest, too? On the Madonna front, I always thought Patrick Leonard's riffs on "Live to Tell" for the "At Close Range" soundtrack were very influenced by Tangerine Dream scores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyf2pyGXjwo

Shoot, I meant '80s scores.

The key Tangerine Dream song from Risky Business was used well in TV's Mr. Robot.

Knowing Risky Business only by the iconic underwear dance scene, I was really surprised at how dark, dreamy, and yeah, ~moody~ it was when I finally saw it a few years ago. Very pleasant surprise. I barely even associate it with the "teen sex comedy" genre.

xposts to Josh in Chicago:

Ha. "Michael Mann makes a teen film" was exactly how I described it my friend.

This thread reminded me of this great, decade-old article on the title genre:

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200605/?read=article_selsberg

Wow yeah that is excellent

This theoretical poll will finally give me a reason to crack this thing open. Containing a good number of movies mentioned itt.

And the second I pop Pom Pom Girls I realize I should have said "a good number of incredibly shitty prints of the movies mentioned itt".

Hunk is dreadful even by the genre's standards.

Old Lunch: I, uh...well...I have that.

The Italian woman in The Party Animal, while under the spell of a fart potion, crosses herself and says “Mamma mia” repeatedly as she passes gas.

This theoretical poll will finally give me a reason to crack this thing open. Containing a good number of movies mentioned itt.

That's the bulk of Crown International Pictures' output in the genre. Missing Van Nuys Blvd. though, which I saw recently on amazon streaming and, unbelievably, was edited for content.

One more thing to say about Risky Business, it's very odd that that was the director's first feature and he only made one subsequent feature, 1990's Men Don't Leave, starring Jessica Lange.

Caught Private Schoolon the Retroplex channel last night. The script is lobotomy level dumb, though the film does kinda deliver in terms of showing lots of young skin. Could sort of see the "sex-posi feminism" aspect mentioned upthread, but not sure if that justifies the rest.

When Sylvia Kristel shows up as the sex ed teacher I was pleading that they let her class the movie up a bit, but as it turns out they mainly use her to get pushed in the pool as an excuse to receive mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from a horny guy. She's so skinny in this - must have been her cocaine period. Also enjoyed Martin Mull's cameo as the condom-selling pharmacist.

On the downside this movie made me feel super old, because I remember my high school peers looking much like the kids here and that whole world seems as remote as another planet.

If that is the one I think it is, it ends with a sex-on-the-beach scene that is actually quite erotic in its acting and presentation, rather than leering and creepy like most in the genre.

That's correct. Matthew Modine and Phoebe Cates. They go from the water to the shoreline (a la Lancaster/Kerr) and then finish on the dune.

Probably the worst film i've ever seen

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517IRmKkvIL._SY445_.jpg

Get thee to post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s!

Wierd Science, for also being a teen house party movie too. did people like that ever really exist?
― Ed, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00

No. Nobody ever really had a Memotexh MTX512.

That post is older now than Weird Science was to that poster

A couple weeks ago SNL had a spot-on Revenge of the Nerds parody w Jason Momoa ("Day of the Dorks").

the ass-car is an all-time illustration

The local Alamo Drafthouse has started promoting an August screening of a 4K resto of Hot Dog: The Movie.

idk if this is a movie genre that really calls for "restoration"

maybe if it's being restored to shitty degraded VHS

4T&A, amirite?

That restoration just premiered at Cinepocalypse last month. It got a brief mention on The AV Club's roundup:

Truly, my favorite moments of Cinepocalypse are the ones that serve as crystallizations of what make it special. Cinepocalypse isn’t a horror festival, but a genre festival—one that, to me, feels like a celebration of the kinds of movies you’d have never have wanted your parents to catch you watching as a kid. Tammy And The T-Rex’s gore cut is one of those, as is Hot Dog...The Movie, the naughty 1984 cult classic that was here given a 4K producer’s cut restoration for its 35th anniversary. Whether or not it’s a good idea to revisit such a horny, uber-male film in our current era is up to you, but it was a joy to boo the scenes that didn’t age well with an audience that can still appreciate the raunchy spirit so many of us worshipped as kids.

I don't know if "worshipped" accurately captures the reality of "I was a teen, it was on cable, so I ended up watching Hot Dog/Ski Patrol/Ski School/Better Off Dead many times and such aimless time-killing is now a fond memory"

Don't throw Better Off Dead on with those others!

I blame this thread for the fact that three days ago I dreamed about a teen sex comedy set in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution.

I only saw Hot Dog once and I remember it as particularly unseemly. The Always Sunny parody was hilarious, though.

at the time we didn't differentiate, now I appreciate what Savage Steve Holland brought to the table

HD:TM is pedestrian and unmemorable even by the genre’s standards. I suspect the only reason anyone has any reverence for it is because of the title (in which case there’s also Hamburger: The Motion Picture.

now that is a dire film, the worst one I've ever seen more than five times probably

dunno if they're 4TnA restos, but this has got to be an essential purchase for any crown pictures international fan.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTc1MjA5Njg1OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDEzODgyMw@@._V1_.jpg

and based on the plot description, i'm thinkin cavegirl may be a real doozy.

"On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous Eba. While teaching her English and doing some pseudo-research on her fellows, his main goal is to get her sleeping with him. However the curiosity of the clan chief disturbs his attempts."

the stone ages? more like BONE ages

"My Tutor" was on Cinemax like four times a day.

it's pronounced skinemax

I've seen Cavegirl. It's terrible. And as Eliza notes, My Tutor as well, for the same reason... these movies were shown incessantly on Cinemax when I was a kid. We favored them, as terrible as they were, over the totally blank softcore pornography that was the alternative. At least Cavegirl had time travel.

Also the kid on the far left in that Coach poster is, I think, Michael Biehn, AKA Reese from the Terminator.

saw one recently that's from a dimension very near to our own, with many recognizable parts but just slightly...off? it's also a canadian production, which may have something to do with it.

state park aka heavy metal summer
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTFhYTQ5NWMtMGZjNi00MTQyLTlmMTEtZGM5NWFhN2E1MmVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjAxMjEzNzU@._V1_.jpg

saw one recently that's from a dimension very near to our own, with many recognizable parts but just slightly...off?

to be fair, that's all of these itt

heavy metal summer

tbf this is one of the best titles for anything ever

you only get one real heavy metal summer

I miss the innocence I've known
Watching Crown features, beautiful and boned

Recently saw Secret Admirer for the 1st time. I'd never even heard of it. It's actually p watchable, I was surprised!

I agree that it's watchable (though not much better than that). As a critic friend pointed once pointed out, it also contains one of the lovelier musical scores of the decade.

Jan Hammer!
but yeah if you're not an 80s kid or into cheesy 80s teen movies I wouldn't recommend.

Private School was on one of the movie channels here the other day; I'd seen it before (its wretched) but I paused on it long enough to hear this generic but catchy new wave-y pop/rock thing on the soundtrack which turns out to have been performed by Phoebe Cates herself. IMDb tells me that she performed a couple of songs on the soundtrack. I had no idea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2lOyuB67AM

Recently watched Private Lessons almost back-to-back with the conceptually similar My Tutor. I prefer Private Lessons bc it stars Sylvia Kristel and bc the schoolkid in it looks and acts like a real teen. My Tutor doesn't ring as true bc it revolves around Matt Lattanzi, a pretty boy who projects no teenage insecurity (and who married Olivia Newton-John shortly after the film came out).

Also sat through the excruciatingly bad Up the Creek featuring an unwatchably smarmy Tim Matheson somehow playing a college student at age 35 (six years after he was in college in Animal House).

to be fair, Matheson's character has been in college for 12 years

Just the kind of guy you'd want piloting your raft

(Stephen Furst is better in Midnight Madness)

My favorite thing related to Up The Creek...(from Rick Nielsen's interview w/the AV Club)

O: What about "Up The Creek"?

RN: Now that was a bad song! I co-wrote that… No, wait, let's see… I can't remember. Maybe I actually wrote that whole thing. Man! I must've been high. That was one of the worst songs—put it this way, it was one of the worst movies that's ever been out. Song-wise, it fit right in with the movie. Our video was the worst video we've ever done. We've done some bad, bad ones, but that took the cake. The worst… [Background talking, laughter.] Hey, my wife, who wasn't even listening, heard me say "worst" and said, "Up The Creek"? and started laughing. Hey, at least we weren't standing there looking at each other trying to fake some ballad. And… [Addresses wife.] What? I just gave you money yesterday.

The video is pretty dopey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jh_155r8f0

Haha that's an amazing quote. And I still remember hearing the chorus of the song being sung in the ads for the damn film.

I have fond, blurry memories of Real Genius so I torrented it and... man it has not aged well. The sexism is just bananas. And there are a LOT of boring parts. Imagining Eddie Murphy in it instead - it would still be pretty bad but at least watchable.

nah Real Genius is still classic