Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 11 segments
We'd be great teachers...of what we have no idea. Two old guys go back to college to kick off a DuoVision mini-series with a couple of movies...about old guys going back to college. We paired the…
letter-1986 is Back to School, the first in our, I guess, string of college double features.
Is that, like yesterday I just like got 10 minutes into it and even though like I would argue the first 15 minutes of the movie are pretty good, like the setup's okay, it's not really until you get to college that the, the movie takes off.
But even in those first ki- kind of subpar, you know, 10, 15 minutes, I still sit there and I go, "God, I just love it." Mostly because, like, I just love Rodney Dangerfield.
Like, I think he's incredible and I think this is one of two movies where he's really allowed to do his thing, the other being Al Cervik in, in, uh, Caddyshack.
As much as I love the guy, I, I never thought that any other movie's fully figured out how to use him even as like star vehicles.
But then also like, I think it was during COVID, I just watched a lot of his old standup, like specifically-
when he would be on the Carson show or he'd just show up and like, his funniest stuff was like not even the standup, but more like sitting, you know, interview style with like Carson or Letterman, and he would just murder.
And it's funny too, is I remember watching an interview with, um, uh, Norm Macdonald and he had said, they're like, "Who's your idol?" He's like, "Rodney Dangerfield." Because it's that, it's that, um, machine-
He's like a real comedian's comedian, a, a guy who's like fast on his feet, the sharpest wit in the room.
letter-1986 is Back to School, the first in our, I guess, string of college double features.
Is that, like yesterday I just like got 10 minutes into it and even though like I would argue the first 15 minutes of the movie are pretty good, like the setup's okay, it's not really until you get to college that the, the movie takes off.
But even in those first ki- kind of subpar, you know, 10, 15 minutes, I still sit there and I go, "God, I just love it." Mostly because, like, I just love Rodney Dangerfield.
Like, I think he's incredible and I think this is one of two movies where he's really allowed to do his thing, the other being Al Cervik in, in, uh, Caddyshack.
As much as I love the guy, I, I never thought that any other movie's fully figured out how to use him even as like star vehicles.
But then also like, I think it was during COVID, I just watched a lot of his old standup, like specifically-
when he would be on the Carson show or he'd just show up and like, his funniest stuff was like not even the standup, but more like sitting, you know, interview style with like Carson or Letterman, and he would just murder.
And it's funny too, is I remember watching an interview with, um, uh, Norm Macdonald and he had said, they're like, "Who's your idol?" He's like, "Rodney Dangerfield." Because it's that, it's that, um, machine-
He's like a real comedian's comedian, a, a guy who's like fast on his feet, the sharpest wit in the room.
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