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Epic Win: Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Jun. 3, 2009

Submitted by Jason L

“f you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.”

We can’t read a Deep Thoughts quote without hearing Phil Hartman’s introduction in our heads. Deep Thoughts is an Epic Win for its absolute absurdity and hilarity.

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Epic Win: Toy Story

May. 27, 2009

Submitted by Amy D

Toy Story is pushing the boundary of what we consider nostalgia, however, it was very highly rated on the voting pages so we decided to include it. It is an epic film that was an astonishing leap in animation technology that basically made Pixar a household name and paved the way for more computer-generated animation.
For young kids, Toy Story was just another cartoon with an awesome story and cool visual effects. For the older kids and adults who had grown up on Jem and the Holograms, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Mighty Mouse, or Hannah Barbera cartoons, Toy Story was a blast from the future. It showed us very quickly the impact that computers were having on our lives in a time when you were lucky to have a 486 computer in your home, let alone the (almost) brand-spanking-new Pentium computers.
Then if you could look beyond all of that, there was Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Jim Varney and a slew of other great actors who lent their comedy and their voices to this Epic Win. And who could forget Sid, the sadistic neighbor boy’s toy collection, like the spider thing with the burnt doll head or the fishing pole on legs…

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Epic Win: Mr. Bean

May. 25, 2009

Submitted by knuckles 66

Where would British comedy be without Mr. Bean. Nevermind the ridiculous American movies he made, those are junk. We’re talking about the old Mr. Bean sketch comedy where Mr. Bean would do things like steal another man’s pants while he’s sitting on the toilet, or the time he gave anesthesia to his dentist. That’s the old Mr. Bean we remember and love.

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Epic Win: Time to Make the Donuts

May. 15, 2009

Submitted by Tamara K

The Dunkin’ Donuts commercials of the ’80s wouldn’t be what they were without Fred the Baker and Time to Make the Donuts was one of the most memorable of them all. Everyone hates getting out of bed so early in the morning so we could all empathize with our favorite funny commercial man, Michael Vale.

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Epic Win: You Don’t Know Jack

Apr. 14, 2009

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You Don’t Know Jack was the ultimate catalyst for fighting with siblings and cousins. Since you had to share the keyboard to enter your answers, eventually the poor-sport of the group would start smacking hands, answering questions for you and generally making it difficult to get a good score. At the same time the comedian host of YDKJ would mock you when you got answers wrong, to questions that were complicated, silly or confusing, which only added to tension.

Don’t remember how frustrating it was? Play YDKJ Online and see if you can beat our top trivia player’s scrore of $15,113. Choose your answers wisely because the questions don’t change, so if you play a second time you already know all the answers.

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