Comments on: Epic Win: John Candy

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:27:54 +0000

Great Outdoors: “Bear…big bear chase…big bear chase me!”
PT&A’s: “Oh he’s drunk! How would he know where we’re going?!”
Home Alone: “Apparently he was there all day alone with the corpse…”

That man is classic. Nothin but love for him.

By: Mystic

Mystic — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:58:45 +0000

One word, and one word always to describe my fave moment…
BARF!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:28:14 +0000

C’mon people! I can’t believe that NO ONE has mentioned Heavy Metal. His voice for the part of ‘Den’ in that flick was classic!
I always heard that he was the reason it took so long to get released because he was embarrassed by his performance in it.
Spaceballs is a real close second though. (I’m Barf! I’m a Mog. Half man half dog. I’m my own best friend!”

By: Ironkodiak

Ironkodiak — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:19:12 +0000

Volunteers (Tom Tuttle From Tacoma Washington…..)
Splash (The Swedish porn line)
Uncle Buck (peeing in the kiddy toilet get me every time)
Who’s Harry Crumb (FFFFFFT, all there, FFFFFFT, all there, FFFFFFT, one short.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (Those aren’t pillows!!!!)

My John Candy top 5 flicks.

By: S. Wagner

S. Wagner — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:25:15 +0000

Loved Uncle Buck, John Candy always reminded me of my brother. I loved the scene where Macauley Culkin was quizzing him at the breakfast table!

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:25:28 +0000

Great Outdoors is EPIC WIN! I still have a copy on VHS at my Lake Cabin up north!

By: Siava

Siava — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:49:04 +0000

Or the perverted brother in Splash that dropped coins on the ground in order to glimpse up women’s dresses.

By: j_beam

j_beam — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:24:45 +0000

Nobody is giving him props as the polka king in Home Alone??? Seriously???

By: Nightlyeclipse

Nightlyeclipse — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:26:51 +0000

We just watched Uncle Buck the other day. I love John Candy’s movies. I grew up watching all of them. He truly was a comic genius. So sad he’s gone.

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:42:59 +0000

John Candy – I love you.

He was also in Home Alone (the first one before they made eight million sequels). He took the mom home in the moving van full of polka players.

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:40:36 +0000

Spaceballs, Great Outdoors, PT&A – EPIC WINS.

By: pfft

pfft — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:39:04 +0000

“Jamaica, we have a bobsled team!” earwurmmmm

By: Hopeless Romance

Hopeless Romance — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:00:06 +0000

I didn’t know who he was until my friend made me watch Uncle Buck about 4 years ago. I loved it to peices and I really wished I owned the DVD of it. That and Spaceballs!

By: asjoma

asjoma — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:49:58 +0000

That was a really sweet movie! I loved it!

By: Lorra

Lorra — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:15:59 +0000

I was raised on SCTV so I wouldn’t know where to begin. Dr. Tongue, William B. Williams, Mayor Tommy Shanks, Johnny LaRue!

By: BRMBug

BRMBug — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:35:44 +0000

OMG, yeah!

By: BRMBug

BRMBug — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:35:20 +0000

I have loved Uncle Buck since it first came out. The scene with the principal is second only to the phone scene with Chanice.

By: Dawn Razor

Dawn Razor — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:31:51 +0000

Nobody mentioned ‘Delirious’ either. I LOVE that movie. *sigh*

By: CPTNHotSauce

CPTNHotSauce — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:42:12 +0000

I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned either Stripes or Canadian Bacon

By: Failerella

Failerella — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:46:54 +0000

Brilliant, brilliant man. If he’d only given us Johnny LaRue it would have been enough.

By: JayPea

JayPea — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:45:08 +0000

Cool Runnings – enough said!!!

By: greenduckiesgirl

greenduckiesgirl — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:10:19 +0000

Love him. I had never seen Uncle Buck until about three years ago when my friends made me watch it. I love it now and will watch it whenever it is on.

He just made you smile so much. And then laugh hysterically.

By: BAW

BAW — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:03:48 +0000

And Maureen O’Hara was such a harridan in that movie, wasn’t she? She said that after she read the script, she knew she had to do it.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:44:35 +0000

That was actually a good movie. Kinda weird to see him do a more serious movie role, but hey, even nice fat guys need love too, right? You were rooting for him through the whole movie!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:24:46 +0000

That guy scares the crap out of me…

By: MsMsBurning

MsMsBurning — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:30:18 +0000

THANKS! Blues Brothers reference!

By: BAW

BAW — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:10:54 +0000

“Only the Lonely,” the one for which the great Maureen O’Hara came out of retirement to do.

By: Nick R. Bocker

Nick R. Bocker — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:03:13 +0000

Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips!

By: puppatoons

puppatoons — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:24:25 +0000

NOOO! This makes me cry!! Poor John.

By: Paul0075

Paul0075 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:03:39 +0000

John Candy was a legend and still is. I watched so many of his movies growing up in the 80s. Sad that he’s gone.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:38:00 +0000

My favorites?

Spaceballs (“Radar about to be jammed.” )
Great Outdoors (“Blow it out your ass Roman!”)
Planes Trains and Automobiles (Where are your hands? “Between these 2 pillows! Aaahhh!!!”)
Who’s Harry Crumb (“I am Beejay. Beejay from Bombay!”)
Wink Wilkinson from Little Shop Of Horrors (“So very Weeeeeeird!!!”)

Love Love Love John Candy.
He is the 1980’s all by himself!

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:26:03 +0000

OMG! I totally forgot about Camp Candy.
I probably would have never thought of it ever again in my life if you hadn’t mentioned it here!

By: Sassy

Sassy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:50:15 +0000

For some reason whenever i think of John Candy the first thing that pops into my head is the old “Camp Candy” commercials (or whatever they where). All I remember of those is that they would start off with him in a Hawaiian type shirt, outside on a sunny day saying “Hi I’m john candy and its another beautiful here at camp candy.”
And who could forget Planes Trains and Automobiles (that was him wasn’t it?)

By: V10L3N7 JAY

V10L3N7 JAY — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:40:28 +0000

Remember seeing Uncle Buck in the theater. Just because my cousin tried out for the part of the teenage girl. She didn’t get it of course.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:32:14 +0000

Great Outdoors, man. Reminds me of our yearly family vacations to various fishing lakes. The bat scene is the best, of course, because when we would get a bat in our house, that scene pretty much defines what went on – except dad had the BB gun. But the wardrobe was the same.

By: BigJim

BigJim — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:56:28 +0000

So many classic John Candy movies out there. Plus his years on SCTV, truly makes him an epic win.

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:51:26 +0000

Oh man. I was young when he died… like still single-digit young, and even then I knew. My favorite John Candy Movie was “Wagons East.”

They don’t make them like that anymore.

By: lightchild79

lightchild79 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:30:58 +0000

oh man, uncle buck was full of so much epic win it rediculoushe was good in the movie “cool runnings’