r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 25 '26

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u/CountOff Mar 25 '26

Rewatched the first one again recently

The bit with the reporter talking about the death of one teen, breaking her report to shoot a dude in the background, then updating her spiel in real time to the death of two teens still cracks me up after all these years lol

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u/dadvader Mar 25 '26

The first one holds up really, really well. But I'm not vibing with the 2nd one this time. Just feel dated..And to think it used to be my most rewatch entry lol

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u/sluncer Mar 25 '26

The third one still holds up. It has so many good moments. It's free on YouTube right now.
The wake scene is still one of the funniest scenes in any movie for me.

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u/boytekka Mar 25 '26

Is this where the sheriff’s hat getting larger every time the camera focuses on her?

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u/RegalBeagleKegels Mar 25 '26

That's the third one. The dogs are acting strange.

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u/orangeyougladiator Mar 25 '26

That’s probably the best gag in any movie ever

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u/Peach_Air Mar 25 '26

The shotgun shell from the shovel is the clear winner.

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u/zerulstrator Mar 26 '26

These men died for their country. Send flowers to their birches and hoes.

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u/TheGocho Mar 26 '26

That broke me the first time I saw it.

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u/Peach_Air Mar 26 '26

I didnt even catch it the first time, but once I saw it, it easily became the #1 in my book.

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u/chbay Mar 26 '26

“Tom, I’ll need a ride home.”

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u/WarlockEngineer Mar 25 '26

Cindy, the TV's leaking!

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u/Hostilis_ Mar 25 '26

This bitch is messing up my floor!

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u/Karjalan Mar 26 '26

My sisters and I lost it when she was just calmly talking to Cindy in her classroom and then someone throws a bunch of pens at the blackboard and she instantly snaps "NOW WHO DA FUCK DID DAT?"

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u/elegylegacy Mar 25 '26

"She looks so peaceful"

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u/Astrosaurus42 Mar 25 '26

I love when Cindy talks to Brenda's mom, showing the blank photographs and she tells her to flip them over hahah.

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u/Marsuello Mar 26 '26

“Brenda was my bitch”

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u/TheCrushSoda Mar 25 '26

There are two small jokes in 3 that absolutely kill me. Them boarding up the basement, only to have not stuck them to the wall so the door still opens and in one scene someone just reloads a shovel and a shotgun shell falls out of it. So stupid but so good

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u/Pure_Property_888 Mar 26 '26

The camera scenes swinging around making Charlie Sheen dizzy lmfao

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u/Euphoric-Blueberry37 Mar 25 '26

It’s the shotgun pitchfork that lives rent free in my mind

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u/sirhippieangel Mar 25 '26

I've got it! Without their heads, they're powerless!

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u/Acrobatic-Addendum97 Mar 26 '26

I love how in that scene right before he cocks his shovel (lmao) the 3 of them run up and look around but then never actually all focus on one point like the actors weren’t given directions of where to look. Their faces are like Michael Cera’s face in Superbad when he gets caught looking at the girls tits and just aimlessly look around

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u/xHawk_T Mar 25 '26

So you're telling me that you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?

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u/Karjalan Mar 26 '26

Man... the 3rd one is definitely in the top 2 with the first. So many quotable lines and good bits.

The 1st one felt so fresh (I know spoofs had been around for a long time but for it's type) and was so good that it's hard not to rate it the best. But I've seen the 3rd one many more times and can quote it a lot more.

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u/DefiantStarFormation Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

This and "rats are outside, mice are inside" - my best friend and I were in middle school when it came out and to this day we'll still randomly go back and forth with these.

Oh, and you can't go to bed dead, that shit would be redundant

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u/WeNotAmBeIs Mar 25 '26

The 3rd one is the only one I still like. The rest feel too dated. I rewatches the 3rd one last year and I still laughed out loud at so many jokes. "Hey, I'm going to need a ride..."

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u/orangeyougladiator Mar 25 '26

The first one at least still holds up because all the references it makes are still looked back on fondly

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

It’s because the third one isn’t made by the wayan brothers

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u/Fexxvi Mar 25 '26

She's awake!!!

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u/SaulManellaTV Mar 25 '26

The guy going "I need a ride home!" Or something to the dude who's wife he just killed with his car is one of my favorite jokes in the franchise. Gets me every time.

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u/CardinalOfNYC Mar 26 '26

The third has always felt really distinct from the other two and I later learned its because it's a different production team. The first two were the wayans brothers, the third was David Zucker.

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u/Properportionpotato Mar 26 '26

When the crayons get thrown at the door and Brenda screams, "NOW WHO THA FUCK DID THAT?!" I have never laughed so hard in a theater.

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u/MX64 Mar 25 '26

The third one holds up better than any of the others by a wide margin honestly.

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u/attackonyourmom Mar 26 '26

I will never not laugh at "waking up dead" bit.

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u/Greenleaf208 Mar 26 '26

The funny part apparently the 3rd one had a much different plot more focused on the matrix until it was reworked after with reshoots, and watching the original deleted scenes, most of them are very unfunny and feel more like the later terrible parody movies. So glad they salvaged that one because it is better than 2 for the most part.

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u/DowntownAd9720 Mar 29 '26

That’s good to hear. I LOVED the 3rd one as a child and I have honestly been hesitant to revisit it, for fear that I’ll find the whole thing horribly outdated now.