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,work together in ‘84 on Gremlins . But this group enjoys working together and essentially all got their start on Happy Days and Grand Theft Auto. Okay, but back to each individual. New Jersey’s own Joe Dante, who prior to this has made Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, and Innerspace . Solid, solid flicks. Dana Olsen after this collaborates on a few live action cartoon flicks like George of the Jungle and Inspector Gadget. I only remember that he helped write the screenplay for the underrated John Carpenter flick Memoirs of the Invisible Man. And the producers, as I said earlier, are Finnell and Howard. Finnell essentially produces almost every thing Dante makes in his career, but I remember him as a funny crew cred it in Airplane . It is something like “in charge of a bunch of things” or something like that. How random. And Ron Howard is Opie. ‘Nuff said.

I didn’t forget my bread and butter of any flick. The quotes:

“Ray, there’s no doubt anymore. This is real. Your neighbors are murder ing people. They’re chopping them up. They’re burying them in their backyard. Ray… this is Walter.” AAAAAAHHHHHH!!” (the scream is so great)

Smells like they’re cooking a goddamn cat over there.

I’m gonna go do something productive. I’m gonna go watch television.

Oh-ho. Got somebody tied up in the ol’ cellar, have yah, Rube?

Safety is my middle name. I thought his middle name was Louis.

Don’t you make a move, sonny. I was eighteen months in the bush and I could snap your neck in a heartbeat. Hans! Oh-ho! A fine Christian name. Hans Christian Andersen! What are you, Catholic?

Dude, it’s cool, you should hang with us! We called the Pizza Dude!

The pizza dude. I think I have called the guy delivering pizza that name since I saw this flick for the first time at eleven years old. Hearing Corey Feldman say that line in this flick and then as the voice of Donatello in the live action TMNT really rings so clearly in my head. Crazy. But one really cool nugget: Dick Miller and Robert Picardo have cameos in this flick as garbage men. Dick Miller is in, I think, every Joe Dante Flick, and Robert Picardo is “The Cowboy” in Innerspace . I think his greatest contribution to film history. Two other cameos I forgot about. Franklyn Ajaye plays the detective in the Burbs, but he is “the Fly” in Car Wash . Classic. And the other detective? Rance Howard, Ron’s dad. Also father of Clint Howard.

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