Comments on: Wet Hot American Summer

By: josh

josh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:00:00 +0000

"And I do it. A lot."

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:26:17 +0000

"By the way, I can suck my own dick."

By: meltina

meltina — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:44:20 +0000

It's a really funny movie, but I will never see it again. Not because I wouldn't love to, but the last time I watched it with my husband he started repeating the "You know… For your pussy" joke constantly for months. Of all the throaway jokes…

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:36:27 +0000

I was holding my breath and hoping you would pick WHAS! best summer movie evah. I echo the other comments re: Paul Rudd slouching around the mess hall, what's his name humping the fridge, etc. and what about Michael Showalter's hilarious "Arts and farts and crafts" stand-up bit. Godspell…all of it. Gah…what about the bit where they go into town? And now I've got "even though we aint' got money…" running through my brain-pan.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:28:35 +0000

@Maren:
Yeah, it seems that going to sleep-away camp helps your enjoyment quite a bit. The first I heard of it was from a bunch of college-age Boy Scouts who were camp staff. They considered it pretty much the greatest piece of film ever, and had dozens of inside jokes that I didn't get at all, because I had never even heard of the movie.
I only went to day camp (the kind for science nerds, indoors), so my enthusiasm is much muted. I still don't get all the inside jokes.

By: solaana

solaana — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:30:18 +0000

Like The Big Lebowski (arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg…I hate starting sentences with a bunch of capitalized words!), it took multiple viewings for me to properly appreciate the awesomeness that is this movie. I'm really embarrassed to admit this, but I didn't get the gournal joke. I didn't get a lot of the jokes, actually, because I had an insanely filtered 80s experience, growing up overseas (i.e. Dukes of Hazard dubbed into German so that I didn't realize that they were Southern until the remake came out). Will watching it with commentary help clear some of that up?

By: Erin W

Erin W — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:44:56 +0000

In a weird coincidence, The AV Club featured this movie in today's "The New Cult Canon". http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_new_cult_canon_wet_hot

I'll take this double recommendation as a single sign that I should finally see this thing.

By: JeniMull

JeniMull — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:28:39 +0000

I've been wanting to see this movie since it came out. Now it's definitely going to happen.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:02:28 +0000

@Alan: I love that chase scene too and especially the part in the nurse's station. The unabandoned destruction of everything, including Joe karate-chopping that lamp, kills me dead every time.

I used to watch this with my old roommates and they loved it just as much as me. I just had to mention Paul Rudd throwing that temper tantrum in the cafeteria, and Jen would break into giggles. All of Paul Rudd's scenes are just fantastic though. His reaction shot when The New Coop arrives at the talent show is genius. The way he puts sunglasses on, for gosh sakes, makes me laugh.

And just because it had to be said, "I need some lube… for my pussy."

By: Deanna

Deanna — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:14:36 +0000

My cousin and I are super-tight and both have a thing for Christopher Meloni. Sometimes when we think the other might need to be randomly cheered up, we email each other and say "Fonduuuuuue with cheddar!" or "Are you ready to be shown the way?"

Soooo glad we're not alone with the geekdom.