Best lines in Chevy Chase films...

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My fave is in "Fletch Lives" when Chevy wakes up next to the dead girl ("I knew I was good... but not that good") and then has to go and be questioned by police. The cop, getting increasingly frustrated by Chevy's lack of co-operation, asks him, "well do you care to make a statemnet". Chase pauses to think for a brief second and then shrugs and says, "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do you for country"...

Que, Chase being arrested and thrown into a prison cell with a male rapist ("Ben Dover? Please to meet you, Irwin R Fletcher"). One of the most consistently funny five minutes of cinema ever. Chase is a genius.

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"THE END"

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

he was in-context good in Norm Macdonald's Dirty Work.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. we should have a breakdown of Mr Chase's flicks, like we did for Arnold.

I'll start--

Best:

Fletch
National Lampoon's Vacation
Caddyshack
Oh Heavenly Dog
Three Amigos

Good:

Fletch Lives
Christmas Vacation
Spies Like Us
Dirty Work
Deal of the Century
Groove Tube
Foul Play

Enh:

Memiors of an Invisible Man
European Vacation
Funny Farm
Modern Problems

Fuck these:

Caddyshack 2
Cops & Robbersons
Anything after Invisble Man, really.

FUn fact: Chevy was in Last Action Hero with Arnold. Also, how many degrees is Chevy from Kevin Bacon? 2? 3?

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot stand the Groove Tube. Sorry.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Chevy Chase was on SNL, Kevin Bacon was on SNL

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

in the same ep?

oh, and as for a line, the entire crack-up scene in the first Vacation flick does it for me.

"Dad, are you okay?"

"...DON'T TOUCH!"

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt it, but uh, howaboutthis: they're both famous men in movies!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If Chevy Chase was in Ghosbusters, the best line from a Chevy Chase film would be "If someone asks you if you are god, Ray, you say YES." But he wasn't so I'm kind of at a loss here.

― Allyzay, Friday, 19 December 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother and I can spend HOURS quoting "Fletch" and laughing our asses off. "It's me, Mr. Rosenrosen."

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Clark: "It's only the biggest goddamn whole in the world!"

Edna: "Clark, watch your language!"

Clark: "Make that the second biggest."

― rainman (rainman), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Chevy Chase was in The Three Amigos and Spies Like Us directed by John Landis...

Who directed Kevin Bacon in Animal House.

Easy!

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"I was born to love you, but you were born to lick me first..."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The MrRosenRosen one is great.

How about, from Vacation:

"Russ, take the dog for a walk"

"But dad it bites"

(Nonchalently) "Well, bite it back"

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"You're going to have so much Goddamn fun you'll be whistling Zip-a-dee-doo-da out of your assholes"

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

what kind of a name is Poon? Comanche Indian

― ron (ron), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The rant against his boss he makes at the end of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
Especially how he sounds like he's about to blow a gasket while yelling "...dog kissing, snake-licking..."

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite Chase roll was his nervous not-funny yammering on his ill-fated talk show... how long did that show last, about four days? He was so jumpy and pale, Dennis Hopper leaned over, gently touched Chevy's hand and said quietly, "Cool down, man."

― andy, Friday, 19 December 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i could go on forever with classic chevyisms.

"reaaaaal tomato ketchup Eddie?"

"ever swim naked with girls russ"

― Chris 'Knuckle Deep' V. (Chris V), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

RUSSIAN INTERROGATOR: Every minute you don't tell us why you are here, I cut off a finger.

EMMETT: Mine or yours?

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And from Fletch (while being interrogated):

"I like men. I like being manhandled. I like you."

And the whole "charge it to the Underhills" scene. Just brilliant.

When they go looking for a tent to camp in during "Vacation"

Clark: "Uh, this tent smells like pee - (shouts) Edna - this one is yours".

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

how can anyone hate on caddyshack 2?

thats chevy chase's best performance -- pure "character"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

also chevy would have been better than alan alda in every movie alda did since 1984

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Stewardess: Can I get you anything to drink?
Griswold: Honey? I guess I'll have a Coke.
Stewardess: Do you want that in the can?
Griswold: No, I'll have it right here.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Knight: Well, I'm no slouch myself.
Chevy Chase: (soothingly) C'mon now judge ... you're a tremendous slouch.

― ermes marana, Friday, 19 December 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(paraphrased; it's been a looong time)

― ermes marana, Friday, 19 December 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Who are you?"

Fletch: "Tom Post-toast-en-noy..."

we held a 24-hour film festival/marathon in Chevy's honor when I was in college (his alma mater).

― hstencil, Friday, 19 December 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

True story:

Chevy's sister is a serious lit crit academic (a hardcore DeManian specializing in English Romantic poetry, to be exact). A friend house-sat for her and her husband (another bigshot theory guy) one holiday while they were out of town. On a shelf below their TV was a row of every single one of Chevy's movies.

The cellophane wrappers on all of them were unbroken.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

great story!

Did anyone see the Friar's Roast for Chevy? Paul Schaeffer MC'd and it was fucking vicious! He's not known for taking a joke well, either.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Modern Problems is seriously underrated and I think there was
a classic zinger at the end, can anyone remember it?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't that SNL book "Live From New York" rip Chevy a new one? Seems like no one had a good thing to say about him. (What kind of name is "Chevy" anyhoo?)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of name is "Chevy" anyhoo?

a fake one. His real name is Ronald.

― hstencil, Friday, 19 December 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was Cornelius Crane Chase.

― rainman (rainman), Saturday, 20 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you do drugs, Danny?

Every day!

Good. What's the problem?

I dunno?

― ModJ (ModJ), Saturday, 20 December 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I was given a t-shirt saying 'I'M TALKING ABOUT CHEVY CHASE' by a Dandy Santa in a club last night.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Saturday, 20 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Modern Problems is awesome. (Forgot the zinger too)

― ermes marana, Saturday, 20 December 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

European Vacation:

In the car, the Griswald family is driving through Germany looking for long lost relatives.

Chase: Russ, what are we looking for?

Russ: Sex, dad.

(Chase tells his son to watch his mouth, Audrey - his younger teenage daughter explains that "sex" is "six" in Germany, phonetically).

Cut to:

Chase and family looking for help to find the right address. The knock on someone's door.

A kindly German man answers.

Chase: Hello, my family and I are looking for sex.

The German man is horrified and slams the door close.

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 20 December 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

More Vacation classics:

"Honey, can I soap your back?"

"No"

"Well what about your front?"

And another fave (talking to his wife about the round State trip to Wally World):

"Nothing worthwhile is easy Ellen, you should know that"

And "be the ball" from Caddyshack (not one of my favourite Chase movies, too slow in the second half).

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 20 December 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Wanna goto IN-n-OUT Burger?"

No.

"How about just the IN-n-OUT?"

No.

"How about just the IN?"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 December 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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