That scene in Real Genius where the studying kid runs out of the room screaming

Real geniuses look like this:
http://www.planetkilmer.com/valbum/rg_album/rg-10.jpg

http://www.planetkilmer.com/valbum/rg_album/rg-09.jpg

Ned, we must have an LA FAP as soon as possible.

also the best line: "he's just a little horse"

(actually that is the best zinger in the history of the world)

So it goes from God, to Jerry, to Kent, to the cleaners...

isn't that the way Walter Cronkite used to end his newscasts?

on phone: "Let me know if there's any change in his condition"

then to the room: "He's Dead"

Jordan: "I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roomate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?"

Kathryn Bigelow directed this, didn't she? Then she directed Near Dark, how cool. Sadly, she then directed Point Break and gave Keanu Reeves an action movie career. ARGH.

""Would you classify that as a launch problem or a design problem?"

This is my favorite part that totally gets me every time.

Mitch Taylor:Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
Chris Knight:You've seen him, too?
Mitch Taylor:Who is he?
Chris Knight:Hollyfeld.
Mitch Taylor:Why does he keep going into our closet?
Chris Knight:Why do you keep going into our closet?
Mitch Taylor:To get my clothes, but that's not why he goes in there.
Chris Knight:Of course not, he's twice your size. Your clothes would never fit him.
Mitch Taylor:Yeah?
Chris Knight:Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me, thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?

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[Looking at Dr. Meredith's bunny slippers, then his own.]
Chris Knight: May I say, sir, I admire your taste in footwear.

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Chris Knight: Do you mind if I name my first child after you? "Dipshit Knight" has a nice ring to it.

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Chris Knight: Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me, I'm depressed. There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races and we had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?

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Professor Hathaway: When you first started at Pacific Tech you were well on your way to becoming another Einstein and then you know what happened?
Chris Knight: I got a haircut?

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[To a girl at a party.]
Chris Knight: Don't eat that. Eating that can cause very large breasts. Oh my God, I'm too late!

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Jordan: I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roomate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?

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Chris Knight: Gee, Kent, and we were going to make you King of the Winter Carnival!
Kent: Really?

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Professor Hathaway: Mitch, there's something you need to know. Compared to you, most people have the IQ of a carrot.

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Chris Knight: Look at it this way. Considering the type of people you are and the environment you're in, this may be the only chance you ever have in your entire lives to have sex!

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Professor Hathaway: Bodie, I noticed you stopped stuttering.
Bodie: I've been giving myself shock treatments.
Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.

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Chris Knight: First, you have to get back at Kent, it's a moral imperative.

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Chris Knight: You didn't touch anything, did you?
Mitch: No.
Chris Knight: Good. Because all of my filth is arranged in alphabetical order. This, for instance, is under 'H' for "toy.
Mitch: What is it?
Chris Knight: It's a penis stretcher. Do you want to try it?
Mitch: No.
Chris Knight: I'm just kidding. It's yet another in a long series of attempts to avoid responsibility.

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Professor Hathaway: I want to see more of you around the lab.
Chris Knight: Fine. I'll gain weight.

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Chris Knight: It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.

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Chris Knight: Would you prepared if gravity reversed itself? The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets. I've got it! Nudity!

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Dr. Dodd: Why is that toy on your head?
Chris Knight: Because if I wear it any place else, it chafes.

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Chris Knight: Kent put his name on his license plate.
Mitch Taylor: My mother does that to my underwear.
Chris Knight: Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?

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[In the men's room.]
Jordan: Are you peeing?
Mitch: Uh, I can't start.
Jordan: Because I'm here?
Mitch: I think so.
Jordan: Weird. Well I have to go.
Mitch: Me too.

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Dr. Meredith: A bit of advice...
Mitch: Oh, uh, thank you...
Dr. Meredith: Always...no, no...never...forget to check your references.
Mitch: Uh...ok...thank you. I'd better be going.
[leaves]
Dr. Meredith: [to his wife] I think the young people enjoy it when I "get down" verbally, don't you?

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Old Lady: Tell me, what's Einstein really like?
Professor Hathaway: Dead.

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Professor Hathaway: You still run?
Chris Knight: Only when chased.

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Chris Knight: This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated.

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[Mitch Taylor speaking through the microphone so that Kent hears voices in his head]
Mitch Taylor: And from now on, stop playing with yourself!
Kent: It is God!

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Mitch Taylor: The weirdest thing just happened to me.
Chris Knight: Was it a dream where you were where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Mitch Taylor: No...
Chris Knight: Why, am I the only one who has that dream?

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Chris Knight: If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... Well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

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Professor Hathaway: What are you looking at? You're laborers; you should be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education.

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Professor Hathaway: Mitch, will you miss your friends?
Mitch Taylor: Uh, no sir, I think I intimidated most of them.

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[Chris Knight is trying to hit on Susan, a beautiful woman he finds in Professor Hathaway's house]
Chris Knight: So, if there's anything I can do for you, or, more to the point, to you, you just let me know.
Susan: Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?
Chris Knight: Not right now.
Susan: A girl's gotta have her standards.
[She walks out]

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Kent Torokvei: You're all a bunch of degenerates!
Chris Knight: Oh, really? Well, what about that time I found you naked with that bowl of Jell-O?
Kent Torokvei: You did not!
Chris Knight: This is true.
Kent Torokvei: Yeah, well it was hot and I was hungry!

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Mitch Taylor: Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
Chris Knight: You've seen him too?
Mitch Taylor: Who is he?
Chris Knight: Hollyfeld.
Mitch Taylor: Why does he keep going into our closet?
Chris Knight: Why do you keep going into our closet?
Mitch Taylor: To get my clothes - but that's not why he goes in there!
Chris Knight: Of course not, he's twice your size - your clothes would never fit him!
Mitch Taylor: Yeah...
Chris Knight: Think before you ask these questions, Mitch! Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?

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Chris Knight: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, "I drank what?"

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Chris Knight: Welcome to Pacific Tech's "Smart People on Ice"!

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Professor Hathaway: So tell me, Mitch, are you gonna miss your friends?
Mitch Taylor: Well no I think I intimidate other kids.
Professor Hathaway: Good boy

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Bodie: Well, I guess it goes from God, to Jerry to you to the cleaners. Right, Kent?

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Chris Knight: You unbelievable bastard.
Professor Hathaway: Count on it.

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Mitch: This is coherent light.
Mitch's dad: Oh, so it talks.

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Jerry Hathaway: [reading his TV script] Your colon: what does it look like?

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[Chris is holding a lab beaker with pink liquid in it.]
Chris Knight: Here Mitch taste this. Too sweet?
Mitch: No...what is it?
Chris Knight: I don't know, I found it in one of the labs.
[Mitch starts to wipe out his mouth.]
Chris Knight: I'm just kidding. It's yogurt.

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[Kent opens his dorm room door to find his car inside.]
Chris Knight: Kent isn't that your car?
Mitch: Kent, you know you're not supposed to park that on campus.
Kent: You did this, Knight!
Chris Knight: I had help.
[Points to Mitch]
Kent: You won't get away with this. You'll rue the day!
Chris Knight: Rue the day? Who talks like that?

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Chris Knight: You see Mitch, I used to be you. Lately I've been missing me so I asked Dr. Hathaway if I could room with me again and he said sure.

*grousegripe* Clearly my brain was on lockdown that day.

Ok, thread on.

(whoops - this is supposed to be about studying?? But I don't go to school any more. Oh, well. I might be taking a class this summer though in interior decorating. Yay!)

"Welcome to SMART PEOPLE ON ICE!"

http://www.bobmerritt.com/geek/mm/Meyrink024_sm.jpg

"Listen, if you make that call it's our job: we're four hours late. Give us a break, will ya' buddy? Someday you might be in the private sector too, right?"

<3 this movie

Don't eat that. Eating that can cause very large breasts. Oh my God, I'm too late!

i have seen this way too many times

Isn't the screaming kid played by Dean Devlin, later of 'ID4' and 'Godzilla' fame?

This movie ruled, and was one of my faves even as an engineering undergrad.

best 80s movie, val kilmer's best moment

so many amazing quotes, what a screenplay

comsat fucking angels on the soundtrack!

<3 this movie

― metametadata (n/a), Monday, November 3, 2008 6:00 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we finally agree on something!

moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work

Here is where I post Jordan again...

http://www.bobmerritt.com/geek/mm/Meyrink024_sm.jpg

― bnw (bnw), Monday, January 19, 2004 12:29 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

black bob o.g. right thar^

I saw lazlo on 'criminal minds' or something and he was a rapist!

he is uncle rico from nap dynamite

also funny thing about michelle meyrink is she is the nerd love interest in revenge of the nerds. BUT SHE PLAYS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT NERD!

Saw this randomly on TV at home last week, such a joy to see again. Had completely forgotten about the footwear line for some reason.

Actually, weird, I never told this story on this thread, so:

I was in eleventh grade in 1986-87 and my AP Physics teacher was a fellow named Tim Kennedy (I think it was Tim, definitely Kennedy) -- he actually wasn't all that much older than us, as he'd just recently graduated from Caltech. It made the classes seem more like random study sessions but we all got through it (though I sucked at physics anyway -- still surprised I was actually in the class).

Anyway, inevitably Real Genius came up -- unsurprisingly we'd all seen the film plenty of times by then -- and Mr. Kennedy was a font of information regarding all the endless and specific Caltech references throughout the film. Another almunus has a pretty detailed list here. Besides confirming things like the car-in-dorm-room story and all, he also mentioned that Professor Hathaway was pretty much based on a specific instructor's high-handed way of going about the academic life, to the point where while he didn't have a show called Everything he was not shy about marketing his lectures as instructional aids (I should say this was NOT Feynman, I forget who it was exactly). We ended up seeing a few of the tapes in class -- amusing stuff given the backstory but William Atherton was far more photogenic in comparison, as might be guessed.

wtf: http://www.filmfodder.com/scifi/archives/2007/01/real_genius.shtml

And it's been three years now = vaporware.

that references list is great ned, thanks

Great link Ned, thanks. I like the also linked explanation of "DEI".

Yer welcome. I do like this detail:

Caltech students could easily purchase liquid nitrogen from the Institute's stocks for whatever personal purpose they may have had (and charge the cost to their student accounts, where it would often be paid for by their unwitting parents).

that link should be on wikipedia

Edit it in!

For larger Caltech context, don't ignore this Student Houses page either, including this detail:

The seven Houses are divided into two complexes. Blacker, Dabney, Fleming, and Ricketts are the "South Houses", and were built in the 1920's in a Spanish style. Lloyd, Page, and Ruddock are the "North Houses", built in the '50s in a modern "institutional" style. Inhabitants of the Houses are known, in order, as Moles, Darbs, Flems, Scurves, Lloydies, Pageboys, and Rudds.

My favorite has to be Scurves.

Love this film, from when I first saw it as an engineering student onward. One of my fave bits is the popcorn scene on the front porch.

Things you do find out on Wikipedia:

Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's ominous Ride of the Valkyries at 7:00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available. The playing of that piece is not allowed at any other time (except if one happens to be listening to the entire fifteen hours of The Ring Cycle), and any offender is dragged into the showers to be drenched in cold water fully dressed. The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus. (Unfortunately, the tradition arose at different times in different Houses, so Schmitt did not react as expected. Instead, he just became confused.)

Also, while I had heard a bit about this before, I appreciate the full details here.

As the marking progressed and the hour grew later, there was some fear of not completing and returning the cards by the time the cheerleaders returned to their rooms. Thus every warm body was asked to help grab a stamp, find an empty spot, and plug in a color, toward the end of the project. For this reason (and most likely the state of sobriety of the participants as well), some of the stunts came out rather motley, through no fault of the original card stunt committee.

Lasers lead the way to the party!

many exterior and interior scenes were filmed at Occidental College hhmmm...who do we know that went there?

pretty sure that he went to oxnard college

who, louis?

oh yeah sometimes i get you two mixed up

Isn't the screaming kid played by Dean Devlin, later of 'ID4' and 'Godzilla' fame?

I was posting clips from the movie just now, and yup - it's him.

Love this movie. Love Val. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6yqG_5lgTw

we just rewatched it last night - still great.

As Socrates once said, “I drank what?!”

Though the Patti D’Arbanville stuff is really weird. Like when she hits on the kid? Why is she there? Who is she exactly? WHAT THE HELL, LADY
I thought so at the time & haven’t changed my mind.

Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's ominous Ride of the Valkyries at 7:00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available. The playing of that piece is not allowed at any other time (except if one happens to be listening to the entire fifteen hours of The Ring Cycle), and any offender is dragged into the showers to be drenched in cold water fully dressed. The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus. (Unfortunately, the tradition arose at different times in different Houses, so Schmitt did not react as expected. Instead, he just became confused.)

amazing

lol that is great